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Eventually, you'll run up against the limit defined by the Carnot efficiency. I wonder where this engine will stand in relation to that. Will they be able to burn at a higher temperature in order to drive the raw efficiency up? Perhaps with a improved catalytic converter? Or are these all improvements in internal friction?

What does the technology actually look like? The article was frustratingly scant on details.

Ah. You can track down the video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_No3KSaTrM

Contrary to the appeal to the layperson's mechanical intuition in the video, they give away that they are apparently speeding combustion at the top of the stroke, resulting in a better approximation of "constant volume heat addition." This will result in a higher top temperature in the combustion chamber, and is the real reason for their "pushes longer and harder" explanation. This will come with added NOx production, so they'll have to have better catalytic conversion, with a couple caveats. It may be that the emissions rules are on a per-mile basis, so that the total NOx of the engine is lower per mile because less fuel is burned. They may also just be hitting markets with laxer restrictions.
I've seen this type of hiring practice, and most of the time it was to hide the desire to hire monkey coders who are micro-managed. It's a shame for the coders, as it can destroy their abstraction capability, while pretending to foster it.
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This is an odd story that seems to gloss over the downsides of neural networks. Computational power needed to build some of the models is enough to explain how slow uptake was. At least in large. I would be interested to see just how many multiplications go into a typical model nowadays. In particular, the training of one.

But that still skirts the big issue, which is generalization. We are moving, it seems, to transfer learning. The danger is that we don't seem to have a good theory to why it works. At a practitioner level, I don't think this is as much of a problem. For the research, though, it is pretty shaky.

I think there is more than a strong chance this remains the future for a while. And I am layman in this field. At best. But this story presupposes that the past was wrong for not being like the present. That is a tough bar.
Communism is certainly is a centrally manged state owned economic system.

Under communism there is no individual ownership and the state owns all of the means of production.
Even that's not technically true. You can represent things in JSON that can't be represented in ES object literals. There's a proposal in Stage 3 to fix that though: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-json-superset
Postgres RDS is indeed different, yes it runs on EBS, but the Aurora in a sense isn't truly Postgres. What they've done is forked away from vanilla Postgres and tweaked the storage layer to work on the block based storage they've built just for it. It's why you see it advertised at "Postgres compatible" vs. just being will standard Postgres.

This article is definitely an interesting one as it highlights some of those trade-offs that they now need to account for.
Portugal is heading to the same route unfortunately (https://digiday.com/media/portugals-media-companies-alliance...).

There is already a website warning for the privacy issues of the platform (https://nonio.pt/).
"However, users can't add their own websites to the blocklist."
They touch on these key skills in the video. Apparently mental focus is a lot of it as well.
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Contractors are mobile in the sense that they can change company every 3 months.

They stay in the same area. They are not mobile to move themselves and their family across the border periodically.
After a while, I ran the same analysis I did before. The shopping cart abandonment rate was reduced by double digits: A difference worth more than $1 million dollars per month.

This is not a statistically valid way to test the effectiveness of your change.

For example, if you sell toys, and you run an analysis on the week before Christmas, then you make your code change, and then check again on the week after Christmas, you are going to have differences in customer behavior that have nothing to do with your change.
Doesn't work in all situations, but what's worked for me is to treat it as something that you need to keep an eye on, and then liberally take trips into the office.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for your thoughtful comment.
The articles absolutely contained information not available in English. I would not have translated the articles in full if they had, as my time is limited. My specific field is the breakup of liquid jets into droplets. As an example, I found a paper that applied the maximum entropy principle to the prediction of droplet size distributions in 1938 (by V. Ya. Natazon), almost 50 years before the approach was popularized for droplet size in the west (and before Jaynes). I actually was not attracted to the paper for that, though. The specific constraint used involved a measure of the strength of the turbulence, and that was what attracted me as my own research was going in that direction. The constraint would be regarded as novel if it were published in a western journal today. I am working on a conference paper right now which cites this.

As for how I find the articles, there are many approaches. I found the Natanzon paper by reading an old English translation of a Russian textbook. Textbooks can be particularly fruitful in terms of foreign references. I also found bibliographies useful to find citations along with English abstracts (though few are recent). Going backwards through the citation network for a particular foreign paper you find interesting can also return good papers.

