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I was looking at arial photos of north-western Europe in Google Maps when I noticed a big white dot on the map! I thought, what the hell? To satisfy my curiosity I decided to zoom in for further investigation. It…
Airbag sensors There is a small amount of gold inside the Airbag sensor. The sensor contains a small gold-plated marble, which amounts to some tiny amount of gold. Integrated Chips One kilogram of chips contains 1-8 grams of gold (according…
These guys found that road-side dust contains 1000 DKK worth of platinum per 1 ton of dust. Cody explains that this concentration of platinum equals the amount found in good-quality platinum ore. Does the stretch of road matter? In a…
While I intuitively like the concept of Urban Mining – we have all these precious raw materials within easy reach of robots – I know nothing about it. I want to remedy that with the best ignorance cure of all:…
In this post I will give a brief overview of my father’s (Georgios Kefaloukos) many activities in the early part of his life. After dinner today I decided to ask him about his life story, and took as many notes…
I work in the ad tech industry, which means that I track people online for a living. Mainly, I do it because the industry has interesting computer science problems and because the job pays well. I will not defend ad…
I love dal. Here is my simple recipe, which draws it’s inspiration from both India and the Mediterranean Region. Ingredients: 200-300 g split red lentils 1 onion 2-3 cloves of garlic 1 can of crushed tomatoes coriander seeds cumin fresh…
What if everybody could live a wealthy, healthy, job-less and creative life in a post-scarcity Universe? Are we currently on a trajectory to this new reality and what are the obstacles we may face on the way? What are the…
Symbiosen mellem mennesker og AI vil kunne transformere mennesket til en rationel organisme (jvf. Daniel Kahneman som har påvist at mennesket for sig selv ikke er en rationel organisme). Hvordan det? Vores minutiøse adfærd bliver i stigende grad sporet i…
You may ask yourself, if I’m a machine learning person then what kind am I? See for yourself in Jason Eisner’s Three Cultures of Machine Learning.