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Yes, 13.8Gy is the approximate age of the universe and yes the researchers used that number. But it's not like they made this up and conveniently landed there!

Turns out the biggest decay factor is nanograting and the biggest contributing physical quantity is temperature. They plotted what decay would look like on an Arrhenius plot. They both computed estimates and measured to confirm: the measurements are quite accurate. The specific claim is that they computed that at a specific temperature (462K) the medium will last 13.8Gy: their point is that it would last as long as the age of the universe at that temperature. They could've picked any other point on the time/temp scale, like "here's how long it would last at room temperature".

They did not, however, simply make up a number with no justification, let alone commit straight-up academic fraud.

The actual paper is here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297892219_Eternal_5...
I (somewhat) watched this on my bicycle, live streaming to my mobile phone. Straight out of science fiction.
> outright laziness (which this incident clearly was)

I don't think it was clearly laziness. It could have been a configuration mistake.
Most importantly, the Government receives "Government Purpose Rights" to Data and Computer Software (including source code). The "SBIR/STTR Protection Period" gives the government a copy of the product for evaluation during which the government has limited distribution and use rights. After four years, the Government has Unlimited Rights (see the
SBIR Policy Directive [1]which means they have a royalty-free license to use, authorize others to use, distribute, and disclose said data and software for Government purposes. All of this is defined in the model contract [2] for Phase I and Phase II awards. There are some restrictions, but you'll need to read the documents carefully to determine when these items apply and/or can be excluded.

With that said, I've found SBIRs to be exceptionally useful for my business (I've won $750k in Phase I funding and administered $1M in Phase II funding). The proposal forced me to hone my idea and I received feedback fairly quickly (6 months) with a week or so of invested time. The product is built with minimal risk to my business and the Government can set up meetings with potential users (something that is exceptionally difficult if you aren't on contract). Lastly, with most SBIRs you can request up to $10-15k of additional funding for Commercialization Assistance which permits you to sit down with an adviser who can guide you on bringing your product to market. SBIRs are really an ideal method for Small Businesses to grow.

[1] https://www.sbir.gov/sites/default/files/SBIR-STTR_Policy_Di...

[2] https://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/sb/resources/model-contrac...

Edit: fixed links, added statement about my involvement with SBIRs.
> [monthly] $43,354.73

That's half a million per year. At that price, unless syprine's manufacturing process requires digging diamonds, one could probably save money by hiring a dedicated chemist (100k p/y or thereabout) and giving them the necessary money to make the drug just for one.

If I were an insurance company, I'd consider buying a small pharma outfit and target it at these orphan drugs just to save money.
It's like temporary bookmark really - something that I want to read today.

I just don't close tabs that often as I should, I forget I wanted to read or I get distracted etc.

And I don't force close tabs when closing the browser.
Moreover, high verbatim note content was associated with lower retention of the lecture material. It appears that students who use laptops can take notes in a fairly mindless, rote fashion, with little analysis or synthesis by the brain. This kind of shallow transcription fails to promote a meaningful understanding or application of the information.

The study sort of assumes that taking notes at all is necessary, but I think the conceptual understanding vs. rote memorization idea suggests that taking notes should be questionable also.

Jordan Peterson has 3 minutes of advice for taking notes conceptually rather than verbatim: https://youtu.be/lMvvdz7YJ-Q

I take notes in text files every day. I do it for work, I do it for exercise, I do it for cooking and grocery shopping, I do it for planning my day, I do it for self improvement.

Writing it out is the simplest form of explanation - I'm explaining the concept to myself. I'm analyzing it to make sure I don't have any logical holes in my thinking, and then I can refer back to it. If I try to explain the concept to another person, and they point out a logical hole or they otherwise can't grasp the point, I go back to my text file and try to find the missing pieces and add them in.

I like this because I always have the concept at the ready. Maybe I don't encounter the topic for a few months or years, and I go back and read the text file on the topic and it's like the neurons organized around the topic all come to life again - but the best part is that there are all these new neurons that I've picked up that apply to it, and the text file gets a little bigger.

It also helps me compartmentalize. Once I've written something into digital stone, I can switch contexts knowing I've pushed the concept as far as my mind can take it for the moment. Later, I can come back and pick up where I left off after my subconscious has had time to chew on it.
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Literally practice :) Each sound you choose on a workstation or synth tends to bring out a playing style that reflects your own musical listening habits and learnings.

