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"This is wrong because i believe it to be so, based on my personal beliefs, therefore you should too" is almost the very definition of a subjective argument.
Though i admit i may have entirely missed the objective statement in there.
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What confuses me about the state of the art of machine learning is that at both training and execution time, there is no notion of system resources.

These systems _cannot_ runtime-optimize themselves like the human brain, because attention, boredom, frustration and other mechanisms cannot arise 'naturally' without such a notion.

Also, if the system can not infer its own boundaries (by feeding its output into itself, at least indirectly), it can not develop a notion of self and engage in meta-learning.

Given that the brain is a 20W system evolved towards learning things over a long time span in a changing environment, I'd really like to see an energy consumption comparison with current neural nets. With AutoML it may be necessary to separate network construction, feature learning and inference.

Is there a Moores law equivalent here? Maybe launch a competition: "You are given ten 10 Watt-years, create the best system for this task (e.g. image segmentation)". With current electricity prices, training a system equivalent to a 10-year old brain will cost around $100 (not including I/O and training environment).
Accelerating to a fraction of c is no small feat. As per Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, growth in delta-v requires an exponenetial growth in fuel.

Not to mention all the fuel you'd need to decelerate so you can actually stop at your destination.
Personally I believe that the reason that the AR15 is so popular (at least in the civilian world) is more that it's lego for adults who like guns, and less because of its utility as a platform.

That's not to say it's not a good rifle though, but I don't think that in a military context it's fundamentally better or worse than any of its peers, such as the H&K G36, the Steyr AUG, or the SA80.
This is the sort of black and white rhetoric that I think does not do a service to the reality involved. Of course you are correct that overgrazing is a problem, but to go from that to "using livestock to live in places we otherwise couldn't is something we do to destroy the environment" is plain wrong. I would instantly concede your point if you could moderate it to "we need to stop overdoing things", which I think is compatible with what we both see and still has merit.
Um... the difference in the AR15 and M16 is a hole in the lower receiver, an auto sear/pin/spring, and a different safety/disconnector.

It’s beyond fair to lump them into the same thing. And GP is right, there is currently no overall better personal defensive weapon in the world than the AR15/M16.
You can disable automatic garbage collection if you want to. You could also have "versioned branches", but you'd have to do it yourself, using either branches or tags. Tagging the head of a branch just before you rebase would do it.

Also, the spelling is "lose".
Yea. There was a massive training problem, no chrome bore at launch, and a few largely unearned bad rep regarding the size of the bullet.
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> Rodney Brooks (approx.): No, human ingenuity is actually responsible for progress in AI. We can’t just solve problems by throwing more compute at them.

I find this amusing considering nature just kept throwing more time at the universe until humans emerged. That said, I don't think Brooks is wrong. I can't recall where in the lectures this is, but I remember Feynman going on a rant about how poorly designed the human eye was. Human ingenuity really is an essential piece of the puzzle, seeing as Nature, in and of itself, isn't very smart.
Not OP, but off the top of my head I’m running OmniFocus, Things, MindNode, Screens, Prompt, GoodNotes, throw in a couple of $10 games over the years and I wouldn’t find it hard to get up near $500.
> If you're hoping to steadily build wealth by working for a big tech company, staying in CA long-term, and saving your money, you're playing the wrong game.

Eh, I really thing big tech is a feasible means to building wealth. Just don't confuse 'publicly traded' for 'big tech.' I understand the source of emotional pessimism, but wages for big tech seem to start around 200k, and increase annually with RSU refreshers.

It is entirely feasible to save away 100k a year in that scenario. Invested prudently, that'll compound up well with a far lower risk than the startup equity lottery, and is far more liquid. You don't even have to invest in real estate, if you're happy renting, and the current tax situation makes home ownership marginally less appealing.
As a former coffeescript fan, doesn’t the extra “clutter” in typescript syntax bother you?

I like CS very much myself. While I can see the benefit of having type system (in certain projects), I just can’t get over the aesthetic/syntax issue.
The worst I have seen is:
There is a merge commit (fixing conflicts)
and then, a "if" condition get accidentally de-indented (compared to what it should be), and now this bug is completely invisible and the code will run just fine... (until you figure out what's going on)
It amazes me how many people just don't grasp the "distributed" part of git. No repository is special and it's trivially easy to make a new one somewhere.
You are replying to statements I have not made. Even if what you say is technically true, I have not made any claims about percentages or majorities - I was merely pointing out a configuration of reality that exists and was not kept in mind when the person I was responding to wrote his comment.

