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Nootropic supplements should be mentioned here as a way to boost brain performance in general, which could assist in learning new things both for children and adults.

The scientific consensus on the effects of nootropics is kinda all over the place (there are a bunch of different types out there, and different studies for the different types), but there's enough information to make an informed decision.

I had a daily nootropic "stack" that included choline and piracetam, and noticed an improvement in recall and focus. Whether it was placebo or not, I certainly felt like I was more capable of learning than baseline.

During my foray into the nootropic world, I also came across discussions about Hericium erinaceus, or lion's mane mushrooms. Studies have shown it to increase the 'nerve growth factor' which is a key measurement when it comes to growing new neurons. And since growing new neurons and making new connections between them is correlated to learning new things, and if this factor of 'neuroplasticity' decreases with age, my guess is that lion's mane can come in handy if you are an adult and want to learn to do other stuff good too.

However, I'm no expert; maybe someone with more direct experience or knowledge can weigh in.
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I don't believe this. In Germany, "built-in" home apliances are standard for a modern kitchen. Replacing a built-in refrigerator if it failed would probably cost around 400-600€ (only replacement costs, not talking about the price of the refrigerator).
Burning bridges can be a boost to your reputation. Imagine the number 2 person at Enron left after six months at the job and made the same statement - they would have been hailed as a leader of excellent judgement and moral standing after the collapse.
GoCatch has moved into ride sharing now - they're relatively big in Sydney and the drivers get a bigger cut so I'm happy using them.
I am confused. If I invent something; I pay the government a tax or I lose what I invent?

"Hey this is a really nice restaurant; it'd be a shame if you were to have a fire or something."
Heat death of the universe.
Base spec Land Cruisers and Geländewagens still have hand-cranked windows. Whether you can still buy one in the so-called civilized world is another matter altogether.
Perhaps when we buy applicances we should just choose the heaviest one.
If a dual core, 4G enabled phone is a "feature" phone, was the first iPhone a landline?

Put another way, what good is the 4G & processing power if all you're expected to do with is call and text, which is almost all of what a feature phone used to let people do
Even if your globe is a perfect sphere, it's good enough for all practical purposes. The difference between the Earth's diameter across the equator vs. between the north and south poles is only 3.3 parts per thousand.

In other words, suppose you have a globe one meter in diameter and it is (erroneously) a perfect sphere. The error is just a few millimeters, hardly enough to notice or worry about on a globe of that size.

And that globe is much better than any possible projection onto a flat map.

This is what's puzzling to me: instead of arguing about one map projection vs. another, why don't they use globes instead to give a more accurate picture? Then they could get into the interesting discussions about the compromises and errors that all map projections make.
Thanks, I look forward to going through this course.

I wanted to point out though, that on the main page http://course.fast.ai/ the courses appear out of order; 1, 2, 0, 3, ... instead of 0, 1, 2, 3, ...
Well, most mid- to high-range European dryers and washing machines do. But the Miele is of particular good quality for a consumer product.
I worked for ten years as a litigation paralegal defending insureds, and sometimes insurance companies. I sold insurance for two years. I was a manager for a year in the service department of a very large insurance company whose name you would immediately recognize. I worked as a financial analyst for that same insurance company for two years.

All of these various experiences made me realize that a) American justice is really solely about the transfer of money from one party to the other, and is rarely equitable (sometimes one way, sometimes the other); and b) the entire industry is really a way for a small group to direct the investments of and reap the profits from the small capital excesses of millions of people.
"so when so many individuals are overburdened by overwhelming student loan debt"

They are taking it on because it's cheap.

Low interest rates are like heroin: sooner or later you have to quit.

All things considered, the time would definitely be now.
AAC is patent encumbered, so it's not a suitable option for replacing standards. That's what I'm talking about. Standards aren't supposed to be forever stuck with old tech. I see no reason why Opus couldn't be part of more standards (it's already part of WebRTC), besides of course Apple which can't stand free codecs.
And the risks are exaggerated to induce as much fear of loss as possible. The entire industry is built on fear of loss.
I don't even care about the speakers or too many HDMI inputs... I have an AVR for all of that.
If a university research group has public funding -- then what? My tax dollars go to support a company that then makes billions from a technology that wouldn't be possible without my involuntary investment.
" its sort of like saying lets take poison so that if we get sick we can stop taking poison and feel better."

No. The analogy is - right now, with low rates, we are doing red bull and meth to 'stay awake' and we need to return to normal so that in a crunch, we can do a little more meth. Right now, we're dying from too much meth :)
Or at least the willingness to live out what I believe to the best of my ability. Such behavior is often labeled as insanity by those closest to you, incidentally.
I parsed it as "past (life patterns) and inclinations" which seemed vacuously true to me, since everything anyone does is influenced by these things.

