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> Well, looks like these Monroe Institute activities segued into CIA interest into what was called 'remote viewing'

This document is dated June 9, 1983. Your link says the US intelligence agencies' program started in the early 1970's. It started as a threat analysis [3] of a mistranslation of intelligence [0] on Soviet activities, but developed into something much more than that.

The Gateway program is Robert Monroe's system for helping people develop the ability to have out-of-body experiences. Monroe started spontaneously popping out of body in the 1950's, and thought he was dying. After a few years he decided he wasn't dying, and started to explore the phenomenon. His first book, Journeys Out of the Body [1], was published in 1977, and was essentially just "hey I've decided I'm not dying and our western culture has no context for these experiences but these are my findings." Lots of people wrote to thank him for validating their own experiences.

Robert Monroe's followup book, Far Journeys [2], was much more rigorous. It was published in 1985, about 2 years after this submission's PDF was written.

Your link tells of Ingo Swann's pivotal role in the remote viewing program... My earlier comment [0] tells of the time I met Swann in Las Vegas. (Edit: hah, just noticed your link pdf was generated from content originally hosted at Swann's website, biomindsuperpowers.com)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238552

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=JqNXvQEACAAJ

[2] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0385231814

edit: [3] Your link uses the terms 'threat potential' and 'threat assessment'. Quote from your link: "In broad terms it can be said that much of the SRI effort was directed not so much toward developing an operational U.S. capability, but rather toward assessing the threat potential of its use against the U.S. by others. The words threat assessment were often used to describe the program's purpose during its development, especially during the early years."
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I wouldn’t underestimate citizen confidence in the government as a means of propping up housing prices. Investing in property is the main way people give their vote of confidence in the current global plutocracy.
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Tobacco never appealed to me, but seeing only the Marlboro geometry on the cigarette banned Formula 1 cars makes me want to pick up smoking. I'm at awe at their branding power.
Still benefits you; more users to bolster the ecosystem (contributing to shared code), and code that later turns out to be useful (many-cpu systems were expensive supercomputers... right up until they started landing on desks).
This is cool, and I like it. Very Haskell like, which is a compliment in my book.

But one thing that surprises me is that folks are essentially sleeping on HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is just a hell of a lot better in most every dimension. It's better for handshake latency, it's better for bandwidth in most cases, it's better for eliminating excess SSL overhead and also, it's kinda easier to write client libraries for, because it's so much simpler (although the parallel and concurrent nature of connections will challenge a lot of programmers).

It's not bad to see a new contender in this space, but it's surprising that it isn't http/2 first. Is there a good reason for this? It's busted through 90% support on caniuse, so it's hard to make an argument that adoption holds it back.
Did you just say caffeine is not very addictive?? In what world is that true. I craaaave coffee all the time and I only drink it black haha.
This isn’t the reason you can’t get mayo with fries in Japan, though. It’s a cultural barrier against deviating from the “rules,” no matter how small. Mayo isn’t on the menu as a condiment; sorry!

Example: I once had to fill out a form (as a designated corporate representative) authorizing myself to access our racks in an NTT data center and then fax it to the DC manager (who I knew personally) before he would let me in. During this entire process we were standing in the same room.

It used to annoy me when I first moved to Tokyo, but you eventually learn to live with it.
I understand where you are coming and I agree it gives Google (or Bing) more power, but ... it was the user's choice to give Google (or Bing) that information by using it as a search engine.

If they gave the information to you too, it likely goes to you, but also to the other 50 .js files you include from various sources of dubious trustworthiness which every site these days includes.

Furthermore, what you are saying is "this admittedly private information used to be available to all and it was useful for some, now it's only available to the entity the user specifically gave it to, and that's bad because the few who actually used it for good don't have it". But the whole idea of GDPR (and similar) laws is to put the control back with the user, which is a good thing.

I think some standard with which the user explicitly lets the website know "yes, the search engine query that brought me here is X and I allow you to have it" would be good, but I don't think dropping this info from the referer (sic) is bad.
Yep. And once they were fairly sure this was difficult if not impossible, they could stop worrying about THEIR goats being knocked out by the USSR's psy-ops teams.
1. He hated kids and raised none, he was the epitome of the "get off my lawn" neighbor in his area and was really aggressive to the neighbors especially the kids. More info on that in the above link.