I also don't understand why you are bringing up lamb and mutton, as those are far from the only animals you can keep in the conditions I mentioned. It's not unthinkable that you are making a point of some sort there, but without elaborating on it further the reader is left guessing.
Countless lives would not have been saved. Just different lives.
The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon / Dell XPS line should keep you happy.
Yep. Well, “ett känd problem” as this was in Sweden, but they acknowledged it as an Apple thing. Maybe because it was still under EU warranty?
Have there been any studies about whether Dyson swarms harvesting under 0.1% of the star's output are detectable, especially if the designers want to minimize the chance of detection?

I suspect that civilisations that make it to the Dyson swarm stage are on average a little biased towards environmentalism in order to survive past their terrestrial industrial stage.

Doesn't make sense to put a giant target on yourself until you can discount the dark forest hypothesis either, especially not when you've just beaten incredible odds to become a near-immortal truly space-faring civilisation.
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I'd be very interested in knowing what this "sense" is -- I don't think there is one.

I chose waterfall by symmetry with a hydraulic computer. A waterfall is just what we call a hydraulic computer when we're not using it for computation.

I still only see an observer-relative distinction (ie., in how it is used). One can "juggle rocks" to compute.

You've said something about "inputs" and "useless when removed". Both of these are again observer-relative. Useless gives it away.

An animal isn't "useless" when its brain is removed, because it isn't our use of it which makes it alive.
I'd think that it depends more on the wind load than the mass of the ship.

An Iowa Class battleship is around 887 ft long and around 30 feet from the waterline to the deck (ignoring everything above the deckline), so that's 26,000 sq ft. Depending on which way the wind is blowing, it seems that it wouldn't take much wind speed to exceed the force a single human can exert.
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If you want some nostalgia, StreetMap is still just as it was in 2002 or whatever.

This alone convinced my father that it was worth having Internet access at home.

http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=531500&y=181500&z=120&sv=Lo...
>piston gun is generally much better than impingement

Hello 2008, my old friend.

I’ve done high speed and thermal camera testing on AR firearms. There is no honest advantage of what you are calling piston guns over DI, which is a short piston on the carrier itself. There are good and bad examples of both, piston AR pattern guns have carrier tilt, extra weight, more parts, more required maintenance, and get just as dirty esp when suppressed as DI guns.

It’s an old opinion you have there. I lived through piston-mania 2008. DI effectively won when you look at anything remotely considering retrofit designs.
In some countries it's very hard to get a local SIM card -- eg. in Germany a few years back (before EU limit on roaming fees) I struggled to get a prepaid SIM and activate it. You need to provide name and address to activate it, and they somehow check it, so they did not accept the address of the hotel...

I guess that would be easier with eSIM, because you could buy a plan that's targeted at travellers (instead of locals), and you wouldn't be limited to the SIM card selection they sell at the gas station.
Is it just me, or does the article not attempt to explain what this has to do with "hyperspace travel"? The only thing new here is that you can plunge into oblivion without getting torn apart in the process.
I don't think recoil was the primary driver, actually. Weight was. This becomes readily apparent when you shoot a Kalashnikov side by side with AR15 (a civilian semi-auto variant of select fire M16). A loaded mag for a Kalashnikov is over twice the weight of a loaded M16 mag. And you do need to carry a lot of ammo if you don't want to run out, especially for the AK which is much less accurate.

Whoever designed the M16 realized that killing the enemy wasn't really necessary. Heavily wounded enemy is as good as dead.
A good video on parallel processing CPU bound taks with nodejs.
https://youtu.be/ZYfSe9qKaZE
Can you screenshot?

Was it Firefox asking for the permission, or android asking for the permission?
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I got an iPhone 7 after I cracked my SE and couldn't switch back to SE. 7/8 (regular, not S) have the perfect size (both the screen and the phone in general) for my hand - not too small and I'm still able to reach the upper left corner with my right thumb when holding it.

The SE screen is almost comically small when compared to its bigger brothers. I have problems typing quickly on it, too - and I don't have particularly large hands. Maybe it's not a problem for DEX builds though.
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I’m pretty sure you can make the same case about things taught in the US about vast swathes of American history like Christopher Columbus, the Louisiana purchase, the pilgrims, etc.

I’m not even American but I’ve noticed the bar’s pretty low after living here for years.

On one hand, we probably shouldn’t be making pedagogical policy based on the most gullible in our society, but on the other, everyone is gullible when they’re young and many continue to be so afterwards.
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Maybe the mutation wasn't really random? I wouldn't be surprised if at some point we find that the "90% unused brain capacity" is actually doing some long-term adaptation computations and then uses various signals to put that information into reproductive cells...
I agree, but there are cells that we do not want to die, because if they die they will not be replaced (they do not divide and there is no stem cell regenerating their pool):
* Neurons
* Retina cells
and probably many others.

