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If you feed biased random bits into Solomonoff induction, the shortest surviving programs at any given point would tend to be things like arithmetic encoders that match the bias and specify just a bit more output. (Assuming you're not using pseudo-random numbers, of course.) So it will at least start to predict probabilities with the correct bias.

If you're feeding in unbiased independent random bits, any and every process is already an optimal predictor.
I mean, do you have any idea what kind of regulations there are on building in Boston?

Southie is booming right now, but it sure as hell isn't for cheap housing. The headaches of dealing with Boston zoning are now far outweighed by the benefits of building in the Seaport.
I'm skeptical, but if so, it sounds like another aspect of the law that needs to be changed. Definitions can be tricky, but the difficulty in drawing an exact line doesn't necessarily matter. There will be plenty of cases where the line has clearly been crossed. And sure, give the defendant the benefit of the doubt in those cases where it's a close call.
An FDA FAQ tells me:[0]

> Inspections and licensing of restaurants and grocery stores are typically handled by local and county health departments. However, FDA serves as a scientific and technical consultant to state and local regulatory agencies by publishing the FDA Food Code, which sets forth model provisions for keeping food safe in restaurant, cafeteria, and institutional food operations. Most states adopt these model provisions as legal requirements applicable to restaurants and food-service establishments within their jurisdictions.

Looking at Food Code 2013, I don't see anything about ingredient listing for restaurant food. But I do see this at p 102:[1]

> 3-601.12 Honestly Presented.

> (A) FOOD shall be offered for human consumption in a way that does not mislead or misinform the CONSUMER.

> (B) FOOD or COLOR ADDITIVES, colored overwraps, or lights may not be used to misrepresent the true appearance, color, or quality of a FOOD.

[0] http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm194244.ht...

[1] http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/RetailFoodProtect...
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Regarding Italian food, it's important to be aware of how widespread illegal dumping of toxic waste is affecting food production in that country: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-mob-made-southen-italy-a-...
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Unless there's some sort of Federal law that pre-empts such actions, one could plausibly sue a restaurant on a common-law fraud theory.
Thus refuting the original point about it being about popularity.

Simply put - using money to create legal power and abuse it in turn is how uber works.

The fact that their service is popular just helps in PR - people will rationalize egregiously shady behavior instead of condemning it.

As I see it the message from the article is "don't get caught". A sharp contrast from a few decades ago when "don't be evil" was considered a basic standard.
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Do you know if the increase of autoimmune diseases is of the order of magnitude as the decrease of other diseases mentioned in the article?
Companies frequently defend themselves against shareholder lawsuits, and naturally that money would otherwise provide value for the shareholders. Also, if the SEC fines them the (current) investors will basically be punished!
That one explains the concepts in much better way, thanks for sharing!
http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/the-colors-we-eat seems relevant in how this goes unquestioned for the most part
The problem with tomatoes and many other vegetables and fruits is, that they don't grow in the UK so they have to be imported. If they would be imported only when they were as ripe and tasty as the ones you saw in Italy, they would be rotten by the time they arrived in your supermarket in the UK. So, they are harvested when they are not quite ripe. They will ripen a bit more during transport but they will never have the same quality and freshness as the food in Italy.

TL;DR; if you want to have really fresh vegetables, stick to local and seasonal products.
Actually, many people believe that math is "true", and in many cases they believe that math is more real than the physical universe. The position is called Platonism, in its older form, though Kant has his own spin on the idea.
I wasn't expecting this article to be about Sleeping Beauty problems and Solomonoff induction. There are people trying to apply real machine learning algorithms to real physics problems (e.g. [1][2]). This article is not about that.

It should go without saying that Solomonoff induction is totally useless for practical applications, if interesting theoretically. Brute forcing the space of all programs is ridiculously mindbogglingly universe-crushingly expensive. (Actually, even if the process was magically tractable, there would still be limitations and dangers [3].)

1: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108...

2; http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1333

3: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg1/solomonoff_cartesianism/
This is exactly what Sowell spoke about several years ago, nice to see it with hard data though.