My siblings and I have speculated the hell out of his motivations, and I've personally come to the conclusion that he was in a position to industrialize his evolutionary impact and took advantage of it.

Most of life has an implicit "purpose" to reproduce, and he found an extremely efficient way of mechanizing that, without any of the downsides like actually raising the offspring.

It's odd and I'm getting personal here but I always knew I wanted kids since I can remember, and I knew that if I never found a partner to have children with, I'd want to donate sperm for the sheer biology of it. It's an odd thing to try to express, but I'd be surprised if most people don't have some level of that.

2. As far as physical characteristics, I actually look quite a bit like him in many ways (especially the younger photos before he was drinking himself to death). But certainly better :D You can reference my website in my bio and the link in my parent post if you want to see. Eyes, hair, skin color, facial features, relative height, etc.

Behavioral - I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder when I was 20. We could never figure out where that came from. It's treated now and also good to have someone to blame. I feel i share many personality traits that describe him, to certain (usually lesser) degrees.

They also say 80% of "intelligence" is inherited, and not to rag on my wonderful parents or prop myself up or anything, but we all sort of always wondered where I got that too vs my parents or other relatives. Also the aforementioned biological urge is a pretty interesting point - all of my siblings so far either have children or want them.

Most of my siblings are musical and play at least one musical instrument or sing or act or perform in some way, and he was apparently a great multi instrumentalist. The list goes on and on.

I'd put quite a lot more weight into nature than I ever would have before. I was convinced of nurture being the obvious bigger influencer but much of that could be attributed to lack of similarities with my family growing up. When I found out about this, I discussed it heavily with my siblings and some of their families and we all agreed that nature plays an enormous role that we'd never know otherwise.
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His writing style reminded me of James Ellroy's, except told from the point of view of an everyman instead of a gangster or crooked cop.
A Pentium 90 was probably fairly common in the mid 90s. Delivered a whopping 0.09 GFLOPS :)
Don't think it's collusion, it is probably just the reality of things. I've noted that my original comment made it sound like this was insidious collusion but what I mean is that it is likely just the stark reality.
Agreed. This reminds me of office space when the waitress's has the appropriately listed amount of flair but is disparaged for not going above and beyond.
No one needs a semiautomatic, there are plenty of other ways to make your penis seem longer, we'll remove them from our society.

I hope we also start licensing firearms rather than just owners so we can detect people who are stockpiling them, personally I don't see a need for owning a weapon if you're not hunting, maybe we'll require them to bring in a couple of deer tails into the local police station if they want to keep their licensed.
At this scale there is no “just.”
Does it have the excellent perf analysis that sql server express's client comes with?
Yes, this. Read lots of code. Ask why they choose that implementation. Read their bug reports.

It'll soon become obvious which ones are good codebases and which ones aren't.
By that argument, they should get cracking on HTTP/3 already. :)

Even though HTTP/2 is usable, adoption is still low (last I checked it was around 25%), and any server that supports 2 needs to support 1 for backwards compatability. It's also more complicated to implement, so I can see why you'd want to start with HTTP/1.
This is how to make 3D terrain maps "by hand", or with a lot of manual labor. Not how to use Mapbox or Cesium-JS to make an interactive map. "It is very costly to change, say, the direction of view, in the final stages of map production. Changing the direction of view by even one degree would mean starting over from scratch."

I've been trying to do 3D terrain maps in Mapbox, and real elevation isn't working yet. They only have "hill shading", which is what graphics people call bump mapping. They have an experimental project to use Three.js with Mapbox, which looks very nice, but it's just a demo right now. Cesium-JS supposedly can do 3D elevation maps, but I haven't tried it yet. These all produce live "slippy maps", like Google Earth - you can pan, zoom, rotate, and change the viewpoint.
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I think you might be reading into what the poster wrote the wrong way. the implications of a framework being able to be used the way the poster descibes is that it closely follows existing standards and best practices. So as opposed to forcing you to do things entirely differently, it helps you work the way you might already work. Quite different from an anything goes wild wild west. And as with any language or framework, whether or not it's hard to debug is up to the developer.
One possibility is that HTTP/2 is much more work to implement, and since it isn’t /absolutely/ required for base “serve a thing” functionality, it maybe be left to be implemented later.
Just as important as the methodology is this:

> The report investigates how five newspapers covered Islam in 2017

This was around the time of peak ISIS and peak Syrian civil war, the prefect time to be seeing those terms thrown around. Did they break down what section they appeared in too? 8 a day in the first couple of pages seems excessive, but if they include 3 line articles in the world news section then it's more than reasonable.