Apparently, others parsed it as "(past life) patterns and inclinations", which does sound like an unsubstantiated claim about reincarnation.

Thank you for helping me understand the skepticism expressed in this branch of the comment tree.
What is the recommended minimum RAM, cores and CPU speed if one wants to run all the supported mock services at once?
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That a society is fine with incarcerating 9 (NINE!) year old kids is disturbing... but, I am haunted by the thoughts that a society on earth incarcerated ten year old kids for non-violent acts in the name of zero tolerance.

Zero tolerance for kids!! They don't understand the damn /meaning/ of that word for god's sake!
Yes, the government and society helps you to protect your idea and monopolize it over some time. Paying for that privilege with a tax is not very outlandish.
Actually, most of the gambling that goes on is believing you can eat what you like and do what you like without consequence, since if your body gives out, some doctor will fix it. Everyone dies, after all, so the gamble is not whether you will die, but rather what the quality and length of your life will be. But those risks are far more complex than whether you will be able to afford vastly overpriced health care in the event of some health crisis.
I'm really enjoying episode 1 so far. There's something almost therapeutic about it.
> Sorry but I'm not drinking the Miele Kool-Aid any longer.

My parents installed Miele appliances in a kitchen remodel about 6 years back. The fancy expensive oven must've broken down 5 times in the first year. I think it eventually settled down though.
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I guess much of the reason is that appliances are dirt cheap now, compared to what they used to be. That cost savings obviously does something to the build quality.

When clearing out my grandmother's house a few years ago, my uncle and I almost broke our backs trying to get the freezer out. It felt like it weighed a ton, even empty.

My grandmother told us it had been a wedding present, and that they had been totally awestruck at the time at the generous present from her parents-in-law. After all, a decent freezer cost at least 2,000 kroner! (At this time, the average yearly gross pay was just in excess of 7,000 kroner.)

My grandparents married in 1950. Since then, monetary value has been reduced twenty-fold.

You can still buy a top-loading freezer for 2,000 kroner; I just checked.

So - in 1950, you had to work for five months to earn money for a freezer (after taxes.)

In 2017, I have to work one day for a freezer (after taxes.)
Thanks, apparently I already saw that! Since one comment there is mine.
So, use an app with offline data and maps for the areas you are roaming into...
AlphaGo is an AI, author of this article thinks AI to understand itself and code itself and have sex then reproduce, WTF? AI is Technology and not Biology. AI and Human Brain are not the same. This is like saying AI to take birth by itself without human programming it.
I'm not the one you asked the question to but in my case it's the top bar. I can make global menus go away but not move the top bar to the bottom. The sum of those issues are the reason I never considered buying a Mac since the very first one.

I also don't like the dock but at least that can be made to auto hide. I do like lenses and I wish I could have them in the Gnome 2 look alike DE I'm using on Gnome 3 right now (Ubuntu 16.04 with gnome-flashback and some customizations, included merging the top bar in the bottom one.)
I wish we'd have the same outrage over the various taxes that constitute a product's cost as we do the license fees. Gasoline taxes for instance are higher than the profit made from selling gasoline.
Since "throwanem" hasn't responded, I'll jump in to say that although your logic looks like it would be right, I agree with all of his reasoning so far in this thread. Like him, I also would have happily voted for Sanders, although unlike him I couldn't bear to vote for Trump and thus "threw my vote away" on Stein because she matched my positions best.

But painful as the last couple months have been, I still still think Trump was a better outcome for the nation than Clinton. I like and respect Obama, but I don't think you understand how badly much of rural America has been doing under Democratic leadership. Voting for an independent running as a Republican may well be more logical than voting for more of the same and hoping that this time things will be different.

get money out of politics

reduce the power of the presidency

viable third (and fourth and so on) political parties

I think these are great goals, and suspect "throwanem" would agree.

do you get the impression that you are making meaningful progress towards your stated goals?

Actually, yes, but in a judo sort of way. I think the backlash will be so strong that if we can make it through his term, I think the three goals you stated are more likely to be achieved in the near future than if he hadn't have won. I think both the Democratic and Republican establishments will end up weaker than they were, which I think is a good thing, and some days I'm even optimistic enough to think that Trump might accomplish some positive things along the way.
Okay, so that is what a Japanese person in the 1880s thought. I'm not convinced yet.
I would like to note once again that aeneas is not based on automatic speech recognition techniques, but on MFCC + DTW, which is an even older approach, with pro's and con's.

