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>So if a player wants to optimize for ranking, its actually in their best interest to throw round one of a tournament, play more games, and have their skill update more times.

That's only the case if you believe your current ELO underestimates your real ability respective to the opponents you'll meet in the lower bracket.

Also if you lose your first game against a low-ranked player, you'll immediately lose a lot of points; then the wins against other low-rank players will not give you many points back.

If you're within a calibrated ELO system, your expected change in rating should be 0 for a match, and then having more matches doesn't actually help you.
I don’t know enough about the topic to discuss the last two, but unions don’t intrinsically slow down metro development:

France, for example, has one of the largest transport/trade unions (CFTD and CFT) and much stronger union laws than the US. And yet Paris has the second busiest and comprehensive metro in Europe, second only to Moscow. Not to mention how clean it is compared to anything in the US, a beautiful feat of design, architecture and engineering on its own, even!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Democratic_Confederat...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Métro
Can anyone reccomend a good state management scheme for building large scale Polymer apps? My team has gone this route of building small custom elements for everything, but getting them to communicate has been a pain. AngularJS solved that really well I think with $broadcast and $emit, but we'd rather stay away from monolithic frameworks.
What do Europeans do differently? In the US the non-corrupt unions fade to obscurity.
Still cars are already computers but so far nothing like that is happening... In theory the fact of being autonomous should be a protection because you could add some control system that can't be updated and can make choices reagreless of what the other systems are telling to do.
I would be excited to see an unsupervised facial recognition classifier with an open API. To a certain extent facebook login with a third of the world classified already accomplishes this... but a better (and more direct api) where you send video --> returns top 5 probabilities from softmax output would be cool. Each app or api user can set their own security threshold (.9, .99, .999)
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'Breaking a 1500' and maximising rating are way different goals though. If you want as high a rating as possible, playing lower-rated players is probably not going to get you there - you're only getting a small increase per game.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managemen...
I'd be very surprised if these bids came with more than 4 hours of storage. That's enough to prevent a California-style "duck curve" and to serve the early evening peak demand. It's also enough storage to severely dent the economics of new fossil peaker plants -- perhaps even those of already-built peakers.

These solar + storage proposals are not 1:1 complete replacements for traditional dispatchable power. But with 4 hours of storage a solar plant can run for hours after sunset, serving the highest-demand period of the day (which is also the most lucrative period in deregulated electricity markets). Just a few hours of storage significantly increases the upper limit to solar generation's share on a grid without excessive curtailment.

EDIT: you probably know this. I'm just using your comment as a jumping-off point to elaborate.
Thanks, I appreciate the rundown. just for clarity - in the battery step you wrote the calculation using $150/kWh instead of the mentioned $100/kWh. The final $480M is still correct
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I mean, is this an unmitigated disaster on Intel's part? It's like a train wreck in slow motion.

A part of me feels this stories like this are going to keep getting worse until Spectre is finally used in the wild.
What is TFA?

I didn't do a good job of clarifying what I meant. Hbox is obviously the #1 player right now. The question is if he's just totally on another level of every other player, or if we're underestimating puff as a character.

Note that this is a really deep question. There are strong arguments (parry) that in the "20XX" yoshi would be the most viable character right after fox. Given that, is Amsa overrated because he's underperforming how his character should, or underrated since he's overperforimg the "average" Yoshi player?

The system you describe basically just ends up rewarding above average players who use unusual characters. Should Abate be ranked top 20? Probably not, but considering how much he outperforms the "average" luigi (same thing for Amsa, does he deserve to be, say, top 10), he probably would be.
The same could've been said about Microsoft 10-15 years ago. Now, we could probably get by without them.

Intel may be too big for an abrupt failure, but they can absolutely fail in a decade-long slide into obscurity.
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Well you can do `polymer-redux`, `polymer-uniflow` or mixins (https://www.captaincodeman.com/2017/07/06/managing-state-in-...).

I went with redux.

You could I guess technically you could implement $broadcast - but that would be slow same as with angular, as for $emit you can just emit standard events.
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I have a pair of Koss headphones with a lifetime warranty. I bought them in 1991, and have sent them back to Wisconsin at least five times for repair.

When repair is not possible or practical, Koss sends me a new pair of whatever is the current equivalent model.

