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Organic is definitely not better for the environment than non-organic, by default:

>Not only are organic pesticides not safe, they might actually be worse than the ones used by the conventional agriculture industry. Canadian scientists pitted 'reduced-risk' organic and synthetic pesticides against each other in controlling a problematic pest, the soybean aphid. They found that not only were the synthetic pesticides more effective means of control, the organic pesticides were more ecologically damaging, including causing higher mortality in other, non-target species like the aphid's predators. Of course, some organic pesticides may fare better than these ones did in similar head-to-head tests, but studies like this one reveal that the assumption that natural is better for the environment could be very dangerous.[0]

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[0]: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogs...
Yeah but for every one of you, there's an a-hole who wants to get 1 diet coke and stream SE1 of True Detective for the entire day.
Because some GMO might be better for your health AND for the environment. Like that GM rice that provides vitamins ppl in some parts of asia lack...
Thank you!

As someone who has put money into Blockstream I must say:

1. I follow the situation very close

2. The CEO was nominated not long ago

3. He has got the ability to keep such a group of talented minds together

4. Blockstream is not a conventional company

5. Core is an independent group of talented developers and FEW of Blockstream founders are part of it

6. I humbly admit that Blockstream is the best investments of my life under many aspects the main of which being the quality of the people working in it.
'Only once' can't be true. Its like saying that your first long term project will be ideal in providing every type of experience. That is impossible.

IMO, you need to have long standing projects all the time, its a domain on its own. I agree with you that it may mean staling for some people, but no generalization is possible.
That's good to know. Perhaps I should replace the dots with empty space. I'll do that if we get more requests for it.

Thank you for the feedback.
Wait, you listed some hypotheticals, said they don't necessarily apply, and still concluded they do?

But what do I know. I'm a food contrarian - if I see two items, one labeled "no GMO" and one without such label, I pick the latter...
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>Non-GMO and organic is mostly BS of course<

Can you expand on this?
You don't know if modern non-GMO crops have these problems, either; transgenic (“GMO”) crops actually have greater controls than modern non-transgenic (“non-GMO”, though their genetics are, in fact, artificially modified) crops in many ways.

It's completely irrational to focus on “GMOs”.
To me eating clean means avoiding preprocessed food, the author is taking a much more extreme view which to me feels like a straw man.

If someone is used to junk food and switches to more fruit, veggies, lean meat and fish, I'm pretty sure they'll start noticing a difference after a little while. I know it worked for me (n=1).
When you refer to "Baidu leading Google on computer vision" are you referring to this?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538111/why-and-how-baidu-...
They simply can't afford fruit and meat.

I'm not sure about meat but fruit is definitely affordable. Especially bananas and apples. Bananas are far cheaper than any other food. Yet, people snack on chips/crisps and other refined carbs.
So why isn't this on the Chrome store?
Context really matters. With acid reflux, snacking is good.
The article is much better than the title.
It’s another Murdoch ‘asset’ I believe.
TensorFlow on Apache Mesos
TFMesos is a lightweight framework to help running distributed Tensorflow Machine Learning tasks on Apache Mesos within Docker and Nvidia-Docker.

TFMesos dynamically allocates resources from a Mesos cluster, builds a distributed training cluster for Tensorflow, and makes different training tasks mangeed and isolated in the shared Mesos cluster with the help of Docker.

Repo: https://github.com/douban/tfmesos
Clickbait title leading to poorly written article by a mid 30s man-child wanting to justify eating Lucky Charms everyday because he left mom's house too soon.

"Eating clean is useless" is such a terrible statement to make, especially today. You want to eat crap, good for you, but don't try to avoid feeling bad about it.
Because the sites that have set up the paywall will report the extension and get it taken down, happened to an extension that I made a while back that had a similar idea.
Does this effect carry over to classifiers which were trained with different training data?
Perfect answer to that. I am in a similar boat as you, many of the things I create are already done but I do it for the experience nontheless. Plus you can tweak things to your liking and don't end up installing an app that does the thing you want + 99 other things you did not want :D
Ah overloaded field access, that explains the type signature. I implemented a very similar extensible record/variant system for a product definition language at Barclays. I hope we see a lot more structural typing in industry going forward, it is an especially good fit for typing queries.
On the other hand, if you search "organic food worse for environment" you get results which explain why organic farming is less sustainable. Your search results are dependent on your query so if you search "vaccination schedule bad for children" don't be surprised when you get some highly placed anti-vax stuff.