Thomas Sowell: Oh, because Dallas wasn't part of the boom and it wasn't part of the bust.
Peter Robinson: How come?
Thomas Sowell: Because in Dallas they don't have the restrictions on building houses that we have in Coastal California. Houston was--is very similar. Houston doesn't even have zoning laws. And so therefore if people wanted more houses in Dallas or Houston, the villages built more houses and the prices didn't rise.
Peter Robinson: Supply is able to adjust to demand.
Thomas Sowell: That's it.
Peter Robinson: Much more easily, much more easily in these markets.
Thomas Sowell: Yes.
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Universal basic infrastructure is what we need a push towards. Next to free energy, education, medicine.
Not an expert here, but erlang uses the actor model, while go uses csp.

Side note, clojure implements csp in a core library called core.asyc
It cannot be, that's the point.

If Sri Lanka exports tea as "Darjeeling", it's automatically fake.
I'm always surprised the Japanese (or more specifically the Japan National Wagyu Registration Association) don't kick up a fuss about the name 'Wagyu' being used for the name of the breed (no matter where it is raised) and not the origin of the meat.

'Wagyu' in Japanese literally means 'Japanese Cow'. I wonder what it would take to name an existing cattle breed 'US Beef', send breeding stock to somewhere with lots of land and cheap labor and starting a new domestically raised 'US Beef' industry.
It's worse than just fractional reserve banking. The vast majority of the money supply is based off debt.

Would recommend watching the 4 minute introduction on the Positive Money homepage for a quick overview of the current situation with money creation:

http://positivemoney.org/
>Speaking from personal experience, Israel is the only place on earth with a startup ecosystem comparable to the Valley.

Hm. So, I guess when I was starting my company, the ability to make a lot of money myself made a huge difference; I was able to turn that money into a company... (Now, of course, I understand this isn't what most people do, and after doing it myself, I understand why most people don't do it that way. This isn't how I'm going to start my next company, if I ever start a company again.)

The problem with Israel, (in my experience, which is approaching a decade old) is just that the pay there was very dramatically less, to the point where, yeah, if I had money, I might want to start a company there, sure, but I couldn't do what I did in silicon valley; I couldn't use my own labor to bootstrap the capital required to start a company, because my labor would be worth a small fraction of what it's worth in silicon valley.
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A bit off topic, but I found that page theme and layout very enjoyable to read. Good design
I think legislations should be brought in to prevent machines from taking over most of people's jobs but just a percentage in different sectors.

With human nature, UBI is never going to work, it is just over-glorified welfare.
Oh fascinating, I hadn't thought about this before. So if the plaintiffs win a shareholder lawsuit, they're winning money at the expense of all of the other shareholders? And what about a class-action by all of the shareholders (is that even possible)? That'd just be the shareholders suing themselves? I guess that'd just be a forced liquidation/dividend in effect, right?
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> The problem with tomatoes and many other vegetables and fruits is, that they don't grow in the UK so they have to be imported.

Tomatoes do grow in the UK (my Dad has lots of them in his garden) but only for a short season.
Sometimes it really could be a conspiracy.

http://imgur.com/W7AcUDV

Medieval peasants ate 4000 - 5000 calories per day.

As late as the 40s, it was recommended that people eat 3000 calories per day and many men ate 4000 calories per day.

Now it is recommended we eat 2250 calories per day.

Neither of the first two groups are known for being fat. Actually the opposite. They look amazing in photos, all of them.

This is despite many of them eating low quality foods and insane amounts of fats and sweets. Gluttony is not new. Fat people everywhere is new.

So the number of calories we've been absorbing has steadily decreased over time.

It is all physical activity that accounts for the discrepancy?

I'm not confident that is the case. It sounds wrong to me because although I accept that our grandparents were far more physically active than we are it is known that exercise burns calories at a low rate. Exercise has always been a bad way to lose weight. It has always been easier to lose weight by eating less. You could skip the gym for two days by neglecting to eat half a mars bar.

I wonder whether there is some other systemic affect at work. Like the temperature is warmer outside so we burn less calories just living.

I'm sure that's probably wrong, I'm just offering up that there may be some alternative explanation than the conventional one.

Here's another one. Our brains use most calories. Maybe we're using them in less energy intensive ways than we used to. Maybe our brains actually use up more energy when engaged in physical activity for an actual purpose i.e. not mindlessly zoned out on a treadmill and that is a hidden multiplier affect.