It's also worth noting that in the Cold War era many translations were produced, though they may be hard to track down today. I only translated articles where no previous translation existed best I could tell. I could write more on identifying whether an article was translated and tracking down the translation if you are interested.
Ah, that's relatively recent in the literature, and I found a reference to it at the NIH[1] as well.

I'm glad for all the research into causes of antibiotic resistance, and if medicine comes up with a better way to treat infections and minimize resistance, I'm all for it.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines...
No, at least not directly with the way the HDK is set up out of the box; there are "Clock Recipes" you choose from at build time, and a recipe is just the pre-canned configuration. 3 different groups, each one with a chosen (single) recipe, each group giving you a few clocks of various frequencies.

The clock recipe is examined as part of the "AFI Manifest" when Amazon creates FPGA images you can load, so I doubt you can go out of the way very much, here.

https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga/blob/master/hdk/docs/clock_r...

https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga/blob/83c80efd30862d862ea8f99...
Everyone wont completely abandon it and not care anymore. That is basically beyond the realm of reality. I bet the majority of the people reading this would jump on buying thousands of bitcoin at that price, thus raising the price. It is very difficult, nigh impossible to actually imagine bitcoin not being worth anything.
I can imagine a situation where it would completely collapse and fail to have a market price at all, but it takes a lot more than just "people selling it because it's going down". I can imagine similar scenarios for other assets like gold or the euro, but they are very far-fetched and I don't expect them to ever happen.
If taxes go up, I'll need to charge more. I think we should probably pay similar tax levels, but I'm not willing to let it affect my take-home!
Two of them now. One to add Set-specific methods, and another to port the usual Array.prototype methods over to Set and Maps. Can't wait!

https://github.com/tc39/set-methods
https://github.com/tc39/collection-methods
You realize that a "combustion engine" could be run with non-fossil fuels? From Ethanol, Buthanol or sun flour oil?
Or even methanol witch could be derived from CO2 via reduction?
You get better at abstraction by practicing it and by seeing other people's abstractions.
Swiss banks can no longer rely on banking secret like they used to anymore.
To be fair, it's now 23 years later, and macOS is still not as usable as a circa-1995 Mac. It's a bit crazy!
You can with A/B testing though?
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For those complaining about price, you might want to look into costs that go into ASIC's. Adapteva has a nice write-up on that with their strategies for getting cost down. Note that it was critical to have a few million with a strategy that their own write-up said couldn't work if priced for consumer market. They'd have to charge more or have ridiculous volume.

http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/a-lean-fabless-semicond...

The HiFive product uses a CPU they developed on 28nm. That's one of most expensive nodes you can use. Depending on if and how they split cost, fabbing those chips could've cost over a million dollars in masks. Low-volume, RISC workstations used to cost five digits each on older nodes. Getting a low-volume CPU on cutting-edge node for a grand is a great improvement. So long as they ship products that work as claimed.

There's been a lot of vaporware in FOSS-type hardware...
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Really, when fossil fuels get more expensive you'd like a non fossil fuel based engine.
Efficient engines are incentivized by high fuel prices only as compared to less efficient fossil fuel engines.
The general term for this property is “federated identity” and academia is probably the most mature and widespread implementation - academic institutions regularly allow visitors from other institutions to use their home institution’s credentials, for example in the worldwide “eduroam” WiFi network.
> I have a lot of experience with hiring software developers. This is mostly drivel.

Quoted for truth.
I used OS/2 2.1 and 3 Warp extensively back in the day to develop DOS db software in Clipper. Turned out that two or more DOS windows opened on OS/2's desktop could perfectly emulate a DOS client-server situation with two or more machines on a LAN, speeding up development a lot. Attempting the same on Windows would not work, or was very crash prone.
Not if you want it to do anything else at the same time, and not if you need de-interlacing of the 1080i streams that half the over-the-air channels use.
Not sure if you're joking or genuinely don't know how Bitcoin works. Without a consensus network it's just random bits.
Most likely you were looking at things on the internet that implied a need for masking tape.

For example if you looked at blogs about home remodeling and interior painting you could be generating signals of intent that suggest you might be in the market for masking tape.

