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"The actual approach is a perfectly reasonable business strategy"

Only if the AI is going to work for sure.

There was a UK company, SpinVox, they were big 10 years ago, they did voice recognition of your phone calls and sent you a text. They raised huge, like 100M pounds. Granted not AI.

Turns out they were doing most of their transcription manually with hopes of going automated.

It was a huge blow up, it boiled to fraud.

This is close to Elizabeth Holmes territory kind of storyline.

So it's possible to do as you say, but there needs to be transparency.

Also, AI is an approach, not a market ... so I think they're going to end up like transistors or some other kind of thing, the knowledge will be embedded within companies, and not so many pure AI companies.
I read the article. Still no idea what Nim is good for and why it's better than some other language.. and for which use cases?
Not necessarily. For example, the history of the Vietnam War is mostly written by Americans, even though the US lost.
Of the two, the regexp from the spec should be preferable, because it is exactly what is in the spec. Some other library would be a once-removed version of it and could actually bring flaws of its own.
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There was a tweet about the poor NSA intern who would be tasked with the code to identify whether "is" referred to the organization or the verb. The paranoid side of me always assumed that the rebranding to Isis could have been suggested by the Pentagon to news organizations for that reason.
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both GMIC ( https://patdavid.net/2014/02/getting-around-in-gimp-gmic-inp...) and resynthetizer ( http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer ) are working quite OK.
Hm, good link. Maybe we all should waive the white flag of surrender and declare "white" the primary color of the LGBTQXYZ rainbow (since it composes all the colors). No-one could ever be made happy when everyone takes pleasure in being offended.
Around WWII Computers, Radar, Nuclear power, crypto, jet aircraft, rockets.

Around 1960 space flight, supersonic flight.

More recently hypersonic flight, and we don’t really know becase people back in WWII had no idea.
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That is the weakest, most cowardly response you could ever give.
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> You talked about bitcoin. That's entirely different to a "private blockchain".

I never said they were the same, however the similarity is that they are both blockchain systems. And you cannot achieve the same with git for exactly the same reason (you cna't trust all parties).

> Or are you suggesting proof of work or something?

Nope, definitely not. Not sure what made you think that?

> Find a single example where a (precisely defined) type of blockchain makes sense vs possible alternatives such as solutions along the lines of Git, CT, etc. I conjecture that there are none beyond cryptocurrency.

There are loads all over commodity trade finance and supply chain (the field I have experience). But I've spend an hour typing an answer out your initial question:

> Exercise for the blockchain advocates: explain as simply as possible why a “private blockchain” is better than Git.

And now you state you aren't really interested in that explanation and want to have clarification on something completely different.

I'm done with typing out "examples and clarifications" when as soon as I do you start asking a different question, never going into my points. So "I am exiting out of this conversation :-)"
> ... phone that is working but will never be able to connect to the network ...

If you're implying that devices without locked bootloaders can't connect to RF networks, that's just incorrect. There are lots of devices that aren't locked, and it wasn't a common practice a decade ago.
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Just want to point out that it's lose and not loose.

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/l...
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* Cost

Running costs: Plain EC2 DB is cheaper than RDS. RDS is instance costs plus RDS tax.

Configuration and maintenance cost: RDS obviously cheaper

* Performance

As other replies have detailed plain EC2 with NVMe etc could be significantly faster.

* Convenience

RDS wins most of the time.

* Risk

RDS wins unless heavy investment

So it depends on your requirement. If high performance with massive DBs is important, then the costs of managing your own DBs may make sense.

If a low throughput, less risky DB then your own DB may make sense.

If a normal business use DB, outsourcing the maintenance and risk to RDS may make sense.
Julian Storer (JUCE library) did a talk on code quality using zlib as an example. Might be interesting to you if you've not seen it already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIAAvv1O7Gg
I think there's a difference between dying and being OK with it and the opposite.

I would hope when I get to the point that I am actually dying, I could feel a little more like the quote than you did when you were dying, which sounds terrifying. :)
In general it doesn't seem like memory is affected; the main difficulty is making sense of what you experienced.
> "I'm often amazed by "average" users who seem completely unfazed"

They are unfazed because it's the norm, not the exception. Humans adapt. It's what we do. They see X and presume that's the way It's supposed to be.

This explains fashion. It even explains obesity. We look around and unless there's clear and obvious danger we conform, because conforming has historically been s survival instinct.

