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His quote would be more accurate with my additions in the brackets:

>a phenomenon which he explained as excess savings [of already rich people] pursuing a shortage of investments [that benefit those already rich people].

There is an enormous backlog of infrastructure work that needs to be done in the US, and around the world, that would benefit everyone and the environment, but since it doesn't result in [immediate] measurable returns that can be sold to investors, these are not investments worth investing in.

Money existing for the sake of making more money is pretty useless in the long run, but that's where we're at. Ideally, money would be used to accomplish an end result, such as increasing living standards for all.
The idea is that you can edit your notebooks with your favorite text editor, use git for version tracking them, and no need to mess with a web browser at all.
If anyone wants to read further and deeper in this topic
I strongly recommend "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo. It covers almost all practical and philosophical aspects of organizing one's living place (and the way of living)
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>If quality had been the only argument, I'd buy it

Look, I understand the political argument you are making, but politics has no place in peer reviewed scientific and mathematics journals. Quality is always the argument, or should be.

If people want to have a political argument, take it elsewhere. There are a lot of people out there doing serious work who are relying on the reliability of the information presented in peer reviewed journals. The political people have, quite literally, the entire world outside of peer reviewed journals to engage in their flame wars. The mathematics community should be pushing back on stuff like this. As I said, it's not a problem if you'd like to publish that stuff elsewhere, it's appropriate in other venues. But you can't just be publishing whatever you like in a peer reviewed journal.

It's particularly galling that the political people had so infested NYJM that they decided to simply dispense with the formality of peer review in the case of this particular paper.

Why?

Presumably because it agreed with their politics.

I mean, that's literally some "Sun revolves around the Earth .. you can't question this .. great doctrinal import" type stuff.

Come on people.

Please, TRY to be reasonable here. I'm not saying you can't have the flame wars you want to have, I'm just asking that we not put low quality science or math papers in peer reviewed journals. Especially papers so low quality that you feel the need to exempt them from peer review lest they not get published.
https://twitter.com/mcannonbrookes/status/103909504137169715...

For what it's worth, our CEO has been outspoken against this.

This isn't a, "we're doing this because our company is for the bill" type of thing. It's a "we're doing this because me and my buddies who are working late tonight found out about this so we drafted up a letter to the government". I just don't want to say that I'm representing Atlassian's stance without running things through legal.
Why not is the wrong question when all around the world researchers have been actively doing that for many decades, and making huge efforts to identify and control for confounding environmental factors. When essays like this one, Damore’s screed, etc. get debunked it’s based on the actual scientific research not supporting the position rather than a lack of interest in understanding how it works.
I'm also not American, I'm British. We had a direct democratic vote very recently, which (regardless of whether you like the outcome or not) was surrounded by the most irrational propaganda I've ever seen, from both sides of the aisle. If you want more democracy, expect more of that. I'm also not a libertarian nor particularly a capitalist (I prefer syndicalism on a conceptual level), so your characterisation is both incorrect and reductionist.

OK so if giving private citizens more power (though I'd phrase it as axing bad regulations) is "scary", what's the worst outcome? Compared to giving more power to the state? Because as far as I'm aware, almost all historical atrocities have been committed by states. The first three billionaires who jump into my head immediately (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos) pioneered personal computing, founded one of the most impactful charities in existence, vastly improved the portability of computing, and commoditised online shopping and started a private space agency. Can you think of anything billionaires have done that doesn't involve political corruption that is really really bad compared to the good that said individual has brought to the world?

(without diving into the intricacies of whether people like Carl Icahn provide a net benefit, but I'm pretty against Wall Street and the public stock market anyway).
The second post's primary fault is that it assumes that desirability does not vary with the individual. What one person considers "prime mate material" another could consider garbage. Until this is established, the entire point is moot.

We know that it is false though. Some people favor partners from a specific ethnic group, for example.
> I think its editors broadly identify as "classical liberals", and they have a stated mission of challenging the "blank slate" view of human nature.

This is incoherent: either you're a believer in something like Locke's "free and equal in the state of nature", or you're not a "classical liberal".
I can recommend two free solutions that both work fine. For both you can share the controls, to basically hand-over the keyboard/mouse.

- zoom.com: You can share desktop or windows with groups or individuals. We use it at work, the user experience is really great. There is a record-feature (probably not available in the free version).

