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Neuromorphic Supercomputer With 1 Million Cores Mimics the Human Brain

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/human-brain-neuromorphic-supercomputer-manchester,38027.html
That's a really misleading graph, for a couple of reasons:

1. It conflates the forecast with the now-cast. The former is a prediction of what will happen on Election Day (whether that day is six months away or one day away). The latter is a prediction of what would happen if the election were held that day. In theory, those two would converge to the same value on the day of the election, though in practice, that wouldn't actually happen due to computational differences.

2. Silver never says that he "should be judged" by [just] the final result. In fact, he's gone out of his way to say that. The problem is, that's the only point on the graph where we can compare a model (predicted value) to the actual (observed value). There isn't an election on any of the other days, so even if both agreed to look at the now-cast and use that as grounds to evaluate the model, we still would only have one datapoint which is nonzero in both dimensions. In other words, we have a blue line, yes, but we only have a red dot. Taleb wants to extrapolate the red dot into a horizontal blue line, and then use that to judge Silver's model, which is ridiculous.
I commuted for years from Queens and Brooklyn to Wall St. NYC is mostly flat, good to commute during the nicer months.
And doing so should still be informed with evidence and knowledge of what trade offs we are making.

Having said that, I think the much more informative way of looking at this is as if it was the result of an experiment. If your hypothesis is that the previous inbalance was due to bias in hiring boards of directors, then you would expect shareholder value to increase when that bias is countered (thereby moving towards more optimal behavior). Those of us who have been arguing that that hypothesis would be extraordinary if true are gratified that the evidence does not seem to support it [0].

Now, returning to the original law, what is our justification for it? There seems to be no evidence of an economic justification, and (as I mentioned above) claims that it is to counter a direct bias also appears to be contradicted by the evidence.

The only "reasonable" justification I can see is that it is an attempt at social engineering. In my judgement, it is a very crude and ill considered attempt. Additionally, it is an attempt that necessitates dismantlementing many of the legal protections that its proponents [1] fought so hard for.

The unreasonable justification (which is the one I actually think to be most accurate), is that law is an attempt to garner support from a political base by politicians who have realized that effective governing is bad politics. [2]

[0] Of course, there are still plenty of explanations for that hypothesis which is consistent with the reported data. For instance "shareholder value" is not an entirely objective quantity. "Shareholder value" also does not claim to be a complete measure of economic health.

EDIT: Perhaps more damning for looking at this as an experiment is how far beyond the margins it went. Maybe a forced 10% increase in women board members would have been imidietly beneficial and the results we are seeing here are from overcorrecting against the bias. Or maybe the results are from the sudden change in board makeup irrespective of the quality at either end of the change; or from the influx of less experienced board members (if there were enough experienced women, there would have been no need for this law); or from the disproportionate stupidity of applying such a strict quota on groups as small as boards of directors.

As it turns out, not only are these bad properties for experiments to have; they are bad properties for public policy as well.

[1] Broadly considered as the social movements behind them. At the individual level, many of the individuals in said movements are from a new generation who were not part of the fight for said rights.

[2] A more scary variant of this is that that nature of our politics is such that it selects for people who believe this is what good governing looks like. There is probably more truth to this than I would like to admit; but until I am force not to, I am going to keep believing that our lawmakers secretly know what they are doing.
Right. Yet all of SF is a transit desert relative to Manhattan and is still priced about the same.
It's Saint IGNUcius that is on that picture, he is a saint in the church of Emacs, and the halo on his head is an old disk.
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I was mildly OK with Alexa as it uses keyword watching to only stream phrases to the server which it recognizes (correctly or incorrectly) as commands.

Does putting it in Guard Mode ("Alexa, I'm going away") stream audio constantly, or have they integrated the new detection triggers locally on the device?

Any simple to use services or router mods for monitoring traffic sent to proprietary services like this and catching unusual activity patterns/spikes? (eg. like that encountered by the guy whose Google Home had a hardware bug making it stream all audio 24/7)?
That would seem to contradict the linked abstract.
I don't see why one should be well versed in stupid hollywood-isms.:)And hackernews is a derogatory term that I will have you know I am very offended by. Better only than web-boy
That would explain why Solar City has thus far failed to account for the significantly reduced amount of solar energy that reaches Mars. Solar cells can't charge EVs fast enough on Earth. With the same panel area, it would take most of a Martian year to charge a single EV on Mars.

What are you talking about? Solar can charge an electric car just fine. Take desired charge rate in kW, divide by nameplate power output of panel, and that's how many panels you need. If you live somewhere with constraints on solar input (eg reduction due to clouds, distance from sun, or night) then you can increase the panel amount, maybe add some stationary batteries to timeshift the input.

