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> In all fairness, alcohol is drugs, anyone who disagrees is playing a dangerous game of definitions and of health.

No, alcohol is arguably much worse. Lets put aside health effects, and even related issues like deaths from drunk driving. The more insidious issue, is that in many parts of society, alcohol is a required component of social interaction. Many standard human activities, including dating, networking, enjoying art, even religious gatherings, all include some aspect of alcohol. None of these activities strictly requires alcohol, it's just that we've been conditioned over tens, hundreds, or thousands of years to accept it.

In contrast, illegal drugs have the benefit of being anti-social. Almost by definition, illegal drugs are substances that are not tolerated in society. Accordingly, doing illegal drugs provides a level of agency, it's a behavior you decided to do rather than one that has been forced upon you. It's an assertion of your free will.

Alcohol and drugs are entirely different. One is a choice and one is a law.
No, the article very explicitly states that she is intersex. She has both female and male features.
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Gender isn't the same as sex, and this is probably the best example of it. This person is intersex. They do not fall into the binary world that you're trying to push.
That’s not correct. What you are saying is that there is no plausible organized effort that could stop or slow the creation of signal processing models that will have pronounced negative impacts. The error is on two levels: you are using too much analogy with other technologies. And you are writing off the possibility of stopping ai when it’s still not clear that it can’t be stopped.

This isn’t something that can be built and tested in isolation like other things we are familiar with. Training these models is not an exact science. Nothing about ai is an exact science. Progress only comes with trial and error. And each trial requires huge compute resources; at least for the most capable and dangerous models. It can’t be done in your basement. Not without significant effort and drawing attention to yourself. Could we sense whenever someone was trying to do it? Could we form a global coalition to stop every attempt? That brings us to the next thing.

What you are doing is the following: we are both in a car that is about to roll off a cliff. I propose that we try pressing the brakes. You respond by saying that, geez it looks like we probably wouldn’t stop in time — we are going awfully fast and it probably wouldn’t work to press the brakes so why even try? Let’s just brace our heads and hope the impact doesn’t kill us.

Obviously the better thing to do is to try and press the brakes. Even if you aren’t sure if you can stop in time.
For me it's difficult to comprehend this, as my native language just does not have 2 words for it.
> It's really important to observe the feelings and not let it get out of control. It's also critical to understand why the feeling came, how it developed, and what it means about ourselves.

You just described Emotional intelligence, which I gained by practising Yoga, meditation and stoicism. I used to be neurotic and my anxieties ruled me. I didn't get angry often but when I did it was explosive. People were often surprised cause they never thought I could be like that. Three years ago, burnt out, feeling empty and seeking purpose, I quit working and began searching. Trust me when I say that I had no idea what I was searching for. I just needed to search for 'meaning' and purpose. It led me to yoga and meditation and my life began to change. I started to gain Emotional intelligence and better control of my nerves. It was like I was born again. My anger outbursts slowly disappead. I able to observe About a year after I began yoga and meditation, I got a copy of The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and I got even better. After 3 years I went back to work.

I practice yoga and meditation with my kid. It was hard at first, but I tried to make it fun for her. Now she enjoys it. I teach her about Emotional intelligence and read the daily Stoic with her when I can. She loves Epictetus :)
The article does make point that the biology isn't that clear. Yes, much of her physiology is more male than it would typically be, but her external characteristics aren't male. so summarising that "she" is a "he" is a gross oversimplification of exceptional circumstances.
Yes, but there is something to be told for wading through mountains of junk to unearth something notable, I think many book nerds connect to that feeling.
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Tangentially, is there any estimation of the amount of words/sentences that a kid may have heard by the time he or she learns to talk?
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The whole debacle is just sad. No matter what they do it's unfair to someone.
Isn't splitting Olympic Games by 2 (or more?) dimensions is in general a sort of propaganda of gender inequality?
Dreaming is not a bonus for everyone.

Almost all of my dreams were nightmares and so for over a decade, I couldn't sleep without the light on, at least once a month I couldn't fall asleep until sunrise.
I eventually decided that I would stop dreaming, and so I told myself every evening and every morning that "I do not dream" until one day it was true.

I need about 10 hours of sleep to feel refreshed and about a handful of times a year I still have a dream or nightmare. I wish I could get by on only a few hours of sleep a night.
Genetically speaking it seems that it is binary world, either you're XX or you're XY. Or at least that is what I understood from the article. Is there another combination I'm not aware of?
That's a really nice try. I'm sorry no one has ever told you a joke that made you laugh or treated you with concern and kindness when you were down or gave you a gift.