Andrew Bolt though, no matter what your view on Islam, does it really deserve mentioning in 38% of his articles.
Wow, so much downvoting for just stating an obvious thing, that extremism is a bad thing, no matter the ideology behind it.
On topic, I can't talk about 2018 because I dont have hard facts about it, but from 1992 through August 12, 2017 the distribution sets that 92% of killings were extreme islamic related, followed by a 6% of extreme right groups.[0]

Again, I find it very inappropriate to try to classify this by ideology. No extremism is less bad than the next one. No matter if its right or left, religious or any other type (remember rajneeshpuram?).
Personally, as a non american I have suffered much more of left-wing terrorism (like bombs on subways; kidnapping, torture and killing), but again and again, it doesnt really matter.

[0]https://www.cato.org/blog/terrorism-deaths-ideology-charlott...
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True, but LEDs are a lot more efficient than the sodium bulbs.

The real tell will be the every 5 minute reports that smart meters can generate on usage: much harder to fake with timers.
Yeah, but changing it back is just two clicks away, and I don't have the discipline to not do that.
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Well, I didn't make this argument specifically here, and my answer would be: it depends.

Common carriers, like Telstra (largest mobile Australian ISP), started blocking websites hosting the video. That's not OK for an ISP to do. Same as it isn't OK for e.g. a utility company to cut off power to a "nazi" (whatever that means these days) or to Bernie Sanders supporters because the utility CEO doesn't like "socialism".

Private entities actually hosting the content would be a different matter, and the decision should be up to the private entity. Unless such a private entity is a de facto common carrier in itself. I'd argue Facebook, twitter, reddit, google e.g. are de facto common carriers running general purpose platforms - given their size, influence and reach - even according to their own PR. They are analogous to a utility company, and saying "you can host the content on your own server" is like saying "you can just run your own generator for your electricity needs/use solar panels and battery" or like saying "you can always create your own telephone network if you don't like what the companies are doing; all it takes is 2 old cans and a string".

In my opinion common carrier and de facto common carriers should not be allowed to outright censor lawful content. Videos of newsworthy terrorist attacks, no matter if it is made by a terrorist (e.g. this one) or just an innocent bystander (e.g. 9/11, Las Vegas), are not illegal and should not be allowed to be censored by such de facto common carriers/de facto utility companies.
>> Nor does the TPU dev board.

Yes it does require you to send your model to Google: https://coral.withgoogle.com/web-compiler/
Maybe they can just skip 2 and go straight to 3!
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I don't know, I think a lot of people expected him to follow that directive because it shouldn't have been hard to follow, especially relative to how easy it would be to find out if he didn't follow it. There is no point in breaking that rule.
> reality is the authority

Suppose you have two theories, and you run an experiment whose results produce two assertions, each couched in the language of their respective theories, (I'd call these assertions facts). You say that reality is the authority on whether the two assertions represent the same underlying fact or different underlying facts, but it's not like there's some oracle that I can consult in the matter. So how does using reality as an authority help me individuate these facts?

And if it doesn't, then of what use is the idea that facts don't change when theories change, (except perhaps as a political too towards the discrediting of new ideas).

> The facts are the particular experimental apparatus Michelson and Morley used and the particular numbers they recorded when they made their measurements.

So you've got a bunch of mirrors and a pattern of light, and then later in the day you have the same pattern of light. That's not facts, that's just phenomena. Facts are supposed to convince me of something, and they work because they take advantage of my having already accepted the theory that supports them.

I have to suspect that anybody who presents me "facts" that don't have this quality has something to gain by distracting from their unwillingness to argue for the superiority of the their theory.

(Debate antics aside, thanks for the conversation. I've been having fun.)