Edit: not meant as a personal attack at all, but noticed your other comments around the thread are loose enough with the facts. Musk could learn a thing or two :)
I think it's related to the exploration exploitation tradeoff in reinforcement learning. Creativity is related to exploration and randomness (and a high learning rate) while exploitation to using past knowledge to extract the maximum benefit. The brain switches off the creative/learning part in order to maximise the latter. In reality we need a mix of both, exploration is necessary for improvement and exploiting past knowledge is necessary for achieving high rewards. In neural nets, a too high or too low learning rate would not lead you to the optimum, you need to find the exact sweet spot. Anxiety would turn the balance too much into exploitation mode when we need to be creative.
Why set the block size to 1? Isn't that just going to cause a ridiculous amount of syscalls?
> While I like the language very well, tooling does have issues, even simple things like not distributing Leiningen with Clojure when it is almost essential for any serious development. Version incompatibilities between Leiningen and Clojure creates subtle problems. I also wonder what the experience of using lein in Windows, it seems to install using a mysterious batch file.

Clojure bundles tools.deps since 1.9, and it works great. cljs and figwheel already supports it, as do many others. I prefer it to leiningen, but YMMW.

I use emacs to develop clojure, never had any problems with it :/

> Usage of local jars is extremely difficult, you need to setup a local maven repository and then add dependencies through it, which is a very painful process, esp for hobby projects and prototyping. I should be working on my problem not wrangling with maven.

tools.deps makes this very easy.
Yeah, it's terrible unless you can avoid driving between 7am - 10am and 4pm - 7:30pm. Also 280 instead of 101 helps.
Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective as a native English speaker and a Chinese learner.

> I really wish Chinese was the international language. It's power and elegance always amazes me. Even more so as I get further into Chinese literature, poetry, culture, humor, etc.

It had been a dominating language/writing system for part of Asia, and we can still find its legacy in Vietnamese, Korean, Japan.

But I think "legacy" is the keyword here. As a software engineer, the Chinese writing system is not in a ideal shape at least for me. There used to be systematic ways/principles to create characters, but there has never been any sustainable approach to "maintain" some of the internal consistency. It's like stacking workarounds one after another, and it becomes what we see today. Users can just accept it without any efficient way to modify or even refactor it, not mentioning the burden and effort to create just one beautiful font design.
I had to look this up, so for the benefit of anyone else curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely

TL;DR: Infinities being weird as usual.
https://github.com/facebookresearch/deepmask/blob/master/REA... can be implemented in PyTorch for a DL approach or https://docs.opencv.org/3.1.0/db/d5c/tutorial_py_bg_subtract... for a traditional OpenCV based implementation
Is Zendesk a Good Internal Knowledge Base Option?
Reminds me of how Google banned Windows Phone's YouTube App citing that the app wasn't written in HTML5 even own app wasn't written in HTML5 -- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/aug/15/...
namecheap, godaddy, 101domains... all depends on the TLD
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Thanks, I don't agree with the "good" part of intellij idea. Popular, sure. But slow as hell and ram hungry.
Aside from various copy-protected CDs, neither data CDs nor DVDs have the problem that audio CDs have with rip accuracy.
The Boring Company is on really shaky ground after the entrance cave in back on Dec 5th and construction setbacks

I didn't hear of any cave in, and googling results in nothing. Care to explain what you're talking about?
What network? This is a macro scale policy because at the macro level there were far fewer women board members then men. Unless you are suggesting that this will attract significant women from outside of California, this mechanism cannot have a net effect.

What will probably happen is that there will be some improvement (possibly crossing into the positive) once the women get more experience. The nature of the problem (and timescale of the solution) demanded an influx of inexperienced board members which should smooth out over time.
Why don't people push Microsoft to open source Edge?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/25/skin-in-the-ga...
Maybe I'm missing something but I'm not understanding how one reaches statistical significance when this bill was signed into law only 3 months ago? Do board members have so much of an impact that one fiscal quarter can prove that this gender quota is responsible for a -1.4% return as stated in the paper?
It has launched - I have the debit card and use it
The chart on that page reads:

Temperature and Timing for Reverse-Seared Steak
For 1 1/2–Inch Steaks in a 250°F (120°C) Oven

Doneness	Target Temperature in the Oven	Final Target Temperature	Approximate Time in Oven

Rare	105°F (40°C)	120°F (49°C)	20 to 25 minutes

Medium-Rare	115°F (46°C)	130°F (54°C)	25 to 30 minutes

Medium	125°F (52°C)	140°F (60°C)	30 to 35 minutes

Medium-Well	135°F (57°C)	150°F (66°C)	35 to 40 minutes
It’s so refreshing to actually see someone dealing honestly with the fact that the interests of the capitalist class and the working class are opposed, rather than engaging in ideologies of denial (there is no working class) or misdirection (we are putting these policies in place for your benefit, not ours). You’d never see such honesty today.
It can also make them really annoying at parties. But hey, I guess they got over their anxiety, so that's good.
Backward in time, not a linear file scan.
What he actually said was that the state should combat drug culture.
Meanwhile, hackers live in Jersey
The JVM supports AOT native binaries since the early 2000's, just not for free.

