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One problem with understanding ANNs is that the weight matrix carries a lot of spurious interactions. Running perturbation analysis you can see that many of the interactions do not contribute to the information processing of the circuit. This is the same for Gene Regulatory Networks. I wrote a paper published in Nature's "Systems Biology" entitled Survival of the Sparsest Gene Networks are Parsimonious. It's been cited ~130 times. There I represent an algorithm to evolve the connectivity of the network. What you find if that a network will tend to remove spurious interactions if the system is allowed to evolve. Because there will be very few network topologies that are both sparsely connected and functionally equivalent (think of how many ways you could create a minimally complex 8-bit added) there is likely only a small handful of non-isomorphic network topologies for any given function. With these sparse networks we should get a better grasp on the functional circuits that drive them. When the networks appear fully connected, at least in each layer, that circuitt does not reveal itself.
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> Priorities are misaligned here...I skipping this article.

How so? It didn't necessarily mean that his immediately family had passed away.

A member of my extended family might die and I would certainly go to the hospital and attend the funeral, but I would still probably get back to work a few hours later.
Is your argument that you should not because you will have more children if you stay to those more closely related to you?

I don't feel like that's necessarily a strong argument even if you don't think the world is going to have population problems, but if you do, that would be a pretty strong negative
Don't worry this is very uncommon the vast majority of cases never see trial and are instead decided by the prosecutor threatening to destroy the life of a defendant guilty or not if they don't sign a (likely false) confession called a 'plea' in exchange for mercy.
Don't anthropomorphize inanimate objects - they hate that.
This article is guilty of spreading panic and disorder
I think that's more aspirational, particularly given how long it's taken. The Central line is already extremely overcrowded in the peaks, and only yesterday Canary Wharf station had to close to prevent dangerous overcrowding. Even post-Crossrail there may well not be a lot of slack.

(Another example: Waterloo is overcrowded and they'd dearly like to start work on bringing the old Eurostar platforms into use. But they can't start that until work on Victoria underground station finishes, because the work will involve diverting some trains into Victoria rail station which would lead to overcrowding in the underground station if they did it while work there was still going on).
I think it just comes down to frequency, "necessity" of an activity, and context.

Someone might like driving, but are they going to enjoy driving to and from a work environment every day of the week? Perhaps. They might enjoy it so much that they love it. And the work might make it worthwhile. But making that thing a requirement seems like an easy way to transform it into something that's just not as fun as go-where-you-want-when-you-want free drive.

I think it just comes down to whether or not you you're forced into doing something as a means to an end. Cooking for subsistence rather than for pleasure, for example.
The title sounded like the setup for an awesome joke.

The problem is, now I want to hear that joke! :(
"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla" Population 171,000.

We aren't going to get good mass transit in "small" cities.

It's painful enough in NYC, best public transit in America, where there are millions of people. Need to make a connection and it'll take an hour to get anywhere. I've lived 4 miles from work and it took 45 minutes on average to commute into Manhattan.
I like the "Why HospitalRun?" at the bottom of the link...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OhlxZY__spF_3ZnXLd5ga9vO...
The Canadian Priest who baptized my cousin was decapitated when he drove his small car under a moose. They are truly massive animals.
Yes, protocols, not platforms.
Ignorant question: If they are making getting a certificate easy for everyone, what is to stop "bad guys" from getting certificates for their sketchy sites? I usually look to the green "https" in my uri bar for reassurance when I'm on an unusual site.
Name proliferation is a famous issue. One-use names are evil.
Bad GOTO is jumping into a FOR loop in the middle of an entirely unrelated piece of code.
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I wish we moved to something more modern instead. I wonder why miniLock isn't catching on faster. Is it because it was initially written by Nadim Kobeissi? The code has already gone through an audit and seems to be fine. Matthew Green also seems to like it.

https://minilock.io/

miniLock also enables cool end-to-end encrypted email-like services such as Peerio.com, although Kobeissi doesn't seem to trust the service itself anymore since he left them, but the client is open source and others could probably develop their own Peerio-like service or make it a Sandstorm.io app.

https://github.com/PeerioTechnologies/peerio-client
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They don't collect anonymized data. They collect data, then anonymize it for aggregation by their machine learning systems. They still have data with user information in it.

I'd be surprised if it was just "for regular development purposes."

I'd wager that collected usage information in drives marketing and sales efforts, to enterprise customers at least but perhaps consumers as well. And while it's not directly used to target ads at the students on that platform, I'd be similarly surprised if it wasn't used to train their commercial-side profiles to make targeting "anonymous" 12-18 year-olds more effective.
That part of Oxford Street is already bus-only. Full pedestrianization would be great except I'm not sure where the buses could go.
I think this is why studies looking at ways to promote lifespan beyond just treating disease are so important. And it seems like the medical and scientific community are coming around to the same idea.

A great example of the changing mindset in the scientific community is a new study on metformin to increase longevity.[0]

Given how low interest rates are and the profound savings from delaying senescence, it is a great fiscal opportunity for government research.

