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I completely get this.

Between family, my full time job, side projects.. I had no choice but to listen to some of these books as Audio books.. I ended up pretty much listening to 25+ audio books this year.. the only way to make the content stick is to:

1) take a ton of notes

2) do exactly as you say, rewind over and over until you can mark it down.

These are the next few features I want to add to this thing, taking notes and rewinding quickly and bookmarking snippets precisely because of your point that audio requires a little more work to retain. Still worth it though, I would have never been able to read that many books this year given how busy I am.

Ultimately I will concede that it will never beat reading, but when we have no time or are commuting? This, in my opinion, is the next best thing for busy people.
I have to be honest, I don't think this is a good explanation. I don't know what differential programming is, but I'm fairly sure I have the mathematical background to understand it. But I didn't come away from this article with any confidence that I'm following along.

On a superficial level it seems like it:

1. Generalizes deep learning to an optimization function on decomposable input, and

2. Reduces the number of parameters required to learn the input by exploiting the structure of the input, thereby making learning more efficient.

Is that correct? Is it completely off? What am I missing? Is there any more meat to the article than this?

Could someone who has upvoted this (and ideally understands the topic well) provide a different explanation of the concept? It would be great if I could see a real world example (even a relatively trivial one) represented in both the traditional matrix computation form and the sexy new differentiable form.
That's if you go about it from low-dimensional embedding to feature classification, and predictions based on probabilities for those features. As you mention, that works if you have metric data, or can juice metrics from abstraction. Modern ML is all about solving for this case; adding manifold hypothesis, as the author noted, may only improve them slightly, or not at all.

That isn't what the "manifold hypothesis" is good for. Manifold space is more interesting to think of, not in the deconstruction of metric space, but in the formation of it; i.e. what higher-dimensional, non-metric (intensive), manifold-space, through some complex function (eg physics), results in this lower-dimensional, feature-rich entity; and what is that function (or more interestingly, how does it change the resulting entity-state, given various changes in the manifolds).

Which may not be useful for classification, but that's old hat anyway. Personally, I feel that feature dependence for everything NN is brute force. How features come-to-be, even abstractly modeled, is the thing.
What if traffic lights were designed this way?

They are; reason being: color-blind drivers are out there.

Traffic lights have consistencies which allow drivers not to rely on color. The consistencies aren't global, but hold within major geo-political regions.

For instance, where traffic lights are vertical, it's usually red on top, then yellow, then green. The order isn't perturbed. Moreover, the red light may be larger and brighter.
Glad you got it running ok! There should be heaps to play with.

Yeah! I compare this to a lot of the work I'm doing currently and I start to wonder what on earth I'm doing... Gotta get back to pointless Three.js experiments! They were good days.
You've never heard of the repo man? If you hold property that is collateral for a loan, you don't really own the property; the lienholder has extensive legal rights in the case of default.
That does no good unless the groves are close enough to allow interbreeding. From what I understand they're trying to establish these groves all around the world, and most won't have any neighbors.
I think the anonymous type is much better. It's type safe, you can easily see how it's defined but you don't pollute the rest of your code with one-off classes that make only sense within the function.

If I had to review the code and saw an explicit type I would recommend an anonymous type.
The copyrights aren't bostonreview's. There was a MoMA exhibition:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3931

The matching catalogue:

https://store.moma.org/books/exhibition-catalogues/toward-a-...

and

https://store.moma.org/books/moma-publications/bogdanovi%C4%...

You can however try searching the images using your favorite search machine.

E.g. one monument in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Flower_(sculpture)

(Probably later image then on the second book cover and center is of the flower is missing, or it's taken from another perspective)
I have a problem with every statement you made in your first reply, starting with "aerospace engineer here", which implies you are specially qualified to discuss airplane structural design.

There are many disciplines in "aerospace engineering", and if you say work on instrumentation, then saying "aerospace engineer here" in this context is about as misleading as saying "circles are just squares with large radius corners" (they are also "triangles with large radius corners").