- slack.com: The popular chat provides a desktop (not windows) share feature. I am not aware tough if you can share a stream with a group of people.
Yes, the Larry Summers that lost 1.8 billion dollars.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/29/how-larry-s...
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The article says that apes can't talk because of limitations in the part of the brain that controls the muscles of the mouth. Their ability to sign shows they do have the mental capacity to learn to communicate but with their hands. This may not extend to speech specifically for the reasons discussed in the article.
Not being disrespectful but the country that is a lot against unification or more EU collaboration is leaving in March next year.

So while I'm not particular pro-brexit but I do think this could have also a positive impact to the EU in regards of more unification or more EU collaborations.
IIRC, fasthttp only supports a subset of HTTP. This may or may not be a deal-breaker for some people.
In principle you're right but that "at some point" is expected to be in the scale of millions of years. At least it would be very unlikely.

This chiral world would give protection for all organisms to all the current pathogenic microbes. Many would have to evolve from scratch.
A friend recently defended his doctoral thesis on using constraint-based optimization in compiler backends (reg alloc and instr shed).
It still shows what to think about the economic experts in banks, politics and schools like Harvard.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=40313

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=39889

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=39788
Normally Forth is interpreted. Compiled Forth code is unlikely to look particularly clean or elegant.

(If you like languages with a very high density of functionality to symbol count, you should look at APL and its successor J)
What if the box is empty? JS is allowed. (Edit: I guess the culprit is "third party cookies blocked by default")

So wouldn't a better test be about a third party that was used in a first party context before? Since FPI goes beyond third party cookies.
Link to thesis: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-232192
Strangely, the front page is linking a better summary than the single item view: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/facebook-exodus-44-percent-o...

Especially insofar as it includes this topline note:

> The survey does not measure usage of Facebook's Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, all of which remain popular overseas, and does not measure Facebook's continuing growth overseas.
Don't write emails, make a phonecall.
«The Encyclopedia should be managed by a prestigious Editorial Board which appoints a hierarchy of editors to moderate articles. [...] Serving as a member of the Editorial Board could become a prestigious office for senior professionals to provide their experience and judgment»

Sounds a lot like the current peer-reviewing system and journal editors mafia. A bunch of old men with their hand on the system and doing the maximum so it does not change, for their own interest of keeping their position and dominance of the system.
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Cool. Maybe these guys should get in touch with the redesign guys and get them fired. Also fire any executive that thought it was a good idea.

Because all the hard work to serve ads more efficiently goes to waste when the site is a mess and unusable.
I was going to suggest this as well. I've used it to explain some features to a friend while we were on Discord.
Hey there!

At Scribma, we're building a new tool for doing exactly this: sharing both code, terminal, and browser, and collaborating using 100 times less bandwidth than you would via traditional screen sharing tools.

Also, it's automatically recorded, so you don't have to worry about doing screen recording via e.g. QuickTime while coding (which at least makes my mac fan go nuts after a few minutes).

You can check out a video of it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsorl3-TjdY

We're on the lookout for more beta testers, so I'd love to set up a chat with you.

Interested?

If so, let me know at per@scrimba.com
I've never thought this criticism was that relevant. Notebooks have been incredibly successful, and if it's possible to call your code in the wrong order and create a mess, it's probably a problem with your code not your coding environment. The more functional your code, the less of a problem jupyter notebooks are. They encourage better code not worse imo.
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Demoscene demos are nice, but to me they feel more like expressions of technical prowess rather than aesthetic art. I don't think I've ever seen a demo where the result transcends the algorithm, and I don't think that's the goal of the demoscene in any case. They want to showcase how much technical brilliance they can fit in a couple of KB's.

That's different from this example, where the goal is more like how much expression (emotion/aesthetics) can I put into a single image. And I must say I agree with the author that his work is astounding in this regard. Each one of them feels like a proper artwork, not just someone that's fiddling with a couple algorithms.
Your article is actually pretty handy in terms of setting up the "workflow" for compilation and debugging from scratch. It's the sort of thing genuine beginners need to avoid getting tripped up.
It's not going to happen. The Nordics are skeptic against a more federal EU. Most of Eastern Europe is too. Italy has flipped now.

Hell, even Germany are rolling their eyes at a lot of Macron's proposals.
I thought it was because capital has been building up since WW2 without any giant destructive events to reduce it. Kind of like how things had been just before WW1.

This is a central part of Piketty's case in Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Capital just builds up over time, unless something happens to destroy it.