All major commercial JDKs have such support, e.g. PTC, Aicas, IBM J9, IBM RealTime WebSphere, Imsys, Excelsior JET.

Additionally OpenJDK has been integrating such support since Java 9 via Graal and GraalVM.
Works perfect. Very easy to use and quick. Last week I was trying to remove background from image and it took a while to finish the task.

Great job :-)
I was almost 100% certain it was a joke until I read the paragraph that quote is from.

I want to reassure you that most Haskell evangelists (myself included) that say stuff like that usually mean it as a joke. Most people who seek to evangelize haskell do not lose sight of the fact that it's pretty daunting at first and has a relatively steep learning curve.

That said, Haskell is simple, but it's simple in an unintuitive way (as most other languages obscure the ideas). For example I'd argue that when people when people first hear "enum", what they really want is a sum type (i.e. `data Something = OneThing {...} | TheOther {...}`) and not what you get in most languages which is enums-that-are-just-named-numbers or enums-that-are-just-named-strings.

Most languages are coming around to the way haskell/other ML languages view the world however:

- non-nullable + option types
- function composition (a bunch of languages get stuck in the filter/map phase but never get to the)
- typeclasses + data types over classes + interfaces/abstract classes
- pattern matching
- Monads
- The Free(R) Monad and attempts to make programs more like state machines and encode it at the type level

I'm probably preaching to the choir in this thread but Haskell's type system is like the mercedes of production-ready languages these days -- eventually the features trickle down to other languages. There are more advanced options out there like Idris (which already has good dependent type support) but it's going to take a while for any of them to get the support and ecosystem haskell fought hard for over all these years.

One highlight of Haskell's malleability and flexibility is the work around linear types in Haskell[0] -- they basically give you rust-like semantics (reference tracking for compile-time "automatic" memory management/etc) without having to rewrite haskell from scratch. Turns out you can classify rust's main feature under the super generic problem of "ascrib[ing] more precise types". Turns out with a good enough type system, and lots of patience/determination, you can solve a lot of common software issues at the type level.

As the famous saying goes, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.

[0]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/LinearTypes
I find it interesting that the people in the story seem amazed that the government would actually do something that was dangerous to the general population.

I’m not suggesting tin foil hats, but it seems that experience shows that governments regularly do things that end up harming others either through ignorance or incompetence.
My hands are bleeding just thinking about the logistics of opening and closing 2000+ DVD cases, and loading/unloading that many DVDs, over the span of three days. Ouch.
Also Seattle. Building a big new office near all the Amazon ones, as well as expanding their existing Seattle sites.
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Is YouTube Still a Good Career Option in 2019?
> Years ago in partnership with the National Archives Amazon.com digitized a tremendous amount of film for the National Archives, with the catch that the material cannot be freely disseminated online by the National Archives until Amazon breaks even on their digitization investment. It’s been years now and for a variety of reasons - many of which are Amazon’s fault - there still exist a solid number of discs that Amazon hasn’t sold even one of. (In part because amazon hasn’t even had them all available to sell. Pretty ridiculous).

> The flipside of the catch is that the DVDs can be viewed and even copied for $0 on site by researchers. I am doing research there and I have have a research pass. I was looking at many of these titles yesterday. It’s time to set these national treasures free.

-- https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/a6fkpm/i_have_...
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> NY is where the first $100M apartment is.

Most things being sold for more than 20M are probably being sold for money laundering purposes. A more fair comparison would be looking at only apartments that people actually live in full time; a pied-à-terre isn’t really part of basic living expenses.
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> but it'd also let the Big Brother know who was inappropriately curious.

This changed my opinion. I thought the controversy was unwarranted; after all it's what many people in China wants. It's good that Google doesn't follow through.
Where do you think they should put all the new people they are hiring? Or maybe they should stop hiring? That would not be good for us, their demand keeps the market rate for programmers absurdly high.
Came here to say the same thing. Interesting to see that someone has (independently?) had the same sort of idea.
A large enough sample size can find statistical significance in anything.

