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Not sure what your particular area of expertise is but every time I have browsed Wikipedia for articles related to technical topics including math, programming, AI/ML as well as science, I have found their articles accurate and informative. I also recall a few studies comparing the accuracy of articles on Wikipedia with Encyclopedia Brittanica and journals, which conclude that Wikipedia compares favorably with both (easily found via a google search).

Looks great. But is it restricted to building mobile apps only or can it also help you build web apps in Flutter?

We run a few high traffic websites, and would be great to monetize our US traffic at $10 cpm. But your profile link to your LinkedIn page returns a Page not available error. Please get in touch - would be great to chat.

Would be interested to know if you can do all this by using their open-source conmmunity edition, or would you need to use their paid / Pro version. Since the pricing for the paid version is not given, not sure but assuming it would be fairly expensive to use / deploy? My preference is for an open source tool so we are not locked in to a propreitary platform for the long term.

I was wondering what would be the requirement for self-hosting Jitsi - in terms of server resources - bandwidth, CPU etc? Is the Video/VOIP transmitted client to client or does it get routed via the server? Thanks.

> Well, if there's only 2, maybe 3 of you...

Do you mean for more than 3 - the call/video is routed through the server and would consume server bandwidth? If so how is jitsi paying for all this if it is free?

Interesting that this is Intel's second acquisition of an AI chipmaker. They had acquired Nervana for $400M in 2016 - but now seem to be abandoning it in favor of Habana's chips. They would need to redo the Nervana software stack to work with Habana. As per the article, one of the reasons is:

"Nervana’s Neural Network Processor (NNP-T) uses a proprietary interconnect for scaling, while Habana’s Gaudi can scale to thousands of nodes over standard 100Gb Ethernet."

Prediction:'Bus ticket collecting' will enter our lexicon as a new way to describe obsessive pursuits with little or no perceived impact - or at least it would appear to have no foreseeable impact or future to you at that point in time. The opposite of what you should be doing with your life if you want to make a difference. As in : "Although I enjoyed my new research area, at times I wondered if I was merely bus ticket collecting.."

The paradox though is that you cannot know in advance if you are merely bus ticket collecting or pursuing something that will have a real impact. Just like Darwin had no way of knowing if his excessive obsession with natural history would go on to change the world, and lead to the theory of evolution. In the essay, pg does give heuristics on how to figure out the difference - but the greater the potential for impact the less likely it is that you will be able to tell the difference. In other words, the most transformative discoveries will likely seem most like bus ticket collecting and a wase of time, at least initially.

The most interesting part of this resume is hidden though. Click view source to see it..

  <!--<H4>Objective:</H4>
  A large office, good pay, and very little work.
  Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.-->

Having watched Shark Tank for a long time, I always wondered if Kevin O'Leary just played a ruthless shark on the show or if he really was one. The article seems to confirm he is definitely the latter: "He was the soulless businessperson who just came in and bought a bunch of companies and scaled them back and laid off all the good people.”

Moreover, he manages to sell TLC for $3.5 billion to Mattel, which is forced to sell it for just $27 million 18 months later. Of course, that was a poor decision by Mattel's then CEO, considering she was warned not to do the deal: "TLC was a “house of cards.” The business was boosting its revenue by purchasing new companies, but the significant acquisition costs weren’t reflected in their top-line earnings."

Interesting that another shark on the show - Mark Cuban - also became a billionaire by selling his company to Yahoo at its peak, and Yahoo then essentially shutting it down.