To live, to love, and to leave a legacy.
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Abe
Blessed are those who join their loved ones. Blessed are those who live on in our memory. Let us share our tears and pain, Let us remember, let us live, Let us celebrate his life, his passion.
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Male or female? How many categories for “people” will we need?
Gender is not a fact about persons that we must take as fixed and essential (and then build our social institutions around that fact). Gender, for humans, is socially constructed; an externally imposed hierarchy: male or female. The human personality is a spectrum – and allows us to more or less conform to the gender…
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How the FBI could Unlock the Apple iPhone without the Encryption Key
Here’s my recipe for unlocking the iPhone 5c used by the San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook: the phone is already owned by and in possession of the government there are only 10.000 possible combinations to try (the PIN is a 4 digit number) it will take about 7 months to try all combinations (due to the programmed…
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Getting to inbox zero.
Many years ago when gmail was just launched in beta, my first email was the welcome email from Google. Over time I had an inbox in the thousands. In the last few years I tried to get to 0 again, but failed. Now I have learned about GTD and also a thing our two from…
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Are your customers satisfied?
Customer satisfaction research might be a waste of time if you only try to find the areas you want to improve for existing customers: they are still customers! You can probably be more effective in improving the aspects that cause existing customers to go elsewhere – or, even more importantly, not even come to you!
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Curated Audio Streams
Why non-music audio via the internet is still not done right. And we even lost the nearest attempt to do it right.
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Will 3D printing a human become possible?
I was on the phone. I am in love. I miss her. I wanted to crawl through the wire and be with her. I explained that one day – sooner than we might think – it will be possible. Our body (and even our mental state) is basically just energy. We can already measure a…
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Research News on Brain-Measured Learning to Save Time
The following article explains that studying-results can be significantly improved not only by the brain-based methods I am a strong proponent for, but also by actual retention qualifiers. Using Brain Scans to Predict Future Test Performance Will a brain scan reveal how well you’ve studied for a big test? Researchers at Sandia National Laboratory have…
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Voting in the USA
I strongly urge all Americans to vote strategically. Don’t vote Republican or Democrat. Polling proves most Americans (and world citizens) do not agree with the actual decisions they actually make. Vote Libertarian.
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Cookies
Regarding the new (European) law about cookies on websites I have this to say: while I am pro transparency, I believe that one should not force transparency. In order to deal with the problem of having to opt-in users I suggest you write a good disclaimer and wait until browsers solve the cookie opt-in problem…
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