[0]https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02432287
I find it's almost "too easy", during the work week anyway.
> you're wrong to say that LC has no notion of complexity

I didn't say that it has no notion of complexity; I said it "does not have a useful formulation of complexity", as reduction step count are not very useful in measuring algorithmic complexity, at least not the measures of complexity most algorithms are concerned with.

> It's foolish to think of this as equivalent to LC, though.

Oh, I don't think that at all, which is why I specifically said that some people make the mistake of confusing LC reductions with classical substitutions (equality). They may then think that computation can be equational (false), rather than say it may sometimes be useful to think of computation in equational terms, but that's an abstraction -- namely, a useful lie -- that has a cost, i.e. it is "leaky" (true).
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Is it possible to write complex iOS apps using swift alone, without having to learn any Obj-C? Is there full library support, good ecosystem, etc.?
Who condemns jury trials? Most people here complain about the implementation of jury trials, not the concept of jury trials.
Hey, glad u like it. You can have a look here: https://www.quantifiedcode.com/how-it-works

We do also have open source projects, such as The Little Book of Python Anti Patterns.
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The more drunk people take public transportation, the more I'd want to avoid it. The more I'd want my wife to avoid it.

Private business is good at solving problems with out the need for government intervention and higher taxes. If you are going to get drunk and you need to get from point A to point B, use Uber or call a taxi.
If a only a small portion of the population will be adept at programming, and training is less important, then it's likely that most of the potential talent does not have formal training incompetent science. Therefore, coding schools should give a second opportunity for those tho did not study computer science in a formal university setting. Learning to code may help reveal those very people.
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Also, on those old systems running IBM RPG and other "green-screen" UIs, it's really impressive how fast users can navigate the system via keyboard commands when they are forced to not have a mouse.
No, over-represented with respect to the U.S. population which is irrelevant. Chinese people were criminally underrepresented with respect to the population of the world. It depends on the local demographics which we don't have access to. What we do have access to is the fact that there were many, many more people of color in the selection pool who were removed because of racial discrimination.
Wow. Thanks for sharing this, I know it can't be easy talking about it. It's things like this where people who can solve the problem just aren't aware of the problem. Connecting the two is the hardest thing in innovation. It is painful to know how many developers can solve this yet they spend their days on improving their laundry for your cat delivered to your door app. Nobody is at fault or to blame, I'm not saying that whatever they are working on is not important or wrong, but I think more awareness of these kind of things would make more developers, who are very much capable, want to create a solution.

Note: I'm not putting any developers working on social/enterprise apps at fault or blaming, simply suggesting many of those developers would be more than willing to help out on solutions, they just aren't aware of the problem.
Very interesting read. Need to spend more time with it and think on it some more.

My son, though he's yet to have a conclusive diagnosis, is very likely on the autism spectrum, as he's a bright kid but is absolutely "unable to deal with systems that do not have a lawful structure".

What's interesting is that my wife and I did the complete opposite of assertive mating. We're from the same hometown, with completely different backgrounds. We had different friends, have different educational levels, different ethnicities, different heights, different looks, different interests, and different perspectives. Genuinely two people from "opposite sides of the tracks" who meet just from randomly being in the same building. But the attraction and chemistry were instant and enduring.

(We also, interestingly, both have extremely high adaptability, almost to a fault. It's been a learning experience to create the type of routine our son expects.)

I know: it's just one data point. But I've watched the rising rates of autism with great personal perspective, and it's certainly a complex and multi-deminsional issue.

The other things to iterate are that autism certainly is a spectrum full of individual variation (almost to the point of not being a useful label), and autism isn't necessarily a detriment—it's a perspective and mode of being. If we could systematically avoid autism through a deeper understanding of the cause, I'm wondering what the unintended consequences would be. I know one thing: I would never change my son.
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Unfortunately Hailo already tried to expand further - they were in New York until a few months ago, but were barely a blip on the radar compared to Uber and (to a lesser extent) Lyft.
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Nothing will. Checking for https for validation whether author of a website has malicious intents is wrong, SSL is not intended for that purpose. That's the purpose of an EV cert, because it requires a company to prove its identity, so the very least you can do is to look for green bar / company name in the address bar.
So then it would be just as likely that a Mark should emerge from a poor third world country, right?

When I was younger I had the naive opinion that my successes were my own doing. As I got older my opinion changed. Yes, I had something to do with it, absolutely. But a lot of it was being the right person in the right place at the right time.

There is a reason that I log in as luckydude.
FTA:

> The judge has already instructed us directly that we are not to do any research on the law while sitting on this jury. This is the first of several times I will violate those instructions.

Why do people do this? Why blatantly disregard the instructions of the judge when you're tasked with determining the guilt or innocence of someone and potentially sending them to jail, ruining their professional career, etc?

