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> I am sure in the future Mr Bezos will be placed in one line with Adolf Hitler as an example of genocide.

The guy may have a case somewhere in there, but this kind of hyperbole isn't doing it any favors.

Stripping out the fluff, the concrete concerns seem to be:

- Denied permission to transfer

- Denied permission to WFH

- Placed on PIP and eventually fired

The author's hypothesis is "manager is evil and this is all retaliation", but this is not easily distinguished from "author did not perform well", and the only evidence of performance we have is one "nice" performance review.
Tear gas and the like would likely work better as well without moving air to clear them.
OT, but for anyone looking for an idea: it'll be neat if some service can notify me when a movie I saved on IMDB is available on Netflix.
This really needs the second half of the story before we all get our trusty pitchforks and start making a shish-kebab from this Khan person.
But doesn't the plane have any inertia?
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My reasoning is, that Democrats seem to be playing the same notes as for previous election (mainly social justice), except with more "socialism" (higher taxes). It seems unlikely that this time they succeed... unless they change strategy before the election, of course!
I'm almost 100% convinced its already being done by private industry; you can do the vast majority of it w.out any ML/AI component. Biggest issue however is that it only makes sense on high margin plants.

See, as it turns out, plants already have this novel/ ingenious way of packaging the data required to make complete copies of into very discrete packages. They're called seeds, and in general, for the vast majority of cases, seeds which are often actually cheaper than dirt are just fine.
Only when you have a plant that has certain characteristics (GMO in a non-hereditary trait etc..) does this make real sense.
>Notice this guy joined Twitter in December.

Why is this important or notable?
And be sure no one is overhearing it out of context.
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The claim about relative performance of continuous variable models versus circuit models is completely unsubstantiated. Especially given that most uses of the continuous variable systems is to encode discrete qubits on top of them with GKP/cat/binomial codes. Is there any Complexity Theory work published about continuous variable models?

And photonic systems do not magically fix the noise issue. Noise grows in a fast non-linear fashion with the size of the system, so the "constant factor" noise suppression you gain from switching to photonic systems is quickly washed away.
>The ordinary cruising speed of a Dreamliner is 561 mph, with a maximum propulsion of 587 mph. Any speed gained on top of that is thanks to Mother Nature's helpful boost.

Wow, cruise speed is that close to 'max' speed? Or maybe that's just a max suggested cruise speed.
Manned exploration may have reached a zenith in 1969, but science did not. In 1969, the field of planetary science did not really yet exist. Since then, we have done flybys of every planet, intercepted comets and asteroids, put orbiters around many of them, landed probes on more, and even had robots driving around! A ton of science has happened since 1969.
I think you've been downvoted for conflating "good idea" with "good product".

There's plenty of polished turds, that, marketed appropriately, will make their promoters and founders millions.

I agree with you though -- the leaps here are tremendous, and likely unfounded.
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Ouch, please add 2009 to the title...
I remember that, they recommended a workaround last minute for it. Our snake depended on simulations so we just spun up a beefy GCP instance for a short period at the expense of a few cents.
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Perhaps as a byproduct we'll end up with more value placed on human-curated and generated information. Just because there's a lot of noise in the world doesn't mean there aren't objective truths. If FB and Insta get shunted off as sources of news, maybe the good ones will be all that remains trusted. Dare to dream.
It's reasonable to think life is very common. It's also reasonable to think that life might be very rare in the universe, or that we could be alone. Science, so far, hasn't really narrowed down orders of magnitude on some of the potential Great Filters. So it doesn't have that much to say about this question, yet.

(And, if you are willing to invoke some form of the anthropic principle, maybe a universe that can support even one instance of intelligent life is itself incredibly rare in some landscape?)
What does this have to do with supposed qubits inside neurons?
To be fair they've also released some useful tools, such as the AI Gym.
Speaking to a room full of CEOs at a summit, the CEO of Chegg once said "If you are raising a series F, it means what you think it means."
Can someone explain how this would work? I'm rather certain that noone in the White House doesn't actually know how to construct a bomb... So, they'll have to order someone else (presumably someone in the military) to transfer those secrets. Why would that person listen to the executive branch, if what they would do would be illegal?
Unions aren't just for raising wages.
Something being reasonable to think (while it's also reasonable to think the opposite, no less) and being aware that something is a fact are two very different things.
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Or from any country - such as Transylvania.
>Oof, argumenting by labor theory of value in 2019. Try reading more than one book.

I own a company. Thanks to my direct experience, I know very well where value comes from: labor alone.

Enjoy the purple sky (and the glib, wrong, one-liners) on your planet.
This is amazing!

