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> I think there are examples both ways. Hiroshima, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Crisis, involved escalations that were not met with further escalation.

Sure, nothing is 100%, but to address the parent point in detail:

First, there's a logical inevitability to that statement. If escalation never stopped, then the tiniest diplomatic insult would eventually result in nuclear war. If the diplomats do their job and the politicians listen, issues are deescalated whenever possible. It'd definitely possible to do. The point is that each escalation tends to increase danger for both sides; due to second-order effects, it's bad for the escalator.

Second, I think escalation does sometimes work when the escalator has such superior power that their enemy can't hope to match it. In the mid-1990s, China threatened Taiwan with missile launches. The U.S. sailed a couple aircraft carrier battle groups through the Taiwan Strait, a massive show of force that China couldn't hope to match at the time (they were militarily much less capable than now), and China backed down. On the other hand, China didn't back down: China felt humiliated and that event instigated the current decades-long military buildup in China, with a primary focus on the prevention of US aircraft carriers from intervening in Taiwan and naval control of nearby seas. Now the situation is more dangerous than ever, for Taiwan, China, and the US.

Finally, I don't think the examples in the parent support the case (though I'm sure there are examples that do).

Hiroshima: This event was during total war, when maximum escalation already had happened years before. Both sides were throwing everything they had at each other; one side happened to have more. (Also, the Japanese didn't surrender after Hiroshima.)

Cuban Missile Crisis: A prime example of the dangers of escalation; humanity almost was destroyed by nuclear weapons due to the brinkmanship of both sides. The USSR put nuclear weapons in Cuba, a clear escalation, and the US implemented a blockade to stop it; (both?) sides threatened war. It ended in a secret deal where the USSR removed its missiles from Cuba and the U.S. secretly removed theirs from Turkey. But I think the definition of escalation is tricky here: Putting the missiles in Cuba was an escalation, and the results matched the theory in the GP: It increased danger for both sides and achieved nothing. I'm not sure the US blockade was an escalation or a non-escalating response; e.g., an obvious escalation would have been for the US to put twice as many nuclear missiles on the USSR border as the USSR put in Cuba, and IMHO it's likely that such a (hypothetical) escalation would have again increased danger with no benefit.

Berlin Air Lift: That's an example of the opposite, a non-escalating response. When the USSR blockaded Berlin (a West German city surrounded by East German territory, other than a channel to W. Germany), the US (or was it NATO?) didn't respond by attacking the blockade or by blockading USSR cities; they simply flew in supplies around the clock until the blockade ended. They accomplished the goal without increasing the threat to the USSR.
sure, need more code to do clflush things.
Then I believe, given the greater context, that you're choosing to read it uncharitably. If your point is to search for greater clarification and mutual understanding, as opposed to argument, I think you can likely do better than your current approach.
>For me being Jewish is a biographical detail. It does not define me as a person, it is not who am. I enjoy Jewish humour as much as anyone and embrace my father's painful experiences during WWII, but it cannot mean that I'm better or more important than someone who's not a jew.

Well, that's what being Jewish -- in a modern sense -- sounds like to me. The parts that you embrace are what define being Jewish as an ethnic identity.

At least that's how I think of myself, being jewish-like-Feynman, not jewish-like-whoever-goes-to-synagogues. But again, I don't know what you are revolting against; nobody in my family has been religious since 1917 (my great-grandmother used to tell me she was brought up a "Pioneer"[1] in a figurative sense) - and I only had to part with my adenoids as a kid.

[1]In the sense of Lenin's Pioneers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pione...
The quoted paragraph isn't ML, it's telecommunications.
I could probably develop a network of 5 driving-age teens in my neighborhood, call in an order at a restaurant, and then send out a "who wants to make 10$ cash picking this up for me?" group SMS. I'm sure the service would be better and I'm sure they would make more money than through DoorDash.
My guess is that it won't catch on in the long run. But, you never know.
When the electricity prices are demand-driven, the question is meaningless.

If one thinks that the energy can be put to a better use, they can set up a shop next door and start paying slightly more per kWh than the miner, thereby destroying their margins.
The most obvious and reliable way to get $1MM in the bank is to work, live frugally, and invest savings for about 40 years.
I lived there, the US is MUCH different than China. start with the face scanning, and go from there.

nowhere nearly as "free" there as it is here. I can blame all the presidents I want for my misfortune, and don't have to go to jail.
Yeah I was referring IBM Global Services.

And my intention not to bash IBM or even IGS, but describe WHY some, not just IGS but many others - mega-projects blow up.

