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> If the universe was not created, why can we predict it with such accuracy?

Scientifically, there is nothing to suggest these two are related in any way.

I could ask "if cows weren't orange then why do Oreos have white filling?" it would have the same amount of meaning. To stay with my example, I posit the only reason you think cows are orange and therefore Oreos have a white filling is because someone told you so. To an unbriefed outsider, these statements are wrong and factually disconnected.

> Wouldn't it just be random?

There are lots of places where randomness exists in the universe, but more importantly what we're talking about in regard to emergent phenomena is chaos, not randomness. It's the interaction of many unpredictable little factors, and that does not necessarily lead to meaningless entropy.

> To me, the fact that science even works is evidence for creation.

Again, this makes sense because you have been taught that. For someone who is not familiar with these teachings this sentence may not be parseable. By the way, I apologise if this sounds insensitive, I don't mean to be disparaging here. I merely want to invite you to see this from the perspective of someone with a different cultural background where the symbols that are essential to your everyday life may not exist or even be understood.
There's also the problem of whether Hell is a hot, fiery inferno or a cold insufferable place (Dante v. Milton's Paradise Lost) which is equally confusing/fascinating.
Driving home once again, what an interesting and unusual molecule our ubiquitous friend 'water' really is. Polar, bent, and funky; expanding when frozen, incompressible as a liquid.
for(word: words) { synonym = synonym(word); print('Do {0}, but not {1}', word, synonym); }

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Are you saying Cassandra is not suitable for time series data or that it has issues in general as a database engine?
Seriously you should use warm water to fill your if cube trays. Even if it doesn't freeze faster you get better ice cubes from having less dissolved gas.
For a more nuanced view of this whole topic, I recommend the book The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. https://www.amazon.ca/Death-Life-Great-American-Cities/dp/06...

Many of the counterarguments in these comments (especially that smaller cities, or rural areas, are fine even when American suburbs are not) are actually reasonable, and Jacobs covers them in her book.

Since it's from 1961, you might think the insights would be dated, but they're not. She was complaining even as these mistakes were being made, and it's fascinating to read so many of her predictions that we can now say clearly came true.
I think you're going to get in trouble with generalizations like "any US city", or even "any US city of 100k-500k". Can you be more specific about the faux-cities you're referring to, rather than nerd-baiting me to come up with a list of cities that defy your criteria?
I don't think it's a reason to be alarmed regardless of the intention, it's just one of those "Huh, isn't that funny?" moments IMO.
Exterminating a people for their land isn't war, and the blood isn't washed off when the kids get it.
Thanks. Will be interesting to read the paper.
Does the same effect happen with 100% relative humidity?
Just think how unresonable sounds to say "What responsability do we have to stop Hitler?

Poe's law or whatever, but I can't even imagine a worst possible candidate than Trump, even Eric Cartman would be a better president than this Daily-mail-esque cartoon of human being.
What does that mean practically?
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Personally it has never mattered to me how many people adopt Emacs because it has enough users to ensure development forever. I know for a fact that if the Emacs developers weren't doing a bang up job, which they are, then I would immediately allocate some of my time to help.
Emacs is emblematic of the community aspect of software development that rms usually brings up when talking about free software, and I think it's a subtle notion that separates Emacs from a typical "open source" project. Projects that are as they say "Open Source" tend to be commercially oriented more than community oriented.
Whether or not Emacs is a large or small community does not really matter to me, the software is pretty much stable enough that the future is bright even if everyone on the developer mailing list dropped dead.

I don't mean to complain about "open source" software nor do I claim that the way that Emacs is being developed is better than any other. What I mean to say is that Emacs is an old application and I found it on its old crusty website, decided to dedicate a bunch of time on learning macros, because that's simply the kind of person I am. Whether or not Emacs had a great website would not be the factor that swayed me, and frankly I'm not in the business of trying to sway people as an Emacs fan. Use what you want. I know I'm getting the best development environment for me, because I know me, and I've made Emacs mine.
I don't think it's a distinctly American term. The distinction between the "city" and "suburbs" or "commuter belt" is pretty common in Europe too, at least in cities that actually have such a pattern, especially with a radial commuter-rail network and clearly defined commercial center. For example I don't think anybody that lives in Ishøj or Brøndby is under the impression that they live in an independent "city"; they live in a suburb of Copenhagen, whose main virtue is that it's cheaper than Copenhagen but has good access via the S-train.

