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Addressing your responses:

1. Unless I've misunderstood, the original assertion was that the gender gap is present in many engineering professions. I'm not clear on what facts you are relying on, but the data I've seen (and linked to) seems to bear this observation out. Such an observation is not at odds with your assertion that there are 'structural biases' against women.

And if I has to guess, to put it bluntly, I suspect China was not included as their official statistics on any remotely economic matter are highly suspect. Additionally, there are quite disparate outcomes among countries. On no measure of gender workforce equality is the US in the lead, at least according to the data in the linked study. The US is better than most on vertical inequality (i.e. wage gaps within the same occupational groups) but roughly average on horizontal inequality (i.e. occupational gender segregation). The US is closest to South Africa in these respects.

2. I don't have much to say here really. I guess part of this might come down to what one subjectively defines as a 'high status' profession. I don't really have an opinion here, so I defer to yours.

3. I don't recall saying that that study I linked to rebuts your point of view. I linked to the study because it's fairly comprehensive, informative, and seems to have a sound methodology. The data analysed is fairly credible too: large cross country social surveys and Census data. I'm not sure where R^2 comes into this, as the authors are not constructing a predictive model. Rather, they're simply calculating observational statistics.

And I'm not asking you to concede that the debate should shift into some kind of weird, abstract mathematical exercise. But if you refuse to even glance at some of the data put forward (or any data really), preferring some nebulous facts that you haven't actually presented, then I'm afraid you're likely to have a hard time convincing people who don't already agree with you.
I say to robots: welcome to the club. A bike on a roadway is a tricky problem for the best of us. They can move quickly, at or above traffic speeds in many circumstances. They dont follow the same rules (stop signs) and at any moment can transform autobot-style into a pedestrian. It's an issue. And when it goes wrong it is the biker who suffers. That is life driving a car. If you cannot get it right 99.9999% of the time, you aren't good enough to drive.

I have yet to see a car capable of reading the body language of a bicyclist or motorcyclist. As one of those, i still want to look a driver in the eye before i trust him not to squish me. Robots arent anywhere near there yet.
> If I understand you correctly you are comparing Markov Chains on words to a RNN over characters. That's not fair.

No. Words have nothing to do with it. (An RNN over words would be useless for password guessing.)

Anyway, your link doesn't demonstrate what you think it demonstrates. It's not on a password corpus but a much smaller natural language one, there is no attempt to equate runtime or model size, and the log-likelihood is an irrelevant measure of performance to passwords/s.
> I make bread with 10 grams or less of sugar all the time (usually pizza crust where I'm headed towards 0 grams being the standard).

Pizza crust is a different recipe from the breads being discussed here. Sugar is not as necessary for the baking process as it is for soft bread.

> Also, there are breads in the stores I shop that don't list sugar (or the various substitutes for sucrose) as an ingredient.

I would like to see the brands. I have never seen a soft bread that did not contain sugar.
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> although you would have to afford their stock, which is incredibly expensive

Berkshire Hathaway has B-class shares available that only cost $170. Anyone can afford them. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BRK-B/?p=BRK-B
Buffett Partnership Ltd paid 4% interest and 50% profits above 4%, and if there was a loss 25% of it was hit directly to Buffett, unlimited. Friends and family only.

Buffett and Buffett charged jack shit. Again, extremely limited.

The important thing he was criticizing was the excruciating fees, I think.
Settings > Accessibility > Reduce Motion (off/on)

Right above in "Increase Contrast" you can also trigger a "Reduce Transparency" setting which may speed up animations (but admittedly alters the UI style).

It's not yet what we'd want but it's what we have so far.
Ara's been gone since August. I sourced the story myself, not sure how it's click bait tbh! Did you read it?
I suspect a barrier to growth for this company is just that lots of people don't even know such a thing is legal. I'm astonished to find out that my hometown Boston allows it, and apparently that's where Drizly started up.
I don't think the issue is whether it stopped or not, but the possible discrepancy in how it was communicated.
Cruelty to animals. I eat meat but do not like seeing anything suffer for purposes of amusement. These are small, but mistreating even insects can be a crime in the US (specifically if you film it). Give them a digital version and leave the actual animals out of such displays.
> Summary is that "people riding bikes" (PRB) is a much denser image set than "people in cars" (PIC) and "people walking or jogging" (PWJ), and the PRB objects have a much higher dynamic angular vector capability (they can change direction extremely quickly) combined with a wider dynamic velocity vector to PWJ they strain the ability of the predictive filters to reliably asses the collision threat. As a result you need either faster/better hardware or better algorithms to deal with that particular group.

