Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "TED" channel.

  1. I used to code more when i was young, but lost interest as i grew up. Now i'm wondering if it's coz i was too perfectionist about it. Inspiring talk.
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  2. WTF, why didn't the TED audience know the poverty rate has dropped drastically?  It's mentioned in every one of Hans Rosling's TED Talks!!!
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  3. Very first word: "IMAGINE... oh boy here we go
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  4. I've been reading Ben's blog for a while, and one of his top solutions to these problems (that he apparently didn't have the time to discuss too much in this video) is that all publishable drug trials should be PRE-REGISTERED with some central scientific body before the trial is even done. This way, it removes publication bias - where bad results are withheld. And it also allows other scientists to publicly suggest alterations to the trial method to weed out problems & bias beforehand.
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  5. Things come half charged outof the box because lithium ion batteries last longest if they are kept in a half-charged state. To keep a lithium ion battery in a fully charged state for a long time (like during shipping, and while sitting on a store shelf), will damage the battery and reduce it's lifespan. So I guess Apple likes to purposefully sabotage it's products. Neat
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  6. 2:35 Snowden's revelations about how much USA was spying on everyone: 2013 That year, cyber-warfare went straight to the top of USA's "threat' list. What a coincidence. It's like... shining a light on cockroaches and they skatter, then they immediately put lights onto their threat list as #1.
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  7. i think he's saying that it can be cheaper to live in walkable cities. Cars are expensive to buy, maintain, insure, licence, and keep fueled. Also walking around a city is quicker than driving long-distances around express-ways (and time is money). Your location itself, and reliance on cars, may be exacerbating your financial situation. Hell, you'll even save money on medical expenses: Less car crashes means less visits to the trauma ward. And you'll be healthier in general from walking.
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  8. It's already in place, you can learn via Khan academy (and other similar projects) right now. The only problem left is that it's still "opt in", you have to chose to seek it out yourself.
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  9. Huntracony The quality and style of the videos he's showing, betrays that this is a marketing presentation. 11:15 especially, looks like the highly polished style of a Microsoft advertisement. I'm not sure that a university would pay to have such a video made, so something's suspicious here. Polished marketing should always make you suspicious.
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  10. Yes, and it tries really hard to reinforce the American Mantra that "people are successful because of hard work, not luck". But really - even successful scrappers are successful because of luck. Yes, being born with a silver spoon in your mouth is a lucky break. But it's also incredibly lucky to experience an upbringing which naturally fostered psychological resilience. Note around 8:44 where her story admits "i was lucky" as she talks about the supportive early environment she had in her own life. Isn't this just another form of silver spoon? She certainly didn't get that supportive early environment because of "hard work", she was lucky. Just something to keep in mind.
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  11. +Martin Rayner i almost skipped over this video because i thought it was gonna be nothing but ridiculous quantum-woo. So comments like yours are handy, thx, i'll watch it.
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  12. What are you guys talking about. Does your browser have problems with the Khan Academy website or something?
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  13. don't be scared, here hold my boob
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  14. Your personal experience is better than the scientific study discussed at 3:45 ?
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  15. I've been subbed to TED for years, normally roll my eyes at these emotional videos. But this might be the most powerful TED talk i've ever seen. Thanks.
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  16. SCREAM AT A CROWD FOR 18 MINUTES
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  17. From 8-11 minutes into the video he finally gets around to his point. Summary: Device producing corporations (ie: Apple, Sony, etc) should demand fair labour of ALL of their suppliers across the board, as a stipulation of their contract with the supplier.
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  18. Hey dude, i'm not American so maybe that's why i don't understand.  But can you please try to explain to me how this talk is political? To me, it seems to be a talk about racism, and staying aware of it in our psyches, basically a reminder that "We're all a little bit racist".  The "agenda" of the talk seems to be to stay aware of racism, how is that political?  Is there a big American political party that disagrees with this?  Who on earth would have a political agenda COUNTER to this message?!
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  19. In this comment section: Hundreds of people who have never watched a Gardening TV show. Everything he said is common knowledge, what is wrong with y'all people
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  20. Her illustration of Steve Jobs kindof undermines her point. "Would you hire this guy?" No, no-one hired Steve Jobs, he started his own business. (you don't hire yourself when you start the business) A social worker once told me that small businesses are quite often started by people who are simply difficult to hire into traditional jobs. So starting their own business is a way for them to have a guaranteed job.
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  21. it's 2216, my body is covered in ears, and every time i touch something i smell pee. Thanks Robo-Obama.
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  22. 11:40 talk takes a sudden, short & unexpected detour to talk about soft robotics. MY FACE: 8D 9:04 8D
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  23. Kate Clementine the tan one
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  24. Her "Dancing" examples for different kinds of loops was super impressive. That's gonna be one awesome kids' book.
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  25. It's too late :( Greenpeace (& friends) have been fostering a culture of ignorance on Nuclear & GMOs for... well, as long as i can remember. I don't think they can change that culture overnight and suddenly declare war on ignorance, they just don't have the passion required to conduct this sortof drastic & fast change. Even tho the planet desperately needs it.
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  26. You're new. TED has always talked a lot about social issues like this.
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  27. You'd think i exercise to stay fit, but really i do it to maintain mental health. Sleep and Exercise are more important than what you are or aren't eating.
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  28. Agreed, water is incredibly dangerous, we need to be very careful around the stuff.