Now I'm going to make a sandwich because I'm hungry.
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Don't be silly, it's a common practice in some industries for a company to pay some expensive course in exchange for X (usually 2) years of work (paid, very well). You can leave whenever you want, you just have to pay back the course.

I had a friend working for Airbus who just did that, the company he moved to offered to pay him back the cost of the bailing out.

Though all the times I have seen this happening was for very specialised and well paid work, when the workers have quite a lot of leverage. It's not hard to imagine this becoming really bad if the worker does not have any leverage.
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That's great, but it's your choice.

Also - that my DNA is on my sofa does not mean it's being published, sold, and used for purposes beyond my expectations.
That's why EU people are protesting against TTIP. We're worried that the lower standards that are common in USA, will prevail, and any resistance will be trampled in private arbitrage courts.
I did the "write every day" thing to finish a book [1] and it worked like a charm for me.

Sure, it was hard to find time every day. Sometimes I got up early. Sometimes I stayed up late. Sometimes I squeezed it in on a flight. But I pulled it off. I had enough flexibility within a day to find a little slice of time.

As far I can, the author advocates the exact same strategy, they just use a week as their unit instead of a day. I don't see how it's that different otherwise.

Personally, for me, I think a week is almost too long of a cadence. I've been exercising lately and I stick to a weekly schedule with that and I find myself tending to slack until the very end of the week and then cramming it in. A week is long enough that I don't get really get in the groove and feel like it's a continuous habit.

But, of course, everyone runs at a different rhythm. Find the one that works for you.

[1]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
Indeed, it has a GI tag meaning it has to be grown in a specific location to be called Darjeeling. Like Champagne, Parma ham, etc.
Sorry, but that doesn't make sense to me, why would the quality of food there decrease?
Please submit this as a support request - this seems to be the only way to get Niantic to see anything as they don't seem to use Twitter, Facebook or HackerNews.
If Google had any sense, they would be throwing a tonne more at this. It may be Ingress with less features and a Pokemon skin but that latter part is exactly the mainstream appeal they need to make AR big. This is their big chance to create a new market. If they sort out the bugginess and roll out decent features in the next couple of months to keep retention, they're onto something big.

At near-on midnight on Saturday, there were 150-200 people sitting in a 70m stretch of the main public park area here in Brisbane CBD (Southbank). During Sunday when I walked through, that was closer to 250-300. This is purely because there's 3 or 4 points of interest in close proximity so people congregate there to interact with it. It's truly a sight to behold.

This game has captured the imagination of non-gamers better than anything I can think of in recent history. It's nearing WoW / CoD levels of ubiquity.
As someone who came from Poland to the UK, I was amazed by the quality of the ingredients in the UK. Tomatoes that smell like actual tomatoes, beautiful, tasty, sweet and crunchy carrots, onions, wealth and abundance of any fruit you can imagine. Cherries and watermelon in January?! What's this madness?!

My point is - it all depends on your perspective. To me, quality and variety of ingredients available in the UK is just stunning. To you, it's poorer than italy. Depends how you look at it.
love this quote:

> Every researcher knows about publication bias, but the practice is so widespread that it is not considered a serious problem.
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Darjeeling is a region in India. So darjeeling tea is like champagne in that if it isn't from that region it isn't actually Darjeeling.
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The professor clearly responded to your "tuition dollars" concern, so I'm going to ignore A). But B) is an interesting question that I will assume is sincere.

"White Lives Matter" is likely to be controversial for two reasons. First, it misses the point of the Black Lives Matter slogan, as the professor addressed quite well. Scan his response for "focus and exclusion" for detail, there. Second, "White Lives Matter" does not stand alone as a statement in today's cultural context. No one could wear such a shirt and claim it was anything other than a counterpoint to "Black Lives Matter". Thus, in 2016, that counter-slogan comes with a very strong implication of "black lives don't matter." Which brings us to your more extreme case.

Wearing a shirt that proclaimed "black lives don't matter" could be seen as a wry commentary on American culture, if worn by a black student already known by their peers to be an activist for civil rights. Even then, the face value of that statement means it should be verboten.