That "survival skill" is coming back to haunt us.

> "This brings up my hypothesis that the reason a lot of users seem to not notice things in the UI or read warnings closely is that they're so used to being distracted by useless things and desensitised to it that they've accepted not being able to concentrate and think as being normal..."

To be clear, I agree.
Indian army in Sri Lanka - https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/17/world/studies-find-tortur...

Indian army in its own borders, in Kashmir - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Jammu_a...

Japanese army in China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

We can make a big list, it would be very depressing.

Humans across the world are generally pretty good in saying "it is only crime when the other side does it, not when we do".

"We" definitely means all of humanity.
This might sound strange but Nim is good for everything. From writing backend services to creating web apps running on the client side. I've built emulators, CLI apps, a full blown forum and much more in it.

It's particularly great for systems programming tasks that require high performance and zero dependencies. For example, Status is currently writing an Ethereum 2.0 sharding client for resource-restricted devices[1] in Nim.

Nim is also awesome if you've got an existing C or C++ codebase, the interop that Nim offers is one of the best (if not /the/ best), especially when it comes to C++ interop. As far as I'm concerned no other language can interoperate with C++ libraries as well as Nim can.

1 - https://github.com/status-im/nimbus
Well, his columns were often bad and often wrong, but people will forgive a lot as long as your columns aren't boring.
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It has a completely different open-source license and that's probably the reason why people bothered.

Hg and Git are both GPLv2.
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Generally speaking, I find that it is making the "business core" stateless that has the benefits.
This is often my experience too - DMT is like being in VR. The geometry is simplified - lots of smooth curves and sharp angles, mostly flat textures or gradients. And it's populated by barely intelligent entities made of the same stuff.
Or folly. Or something else. Which leads to the awful package management story. (Maybe modules will help.)
Does anyone have a copy or fork of the project? Was looking forward to playing with it!
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Yes, agreed.

What I've exexperienced is that the team / client falls in love with senseless doodads and whatnots. They lack they empathy to ask:

- "If I saw this for the first time, what would I think?" as well as

- "If I had too keep seeing this - knowing it's not helping me - what would I think?"

The user needs is a distant third to the team's wants and lack of empathy. You'd think after Adobe Flash being abused we would have learned? That doesn't seem to be the case.
> and is now being recognized and growing in popularity.

To be fair, PostgreSQL was noticed way before, Estonia's e-nation website was built on it (even the logic!) and I can't honestly remember when that thing has been down. The UI would need a bit of refreshing but I have the feeling if they're going to update it they're going to replace it all with something shittier.
> Photo-realistic games. Create a rough 3D model of an scenario and train the AI for it. Instead of photo-realistic rendering with math, render it with the AI based on a rough render, in real-time.

According to last month's nvidia rtx presentation/launch event [1], they are going to do something similar quite soon. Games will ship with DNN pre-trained offline on extremely high quality renderings. Game itself renders at lower resolution (limited by performance needed for proper raytracing) and uses DNN to upscale it.

[1] https://youtu.be/Mrixi27G9yM?t=51m15s
> there might legitimately be words which have so many different meanings

I haven't studied word embeddings past the pop-sci level but wouldn't such words form multiple clusters in the embedding space? I would have thought it would be relatively easy to get different 'words' for 'right (entitlement)', 'right (direction)', etc?

Edit: Nibling post answers this question.
I read the article, and I’ve been spending the past 20 minutes looking at the SPA framework.

I’m still not sure what it is or why anyone would use it. It looks extremely complicated and verbose.
Yeah, If we could have a playstore or an appstore alternative shipped with new devices that would decrease the monopoly of these tech giants.
“Marked malicious” by whom?
Thanks for this -- I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but I had the same confusion and it was definitely because I was thinking of Cringely.
Because it's a pain to do and not in their remit, essentially. They still offer business banking services. My employer, Monzo, has a business account with them.
That doesn't matter if the other side of the equation doesn't work out. If they can't convince the client to do an interview they will usually ghost you, regardless of your smell.
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Can you explain the uprising necessitya little more or provide a reference.

Seems strange to pay banks to do nothing, surely that reduces their incentive to provide capital.
I meant something a little different. Any random dude with a random mid-level PC can download the software and produce amazing results without any special hardware or knowledge. I recommend you to try it out for yourself.
> nobody actually has to be all that good at anything

It seems as long as they can regurgitate grad level algorithms, most other things are non issues.