A large proportion of the commuter belt of London, Paris, Marseilles, Lyon, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Brussels, Rome, etc. are places like that, some nicer and some more depressing, but definitely suburbs that exist mainly to house people who commute in to the city.
The openalpr project is pretty good, but it uses an older approach with lot of hand-coded logic instead of the convolutional neural net approach of this project. openalpr is faster than this, at least now, but I think the neural net has potential to be faster and more accurate.
Reposting a comment from a similar discussion here...

Religion might just be the precursor to Science; a sapient species trying to make sense of their world and consciousness, plugging the holes in their understanding with whatever means currently at their disposal.

Unless they're born with complete and accurate knowledge about everything in the universe, I think all intelligent life out there is going to have a religion or some form of superstition at some point in their civilization.

Hive-mind intelligences or strictly hierarchical biologies (e.g. queens/workers/drones) may not need concepts like morals or Law or guidance for social conduct, but they may still invent stopgap explanations on their way to understanding mortality and the weather and stars and such.

EDIT: "Religion" in this sense need not necessarily involve the concept of deities either. There are major religions in our own world that do not place a focus on higher beings.
I have a pet theory that someone will put a Python skin on Clojure and have significant success with it.
I think you're going to get in trouble with generalizations like this. Can you be more specific about the exact metro areas whose urban cores are unsuitable for children? My nerdoreceptors are lighting up with counterexamples, but rather than list them, I'd rather understand better what you're trying to say.
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If your job allows, try to focus on a single project at a time. Even if it means you'll be making less money.
Having too many things going on at the same time works just for short time, for most people.
And what we directly benefit from at the moment.
I wouldn't say it's begging the question. Of course evil is an illusion in an atheistic viewpoint. The "problem of evil" is strictly an attempt to show a contradiction in the theist position.

As a Christian, my own answer (in short) is that true "good" requires that people can choose to either do good or evil. The only alternative is a pretty clockwork. This requires accepting a broader definition of "good" for you to accept that God is both good and accepts this tradeoff, but it's not a contradiction. It's just an emotionally significant consequence of believing God exists.
I cloned this a few days ago and had some questions when I tried setting it up, and Matthew's been very helpful when I emailed him, so yes, seconded. Great project!
Oh, good. It wasn't my intention to be.
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You miss the idea, no fact, that the people in the city scoff at the idea of considering Olive Garden a fancy meal
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Cool! It would be great if it could a little bit faster tho.
Running barefoot in snow and ice works surprisingly well. Mostly because when I tried I had more coordination and sensory information, I don't think because my feet had better grip.

(Feet are warm, so going over ice will be different than going over polished wooden floor.)
Interesting! This assert_and_assume() seems strictly better than vanilla assert() for any predicates that don't have side effects. But I guess you have to be sure that the compiler is able to deduce that there aren't side effects and feels comfortable optimizing away the predicate in release mode.
Varints are widely used in databases. https://www.sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/varint.wiki
This graf occurs very early in the post and I winced at it too and had to mentally grit myself into reading the rest of the post. I agree, it's a silly argument and the post would be better without it. But apart from the imprecision of the term "suburb" (the list of suburbs that defy his characterizations is huge), the actual enumerated arguments of the post are much better supported.
I started training about 24 hours ago with a single i7 860 (2.8ghz) and it's still running, but I'm watching the loss going down so I think it might wrap up within a day or two.

The machine I'm using has an Nvidia GTX 970, but I failed to enable CUDA in the TensorFlow installation so it's not using it. When I noticed that I decided just to let it run and then, when it finishes, train it again with the GPU and compare.
This seems like a great idea, but I think it could be vastly helped by some examples about the format should be, what kind of software is acceptable, etc.

For instance: When I was in school, I wrote a MATLAB program to simulate grid cells in a rat hippocampus. Is that acceptable? I've also written numerous packages for Django - are those? And so on..
Yeah museum was inadvertently misleading. Just talking about the Thinkery at Mueller. A children's museum. Was already thinking past that sentence as I was typing it out.

edit: Also, it's more than 3 min by car. It's less than 3 miles but definitely not doing 60mph all the way there.
I find that the Problem of Evil is troubling in an atheistic worldview as well, as it's hard to avoid ending up in nihilistic absurdism.

To be honest, I don't feel like either side answers the question very well
Your recollection is a little rusty.

