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> Purely coincidentally this is the same effect as making the tax system more progressive, but actually it's all about climate change.

Is it purely coincidental? My problem with climate activists is that they have the additional goal of redistributing wealth and the means of production as an end in itself. When climate activism becomes less about socialism and actually about the climate, then I will take the threat more seriously. There is a reason that most climate change policy is split on party lines. Conservatives don’t hate the environment any more than liberals love it, but the deep seated aims of the climate movement aren’t solely about climate, it’s about increasing government control of every aspect of a person’s life, using fear of catastrophe as the means. If the government can control how people use energy, they control everything, freedom disappears for the “greater good” of the climate.

We saw this after 9-11: the fear of terrorism was used to convince people to give up freedom in exchange for security. Privacy and getting on airplanes faster was less important than not dying from terrorism. The government took significantly more power and people willingly gave it to them because terrorism.

The Marxist roots of the climate movement are hard to dispute. When the Soviet Union fell, global warming suddenly became a thing. The pro-communist crowd pivoted to climate as a means to their ends. In the 1970s literally global cooling was the issue, then there was the ozone layer, the rainforests, whales — none of those issues involved an attempt to completely destroy capitalism. They were seemingly authentic concerns about the environment. But now, those in the climate movement “coincidentally” have progressive economic outcomes as goal. Even one of the UN officials a few years back stated that even if the climate issue wasn’t a thing, the redistribution of wealth was a positive outcome from climate policy. The fear of climate change is being used to promote the dismantling of capitalism. There is a reason the American communist party is very passionate about climate change policy while libertarians and conservatives aren’t. It isn’t like communists have any particular track record for caring about the environment, but it’s a useful tool by which they can bring about their desired economic change.

Of course there are those here that will strongly disagree and claim that concern over climate change is purely altruistic, however unlike saving the whales, there are people getting extremely rich from this issue. Al Gore became a billionaire profiting from the very issue he helped promote. Green energy companies would love to destroy fossil fuels because that would give them all the power and money. Governments love the climate issue because they can use that to force people to live however they dictate or else people have to pay a lot of money in taxes which can then be used to expand the government and further control people. If feel like the majority of people concerned about the climate are authentic in their concern, but they are being used by political and economic interests. Useful idiots, to borrow a Soviet phrase.
> AGI itself is merely taking the bullshit to the next level.

You sir are a heretic! Are you saying that transformers along with a gazillion GPU-years of compute, and tons of intern-descent at the hallowed halls of OpenAI, Google and Facebook, can't solve AGI ? You must be out of your mind!
In lectures, note-taking at all should be avoided, most of the time.

Most lectures cover material that is presented very clearly in accompanying materials, books or the internet. The idea I could do a better job than those authors while listening to the stuff for the first time is ludicrous. And at least for me it doesn't help recollection or focus to write notes while listening, and many students report they can take notes without the information passing through their brains. Other people swear they have to take notes to focus.

There are exceptions of course, for example if the information is new and any other available material is worthless.
I’m the same, this was before professors posting lectures were a thing. I still graduated at the top of my class in CS, there are many people out there who get by well without note taking, or even attending lectures very much (just go by the syllabus and self study).

Also, as a lefty, note taking is a bit more challenging (even when I could snag the proper desk) and I probably just compensated in other ways.
Where is the footnotes?
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A Pi 2 at work runs a Grafana playlist on a spare display.

A Pi 3 at home runs a Flask server that collects data from sensors around the house (ESP8266 + SHT20 for temp/humidity), and provides a web page that overlays sensor data on a diagram of the house. I've been curious about CO2 levels in the bedroom overnight, and have parts for that experiment on order.
Out of curiosity, do you know what factors are mainly driving the costs so high?

Thinking about it naively, I can guess at a few possibilities:

- it's highly labor-intensive

- it requires highly specialized skills that command incredibly high prices on the labor market

- it requires lots of prototyping iterations that require expensive materials

- the prototypes are produced on machinery with high opportunity costs

- IP licensing costs

I'm wondering if one of these in particular is the dominant cause, or if it's all of them in conjunction, or if there are other major factors I'm not thinking of.
This isn't really true. Billing opacity scares off small clients (it's one of the biggest reasons that, as a consultant, my clients leaned away from AWS) and can make larger clients consider diversification or divestiture.
GF's dad mentioned there used to be little fading towns like this all over the Midwest. A lot of them now if you drove through you wouldn't know they'd been there. Farmers used to need store within 5 miles back when they used wagons on dirt roads. When they got cars, that increased to 15 miles. And when they paved the roads it went to 30-60 miles. Same time consolidation of farms meant less people.
> DNS as an abstraction layer is useful

Indeed. Which means it's not "basically useless for the average person", since the average person needs it in order to find the websites they want to visit.
I'm 53 and work in IT for a 'funky' learning/media company, ranking among the seniors in both age and position.