What do you actually do in our job?
> it's cached by every major CDN already

I’ve never found this to be true any time I’ve measured, especially for mobile clients. Small caches with lots of versions and CDNs really cut into the theoretical benefits.
Maybe that. But also the industry is oversaturated with game devs. And for AAA titles they're basically fungible. Need to stop graduating so many.
Here is an idea: Implement the same system using two different approaches: 1. Micro-services 2. Libraries. Using the same number of micro-services and libraries (to make the comparison accurate). Now, if you are smart, you will probably realize that the best way to do this is to implement a library for each micro-services and then add the additional code needed by a micro-service on top (communication, configuration, routing, fail over etc.) But hold on ... if you are smart enough to realize this, then you should also be smart enough to realize that micro-services require all the code the libraries need PLUS additional code to do what only micro-services require (communication, configuration, routing, fail over etc.) Which should tell you before you even start the experiment that micro-service architectures are inherently more complex than building applications using independent libraries.
I have never heard that one -- but it makes sense.
what about accounting and transactions, the core banking stuff?
From an accessibility standpoint, a design needs to work well in black and white / without color. Color shouldn't be functional in the sense that people need it to use a design easily and safely.
Are you both stupid? He literally just hydrates his React application to HTML. If he wanted to not have a div soup he could have changed how its rendered. His output is 100% dependant on his input. Garbage in Garbage out thats how it is.

Only thing thats cool about this is that its cached which should be standard anyways and then prefetches content on the page. And even then cool may be too much to compliment this with.
I think it might be just harder to find exploits in your own code because of organizational blind spots.
> (something like a spinning chair and blindfold - I forget the details)

The test they do is blindfold you and spin you in a chair. But they switch directions and you have to point your thumbs in the direction your are spinning. It is possible to determine which way you are, but it is freaking difficult and really you're probably cheating by knowing the initial spin direction and keeping track of sharp decelerations (change in direction).

Basically it is simulating how you might be spinning in clouds and not be aware of it. Unlike the chair simulation these spins are more gradual/subtle and you're not paying extremely close attention (your attention SHOULD be elsewhere, i.e. flying the plane).
Top two-player board games
Reading the article made me think again about realtime software/hardware/OS, which I absolutely never understood.

One one hand Wikipedia says "Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constraints, often referred to as "deadlines"." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing )

On the other hand when I read Wikipedia's article "Real-time operating system" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system ) my overall understanding is that there is no feature allowing a program/thread/function to enforce e.g. "I have to be executed within 3 milliseconds" nor that that would anyway be enforced by the OS at any cost (scheduler will prioritize higher-priority tasks).

Am I missing something?

Or maybe the statement "Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constraints" must be taken literally and the program/thread/function must be written in a way that when some timer expires (and a "terminate"-event is sent to it), it will stop doing whatever it's doing (and it will potentially send back some kind of (partial) result)?

As you can see, this theme confuses me :)

[EDIT: thank you guys! :) ]
That's the general argument for key value storage versus normalized relational databases as well.
Ahem

https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/

https://system76.com/

https://www.dell.com/learn/au/en/aubsd1/campaigns/xps-linux-...

https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/pd031426
Interconnecting the smaller cities in the region is entirely pointless until you achieve usable mass transit within the major city cores themselves. Otherwise great - you can take HSR from your sleepy small town exurb, but have no usable way to get to your final destination on either end so it ends up mostly being a novelty and serving a tiny handful of commuters. This pattern is observed in almost the entire US except a tiny handful of east coast cities and perhaps Chicago.

Once you have a workable transit network on at least one side of the connection, branching out high speed rail to smaller "feeder" cities can induce demand and start creating denser development in those feeder cities to make the transit even more useful.

The Netherlands is a great example here in my opinion. Lots of smaller suburbs/towns within 40 minutes on the high speed trains, typically with a walkable community on the "feeder" city side and either a walkable destination or a tram ride on the Amsterdam Centraal side.

I cannot see a point to point HSR line being very useful if all it connects are essentially two train stations to nowhere.

Basically I don't see a point in building HSR or commuter rail if the citizens of the major city it's built into require car ownership to realistically get around. This means there isn't a network robust enough to support bringing feeder traffic into. Or put another way - it'd be pretty silly for an airline to create a route between two cities, but have no connecting flights on either end. Sure, it's useful for a very few - but not really economically viable at scale.
Ketamine HCl can and is dispensed off label, both for in office IM/IV treatment and at home nasal spray, or sublingual troche.
Honestly, the sophistication, usability, and hackability* of modern wp-admin makes it worth the price of admission alone (even considering the performance hit from awkward wp_posts schema). I once used a siteless WP as a CMS for a lean CodeIgniter mobile app JSON API.

* Hackable in the positive sense; WP has its security reputation for a reason, but the majority of vulnerabilities are attributable to third-party plugins and themes.
Yes if the benchmark is speed. The new browser layout engines are quicker than the old floats and divs with billions of class tags. Plus the quickest download is always no download.

Then there is the matter of maintaining the content. Div soup has to get chucked down the drain for the new agency or developer to make more div soup. It is worthless.