It's:

1. aviate (physically fly the plane, or more fundamentally, fly the wing)
2. navigate (know where you're going/situational awareness)
3. communicate (tell whoever needs to know)
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Given how many of those are typos I'm not sure how much advantage there is in replacing them with compressed incomprehensible strings. Typo one of these map codes and you'll end up in a different zip code and at first glance nothing will look wrong because they are designed for machines, not people.
Timeline of Artificial Intelligence
Well fine but that's what I'm saying in my first paragraph. There's a particular kind of suburb he's talking about but it definitely is not inclusive of all suburbs.
An important aspect of randomness is that probability distributions are observable. Randomness doesn't imply a universe of nothing but white noise; it means that we can't make predictions about a random process beyond knowing the probability distribution. But it turns out that knowing something about probability distributions counts for a lot. Card counting is a mundane example.
Cash is traceable, each bill has a serial number. Totally agree that cash is easier to use after theft, but there is a huge market for stolen vehicles. They can be taken to a chop shop or even just loaded on a shipping container and sent to another country.

Somebody doesn't need to pull you out of the car, that rarely happens as compared to somebody stealing it out of your driveway or public parking while you're not nearby or asleep.

You can also easily see that somebody has a vehicle, but unless you run their pockets first or they're flashing it around you would not be able to know how much cash they have on their person or if they have any at all.

What makes you a target for robbery is not what you have on your person, it's what you display on your person. Nice clothes, pulling out an expensive phone, having a nice car, pulling wads of money out of your pocket or being intoxicated or otherwise unobservant will all make you a good mark.
Or you start going up towards a pass in winter in a vehicle not equipped to do so (awd/4wd, probably backup chains if you're by yourself, water, blankets or winter clothes enough to get you through 24 hours). Particularly with zero other traffic on the road so there's no one to flag down.

That the gps took them there sucks, but you need to be responsible for looking at the road and deciding if your vehicle can do it. Particularly in the mountains in winter. And be extra careful when you're approaching the half-way mark on gas, ie you can't get back to where you last saw a human. Going past that point means you're all in.

I drive to Tahoe all the time and the number of accidents you see because morons decide to zoom over mountain passes in their crappy civic with bald tires passing people in awd suvs with ski stickers on them (ie people who regularly drive in snow)...
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In what world is 176MPH "nowhere near" 180MPH? I was explicitly approximate, and being 4MPH off is pretty good!
Cool, thanks for the reference point. Interesting that it's an AGPL project!
There is more to safety than simply violent crimes, non-violent crimes are a worry as well. I agree modern urban cores in American are just as safe in terms of violent crime as any suburb, but I would be interested in seeing how non-violent and property crimes compare. It wouldn't surprise me if they are just as safe as suburbs in that context as well, but it doesn't seem to be talked about nearly as much.
"I'm not sure I understand how living in cold climates would even be possible. I'm in an unfamiliar neighborhood without my clothes. How the hell am I going to stay warm?"

In practice, you could either (1) not go to unfamiliar places without your phone, or (2) ask someone who does have a phone for directions.
Commercial trucks and planes represent different levels of risk to the public. Taxi driving does not represent a greater level of public threat than any given person driving any other as a passenger.
Did you mean to link to empty land plot? It's beautiful though, but doesn't look like what is being discussed in article.
> [...] and even include things unrelated to the car itself, such as potential damage to pedestrians.

Why is that unrelated to the car? People are people and worth protecting, no matter whether they sit in the car or outside.
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You left out some of the best parts.

>However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. The stock may not be sold, traded, or pledged as security for a loan; dividends are, by law, paid to member banks at a maximum rate of 6 percent, determined in part by each member bank's total assets.

The bank is operated "not for profit", but generates $9x billion in "profit" for the Treasury (as claimed multiple times in this thread).

"Ownership" is a moot red herring. Owning a fictional entity is useless; having claims on its cash flows is not. The Federal Reserve System issues stock to commercial banks and pays an annual dividend to them, before any money goes to the Treasury. It is literally all of the upside with none of the downside (e.g. liability). The investment pays for itself in twelve years and then continues to pay in perpetuity.
The unfortunate fact is that the FBI doesn't mind putting it in writing because any vestige of justice on our legal system has been swept away. Agents of the government understand that they are completely above the law, so much so that they don't even bother going through the motions anymore to pretend otherwise.
I agree with you 100%. At the same time, in this specific situation I can't help but still be even more disturbed at the thought of a Trump presidency than I am by a data hungry, Orwellian, fascist Internet corporation. Not defending the Facebook employee(s) who asked that question by any stretch, just marveling at how screwed up our political system is. :(
As someone who has lost to a child on national television;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL5GE6S7LEk

I can sympathise with the author of the article. The cruel truth is that it is very difficult to improve as an adult. I think the analogy to learning language is a good one - to get really good learn as a child.

