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The loud music would draw a political rebuke / protest response, and then after if it didn't cease, it would plausibly draw some kind of tit for tat response in the other nation. The US can expel diplomats and isolate an embassy (eg cut power, water, etc), essentially making it non-maintainable (inhospitable) as a position. It could also surround it literally, effectively sealing it off to access, preventing the ability to leave (with predictable consequences).

The strong microwaves would be treated as an act of war: an attack on Americans, on American soil, by a foreign power. If it didn't immediately stop, the US would invade that foreign soil and do whatever it decided was required.
>But I don’t understand the right you’re referencing. It seems to amount to: if I do something when I am a child, I have a right to use physical violence to stop people from telling stories about it later.

You seem to be using "physical violence" in the sense that anarchists to do when referring to states and their monopoly on force, yet there is no physical violence involved in the removal of data from a database, and I'm not aware of any laws which insist upon using the police, incarceration or similar coercion to enforce such removal.

I believe you're being disingenuous in implying that one political construct (the "right to be forgotten") is rooted in thuggishness while another (the "right to roam") is a universal, and therefore morally pure, constant.
Seems hand-waving, thin on value and promoting a consulting business.

It would’ve been better to talk about the real-world including TPMS and the NTSB investigation approach... making cars very reliable and very complex aircraft safer with strict regulations.
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The kinds of sound systems people commonly encounter aren't that good. Also, people bring their expectations with them when they listen to recorded music. With appropriate equipment and a suitable listening environment, it's possible to fool a blinded listener.
I'm confused as to why this is newsworthy? Are we operating on the assumption that the 303 more prolific wikipedians are somehow all without a personal ideology?

If the rules he's using are being followed correctly, and if the information he is posting is well-sourced, then your only other course of action would be to petition to change wikipedia's rules.
> I can't name you concrete examples, because I've encountered this too many times.

It's actually kind of hard to know where you're coming from as far as critiquing the state of philosophy when you list something like #2, which is anonymous, cartoonishly stupid, and perhaps not representative of anything, alongside Roger Penrose, whose work is at least interesting.
Are the big banks smaller? When they screw up again, will their ironclad control of the relevant political entities fail to bail them out as it has before?
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It’s what the Buddhists were saying all along long! You’ll just need to accept that you don’t have any self. I think Nietzsche was whining this was gonna happen too.

Or wait are you seriously suggesting it won’t happen? Honestly it’s better than the social credit system can’t own property or ride a train thing if we have to be honest.
This is absolutely true. I have had several experiences of knowing music was live at a distance of several hundred feet, through nothing but how it sounded. And like you said, it's easy to tell primarily with "analog" instruments like brass, accoustic stringed, woodwind, drums, etc. Basically anything where the sound comes from the vibration of something besides a speaker.

Come to think of it, maybe that's why? Maybe the intrinsic harmonics of speakers cause overtones different than the material of the instrument? Or, similarly, maybe the material of the recording microphone changes the harmonics levels compared to the human ear?
>It's it from bit, math all the way down, consciousness collapsing the wave-function or a multiplicity of branching universes, the universe is a hologram, the universe is a computer computing itself, and so on.

The problem is, all of these statements are completely unjustified, beyond being fun to talk about. They might not even be philosophy, on the grounds that philosophers do actually still expect statements to be supported.
I think one of the arguments is this isn’t an individual but a group or agency with an agenda and resources to bend Wikipedia to a specific narrative.
There's a clear conflict of interest which Wikipedia is refusing to act on.
How does one pay for a "plot point"? I can generally imagine how product placement works, but plot points seem a ever decreasing circle.

For starters the story needs to be set in modern day, and mostly modern western world. Cans of coke look out of place in Game of Thrones.

I can roughly imagine how you can get writers to create an embarrassing episode for Joey and Chandler over a Dunkin Donuts voucher, but the number of ways that can work well must be limited.
In my younger days I wished for more of this so that cell phones would automatically save the initial date/time/location that a number was added.

Would have made it easier to remember the context of meeting some lady friends.
I strongly believe that over time, all information would be modeled with an expiration timestamp. The fact that I use to visit a coffee shop 5 years back is neither useful for me or the advertisers.
I think most responses to the above comment are misunderstanding its crux.

Learning math (and other subjects in a similar spirit, like physics) is often a frustrating endeavor while you're leveling up to new concepts. IMHO, most of that is because you're thrashing around trying to find the correct perspective that opens up the subject and makes everything obvious. By obvious, I mean not just "this procedure solves this problem" but "this procedure must solve this problem... it couldn't be any other way". Once you're at that level, doing math at that level can be pretty easy. It's mostly conceptual, and doesn't have the tedious procedure that some other fields might involve.