/ I'm not sure if they're still honoring the lifetime warranty, as I think the last time I sent them in was about eight years ago.
Neither can be turn signals, yet we still use them
Or when it's hot for that matter. Snickers bars melt. Clif bars do not.
It doesn't require deep learning or AR to know what race a person is. What's stopping militaries and police around the world from carrying out large-scale ethnic cleansing already? We act like we (techies) are the ones who enable states to carry out these atrocities by inventing gadgets, but they really don't need our gadgets. If they don't have drones and AI, they can do the same thing with machetes and walkie-talkies.
This is not true on the cash discount. Usually providers and insurers have negotiated rates that can sometimes be lower than cash pricing. Pricing is usually set high enough that there will be no undercharging and discounts can be given for cash.

With Medicaid for example you may be contracted to be paid $12 for a service, but $14 for Blue Cross and $20 for Anthem. The bill says you charge the $20, but you will only be paid what was agreed upon. The cash pricing is usually based on the highest reimbursement, but can be discounted at the providers discretion.

The models are complex, but there is more work and regulation for processing an insurance claim versus cash.
We are kind of lucky that Moore's law does not apply anymore and computers are not getting much faster these days. It might be that such mass surveillance will never become possible, or at least will remain too expensive even for US government.
When I noticed that this was a physics article from Bloomberg, I checked the comments here first... As expected.
To maximize future success, learn from this lesson. If you are unhappy with the job and are looking, you need to try as hard as you can to keep a happy disposition and don't signal a thing until you have a new job offer in hand and are ready to quit.

Why does it matter? Because now you need to find a job, and your future employer knows this. They will now have an advantage in salary negotiations compared to the alternative, where you have an existing job and can walk away if their offer isn't good enough.

A secondary task is to keep your ear to the ground and learn when a major event, like a layoff or firing, is imminent. It's not as hard to detect as you think.
The reason for the tariffs is definitely related to why the costs are so low.

1) Chinese manufacturers stole American technology and are producing without having paid the R&D.

2) China is heavily subsidizing the industry on many levels all the way down to raw materials. If China were a company in the US we'd be calling them out for violating our monopoly laws, driving everyone else out of business.

I don't support tariffs on anything under any circumstances, but I think it's important not to let the discussion get framed as a simple: Obama/Trump hate solar because donors. There's a bigger geopolitical game being played here.
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I'm reading these articles and wondering: why do these unions have rules for e.g. the number of workers that must be posted to a specific task? Safety? It seems like a tremendously inflexible way to go about it.

I'm genuinely curious btw. I wouldn't be surprised to hear it's a counterreaction to historically irresponsible employers, for example, but I do wonder about the rationale behind U.S. union rules as reported.
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Right. In practice one would want to use more complicated types (such as the type of Turing machines, explained in Clift’s thesis) but in the talk I did not have time to explain more interesting examples.
Worth noting that this is a Progressive Web App (PWA) and you can read the entire thing in airplane mode!
The bottom-up control scenarios aren't really that much better. The scary part is the power of AI itself.

If a twitter mob gets a hold of it, or a non-state terrorist network, or just some lone wolf, then the results can be as bad or worse than any Big Brother scenario.
There was an article posted here recently that discussed Chinese font design: https://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fasci...

It sounds like while there are a lot of reused components, there's a lot of tweaking needed for it to look right:

> For instance, just have a look at the various uses of the radical 言 (yan, speech). Even in cases where it is in the same position, such as the left half of the character, the stroke weights and shapes are slightly different (the characters shown below are the exact same font and size).

As for input: there are component-based input methods where you would for example type 明 by entering the keys corresponding to 日 and 月, but as far as I know, they aren't very popular. Most people use phonetic input systems where you type e.g. 明 by typing "ming" and picking it from a list (or letting auto-correct do it for you).
Also add that it is way harder to see out of the rear windshield in newer cars. IMO a back up camera is essential and the top-down view some newer cars is pretty nice.
> std::vector<whatever> in C++ is safe

I may be remembering this incorrectly, but vec.at(x) is safe (i.e. does bounds checking), but vec[x] is not safe.

I'm going to try some test code here and check, but I'm pretty sure vec[x] will happily overflow.

Edit: https://gist.github.com/tonyarkles/e702e4d5b530a9b7cd3fc9837...