Meanwhile, a document with proper markup and judicious use of semantic HTML5 tags is content with value that can be easily re-styled.

SEO matters too, pure speed matters but so does document structure. Hiding your content in div soup does not impress the Googlebot.

Next?
"Shotgun approach"? Where you react not only to the proximate cause of the incident, but to all possible proximate causes?
Assuming the Fed wants higher interest rates. Otherwise it can just buy them itself to keep interest rates in check.
Agreed. There are pilot jobs in the US that pay great and offer a very desirable lifestyle. However, these jobs account for what, 30-40% of US pilot jobs? The rest are fighting for scraps making $50-60k/year while paying back $100k+ in student loans and never seeing their homes. There’s a reason the FO on Colgan 3407 commuted from her parents home on the other side of the country and the CA slept in the break room the night before the trip started. They didn’t make squat and couldn’t afford anything else.
If you could underline a single event in world history that could be called "the birth of capitalism", it would be the invention of the LLC by the Dutch Republic. Historically there has been no shortage of creditors using the long arm of the law to guard against moral hazard. Capitalism took off because of limited liability and bankruptcy law. Feudalism is an economy stuck in a local minimum because there's not enough new blood being entrusted with capital. Mix up the capital distribution a bit more, and yes there will be more business failures. But that capital will also find its way into the hands of entrepreneurs who are more skilled than the creditors. It's VC investing writ large: lose a little on most, make a lot on a few.
Or don't go to dealer that require interlocks.
Or the worst from my point of view. CSS rots more than any other code in a front end codebase and the methods for static analysis are incredibly limited.

Refactoring and static analysis tools are incredibly limited or nonexistent for plain CSS or SCSS (when talking about the barriers between HTML and the stylesheet).

We do all of our new views and stylesheets using React, TypeScript, and Typestyle. As a result we can expose much controlled methods of theming and have a compiler enforced link between variables, selectors, and their usages. We can refactor easily. We can catch simple typos at compile time instead of runtime, and validate them more easily in CI.
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Forget antivirus, you could use this to build ransomware that doesn't need C2 at all. The enclave itself can wait for confirmation of the bitcoin transfer and then release the decryption key.

Sure you can stop it talking to the outside world, but you can't force it to give up the key.
Security Issue, February 2019
Well it's been 3 years, so however Defold has been progressing is probably your answer.
In every large company there are always excess personnel, or departments or individuals who are not performing. I'm sure there are other large companies that semi-regularly fire a single digit % of their workforce, but because they are not games companies it doesn't hit the news.

The redundancies are mostly in 'publishing and esports', by the way.
What the hell is that supposed to mean and how it’s different from automatic differentiation
That is one form. There are also therapies, occasionally in the frontal lobe, that use much smaller electrical devices to heat sections of brain to sever connections. Some also use lasers. It is all about cutting connections, a direct evolution from the dark days.
I don't think unionization will do much good. American-style unions are more like the mafia than a "real union". Unions in places like Scandinavia is the only way to fix this in my opinion but doubtful that will ever happen.
Just go rid of my first car that lasted 20 years. Currently we have two cars which are 7 years old. Hope to keep them till they are 20 years old.
I highly recommend Jonathan Stark's Ditching Hourly podcast: https://www.ditchinghourly.com/
Would a union make life better for the starry-eyed people entering the industry. The only parallel I can really draw is the movie industry, which also has lots of starry-eyed people entering it and has a union. I'm not sure it's better, I've talked to a number of people who had to work for years at very low rates just to get their SAG card, after they got it they had a lot more earning power. But you still get the same effect of low wages for entry level people. That seems tough to avoid when you always have a bunch of young talent flooding the market.
I bought a used '05 model in 2013 and still drive it. It has aux input, and heat/air conditioning work, so I'm not really sure what else I'd need.

Actually a newer more expensive car might be a downgrade, because right now if someone dents my car, I feel zero stress.
The main reason would be that it doesn't get distributed in nasal spray bottles, but rather vials for injection.
Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Janeen Uzzell as Chief Operating Officer
Mobile + web is coming... I'm also working on different ways to read while mobile which I think will be amazingly valuable.

I'm going to keep these a surprise though.

I like to read on my laptop and not mobile though... but maybe that will change.
Literally? (left eyebrow raises slightly/right eye twitches slightly, almost imperceptibly)

I presume you mean that you have a book written (a tattoo perhaps) on the palm of your hand. It is either a very short book or you have one of those new fangled micro-fiche-tats.