Also, I think you missed my point about the trains. The statement that nobody bothered relativize until Einstein was equivalent to this:

> A train moves at 10 mph and a bullet fired from a window in the direction of the train's motion moves at 10000 mph. The speed of the bullet as measured by an observer standing beside the track is 10010 mph.

It was initially poor style to relativize this fact because its supporting theory had no competitors. It was only when Einstein proposed that simple addition was insufficient that relativizing it made sense.

As for models, I've done a bit of model theory in geometry, and I've also studied models in physics (such as the Schrodinger model of the atom), but these don't resemble a pile of mirrors and a pattern of light--they're just the sort of thing theories are made of. If I'm missing some other sort of model, please let me know.

As near as I can tell, a fact is some correspondence between a model (which lives in a theory) and some phenomenon (which lives in reality). As such, facts without corresponding theories are nonsensical.
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This post reminds me of Deep Adaption theory by Professor Jem Bendell.

https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2018/07/26/the-study-on-col...
You can use JSX with Vue but you miss out on some of the template features. Two way binding is one I think but there's add-ons that write the boiler plate for that for you. Either way, it feels uncomfortable working with Vue in a less standard way in the event you run into problems.

JSX + Vue + TypeScript is pretty nice.

HTML templates + Vue + TypeScript is not so nice because you get lots of bugs coming from the untyped templates.
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At first I was shocked, then I was mad, then I was curious, then I was actively involved in it, then I got apathetic, and now it's mostly just a fun story to tell at parties or when topics like this come up on forums.

My feelings toward him are very complicated. At surface level he's an evil asshole who violated my mother and family and hundreds of others, not to mention things like his neighborhood reputation or highly debated "kidnapping" conviction (very long story, she maybe was one of those "kidnapped herself" stories, but it's debated).

But deeper down, I wouldn't exist without him, in the sense of "I" as my identity and ego and DNA which, frankly, I wouldn't have any different. I'm happy with how my life has turned out and how I've grown to understand myself and the world and having this knowledge has only built upon that. My mother has forgiven him and like other commenters has loved me anyway this whole time thinking I was her husband's, but it doesn't change her view of me or him.

At another, weirder, impersonal level, I have somewhat of a sense of respect and awe in him for accomplishing a biological feat only possible in a short window of time and space that he figured out and exploited. It's weird to reflect on it from a purely objective biological big picture perspective.
Biases sure get a bad rap. The human brain is a bias machine, yet we only ever make lists of the biases we think are bad. (Which is a bias itself!)
I appreciate your efforts to put down missing functionality. Products evolve over time, cant expect everything in first cut and compare it with product which is staying for quite sometime
God forbid they learn which features people use more and maybe improve them?

Surely you don't use gmail or any other webmail or a web service?
Not quite. This is FP16, supercomputers are typically benchmarked using double precision flops, so FP64. So roll in a factor of ~4 there, or a couple of years.
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The blind leading the blind? Most conferences have lineups of well respected people involved in an ecosystem. From language authors to open source maintainers and such.

It seems you don't seem to understand the purpose of conferences and blogs. These talks are not to showcase the best quality production code that can pass any review process. They are to showcase new developments and new approaches to do things in a specific field. It's meant for people already in the field (or starting to get into it) trying to learn more.

If such talks have high quality production code in slides the message would get easily buried under stuff that isn't important for conveying the message they are trying to say.
Yeah and they can't cross reference it with which newspaper stories you read, for example, like google can, will and do then selling that information you did not agree to provide to google and google's customers.
Horseshit in that bench right off the bat: I have a Google Edge TPU board right in front of me and its perf on SSD300 is 70fps, not 48. That's with the browser demo, which (as far as I can tell) includes realtime encoding of h264 for streaming. Almost twice as much as Jetson, and likely in a much more modest power envelope. NVIDIA is known for dishonesty in their benchmarks. Although TPU is, of course, a quantized play, and Maxwell will really suck for that, unless it's been tweaked specifically for this board.

OTOH, fp32 models are _much_ easier to work with, and this thing has more RAM so you can waste it on 32 bit weights, and NVIDIA's software toolkit is second to none. So the Jetson looks pretty tempting as well. I just wish they didn't try to insult my intelligence.