The brightest are people who look at quality of __life__ (that thing you only get one of) & decide that a life where you can actually __live__ (nice* home in nice* area/< 40 min commute/~40hr work week) and then choose to live that life.

There absolutely are very bright people there who make 7 figures a year and can do all those nice things. But that's a tiny minority.

barring the weather argument, i don't get why people choose SV. Great, you can work with "scale" but that's about it. Unless you're looking for massive funding, why bother?

the novelty of moving fast & not mastering a technology so somebody else might get rich loses it's appeal after ~5 years.
I've had to debug a stored procedure, they're horrible when you have to do that. Just a big headache. I literally rewrote every single one of those procedures in the software's primary language, the code can now be easily debugged, logged, replaced and read.
MS Office is still miles ahead of any OSS “alternative“, despite the many glaring bugs.
It would place the central bank into an even more biased role. And offering one retail service is very costly, especially when there's no way to amortize that cost over many services.
The justice system will hopefully catch up quickly.

But as you say the media (real and social), political propaganda, etc will exploit the uninformed masses for all it is worth, so blackmail will still work. For a while.
Less to produce or less to recycle? :)
This is why some people believe that Assange had been dead for more than a year.
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> If you remove the ability to run an operating system from a processor that is considered general purpose, then the result is usually described as a microcontroller.

I respectfully beg to differ. A microcontroller is distinctive in its integration of onboard peripherals; the processor is a primitive element of a microcontroller.
The deposit may disappear from lloyds' liabilities, but it needs to transfer an equivalent amount from its reserve account to (say) Santander's reserve account. So Lloyd's loses both liabilities and assets when someone moves deposits to another bank.
I read the wikipedia article about this article. There is picture of a woman seconds before being killed. She is with her children. She was recently sexually abused and was trying to tie her buttons. And it is really devastating. How did United States get away with this? All that captain got was a 3 years house arrest?!
I don't think that there is a requirement of it working - just like there isn't a requirement of being successful.

However you have to be honest to investors, which I assume they weren't and thus commited fraud.
It's already being used for quite a while and you talk as if you aren't aware of the fact. Quite Ironic.
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Once when taking mushrooms I saw myself go into countless pieces in something that resembled a starburst. It was beautiful. I felt completely at ease. Then a profound realisation came to me; This is death. Then I connected the two.
Of course, but 500€/day is what you'd get in Paris as a Java developer with 3-4 years of experience. Which amounts to 10000€/month (counting 20 days).
Bizarrely, all the textbooks teach that that's how banking works, but it hasn't been true for decades.

It's characteristic of economics that it makes a song and dance about summing a geometric series while completely missing the point about how the system actually works.
What makes you a better developer, working at a early startup or in a team?
Another possibility is that they understand GDPR perfectly, and chose not to take on the immense liability associated with accepting traffic from those that are "protected" by it. It's a perfectly reasonable, logical decision, given that GDPR is a complex piece of legislation with enormous room for different interpretations under the laws of 28 unique countries, the enforcement of which is fraught with conflicts of interest.
What are Nim’s main weaknesses?
any ideas about porn startups that work on anything related to this?
i know pornhub and their network banned deepfakes and there’s also some work being done on detecting deepfakes.
What is gov issued money? The money created by the fed is gov issued too, no? And it sits on the Fed's balance sheet as liability, debt, but not as deposit.
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Still, there's no stealth in space, and neither the US nor Russia nor China will let you just assemble a kinetic bombardment vehicle in orbit.

Things might get easier if humanity expands meaningfully beyond GEO.
This is exactly why I wrote the "clockperf" tool during the time I was working at AWS: https://github.com/tycho/clockperf

At the time, we were trying to benchmark disk I/O for new platforms, but we found that things were underperforming compared to the specifications for the hardware. We figured out that fio was reading the clock before/after each I/O (which isn't really necessary unless you really care about latency measurement) and just by reading the clock we were rate limiting our I/O throughput. By switching to "clocksource=tsc" in our fio config, we managed to get the performance behavior we expected.
How does it have anything to loyalty? A job doesn't last a lifetime. There aren't that many company that even live a full decade.
"Al Qaeda" can be translated as "The Foundation", and there is apparently some discussion about Bin Laden being an Asimov fan and basing the name of his organisation on the Foundation Series. Also, I am reliably informed that wiping your Al Qaeda has apparently become slang in some places.
Exactly the same story with Dlang.
How about the garbage collector?
For really performance sensitive applications you'd turn it off and resort to manual memory management?
What is that reason? Do you have a better alternative?
These affect people in different ways but off the top of my head:

- No Nim v1.0 yet, despite this we do our best to create a deprecation path for everything that's possible.

