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> Why 'gstatic.com' instead of 'static.google.com' or some other subdomain of the primary?

Because they don't manually upload stuff hosted there, so in case some user-generated content hurts the reputation of the domain it's served on, it isn't their main domain that suffered the reputation hit.
In a language with higher-order procedures like Lisp or Julia, you can write code that actually returns the derivative as a function, as opposed to differentiate at a given point. This is harder to do (gracefully, anyway) in e.g. C. The beauty of the functional approach is that it corresponds much more closely to how we think about math. See for example Structure & Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...). This is especially powerful when combined with automatic differentiation, as is done in the ScmUtils system that goes along with SICM. (Finite differencing has numerical stability issues when carried too far.)
Do you have any information about beta amyloid that doesn't involve Alzheimer's? I wanted to learn about the enzyme itself. Filtering "-Alzheimer's" on Google provides no articles, merely fact sheets and ordering forms.
RTS games in particular were extremely fun for me, and I don't see how playing hours of Starcraft and C&C wasn't an exercise in strategic thinking.

I share Ms. Stecher's skepticism, though. Games today are fundamentally different from what they were when we were growing up (I'm guessing we're around the same age if you were big into AoE). Some of my friends have kids now, and the games I see them playing make me cringe. They look designed to be addictive - not in the way that playing C&C was addictive, but that they're designed to form real addictive behaviors.

So I don't know what I'll do. It's a hard problem. Banning all screens doesn't seem like the answer. I don't know what is.
I'm guessing you're not married?
It's a good question. Three things:

1) Your TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for a cheap used car can't be $100/month. If you look at Kelley Blue Book or similar websites, they'll tell you that even super cheap cars like that 2005 Ford Focus will still cost you $300-400/month, all included.

2) I almost died in a car accident two years ago, and a result, I value car security way more than before, which means I wouldn't mind paying $35,000 for a very safe car (assuming I'll be able to afford it).

3) Salaries and wealth are not evenly distributed. Something that looks expensive to you, doesn't for someone else.
article is talking about 1983. your example relies heavily on Greenspun's 10th rule.
Some people like cars. If that's their thing, then cool. I dislike driving and everything having to do with it, so I have typically go your route within reason. Buy a used brand that is known for reliability.
While this obviously also applies equally to Apple, Google, etc., I'm curious: do you think it also is the case with companies like RedHat? The recent MongoDB announcement made me a bit more sensitive and aware of the orthogonality of interests, even in a company that produces OSS as it's core product (and monetizes services).
I'm jealous that he's able to have "money" as the last (least important?) item in each of the pro/con lists for retiring. I can say the only think keeping me from retiring today is my perpetually insufficient $$$ savings.

I can understand his "reasons to retire" list, but his "reasons to keep working" 1-7 don't resonate with me at all. I mean, I'm glad my own career lets me do some of those kinds of things (moving the needle, working with great people, etc.) but it's not a "reason to not retire." Not saying I'm right and he's wrong, but I feel that strange feeling when you read something from someone whose world view totally unaligned with your own! To be so wrapped up in your career and to have it so strongly define who you are--it seems so alien.

I look at the CxOs and SVP level people in my TechMegaCorp employer and wonder why on earth they still come to work every day. They all have more money than God, and could literally stop any time they wanted, and do whatever they wished to do. Collect airplanes, travel the world, build a monorail for the city, but no, they simply keep on being SVP of software technology or whatever. The mind boggles!
When working on V2 of our architecture we tried out both Elixir and Go extensively. For our workload Go was roughly 8 times faster than Elixir, while both handling concurrent workloads exceptionally well. (bit of background on the type of work we do: https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-ov...)

That being said, I'd love to find an excuse to work on a little project with Elixir and Phoenix. Some really cool concepts. Especially the build in support for realtime is really nifty. With Go that's much more work to get up and running.
There are both sociological and economic reasons for it. On the sociological - new cars can be a status symbol - especially in the Luxury markets. Interestingly enough - the European luxury car market is roughly twice that of the United States, despite per-capita earnings being lower then the United States. Are you German and driving a beat up Honda Civic? Not a good look. Tesla is benefiting from this - the cars are highly viral, and aligned with affluence, political persuasions, environmental outlook, sports car enthusiasm, etc. It's turning Americans more willing to buy a luxury car, if it's a Tesla. Then social network comes into effect. If one of your friends buys a Tesla, you are very very likely to as well. This is basically the only marketing program that Tesla Does (Referral codes from friends).

(BTW, I say all of this as someone who finally pulled a trigger on a "Lemur" Model 3 earlier this week).