I have a customised Cornell Notes* Word doc template, and I run off batches of 5-10 sheets to take to meetings and training sessions. My colleagues typically turn up with their tablets, surfaces, laptops, phones and 'multitask', however a few have started to adopt my method - it's been particularly useful for client meetings where I have been able to later confirm sub-points or asides mentioned by customers - sometimes months later. It's also very easy to drill down through Quarterly reviews and link chains of historic comments 'on the fly' - for example, being able to confirm that so-and-so first mentioned something about a similar technical issue on a different system 12 months ago.

My 'Cornell' style has developed an element of mindmapping on the pages, which makes it easy to track conversations or sections of meetings that break off into side discussions/brainstorming.

The biggest benefit is that the structure of all notes is consistent, so not only can I find things very quickly, but others can interpret them too - this is a particularly powerful way to allow teams to share, compare and understand someone else's notes, even months after the meeting or training took place.

Edit: I also believe it looks very professional in customer meetings when everyone from the same business is taking notes in a similar way, using identical stationery.

I've been working this way since the mid 1990s and find it beats all forms of tech.

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

http://lsc.cornell.edu/notes.html
Given that she has already gotten threatening messages, that seems like a reasonable response. The primary responsibility should be to the safety of the employee.
Can you explain more about what kind of data entry is that exactly? Also how exactly did you automate it? Have you written about it anywhere?
A managed switch is basically an embedded server with super-slow storage. If it's of a certain age you might pop the cover and find a CompactFlash card.

I run my most critical piece of home infrastructure (PiHole, of course) bare-metal on an ancient NUC-like thing with a $20 SSD because it boots and is responding to network requests in like 6 seconds.
I'm trying to get into the habit of writing messy mindmaps, then redrawing those as a process to understanding the material. One single glance at a Mindmap a week later and I reactivate the concepts and understanding. Especially important for building internal context (how the components relate to each other)
High odds are for unlikely events. Low odds means something will probably happen. People often use the expression the other way around.
For me the best way to take notes in lectures is/was a Boogie Board Sync which is sadly not available any more.

It is the best of both worlds. You basically have a zero latency touchscreen that can save your notes to PDF.

Even the best Tablets today have latency, most are designed more as touchscreen. Writing gets tiring and distracting really quick.

I wonder why the Boogie Board Sync was discontinued.
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I'm using a cheap submersible water pump controlled via relay by a python script running on raspberry pi.
Water pump is connected to a clear vinyl tube for water distribution to the plant.

Availability of water level at source is checked by a non-contact liquid level sensor.

Triggers for watering plant are defined as follows:
1. There is water in tank / source (checked by non-contact liquid level sensor)
2. Soil moisture level is below certain threshold (measured by 2 soil moisture capacity sensors embedded in the plant)
3. Watering duration is determined by current soil moisture level; Python script activates relay to run the pump for the right duration.
4. Same python script also:
- activates camera to record watering (+2s buffer to have all on the video) via usb cam connected to the pi (leveraging opencv lib)
- uploads recorded video automatically to youtube channel (if pi has internet connection)
- summarizes watering event and sends me notification with link to the recording and other helpful stats (temp, humidity, moisture level etc.)
- saves all metrics to sqllite db for future reference

Key parts I ended up using for the project:
1. Water pump: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWXV7DE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

2. Non-contact Liquid Level Sensor -XKC-Y25-NPN: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D3246BH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

3. Gikfun Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H3P1NRM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

4. Relay: https://www.amazon.com/KeeYees-Channel-Indicator-Arduino-Ras... (though I just bought my when visiting Fry's)

Primary motivation to do the project was so that wife can have pice of mind knowing plants are taken care of while we are away on longer trips.

Hope this helps.
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Yes, it at least partly depends on the reason you are taking notes. If it's purely to use for studying that's one thing. But if it's for writing a story, a trip report, or for otherwise sharing, there are a lot of reasons to have more of a verbatim record.

Ideally, I suppose I'd have an accurate transcript and I could just take time-stamped notes that could key to that transcript but that's not the reality. (I know I can record audio but, in practice, going back to audio after the fact is just too much work for most purposes.)
We all knew this was going to happen/is happening.