Another thing is cells that are dying are rising inflammation to the point it could trigger auto-immune diseases.
Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) within cells is similar to recurrent neural network (RNN). RNN is at least useful partial model for GRN.

If you think gene expression within neurons as small RNN, it's neural networks all the way down. RNN within neuron reacts to hormones and chemical signals altering the functioning of individual neurons. There is also feedback loop to other direction.
Because Microsoft made the dumb decision to turn it on by default in IE10, which instantly repelled every ad network that wanted to stay in business and destroyed any chance of it gaining a foothold.
Ok, but I'm not just talking about people in tech.

My partner and I are, in fact, a single income household. I make somewhere around the 95th percentile of incomes in my country and I work fully remote, meaning even more effective wealth (we bought a house in a low COL area - one without a housing cartel.)

But I am extremely fortunate.
Recommendation engines don't teach, they provide opportunities. That could be useful as a learning approach, if layer on to a tech-tree /leveling learning path.

The analogy with conspiracies is flawed, pretty sure Google and Facebook don't first link to the basics of conspiracies, and then move on from there.
The increase in package size would worry me. The download and storage size of packages is nearly always more important than the decompression speed, since the package can be decompressed in parallel with the download.

Surely xz could be modified to produce the same bitstream on single core machines?
1946 was the first design that was submitted to the trials. And it was almost completely redesigned after it failed in those trials. For one example, the AK-46 prototype was short-stroke piston. Take a look:

http://fb.ru/misc/i/gallery/12424/2098509.jpg
> F#/dotnet was painful as a linux dev.

Which part made made it painful the most?
It was way better than early marks of the SA80, it took decades for that to become reliable and HK essentially rebuilding it from scratch.
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Switch the language option if one exists and try using the website in a language you don't understand. Has helped immensely for my side projects in improving UI clarity and ease of navigation.
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For clarification and in Tesla's defense: If I've correctly read some of the descriptions of his idea, it didn't involve "energy from nothing" and hence no obvious violation of thermodynamics. Rather, it involved (roughly) building huge antennas/lightning rods to tap into the natural electric potential (against ground) of the ionosphere.

As I understand it, the idea is simply impractical. But there's a huge Tesla fan base among the intersection of conspiracy theorists and amateur (pseudo)scientists who believe that Tesla's idea was scuttled and suppressed by Big Electric to protect their monopoly on generating electricity in harder ways.
The previous post's point is not that QUIC can be used for reflection attacks.

It is that it uses UDP, which means UDP cannot be blocked by simple ACLs. Blocking all UDP is a simple technique for avoiding other protocols that allow for reflection DDoS attacks.

I haven't got experience with how effective blocking UDP is as a mechanism for avoiding DDoS, but it does sound pretty simple and easy to deploy.
I run my own small business and in the last 2 years we've bought 4 macbooks. 3 of them have been in the shop for 3+ days getting their keyboards replaced. While I'm glad they replaced them, "shockingly appalling" is pretty much how I felt as well.

I don't really get the dongle complaint though. I have the USB/USB-C/HDMI dongle and I bring that if I need it for a presentation or something, but when I travel I generally just bring a usb-c wall charger and that's it.
There are lots of antibiotics left to be discovered - there is just no financial incentive to do so at the moment.

As soon as existing drugs stop working, the financial incentive will return, and more antibiotics will be developed. They'll be expensive this time though!
The point is that no model of a complex real world phenomenon is ever perfect, so, you shouldn't try to create a perfect model. But not being perfect doesn't mean that a model can't be useful; among all the possible "wrong" models, you need to identify the one(s) which is useful, ie, which models well the aspects of importance to you.
Spot on! Small point, but some AKMs are milled receivers.

On the chrome bore, there are a lot of guns that intentionally don’t chrome or melonite/nitrocarborize, but it’s typically precision guns. Oddly the HK MR556 doesn’t, but that’s probably also penny pinching as you said.

As it were, Sullivan is still around, and still working on the AR15 design. He just worked on a new carrier design that’s longer with a sliding mass for Surefire.
What? What is he doing that it makes him fear code loss?
A Kalashnikov is already an assault rifle - it uses a smaller and lower-recoil bullet than the full-powered rifle cartridges that came before it. An American design that only copied the assault rifle concept would have probably had a similar-weight round to an AK.

