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I'm generally against the "opinion/news" distinction anyway, but the same disclosures should apply in the opinion section. For example, if a newspaper published an opinion piece arguing against a new health care law, shouldn't readers know that the writer is the head of an insurance company that would lose billions if the law were past?

I agree with you—if a company advertises with a given outlet and journalists write stories about that company, positive or negative, I'd like to know about it. Unlike in this case, there is the supposed "separation of church and state" that protects newsrooms from the advertising side of these businesses. But I'm skeptical that works perfectly in practice.

But this is something else entirely. There's no firewall between Bloomberg's editors and... Bloomberg's editors.
Familiarity. I've been using RH and RH derived distros for 20+ years. I know my way around RPM/Yum/DNF land better than I know my way around apt land.
Shooting from the hip here, but I'd much rather you optimized for speed and allowed selection from a rotating palette of local maxima. I noticed your sadness about the limitations on the picture of the indian woman leaning against a tree whose hand came out red, presumably because of vignetting or some chemical inconsistency in the film substrate. But that superposition of possible interpretations on noisy data is something that shouldn't be thrown away - it's the same 'error' that makes optical illusions interesting when they seem to flip back and forth between being a vase and 2 faces or a duck vs. a rabbit. The model is doing such a great job that trying to push it too far in any one direction risks overfitting.

What I'd love to see in the future are compound networks where a few nodes like this can be mixed with a few nodes that extract vector data, a few others that infer depth maps from images, modulated by similarity detectors that match objects and individuals.

I'm very impressed by the work you've already done - I have a huge library of images I'd like to run it against for both forensic and aesthetic purposes.
Why? They're a good product.
In the UK we treat healthcare as a common problem across the country.

I believe in the US you only do this with the most expensive, wealthiest people (medicare), and let those who actually work for a living be ravaged by the russian roulette of things like cancer.

There was a suggestion that people with large amount of unearned wealth (land) in the UK should have to pay towards their care homes out of whatever capital they had left at the end of their life, rather than increasing the burden on the non-wealthy workers who can barely make rent, let alone buy a house.

That went down like a lead baloon with the wealthy pensioners, as if forcing brexit on the young wasn't enough, they want the young to pay for their healthcare.

There are no major parties suggesting mass euthanasia of those age 70, I suspect such a party would do well.
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Was that ever confirmed? The article you link raises doubts about it, and I could find no followup when searching, just contemporary press.

Here's a contemporary article doubting it: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/hacke...
Well I guess it’s a start. Now how about the rights and royalties for the movie?

IMO, they should be charged as co-conspirators in the fraud.
To be clear, this isnt a GS scandal, this is a Malaysian scandal.

Goldman just gets more clicks.

I mean, bribing gov. Officials is baf, but the bank issued bonds. The fund was plundered by others.
Yeah, I carry AirPods and good old Bose noise-cancelling in-ear earphones. The AirPods are convenient eg inside, but just too permeable to sound; when there is any noise around, I have to revert to the Boses.
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What's worse, is that the people howling about "intolerance" are engaged in a purity spiral, and demand we be a part of it. It's a circular firing squad, which demands more and more extreme signals of virtue by the day - and those people found insufficiently faithful will be the next week's witches to burn.

It's an ideological death-cult that won't stop eating itself until there are literally only two of them left, facing one another, pointing, and screaming "HERETIC" at the tops of their lungs.
I was talking about macro-expanding the form first so that the result to be walked consists of only "core" lisp forms.

Do you mean that there are macro-expander APIs in CL that offer all ingredients to do the derivation as part of the macro-expansion step? (I'd welcome some pointer to study.)
I believe that Peter Jackson's recent endeavour in cleaning up WW1 footage employs significant ML for de-noising, frame interpolation, and colorising. I haven't seen the final film, but some of the clips are staggeringly good: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-45884501/pete...

Edit: Here's maybe a better link -- https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-45803977/pete...
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It appears to be missing guest SMP support. How is that not a deal breaker?
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This article will take more than than I have to digest right now, but it's definitely saved.

I have never really understood quaternions. All I knew is that I could use that instead of euler angles, avoid gimbal lock, and would blindly use them.
Packet has one-click nixos setup on bare metal with hourly pricing, and nixops supports several (from memory EC2, GCE, Azure, and Hetzner). It also has local virtualization backends for getting yoru feet wet.
I found this link that lists all the fines Goldman has paid since 2000, which is $9.6B.

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/goldman-sa...

Is that just a Cost of Doing Business to them?
The time line suggests this might actually be barred by the statute of limitations.