My fault for not making that clear. I’d edit the post but I can’t now. Their technology LOBs I’m sure are a different story.
I want show accessing the memory without read it directly.
150k? Not in Silicon Valley. My base is 200k and my friend just got a job with a $300k base, but he's on the principal architect level. With bonuses and stock comp, we make a lot more.
This seems rather low. Granted it's been almost two years since I drove for (primarily lyft) and I was making 50k/year for about 70h work a week. And also I gave myself about 6 weeks of vacation over that year and half.
I've worked in the public sector and in support of a large complex social services system at a very large scale.

It's a frustrating place to be put in charge of for a political appointee charged with reform, usually without alot of knowledge, or with a idealogical bent fueled by conservative dogma in this case.

IGS is a shitshow, but outsourcing stuff like this is ridiculously dumb. IBM was in a position where failure was the only option, and anyone attempting to do this will fail. IBM underestimated the difficulty of the task, probably because the customer had zero clue.
Dilettante here: What's interesting about *TT is that people have built mechanical theorem checkers [Coq, Agda, Lean, ...], and people are working on building automated theorem provers based on those programatic foundations.
I saw one yesterday. There was a driver but like... come one, decades?
Hey there, I think you got the gist of it in a different part of this thread (each of our spacecraft has a fraction of the number of transponders as a typical large GEO). But if you'd like to discuss further I'd be happy to chat offline. Do you have an email address or other way that I could contact you?
I would quite happily pay someone 1-5% of the wage of the position, if I could find someone to do the work for me.

I dont know how to find the people to do that - its not in my wheelhouse.
Yeah, but whoever is first to market on driverless (e.g., Tesla) has already said they will have a separate network for letting others use your Tesla to subsidize your ownership cost. Aka, your Tesla won't be a part of Uber's driverless fleet.

So, at best, they become a 40-billion dollar driver/rider match-making algorithm and a pretty CRUD app. Unless Uber itself is working on autonomous driving technology. It's so easy for drivers and riders to switch between ridesharing apps (e.g., ever see an Uber driver that also has a Lyft sticker on their car? I have, many times), I don't see how any of them can solidify a competitive advantage of sorts long-term.
You would do well to take a look at the well-written open source guide written by the folks at Github: https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/#finding-a-projec...

One of the links featured there is a website tracking resources to find projects for people who have never contributed to open source before: http://www.firsttimersonly.com/
1GB of RAM is anywhere from 25-50% of the RAM available on the average new (let alone used) consumer-grade laptop. For a chat app. And that's not even factoring in the OS overhead.

That's fucking bonkers. Objectively and scientifically fucking bonkers.
Every problem is different, so the only advice I can give is: research research research! Do the hard work up-front; figure out how to describe your problem in a mathematical sense, and identify the right tools to use for the shape of your input, output and problem dimensions. What's the distribution of each dimension. Are the relationships linear, nonlinear, clustered, dispersed, logarithmic, etc. Once you know those things, you're able to narrow in on the right tools and analyses to use.
I can do change like this:

static unsigned int github_idea4good = -1;

if(0 < github_idea4good) will never be true.

But the result is same.

I believe the key is: github_idea4good must out of cache.
That seems too low. Most drivers I use have been doing it for years. They wouldn't at those rates.
Right. That must be why a Waymo drove itself past me in the Bay Area two weeks ago.
A good open source project is one that matches your existing skills and the skills that you want to build.

My own FLOSS efforts mostly revolve around the Linux audio community (mostly musical software). There's plenty of projects from the very small to mid-large size. My focus is primarily on ZynAddSubFX (https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/ ) and the project is looking for new contributors. Depending upon an individual's interests and goals of contributing to FLOSS I may be able to direct them to other similar projects.
More interesting than the list of individual countries, is which dual citizenship’s give the “best” value. I’m eligible for citizenship of at least 4 countries, typically it’s hard to maintain more than dual citizenship, so if this was the vector I wanted to optimize on, which pair would be best?
Alright, I’ll bite. I challenge your assertion that math is without objective meaning.

First I want to make an observation. Do you know the history of how the study of complex algebra/calculus came about? If so, I assume you will agree that it was initially a completely abstract thought experiment with no connection to anything in the “real” world.

Given your assertion that math is without meaning, it would seem to me that mathematical ideas that originate purely out of human imagination would just be arbitrary semantics.

Then how can it be that complex analysis only several decades after it was formulated turned out to be not only useful, but necessary to formulate the theory of quantum mechanics in a way that agrees with physical observation?