- No big company like Google/Apple supporting the language.

- Community is smaller than that of Go/Rust.
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Really nice overview.
> For Instance The service oriented jobs in India like Customer support and Offshore Software development cannot be yet replaced by AI

Customer support is troubleshooting driven ? Heh. You must not have used it for a while.

But aside from that. Let's say that it is. That essentially consists of 2 problems:

1) voice recognition

2) query answering based on freeform text

(1) is solved, (2) is proving a little tougher, but pretty nice progress is being made.

> The automation in manufacturing can replace some redundant jobs but not all of them

Sure, at this point AI is slowly becoming a force multiplier for manufacturing. What a factory can do with one employee will steadily go up.

The issue is that currently this multiplier will kill a LOT of jobs. Let's say an employee productivity doubles (you only need 1 employee to do what 2 used to do), how many jobs does that destroy ?

About a billion.

Granted, it will take 15-30 years for that to actually happen, but there'll be an initial spike (let's say rapidly dropping 100 million jobs) and a slower but steadier increase over time until we hit that number.

Of course over 30 years the multiplier is not going to be 2, but hundreds. So another 30 years after that, manufacturing will have 2-10% of the population employed, no more, like agriculture today.
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It feels like having sex with the Universe. Pure dmt is more “cold” experience. With hamalas (changa/rima) its a more warm prolonged loving experience that happens more gradually Where the pure is more a fast blast into space. Its medicine and Works sonders for the mind. It saved marriges, lifes, jobs among my friends.
Firstly, wow! Thanks. Feedback on draft #2.5:

You removed too much praise. Go's syntax is amazing. Can you put that part back in?

(Maybe you removed it because I also called it ugly - as opposed to a beautiful syntax like Python's - but that was not a design goal and doesn't bother me. Nobody meant for Go's syntax to be beautiful.) The summary you got down to "I appreciate Go since" is too weak.

Its syntax is the best of any language on planet Earth, which is why people can write pages of Go that work on first compilation and always do exactly what they imagine. (The second fact that leads to this is that its specifications and feature set is very small, so that it can be kept in mind by the programmer entirely.)

So add stronger praise. If not for such strong praise, why would I want to write everything from desktop applications to microcontroller code in Go, and not any other syntax?

I also have a very strong impression that its syntax and specifications are appropriate for both memory-sensitive applications and for desktop applications. (Not really a question). It is due to this strong impression that I want to know what the impediments are. (Maybe this was not clear.)

I can see no reason why a Go executable can't be made targeting 100 KB of RAM to do its GC and everything else. I also see no reason why bindings against QT or other GUI frameworks aren't made in the Go language syntax - this is a mystery to me. There must be some impediment.

What is it?

Can you reply with another draft that incorporates these?

I greatly appreciate the thoughts you added to the draft. I think Go is the best language syntax for general programming in any environment from a microcontroller with 150 KB of RAM to a major, 2 Gigabyte desktop behemoth's scripting language. I don't think the lack of class system is an issue (which is the only thing that comes to mind for me.)

So you need much stronger praise, please. Go is beautiful (despite its visually ugly syntax) and its use for web apps shows/proves its total appropriateness to all applications.

I want to understand the impediments. It should be much farther along to replacing C and C++.

Also:

>But I worry that Go is moving away from this mantra over the initial specification

I don't have such a worry. I guess you could say:

"But my impression is that the Go compiler leaves a lot of the huge benefit that is still in its specification: that is, a safer replacement for C and C++. It is perfectly viable as a replacement for nearly all C and C++ language work."

I'd like to understand why it isn't doing so yet and what it will take to get there. Hope this helps clarify my thinking.

Turn up the praise.
Yes, but the GC is very flexible so you might get away with using its soft real-time features[1].

1 - https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
What's wrong with these? It looks like the average click bait title to me.
It's extremely surprising that by 3pm in the middle of the day, there are as many people enjoying leisure time as there are people working (about 30%). Where are these people? I don't see anyone leaving the office at 3pm where I work. I'm pretty sure that the 'average day' doesn't mean weekend.

I thought it might be night shift workers, but then during the night, only about 1% of people are working.