And that face value is, I'm confident, what you mean by your question. I certainly hope that any university would indeed expel a student (after a warning) who insisted on making the statement that the lives of other people do not matter. The social purpose of universities is to improve society by increasing the knowledge and awareness of its members. "Other people don't matter" is an interesting stance to take for a socratic dialog around solipsism, but as a personal statement is clearly opposed to the mission of any respectable education institution.

Your questioning itself strongly suggests that you (like many) sense an invisible "only" before "black lives matter." I'd like to encourage you to re-read the "focus and exclusion" portion of the professor's response.
I plan to do the analysis for other languages soon.
Because in the EU there are laws that say that if something is labeled as virgin olive oil, it has to be olive oil and nothing else. Greek Yoghurt has to be made in Greece and nowhere else. Lobster meat has to be lobster meat, and Kobe beef absolutely has to be Kobe beef. TTIP basically(in extreme simplification) says that if something is allowed in US it should be allowed in any other signatory country - which would obviously lower our standards as they are much higher than those in US.
Google / Alphabet != Niantic. [1]

I'd be pretty embarrassed at not predicting the load that a game like this would put on servers. I wonder if they got a good deal from GCE?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic,_Inc.
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What is your question exactly?
> The immigration laws (and their execution) in israel prevent non-jews from moving there. Also, why wouldn't they just move to america instead?

hm. My understanding is that it's just really easy for a Jewish person to immigrate to Israel - my understanding is that for the rest of us, it's still easier, say, than getting into America.
> but only for a short season.

I think that was the point being made, that for the majority of the year (if there are even any tomato farms), all are imported.
Coordinating teams remotely is harder (and gets harder the larger your company is), and makes for slower software development. For highly profitable tech companies, it's worth the premium to have people on-site.
I think that trademark dilution is in place. Also it is tricky - if it comes to mean Japanese (as the territory), I will just put some third rate cattle on the disputed islands under Russian administration and it will become as Wagyu as they come.

Personally I think they decided to take smaller slice of much bigger pie - if the world gets a taste for Wagyu - there will be a lot of money in the business. And as long as they make sure they are providing among the best stuff - they will always be able to sell everything with a premium.
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Another scam is extra virgin olive oil. Almost all of the ev-olive oils that you buy at supermarkets in the US are fake [0]. It's basically lower-grade olive or vegetable oil with some added green chlorophyl for color. UK supermarkets aren't faring much better [1]. It's all due to mafia control of the oil markets in Italy. 60 Minutes did a report on it recently and they even tested oils for fakes [2]. It's extremely difficult to tell if your ev-olive oil is fake without chromatography/spectroscopy equipment but some people try [3].

[0] http://time.com/money/4326354/fake-olive-oil-food-fraud/

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11988...

[2] http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/mafia-olive-oi...

[3] http://www.foodrenegade.com/how-tell-if-your-olive-oil-fake/
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A hedge fund with track record of Reinessance Technologies does not have to advertise to investors in any way. They just choose not to raise more capital because in some ways they are unable to push it to such returns (when you are too big, you can't move as quickly without moving the market against you).
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In Italy, a bottle of proper extra-virgin olive oil is roughly 10 euros per liter. If you're paying less than that, it's not real.
What's the cheapest way to get guaranteed-real EV olive oil? Are there known-good brands (perhaps ones produced entirely outside of Italy?)

Or, if you cared about "authentic Italian" olive oil, perhaps for personal or restaurant use (i.e. not for resale): how much would it cost (in the US) to just buy bulk Italian olives, and then press them yourself?
Do you have bounce rate stats on the video? Those will tell you whether or not you should re-record narration with a professional. (And as far as costs go, that's not very expensive.)
Okay, factorial and linked list changed my mind. This is way more ergonomic than I gave it credit for. It doesn't seem to quite agree with /post/mu; in particular, I see no usage of next-ingredient and instead I see the typical function prototypes you seem to be critiquing. Does this mean next-ingredient is gone, or is it optional or...?
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>Medieval peasants ate 4000 - 5000 calories per day.
As late as the 40s, it was recommended that people eat 3000 calories per day and many men ate 4000 calories per day.

That's the input, but what's the output? If your hypothetical peasant was burning 6000 cal a day, that's very different if they were burning only 1000 cal.
Still waiting for EU release :)
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