I can name numerous other examples of the same phenomenon; namely that a purely abstract mathematical idea is long after its formulation shown to be profoundly reflected in physical reality.

To me it seems obvious that the way these phenomena occur implies that part of the process by which humans use their imagination and reasoning to come up with abstract mathematical ideas, is more akin to using their intuition to map out objective ‘structures’ of logic (that are also reflected in the underlying structure of physical reality) than to simply play with semantics, as it seems you are asserting.

Tl;dr
Post modernist philosophers are fools and they should be ashamed. Qed
In France a few years ago I registered for unemployment benefits (that was quite a quest), I received a letter from the electricity utility telling me that I qualified for a reduced price. Later when I found a job, they put back the normal price.
Is that 50k after car depreciation, gas, and maintenance?
Check out Metamath; we can do this for any serious foundations: http://us.metamath.org/downloads/metamath.pdf
I specifically said I was talking about guys who behave awkwardly around women and make things uncomfortable, not rapists and outspoken bigots.
When driverless cars are common on midwestern highways every night, they will start moving into complex urban areas. We are very far from cars navigating downtown NYC, Seattle, SF, Boston, etc.
States were successful in moving Medicaid enrollment to outsourced providers. THis was probably seen as building on that theme.

I think IBM bought an Irish company that did similar work in the UK, so it probably looked achievable, and a potential Cash cow for other states. (Accenture was able to sell child welfare solutions at great profit in the 90s) Its a great business as it generates alotmof complimentary sales and services.
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5 years ago I was told the same thing, and 5 years before that. Maybe 5 years from now, but it’s been the same story forever.
If you’re a service provider allowing your equipment to participate in an amplification attack, you’re the fool trashing the commons.

It’s an ISPs job to filter outbound udp on arbitrary ports? Shall we only let 443 tcp outbound from eyeball networks?
ML concepts are independent of programming language. I suggest not to let language preferences stand in the way of listening to lectures and understanding the subject.

For implementing exercises using Java, you have a bunch of
good options:

1) The most direct equivalent to Pandas+Tensorflow I can think of is DL4J. They have a good comprehensive set of concept and implementation tutorials [1].

2) TF APIs have a Java port and can be used from java desktop and console applications [2]. So a second but slightly more difficult option is using TF Java port + Spark
APIs.

[1]: https://deeplearning4j.org/documentation

[2]: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_java
If you're serious about attracting top talent, why not offer a better wage? I'm not even talking about Bay area level salaries: the salary range that you're offering was my starting salary 5 years ago in Austin, Texas. Being in one of Canada's major cities; I would have expected a lot more.
That seems a little over-analyzed. Sales is seen as a profit center, engineering is seen as a cost center.

This is no different than a good salesman selling some shipping contracts and then the company failing to deliver because some penny pinching nit-wit "saved" some money by skipping oil changes and tire maintenance causing the trucks to break down before the job was done.

Its just on a bigger scale.
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The thing though is men are seen as potential harassers, which women virtually never have to deal with. Even though we aren't, enough men are to color relations with women and add wariness to interactions; women would see us approaching, and not see us as professionals alone. And guys know they see us that way, and its not unwarranted; they don't know we won't be creepy tech guy, and there's a lot of proving on our end to assure them we wont be.

That extra subtext isn't there as much with men.
I'm eager to play with this and to try out some ideas.

For example, I wonder if it's possible to pass createFetcher an async function that awaits a fetch, dispatches a redux action with the data as a payload, then returns the data. If create fetcher works this way, it would seem to obviate a bunch of the usual redux actions. instead of FETCH_DATA, FETCH_DATA_SUCCESS, and FETCH_DATA_FAILURE, you could just have something like SET_DATA.
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Being misconstrued is a consequence of the way society has run men down over the last few decades. Feminism has been no help here. I don't care if my colleagues are men or women. What I do care about is when I am a man and do not act or communicate in the manner of a woman, I am then considered sexist.

Men and women think differently, see differently, communicate different and that is all good. But to be treated as a low-life male (which is quite common) by many women only reinforces the idea that women should not be engaged in any substantive way.

Your attitude of thinking that men who are avoiding you because you are a women are guilty of sexism is no less a sexist attitude and is part of the problem that you do not want to accept as part of your responsibility to solve.

Your words exhibit a prickly attitude that is a strong warning sign that, irrespective of how talented and professional you are, you are to be avoided because you will likely be the cause of accusations of sexism against those men avoiding you. It's a two way street. The problem is on both sides. There are men who need a complete mental readjustment because they consider women as things and there are women who need a complete mental readjustment because they treat men as low-lifes.