As one of the creators of a distributed package manager for C++ and friends [1] we made a funny discovery:

Many C libraries that a big chunk of the ecosystem depends on, have not been updated for many years. Some of those can only be downloaded from sourceforge or ftp server.

Even worse, some libraries are copy and pasted from project to project and have no actual home.

We uploaded them to github and started maintaining them.

If you know any abandoned C/C++ projects or C/C++ projects you need a hand in maintaining, we are happy to help.

[1] https://github.com/loopperfect/buckaroo
One of the problems with "karma" sites like these is that everyone sees the same metric. But the comments you love aren't likely to be the same ones I love.

I'd like to see a system closer to a movie/music suggestion system. Personalize the crap out of everything, show me the stuff I'll probably love, and don't even bother showing me trash I'll obviously hate. And for God's sake, make it trivially easy to permanently killfile other users.

Yes, this is computationally more involved. But the result would be something that would make everyone happier (except perhaps inveterate trolls).
Who ever? It's the Trump administration, says so right at the top.
What's extremely bad for research is that they didn't even release their train and test sets. It's not hard to grab 40GB of text from the web that comes from links with at least +3 votes on reddit. But even if you do that, you won't get the same train/test set, and the same split. So impossible to know if a model is outperforming their model.
I would be scared to inject myself with someone else's blood without science fully understanding what is going on yet.
Foam grenade would be small, how much foam could such a grenade conceivable deliver? Probably not enough to do anything.
kgermino is asking about the difference between (1) the actual speed (relative to the Earth) at the altitude where the plane is flying and (2) the speed of the path of the airplane when it is projected onto the ground. These are extremely close but not the same (~0.15%) because the Earth is a sphere and the airplane is at a slight further distance from the center of that sphere than it's projected point on the ground.

You are explaining the difference between airspeed and ground speed, which can be much more substantial (e.g., ~10%, or ~%100 in extraordinary situations).
Fret not. He can invest in something else to cure that disappointment.
"Difficult problems" tend to be the ones that you need a few stiff drinks to forget whenever they come up. There should be no difficulty remembering them.

That being said, what I'd do if I were in your shoes is create 2 copies of your resume: a copy for handing out and another copy annotated with notes for each job you list about what you'd want to highlight during an interview. Every time your current employer has a performance review, update both since that's when you'll be focused on your important accomplishments over the past review period.
as this study shows, as well as others, electric fields do "mess up" with individual synaptic transmission. nature has evolved action potentials as a reliable way to propagate signals in the presence of the myriad sources of electromagnetic radiation on earth. They can be disrupted by appropriately high stimulation such as with TMS . Most likely, the radiation sources that we use every day, phones computers etc do have some effect in neurotransmission but those random failures are probably too few (and too random) to matter significantly or systematically.

here is a recent review: http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.
You're ignoring the easily verifiable facts that I have shown you. Instead choosing to bury your head in the sand and make assumptions.

You are wilfully ignorant.
Just a few thoughts I've been mulling for a while about this topic:

Machine learning is something that I believe can take advantage of analog computing. A machine learning algorithm does not need highly precise or accurate representations. Most current implementations of such processing units use fewer bits (usually 8).

However, even if we use fewer bits, the engineering effort (design, layout, lithography, etc.) that goes into making the processing unit still assumes that those few bits are error free. The manufacturing process treats it like any other digital circuit. It assumes data processing part should be fault free (e.g. treat MSB and LSB the same). Digital circuits also demand higher power compared to analog versions.

If an analog circuit can be designed for such algorithms, not only could it be much faster, it will probably consume far less power. With a super high bandwidth consuming little power, an analog processing chip may give us a much better playground to try advanced algorithms. The materials can then be optimized and we might end up with something like a brain.

Brains (all animals) process far more information for the power they consume.

Digital circuits give us low level reliability and so they are really good for simple control. Analog/biology don't give us that. But they can give us a high level reliability while delegating the low level reliability to digital counterparts.
When I say conditionals, I mean the particular rules for the automata. So like GoL the data going into a state change is a count of the neighborhood in the area of the cell. There are some thresholds (number of neighbors), and then based on the conditionals, the state is updated.

So one conditional is the size/ dimensionality of the neighborhood. Another, in your case, is the class of the pixels.