Interestingly, there are situations where ASR-based forced aligners seem to be tricked into error, while aeneas handles them more robustly --- for example, if the speaker repeats a word in the spoken audio, but the transcript has only one occurrence, or when the speaker mumbles (uhm's, ah's, etc.). On the other hand, it is true that if you want word- or phoneme- alignment, ASR-based aligners outperform aeneas.

Finally, let me note three major goals of aeneas are: 1. be able to process hours of audio relatively fast on a standard PC (the current real time factor is between 0.008 and 0.020); 2. easy to install and run (unlike many other open source aligners derived from academic projects, which require a PhD just to get the dependencies right); and 3. working out-of-the-box for many languages, including ones that are not covered by academia or commercial solutions because they are "minor" (say, Icelandic or ancient Greek (!)).

But yes, the core algorithmic approach of aeneas has been around since the 1970s.
In defence of whiteboard interviews
That and virtual environments are continuing to grow in richness.
I bought a sony Android tv and are pretty happy with it so far - it's not bug free, but having a standard OS means the apps get updates. YMMV
I was writing from my own regret. I feel that I learnt surprisingly little by spending a decade rewriting badly written code. I should have found out what encapsulation was years earlier. Sure, there are lessons there, but I think you will pick most of them up anywhere; you're always exposed to code you don't like.

I still value terseness highly, as in my opinion it's strongly correlated with readability (though not at all when taken to extremes), but I very often have to increase verbosity to increase maintainability. E.g. don't take shortcuts that will leak through abstractions.
You might find you are paying for that in energy costs, modern condensing boilers are much more efficient.
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Great just what I needed... another hobby! What a completely interesting read
> Haskell is actually less expressive. It is a functional abstraction on top of what is essentially a procedural machine and with all abstractions placed on top of lower layers you can only lose functionality as you go up rather than gain. You could say assembly language is the most expressive language out there.

That is not what is usually meant by "expressiveness" of a language. You seem to be talking about types of languages (as in the Chomsky hierarchy), by implying that there are problems you can solve in assembler but not in Haskell. That is not the case, as both are Turing-complete (Type-0).

In contrast, "expressiveness" usually refers to the "ease" (one may substitute conciseness in most cases) with which higher level concepts (abstractions) are expressible in the language, and here Haskell clearly wins against assembler, and many other popular languages.
Sounds like said project will never be started. Your employer is probably coasting on a thing they have done once and were successful with.
> things everyone knows

Everyone in the field. There are many more people outside of the field though.
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I spent a year back in the 2000s living as a professional gambler. I know professional poker players. I write and operate "bots" that gamble on betting exchanges automatically (effectively the sports/games version of algotrading) as my main hobby - 20+ hours/week, sometimes - and my accounts are net positive to my advantage (a feat accomplished by less than 0.5% of gamblers).

Whilst I enjoy a good old punt on a horse like many a Brit or Irish racing fan, and enjoy the odd bet on a football game or cricket match, I believe that I - and fellow gamblers I know who make a profit - do not actually gamble the way most people do.

We treat it more like insurers see the issuance of insurance. First, we'll look at data. Second, we realise money management - and liability exposure vs. income - is critical to success. We look for situations where there is an edge in our favour which we call "value". When we see an edge we can quantify, we'll exploit that using Kelly or Maximal Exponential Growth strategies.

Genuinely, I look at some sports events using techniques and strategies that would not look alien to a statistician who has trained to become an actuary. They have more data with stronger statistical significance, and their thinking may be more rigorous, but they are my inspiration: with the right numbers, you can model risk, and identify what odds you're prepared to accept and what odds you're not.

I will play in casino games for recreational fun, not for profit. Same with slots/fruit machines, lotteries, and so on. Tiny amounts of money. It is impossible to beat these beyond the medium term without some form of luck. In the long run, games with house advantage will only ever be won by the house who has the advantage.

Sport though? Something where I can do some data analysis and start finding informational arbitrage over others in the market? That's potentially investment. And so far, it's done me well.

And so the honest answer is, nothing much is different, it's just that most gamblers and most people who buy insurance are people who do so without thinking and without understanding mathematics and liability, etc.

A few of us though, a small number on Betfair or perhaps inside the sacred walls of Lloyds of London, see the World a little differently and play a game with maths at our side that few others are interested in playing.
I don't buy too much into the 'build to fail' argument. Rather, I think it's just a matter of consumers choosing features and price over longevity. You can't really prove longevity here and now. Of course you can build up a reputation but it takes time and might not pay off.

Anecdote 1: Miele has a very good reputation. They also cost three times as much as the volume sellers and have a much lower market share. Sorry, no evidence of that claim. The closest is an article [1] claiming they produce 850.000 units per year.