There is also the practical - when you buy a used car between 3k and 6k, you are basically on the long tail maintenance wise. It's a good bet that the reliability of the car, and the efficiency of the car are both dramatically less then then a new car. I also enjoy snappy acceleration and a car with a low center of gravity. You get into a Model 3, and Internal Combustion Cars just feel like a horrible piece of legacy technology. Could I get away with a old Ford Fiesta or a beat up Civic? Yep - and this is replacing a 15 year old Honda CRV... but I bought that Honda CR-V new, and I have gotten every bit of value from it - and I'm passing it on to family.
Not at all. You can buy a good, reliable, well maintained car for $3,000. Mileage is less important than maintenance history. The Focus is a particularly good choice IMO. They are reliable, pleasant to drive, and Ford made gazillions of them so you can get them repaired anywhere and parts are cheap.

You can also buy a basket case for $3,000, so you do need to have a bit of an idea of what to look for (or what to avoid).
Seriously - I just sold a 1999 Civic with 150,000 miles for $2,000. The car made so many noises and did not feel safe at all. Yet, someone paid real money for it and was happy about it.

Most cheap used cars are pretty junky. That is fine if you want a beater to drive to work and back or if you have mechanic know-how. It's a lot sketchier if you want a car to drive your kids around in or if you want to drive on longer trips where you need reliability.
We actually use a similar tool via our Financial Advisor. It Monte Carlos a probability of meeting our goals and says we're >95%. So you may be right.
I tend to spend 8+ hours/day in front of my computer. I spend 30 minutes to an hour in my car each day, and I would prefer zero. That is why.
yeah, there are definitely 'good' games, there used to be more. However, most games these days are also just digital crack. I guess it might be hard to understand that difference if you've never experienced things like AoE へ‿(ツ)‿ㄏ

I think the problem is not screens or technology, it is, as with so many things, greed and the 'marketing' tactics that it breeds.
On the positive side hooks provide a lot of options for declarative abstractions. I expect that to a large extent the built-in hooks will be used as building blocks for new libraries. I think it is likely that this will outweigh the negatives.

On the other hand, hooks rely on hidden side effects so that each hook invocation returns something different depending on which component instance in the component tree is being rendered when the hook is called, and the number of times the hook has already been called while rendering that instance. This introduces semantics that are unlike anything I know of in the language. A redditor, u/hardwaregeek, pointed out that hooks behave kinda like a state monad, albeit emulated with imperative side-effects.
I think there's a miscommunication here, but I probably should have said SaaS rather than "cloud".

Ie, I don't advocate self managing hardware. That's a difficult problem, one more cheaply and easily solved by using AWS, GC, etc. Yet, there are dozens of SaaS options for so many little problem you could have, and they can bleed you dry. A balance is needed.

I mentioned in my original post that I advocated self hosting except for VMs. Ie, I promote usage of AWS/etc. I just don't think we can afford Papertrail, and the billion other SaaS pieces I used in my last company. Self hosting has been far more scalable and cheap, due to our modest needs.
I suspect most optical illusions are based on perceptual cues / heuristics learned by human brains in early childhood, like object size shrinking with distance, or occlusion showing which object is nearer, perspective, or a vanishing point giving structure to a scene composed of straight lines. So I doubt any of these cues will be learned by a deep learning net -- because they're not essential to learning the target objective efficiently.

So no, I suspect AI is unlikely to be fooled by anything other than tricks based on the most obvious visual cues (like perceiving that two humans of greatly different size must be different distances away).

[OK, now I've read the article.]

The article doesn't say what the training objective was for the net. If it was the ability to predict the perceived direction of rotation for a propeller, then it should be trivial to train the net to predict rotation in a specific direction. (Only one of two binary outcomes is needed to declare victory.)

More specifics are needed on the training process (esp the objective(s) and control images) than the OP article provides.
This is just another data point in a long, long line of research demonstrating that spanking and corporal punishment in general is harmful. It is very frustrating to watch people (in this thread and elsewhere) blithely continue to believe what they want to believe contrary to the large bulk of evidence--it's as if, confronted with truth and reality, they think that there can be some argument or rhetorical gambit that makes the conclusions that they would prefer correct. That's not how truth works.
Also let’s not forget that for one person to buy a 2005 Ford Focus sedan for $3000 today another person had to pay 5+ times more 13 years ago.

Having a cheap second hand car available is the result of someone buying an expensive new car. You need the latter to get the former.
Presumably, this is because you've looked at Lisp code, but you probably haven't understood Lisp.