Stop treating men who avoid you as sexist and you might just find out how well you will be treated in return as a serious professional by those same men.
I doubt they are on medium - probably low. I once met the IT guy onboard his yacht. Told me a funny story about trying to get the superbowl for one of Larry's mates one year.
10 seconds into the video of feature engineering they say that feature engineering takes up about 75% of the time https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/...

They understand the value, but but if you keep watching, they don’t seen go beyond the basic.
The speed of light is not a speed limit on effective travel, but on observation. Imagine you build an engine that gives enough thrust to roughly produce an extra effective 1km/s of velocity each time you operate it. Even though the speed of light is 300km/s, that engine is going to operate exactly the same on the 301st operation as it did on the first operation. And, in fact, in 'real' terms if we create an engine capable of generating 1g of thrust for years at a time - we could travel 700 light years in ~12 years by thrusting for 1g forward 6 years, turning around and then thrusting for 6 years backwards.

But of course the 'catch' is that time dilation (and length contraction) kick in. And so while from the frame of reference of the ship and all its travelers only 12 years will have passed, from the frame of reference of everybody back on Earth - 700 years would have passed. What we would observe is that as the ship approached the speed of light, its apparent mass would approach infinity, reaching a velocity asymptote at the speed of light.

And these values are also not linear. It's possible to travel a practically unlimited distance in the span of a single human lifetime - from the perspective of that human. 100 trillion light years would take about 62 years at 1g from the perspective of those on board our ship. There's also really really fun paradoxes available here. Imagine somebody leaves Earth towards this planet and at some point decades, or perhaps even centuries later, we develop technology that enables substantially faster travel. Our planetary settlers on their 12 year journey could arrive 12 years later to find that not only is the planet indeed colonized, but it's colonized by the descendents of Earthlings that left decades, or even centuries, after they did.

The really exciting thing here is that NASA seems to have gone silent on the EM drive after having it pass every single test they threw at it. In my opinion, this is evidence of classification which is something that would make sense. If the EM drive somehow actually works - and everything we know says it most certainly should not - that would change absolutely everything. The ability to actually start realistically considering these sort of missions would be mundane compared to other possibilities, which I'm not even going to get into as they sound, and should be, absurd. As an aside, this part on the EM drive is 100% speculation - not to be confused with everything stated above, which are direct and heavily tested (even if absurd sounding) consequences of relativity.
if the company were based in Africa, one would not dare to call it an "illegitimate" company
Ok. California is 39% Hispanic, 38.8% White, 5.8% Black and 13% Asian. California has 40 Million people. Let's say half have not graduated college yet and are not in the employee pool. That means 8 Million Hispanics, 8 Million whites, 1.16 Million Blacks and 2.6 Million Asians. Taking this new information into account, Asians should be around 37% of the employees, Blacks less than 1%, Hispanics around 9% and Whites 54%. Google's numbers say 61% White, 30% Asian, 2% Black and 3% Hispanic. So, it's both Hispanics and Asians who are under represented.
Then find a lawyer to sue them?
Thanks! It seems Erlang was not a best choice in the first place, for your project. Yes, please share the complete story when it's written.
Yeah, fortunately pens are relatively easy to find on Amazon, eBay, and a few online stores (just Google 'HP Plotter Pens'). My Roland and HP plotters use the same type of pens, btw.

All USB-Serial cables and adapters I’ve used so far have worked (including Arduinos!), but you might need a DB-9 to DB-25 null modem to physically connect your adapter to the plotter. Biggest thing to watch out for is to make sure you get an RS-232/Serial version of the plotter and not an HPIB/GPIB version. The easiest way to check is to look for a DB-25 connector on the back of the plotter instead of a Centronics-style connector (looks a bit beefier).

EDIT:
Btw, some plotters (like the HP 7550A) will have both types of connectors on the back. In that case you’re good!
Right, I guess I was wondering if they realized that...
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Haha, spend some time working or training at a mental health faclity in the US, at least Western US. It is bizarre how little the system understands what people are. The Doctors do, the janitors too, but the policy makers and the "funders" are in fact insane. And it's accepted by the population as inevitable and logical. Crazy, crazy world.
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Except unlike here in NA, the cost of a delivered meal in China is often times less than their in-restaurant equivalent. The delivery platforms there are still offering large discounts, and it's not only for new users.

For example is common to see restaurants offering, 15 rmb off for orders over 50 rmb.
I guess no intern!