When I play a string patch in my band it tends to have slight flourishes to what are otherwise stabby block chords. When I play piano, it's kept light, jazzy and loungy, when I play synths I heavily use the pitch bend wheel and use the sustain pedal heavily (very old example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZBdjJiMkko)

Ultimately you just have to listen to examples of what you like and try your best to replicate what they're doing in those songs. This will improve your technique and skills to the point you can use a blend of your learnings to create your own style and feel :) Good luck!
Yes he is, just not in every conversation. It's a great story and an accomplishment, but to drag it into everything becomes tiresome. We were all excited at the beginning but now, to be honest, I don't do any non-business discussions with him.
>"It wasn't a slow response, it was no response. And either is unacceptable for a tier 1 carrier."

Have you dealt with a Tier 1 carrier before? If you are not a peer i.e another Tier 1 you don't get immediate responses even in the best of times.

>"It wasn't a slow response, it was no response. And either is unacceptable for a tier 1 carrier."

No. I know people at Telia and NTT who were in contact with Verizon during the incident. Just because Cloudflare wasn't in touch with them does not mean there was no response.

>'And other carriers are actively working to change that - including, in particular, CloudFlare."

Cloudflare is not a carrier. It's surprising you don't know that and yet are so ready to criticize.
Those are not touted as a very-long-term archival solution. This one is.
> Export restriction rules “essentially deputize FedEx to police the contents of the millions of packages it ships daily even though doing so is a virtually impossible task, logistically, economically, and in many cases, legally,” it said in a filing.

Then don't export? Leave it to another company willing to take that risk and inconvenience, and price international shipping in accordance with that risk and inconvenience.
None of those are offering 5nm right now. There are only 7nm foundries out there, the article says they are perfecting their 5nm processes for commercialization, what means there are some months (maybe years) yet until we see them.

Also, Moore's Law is dead by years now. Not only process improvement became subexponential and much slower paced, but transistor density isn't growing much and the core of the Law that is cost/transistor has increased with the last 2 or 3 iterations, instead of going down.
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> The price of his insulin had apparently gone up again to $1300, which was more than he had in his bank account.

> Five days later, he was dead.

I don't mean to sound insensitive here, but... last I checked it's possible to pick up insulin (without a prescription) for $25 a bottle. Sure, it's not the same insulin he was probably on, but it does work (I was on it for many years). A little bit of searching on the web would have turned of this information; so why is he dead instead of on a different insulin?
Tread carefully, you're creating a young Look Mum No Computer! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw
I find this aspect of aws annoying - it can be hard to cleanup after these products - they litter service accounts and templates everywhere. I tried gcp very early on and struggled to get IAM granularity but perhaps it has improved
Third, it's time platforms start paying specialists for crucial things like product reviews

Given that platforms earn a commission on every sale, why should they be trusted to procure specialists' reviews? Maybe they would prefer to hire professional charlatans to boost the reviews on everything, in order to drown out the legitimate opinions of aggrieved customers?
Given that 'cronyism' means private business inducing government officials to use state force to benefit said businesses, no, it's certainly not what makes the market 'free'. The use of force by the state to entrench the position and profits of a particular business - whether by suppressing competition on threat of violence, or by straight up taking money from people via the tax system and handing it to the business - is not only not part of the "free market" ideal, but antithetical to it.
Thanks! But I guess my point below still stands, it works just fine, it's just leaky.
More money is always good for researchers. At the end of the day, being paid more is the free market doing resource allocation when basic research in other fields isn't being appropriately subsidized.
Is it just me or are most of the navigation links on http://code.call-cc.org broken? I.e., "Download" at the top (which should simply link back to that page) links to https://codecall-ccorg/, "Eggs" links to https://eggscall-ccorg/ and also "API", "Tests" and "Bugs" are similarly broken. Only "Wiki" and "Manual" seem to be right. (And if I go to either of those two, then all navigation links seem to be right).

I tried to report this, but sorry, I can't be bothered to send an email to request an account for the bug tracker, then once granted, report the issue. I also tried to see if I could just make a pull request on their website repo, but I couldn't even find that ;-(
Whats up with the Verizon employee comparing AS701 to APAC carriers? That’s a super harsh thing to publicly say about your employer.
Can't tell if your comment was generated from a markov chain or not.
no shit. people aren't trustworthy..
They also claim it will last 13.8 Billion Years and this is the problem you have with it?

Press releases. Whatta-ya-gonna-do?
That looks really great, but a little pricey. Any recs for someone who isn’t sure if they want to invest the cash into learning synthesis?
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A lot of wars lately have been proxy wars from the Cold War (or the fallout from that, particularly in the Middle East): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars

Oversimplified has a great couple of Youtube videos that explain it all (this was where Vietnam finally made some kind of sense to me) in an accessible and entertaining way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79TpDe3t2g
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Exactly. Capitalist societies take what was considered a public good, and attempt to forcefully privatize it to every individual. And then, when the individual is bad at doing it because of institutional forces against them, they are blamed individually for the failing.