Definitely overflows and segfaults while unwinding the stack (presumably while deallocating the stack-allocated vector)
I absolutely wish Matrix could crush Discord. An entire generation of users came out burned by programs like Skype, Hangouts, MSM, Facebook Messenger, etc and then threw themselves eagerly into another closed ecosystem messenger just because it was one of the first to manage a really performant web client.
I'm not sure how any American can read a call to return to Enlightenment values as a feel-good, no-worries pallative. It rather seems to me that such an appeal is a radical declaration of war against the prevailing political winds in America today – on both the left and the right. I would read it as a kick in the pants, not a soothing lullaby.
Note, too, that the New York City Subway was almost entirely privately funded and built.
On my last trip, it even prompted me in advance to suggest this based off the flight information!
If you remember to shut down your machine when you're done, and you do the suggested 10 hours per week, plus maybe an extra 5 hours of model training per week, at $0.45/hour for Paperspace's cheapest machine (still works great though): $47.25
There's nowhere near enough capacity to transmit enough solar power from say Florida to power the Northeast. Besides, then you still run into problem 2. Florida has to have enough excess capacity to support the NE. And enough excess to make up for summer vs winter.
I don't think the author is wrong about the threat. Unfortunately, his apparent solution--a government mandated standardized "safety module" to intermediate the Internet-connected bits of the vehicle from the non-connected bits--is likely even more risky. Monocultures can be devastated by discovering a single flaw. And there are guaranteed to be many flaws in any non-trivial computer system. Imagine if a straightforward exploit for Spectre that totally compromised a system leaving a hard-to-detect back door via some simple Javascript had existed on January 1, and had been injected into a few popular websites via ad networks... for that matter, how do we know such a thing didn't happen?
This book is really amazing, covers basics of 3/4/5G networking as well. I would say this book is mandatory reading for all engineers who deal with networking. It also covers enough in HTTP that you can get by without reading the entire spec.

If I were designing a course I would put the book near the beginning.
I don't think it's fair to call out unions/government without calling out large capital investors as well. We wouldn't have suburbs or massive shopping malls without huge real estate investors pumping money into major developments that exist to drain money out of a market. Large developments are a net drain on local economies and produce far less efficient markets than small incremental developments based on organic demand. There's a point where regulation and large capital investments are interlinked to prevent these markets from correcting, but the capital does plenty of damage on its own.
There are certain use-cases for which plan9 is not useful. I don't think a solve-every-problem-poorly box is better than a solve-several-problems-well box. For the niches it services, plan9 is sublime.
I wonder if it's that European unions have long had legitimate political clout, while it sounds like in the USA, unions have been under more suppression, and have developed tactics to match?

This is entirely based on my thoroughly unresearched preconception of the matter, BTW.
Just because the task is basic does not make it uninteresting.

People dismiss so much stuff with "I could have done that...". Well, you didn't, and they did. So there.

(In this case, the task is probably more annoying than you think. There's a lot of little details involved in getting the alignment correct, getting the fonts wrapped, generating the PDF, etc.)
Do you think there's a market for "Cloud Meteorologists"?
It is already usable, try it now and you'll be surprised.

Web version works smoothly on my 2009, 4gb ram laptop and the android version is faster than Whatsapp on my samsung galaxy 1.

Had no idea there was a desktop app, will try it out but why use that when the web version works so well?
I don’t think so, but I haven’t really thought about it.
How was that possible and why does it not seem to happen today? What changed? Is it still privately owned?
5% of the land or 5% of the surface of the Earth?

And 5% of either of those is an absolutely stupendous amount of space.

In any case, those cooling devices aren't needed if all you want is to block the sun - a mirror works better. Those cooling devices are for heat generated from behind the device.
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So I need 1000 'honeypots'? Asking for a friend.
I forgot that Europe is known for its lack of regulations, red tape, unions, and somewhat unaccountable government agencies running the show.
Indeed, trying to find the balance between "accessible for your average WhatsApp user" and "powerful for more advanced users" is still something we're working on. Nothing deliberate here.

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There are certainly folks that fly in weekly. One student flew in from Australia for the duration! But if you're far away you'd probably be better off applying to be an international fellow, which means you watch the lesson live over Youtube Live and can ask questions and interact with me and the class in real time: http://www.fast.ai/2018/01/17/international-spring-2018/

If you're considering the investment of weekly flights, you should probably first ask the students at http://forums.fast.ai whether they would recommend it.
This is neat. I'm curious, how does printing work after the prototyping stage? Would you usually find a publisher, who handles it for you? Are there other tools like Squib for making homespun tabletops?
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Don't forget OpenSSL. Imagine how long SSLv3 or export ciphers would last if this was done in the 1990s
Designing Data Intensive applications seemed to me a like a good balance between too academic and too practical. It was at perfect level of abstraction for me.
My experience is limited controlling turbines, generators, pumps, valves, hydraulics, and dams using Schneider, Allen Bradley, and Unitronics PLCs. No motion controllers. no conveyor belts, no factories, no robots, no VFDs.