Also, this is a question will well understood theoretical backing. If you consider the entire law as an experiment, it is probably best to view this as a preliminary report, not a final result. Similarly to how no one thinks twice when CERN gets excited about a bump in their data, only to find out later that it turned out to be a statistical fluke.
The real question here is how the heck does Amazon have a deal with the National Archives that prevents that public body from distributing public domain content that it now holds in its archive? Is this typical for digitally archived content?
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I learned Shavian a few years ago, with my own transliteration dictionary based on my New Zealand English pronunciation (which Shavian doesn't quite seem to handle all of). Unfortunately, different dialects of English have very (inconsistently) different pronunciations, and hence there would be many different spellings for the same words; I really struggled to read Shavian written by people from other parts of the world. Going phonetic may well mean giving up on fast reading through whole word recognition.
I don't get motion sick, and now I realize the concept of being on a boat and feeling as if the ocean is moving back and forth is completely alien to me. When I'm on a boat, the horizon appears perfectly still to me. If the boat tips, the boat looks like it's tipping to me. Likewise, if I stand on my head, the world looks right side up, but I feel as if I'm upside down. In movies sometimes they'll place a camera upside down to indicate a character is doing sit-ups on a hanging bar or something and I always thought that was a silly way to portray that since the world doesn't look upside down when you are.
I spent time learning it years ago. It was... useless. It’s just too small and not readable. But then chinese websites have very small fonts as well, so maybe I should have persisted. If I could watch someone reading fluently in dotsies that would really impress me.
I recently traveled to Florida and met with my cousin that has friends at SpaceX. The joke is to call it SlaveX. According to him, it pays quite a bit better than ULA, but there’s huge burnout and turnover.
I don't know -- the obvious answer is no (more code in full view is better than less), but when I think about it, you have to weigh the benefits against possible damage to RISC-V or more F/OSS aligned competitors.

I have no way of knowing of course, but if MIPS simply went open source but don't actually think the same way RISC-V does, then they might lure enthusiasts that would have worked on RISC-V. That's the point I hoped to make -- if the result is fragmentation and slowed progress on RISC-V because of a muddying of the waters as to who thinks what about F/OSS then that is a bad outcome in my eyes.
Oh good at least another person here that feels the same about ODEs as I do. Math in college was rough for me.
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As others have pointed out, this is not ideal. At least it requires lots of work.

If we could start from the scratch, Hangul style syllabic blocks that combine alphabetic and syllabic systems might be the ideal.
How do I access an old blogger account with a non “gmail” email account?
That's the problem that most SIEM implementation have.
Splunk have been doing behavioral anomaly detection for a while, but its still up to the employee/business to determine what the baseline is.
The whole 2016 situation feels like many people are borderlining on delusion, Nate included. The Comey thing certainly helped Trump, but even the day of the election 538 was still forecasting a massive win for Hilary. How can the probabilities be that wrong?

Because the polls were wrong. Or, at least, incomplete. It doesn't matter how good your algorithms are if the data isn't there. And 2016 proved that 538, and really most media outlets, don't have a grip on America.

In other words, the existence of a black swan event in that particular system didn't really matter.

Silver is a glorified modern fortune teller, who seems to have deluded himself into thinking that simply having data means you can prescribe meaningful probabilities to the future. Assigning probabilities to a coin flip is easy. Figuring out the most likely winner of a game of baseball is a little harder; there's a whole movie about a guy who was basically doing that in 2002. Politics is a completely different field. You can't possibly assemble all of the data necessary to be remotely confident in the probability of outcomes. And let's not forget unpredictable black swan events.

But the readers love it. And, especially during the elections, the media would bring him out like a golden boy computer whiz, because he was saying the same things they were, but he's really smart and has the data and magic algorithms to back him up. And he was right that one time 8 years ago. He's about as pointless as Sean Hannity, with the one exception that, at least recently, Hannity was actually more correct about the future than Nate. It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, if the reasons are wrong.
This is a tisk any organization involved in secret projects risks. If you won't control the narrative, someone else will.
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No. And even if it was, millions of people can do the time, including programmers.
If performance worsens over time, would you see it as evidence that women are just less interested in certain jobs?
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All domestic online activities are already linked to individuals. All apps and websites are required by law to do this so the marginal harm of having a censored Google is minimal, if any. People use VPN for a lot more than political searches on Google: Youtube, Instagram, Steam, Wikipedia etc. It's unlikely a censored Google will discourage using them all. on The other hand for those who'll never use VPN services, another search engine choice will greatly improve their access to information, especially in non-Chinese languages.