In any case, assuming you eat a diet typical of an organic shopper with far less meat and more vegetables compared to the general population then organic farming is merely as carbon intensive and uses only 40% more land. If you buy organic but have a pretty normal diet then it's even worse. Is it a rich person thing? Switching to organic for everyone would require massive deforestation worldwide and probably still wouldn't get us enough arable land so not only would the price of food go up, we'd likely be hit with large food shortages that would probably disproportionately hit the developing world. Yeah, it's a rich person thing. They're the people who can afford organic and they're fine when food shortages come along.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Nordborg/publicat...
You assume that news has ever been accurate. I would argue that the "news" in the past was not more accurate. The revolution that has happened is that we are much better at detecting fake news.

"A person said something? That's terrible... let me see for myself what he actually said... oh wait he said that in completely different context and didn't mean what was implied in the news at all." - Anyone who has checked primary source after reading a news article

We are no longer at the mercy of "journalists" to tell us what to think about what happened. They can be called out on their lies and misrepresentation as the same raw videos of what happened can be seen by people first-hand. How about asking person in question to clarify what they meant? We can do that too.

The news organizations, as a defense, have been publishing the "news" as "opinion pieces", "satire" and "comedy" which they can more easily walk back on when called out.

All this because they have an old population who hasn't figured out that one can actually be their own journalist a lot of the times by following people who are much closer to different sides of situation than "journalists" will ever be... and the reported news is ALWAYS a completely different version of what actually happened. When this population dies out, the mainstream fake news as we know it, will die with them.
I think your "by default" is a bit misleading here. This is one paper, comparing pesticides for one pest in one crop. But I guess you are right - Organic is not always better.

But, AFAIK, at least here in Austria, buying organic will at least improve your chance that you get some sustainably-produced food - and animals that are kept in a somewhat species-adequate environment...

But thanks for making me question my assumptions ;)
It has 144 siblings. I wonder how that happened.

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> You're trying to bait me and I think that's unfair.

I offered a response in the spirit of your original comment. If you think that's unfair, then I don't know what to tell you. I think that you're being disingenuous with your posts as a rhetorical device to make a point about your perception of the ethics of using animals as food.

> White literally calls it murder.

In a non-literal, poetic sense. He uses the word murder two times, true.

> Is this what White was trying to express?

I don't think he's saying that people should feel better about killing animals. I think that he's acknowledging the reality that killing an animal for food is killing a feeling being. That it's better to go into an action with full knowledge of the result. I don't think it's a matter of making people feel better or worse about the situation.

He wasn't empathizing with the animal's death anyhow, at least not primarily; everything dies, after all. It was the unnecessary pain that was never a part of the plan.
> Even if it does not have an effect on your health, three of those four (100-percent organic, locally sourced, and free of antibiotics) are at least good for the environment.

Locally sourced may be good because of avoiding transportation impacts (preference for it may lead to types of agriculture being performed in places less well suited for them which may be bad, and might even increase transportation impacts of necessities to support agriculture, so net it might not always be good; there's a reason certain crops are grown in certain places, and preference for “locally grown” without reversing the preference for cosmopolitan variety may produce perverse impacts), and free of antibiotics is probably generally a positive environmental trait.

Organic is, OTOH, not something that there is much reason to believe is good for the environment, despite its cult virtue signalling status.
> so if you rebuilt a docker image based off Alpine you'd have gotten the security update like you described.

Only if I directly base off my image from Alpine. All images that base off something that either directly bases off Alpine (or worse, with more intermediaries) have a problem as ALL images in the chain must be rebuilt.

That is the core problem.
Context always matters, but the question was about metabolism. Acid reflux is a completely different matter.
Except no. They are transactional in the small. But the system itself is still eventually consistent. There are just too many transaction that ends up with a false positive or a false negative.

Plus ebery you do a transaction, you have up to 60 days to cancel it. You will get your money before that.
"Non-GMO and organic is mostly BS of course"

Sources ?
I got hundreds of studies proving the exact opposite if you want
This sounds interesting. I will like someone from the field of genetic programming on how this works and how it differs from current DL approaches.
Maybe it depends on your definition of adventure or risk. I went to an escape room recently for the first time. I considered that to be an adventure for me. But I never felt like I was taking a risk.
no c++/g++ ??
How do you make notes from online videos?
Let's say, you are watching a lecture or a tutorial online. How would you make notes for later revision?

Do you write them on papers? or shuffle across windows and type them on a text processing application? or do you use a better (more efficient) way?
Yeah. How is this even a question? I leave coffeeshops all the time because all the tables are full and the place loses my sale.
Not really. Most Americans are Vitamin D deficient, and about half are Magnesium deficient.
Please share them macros, that would be gold
Try eating 2500 calories (1 pack) of Oreos vs 2500 calories of apricots (150 medium).