To completely ignore the instructions of a judge when tasked with something this important should have much more severe consequences than being dismissed and causing a mistrial.
The creation of whites-only suburbs was intentional and racist. The Federal Housing Administration started in 1934 and helped back home loans for white Americans. It helped get them out of the cities and invest in home ownership. The FHA explicitly refused to back loans for black people or even people who lived near black people. [1]

The result was "redlining," where banks and lenders would draw lines on a map to delineate where blacks were allowed to live and who could get home loans in the white neighborhoods. [2]

This is still something that happens now. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution won a Pulitzer in the '80s for a series demonstrating how banks would rather give money to a poor white family to buy a home in a "white" neighborhood than a middle- or even upper-class black family. [2]

You're partially right in the sense that race and income are strongly correlated, but keeping black people out of the suburbs across the country was no accident.

If you're interested in a long but fantastic read on the effects of discriminatory policies on minorities over the years, Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" is a good place to begin. [3]

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-raci...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

[3]: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...
You might be able to reframe it as a "why" question. Then you're no longer questioning the experience, but the ability to impart that knowledge to others.
"Java ca. 2001 style" also seemed to include using every feature of J2EE even if it wasn't remotely relevant.

Crazy files of constants seemed to feature a lot as well:

public final static string HTTP = "HTTP";
public final static string COLON = ":";
public final static string SLASH = "/";

and then the inevitable:

string url = HTTP + COLON + SLASH + SLASH....;

[I did think about posting it to the DailyWTF at the time but thought that might be bad form when you are the lone contractor trying to rescue the project.]
Also, shoveling bootcampers into the industry is bad for real engineers and the quality of their software. Management everywhere is lowering the bar so they can hit their hiring goals and pretending the consequences are natural.
Not sure I understand. Why would easy be a negative?
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Also they tend to take a long time to boot in cold weather. Which is common here in Denmark.

In theory they would be great. In practice, well, we will have automatic cars before we have those.
Acceptance of Profound-Sounding “Bullshit” Linked to Lower Intelligence
I hesitate to comment as I haven't read the paper but skimmed comments and abstract...

Wouldn't marrying/reproducing in smaller circles historically have been higher throughout history as transportation and availability would have been less prevalent?

I would imagine that people tended to marry within their social circle at a much higher frequency in say the 1800s than they do now.

Also, it's always curious when I read studies about the increase in Autism rates. I am in the middle of reading Neurotribes and have read elsewhere that much of that increase can be explained in the broadening of the definition and increase in social awareness. Perhaps that doesn't account for the entirety of the increase, but I would be curious as to what percent we're attributing in this paper.
I think you're over thinking things. Tech hiring is so random that you could have the most impressive list of projects on github, but if you get asked a single data structure question that you stumble on they might pass. Similarly, you could ace the white boarding questions, but if they check out a project of yours on github that they don't enjoy for some reason they might pass.

I would stick to doing whatever will give you the most confidence when talking to companies. If that is studying data structures/algorithms then keep doing that. If its launching a side project focus on that instead.
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We have no reason to believe that the Planck length actually has any physical significance. It is just a way to get something of a certain order of magnitude from physical constants.

The quantization in quantum mechanics arises from constraints on the physical systems being studied. There are no constraints that would lead to length itself being quantized. You can get wavelength quantization for bound particles, but that's just for that particle, not for space in general.
People talk a lot about ''quality of life'' but not so much about ''quality of job'' or ''quality of work life''. I used to have a job I hated and couldn't wait to retire (early). Now I have a job I love and hope to keep doing it forever, or as long as I'm competent at least. The difference isn't the amount of work but has rather more to do with autonomy, flexibility of hours, smart co-workers and low stress. Not sure if that scales across the workforce. Maybe some people are only productive in medium to high stress environments where there are constant external pressures to perform?

One downside I can see is that if retirement ages are extended and old folks work longer, then opportunities for young folks to enter the workforce will be delayed and overall unemployment may increase.
Restify, interesting.
I guess it is unfortunate though not too surprising that an employer would be blocking netflix.com.
Honestly I can't imagine ever abiding by a rule like that. No outside research? So I'm just supposed to trust everything other jurors say and ignore facts and statistics? I think not. Juries are already horribly misinformed as it is (see: almost every case involving tech/computers) and to rule that no one can even attempt to educate themselves is quite frankly disgusting.
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Agreed and I find this utterly appalling. For me this is a damning indictment of capitalism and a clear indicator that there has to be a better way to handle task prioritization and resource allocation in a modern society.
I also read that as kind of weird. Who is their target audience really...
Ahh yes, the PMRC. I remember those "concerned parents", led by Tipper Gore. The best part of that time was Dee Snider from Twisted Sister testifying before Congress (their song "We're not gonna take it" was squarely in the sights of the PMRC).

When John Denver testifies against you, you're really off track.
If you are looking for these kinds of features outside of AWS, check out NS1 or Dyn.
Why 'Nudges' Hardly Help
NVIDIA NIPS paper doing just that for NN.

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5784-learning-both-weights-and-c...

Not sure if it tells us more about why the network works, but they sure as heck get rid of a lot of connections.