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I wanted to tack on here that even our agriculture has a huge environmental impact — nothing worse for biodiversity than how we’ve replaced animal habitats with fields of a single crop! And then pesticides etc.

I don’t know if it ever happen, but we really should support capture fisheries, fish farms, and captured game.

Properly Managed Captured Fisheries (Mostly more prosperous nations have well managed fisheries, outstanding fisheries would be in Alaska & New Zealand) allow us to extract protien we all need without destroying ecosystems. Same goes for captured game but that scales significantly worse.

Fish farms are in a unique position because unlike farming animals on land, it can be done without radically changing the part of the ocean the fish are farmed in.

I think recently there have been some problems with fish farms and antibiotic / illness spreading but I really think these can be overcome and that long term aquaculture would be the most environmentally conscious option. (In a similar position to electric cars today).
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I found Adaptive Markets to be pretty weak. I was excited to read it, but I didn't finish it, because I found the content to be relatively facile and substanceless. YMMV, though.
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"... but for those that excel at research, especially in STEM, its a more or less voluntary choice how much time and effort they choose to put into the teaching part of the university."

This is highly field dependent. I'm on the math faculty at a public research university. The bulk of research funding in mathematics comes from the NSF, which generally does not buy out teaching (so most of us have no choice but to teach a full load). Not saying this is a bad thing -- there are aspects of teaching I really enjoy -- but the statement above is not quite accurate for fields like mathematics. Similarly, most of our graduate students are TAs most of the time, except when they have an external fellowship or when their advisor happens to have a grant to support them.
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> You could make the exact same argument without cryonics.

You could, but it would make less sense.

> It's possible that tomorrow, the United States will collapse into an evil theocracy that decides to both torture me and devote all of its resources to prolonging my life indefinitely

It could, but the information available to most observers makes both the policy transition described unlikely tomorrow, and he technology development improbable in the time necessary to have a meaningful effect even with the policy transition.

OTOH, such a policy transition is much more likely between now and whenever the technology to restore life to a frozen cadaver is developed, and at least a large portion of the technology development necessary to effect the extended torture is certain with the ability to revive frozen corpses.

The scenarios aren't parallels.
FlowCrypt operates as a Chrome extension, so I assumed that the email client in question was the Gmail web client (or Inbox by Gmail). One can install extensions from the local filesystem rather than the Chrome store, which removes the threat of autoupdating into adware or malware. However, I don't know of any open source crypto extensions built to be installed that way. FlowCrypt might work, but the licensing terms don't seem amenable to that approach.
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This doesn't terribly surprise me, from my own experience. I either print academic journal articles or subscribe to the physical issues, because I found I never fully retained things I read on a screen, either desktop or iPad.
This was always one of my dreams when panoramic sunroofs were unheard of -- buy an E34 chassis BMW 5-series wagon with the dual sunroof option, sleep in the back with the "middle" roof open for a nice view of the night sky!

https://drivetribe.com/p/touring-double-sunroof-E2FIZEvbQuiJ...
Website shows nothing (literally nothing) with adblock on both on firefox and on chrome.

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Unless you can point me to where the article suggest anything of the sort, I’m calling “straw man”. Someone will be along shortly with the appropriate Wikipedia link.
> Is that really the number one priority for talented people? Walking?

Just walking? Maybe not. But fast commutes to work, easy access to restaurants, easy access to culture, lots of things to do nearby, large dating pools? Most certainly.

> cars, buses, motorcycles, segways, bicycles, subways, trams, taxis, powered walkways, rollerblades, skateboards, hover boards, ATVs, skis, sleds, horses

All of which take lots of time! People pay lots of money to live in certain neighborhoods (think Williamsburg and the like) for a reason.
should be no need for a "D"ual motor car, which likely didn't exist in 2013 anyway.
What's fascinating (and admittedly somewhat worrying) about Self-play is that an agent can accidentally become adept at tasks other than intended via transfer learning. The "wrestling spiders" in OpenAI's demo quickly mastered the art of Sumo Wrestling. And whatever skills they learned in resisting an opposing force to stay standing on a platform, were immediately applicable to myriad different domains. In this case, being subject to hurricane force winds, and not as any normal spider may, be hurled into the sky!

It's more difficult to see how Go playing skills can translate to other domains. But for tasks in robotics, cybersecurity or fintech the power of self-play trained transfer learning becomes more apparent.
Well said. I'm surprised this is the only comment focused on this. WASM fits in that spot as well.