If so the case would be dismissed notwithstanding if the allegations are true.
Even as someone who was exposed to LOGO as a child and didn't like it I found this book really excellent when I read it a couple of decades go.

A great quote from the foreword: "Slowly I began to formulate what I still consider the fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult."
Having tried to build a much simpler jankier version of the same thing, I agree that Rust is great for a) performance and b) making compilers for query languages. In particular, algebraic data types are great for representing syntax trees and matching is great for operating on them, with optimization represented as transformations from one tree to another. My compiler had a couple of two passes, one to parse the query into a parse tree and the other to do some type checking and name resolution. The execution engine operated on this second tree form, which was fast enough for my purposes.

I'm curious what your queries get compiled into and how you end up doing optimization on them: are they parse trees, or bytecode, or native code (is that what "JIT optimizations" refers to)?
Strange - health care is like a civil right, unless they have money then its an excuse to fleece people? Do I have that right?
A lot of it is time and ease. The travel stories we want for ourselves don't come from ten days zipping through a few countries. But most people that can afford to travel have careers limiting their trips to a few weeks a year. If you can live somewhere for a while it changes a lot.

Also, getting out of the big cities helps.
The importance of the contagion threat should be noted when people talk about immigrants or minorities bringing disease or calling them vermin or rats. It's been part of every genocide or pogrom.
I've always been interested in knowing a "Real Time Pixar" value... The question is roughly, "What Pixar movie could we now convincingly render in real time?"

* Given, say, a $2,000 budget for a new PC (for CPU / GPU / Motherboard / Power Supply / Drives)

* Same resolution as the original movie

* Same frame rate as the original movie (24 fps?)

* You can use whatever rendering pipeline you want. It doesn't need to be RenderMan. And we explicitly encourage cheating, using the modern cheating techniques, if they exist.

* It does not have to be identical in output. You can cheat. But the differences need to be very minimal, even when you do a frame-by-frame still image comparison. Maybe blades of grass, or strands of hair, can be in different places, etc. But basically the same quality. The point being that if you had handed this image to the original team who made the movie, they wouldn't have had a problem using it instead of what they did produce.
The iPad Mini has 4:3 screen ratio, so quite a bit larger and more useful screen than the 7" 16:9 Android tablets

Same with the netbooks, weren't those often 9" 16:9 with terrible Atom CPU and slow HD?
Man, I wish I had what you have, because it doesn't "just work". Hook us up with some of that.
What could go wrong?

I think a solution to a lot of this would simply be to make the manufacturers of such be responsible for the costs of getting people off them. And the cleanup costs for cities that have to deal with the results.
Yes multi-touch used in the context of a smartphone, I should have said.
> and .Net is by far my favorite language.

Isn't .NET the runtime/environment and C# the language?
Most of the time that a demo is done where the presenter is typing, it feels like I'm better served by the result of the code itself than watching someone stand quietly, type, and frantically hit backspace to fix the errors. If the actual code is relevant, why not have the block above or below the demo to review it line by line?
> it'll be about as effective as going to a confessional, or complaining to your bartender.

It'll be less effective. Chances are you will never need the bartender as a future reference. In fact, I'd recommend that the OP say nothing at his exit interview and find a good bartender to talk to instead.
Probably true. But I'm reminded that when Michael Lewis wrote his first book, 'Liar's Poker', he viewed it as a cautionary tale and a polemic against the behaviors he saw on Wall Street. He was surprised that its readers took it more as an instruction manual and an invitation to participate.

EDIT: Found the link to the interview I'm misquoting. Here's the original passage:

"I had no great agenda, apart from telling what I took to be a remarkable tale, but if you got a few drinks in me and then asked what effect I thought my book would have on the world, I might have said something like, “I hope that college students trying to figure out what to do with their lives will read it and decide that it’s silly to phony it up and abandon their passions to become financiers.” I hoped that some bright kid at, say, Ohio State University who really wanted to be an oceanographer would read my book, spurn the offer from Morgan Stanley, and set out to sea.

Somehow that message failed to come across. Six months after Liar’s Poker was published, I was knee-deep in letters from students at Ohio State who wanted to know if I had any other secrets to share about Wall Street. They’d read my book as a how-to manual."

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2015/12/11/michael-...
Is the FDA stacked with industry insiders like the FCC? Is that what's going on here? Or does the DoD have that much influence?
This goes out of the window with apps doing their own host resolution with DoH.
> this is certainly one of the reasons I'm still here today.

The point is that it's not. Getting to the point where access to means is the only remaining form of prevention implies that five other things have already failed in ways that never should have happened.