The emotional high of that clarity is what keeps a lot of people going through the frustrations along the way. Describing the painful journey without describing what makes it worthwhile is a disservice to readers.
> The Dutch public school system does quite well and has good outcomes, a testament to how few private schools there are despite private schools being given ample room to thrive here.

I beg to differ, there is not ample room for private schools to thrive. This is primarily due to higher social cohesion as compared to other countries, the social acceptance of sending your kid to a private school in the US is generally assumed, whereas one is apt to be looked down on if they choose to have their children go to a less resourced, private school in the Netherlands.

Despite private schools here in the US providing students with a lower quality teacher (here in Seattle, they pay $10k less a year to private school teachers than the school district does on average), while also permitting students to spread disease and not vaccinate, many upper class and middle class families send their kids to these schools. Its a testament to a lack of information and push back against objectively shitty schools.

On the topic of vaccines, its crazy that the Catholic Church allows kids in their private schools to not be vaccinated. They're single handedly bringing back diseases that hadn't been a notable issue in decades.
Gatekeeping? Quite the opposite. Rather, sadness.

I think that the system has failed the author, and deprived them of fun.

If I met them, I'd tell them the same thing I'd tell you: come back to math! There's fun and beauty in it, and suffering is not a necessary component of that.

As far as your math grad friends go: the school, most likely, is failing them. Statistically, about half of them are depressed. Most have no job prospects that will allow them to keep doing what they are trained to do (simple matter of #students >> #positions). Ask them how often they considered suicide (not if), the answers may surprise you. Graduate school does make mathematics (amd life) a funless process way too often - and that's a problem. But that's not how things should and can be.

Please read Lockhart's Lament I linked to in order to understand my point better.

What I ultimately am saying is that what is being pushed onto people as math is way to often isn't really, in a way that a cheese product isn't cheese.
Nature herself "solved" intelligence as a data optimization problem. We can too.
It's important to note that only IP adresses in combination with a timestamp are considered personal data under GDPR.
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seems like a fairly obvious ops campaign by some interested group. I would think that many state organizations would want long term reputable editors to craft their messages.
(or american born chinese, or british born chinese, etc etc. almost nobody can get a chinese citizenship, plenty of smart people get american citizenships)
Mendelian randomization is a good technique to start thinking about causality for epidemiological studies.

This is a good paper that demonstrates the approach: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep16645
Millard, Louise AC, et al. "MR-PheWAS: hypothesis prioritization among potential causal effects of body mass index on many outcomes, using Mendelian randomization." Scientific reports 5 (2015): 16645.
>but do we really care if an app is 50MB, in 2018?

What happens when every developer decides user resources are practically infinite, so every application uses as much of everything it wants to all the time?

What does the current landscape of javascript on the web look like? Not exactly a model of efficiency and speed, for more or less that reason.
In Texas, of course our WM's head covering is a cowboy hat :D
It's also worth pointing out that you may not be able to fix the root cause. The sailing example is great here:

- Can you fix the crack in your hull whilst you're out at sea? Almost certainly not.

- Can you even tell you have a crack in the hull until you've reduced the water in the bilges by running the pumps for a time? Again, quite possibly not.

Treating the symptom is really the only sensible option, unless it's serious enough that you need to put out a Mayday. Again, not a course of action that addresses the root cause but, in some situations, absolutely the right thing to do. To take things up many, many notches, the sinking of the Titanic was an appalling tragedy from which relatively few people were saved, but I guarantee that nobody at all would have been saved if the people on the ship had opted for a series of committee meetings about how to solve the problem of the iceberg. (Not to say there weren't a very large number of hideous blunders in the management of that situation going all the way back to the ship's design and fit-out.)

Moreover, another problem with Five Whys is that, applied heedlessly, it's an extraordinarily arrogant philosophy, because it makes the assumption that you can know the answer to those five whys. Often you can't, at least not without going on a journey, and fixing a few things along the way, and without that, you can simply be wasting your time trying to answer questions that you can't answer in your present situation.

And that really, and somewhat poignantly, cuts to the root cause of why I view the kind of thinking frameworks/fads popular in business with a degree of scepticism: over-applied or misapplied, they paralyse people into inaction, and thereby provide fertile stock for breeding mediocrity.
> You give it regular C# structures and methods, and it automatically converts them to HLSL, GLSL SPIR-V, and Metal shaders.

Code introspection is one of the huge strengths of .NET ecosystem.