Of course I can't argue against money printing being a cause; I don't know the numbers. It seems there are likely several significant contributing causes.
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It is alright that a journal rejects a paper. There are thousands of papers rejected everyday, this is the basis of peer review.

What is strange is that a paper is "disappeared"!
The article suggests, based on some more-recent work, that primates can have "speech ready" anatomy. The article seems to be saying that both the intelligence for language and the anatomy for speech may be present, but not the necessary level of coordination between the two.
Well, artists have been making generative art for a bit longer than that. Manfred Mohr was making stuff in the late 60's.

That said, I kinda agree with your point. A lot of the time, it's through ignorance, sometimes, it's strategy, and sometimes, you have people who are genuinely interested and influenced by stuff like this - but it would never come out in an interview, since the interviewer is inevitably coming from the art world.
That would be tall task and full time work for a full group.
I am a single person with an unrelated day job. That said, here's a few:

Panchgavya project, coordinated by the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, internally approved 34 proposals for research into panchgavya ... to make cow urine capsules

http://unnat.iitd.ac.in/index.php/Pages/display/news/urine_c...

https://thewire.in/the-sciences/cow-urine-distillate-cancer

IIT Delhi gets 50 research proposals to study benefits of cow urine under SVAROP program
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/iit-delhi-gets-50-re...

"After its proposal to make floor cleaners using cow urine, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to give a push to the use of cow urine in preparing medicines."

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ad...

Government undertaking research to promote use of cow urine, Lok Sabha told

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

A non existent university gets prime ranking --
Reliance’s Jio Institute gets government’s Institution of Eminence status but it’s yet to be set up

https://scroll.in/article/885897/reliances-jio-university-ge...

India's March For Science: Fund Research, Not Study of Cow, Say Scientists.

https://www.news18.com/news/india/indias-march-for-science-f... I would rather have scientists doing science rather being forced on the street to defend science
I like my HTTP package to actually speak as good an approximation of HTTP as it can, so fasthttp wouldn't be my first option.

Furthermore, the HTTP stack doesn't show up on most web servers' profiles. net/http is better understood by the community, interoperates with libraries better (e.g. golang.org/x/oauth2), and is better supported.

Use net/http.
“If cyclical pressures continue to build and financial vulnerabilities broaden, it may become appropriate to ask the largest banking organizations to build a countercyclical buffer of capital to maintain an adequate degree of resilience against stress,” Brainard said.

This is probably going to be too little, too late. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see the downturn coming soon. Simply looking at global macroeconomic indicators like Shiller P/E, Yield Curve, stock market indices against GDP or unemployment rate over the last two decades makes it clear the market has run extremely hot and is running on hot air by now.

I won't know what will be the final trigger — 45 playing with fire in the pseudo trade wars or the upcoming cryptopocalypse: All I know is that once the downward spiral has been triggered, everything will happen very fast.

Whatever the "stress tests" might have predicted in a bull market: I don't think anyone will have cared to predict tipping points and negative feedback loops once the underlying assets get worthless. There's just way too much disincentive for banks to building up capital (especially with negative interest) vs. speculating with it in order for this scheme being able to work.

If you want my 2 cents: Hope for the best, but brace for the worst.
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We’re not unique – lots of species can recognise themselves
But at least they've been working on it for a good minute:

https://twitter.com/expandrive/status/1000012200612950017
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> You have to fire them for vague reasons.

This is the US. You can fire them for no reason. The only reason to do it for "vague reasons" instead is to try and avoid the unemployment insurance hit.
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Social constructionism isn't an argument, some social constructs are more useful than others so you need to argue why race is not a useful social construct (which I happen to agree with)
>I wonder if this would be an opportunity for Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable modules?

Not just Bigelow but many other space startups. SpaceX is dominating the news atm with Blue Origin to follow but the reality is that the big bucks are in space activities not space transportation. This is only now starting to be realized with companies deploying fleets of cubesats for Earth observation but in the next decade there are plenty of companies that are looking to build commercial space stations. Some of these projects are more conservative, like using technology proven on the ISS coupled with cheaper components and more streamlined operations. These 2 factors combined with the fact that these are not cost plus contracts with the government mean at least an order of magnitude of cost savings. Then there is Bigelow who wants to move to the next stage of inflatables but also the Gateway foundation who want to launch the materials in space and assemble a huge station there. Everybody is waiting for the price per kg to drop to a certain threshold and then cheap human transportation to be made available. Crew Dragon is probably the first step towards that that might enable some small station but the big deal is BFR( when and if it launches).
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If anyone is considering using Hugo, please account the tens of hours you will spend debugging its weirdness and magic. Yes, it's fast but it seems that ease-of-use was its lowest of the low priority. How variables work is impossible to understand. So is creating new layouts. Every change, however minor, involves fighting hard until I give up and settle for a hack.