Those things sometimes do fail in practice, but that's what needs to be fixed. Because what about everyone who uses a different means?
But XFS is stable. The expected amount of patches to be backported is relatively small, both the amount and size of individual patches.

Btrfs is still very much a moving target, with large patches every release.
I would have agreed a couple of years ago, but when I moved this spring it just worked. Everything was in the right place and intuitive.
You should take them into the Apple store.

A couple of those points are not my experience at all. My audio never drops out unless I'm far out of range or in a weird weather environment and my mic quality is excellent (in fact, I take calls regularly).
There's also the fact that SWIFT is based in Belgium. If you want to track international financial flows, that's pretty important.
some nice research on computer-assisted colorization from some years back: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/

works on video. don't suppose anyone knows if a photoshop (or gimp) plugin of it was ever made?
It’s a pointless discussion. We’d be better off playing tic-tac-toe to decide who is “right”. What is “the best” isn’t a factual thing, it’s a preference.
"It's a good thing" -Martha Stewart

KDE is a beautiful, bloated rootkit, IMHO. There are countless of issues still open from years ago that never get addressed by developers. LXQT has potential, but even that suffers from some of the same issues with respect to KDE. e.g https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=120706
I think you are confused.
To get a linear amplifier, you operate your output transistors in a state of Saturation. This gives a linear transfer function to the drain based on the Gate to source voltage and you use a method of choice to hold the source constant. This is what a class A amplifier does. An AB amplifier has 2 transistors to extended the range of inputs on the gate for which the output is linear at the cost some distortion when switching between the A and B (hi and low side) transistors.

A class D amplifier uses a smaller amplifier internally (which can be a single transistor or more complicated) that is driven open loop so that it is either hard off or hard on but very fast and efficient. The hard on state is known as full compression because the output power will not change with input power. This is purely non-linear behavior and can be very easily verified by measuring the high IMD components it generates. Class D amplifiers employ significant filtering to suppress these non-linear terms and allow you to recover the signal. Mathematically, they violate the linearity condition of F(ax) = aF(x)

Also you should reread the article you learned from. It directly contradicts you.
It's also great for interpolation
A 10mb Linux container will still share the Linux kernel with the host, hence it's still running on Linux, even if it doesn't have any dynamic dependencies.

There's no OS "inside" the container, no, but it's still dependent on an OS.

I think we agree. :)
Well, Maserati is actually owned by Fiat/Chrysler Group. Plus, like all F/C vehicles, they're pieces of shit. Maserati used to be nice. Now, they're sport cars for people who want a sport car but don't know anything about said cars.

Volkswagen is actually, despite their scandals, a remarkably good quality group. They own VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bugatti.
I thought the short cut was hitting the power button 5 times?
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XFS is a conceptually simple journaling file system, comparing that to the crazy corner cases that can exist within btrfs snapshots and volumes and subvolumes and redundancy is not reasonable. A few years back btrfs had a lot of momentum, but other projects have matured since then and it just doesn't make as much sense as it used to. btrfs was meant to be ZFS without the license problems, but ZoL has gotten significantly better, and for some legal reasons that are fuzzy, Canonical now supports and ships ZoL in Ubuntu. lvm/dmraid performance has gotten better and integration with LVM and other software has improved, to the point that having a standardized interface for managing your storage (Like ZFS and BTRFS have) is no longer such a big deal.

Between lvm/dmraid and how much effort they've done to make it simple to use lvm storage for libvirt/openstack/etc., I see no reason why they'd ever support btrfs in RHEL. They would spend more in engineers than they would ever get back in support.
I've programmed on a single hand held device for extensive periods of time, my TI-83. Sure it was a pain to always been putting it into Alpha-lock to use the letters, and it's keyboard wasn't in any kind of layout like QUERTY, but having access to all the buttons on the TI made actual programming possible. Maybe the TI-91/92 would be even better.

Right now my phone is auto correcting code to coffee.
Don't back down to the outrage mob. Never back down, never say you're sorry. They will consider your apology to be an admission of guilt and come after you twice as hard.

Your article had salient points, don't let the social justice lynch mob scare you away from your position.
Well it's a good thing tons of research on the matter was once done in the past, before the reactionary US Government stuck it on schedule 1. Maybe you should educate yourself before you spread more fear-mongering nonsense. LSD doesn't ruin anyone's life.
Just a note: NixOS is available as a community AMI on EC2, so you don’t have to use NixOps just to get a NixOS AWS box. I have a bunch of them set up just by choosing that AMI.
As well as the underlying .NET Core framework, and .NET in general. We have great new memory types like Span<T> and Memory<T> and tiered compilation, along with thousands of other improvements that has made major improvements in performance.
I also just read the book you linked (Billion Dollar Whale) about the 1MDB scandal. Highly recommended!
React 16.7+ Hooks in a good old React.Component
Suppression of anything that does not fit the Overton window is totally expected. No surprise here.

