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  For example, there’s no truth to the idea that 
  the brain is half android and half artist, with 
  a left hemisphere dedicated to logic and analytical 
  thinking and a right hemisphere for intuition and 
  creativity.

But! Each hemisphere does tend to sequester different specialties, as is evidenced by stroke victims, no?

Wow, horrible title. Save Indians the blushes?

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

A sensible title would be more like: Shortage of dermatologists in India could be remedied with AI.

Hush! Don't speak of such things, or before you know it there will be DRM enforced IoT dongles with 4G cellular radios, requiring a subscription plan and annual fee before the guitar pick-ups will serialize their signal to a 1/4 inch patch cable.

WPM is an archaic metric, and as my top speed I target only a reasonable conversational pace in chat windows, comparable to verbal conversation. Anything more is kind of a waste. As long as people don't feel like my pace of typing is lagging during a chat, I don't really need to be much faster than that.

I don't have a problem meeting those demands, and composing my thoughts, and contemplating what I wish to type usually consumes more time than the act of typing itself.

Bandwidth measured in bytes probably makes more sense these days. But again, I haven't bothered to measure how fast I type, other than a gut intuition for how often I get sniped in chat rooms, when people beat me and say something before I can, alongside how impatient people seem to get with me.

What a terrible idea.

The ~15 year-old trilogy remains awesome, and needs no competitor. This is just going to needlessly mutate a familiar and well-received thing.

If Amazon wants to do something new, then Amazon should do something new under a different name, and not co-opt brand recognition for a cheap bonus.

These days, though, there's an odd mix of typists, because everyone is self taught, and most people have begun typing as soon as they learn how to read and write.

Both touch typing and hunt and peck typing are in severe decline. Mobile devices have created all kinds of mutants, and no one gives a shit about "the home row" anymore. I watch those old videos about posture and training oneself to type without looking at the keyboard by typing endless garbage over and over, and I have to laugh, because I've never seen anything less important seem like such obvious brainwashing.

Since when is voluntary experimentation on a test rig, under controlled circumstances, criminally stupid? It’s not like this was a passenger flight.

It would warrant criticism if the pilot tried it without informing the crew prior to takeoff. All participants entered into the activity with an understanding that they were risking their lives.

These people did it because they enjoyed the challenge, not to score points with corporate overlords or jockey for a raise and a promotion. The marketing angle was simply to provide cost justification and demonstrate that a perceptible reward would be earned with the risk undertaken.

If you read the parts where they mention “buffeting” that’s the dangerous part, where uneven airflow introduces instability, causing the airframe to rattle.

Buffeting occurs when the soundwaves of the noise of the craft and its motion directly affect the air as it flows across the surface of the plane.

This happens as the plane enters the shockwave of the sound barrier, and ceases when they accelerate beyond the speed of sound.

At and beyond Mach 1 the buffeting is behind the plane, and flight is smoother, with no rattling or shaking from the incidental turbulence.

It also happens when decelerating, although it’s easier to decelerate safely through the buffeting quickly, since less time is spent in the shockwave, and a reduction in speed grants improved control.

  tricking business

Is that supposed to be "trucking business" or is there some other business like souping up automobiles, referred to in a regional dialect I'm unfamiliar with?

EDIT: ...probably one of the anticipated phone typos, fat fingering 'i' instead of the 'u' key.

I was with you until you mentioned Seinfeld.

It's really weird to me that you've caught some downvotes for this benign and not innaccurate remark. I've upvoted you to compensate, but to no avail.