Nice analysis of why bicycles are so dangerous even now - computational issues like these are just as much an issue for brains as for computers. Not surprising that, in many cities in the US, biking is insane. Nearly everybody I know that bikes to work has a close call or two in their history.
I guess (after Googling around) that it has to do with time of consumption and the breaking of cell walls.

This mainly applies to fruit, if I'm reading things correctly. If you puree kale and cucumbers, there shouldn't be much downside to drinking that as long as you don't add anything - there's little sugar in those vegetables as it is, so overconsumption won't be that awful for you.
Not OP, but as long as it's not worse than current humans and still much better in other areas, I personally find it acceptable. But the goal is for it to be better in all areas.
One big thing here is that Ara was part of ATAP which was acquired from Motorola (back when Google owned Motorola). So the culture of this project is an unusual one, even for Google. The heavy dependence on outside contractors probably made for a complicated setup, but I don't think that was the problem. From the outside, it feels like ATAP/Project Ara just ran the clock out. If they'd have gotten the phone done and ready to ship faster, maybe things would be different today.
Yeah, that's the thing. It's not hard to turn right & left against each other, then the lobbyists profit off of that. Just had to get each side to want to use the problem for their own political ends and divide us over how to address it.

But I think we should try to remember and go back to the fact that essentially nobody likes what the ISPs want to do at all. If we could find a more agreeable way to address it and not let it get twisted to further other agendas, I think most people could agree that it needs to be stopped.
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Car driving humans is also a 95% problem. It's almost impossible to get people to follow (or set) good laws, pay attention, not be under the influence, etc. I'm betting that cars will improve at a faster rate than human capability.
lol, what a ripoff. They claim they are "just covering costs" and the fee is more like a donation.. I just did 5 minutes of research and you can rent a nice 45 sq. m. 1-bedroom apartment on a daily basis, in a more central location of Malta, for 1/2 the price they are charging for a "single private bedroom". What a joke. Should call it what it is, a "hipster trust-fund kid house".
The creators of this project told me they actually wondered if PETA would take offense. Ideally, though, the tardigrades would have had plenty of algae and room to swim around/reproduce.
alright so whats the newest trick needed to get around the paywall?
GitHub is evil now? What did I miss?
That was a really good explanation and tip. Nicely done.
To address the core of your argument: no one is saying Intel should subsidize anything. The assertion is that using monopoly status to do additional work to gimp functionality in one product line and artificially drive up the price of another is at least abusive in the short term, probably makes Intel less competitive in the long run, and increases the volatility of the market.
It seems like the hate begins when the companies don't own up to their mistakes and issues.
I don't think they are evil but... "GitHub Founder Steps Down After Harassment Probe" (https://www.wired.com/2014/04/tom_pw/)
Courter point: The team here developed some interesting new mobile microscopy techniques. It's possible, had the project completed development, that some other cool things could have come from a "useless" tech-art project.
The 'hype cycle' [1] applies to all things.

http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hyp...

Whether or not something has a real utilitarian value determines if it will rise from the 'trough of disillusionment'.

Movements that are entirely emotional or euphoric (think music bands) - won't.

Products that are fun/fickle or mostly trendy (think some apps) won't either.

Products that have material value outside the hype hang on.

So the 'real long term value' of something is usually best measured by how well they do after the 'uncool' phase.

Facebook has done well after they became 'uncool'.

Twitter - not as well, but nevertheless they will stick around.

Snapchat? I think there is a lot more risk.
> test to their own wholly controlled iperf server on a 10GbE connection.

Well, bouygues.testdebit.info, ping.online.net and speedtest.serverius.net are on 10 Gbps, and only test one peer at a time.

https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php
It has not passed New Feature Qualification[1] yet, which has to be done before it can be merged to trunk. You can see the state of it from a presentation earlier this month:

https://www.slideshare.net/DagHWanvik/sql-window-functions-f...

[1] http://mysqlserverteam.com/new-feature-qualification/
The analogy doesn't work for me for a few reasons:

* That may be true for producing better code in a particular programming language or family of languages, but not designing better solutions. Designing software including prototyping and pseudocode independent of the constraints of a particularly development environment is invaluable. Too often I squish my problems to fit the tools I know best.

* Depending on the audience writing can be very different. This feels like a different spectrum of communication. I mentor teammates in improving all forms of written communication and this often starts with connecting with the audience of their email.

* Journaling (keeping a dairy) is being shown in recent studies to have all kinds of health benefits.
https://archive.is/UguCJ
Yeah, I don't know about the pricing but as I was reading through the site I couldn't figure out if it was real or satire. It certainly checks many of the tech culture stereotype boxes.
Phones can use already USB peripherals. Just look at the FLIR One and Seek thermal cameras, which start at $200 compared to ~$600 for a mediocre phone with a thermal camera or ~$500 for a dedicated thermal camera device.
2/3 of Malta's east coast is pretty much a continuous sprawl of villages that have evolved into your typical tourist traps, exactly like what you find everywhere else in the world, with main strips lined with junk stores that sell the exact same mass-produced souvenirs, and sports bars and McDonald's and clubs and big, loud hotel complexes. (Meanwhile, a lot of shady stuff going on in the background. Crackdowns on Italian mafia have seen a lot of organized crime set up their base of operations on Malta.)