I could easily mow down a whole pack of oreos and a quart of milk (500 more calories). I have done so many times. I might do it tonight. I dunno about 150-180 apricots. That is only 200% of daily recommended fiber intake tho.
Snickers will contain high fructose corn syrup with different metabolism properties, and will likely contain more total sugar (plus other gunk) than the equivalent snack of (non-dried) apricots would.
... or sign up for firebase.
Aha, that's an interesting position and one I completely agree with. It points to the core of the matter:

It lifts the individual food-items towards a more socioeconomic, structuralistic philosophy of society. Eating the Snickers bar is communicating "I do not care about my food-choices". It is about carelessness and sloth, a stigmatic act.

And even though there is a kernel of truth in your argument, it introduces more dogma into the whole food situation.
I developed and maintained CI scripts for large modular C++ application 10+ years ago. Someone added `rm -rf $(SOME_TEMP_DIR)/` to global Makefile that was run before building anything. My CI scripts did not set SOME_TEMP_DIR...

Came to work the next day, nightly build still had not finished on slave servers, had errors about non-existent home folder when tried to log in.

What made it worst was that every server mounted a NFS share that contained fingerprints and binaries of different versions of software modules built on different platforms.

Killed all slaves, restored the NFS share from week old backups on tapes, tens of developers could not create new versions of software and send previous versions/patches to customers for a while.
There's probably an order of magnitude or two difference in risk between cave diving and motorcycle racing. Cave diving is really dangerous.
I don't think SoundCloud is an entity with some optimistic face you could approach and convince through reason or merit.

I expect they, like any business, would take a stance primarily based on liability, cost, benefit, etc... overriding how anyone working at the company actually feels about it.

It costs them nothing to ignore/outright reject without consideration a crazy proposal like "lets give our entire database of content to a third party". Assessing the technical and legal ramifications of that proposal costs time/effort/money. Why bother?

If SoundCloud gives their content to Archive Team, they're shouldering the possibility of some kind of liability, surely. If they say nothing, let Archive Team take it themselves, from their website, they let Archive Team (who understand and are willing to) take responsibility for that.
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I never understood the hate toward GMOs themselves, considering that genetic modification is practically the definition of agriculture as it's existed for thousands of years. Granted, we relied on artificial selection instead of, say, CRISPR, but still.

I do understand the hate toward companies like Monsanto, however. Hating all GMOs because of some unethical company peddling them seems heavy-handed and broad-stroked to me, though.
As they go through their teenage years you will get stupider and lamer in their eyes. Then sometime after they move out they will realize that you are actually quite intelligent and will, at some point, apologize for being an ass and tell you that they are proud of you. At least that was my experience with my parents and has been my experience with my kids so far.
Edward DeBono calls democracy a "dictatorship of the majority", i.e. we vote in a new dictator every 4 years.
Hmm, sometimes I think that we won't get super close to AGI until we can actually model something the size of a Human Brain (in terms of neurons or Synapses). Human Brain has 1B+ Neurons, or 4Qu+ synapses. So that's 12.5 GB all at once to deal with, if you're representing neurons as either 0 or 1. However, in reality Neurons are much more complicated, and could only treat them as binary if you have a neuromorphic computer. So we would need to deal with many many times that many GB at once, even if we had really efficient ways of storing the data.

That's a lot of data to deal with, especially since you need to train it, running huge computations using each neuron.

I know nothing about hardware, and this is a very crude prediction/estimation of how AGI would happen, but my point is that we might be limited by Hardware for a few more years.
Is it general purpose enough to be used outside Amsterdam with minor modifications?
To me this shows a big shift in who is creating OSS software. It's no longer just people with an itch to scratch, it's now corporate and personal advertising. This just happens to be very obvious advertising.
Hey, if you've got hundreds of studies why don't you start? Give us your favourites.
Non-organic farming typically involves a lot of petro-based fertilizers being used that deposit large run offs of nitrogen, ammonia, and other goodies that “burn” the soil and run off into streams which then causes many other issues.
What about the heavily increased land use in organic farming?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652617...

What about the pesticides used in organic farming? I'd jug some Roundup (LD50: 5,600 mg/kg in rats) before eating Copper sulfate (LD50: 30 mg/kg in rats) used in organic farming.