It's not as obviously creepy as "AI wuz listening to me! OMG Skynet!".

But it is creepy that intelligence, vast, cool and unsympathetic is working to create a model of you to help its masters intercept your every purchase impulse.
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"an outsider clinging to a simple proposition: that computers could think like humans do—using intuition rather than rules. "

I stopped reading right there.
I did a quick Googling. Turns out that a bunch of them were civilians, one of them was a journalist and friend of the British commander. They were tied up, denied water and their mouths filled with dust, among other tortures.

Lord Elgin ordered the burning as vengeance for it.
Why can't it keep it on a black box in the car?
May be he meant docker instances? I heard that Meltdown allows one docker instance to access another one even without permission.
Perhaps a cheaper route to have an OS up and running on a reference design for hardware that's too new is to implement it on top of MAME.

Even if it takes an 8-way Xeon Platinum to run it at a reasonable speed, I think more people will be able to experiment with it.

And the emulation provides some neat debugging opportunities.
Stopping investing into a technology that is probably going to dominate the industry for the next 25 years might not be too smart. (EVs are coming, but they're quite far from accounting for >50% of the total vehicle sales.)

It's a bit like telling Microsoft in 1990 that focusing on PCs is stupid because mobile computing is coming for sure. :)
The most irritating thing I run into with JIRA is that every time our ALM team rolls out a new point release, things subtly change; behavior is a little different, controls moved around, etc. Normally I'm not one to get all bent out of shape when someone moves the cheese, but dang, every. single. release. things just move around for no apparent reason and I have to relearn how to do the exact same task.

Confluence is also evil. Not because it's Atlassian, but because wikis have many downsides to go along with the upsides. Everyone can create their own pages, so ... they do. And they don't keep maintaining it. So the amount of "documentation" we have is ever increasing and out of date. And like you say, a few people seem to do nothing but confluence work all day long.
Are you saying there was no device running Alexa near by? Then this sounds like a coincidence to me. I remember there were similar anecdotes regarding Facebook, but nobody has made a convincing case that they were actually able to listen in on conversations.

Also, what do you use the masking tape for? Maybe Amazon could infer you would need it because you searched for related items before...?
Just have a senior software engineer or two supervise mathematicians (or to an only so slightly lesser degree, physicists). The latter are excellent at abstraction, usually pick up programming languages in no time, and can readily get steered towards using software best practices by their senior peers provided the latter can articulate a rational explanation as to why this or that best practice is just better.
The site appears to be hosted by Github pages, and uses http://bitters.bourbon.io/
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TL;DR

Instead of Google Drive or Dropbox, we have services like Storj, Siacoin, Filecoin or IPFS technology to distribute and store files.
Instead of Skype we have platforms like Experty.io.
Instead of WhatsApp and Wechat we have Status
Instead of operating systems such as iOS and Android, frameworks such as Essentia.one and EOS provide a gateway to the new web.
Steemit will play the role of Facebook, the Brave browser will serve as Chrome and Monetha will take over from PayPal.

you may buy it or not (in 2025?)
Would you take an 'off' button, but with the caveat that put the burden of proof on you if you were in an accident while telemetry is off?
Not if your system efficiency is limited by transmission and storage. Chemical energy (fuel) is more efficient and cheaper to store than electric energy, and will almost certainly continue to be an important medium in a post fossil fuel world.

Edit: I think I responded to the wrong post, but I guess I'll just leave this here as a general comment.
> I absolutely loathe the amount of "sorry for your inconvenience" in each and every communication with american support staff.

Same in France. As a French, I hate the "merci pour votre compréhension". It drives me crazy because this is such an empty sentence.
BitTorrent is truly decentralized. So long as there's one seed of something you can repopulate the network, you can rebuild from that singular copy. Even N partial copies could do it so long as the sum of all those parts is at least one complete copy. This is because all you care about is data, and data can be copied easily.

Bitcoin isn't. It's merely distributed and it depends on having a singular, healthy, functioning consensus network. Where that network splits you suddenly have more than one blockchain, as is the case with Bitcoin Gold, and Bitcoin Cash.

It also depends on having a healthy balance of mining power in that network so that no one entity can take control and start to dictate terms.