The M16's even lighter round was the result of a separate American innovation, the Small Caliber High Velocity bullet, which trades bullet size for propellant size. Even smaller bullet than the AK, but a flatter trajectory (hence the improved accuracy, helped along by the M16's interesting operating mechanism), and even lighter weight than first-generation assault rifles.
As I recall the GC will only touch things that have been deleted for some time (a month?), that's a long time to correct accidental deletions.

Garbage is created every time you amend or rebase. What is the value of keeping around commits that are unreachable through any branch, containing typos in the commit messages?

It seems to me that source control can really bring out the hoarder in people, a fear of throwing away anything because you might need it later. I prefer it when the commits in a repo tell a story, but keeping everything that didn't end up on the master branch... why?
Unfortunately, yes, I'm still looking for a solution for gcc
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This reads vastly like "You can't protect from a determined nation-state actor, so why would you protect yourself at all". To me it seems obviously there is a point, namely that you will hide yourself from every non-K2 civilization.
>So, I'm struggling with how the M16 would have been even a paper improvement over being "outgunned".

The round it fires is more suited for the reality of combat, which is that 90% of combat takes place within 100 meters and the last 9% happens within 300 meters of the enemy. In fact, you can't even see a normal target with non-magnified sights at 300m, much less a target that's trying its hardest to hide from you.

The M14 is designed to be effective at 600-800 meters. And the cost to being effective at that extended distance is that you have to dump lots of energy into the projectile, which means that the shooter has to deal with a large recoil impulse. If you are taking a shot at 100m with an M14, your sight picture will be completely gone after you fire once.

With the M16, however, the recoil impulse is roughly 1/3rd of the M14's (mainly due to the cartridge; the AK-47 uses a similar one energy-wise). Your point of aim doesn't meaningfully change from shot to shot, so if your first shot misses you now have the ability to try again multiple times (and can fire bursts effectively if needed). Maybe there's a slight chance you need to hit your enemy multiple times, but the cartridge makes getting that first shot significantly easier and you can carry more ammunition anyway.
The government has to fork out $43k..

That'll totally stop them doing it again...
My point being is: people often complain about readability of Clojure and Lisps in general without even giving it a heartfelt attempt. They complain about parentheses (which becomes a non-issue within literally hours after learning structured editing idioms). It's a matter of familiarity.

Some prefer semicolons and other "visual garbage" in their code, I like minimalism and structure.

No other language can retain readability on different screens like Clojure can. Even reading it in a narrow screen of a mobile phone - it would wrap, but still retain its readability. Good luck trying that with literally any other (non-lispy) language.
So the majority of the “children” in this study are 17 year old gang members?
We need instruction pipelining...
Rule number one: don't piss off your programmers. Programmers produce things that are largely unintelligible to management. The whole reason we have arguments about processes is because we can't measure the productivity of our programmers. It's difficult to even measure the quality of the work without getting other programmers involved. Even if there is a serious bug, how do you determine if it's due to bad luck, sloppy coding or sabotage? If a previously exceptional employee stops being exceptional right after you stressed them out is it because they are being stroppy or because they are stressed and can't perform?

Do not piss off your programmers. They can sink your boat either because they are stressed out and can't perform or even just because they are pissed off. If your company policies involve pissing off your programmers, you are in a pile of trouble. The real answer to this guys question is: If you can't fix your policies so that your programmers are happy, then find another job. This one is done.
Here, educate yourself about nuclear waste:

https://youtu.be/Q3EGOL4J6yI
> As in, something that learns your interests and customizes to your tastes while still teaching

As cool as it sounds, this is exactly what learning is not.

Learning is getting out of the comfort zone, usually going against what you like and discover new things, especially that you thought you liked those things before, but you actually were just liking what was popular back then.

I was deeply into car repairing and scale models when I was a kid and a young teenager.

But one of my uncles was a sci-fi fan and kept giving me books as gifts, he introduced me to computers (he had a Sinclair Spectrum 48k) and gave me my first PC (a 286, I owned the C=64 before, but I wasn't really programming it).

If it wasn't for him, I would have never become a programmer.

I was the first one to ignore what I really liked.
In our project, NAMEOF_TYPE and NAMEOF almost do not add time relative to the entire project.
But NAMEOF_ENUM can add a couple of seconds to large enums.
That’s called an iPhone or more precisely iPhone SE
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That's just motivation
Haha and you fell for that? :D

Just had to think about the Futurama episode with the myPhone.
In fact, not so much about the whole big project. May add a few seconds to the compilation.
Yes, I wanted to use Firefox private windows To limit the scope of privileged cookies (like I can with Safari) but they are no use for that.

The multi-account containers extension mostly solves the problem for me https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account... though I wish it was more convenient to open a tab in a specific container, and to discard and create containers.