I meant to take some time this weekend to dig into your code and look at how you've structured your conditionals.
As a once-young person I would not have had any problem selling my blood a pint at a time to help an elderly person feel rejuvenated, assuming that it worked and I was being paid for it. After all, I often gave away my blood for free, and go nothing in return except some juice, cookies, and a smile.
If you're just sorting numbers, you don't need the OS or environment variables.
Things get very complicated when someone who has authority over you tells you to do something illegal. The president is commander-in-chief, and it's not the first time a president has given a command that's not strictly legal.
The entire premise of this study is not useful, because what you're asking is "what is the numerical occurrence of quantifiable harassment" and not "what is the rate and which players abandon playing the game as a consequence of feeling unwelcome and how does it vary by gender". What do the numerical rates of harassment tell us, and how are they actionable? If a group of players does not play because they feel unwelcome, THAT is the thing that matters, and your study does absolutely nothing to analyse this criteria.

> I avoided ever using voice chat and would call things out in text chat when time permitted.

Again, this betrays a deep flaw in methodology, since voice chat is an integral part of competitive Overwatch. The important things to consider here are: what percentage of players are comfortable using voice chat and how does that vary by gender; does availability and usage of voice chat confer any competitive advantage to the player; and do the two factors interact in such a way as to confer a competitive advantage to one gender over the other?

I find it disturbing when men do scientific studies to determine if women's stated experiences are real.
A 200 MPH tailwind doesn't compensate for a 20,000-mile-longer flight.
> about as well done of a study as we could ask for from a non-academic research level

Unfortunately, there's a good reason why academics use proper experimental design. Without it, all you really have is suggestive noise, if even that.
Short sellers bet on a stock like TSLA being severely overvalued, thus are incentivized to dig up all the dirt they can to compel the market to sell off their shares and drive down the stock price.
That's pretty meaningless though, the speed of interest is the heliocentric velocity. Juno was accelerating toward the largest planet in the solar system and orbiting it, not doing a gravitational slingshot.

The current record is Voyager 1, which got its speed from a flyby tour of the outer solar system. It is going 17 km/s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_lea...
That wasn't really the original commenter's point though...
> A way to automate the production of median-literacy shitposts on the internet tuned to whatever you want to propagandize would be a devastating blow.

It would be Shiri's Scissor[1].

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-goes-on-the-record-about-inj...
Fluid dynamics would spread that deceleration over a short period of time, so it wouldn't be like 'hitting the brakes in a car' type sensation. Passengers may feel a slight shift, but overall, as you explained to the previous poster, the speed is all relative to the air around the airplane.

More likely the turbulence and vortices in the demarcation zone between the jetstream and the different air current the plane enters would jostle and toss the passengers around more than the deceleration would.

From the article, it said the 787 was cruising at 35,000 feet. Seeing as the 787 was built to cruise close to 40,000 feet (above most traffic and weather) I daresay the pilot or company flight planners deliberately asked for a lower altitude based on expected wind conditions. I bet many other airlines were doing the same, leading to a very busy jetstream highway that day!
> taking a huge risk with everyones safety

You presume they have any interests that aren't self-serving. It's not a risk if you don't care about the consequence.
That video is about how "self-similar" is not sufficient for fractal. (The rest of the requirement is some notion of fine detail at every scale, which the video focuses on.)

It is widely agreed that self-similarity is required for fractal, although often interpreted as quasi/statistical/multiple similarity

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

Put another way, some things are self-similar but lack detail (for example, a straight line), and some things have detail but not similar detail at all scales (for example, a meterstick with ticks at every millimeter) and some things have infinite detail but no similarity (for example, purely entropic noise that cannot be compressed or expressed as a structure)
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On a real sailboat, you can go in lots of directions, not just the one the wind is pointing at. You can even go somewhat against the wind.

In a lightsail, if I understand this diagram correctly[1], the imparted momentum is proportional to the sum of the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection. (Which, come to think of it, is exactly how billiards works.) Therefore the sail travels perpendicular to its orientation, no matter where the incoming light came from (as long as it came from that side -- I'm guessing the other side is not reflective).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
I don't understand why people ever play with voice chat enabled. I don't want to hear streams of ungrammatical foul language, and I certainly don't want to hear people slapping their kids, etc. TMI.
Agreed. Using the H word doesn't help the author's case.
Wind is "named" after where it comes from. If you fly north, and the wind is a north wind, you fly slower. (This terminology is in line with what GP said.)

Then, ground speed = air speed - wind speed.

Thus, GP seems to have either the sign wrong, or ground and air speed mixed up (but not both :-)
At least it's a better name than OrphanProjets. Cool logo, suits it very well.
Why don't they use 18650 batteries now?
I hear you. I know this has happened to many other people and they've told me everything that has happened to them. I say - focus your energy on getting a better boss next time.

There are laws against workplace harassment and it needs lawyers to enforce them. In this specific company, complaints of such harassment would go only to dead ears and further lead to retaliation.