If you venture outside of these areas, Malta is beautiful. For me, Gozo (the northern island) is where it's at. Quiet, authentic-feeling, adult, not a lot of tourism. All the best diving spots are there, too. I hope it stays that way and the big developments are constrained to the main island.
> But what makes the Digital Nomad House unique is clearly the sense of family and friendship - this should be not another fancy soulless coworking space.

The irony.
> But we all know Uber will find yet another slimy way to keep going.

Like moving the program to Arizona...
It's only natural. When a company is small and just starting out we're forgiving of mistakes. Once you start getting more established you really should have better practices in place.
Pizza crust is a "leavened bread", full stop.

Also, the point stands that I make bread with minimal or no sugar in it. I just don't make it all that often.

As far as the bread in the stores, it's usually in the bakery section. I think Walmart's sourdough doesn't have much sugar in it, but they stock it in the bread aisle. Brand is Sam's choice. (does soft sourdough bread count in the soft bread category we are now discussing?).
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Right. The bug doesn't affect me, but I don't like how they responded to this.
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How about motorcycles?
Reminds me of Chris Porter's routine about Taco Bell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuBGPylPVIU
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Is there a difference between different share classes besides the massive price difference (IE as in besides being 1/500th or whatnot of an A share)?
Most of the criticism of Uber boils down to calling them a bunch of "bros" or saying that they push back against legislation that you just admitted has had a positive effect on the world.
At least in the UK and Europe, nutritional information is also always included per 100g - so it's easy to compare
> when a simple s/SHA1/SHA512/g on git would suffice?

That's ignoring a huge amount of changes that have to be made to have this work properly. Hardcoded constants must be changed. Backwards compatibility needs to be maintained for Git to be a viable product. Scripts that depend on the current length/format of SHA1 hashes would be broken if everything were changed all of a sudden. That would be much, much worse than the current exploit.

I agree that his points are not all correct, but he is correct in that basically, you shouldn't have all of your security eggs in one basket. SHA1 is just one piece of their security infrastructure, and now that it's shown to be a little shaky, it can be argued that the others help keep it up while they repair it.

SHA1 pointers being "pointless" is also an overstatement. SHA1 isn't completely broken yet. It will be pointless in 3+ years, which is why they're performing the work of transitioning, although not easy.
"Cryptographically perfect" wouldn't be occurring with SHA3-256 either. That'll be broken in 10+ years.

Security is, and always has been, along the lines of "good enough as far as we can see now", and when Git was made, it was good enough. Now it's not.
To be pedantic, only the class A stock are expensive (quarter million for 1). Which is somewhat comical because stocks are traded in groups of 100 (so called "lot") and so $25 million is required to make a single transaction. Class B stock is much cheaper at $170.
It seems you might be wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/15/cycling...
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that is assuming the stock market doesn't crash. if you bought an index fund in 1928 you would still be broke AF in 1935 and wouldn't get your money back until the 50s.

buffett profited off the housing bubble and should not be
trusted. he owned huge stakes in the ratings agencies that
were giving AAA+ ratings to these awful mortgage products,
even as publically he was decrying the financial products
involved as 'mass destruction' he was making money on it.

he is doing the same with his stock market push. if
a million people listen to him and go buy stocks, what
do you think happens to his index funds? They go up of course.

absolutely hilarious and sad to watch people worship this
guy. if his secret is really to buy index funds, then
why do people listen to his speeches and newsletters?
you could just go buy index funds and be done with it.

like every other con artist, his genius is to get people
to buy in to his story.
The cheaper share class gets less voting power, even after controlling for difference in price.
There was no set of comparable fields I could give where you wouldn't be able to provide some kind of distinction as if it was determinative, but at some point the argument gets so finicky that it becomes tautological. Science, but nothing biological, even if it requires organic chem and computational models. And not astronomy. Only physics, even though only a tiny minority of CS practitioners have physics training. Math, sure, but not abstract maths, or statistics, even though stat is the most important math for programming.

One suspects that if there was some subfield of programming, like distributed systems, that had 45/65 female/male, there'd be an elaborate justification for how that programming discipline was so different from the rest of programming that any comparisons to it were invalid (and, in fact, I've noticed at academic crypto conferences that women are much more common than in the rest of CS, so maybe that's an example).