The chain only ends when one link is left unconnected to another. That is why happiness only to the extent that people keep creating it from whole cloth. It is our choice.

Every compassionate act creates happiness in the receiver and then the feedback loop creates it in the giver. Once a person has tasted enough such transactions, that is all one wants.

Mock congratulations to you, my fellow traveler! You are just like Trump. That is not a good thing.

Choose to spread light and love to one and all and reap the benefits of that sowing! Or choose to live in shallow animalistic competitive selfishness and experience their brutish life in the company of callous alpha-seeking pack members who will have you so long as you keep your place or provide value for their worldly pursuits, ever ready to take you down a peg and show you the door.

Me, I'd rather hang out with the likes of Louis Armstrong. "Love baby, love. Yeaaaaaaaah."
No need to get conspiratorial. Industry jobs nosedived since the 80s all over Western Europe (and beyond) for well known reasons.
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Coding efficiency is heavily influenced by the time it takes to iterate. Once you write something, the time it takes to test it out, change it, and try something new provides a nice upper limit on how fast you can develop software.

The speed of iterating changes to code has a huge influence on the tools that you use. In a language like C, compiling new changes to code can take many seconds or sometimes minutes. Thus, you'll want to have heavy duty tools that can carefully analyze how your code is operating.

In contrast, in a scripting language, changing a line and rerunning the code can take far less time (a few seconds for even large programs). Thus, you can iterate more often, and so you don't have to be as careful in each iteration.

The moral of the story is that debuggers can be extremely helpful for some languages, especially those that take a long time to compile. However, while still helpful, they are far less helpful for languages that you can run quickly (I'm thinking Python here).
That's like saying that, your child gets to go to a public school, just like a rich child. The rich child just happens to be able to afford a private school.
It's not just genetics.
I used Tellico to scan my library, it can automatically lookup the books from Amazon with their ISBN if you have a barcode scanner (else you have to type them by hands...)

http://tellico-project.org/
It’s absolutely mind-boggling that virtually every major outlet in the world reporting the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling yesterday has failed to mention one of the most important facts of the entire case. Caster Semenya has XY chromosomes.

Not really.

Genetics is generally a poorly understood subject. Even in online discussion groups for people with genetic disorders, basic information about genetics is often not well understood by many of the members, even though almost all will be there because either they or an immediate family member has a genetic disorder.
Yes, many.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK115545/
https://twitter.com/volker_simonis/status/105261065466907443...
> But if the surface has two sides, can it not? Consider the classic "gravity well" demonstration of a heavy ball placed on an elastic membrane. It forms a concave surface. Now turn your head upside down and look at the membrane from underneath. You'll see a convex surface. Same membrane, different curvatures.

You're thinking of this as someone who can look at the surface from the outside, in which case it makes sense to consider convex and concave curvatures to be different. But if you're restricted to moving within the surface, there's no way to tell the difference.

Within the surface, you can only measure the distances traveled along certain paths. For these distances, it doesn't matter whether you're walking across a hill or a valley of the opposite shape. The metrics of these surfaces are exactly the same.

That doesn't mean that negative curvature is impossible, just that it isn't as simple as inverting convex and concave. A negatively curved two-dimensional surface curves simultaneously in opposite directions, like a saddle point. But there's no way to have two surfaces with inverted curvatures at corresponding points, since curvature is determined by the arrangement of points, which means that inverting curvature obliterates the whole concept of "corresponding points" by arranging them differently.
> So going back to the premise that women’s sport is the PROTECTED category, and that this protection must exist because of the insurmountable and powerful effects of testosterone, my opinion on this is that it is fair and correct to set an upper limit for that testosterone

They use the "protected category" expression in the article
There actually are more combinations involving three chromosomes. They make binary classification quite... impossible
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There actually are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_chromosome_anomalies
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Ironically, .NET was created because MS tried and failed to take over the Java ecosystem using an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish approach that ran afoul of SUN's licencing deal with them.
I believe happiness requires respecting the overall natural environment
Or people who have a Y chromosome yet lack the SRY gene, or lack a Y chromosome but have the SRY gene on another chromosome.

It's incredibly complicated and it's frankly amazing that sexual dimorphism and reproduction works even as well as it does.
> Is there another combination I'm not aware of?