If all that's left is a single miner then four other miners can easily take charge of that network and effectively destroy it.

> Bitcoin can absolutely still function....

The blockchain component of Bitcoin can technically function, sure, there's no problem there, but as a unit of value, as a unit of exchange, it's functionally useless. You can't trust it, you can't use it for anything.

There is, by design, one blockchain. When that assumption fails, the network has to work to achieve consensus, and if that can't be achieved it splits. That can be fine with things like IRC networks or peer-to-peer exchanges, you can always do a messy reconciliation later, but with something that's supposed to represent a medium of exchange that's a problem.
Just take a look at /new with showdead on. There are spam bots on there offering “free serial key” sprinkled with some Unicode characters.

I’m sure dang and the mod team have some automated way of detecting bots and voting rings.
I found it very surprising that the article didn't mention machine learning applications. Machine learning and scientific computing is where a company like NVIDIA really shines. The reason for this is CUDA. Nearly all deep learning frameworks, such as tensorflow, use CUDA to run on GPUs. Until AMD comes up with their version of CUDA, and convinces the authors of deep learning frameworks to support it, they will be behind. NVIDIA.
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Engines don't require fossil fuels to run - they are merely the most readily available fuels at this point in time.
>that has enormous and predictable negative effects for someone else and a comparatively tiny positive effect for themselves,

[italics mine] How much did the British know about the addictive effects of opium? This seems like a rather crucial part of the story. Several decades after the Opium War, opium became popular in Europe and led to various social maladies, which culminated in its ban and the initiation of the drug wars. It seems to me that if the British had really known how destructive opium is, they would have banned it at home during the war.

>The opium trade incurred intense enmity from the later British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.[65] As a member of Parliament, Gladstone called it "most infamous and atrocious" referring to the opium trade between China and British India in particular.[66] Gladstone was fiercely against both of the Opium Wars Britain waged in China in the First Opium War initiated in 1840 and the Second Opium War initiated in 1857, denounced British violence against Chinese, and was ardently opposed to the British trade in opium to China.[67] Gladstone lambasted it as "Palmerston's Opium War" and said that he felt "in dread of the judgments of God upon England for our national iniquity towards China" in May 1840.[68] A famous speech was made by Gladstone in Parliament against the First Opium War.[69][70] Gladstone criticized it as "a war more unjust in its origin, a war more calculated in its progress to cover this country with permanent disgrace".[71] His hostility to opium stemmed from the effects of opium brought upon his sister Helen.[72] Due to the First Opium war brought on by Palmerston, there was initial reluctance to join the government of Peel on part of Gladstone before 1841.

It's easy in hindsight to suggest that the British should have listened to Mr. Gladstone, but who can say for themselves that they certainly would have, in a time and place when almost nobody knew anything about opium?
It also depends on how long "a while" is.
It may not be good, but it's not being done on the pretence of being good. The question is, how is it bad?
I got the same question in my head as I show the title.
It seems a little expensive but not unusually so. A beagle board is 270. This has double the processor count, and is 64bit vs beagle board's 32 bit. It has 4x the ram of a beagle board as well.
Like any tool for managing the health of something, it all depends on the quality of the data in the system.

What I have not seen, is evidence that it helps improve the data. So, if you have someone that is good at keeping the data healthy, they can make the tool look amazing. The tool doesn't really help people get there, though.

I don't think there is a universal answer here, yet. :(

I would love to be proven wrong.
Well, presumably the tickets you have are there to build KPI-improving features. The people who open the tickets open them for that purpose! At our company even people who "freelance" stuff still open tickets for that work, because it's useful to document stuff and help others learn.
In 1968 the Sunday Times ran a competition to translate a poem by Baudelaire ("Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux") into English.

The poet Nicholas Moore read about the competition and, apparently angered by the fruitlessness of the task, entered it 31 separate times with 31 different poems, many submitted pseudonymously and in the styles of other poets.

One of them even begins "I'm like the Winner of the Competition / the one who wrote the strong, rewarding phrase..."

None of his entries won, but his anger ("All I have against translation is that it can't be done!") carried him a surprisingly long way.

You can read his entries (and the original) here http://www.ubu.com/ubu/pdf/moore_spleen.pdf
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