I have made a total of at least 7,500 remote updates over maybe 25 different control systems. In fact we basically get it working well enough the operators can handle day to day stuff and then go remote after that, because who wants to stay away from home at some dirty industrial site eating crappy food. The exception to that is backup power for hospitals, no remote access there and it is a simple enough system we can test all the different scenarios and then walk away.

Generally the last thing I put before an output in a PLC is some rate limiting. If it is a discrete output it won't be allowed to operate more than once every 5s for example. If it is an analog output it is limited to achieve the maximum desired actuator velocity or acceleration. This is a good catch all to avoid damaging equipment. I watched somebody learn this the hard way as a DC motor starter exploded when it was told to start and stop the motor 10 times a second.

Certainly I have made errors. A bad one was I forgot to limit a position so that it could not be less than 0. The position was subtracted from some other number. Substracting a negative number is adding! That was a nasty positive feedback loop that resulted in fast oscillations in the position of a 1m diameter pressure reducing valve. However that was during on site commissioning not remote.

Certainly for major changes I will require a shutdown and co-ordinate with the operators, but it is a judgement call on my part as to what I can program and test at the office and unleash on remote equipment vs. what needs to be tested on the actual equipment. Most testing on the equipment is required to determine the equipment characteristic.
No, because a symbolic contest is not final in the way that the physical imposition of force is: a country who loses a symbolic contest has limited incentive to abide by the symbolic outcome if they believe they can nevertheless impose their will on the other country by force. Wars end when contestants lose the will or the ability to resist the will of the opponent.

There can and should be other options to settle differences, but in the end, people and groups who have gone through all the other options will still always have the choice to simply physically resist the outcome, and there is no other counter to that than sufficient physical force to overcome the resistance. War is the final arbiter, stupid as it is.
I think it's because the first Linux image has to be written in the firmware ROM, so this make upgrades difficult because you have to flash a new firmware on every kernel update.

So it's more practical to have a stripped down Linux kernel that loads a complete kernel from disk.
The proposed tariff allows for only 2.5GW of cell imports that are assembled into full modules in the US. Manufacturers are already lining up to see who is going to be allowed to get into that small quota.

Given that it's going to take a bare minimum of 18 months and probably several years to build a new cell manufacturing facility, and the length of life of such a facility, somebody looking at building new capacity would get a year or two of tariff protection, and then have to survive another few decades without it.
- Find any weakness in your skills or communications and see if you can improve those.

-Believe in yourself and do not give up, you will get a decent job eventually, but then in tech space, you will need to deal with all kinds of people, so hard to be satisfied always.
Check out public rooms directories, right in the app/webapp. Plenty of users and public channels, mostly IT oriented.
The vast, vast majority of people in the world have to work most of the best hours of the day in order to pay for shelter from the weather and food for their family. In return they get the dubious privilege of allowing their brain to decompress in front of corporate-manufactured garbage on television.

Although we are not currently in a World War or its aftermath, and therefore our lives could reasonably be said to be better than in, say, 1917, I think this is taking a remarkably short view. There's a solid argument to be had that the life of an average human (well, admittedly a man) in the 17th century was immeasurably richer than the life of an average man in the late 20th / early 21st century, and that this downturn is because of the Enlightenment Pinker worships. Sure, life was shorter, but it's at least arguable that the quantification of life ushered in by the Enlightenment is responsible for the impoverishment of quality as a measure.
While this is true, they were still able to build pretty significant things without such accuracy. Sure, if you keep rounding you can lose essence but rounding pi to 3 doesn't lose enough of the essence for practical usefulness. 3 works fine rough circles..it might not work fine for building a rocket or a some finer piece of machinery but for may things it works fine.

Besides, although I said what I did to make a valid point, I mostly said it to be humorous. Sorry I did not put in the humor tags.
Have you filed any bug report or point to one? All i have seen is a lot of handwaving about "IPC mismatch", things will not fix itself unless people actively report/help fix issues.