Yes, lots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorders_of_sex_development
It isn't propaganda to acknowledge that elite male athletes are better than elite female athletes, for any reasonable definition of better.

Therefore, if we want any women participation in the Olympics, we have to have more than one category.
In the Netherlands, meals and other benefits provided by the employer are taxed into oblivion after a certain amount. It makes a lot of financial sense to just give your employees more money here and let them buy their own stuff after income tax. The way it works is that a company can spend 1.2% of the yearly income on the employee in terms of coffee, company retreats, free lunches, whatever they please, but over that you pay a huge tax rate which make the expense slightly higher than an employee buying it themselves after income tax. Some things are exempt from this, such as free fruit.

In practice this means that the cheaper things, such as coffee and tea are usually free (at least in offices with white collar workers) and the more expensive things such as dinner are usually not employer provided. Company provided lunch does exist, and seems to be on the rise, but due to the spartan nature of Dutch lunch, companies are usually able to squeeze that in the 1.2% given that the yearly salaries are high enough. It seems to me that all of this is quite a nice compromise between employers running your life and you thus being limited in your choices, while still offering free coffee and the like.

Edit: misremembered the amount, changed 1.8 to 1.2%
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Well, in a performance point of view it is a fact that women perform 10-12% worse then men (from the article) in certain disciplines. The genders are quite measurable not equal in this metric.
But genetically non-binary individuals make up a tiny proportion of the population. To a first approximation, there are two genetic sexes and saying so is a reasonable generalization, even though there are edge cases like Semenya that should be dealt with sensitively.
Of course, it's discrimination. That is the whole point.
Caster Semenya is a guy competing in Women's sport so that he can win medals and accolades much more easily than competing in Men's sport.

People like Caster Semenya will end up destroying Women sports.

[EDIT]: To the people downvoting, care to explain why Caster Semenya does not compete in Men sports instead of Women.
Biology is messy, so in reality there are many more combinations.

What's one of those touchy subjects is that those other combinations are clearly outliers, and while we should obviously accept everybody as humans, it's much less clear why society as a whole should complicate the notions of sex/gender so much for the benefit of a few, especially when this complication is arguably in many cases not really necessary.

(There are obvious and indisputable things that society should do to accomodate people with outlier sex, like distinguishing bathrooms by stalls vs. urinals instead of by gender/sex, and getting rid of gender/sex questions on pretty much all forms/questionnaires ever. What distinguishes those changes from some others is that they're about making gender less significant rather than more significant, i.e. they're attempts to solve the problem by simplifying gender/sex instead of making it more complicated.)
Rich/Poor are not genetic qualities. It's more like saying girls and boys go to different schools, because they have different abilities to learn.

Which is obviously not true in learning and, as it turns out, in sport.
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No. If it was my own machine I'd certainly try it out – but it's work's machine running Debian stretch, so we switched to a difference NIC with a Realtek interface which has given no problems and meets our performance requirements.

To be clear, this appears to be a problem with the newness of the chipset and the time it takes to get drivers into upstream – the chipset we switched to had its fair share of teething problems when it first came out.

Intel had a long-standing reputation for rock-solid network cards with great open-source drivers ready the day of release – a reputation Realtek has never really had.
Well it certainly does invite the question of why the olympics does not further divide the games to make it fairer for other groups, say a basketball division for shorter people...they do for boxing already re feather and heavy weights). Perhaps it is better to just let people compete all together no matter their sex, and let the best succeed. I do not doubt there are a number of sports that female athletes would dominate. ---Seems better than asking a woman to change her body because it doesnt fit a feminine archetype for testosterone levels.
It may be that the issue is complex, but the fact that she has XY chromsomes is definitely a salient fact. There are basically two defining characteristics of masculinity at a biological level: XY chromosomes and testosterone. She has XY chromosomes and elevated testosterone. It certainly may be that there is additional nuance yet to be revealed, but to not report on one of these facts is unbelievably dishonest.
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thanks for the link, it's very interesting. My next question (in general, not to you) would be to know how these people with the other combinations are classified by the sports organizations. It seems like a really complex issue, and to form an opinion one needs to really get into the nuances. I think the press pushing the narrative that women are discriminated against without at least a mention of the nuances involved is a bit irresponsible. The discussion here might help some folks to form a more informed opinion.
One issue I have with Anki is that for every new format of cards I try, it takes about a year to know whether it works better or not.