Criticizing it on the basis of parenthesis would be roughly equivalent to criticizing someone talking about the beauty of mathematics on the basis of the color of the piece of chalk they're using. It's true that it's criticism about aesthetics, but it's not criticism about the aesthetics that the mathematician was talking about.

Once you've understood in what sense people mean that Lisp is beautiful, you can disagree, but this disagreement will not concern parentheses.

As an aside: I have a similarly shallow aesthetic aversion to JS syntax for the same reason. When I encounter a 12-line ragged cascade of curly brackets, square brackets and parentheses, sprinkled with semicolons, I wonder how that can be considered OK.

Aside 2: with Lisp, you edit programs structurally, meaning that their position is essentially managed for you. This is what people refer to when they mean that "the brackets disappear after a while." You're not focusing on them; they're handled by something else.

In my editor, I have the closing brackets faded nearly into the background, which reflects how concerned I am about their existence.
Most people are not financially responsible.

(Not limited to cars; see the fact that even well earning individuals in the UK, US, etc, could only weather a few months without work because they scale up lifestyle to match).

That, and that many people actually have money. London alone has over 400,000 millionaires by NW, one years' interest on that pays for a Tesla.
Why? Surely OpenSSL has a bigger team auditing the codebase, especially recently since they've gotten so much attention for previous security failures.

Also, Go's TLS library is missing some important features, like decrypting most varieties of private keys.

I use Go's TLS library, but I don't think it's necessary "better" than openssl, though it's certainly more convenient.
Under current rules, I'm pretty sure it is legal to try and destroy a company by destroying its reputation and maligning its financials and profit by shorting it while you kill it.

That this is allowed seems anti-competitive and takes away from the notion that shorts "make a market healthier by bringing balance."
> Also: taking notes with a pen takes ages. typing is quicker and needs less attention

Unsure if this is in praise of writing or of typing, or if it is a neutral statement.

I much prefer paper note-taking, except for its inconvenience. I notice better retention when I use pen and paper. When I take notes on a computer, I'm taking dictation, rather than processing what I hear.
The benefits or Microsoft owning GitHub seem to keep rolling in. The visual studio integration has gotten much better already and I'm excited to see how they begin to integrate github into Azure.
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People value different things differently.

> Are there really hundreds of thousands of people who are making $5,000+ a month necessary to justify the purchase of such an expensive vehicle?

Look around; do you see said cars? There you go.
On the one hand I'm not sure if I like how this paradigm hides it's implementation so thoroughly - abstractions whose core is invisible to the developer is how simple libraries turn into monstrosities.

On the other hand, this will finally make functional component viable, and actually let us get mixin functionality.

I think it's a good idea, maybe even a great idea after a few adjustments, but it doesn't really belong in core IMO.
>> Machine learning and other gradient-based optimization problems

Machihe learning is not a "gradient-based optimisation problem". Gradient optimisation is a machine learning technique. There are many others that involve no differentiation whatsoever.

What is going on here? Every few weeks I hear someone talking about machine learning, or AI, etc, who clearly has no idea what they're talking about, even if they do undestand maths and computer science, like the paper above. Where do people get this confidence from, that they know all they need to know about a field that is probably older than themselves?
I’m skeptical that those are legit numbers and not just the result of pushing off payments to suppliers and booking revenue for cars they haven’t shipped yet.
I'm 34. My plan is to have a big enough nest egg to retire (even if it's a pretty lean retirement) at 40 and be actually ready to retire by the time my oldest kid graduates HS, which will be when I'm 50. My wife and I want to see the world before big chunks of it are under water, so that's what we'll be doing in retirement.
Understanding context is one of the most important thing, when you're trying understand the content/situation.

You repeatedly write that this happens because of some snowflakes' NIMBYism. Which is definitely not.

If we were talking about any other city in the world, whatever you're saying would make sense... because from the outside it looks like "oh the people who moved to city center doesn't want anybody else to move there".

That's not the case with Berlin.

Maybe you missed the topic recently but there was WWII and then East Germany, with Berlin Wall, death strip in between and East German State Police Stasi... and people who wants to escape from East.

Of course all of these happened in the city center, because the wall separated the city from the middle of it, and the areas once city center, become the dangerous ghettos.

The canals in Kreuzberg has become grave for some immigrant (and German alike) children, because it belonged to the East. If any child accidentally falls in the waters and scream for help nobody could save them. Because anyone who would enter the canals would be shot by East German police. And they did. And people couldn't save their kids from the waters, after these incidents happened. This is just one of the disadvantages of living next to a death strip, in the epicentre of the nuclear cold war.