My main problem is, that the whole thing is just a big appeal to nature. More natural does not mean safer for consumption or better for the environment.
I'm of Chinese ethnicity but been in the West since birth and I've seen this kind of behaviour before even among friends, but I dislike the author's constant mention of the Chinese Communist Party as why Chinese kids isolate themselves, it's not a causal relationship. Just because Trump is president of America doesn't mean all Americans are against immigration. In the end, these are just kids who feel a bit left out and different.
The problem is that they must pay the bounty for every leak in advance! (As I said, they could redeem unclaimed bounties after some time, but they must put up the full amount in advance, and are thus vulnerable to exchange rate fluctuations)
Awesome! I would have loved more, had the logo been not "Google" like. Too bright!! :)
There are many reasons to prefer simplicity, not just that prior to ubiquitous computing
complicated models were intractable.
Off the top of my head:

A simple model can be "robust" to errors because the errors tend to cancel out.
More complex models are typically more sensitive to slight changes in the input (and therefore noise), so even if your model is exactly correct, small errors in the input can be amplified yielding large errors in the predictions.

Or it can be preferable because it tends to fail in certain characteristic ways.
For example, Newtonian mechanics breaks down at both the high and low mass/energy scales, but it's usually possible to determine whether you'll have to employ GR or QM (and perhaps despair if both are required simultaneously).

Also, it's much easier to test simple models (and typically also to train them if we're talking ML)[0].
Furthermore, if your first approximation is well-understood, then you can complicate it to address new data.

Simplicity has many virtues; just because we can employ more complicated methods now doesn't mean that we should, or that the sole reason previous generations of scholars opted for simple models is because they couldn't perform the calculations needed by more complex ones.
In general we can't expect to know the underlying truth with certainty, but maybe a question is so important and so well investigated that it merits a seriously convoluted answer.
For less well-studied or relatively unimportant problems, a model that is obviously wrong but easy to use is usually preferable.
It's called the bias-variance trade-off for a reason (although you should still try to get a good deal, which in this case means minimizing error or perhaps risk).

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0. This point can be particularly subtle-- we generally have more computing power available than (quality) data.
I can try millions of variations on a given hypothesis for a small data set relatively quickly and find a handful of results with publishable p-values.
This is how you get replication crises.
Even if one of my hypotheses is invalidated, I can generate many more that are still consistent with the data.
Take string theory for example-- a naive approach to testing the various parameterizations/permutations of the basic idea would run out of time before the heat death of the universe, so absent theoretical work constraining the possibility space, it would be effectively unfalsifiable.
Retainer, that sounds like an awesome setup. How many years have you been freelancing?
The argument that locally sourced is better for the environment is a generally spurious claim based on incomplete understanding of modern logistics. For one, food production efficiency is extremely dependent on climate suitability for the crop. Two, transportation only accounts for 11% of food energy use...production (which again is highly dependent on climate) takes far more. Three, transportation energy usage is highly dependent on utilization and relatively independent of distance...A Californian eating a kiwifruit shipped in a packed container from New Zealand might very well produce less CO2 than a similarly sized Tomato grown 30 miles away and driven via pickup truck to a farmers market.
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That's by weight, and apricots are mostly water. By macronutrient content, apricots are about 15% fiber.

What ultimately matters is the glycemic index. An apricot has a GI of 34, whereas a Snickers bar is ~70.
Actually in this case the analogy is completely correct. The notion that government borrowing is wildly different from household or corporate borrowing is only true in a limited sense, and only if we are talking about borrowing in a currency that the government itself issues.

The IMF demands payment in Dollars/Euros, not the local currency. A country borrowing money has a hard requirement to pay back the loan in real (as opposed to nominal) terms. So it really is similar to any other lending.

Let me also address deficit spending. It isn't such a magic bullet that a government can come up with more money to repay a loan by increasing its expenditures. It's about the same idea as the Laffer Curve. Sure, if things get extreme enough, the argument is correct. But most of the time things aren't that extreme. Most of the time, when a government needs to repay loans, fiscal discipline is useful and necessary.
I always try to identify items I wouldn't be able to get elsewhere. For instance, if I want to order a beer I go for those that are in limited stock or from a local microbrewery. Spice of life and what not.
It's almost as if they're saying that their empathy towards their animals gives them moral latitude in killing them. Is this what White was trying to express?

No. I don't think that is what White is trying to express.

I think it is the wonder that we actually care so much about these animals even when they are clearly (in the opinion of most humans) lesser than us.

As for why we are allowed to kill and eat animals this needs no extra justification as is governed by the same rules that allow eagles, hyeanas, lions and wolves to kill and eat.
I'm always interested in people's perceptions of Monsanto considering that to me they seem like an entirely pedestrian and boring GM crops company with a couple of cool products. Perhaps you could explain why you dislike them and think they're unethical?
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There is no incentive to keep data in the network.

You can pay pinning services, but what's the point if you're just going to pay someone hosting it?

I'd rather have this archived on Siacoin, Storj, Swarm or any other distributed network with actual incentives to keep things around