As far as I know there are no instances of a player learning to play as an adult and reaching grandmaster status. Akiba Rubinstein, an all time great who didn't learn until 16, was (nearly) an exception. Another famous (almost) counter-example is one of the pioneers of the Russian school of chess who learned chess from scratch twice - the second time as an adult after suffering total memory loss from a war injury. Unfortunately my Google Fu is failing me and I can't summon any confirmation or recall his name.
This sounds quite a lot to React components. Cool to see different technologies agree on the benefits of componentized UI!

That said I believe Redux is not so much about representing the state tree as it is about making its mutations centralized and predictable (the same actions, replayed, will always produce the same state). While a componentized tree often helps ensure this, it is less of a case when the state shape itself doesn’t neatly match the rendered component tree. This is the use case where Redux, in my opinion, offers some options.
I live in a suburb in the Netherlands and recently visited a school friend who now lives in a nice US suburb. We both have families with kids about the same age. We compared our living conditions.

His beautiful wooden house stands on ten times the area as mine, with a very nice garden and ample parking space. It looks very nice. But my concrete/brick house is bigger inside, and much better constructed. Parking space for visitors can be an issue with me.

Our kids go to school by bike. His kids can't. Although the school is not far, biking is too unsafe. They go by bus. The school even closes when there is snow, because that would make even the bus too unsafe!

Our kids play in the street with their friends, they walk up to each others houses spontaneously when they want to play. My friends' kids had fewer friends, had to set playdates, and played more online.

The conversation we had confirmed many more things from the article.
I have a much bigger problem with the driver who is too busy talking on the phone or giving me their card to even take the exits the GPS is telling them to take. I can't wait for self driving taxi services.
Yes, the speed limit should be enforced with extreme prejudice.

If people want higher speed limits, they should use the normal political processes to get the laws changed; not rely on arbitrary enforcement only on people the police want to pull over.

And outlawing human-driving (outside of race tracks) _is_ the way of the future. Cars are just too damn dangerous---especially to people not inside the car.
Well, philosophically you have to go back at some point to something which cannot fail to exist. So while in human terms it might there might be differences of power, it's not really the same.
> many countries with colder climates, where suburbia would be unsustainable due to heating costs

Which countries are these?
>Unlike [my perception of] React or Angular, you can use Polymer a bit without going all in.

For what it’s worth, you can integrate React in your existing Backbone/Ember/Angular/etc app one component at a time. At my previous company, we have been doing this over the course of a year while shipping new features thanks to the interactivity React enabled.

Ryan Florence gave a talk about integrating React into an existing app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF58ZJ1ZQxY
Totally agreed. A lot of ML posts are "I ran this. This happened." - where what we actually to read is "This is the problem I had. This is how I broke that problem down into these components, and this is how and why I solved those."
Aw, Octave?

/me blushes
There's also enormous variety which may change with the season, weather, washouts, and how recently the road has been repaired across large stretches of the US West, among other areas. Even with a map, the difference between well-graded dirt road and competent high clearance 4WD vehicle and driver needed is often far from obvious.

Furthermore, some visitors not familiar with such areas tend to assume that, if a road is on the map, that means it's fine to take in their passenger car.
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The vim website needs an update !
Vim is noted as the finest text editor. Emacs isn't a text editor, it's a superpower.
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Appreciate your point of view. Another poster mentioned a paper by James J. Feigenbaum† and Christopher Muller‡. Are they some of the scientists you mentioned and labeled as "fringe", in regard to their point of view?

Clearly, violence in communities are multi-faceted topic that cannot be easily explained by something so simple as Lead. However, it might be a possible contributor.

That being said, I do agree with you that the tactics of destroying communities and creating housing projects was clearly a novel idea with terrible implementations and less then desirable outcomes. I work with a lot of folk from housing projects and I've met some really smart people who, without a life line[0], will never get out of poverty. It's a shame really - just by law of averages, politicians should realize that some of the housing projects are harboring brilliant individuals that will never be able to contribute to society within their full potential.

My network tech is from Gun Hill Road in The Bronx, which has an incredibly high crime rate but he can take an engine apart, then back together, within some impressive amount of time judge by Local246[1] (Mechanics Union in NYC). In reality, he really shouldn't be working in our company but in some swanky car modifications shop but they won't hire him based on many different factors. Really, a shame.

[0] - I'm implying that someone would have to hire them to let an individual prove themselves.

[1] - http://nyclocal246.org/
Define evil?