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Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing
It needs to be querySelectorAll, and you need to handle cases where it returns null as well.
I think bootstrap looks worse than native web controls so I don't see it as a necessity like you say.
Indeed. Some years ago I was working on a project where I decided one day to rip Bootstrap out and reimplement everything that Bootstrap did with my own CSS. In the end I ended up pretty much just recreating Bootstrap, and after a few months it had become an unmaintainable mess.

I'm not saying that everyone should use Bootstrap, or even CSS frameworks in general, but this idea that we should avoid them because don't 100% require them is madness. The simple reality is that they save a hell of a lot of time that can then be invested in things that'll have a more material improvement for the end user.
While using GraphQL does have some benefits when dealing with a massive amount of users, that's not the reason most people choose to use it. GraphQL is simply a drastically different (and IMO better than REST) model for clients to talk to servers.
For game client programmers I think this is the case, though experienced devs are hard to find and retain. The gaming industry really hits issues when trying to attract non-engine devs, infrastructure and server specifically. Due to the portability of these skills to... much better industry sub-segments a lot of talent here just jumps ship and leaves.

As a former server-side game dev I was always supportive of my co-worker's rights (QA & Art in particular have a _terrible_ time) and I think this is where pressure to unionize is likely to originate.
return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(q));
They should describe how they came up with this list.
For example, Alto pharmacy, which appears to primarily operate in California, is on the list. They raised $50 million last December. Capsule pharmacy, which essentially does the same thing, primarily operates out of NYC. They also raised $50 million a few months earlier, in August 2018, but are not on this list.
Wonder why?
No actual photos yet exist of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole. But here is a time lapse video of stars orbiting Sag A: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8THY5spmo. The Event Horizon Telescope project is trying to image some black hole surroundings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
I used "an update on" for everything. If I was sick, it was "an update on jrockway". If I released a new version of something, it was "an update on foo". The fact that "an update on" guaranteed dread made it humorous in both contexts.

I am sure that the author of any google blog post that is titled "an update on..." is poking a little fun at google. Or maybe they don't get the joke and this is the wording that keeps coming up. I'm guessing it's the first one, though.
If software runs untrusted enclave code, it needs to sandbox it, full stop. This research is interesting, but it’s not remotely surprising.
Never waste a crisis.
Maybe I'm just heartless but having to "go get a job writing CRUD apps somewhere" to make ends meet doesn't exactly trigger my sympathy response. If that's your backup option you're doing better than 99% of the population.
You are being downvoted but I think it's a pretty legitimate question and the answer to it is: Yes.

If you want to have a united interface to multiple services behind the scenes and incorporate ACL or any kind of top-level resource management, GraphQL is a great way to go about doing that.
The usual peninsula (Palo Alto, Atherton) NIMBYs have been actively trying to block caltrain electrification because it will ostensibly hurt trees, amongst other things:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/07/caltrain-electrificat...
Real time OSes have an all or nothing response to real time tasks. They either take it to run on the specified time, or they fail with some error.

The OSes also take into their hands to enforce that the tasks will finish at the time they asked for. What means that they either terminate by themselves, or the OS will terminate them, again with some explicit error.
The whole idea of lumping different drugs into discrete categories is flawed.

MDMA is both a stimulant and a hallucinogen. In smaller doses the effect isn't noticeable, but it's definitely there in larger doses.
I too would like to see a union take over just to see the effects it would have on a fast paced industry (in terms of technology change and game release cycle) It would be a nice laboratory to peek into, to see how a union either becomes symbiotic or parasitic in behavior.
Thank you for taking a look! :)
I think that in the article, abuse is used to mean illegal unintended use, rather than abuse in the conventional sense.
Ketamine is plentiful on the street and you can legally buy ketamine analogs online. I don’t see this new route of getting it from a psychiatrist as a huge abuse risk.

Subjectively, it’s not as good a “take the pill and forget your problems” drug as opioids, benzos, and alcohol are. It can be used in that way if you take a huge “k-hole” dose and dissociate completely, and some people do get addicted. But at common doses, certainly whatever they are going to prescribe, it’s more of a “think about your problems and figure out how to solve or accept them” drug like mushrooms and LSD.
Simply letting people die is not a sane solution to black market drug use. Drug distribution can be restricted without completely denying drug approval. Look at Xyrem for example.
Hopefully they were all from the Diablo division. Anyone who had anything to do with Diablo 3 or Diablo Immortal doesn't deserve a paying job.
Propaganda. Basically Americans view US unions as something approaching demonic but somehow are able to conceive as unions in different companies* as having value.

The US's relationship with unions is pretty crazy.

*Excuse me, this was a typo, I had intended to write "countries" sorry for the confusion.