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• A comment on Talk: ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!

  6 days ago: So does that mean you can read and write (basic) Chinese without knowing any vocabulary or grammer? I.e. without knowing any Chinese?

• A reply on Talk: Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

  May 2 2013: It is more about why nobody succeeds. A lot of people do try and have tried, but who has been able to get such a huge funding? Even Bill Gates has not been able to totally fund his ambitious nuclear fission project. The very needed innovation is how to break this time/cost barrier.

• A reply on Talk: Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

  May 2 2013: They haven't really achieved anything yet to compete with.

• A comment on Talk: Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

  May 2 2013: This brilliant boy should get the investment he deserves.
  
  However, there is a little problem with all the nuclear innovations. The problem is that moving from the design phase to prototype phase needs billions of dollars and a couple of decades time!
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  A reply on Talk: Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines

  Apr 25 2013: We tend to enjoy praise more than criticism. Gordon's talk was also great. A world with brilliant computers, but an ecosystem destroyed by excess of CO2. Can computers feed 9 Billion hungry people? Can they save the oceans from overfishing? We need to grow "fast" in more than one industry.

• A comment on Talk: Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines

  Apr 25 2013: Add to the list of people becoming un-employed in next decade or two: General Practitioners, Solicitors (General), Drivers and much more. There should be a huge focus on education and entrepreneurship. All these people may be beaten with computers for their jobs, but they all poses the smartness, creativity, and motivation of humans. Only they should be shown the way and given the chance to put it in use,

• A comment on Talk: Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth

  Apr 25 2013: The talk seems to be controversial. But he has a great point. The problem is we have to keep the growth up for human beings. Good news is we know what we need to fix. Bed news is we don't seems to go very far in solving those problems. Right know it is all about the third world catching up, for the next few decades, after that, I think these are the main challenges that we should overcome or be doomed:
  1- Energy.
  2- Food.
  3- Health.
  4- AI Singularity (Computers as smart as human).
  5- End of moor's law
  
  Unfortunately we haven't seen many breakthroughs in 21'st century so far. State of the above problems are pretty much similar to what we had in 20'th century. Things have got better but breakthroughs are exceedingly harder to come up with.
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  A comment on Talk: BLACK: My journey to yo-yo mastery

  Apr 21 2013: You can be passionate about a thing, as small or insignificant to others as yoyo.
  This is the attitude that changes the world.

• A reply on Talk: Katherine Kuchenbecker: The technology of touch

  Apr 1 2013: Good to see this is happening. Hopefully in a number of years we watch this talk with the wonder from taking the touch feeling on our devices for granted.
  Similar to the feeling we have today when we watch Jef Hans talk on multi-touch:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html
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  A comment on Talk: Katherine Kuchenbecker: The technology of touch

  Mar 30 2013: Very interesting field. Reproducing touch feeling is the greatest gap in human machine interface (smell is the next one).
  
  The presented technology seems to rely on little vibrators, so I guess there is still a long way to go as feeling is far more complex than little vibrations. The resolution of human feeling is extremely high, and the sens of temperature plays an important role. In addition coarsens of a material is only one characteristic of the texture. Hopefully we will se more advancement in this field, which there is tremendous applications.