If there are enough cases (and I bet there are), it would mean a class action against such practices. Get some lawyer friends and have a few beers with them.

Once again, I hear you.

Addendum: If you wish to put your SDE skills to good use, develop a social shaming browser plugin with anecdotal evidence tying to a person's professional profile, say, LinkedIn. That will ensure that bad managers are automatically flagged when people visit their profile.
No you are right. In case of tailwind, it is KIAS + WS whereas headwind is KIAS - WS

KIAS: Knots Indicated Airspeed (i.e. the speed at which air is hitting the pitot tube)
WS: Wind speed
Sooner or later we will have tools for e.g. Reddit where one specifies a desired outcome of a discussion and lets bots paired up with some optimization algorithm figure out how to get popularity majority based on comments so far in individual threads and drive discussion towards stated goal. Later the same will be used in elections or other public "theaters" that won't matter any longer as humanity will be "cracked", i.e. modeled sufficiently enough to predict/influence average humans with just tiny remains of feelings that something might be wrong which only complete societal outcasts would pursue.
Transactions already include fees today. The minting rate of new bitcoins goes down over time, so when minting finally ends, it won't be a sudden change to the mining rewards. It's expected that the mining reward will be mostly transaction fees by the end, so the mining reward will only be a little affected by the minting being stopped.
That would be nice, but AR needs precise positioning information, and GPS doesn’t work very well underground. It’s also likely to need good long range communications, and ditto.
This is something I've observed in general. If an old game is still being played, the community is generally good. I'm not sure if it's the removal of people chasing newer stuff, or perhaps because the remaining people playing are doing so because of friends they made.
Maybe it's a success in the career or family life that leads to it, you wouldn't know.
Yes, it is from the committee, but after watching GOP-controlled House committees operate for the past eight years, it's hard to claim that they can't be partisan. I'm not claiming that it's not accurate (I'd expect it to be much more factual than anything the GOP would put out), but I'd expect a well-researched news article (with actual competent journalism—not just both-sides he-said-she-said garbage) to be less "political".
Does an apple exist? You can show me an apple, but I would wag my finger in exactly the same way you are to people trying to show you “one”. The apple you’re showing me is not the same thing as the word “apple” which is an abstract category that encompasses all types of apples - honeycrisp, Granny Smith, etc. You could say a honeycrisp is like an instance of apple which is a base class, so then it is indeed an apple. But then youd have to say an apple is also a “fruit” and also a “food” even though those words also encompass broad categories of things.

If you buy the above, you’d have to say that a single apple is also “one”. After all, it’s just another broad category that a single apple fits in to. If not, I think you’d have to reject the fact that a honeycrisp is an apple, which seems untenable.
I'm a programmer.
I also sometimes manage others.

Time tracking and continuous code code review is an important way to spot workers who can't stay on task or are way over their head. If you can catch issues early, you can help them and the team succeed. If you lack time tracking and continuous code review many developers will "fall through the cracks" and it will take much longer to discover they are a net negative to the team. Even if it becomes apparent, it becomes much easier to point to sometime somewhat objective then gut feelings.

Time tracking is good for accountability. Time tracking should be simple. Time tracking should only loosely be associated with tasks.

* Email 0:45
* Meet with customer 1:00
* Program Complete solution and deploy it (TASK045) 0:05

I would be very wary of developers who refuse to accurately track their time.
Have you seen proofwiki.org?
But why not? It seems that blood donation is a well-established medical practice, so presumably safe... So for minimal risk, you get a low-probability chance of tremendous benefit (life extension). Sounds very worth it.
> Stephenson said the uranium threat was discovered in March 2018 by the teenage son of a park employee who happened to be a Geiger counter enthusiast, and brought a device to the museum collection room.

No words...
Exactly. The alternative of not doing a Dutch auction at launch is much worst; valuable names end up in the hands of squatters who are perfectly happy to sit on many names that remain unused so long as they can sell a few at exorbitant prices. The average non-squatter registrant is better off with EAP and premium prices, as the prices you pay during EAP are lower than what a squatter would try to get out of you for the same domain.
This is why Aristotle said that the intellect cannot be material. The human intellect is able to receive and understand abstractions. However, whenever you try to represent an abstraction as a physical object or in a physical medium, it is no longer abstract. It is true that you can write about abstractions using physical ink on physical paper, but those are just symbols; they are not the abstraction. It is only when a person reads the symbols, understands them, and forms the abstraction in his mind that the abstraction comes into existence.

So, we can create programs that appear to do intelligent things, but it is the human observer that brings meaning to what the program is doing. The program might output the letters "dog" when a dog pass in front of its camera, but its the human that sees the "dog" that knows what a dog actually is.