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  29. ashmadallah versteeg your channel settings say you're in Canada
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  30. A journalist isn't a hero either, but Superman (Clark Kent the journalist) is. Jarret's main point isn't about the glory of the job, his main point is about media representation.  It's good for people to see positive representations of aspects of themselves in the media, it has a positive psychological effect.  It's like seeing non-white people, gay people, and women on TV playing good character roles. No-one likes being invisible.
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  31. by the same logic tho, a dumb graph doesn't make the figure LESS THAN 7% either. His point still stands, and is worrying. Don't let a dumb graph distract you from 7%
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  32. this was kinda unfocused and uncompelling :-/
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  33. Always love sarcasm, it's the highest form of wit.
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  34. +greimalkin "reflexive dismissal of anyone with an ivy league education." Oh no, what ever will they do?
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  35. Ben NCM i think it's an autism spectrum thing.
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  36. The problem is that the only people who use Internet Explorer are doing so because they have no idea howto use technology. No-one who knows better will willingly use Internet Explorer. So the medical search results Microsoft has gathered are probably associated only with those who are over 60 years old and/or have low IQs. It's probably still useful, but it's a statistical problem. Coincidentally, having diabetes actually kills a certain amount of your IQ points for every year you have it (sad fact). So all combined, there could be some very interesting studies to be had here. Diabetes causes you to use Internet Explorer? Maybe. (i don't.... but maybe in a few years something deep in my diabetic brain will compel me to. I really hope someone cures this disease before Internet Explorer gets me, i'm scared.)
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  37. +DeoMachina there's been an influx here of boys who hate girls lately, they downvote most talks given by women, and all videos talking about women .
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  38. i think you've just invented a terrifying new monster:  Jack of Sleep.
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  39. it's easy to say that when these things don't effect you, you are a man yes?
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  40. 3:30-4:04 (ice can make a planet warmer) MINDBLOWN.EXE
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  41. Mr. Tinfoil ... TBH the talk was pretty clearly propaganda. Almost... too clearly. like... they want us to think it's propaganda. Coz maybe, it's actually not? THE OLD DOUBLE PROPAGANDA 360 SWITCHEROO TRICK
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  42.  @thehorizontries4759  pre-registration has become a more common thing in the years since i made this comment.
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  43. justgivemethetruth No offense, but the same can be said of you, ie: how do we know you're really "understanding" anything?  This is the base problem related to the Turing test, if you say that a computer doesn't do a specific thing and is therefore different to a human - you must have a way of testing to prove that humans indeed DO that thing (as you claim they do).Are you sure that human learning is anything more than "a consolidation of statistics with rules applied to them"?ps: there was an interesting A.I. program a few years ago which was being fed a stream of data from a real-world inverse pendulum physical experiment.  From analyzing the data on it's own it was able to FROM SCRATCH deduce various mathematical laws of physics concerning gravitation, inertia, friction, air resistance etc to explain the movement it was seeing (and predict future movement).  It came up with these equations on it's own, continually refining them until they were passably accurate, using evolutionary methods.  It even seemed to discover some new mathematical equations to explain aspects of the inverse pendulum movement, equations which we didn't recognize and yet gave eerily accurate results.  This was pretty amazing, the system not only reproduced thousands of years of human thought and science in mere minutes, it actually went further and hinted at surpassing human knowledge.
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  44. What she is saying also has an analogue with Israel and Palestine. Prior to the establishment of Israel, Jews and Muslims lived in the area in a peaceful and multicultural setting. But then Israel was established as a land exclusively for the Jewish people. It created distinctions and walls between people where previously there was none :( There is no need to erect these walls between people.
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  45. I'm glad he had that Q&A session at the end.  He asked exactly what i wanted to ask (ie: Politics is gridlocked, so how likely is it that anything will change).
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  46. There's a hiding-unicorn on the stage.  The only reason you can't see it is because it's a hiding unicorn and that's what they do.  But it's there. It's always there.  Somewhere. This morning i looked in my bowl of cereal, and i coudn't see a hiding-unicorn in it, this is evidence that it was indeed there.  Somewhere. The evidence that hiding-unicorns exist, is when you can't see them.  That's how you know they are there, hiding. There's never not a hiding-unicorn, every atom contains hiding unicorns, they are always there. There is no way to disprove my hypothesies, i will always believe.
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  47. the word he is looking for is "Art". example: while riding my bike yesterday i came across a dead parrot lying on the dirt on the side of a path near a school. I stopped my bike, took some sticks, and layed the sticks around the parrot like a photo frame. It took 10 seconds. It's going to confuse a lot of people who see it.
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  48. Astrology and Tarrot are metaphor. They bring together metaphors for aspects of our lives, and shuffle them in random ways. The power of metaphor forces us to consider the interpretations as if they were real - even though they are random - and thus it can expand our minds to possibilities we never thought about. Possibilities that are so random that we would normally dismiss them as noise, this way we harvest this "noise" to inspire us to break outof a life funk, or writers block, etc.
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  49. we humans
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  50. 8:50 - 11:10 The Spirometer story was so strange. The clear conclusion i got from the story is that different races do indeed have differing lung capacity, as the clinical evidence for this is so strong, so undeniable, and so predictable that they actually added a button to the device to automatically compensate for this. If race based lung capacity wasn't as predictable as it is, then the button would only make the device worse. But this is a device designed specifically for testing and data collection, people would have noticed pretty fucking fast if the results were wrong, it's the entire purpose of the device. I mean, if she presented evidence that the results and data from the device were actually incorrect then they'd have a point. But she presented no such data. Before this talk i had never even heard that different races had different lung capacities, but (opposite to her intention) her talk actually convinced me that different races do indeed have differing lung capacity. How can i argue against data?
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