You can even do it multiple levels of abstraction: bytecode (using e.g. Mono.Cecil), with built-in reflection API, with built-in expressions API since .NET 3.5, and apparently this project uses even higher-level approach, Roslyn.

I have never transformed C# code into shaders, when I’m working on something similar I usually prefer traditional GPU languages like HLSL or CUDA, because tooling (e.g. visual studio can debug both).

I transformed expressions into NoSQL database queries, worked well. Here’s the main parts: https://github.com/Const-me/EsentSerialize/blob/master/Core/...
Yes, timetables would be adjusted for it. They do that every year anyway, here in NL at least.

And for disembarking same thing: half of them are for disabled people (or aren't serviced with every other bus, depending on the variant of the idea).
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That's the reason why NLP is hard. Language is good for communicating things where the two sides already share a model of. It is much harder to communicate a new model than filling out the details of an existing model.
Requiring technology means requiring capital investment, which means few solo practitioners (already happened) and practices controlled by massive bureaucracies.

This has benefits and costs.
> Are we operating on the assumption that the 303 more prolific wikipedians are somehow all without a personal ideology?

Absent evidence, yes. Are you operating on the assumption that wrongdoing is only actionable if everyone else is proven innocent?
Judging by the time card, I would bet multiple individuals are using this account. And they're probably getting paid to do it.
I have no idea why you consider it unreasonable that I should be able to request data a company holds on me.
Yeah, I think it's worth also asking whether humans /actually/ are any good at answering the 'why' with anything but bullshit. I would argue that we're pretty good at understanding causality in very limited circumstances (the window broke because that kid threw the ball), and extremely overconfident in our ability to understand causation in a much broader range of circumstances (the stock price went up because...). This overconfidence drives a lot of the decisions we make, for better or for worse.

It's an area where if we push hard on AI, we'll likely have to come to terms with how bad we are in this area, and ask ourselves whether we feel comfortable deploying 'thinking machines' with similar levels of incompetence and/or arrogance.
I don't understand your argument. When GP says "local students always accept that the rich get to set them.", they are saying US students accepted the fact that the rich got to set the rules. That seems, to me, the opposite of "distrusting elites". It also seemed to be used in favor of Trump: "he's a successful businessman, so he must be fit to lead the country."

Maybe our definition of "elites" is different? To me Americans seem to distrust the government, while trusting rich people much more.
This is extremely concerning. Phillip Cross was easily caught because he was running his mouth on twitter, and was blatantly making one-sided edits from his single account. Imagine if a country like Russia makes an orchestrated effort to achieve similar goals, using an army of fake-wikipedia-profiles. They could easily turn Wikipedia into a platform for disseminating propaganda. In fact, I'd be surprised if they haven't done so already.

https://www.vox.com/2018/2/16/17020974/mueller-indictment-in...
You can avoid flamewars without ignoring China.
I'd not give private schools much credit, they have a rocky track record of sexual abuse and 2nd rate teachers here in the US.
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This is nonsense. GDPR is cheap to comply with: following best practice, you should easily be able to comply with it.
Yup. The article presents a luddite’s false dichotomy. Evidenced-based medicine and critical-thinking skills are complementary. Moreover,
I’d prefer automation and optimization of as much of the repetitious work as possible... checking drug interactions, CADx comprehensive differential diagnonsis symptoms listing, CADe in radiology as a second-opinion and more.

It is also annoying when professional “priests” commit what amounts to claiming only they have the mystical gifts to interpret what aren’t “tea leaves,” when it’s usually done out of fears of job security, special power and/or change of a legally-protected professional class.
> If you talk to them a few years later they long to return to the Midwest and they want to do a startup.

As a biological Michigander (Detroit) that now identifies as Californian, my friends and I have anecdotally experienced the opposite. Lack of opportunity was of course a factor. However, the major con for us was the entrenched segregation. I had amazing parents who did their best to teach me not to judge people by their race. But growing up as a black kid from the city who had friends in the burbs, you see a lot of ugly shit. I have bad memories of places like Howell (which still, if I'm not mistaken holds annual KKK rallies) and there are still lots of areas not far from the city where it still isn't safe at night.

Like everywhere else, gentrification is picking up steam. But it isn't as much as an issue since increasing tax revenues far outweighs maintaining communities in a city that had an epidemic of vacant houses. City services have vastly improved and it is heartening to see more diversity in my old neighborhood as whites and others no longer have as much fear of the city, but it's slow going as the scars from the 60's are still evident.

Don't get me wrong. I still appreciate the natural splendor and experiencing the rhythm of the four seasons. I spent this past winter there and it was actually unexpectedly refreshing (if you have someone to shovel your snow). I did end up tacking on 20lbs. That I had to travel 7 miles to find Mexican food that wasn't Taco Bell is a deal breaker for me.