Because of these dangerous properties, the place was cheap. And people in more "hip" areas didn't wanted to rent their flats to young people, artists, punks etc. So these people find home in Kreuzberg.

But yeah, feel free to forget about these context and try to blindly invalidate peoples experiences.

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I gave the same example in another comment: There are many shops in Kreuzberg, which are located there for let's say 50-60 years. There are grocery stores, bakeries, markets, shoe repair shops, cheap quality restaurants, local bookstores etc.

But these people has to go now, because there is better buyer, who can afford the prices that these people can not. Or they have to increase their prices too. You were buying a croissant for 0,40€... now it's 4€. But hey, you can like our instagram page!

Now you're accusing these people of b+ching about the development, and you think they're greedy and they get what they wanted, now they're protesting so others can not get what they have?

Or do they want to live in the area, where they've been living for the last 60 years, and experienced many many disadvantages of the area?

The area was ghetto, so unwanted people located there. Now the area is hip again (after 100 years), and the people who lives there is unwanted again.
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That is a mischaracterization of the comment you responded to. He was appealing for another commenter to imagine the impact of stress on one who is struggling economically given what we know about the effects of stress. We don't have to set up a peer-reviewed study to do that. We can both imagine and yield to evidence.
:%s/bootstrap/VCNew/g

:%s/VC/bootstrap/g

:%s/VCNew/VC/g
To add to your point, I got into programming because I modified the buy menus in counter-strike to my liking when I was a young teen and immediately got hooked by the idea that I could make my computer automate things for me.

And let's be honest, as much as I like(d) counter-strike it's not an intellectual game by a long shot.

I remember my internet was so bad I had to add wait;wait;wait between issuing commands to the server or they would be dropped -- have been dealing with latency ever since :)
Permanent copyright might in the end be a good thing, because it's so completely unworkable in real life, that we'll be forced to put in place enough exceptions as to make copyright in its current form extinct.
You're welcome, that's exactly why I made it! Please open an issue if you have any feature requests or notice any bugs!
> Hal went on to explain how the substitution model of evaluation worked in this example and I carefully watched. It seemed simple. It couldn't be that simple, though, could it? Something must be missing. I had to find out.

Well, not that simple... as the author hasn't taken the potential problem of free variable capture into account.
Why would you buy modern PC, if you can buy used Pentium 4 with 2GB RAM and setup some swap for probably $50 or something like that? Some people like fast shiny things and have money to pay for it.
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these old protocols :-) fun stuff. same goes for some ISP stuff. it's so hard to 'fix' it because it basically means replacing most of the hardware out in the field. which is not within anyones budget..
Yes, atleast playing games is not a passive mindless activity like watching TV, most games require active thought, interaction and decision making from the player.
Generally people say that the vision system is a "CNN", convolutional neural net. Now technically speaking a DNN is usually a 5 CNNs in series + another 50 or so "hidden layers" (or 500 if you're Google, or 10000 if you're the human brain), so it's somewhat ambiguous. But that's a "usual" thing. Deep neural nets used to be (20 years ago) anything with more than 1 hidden layer. These days, people say it's anything 50+ hidden layers, because nobody really uses 1 hidden layer for anything but education.

These networks types differ in what they compare to what. CNNs compare signals with their neighbourhood (e.g. the pixels in a 9x9 grid), and ignores the rest. DNNs compare every signal with every other signal. CNNs are much cheaper, especially now with dedicated hardware. Large DNNs cannot be accelerated much, and you cannot really build hardware to do that.

Also what distinguishes the optical subsystem of animal brains is the first stages are CNNs (well, it's a biological system, so the functions are spread around: the optical sensors in the eye themselves form a CNN, before even sending what they're seeing on, then there's some 5 layers of CNNs in the retina itself before it even gets to the optical nerve, which itself is also a CNN, and delivers the output of that into yet another set of CNNs in your brain).
There is always a tendency to blame the addiction on the substance, but it's usually symptomatic of something deeper.

In this case I think it's happening because parents don't have as much time to spend with their children as they have in past generations and screens are a convenient way of keeping a child occupied in a safe way.
Astrology is actually a mistranslation. Indian languages usually use the same word, Jyotiḥśāstra to refer to both astrology and and fortune telling.
I've been saying this for a while, particularly with respect to how our kids and grandkids will view these devices, systems, and patterns of behaviours— "Oh, there's grandpa, needing to leave the restaurant for a few minutes to get his social media fix because they've banned screens in here for privacy/ambiance/preference reasons."
looks even better with threading in imaginary lisp dialect:

(-> read eval print loop)