Anecdote 2: I just replaced a cheap ($200) oven from Ikea (made by Whirlpool). Most likely the heater had broken. Inspection, parts and repair would probably cost the same as a new one. It had lasted 5 years, just past the warranty. We bought a new one, same model. It's simply too cheap to repair.

My conclusion: Lousy quality is our own fault - we do have options.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandcon...
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Comments suggesting Samsung disregards intellectual property are often down voted, and up votes go to comments on the triviality of designing of the rounded rect. What's going on here?
Here's a comment of a surprised San Francisco traveler that sums up the city for me: "I was rather surprised that there were so many homeless people. You'd think the supposed tech center of the world would be...you know...civilized and able to protect the weakest members of society better."
Actually it doesn't look like an ambiguity: they select a winner chain (hopefully the one with the higher price) and keep the money that's on the other chain. I don't think that this is a good strategy for an exchange, but it's their choice.
Saying you don't need an additional, paid antivirus/antimalware app is not the same as saying you don't need one altogether. The article ignores that Windows Defender, in fact, is an antivirus app, since it is optional and easily disabled or deleted.
I've seen so many front loaders where the seals aren't regularly cleaned, and they just look gunky, moldy and or like they are drying out/cracking. Maybe it's just in Arizona. That alone doesn't appeal to me. Also, there's the load height, though with stands, it isn't too bad.
The OEMs building those handsets get to choose which SOCs are used on those devices.

It doesn't matter if the drivers are available if those GPUs aren't on the motherboard.

Currently Vulkan is constrained to 2.8% of the Android market.

> Turnaround in the mobile hardware space is even faster than on the desktop (let alone stagnating consoles), so Vulkan availability is much less of an issue there.

Only in US, not everyone around the world, specially in countries where pre-pay is the way to go, changes their mobile every two years.
That is partially true, of course. Energy saving makes devices more complex, thus they have more things that can be broken.

However, it is also clear that e.g. control electronics is simply not made to last. E.g. they use the cheapest of electrolytic capacitors, which will leak and break in 5-10 years. Using proper ones might cost 1-2 cents more per device.

This also means that old dead TVs and stuff may often be repaired quite inexpensively - buy a 0.20$ capacitor and solder it in place - but it is still a frustrating thing that it breaks in the first place.

With cars I'd still say that despite the added complexity, the endurance of vehicles is simply amazing. We deplore that when the engine control unit fails, we have to replace the entire unit. But overall, you need much less maintenance on modern cars than you needed 30-40 years ago. Oil change intervals have gone from 5 000 - 10 000 km to 15 000 - 25 000 km. And 30 years ago, a car that had 200 000 km on the clock was really really worn out. Nowadays, it may work like it were almost new.
Thanks for sharing. Can you go into more detail as to what made you come to this conclusion?

Some guesses:

1) Insurance companies' gross margins are too high, due to asymmetric information, scare-mongering or similar?

2) People buy insurance to cover shocks that they are perfectly able to bear themselves?

3) People buy insurance to cover risks that have effectively zero chance?

4) People buy insurance that doesn't cover them in the way they expect (i.e. the insurance company would deny the types of claims they're expecting to make)?

?
I wonder how much better a less greedy algorithm would be-- e.g. one that considered many possible moves a few positions deep, and took one step towards the best... or one that after finishing unwrapped the beginning halfway and rewrapped it backwards from the middle, then unwrapped the end, and rewrapped it forwards from the middle, and repeated until convergence.
Imagine you are an energy company exec in November 2001 and someone offers you the job of replacing Jeff Skilling at Enron now that the financial problems have been exposed and it is starting to enter free-fall mode. Do you take the job so that you can have President of Enron on your CV?

The people who are qualified for the job or would be even considered in the first place are likely to be in one of two career trajectories at the moment: aiming upward to become the CEO of a major corporation or on a downward path and trying to maintain the power, respect, and lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. People in the former category would avoid Uber like the plague, so you are looking for someone in the latter group who is talented enough to catch a falling knife but somehow overlooked by companies making a similar search but not quite as desperate as Uber happens to be at the moment. Tough order to fill...
I think it's somewhat dangerous mindset that the "fake news problem" should/could be handled solely by the publishing platform. There will always be another way to publish false information. People believe fake news because they want to believe. Introducing any kind of sensoring authority will only treat the symptoms, not the disease, making the long-term problem worse. Basic education, equal opportunities etc. are the only sustainable solution.
Unlocked CPU and Z-Board but no OC? With that config you should be easily able to run that CPU at 4.6GHz
VoLTE (voice over LTE) is higher quality, and has greater capacity than the old GSM and UTMS which means more people can use the spectrum.

VoWiFi (voice over WiFi) allows customer on-premises devices to extend the network, allowing businesses and home users some control over where people want to be reachable.