> You can see this whenever someone claims that they individually were able to climb out of poverty

Oh yes. Horatio Alger (0) stories are commonplace within capitalist societies. It's one of the bedtime stories we tell each other, that with enough hard work, and some luck, you will succeed... Except for that mound of people whom worked till they died. We'll just ignore them. They were, uhh, lazy, and didn't deserve to live with the fruits of their labor.

> ...but know other people who, through their own stupidity or ignorance or bad luck, were not able to- and therefore less sympathy should be garnered to the whole of impoverished americans

Yep. Nailed it. Because there's a person who with combination of hard work, community/friendship networks, and luck, was able to climb out. So everybody who isn't, is just lazy and dumb and doesn't deserve to be helped.

> as there exists a subset that is comfortable leeching off the extremely poor social safety net that exists.

I'd also argue that the very "poor social safety net" doesn't even accomplish helping people. It only maintains a very sad, horrible, brutish life. And given its tremendously regressive practices, also enforces either illegal actions OR keeps people down in poverty.

(0) https://owlcation.com/humanities/horatio-alger
If we didn't let the rich get richer, would they then figure out other ways to enslave the poor and make their lives ever more miserable? It seems humans have a built in need for win-lose scenarios (schadenfreude?) and winning races by ever increasing margins. Cant we make a logarithmic scale for money so that 10x more money is only double the buying power?
I like notepad++ because it’s light, there’s no formatting or similar that happens if I hit 1. Space or 2. Space
Or I use a.

Additionally, I like that I can hit new and have quick new tabs of notes (instead of new windows ) and that when I close it it gracefully saves them as “new” rather then promoting me to have to save them. (Of course I have the option to save them, but it doesn’t have a prompt like word and defaults to making sure they’re saved somewhere ).
(Assuming no malicious intent from AWS) One of the reasons this is probably hard is probably because a lot of services didn't start out with having resource constraints.

So now if you support something like a "hard-billing-cap", every single service in AWS has to support it. That's a huge stone to move - it could even be in the works today.
I'm sorry but I find that horrifying.

I'm in Australia, my brothers recently diagnosed as a T1 diabetic, he's currently taking a career break to spend time with his family and get his health and medication all sorted out. Thats all fine here because the costs are reasonable, I see these reports form the US and can't help but wonder when it will get here, most 'innovations' do, fortunately the US health system doesn't seem to be getting a foot hold here.

It seems to me, as an observer, that the health system along with the cost of education have been set up to produce a slave class, I could be wrong but its definitely something that I fight to keep out of here. Five years or so ago I was regarded as a socialist, but with how things are going, most people I speak to no longer argue about it, so it seems the battle is being won here. I find it hard to understand how there aren't marches in the street over there about this.
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>In other countries insulin prices haven't risen in the same way and are still affordable. So why is the price gouging only happening in the US?

The price hasn't really risen in the US either. Or at least not as much as the article implies. The list price has gone up but the corresponding discount given to insurance companies via PBM has gone up about the same. For most people it doesn't make a difference because they buy through insurance. For people like in TFA they get screwed because they have to pay list price. Theoretically, the number of people in that situation should be 0 post Obama care but obviously there are cracks.

Unfortunately, the guy in the the articld fell through a crack. Mostly because he didn't realiZe that buying through insurance would save him a bunch of money. Or maybe he was at the wrong pharmacy to get a huge manufacturer discount.
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Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
In the UK, the newer insulins cost the NHS £30-£37 for a box of 5 x 3ml disposable pens. Diabetics don't pay any charges for the prescription.
Ada is being actively used by Nvidia in some of their research:

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/02/05/adacore-secure-auto...
Living in a high cost of living area is voluntary consumption just as much as leasing a new BMW or going on European vacations twice a year. If he wants to stop "just treading water", then he can move somewhere else, such as a place that's not in the top 3 most expensive areas in the country; just like the guy with the BMW can buy a used Honda instead.
Thank you for this point (and book recommendation). It has clarified my thinking on dark patterns, something I've long suspected. We need to (re)educate designers about the mistakes they're making, in service of what I assume are data- hungry marketing employees.

I also enjoyed and support the phrase from the article: "confirmshaming."
By that definition I can double the dimensionality of the storage by adding a second disk.
I really want to love Julia. I've never gotten over the startup time, slow string functions, and package manager repl thing. Perhaps I was getting into it at a bad time, right around the time the new package manager was being announced. The whole thing felt very magic... too R like for comfort.
."Ah. You seem to be confused. I am not affiliated with Cloudflare, and have not worked with Cloudflare at any point in time."