One thing I noticed on my last trip back home is just how much of the Detroit metro area's economy is still driven by staid, stuffy dynastic enterprises such as the old Big Three, health care firms, same old top law firms with the kids now running the show. A lot of the so-called startups are spinoffs that are wholly owned or seeded by Quicken Loans via Rock Ventures. People still have that mindset that work consists of getting a job at a large firm and they aren't as willing to work for startups or become entrepreneurs.
Glad to see you're still working on Picnic CSS! I remember you being super responsive when I opened a few GitHub issues three years ago (wow, time flies!).

Still love the look :)
I can't help but see this as another example of the pattern in which a big name in a field gets up and says that the current direction of their field (deep learning) is great and all but not really making progress on the big question (intelligence), and that to solve that question we need to solve another big question (what is causality) before we can make true progress. Other examples to me are Chomsky on consciousness and its implications for language, Einstein on causality w.r.t. quantum theory. This isnt to say the big name is wrong, just to point out a potential pattern.
For routing performance I ran them each locally with instructions from their github repos and the OSM extracts for a single state or city from https://download.geofabrik.de then used https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier to test latency/throughput with sample requests.

For resources to preprocess the world I ran Valhalla on my laptop and it preprocessed the world overnight. For graphhopper I kept running it on bigger and bigger digitalocean droplets until it just barely finished on their $640/month 64gb cpu-optimized droplet in about 12h. I didn’t even try osrm after reading that it needed about 300gb of ram.

Let me know if you have any better findings!
Wikipedia, however, appear to be trying to protect him. Please see one Wikipedia editor's efforts to flag his behaviour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:KalHolmann
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Us internet denizens got upset when librarians complained that Wikipedia was inaccurate compared to encyclopedias. We celebrated the "new information economy" of crowdsourcing and open-access information. I think this crowd should be incredibly concerned to hear that there's clear propaganda and power wars on these websites. It's very newsworthy.

> If the rules he's using are being followed correctly, and if the information he is posting is well-sourced, then your only other course of action would be to petition to change wikipedia's rules.

He's removing well-sourced information that's counter to his claims.
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"Anti-war" doesn't sound like a particularly descriptive adjective for the apparent targets here. They are not anti-war campaigners per se, they seem to be sitting in the Russia-sympathetic zone of discourse. I'm not saying that to discredit them (I might, but I won't), but calling them anti-war rather obscures the problems people might have with them.

That doesn't mean that a "one-man" effort to shepherd their Wikipedia entries isn't notable or concerning but let's not pretend these guys are pacifists.
Cross's modus operandi seems to be many small edits which accumulate to produce a large negative effect, at odds with Wikipedia's principle of "neutral point of view". It's an example of operating within the letter of the rules but not their spirit.
I mildly disagree re titlebars. I think they make it unique! I've seen a million of these and I usually glaze over. This felt different. I bookmarked it in fact :) I can see the conflict though. I didn't immediately get what was going on, but once I did I thought it was cool.

My main concern was with your "Products" section, for which I walk away unsure of what you did / your role. Did you make the sites in full? Or did you work on some piece?

Via omission, portfolios often blow out of proportion the individual's role, so I tend to take all entries with a huge grain of salt. ("You made...Nike.com? All of it?") If these are really all you, consider making that more clear in a graceful way. (Counterargument: everyone knows this, and portfolio just exists to get you to step where they ask. But to me lack of context hurts.)

Congrats on the site, the writing and the past work in general btw!
Once a theorem is proven, it becomes a tool in the toolbox which can be used to prove further theorems. This is fundamentally how math progresses and theories are built. I think this is what the author meant when they said math provides you with a toolbox.
Let me add a short video demonstrating the system in work: https://youtu.be/InpbbgpDQkg

Just an interesting hobby project, and at a pretty early stage, but just in case someone else would find it interesting and/or inspiring!
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Whats even crazier is that I used that tool and google took 4 hours to build my archives. Fair enough. Problem is... some files are not mine!!! clearly not my name not my email address not my correspondence. No idea how this is happening. I will reach out to this person but other than that no idea where to reach to google as their checkout page does not offer any "contact us". I am also concerned someone using this tool will get my own data!!!
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More importantly - those that connect people at unpopular times. Everybody wants to serve rush hour. Nobody wants to do early morning or late night routes that are as important. Otherwise people drive drunk, walk unsafe routes (e.g. on highway)... Or just have simple social life that ends at the single local bar.
If you want a Go implementation, look at OPA https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa - designed for authorization but quite general.