Eventually there's a point where the web platform is good enough that some companies choose to sunset native apps.

Delivering the same functionality across 3 disparate platforms is a waste of time and energy. Especially when the form factor in the end users hands is the same.

I get why it's that way now, but the question will come up over time. Especially for any app that needs live remote API calls to function.
Investments compound and retirees have had a lifetime to take advantage of that, if they chose to save. Not surprising to see that inequality widens as a result. I don't think it's necessarily a negative as long as basic needs are still taken care of.

I save aggressively and will certainly be on the high end of retirement incomes, but I've made the choice to forgo today for tomorrow.
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I'm leading an engineering group that I grew. We've had some nice successes recently and we continue to grow. However, I'm getting hints that I might be hitting a ceiling on compensation. I enjoy the work and the team, but I'd also like a step up somewhere else. How to time this? Wait until the current growth plateaus? Jump after a big win? Use the current internal opportunities as a point of negotiation for a new position?
> 'We don't know what to do with it'

Is there a $1M prize for solving this problem?
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1853/
> Once you tell them how much you currently make, you've screwed yourself.

This is the truth. When I finished my CS degree and started looking for work, I had a recruiter tell me I shouldn't expect any pay over my previous job, and since my previous job was a software testing internship for $12.75/hr, I shouldn't expect more than $15/hr or so. I said "Yeah, no. I'm not taking a software engineering job for barely over $30k/year." He insisted that's how the industry works, even though my previous job was just an internship and wasn't even an engineering position.

I basically told him to pound sand, especially after he told me that at that position, I'd be expected to work 45-50 hours/week. Sure, I needed work, but I wasn't destitute.
One of the issues is that responsibility for maintaining the integrity of the code is 100% on the seller's side. Like you said, if you used this service, it would become extremely expensive over the long term. Since the purpose is to give clients value in the case that you're unable to continue providing service, why not give them an encrypted version of the code and make the key the failsafe? There still has to be trust, but then the client gets to choose the cost of maintaining that code snapshot.
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One of the best actions in my life was to avoid packaged food. Now I throw out my garbage once or twice per year.

More importantly, my eating is more

- Delicious

- Convenient

- and Cheap

than ever. Plus more social, in that I met the farmers who grow most of my food, more people come to my place for meals, and get-togethers are friendlier.

It took a while to learn to prepare food from scratch, but worth it.
Yeah, it would take external stimuli for me to choose the treatment options. A grandchild might do that. Maybe excessive angst from the missus but that's unlikely - she knows my views and I'd not be with her if she wasn't accepting of them.

Of course, we can't really tell unless I'm actually in that situation... I can only speculate.

I've been in pretty dangerous places, including combat, so I know I'm not really scared of my mortality. I just REALLY hope it doesn't hurt like hell beforehand.
Depends on the BASIC. Some varieties are compiled and have modern optimizations.

> And probably more importantly, they're implementation details

Well, right, programming languages are abstractions built on top of the actual implementation.
But I'm not asking for belief. Just prayer. Or maybe even just money.

In my view, cryonics is just a synthetic religion that has been constructed to replace supernatural stuff with technological-sounding stuff. It should appeal to people who have rejected the supernatural but are still afraid of the finality of death.
I think the difference is that under 1/0 policy gradient loss, it gets feedback only on the actual chosen move. Under MCTS-rollouts-each-move, it gets feedback on every move on the board whether its value estimate was slightly too high or low plus the ultimate outcome of the 1 move it did make.
Congregating close to other talented people? Yes, it appears to be very very highly valued and the resulting cross-pollination of ideas a core reason that dense areas have very high creative output.
I mean yes, if you can imagine a crime, surely it has happened in a nation of 350 million people. I think my point stands that it's an extremely rare crime, that's hard to commit, harder to cash in on, and harder still to get away with.
Ditto. Native English speaker. “Ever-Pregnant” definitely sounds more like “Permanently Pregnant” than “Has Been Pregnant” to me.
Hinton changes his opinion about what the brain is doing every 5 years... Hinton is not a neuroscientist...
All chrome extensions can be copied and installed locally...Assuming the source code doesn't protect against something like this. You could take this extension, copy the obfuscated source, then load it locally to avoid auto updating in the future.

Chrome generally doesn't like apps that load their bg page scripts via web requests to help increase security. So it's likely that they aren't doing this.
I think there at least needs to be more instruction about how the language is implemented. I feel like I learned the use of the stack in function calls and the difference between stack and heap variables disturbingly late.
I do like my humour dry.
General AI relative to an individual human, or billions of humans? The sum total of human beings, or organizations of humans is superhuman relative to an individual. We've had superhuman organizations for millennia. I'm not sure how much general AI will be different, other than the large scale automation of jobs which would happen.