For instance, I have taken a different approach to vocabulary since I found that single words (e.g. in French) were sometimes hard to recall after a very long time. I now almost always use a cloze sentence, and ideally the sentence I encountered the word in, so that I combine active recall with remembering the context, which usually settles the issue of multiple possibilities. However there is no way of knowing how this will work out in the long run. Does anyone have telltale signs that indicate if a card, although you may do well for months, will not do well past the, say, 1yr threshold?
What matters is, is it standardized? Self medication often lacks this...
I’m not sure leaving out relevant details because they are poorly understood is good journalistic practice, especially when those details are central to what’s being discussed. It would only take a paragraph to clarify what XX, XY, and intersex means. It’s exactly what the writer of the linked article did.
It wasn’t designed at all. It’s an accident of history.

After WWII the government didn’t remove wage controls right away so businesses started offering health insurance as a differentiator. They wrote it off their taxes as a business expense. Over time through lobbying and tax code rewites this expense became enshrined and untouchable, to the extent that the foregone taxes are the single greatest annual tax expenditure outside of the military.
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I'm not sure, if it's really the free part. I had free food at a previous employer and loved it, but a company cafeteria with high-quality food, fast service and acceptable prices serves the same purpose. And every single company cafeteria I ate in so far had same or better quality food with more options. The important thing is that there is an easily available place for good food.

Big corps in Germany (and probably all around the world) usually offer that, while small companies for obvious reasons cannot afford it.
Where this boundary where we can acknowledge that one category of people is _better_ in something and needs to participate only in _protected_ type of some events?
Why does that matter? It functions just like a regressive tax and social program. It still contributes to the deficit and is money the government needs to take out of the economy.
This is great. I’m a musician interested in - but having trouble - ‘learning to code’, as well. Going to work through your examples and see where that gets me. Thanks for the great article, would love to see more in the future.
I think it is worrying that some types of facts sometimes appear to be left out or be misrepresented seemingly willingly to produce a certain image. That's not what I expect from good news reporting.

As an example take the 1.7% intersex figure quoted in the article. Apparently a reporter took this to big number to inflate the importance of her message. I think that disqualifies such an author to be credible.
> Spielberg and colleagues clearly didn't know it

I don't think this is true at all. Micheal Creighton's book on which the movie was based made it really clear how birds and dinosaurs are connected. I am positive that Speilberg read it.

The movie makes a lot of references to the connection:

Dr. Alan Grant : A turkey, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side.

Later:

Dr. Alan Grant : [the dinosaurs change direction] The wheel uniform changes just like a flock of birds evading a predator.

In another scene:

Lex : [the T-Rex has just killed a Gallimimus] I want to go now.

Dr. Alan Grant : Look how it eats.

Lex : Please!

Dr. Alan Grant : [to Tim] I bet you'll never look at birds the same way again.
>It’s absolutely mind-boggling that virtually every major outlet in the world reporting the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling yesterday has failed to mention one of the most important facts of the entire case. Caster Semenya has XY chromosomes.

This is a minefield of an offensive topic, but I will give it a shot.

Each outlet has a narrative that all stories support. "Right wing" outlets like Breitbart run the narrative that women are being pushed out of their own sports organizations by (insert polite term for all of the recent expansions to the definition of women here.) Most others run the narrative that this expanding definition has no negative consequences and we all accept it with jubilation. Reporting the XY chromosome detail could cause some readers to support the opposing narrative.
That doesn't prevent unauthorized reading of the cookies. The only way to properly prevent it is using a different domain/subdomain.

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Perhaps Golang was designed to replace C, but from what I've seen that doesn't seem to be happening. Most converts seems to come from the other direction, from Python and server side Javascript.

There is a clear trend there to grow static features, and I think a lot of people ask themselves why they shouldn't go directly to a more traditionally compiled language then.
Vivaldi is only slightly more closed source than Chrome.

Anyway, used to be Firefox had a lot more going for it than being open source. Now that's really the only thing left I can think of.
I have experience with Belgium, the 2 - 3x ratio is only true when considering the net wage of the employee.
They're not genetic but they still follow parental lineage. I'm making the point that advantages that people start out with are already not equal, that equality can't be simplified so much that you can just say, they have the same opportunities and that's enough.
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Correction: You are in a car that doesn't have any brakes.