I first heard about Google’s self-driving car from a TED talk by Sebastian Thrun. In that talk, Sebastian talks about a friend who was killed in a car accident, and follows by explaining his vision to make cars safer by making them steer themselves.
Steve Landsburg Asks For An Example
20
Mar
In a recent post on his blog, Steve Landsburg critiques an article by Uwe Reinhart. Steve Landsburg believes strongly that tax on capital gains should be zero. Uwe Reinhart argues that sometimes it’s easy to disguise earned income as capital gains, hence capital gains should be taxed at the same rate as earned income. Steve Landsburg, in his critique, asks :
Can you please write down the optimization problem which has as its solution “tax the doctor’s income and the homeowner’s capital gain at the same rate”?
However, it’s actually not difficult to construct an example exactly like this.
Why I Want A 3D Printer (And Scanner)
11
Mar
Cory Doctorow explains that a 3D printer, with a scanner attached, can be thought of as a teleport machine. When I mentione dthis idea to some people, they raised a couple of objections.
A Word From History
04
Mar
Here’s a conversation with my son today, while I was doing some repair work.
Reassurance
04
Mar
MK and M2 were in the garden.
MK : Be careful of the bees
M2 : (reassuring tone of voice) there’s no bees, mummy. Only wasps.
Oh.. Kaaaay….
Change Dreamboard Endroid To Use Celsius
17
Feb
If you have a jailbroken iPhone, perhaps you’ve installed Dreamboard and are using the Endroid theme. Perhaps, like me, you don’t live in the United States, so you want to see the temperature in Centigrade instead of Fahrenheit. Perhaps, also like me, you’ve searched the web to find out how to do it. If you found this page, you’ve found your answer!
Sugar, Sugar
02
Feb
Sugar Subsidies - Bad or Good?
The Malaysian government subsidises a number of goods, to keep the prices at certain levels. Unfortunately for them, commodity prices have risen in recent years. So, they announced last week that they would increase the sugar subsidy to compensate. They were quick to say that the decision is to “ease the people’s financial burden,” and is nothing to do with the fact that there’s an election coming up.
However, that’s just silly. If they really want to “ease the people’s financial burden,” they should completely scrap the subsidy, not raise it.
Japanese Curry
10
Jan
We had Japanease curry last night. My kids love it. It is not spicy. I bought the mild S&B golden curry sauce mix to make the Japanese curry. Firstly cut the beef or chicken into smaller pieces and chop the one brown onion finely. Place them in a pot and fry them with some oil until the onions are lightly brown and the meat is slightly cooked. Then you add in chopped carrots, celery and potatoes. Next you add some water and bring it to boil. Once it is boiled, reduce the heat, cover the pot and simmer the meat until it is tender. Once the meat is tender, add in the S&B golden curry mix sauce into the pot and make sure you stir the food and the sauce properly until the block of sauce is melted. Continue to simmer the food longer. Stir it from time to time. Once it is ready serve the Japanese curry with steamed rice or noodles. Enjoy!
Steamed fish and tofu with thermomix
09
Jan
This is a very easy recipe. I will tell you what you need to have to make the sauce for the fish and tofu. You need 20 g or sugar, a pinch of pepper, 30 g oyster sauce, 5 g of sesame oil, 1/2 a measuring cup of Chinese rice wine, 15 g of soy sauce, 25 g of olive oil, 4 gloves of garlic which I will chop them finely with 3cm of ginger in the thermomix. I use 2 pieces of salmon fillet and 4 pieces of tofu and finally for garnishing I use some finely chopped spring onions.
Firstly, place your garlic and ginger in the thermomix and chop them for 7 seconds on speed 6. Do remember to scrape them down in the thermomix jug. If not they will stay at the side of the inner thermomix jug and not being cooked properly. After that, add your oil and sesame oil in and cook for 100C for 3 minutes on soft speed. Next add the rest of the ingredients for the sauce into thermomix. Cook it for 5 minutes at 100C on soft speed. Once the sauce is ready pour it into a bowl.
Now I will show you how to cook the rice. Do not wash the the thermomix jug which you use just now to make the sauce. Use the same jug and put in 900 of water. Weigh and wash your rice . I use about 400g of jasmine rice.Insert the basket of rice and cook it for 20 minutes at Varoma temperature on speed 4. Your rice will have the fragrance of the sauce once it is cooked. I cook the rice together with my fish and tofu which are in the varoma . But I remove the tofu out from the varoma tray(upper tray) after 10 minutes of steaming. I place the fish in the varoma receptacle(bottom tray). Once the food is ready, remove the salmon from the varoma receptacle and place it on the plate. Pour the sauce over the fish and tofu and garnish them with spring onions. Enjoy your salmon and tofu with your steamed rice.
Steamed fish and tofu with thermomix