As Rodney Brooks pointed out, all technology happens within a context, not a vacuum. A general AI will come to exist in a world with a lot of other superhuman capabilities already in existence.
Just speculating wildly and looking at Sweden, for example meadows have more or less disappeared since 30-40 years. I mean flowering meadows, not pastures for grazing.

The meadows have been turned into forests and to a lesser extent pastures.

It's not a few percent, it's 30% of the land, probably more in Germany where there are much lest forests than in Sweden.

The bio-diversity in a meadow strikes me as much higher than heavily grazed pastures or a mono-culture wheat fields or pine forest.
I'm a former military wife and made my peace with my own mortality some years back, during a serious health crisis in my 30s. And I lived when I should have died because I spent about 3.5 years in constant, excruciating please kill me now pain and I reached a point where reducing the pain was all that mattered. I was fine with it if my attempts to hurt less caused me to die quicker. (But, they didn't. They put me on a path back to health. Go figure.)

So, I hear ya. I hate hurting. I'm not afraid of death, though.
... or sending money to Nigeria, to transfer millions of dollars to your name, which also doesn't violate the laws of physics.

The traditional afterlife of religion was constructed to obey physics as it was understood at the time.
Do we know for sure that people are completely unconscious while preserved? It would be unpleasant to be stuck upside down in a vat of liquid nitrogen unable to move unless you were... People in comas feel and hear things, it sometimes happens under general anaesthesia, it doesn’t seem too unlikely.
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Go into crispr research or other biological engineering fields if you want to do something directly. Figure out how to make less toxic pesticides that are economically substitutable (break-even or only slightly more costly than existing ones) rather than demanding that they're banned entirely, or if you're satisfied those exist already, lobby for their use. I suspect that whatever preventable problems we face we're not going to unite as a big collective to prevent them, especially when incentives don't align, but a few teams will be able to engineer solutions when the problems become actualized. Instead of asking how do we prevent problems, ask how we can solve problems given that they occur.
> The $0.79 on the $1 shit has been debunked a million times yet is still persists for some reason.

Because a certain group of people insists that the original $0.77 on the $1 statistic DID control for career choice and the like...even though it didn't. Any claims to the contrary are obviously misogynistic lies continuing the patriarchy. \eyeroll\

I've always said...if the pay gap really WAS that big, then why would employers bother to hire men?
Who can access your e-mails after you die?
I'm as cynical as you are, and even won an award in that lawsuit. However, aren't both companies under different management now? (Tim vs. Steve, etc.)
The developed world will use the first wave of immigration to build the walls that keep out the rest
I went to Disney World/NASA space center in Orlando a few years back.

One impression I got was: For a place with some many water around, there were no mosquito and extremely quiet- no bird noise and no cricket noise at all.
Really? I was in the boundary waters in June and I certainly didn't have that problem driving. It wasn't until we were camping in the boundary waters that bugs became a problem.
This is one of the reasons I am considering buying prius as my next car. I imagine prius V would be event better for the camping purposes.

Interesting examples of prius camping:

http://www.rosipov.com/blog/urban-prius-living/

http://www.nagelphotography.com/blog/2014/10/prius-camping-g...

http://www.dogcampcity.com/blog/prius-camping-tips-tricks

https://www.habitents.com/
Factory-farmed meat is bad for humans and bad for the environment, true, but any industrial-scale monoculture crop has huge negative impacts, and that includes vegetables too.

Better to avoid monocultures by buying organic/biodynamic, shopping at farmers' markets, CSA, growing your own food, etc. Eat less processed and make more from scratch. Better health, better for the environment, and you can still enjoy meat :)
> "Islam take-over of France" & "hate speech" are both conceptual interpretations & difficult to claim as false or true, other than through the lens of an ideological system. Many people disagree with Sharia Law & it's relationship with non-believers; seeing it as a threat to their own culture & even to their safety.

Look at the article. Watch the video. Tell me what's not false:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=xIJVoumWYtQ

> This is a tough problem as it's in nature, a cultural & biological problem, subject to interpretation. Making somebody open-minded toward a worldview that is in opposition (incompatible) of one's own is not necessarily something that would be desirable; as in the case of "Stockholm Syndrome".