Again, this is what it means for an argument to be a special pleading: we're required to accept an obstacle course of criterion that ignores the simplest, most plausible comparisons.
Merħba? What's that?

Arabic loanword
Different size of the share of the company and less voting rights.
Maybe in 1987[1]?

Seriously, though, as someone who is staunchly anti-smoking, I'm interested to hear the argument as to why you think that is.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-t...
I work on NLP projects and have similar issue with memory.

The reason I don't use cloud computing is that you constantly have to worry about moving data around, turning stuff on and off, API changes, data movement costs, product lineup changes (should I store this stuff on S3 or local HD), locally compiling all your stuff again or containerization and associated time overhead.

Local large box makes way more sense if you're doing solo projects. And if traveling, it would way more sense to rent a VPS from Hetzner. Flat cost structure and tons of bang for the buck.

BTW, I you can get 128 gb LGA2011-v3 motherboards.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681315...

and it seems like it works:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2938855/hardcore-hardware-we-...

even though the spec says max 64gb:
https://ark.intel.com/products/82932/Intel-Core-i7-5820K-Pro...
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This is a good reason for self-driving vehicles to use high-performance (read as "subject to ITAR", alas) IR imaging sensors alongside LIDAR. Detecting/identifying humans on bicycles (or, more generally, humans/wildlife in/near roadways) can be done a lot more reliably with IR imagery than with just visual imagery.
Yeah, I've heard a bit about it, but I've not really heard enough to Know What I'm Talking About. My impression is the early phase of SR99 was running through infill from early Seattle and thus a significant amount of debris etc was involved in the problems getting Bertha going.

Do you know of any good resources on these projects for the transit / infrastructure geek who's willing to read technical information? Executive summaries and dog-and-pony documents only go so far. :)
The poorest regions of Kenya are the arid northern regions (per the Daily Nation article I linked above). Admittedly, I want to take that article with a grain of salt, but it does make sense to me that the most difficult regions to farm would be the poorest. This region near Lake Victoria probably around the middle of the pack when it comes to ranking regions of Kenya from rich to poor.

2280 shillings is about 28-38% of the amount needed to get above the (absolute) poverty line, with the true number likely being closer to the middle or lower end of that range. It likely brings the people whom they chose out of poverty and around on-par with their just-above-poverty neighbours but not much more. I'm inclined to believe that they chose a region of Kenya where there was a good mix of people living just below the poverty line and people living just above the poverty line for exactly this reason.

I'm not sure about the distinction between extreme poverty, regular poverty and a national standard poverty line (in Kenya). When so much of your population is in absolute poverty, I don't think that a national standard line makes much sense. It does, of course, make more sense in the developed world where shelter alone will cost more money than the median Kenyan spends in a year; the median Kenyan is not below the global poverty line.

From the NYT article:

Kogelo, where Obama’s father was born, is just 20 miles from the village, which lies close to the banks of Lake Victoria. (This is the first village mentioned)

We took off at dawn from Kisumu, a bustling industrial city on the banks of Lake Victoria, and followed a two-lane highway to Bondo, a small trading city filled with cattle, bicycles and roadside food stands. From there, we turned inland from the lake and drove into a lush agricultural region. (This is the second village mentioned)

All across the villages of western Kenya, it was clear to me just how much aid money was wasted on unnecessary stuff.
That's the current status of self driving cars.

And yes, I think they are doomed. At least for city streets - I expect them on specially instrumented freeways though.
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In your RandomForest implementation, on the line in fit() where you're building the training subsets to give to each tree, it appears that your bagging approach doesn't use 'sampling with replacement' strategy.

idx = np.random.choice(range(n_features), size=self.max_features, replace=False)

It would appear that the replace=False prevents the 'sampling with replacement' behavior usually implemented by bagging algorithms. Should the replace=False be changed to replace=True?
I wonder what they do about more exotic vehicles like my recumbent tricycle. They’ll see it alright, but I wonder what they classify it as and thus what evasion model they employ.
Yes. Recently I've been realizing that humans can live off of very little but we pay for a lot of things that aren't so obvious.

For instance, the people in the village were paying to get iron sheets for roof covers, and if you expense the cost over it's lifetime, it comes out to maybe an extra $1 a month. In the US, you pay $400-2000 a month in rent per person but you get a building that has central air, a solid roof, comes with a kitchen & bathroom with modern plumbing, fulfills building safety codes, and probably a lot more.

The people in the village were also buying access to wealth generation. One person went to invest in a fishing net and hired labor. He went from receiving $20 a month to potentially making $20 dollars a day. It underlines to me that investment is needed to unlock more productivity and better growth. It is sustained periods (decades) of this kind of continual investment that allows leap frogging from one income level to the next that turns a village into a modern city.