This is why technology should be available to allow certain amount of dissent not be completely squashed. Cultural norms will always call for elimination of certain thoughts completely.
makes it easier for companies to hire/fire people too
This didn't even cover the most frequent type of fraud which is to redo the experiment, or reanalyze the data until a sample of noise looks like a signal and then pretend you found something (as illustrated here: https://www.xkcd.com/882/).

I got out of academia and stopped trusting most university research because I observed too much of this culture of fraud.
Malaysia was way more involved than that. The money in question comes from Malaysian tax payers, and the former prime minister Najib is under arrest because it looks like he channeled $700m of it into his own pockets.
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This article seems pretty low on detail. Almost all of it seems to be talking about, well, not the drug in question.

What, exactly, does "10x more powerful" mean?

Potency? Presumably it'd then be prescribed in lower doses?
I would argue that it's the Major League of Soccer in fact!
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Apple Watch is dominating the wearables space.

And the level of sophistication and complexity in the Series 4 version is really impressive e.g. ECG, Heart Rate Monitor, Siri, Apple Pay.
> killing the entire company by throwing all their software engineering resources at a Second System Effect technical quagmire like Copland

They bought themselves out of this, of course, by buying NeXT (managed by SJ). But NeXTstep itself could have easily fallen prey to the second system effect. Was it luck or skill that saved it?

Back in 2000, SJ said that Mac OS X would set up Apple "for the next 20 years". It's 18 years later. What's next? I'm an avid Mac user but these days it pretty much just looks like a good implementation of a 1980's Unix workstation. The ways I wish it were improved are not easy to add to the current architecture. When Apple decides that it has run its course, who's going to lead the team to make its successor? There isn't another SJ startup to buy.

Then again, I don't see Microsoft or the various Linux-based groups or even DARPA taking the lead on next-generation operating system design, either. I don't think it's fair to single out Apple. The whole industry has put all its eggs in the basket of "basically a Unix workstation". That was a great design for its day but I wouldn't use it if I were starting from scratch today. Are we going to just keep adding new syscalls and userspace layers for every new idea we have? Is this the endgame for computer science?
Maybe people need something like it to snap out of what we're doing to the planet. The current system is anything but normal.
Dual quaternions are even better for dealing with dynamic 3D space

http://www.chinedufn.com/dual-quaternion-shader-explained/
> For the Pentium 4 (quickest I could get), adding SMT is a die overhead of 5%.

Ah, that's what I was looking for. I'm aware that most the resources are shared, but I also assume there have been design choices in other components to make SMT easier or faster, and possibly that increases their die size a small amount, or in general just complicates their design.

The question (which is ultimately unanswerable) is what would we have had Intel not chosen SMT as the path to pursue? If they had instead invested those resource into other areas (e.g. more cores) and never let SMT concerns enter into the discussion, how would those (theoretical) CPUs compare?

That's the CPU comparison I was alluding to in the prior comment, and why I noted AMD vs Intel (even with all it's other differences) may be the closest match up of that idea we'll see.

It wasn't meant as a rebuttal to anything, it was more a "wondering out loud" type of comment spurred by yours, about what could have been had different paths been taken.
Well, in my case, it's often because I think I'll use it like a laptop when I buy the machine, then slowly stop bringing it anywhere/using it away from a desk or table. I guess you could say the use case changes after the first few weeks or months.

But that's just the personal reason. There are probably a fair few business reasons for it too.
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Carfentanil is already 10x as powerful as this stuff, and manufactured by the drum load in China.
This book is way up there on my list to read! And I really should, because I probably don't agree with everything, but I probably also know nothing.

Rant follows:

I went home from school every day seeing an application in my own projects for everything I learnt, from mathematics to history, because I could include it in my software projects, or table top related games, so the text reminded me of teenager's typical complaints regarding learning mathematics.

Kids say that they don't need mathematics because it has no application in the real world, but if kids were qualified to make that comment, then they should be out working from a very young age, to gain real world experience.

"5 + X = 8" represents abstract thought, which kids find challenging, and teenagers don't like to be challenged, whereas, when kids start to read and write, they love being challenged, and yet, they comfortably learn a tool which also represents abstract thought.

I think teenagers are just learning to be sufficiently lazy and pragmatic, but that they aren't qualified to know how to stretch their brains in the long term.