As far as I'm aware, even if you want to opt-in to non-targeted advertising, you can't do that. Simply having that option would be a simple start.
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Time to face facts. Some of us are weeds.
How do they evaluate that AlphaGo Zero is better than the previous AlphaGos? By playing them against each other? Or playing AlphaGo Zero against humans?
Does this mean it learns what to search? I wonder why they thought it was a good idea. I thought the whole point of MC was that pruning algorithms like the ones in chess wouldn't work for a larger search space.
I've had limited success here [0]. YMMV.

[0]

http://www.criticue.com
What is the value of having an alt attribute if its value is blank? Just to tell someone poking at the source code that, "yeah, I know I'm supposed to have this, and it's intentionally left blank"?
> Although in our proof of concept demonstrations we rely on the assumption that the light conditions do not change during the exfiltration phase, extending the demos to handle these situations shouldn’t be a problem

They say themselves that their demo is not real world and wont work in the real work and then say it "shouldn't be a problem" to make it work.

Not to mention that it takes 20 seconds of flashing the users screen to do the thing (how is that supposed to work without setting off alarm bells).

As I said, they have no proof of a real world vulnerability, only proof it a staged environment, and they readily admit it.
There’s a gallery you have to go hunt for in the menus called “Interior”. Select the vehicle, select “interior” and...you’ll be met with a page that has no photos.

Extrapolating from our Westfalia, the pop top will give you about two feet where you stand straight up. I assume sleeping space up there, too. But who would buy from a company that relies on strangers to guess what it might be like inside, and then tell you?
> conservatives believe the government is awful for most things, and research instead be done by private corporations.

This seems entirely rational to me. A private corporation must strive to meet real human needs in order to survive. Capital tends to flow towards those who are best able to convert it into happiness for other human beings. Public institutions have no such constraint. Logically, one would conclude that they would be less efficient at converting capital into happiness for other human beings.

Is there any evidence of which I should be aware which supports the proposition that publicly funded research outperforms privately funded research?
The same way they make AlphaGo Zero better, by playing against other AlphaGos.
> I couldnt find ONE paper discussing ANY benefit on any place on earth from a warmer climate-which is absurd, because northern permafrost could thaw and create arable land, for example.

Bullshit.

Here's what I found within two minutes, from the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report, i. e. the currently valid "bible" of climate change:

Studies since the AR4 have confirmed that high-latitude locations will, in general, become more suitable for crops (Iqbal et al., 2009). Trnka et al. (2011), for example, examined projections of eleven agro-climatic indices across Europe, and found that declines in frost occurrence will lead to longer growing seasons[..]

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg2/WGIIAR5-Ch...

Start of Section 7.3.4. on page 504.
(Posting on behalf of Somak)

Hi there, thanks for the feedback! The 2 examples in the write-up are:
1) Molecular Weight: weighted sum across amino acid sequences, using amino acid weights defined in [1]
2) List Concatenation: aggregate lists of added resistances (like ['Ampicillin', 'Kanamycin']) across itself and all ancestors

These are simple, and can be expressed as formulas in Excel or functions. They take < 0.5 s.

A more complex biochemical property for antibodies that can't be as easily expressed in Excel is isoelectric point ([2], see example BioJava implementation at [3]). It requires a binary search, but the search space is constant so usually these calculations finish < 20 s.

Since our implementation is in Python, we can wrap the function in try/catch and, in the catch block, log the error and set the failed computation status.

[1] https://www.promega.com/-/media/files/resources/technical-re...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoelectric_point
[3] http://biojava.org/docs/api1.9.1/src-html/org/biojava/bio/pr...
Likewise...

Personally, I think that the addition of tactile, flipping around, lack of distractions, etc... all the little bits add up to a more "immersive" learning experience from books.

It strikes me as an offshoot of an article recently that said that simply having a phone in the same room as a person decreases their ability to focus.
How is "software to run dollar stores" different from generic retailing software?
First, on your notion of bias:

Taylor and Francis is owned by informa.

A trivial search for informa's annual report would reveal that academic publishing makes up 45.7% of their operating profit, and 50% of that comes from subscriptions, almost all of which are digital.

Further, most of their major initiatives are in digital, especially for journals which are most of their revenue.

Second, on your "three studies" objection - they're looking at three separate outcomes, as they mention in the article. It's common to lump the results of multiple highly related studies in a single paper.

Third, as noted by another commenter, nearly all peer-reviewed journal articles are going to be published by publishers who also have a stake in other aspect of academic publishing.