So you are just parroting statements made by Cloudflare in a marketing-laden blog post but doing so in a matter of fact way? I see.
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Its not irrelevant, because the terms white supremacist and neo-nazi have merged.

Meanwhile Netanyahu campaigns with Trump, names a town in the Golan after Trump... which violates the key characteristic of white supremacy: namely not liking Jews; ergo he is not a white supremacist
That's a horrible example to call out AI.
He is not being overly optimistic.

The carriers are not executing well on the concepts you describe, despite the feasibility of what you are proposing. Https everywhere is breaking things for the carriers. Tracking flows and reversing them for all customers is a non-trivial state management and storage problem.
I have not found a good tutorial or paid online class on how to _play_ synths

Synths take many forms. If you want to play a synth with a keyboard, then learning piano would give you the concepts and techniques. Not all synths have a keyboard though...
Levy a tax on the wealthiest to repay the loans of anybody who had to take one out over the last 50 years.
Thank you. This sounds like a book I need to read.
> I don't think this is fair

Why - she can say whatever she wants. Maybe she's wrong, I don't know, but why waste time on trying to figure it out?

There are many contributions by China-based contributors (Chinese or others).

I don't even know who contributes to all the apps and utilities I use, and I don't care. If they work well, I use them. It doesn't matter who maintains the project.

If a Canadian contributes to a Microsoft open source project, it's also a Canadian project. Move on.
I'm actually pro making carbon emissions tariffs, and then subsidising coal.

The subsidy can be made the same size as the tariff, but reduce over time.

It also gives the coal plants a massive incentive to look for ways to increase efficiency. If they can generate slightly more power from the same amount of emissions, they will make lots more money.
Hmm, I've been using a Pi 3B as a router for ~6 months with no issues like that. I wonder if these were resolved at some point?
The state, not private interests, should spearhead production and research of pharmaceuticals, it should be part of basic developed-country infrastructure, like transportation and education.
https://www.newsweek.com/concentration-camps-alexandria-ocas...

> "Concentration camps are considered by experts as 'the mass detention of civilians without trial.'

Even without photos, we know there is mass detention of civilians without trial.

Do you deny that?

What term do you want to use? From the same link:

> We don't say 'prisons' because prisons are a part of the formal legal system," Lester Andrist, a sociologist who has studied indefinite detention, tweeted.

Or would you prefer "internment camp", like we used for Japanese Americans? From the same link:

> "I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again," the Takei tweeted. The Takei family was interned in Arkansas and California in the 1940s.

Or perhaps you want to reserve 'concentration camp' only for the Nazi death camps? From the same link:

> Federico Finchelstein, a historian at the New York-based New School, agreed that the progressive congresswoman is right to call the ICE facilities concentration camps.

> "As [a] historian of fascism & [the] Holocaust, I would also call these centers concentration camps," Finchelstein tweeted. "As a Jewish person who lost family in [the] Holocaust, I regret that some Republicans use memory of the Holocaust to defend racist policies of Trumpism."

From https://beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/20/concentrat... :

> A 1998 Ellis Island exhibit drew outcry from the Jewish community and others after the Japanese American National Museum titled it, “America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience.” To the museum’s curators — and to many historians and leading Japanese American organizations today — “internment” or “relocation camps” were euphemisms for the reality of what Japanese Americans endured. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court justices, the museum noted, had both referred to the Japanese American camps as concentration camps.

> ... Ultimately, Jewish and Japanese American groups held meetings to reach an understanding, Schiffrin reported. The exhibit’s title stayed, but with one long footnote on the flier, making clear that it was not an attempt to directly compare the Japanese-American camps to Nazi camps.
In India, it is around 330 USD (3 cartridges of Lantus, around 650 INR -> ~ 10 USD each), which again can be claimed.
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Yes, 13.8Gy is the approximate age of the universe and yes the researchers used that number. But it's not like they made this up and conveniently landed there: they computed a range of options and worked back from that specific number to prove it'd work for as long as we could possibly care.

Turns out the biggest decay factor is nanograting and the biggest contributing physical quantity is temperature. They plotted what decay would look like on an Arrhenius plot. They both computed estimates and measured to confirm: the measurements are quite accurate. The specific claim is that they computed that at a specific temperature (462K) the medium will last 13.8Gy -- but their point is that it would last as long as the age of the universe at that temperature, not that the pulled a number out of their backsides.

The actual paper is here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297892219_Eternal_5...