You had one job

In July 2016, a bomb disposal robot was used for the first time to remotely kill a suspect. This sparked some debate about the use of machines to kill humans (amidst drone usage and all of that), and tapped into our Robocop-and-Terminator-induced dystopian fears. Inspired by all this, Scott Brown wrote “You had one job”,… Continue reading You had one job

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How to Connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA

Recently I had to connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way: The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. The quickest way is to download and install the SAP HANA client from the SAP Software Download Center, and then extract the… Continue reading How to Connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA

The incredible rarity of falsifying data about changing your mind

Episode 555 of This American Life has a very cool story about a study on how a group of canvassers were able to influence people who were against gay marriage to change their mind: Curious, but kinda logically, people appeared to change their mind once the canvasser, a member of the LGBT community, told their… Continue reading The incredible rarity of falsifying data about changing your mind

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