The speed of generation doesn't seem much of an added advantage since you're gonna do it only once anyway. It's hard to know why would anyone make such weird design choices to solve a problem that has an easy, known solution. Am I trivializing? Maybe, but I know how much time I spend on rendering when I am working with Flask + Jinja and how it's 10x worse with Hugo.

Sadly, moving my blog way from Hugo would be too much work and I have to bear with it.
A means for rapidly selecting and loading an advert which will then be blocked by the users' browser.

(Although even without adblock, are there actually all that many overt ads on Reddit, other than the sidebar ad which nearly always is an ad for a different subreddit?)
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What's the connection between usable crypto and disclosure of these crimes?
They should follow the model of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy, which is accessible online for free.
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Because FIDE ratings encompasses the entire distribution, from left tail to right, across every participating nation, age group, and interest bracket.

If the delta was due to males getting additional coaching, then the left tail of the distribution would be different in shape for males and females. It is not. Nor do more progressive countries show any signs of closing the gap. The best evidence we have right now suggests it is in fact inherent in gender. Just like the women's 100m record is a full second slower than men's.

This kind of blatant ignorance of simple statistics and experiment design seems to be rife in the gender debate.
You're right that many demos simply exist to showcase technical brilliance, but many in the demoscene are starting to trend further towards expressing artistic ability. Some examples off the top of my head:

- Number One/Another One by CNCD/FLT: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=77399

- When Silence Dims the Stars Above by Conspiracy: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75713

- Aurora by Excess: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75791

- Along for the Ride by Ümlaüt Design: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78053
Quick suggestion to massively improve your writing for general consumption: strip out the passive voice where not absolutely necessary, e.g., "was decided". Not only is the active voice "I/we decided" generally much more interesting to read, it usually forces you to adopt a sentence structure with fewer words (easier to read). Your writing later in the article is much more engaging as you start to use the active voice.

And thanks for the article, I love reading interesting excursions in low level programming!
A number of people made a similar comment to yours and that the money isn't lost, it just changes hands. The response that most people are giving is that it's an example of the broken window fallacy.

With gambling, though, there's nothing being broken but the money is still stagnant and it's frustrating for poor folk to watch. If you treat the 0.1% as a single entity, then the transfer of money between those who are extremely wealthy--while nothing is being produced for it--is equivalent to no economic activity happening (effectively the same as a father and daughter handing a million-dollar bill back and forth). The electricity and consumables you mention -- you're right that those are the most broken-windowy of all the expenses, but I'd say the real loss is that the money effectively doesn't move at all. There are billions of dollars changing hands, but the money gets stuck in a small, closed system that it doesn't seem to come out of.

If the rich people who make money from casinos were the type of people to donate to science/charity, then gambling would be an unusual and convoluted way of paying for that science or public well-being. Since they're actually more likely the type of people to hold on to their money or invest in things that only benefit themselves, then giving them more money absolutely is just removing value from society.
We took a beta list to gauge interest. No sense in all the work if nobody cares.
I think Manolo's work looks great, but I also think a lot of demoscene work is an amazing, highly underrated mix of engineering and art.

Like this piece - https://vimeo.com/25284552

It's funny how a lot of the times the perception of art is that it should look like paintings we've seen in the past. In Manolo's case, paintings of Kandinsky. In a lot of "generative AI art" it gets the Art label because of generative brushstrokes/abstractions that are learned from paintings.

In my opinion art has nothing in particular to do with painting.
I completely agree. I try to do it as well, but my biggest issue with it ends up being time constraints and the teacher I mentioned in another post who wants us to all be doing the same thing on the same day (said teacher also prides herself on how fast she covers the material... Kids don't like it as she never reviews or spends more than a day on any topic)
They want to showcase how much technical brilliance they can fit in a couple of KB's.

You need to look beyond the tiny size-limited ("intro") categories, there are PC demos which are multiple megabytes and they certainly have more of a traditional artistic feel to them, because things like sampled images can then be used easily.