I did the same thing. Tag next to the entry-way light switch for changing to an "at-home" profile, tag next to the bed for switching between night mode and morning mode, tag at work, keychain tag for switching between car mode and quiet mode.
And profile switching is just the basics. You can have a tag that connects guests' NFC-enabled phones to your wifi without having to hand out the password, for instance.
NFC task launcher + tasker is an amazing combination that opens up all kinds of possibilities.
Anything that I already know very well (and like, of course). What that is will depend on the day/mood.
The main thing is that I find I work better with music already known over silence or new music. My brain can kind of just go along with it without any extra work since the patterns are familiar and it seems to help thought flow.
There are times when I prefer no music though, if it's involved research or something I really need to think over or internally debate.
The google map linked in the article[1] contains many entries that don't quite fit the oddness of some of the die-offs people are talking about. For example, [2] refers to 150 tons of tilapia that died because of being farmed too densely. [3] refers to fish that died when a small city lake froze over with a bunch of decaying leaves trapped under the ice releasing methane. And others.
Country names/adjectives:
English,England,British,French,France,German,Germany
In most cases the adjectival form of a country tracks pretty closely to the nominal form (e.g. France vs French and others) except for the case of England vs English/British, the latter two spike from almost nothing around 1795. I can't think of a good explanation for why those two forms were so rare in comparison with "England" before 1795, anyone have an idea?
That's interesting, isn't it? I think this proportionality is related to a quirk of human perception. If you are shown briefly a set of objects the average person is able (at a glance) to quickly count those objects for a low value whose threshold is around six or seven. Thus when the number goes any higher the individual will respond that there were "less than ten" or "fewer than ten". Of course because humans have standardized on base 10 as there counting system then ten will get bumped up in any distribution but to predict that it would occur between six and seven (the number of man and divinity no less) would be difficult.
What about 11 to 20? Hmm, it (roughly) goes: twenty, twelve, fifteen, eleven, eighteen, fourteen, sixteen, thirteen, seventeen, nineteen! Just what I expected :)
Also: "Spaniard Miguel Indurain, who took five successive [Tour de France] titles, had lungs so big they displaced his stomach, leading to his trademark paunch. Indurain's lung capacity was eight litres, compared to an average of six litres."
It's far more scalable in terms of technology. It uses intuition techniques and minimal NLP. So we can scale it to almost any language. Moreover, the system is not only limited to answer questions.
Also, it requires much less data. Usually Q/A systems have this thing called the query planner. We don't. It takes a single run through normal search results to get the answer. The speed to get, process and return answers is less than 500ms when the index is not hosted locally, so that includes the fetching lag.
The algo is completely online. No corpus, whatsoever.
These are just some examples of the fact that under the hood, it's completely different from the usual Q/A system.
And profile switching is just the basics. You can have a tag that connects guests' NFC-enabled phones to your wifi without having to hand out the password, for instance.
NFC task launcher + tasker is an amazing combination that opens up all kinds of possibilities.