'I have nothing to hide from the government' yeah what about the mafia, criminals and such that could/will access the data?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/nsa-att-intercept-surveill...
I've owned an EPC8, Silvia with PID, and an E61 machine and I can tell you the flair is my favorite machine
How do you get those zeroes and ones into a machine-readable format, without a trusted text editor or OS?
Your comment reminds me of this xkcd cartoon:
https://xkcd.com/1425/

It's 5 years old now (coincidentally the time span quoted to develop a solution), but recognizing a bird was already considered a solved problem 3 years ago, less than 2 years after the publication of the cartoon.

Predicting the future is hard.
Some painful combo of Trumpet Winsock/Win 3.1/Netscape at that time if I wanted more than just lynx, all received via xmodem from the local ISPs shell server using Telix. No Google, maybe help from the local NNTP group.

I do remember this project, and using it for maybe a few weeks. They did track seeds and watering, there were limits to prevent a specific area from being watered too frequently. I don't remember much else.
Reach out to me via email and I'm happy to talk further.
I suspect it more typically degrades. I always had poor handwriting scores but, over time, I wrote more and more for my personal consumption and speed became more important than style. Arguably shorthand would be more useful for people in general than impeccable Palmer script.
Just temperature monitoring, really. I have sensors measuring temperature right at HVAC input, output, attic temperature, as well as home interior temp and outside temp and humidity.
It wasn't The Verge that originally said the Pi4 struggled to play YouTube videos [1], it was Tom's Hardware [2].

Tom’s Hardware’s review notes that the hardware is able to handle many everyday tasks such as web browsing with up to 15 Chromium tabs, light image editing using GIMP, and document and spreadsheet work using LibreOffice. Unsurprisingly, the sub-$100 miniature PC has its limits. It reportedly struggles with full screen video playback from YouTube for example, even if you turn down the resolution to 480p.

Tom's Hardware were using a pre-release OS so it's possible the issues with video playback were caused by this?

It’s important to note that, at launch time, some important Raspberry Pi software doesn’t yet work on the Pi 4. To run Pi 4, you’ll need to download a brand new build of the Raspbian OS, Raspbian Buster. And not everything runs in Buster yet. During testing, we found numerous Python libraries or other required packages that weren’t compatible with the new OS.

My biggest problems involved video playback. If I wanted to watch a YouTube video, I had to keep it in a window, because even in 480p resolution, it was jerky at full screen. The other task I’d like to perform is playing retro games, but as of this writing, the Retropie package of emulators doesn’t work with Pi 4.

During extensive hands-on testing, I found that, while the 4K at 30 Hz is tolerable, little things like the movement of the mouse pointer are a bit sluggish. If you have a 4K screen, you’re definitely better off going for the 60 Hz mode, but note that the added voltage may also cause your CPU to get hot and throttle more easily.

While surfing the web, looking at still images and just enjoying all the extra screen real estate of 4K is great, video playback is the Raspberry Pi 4’s Achille’s heel, at least as of this writing. Whether we were attempting to stream a 4K video or use a downloaded file, we never got a smooth, workable 4K experience, either in Raspbian Buster or LibreElec, an OS that runs the Kodi media player. Several H.264 encoded videos, including Tears of Steel, did not play at all or showed as a jumble of colours. Even the sample jelly fish videos that the folks at Kodi recommended for my testing appeared as still pictures with no movement. Clearly, there’s a lot of optimization that still needs to be done both on the OS and software side to make the Raspberry Pi 4 capable of playing 4K video.

Unfortunately, even streaming 1080p YouTube videos is a challenge at this point. Running at 1080p resolution, full screen video trailer for Stranger Things showed obvious jerkiness. However, the playback was smooth when I watched the same clip in a smaller window. The same problem occurred, even when I dropped the stream’s resolution down to 480p.

Playing offline 1080p videos works well, provided your screen is at 1920 x 1080 or lower resolution. A downloaded trailer of Avenger’s Endgame was perfectly smooth when I watched it using the VLC player.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/6/24/18715211/r...

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-4-b,6193.h...
Because it is a treatment for some things and we should treat it that way so those that can be helped get the medicine they need
What about https://nanoheat.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publicatio... ?

No commercial projects that I know of, though.
It’s partisan bullshit when you don’t agree with the opposition. However, I prefer to say it’s “principled opposition.” We on the right don’t accept the premise that the sky is falling. We’ve been told by politicians that the earth has 12 years left if we “don’t act now!” However, we heard that 12 years ago. And 12 years before that. We are constantly being warned that we must act now. Just about 12 years ago Al Gore’s movie said that we would be suffering a massive catastrophe by now. Interestingly, his film used approximately 12 years as the timeline for how long Earth had before catastrophe struck.

This whole movement is starting to seem like a religion, except heretics are no longer burned at the stake, lest an unnecessary amount of carbon be released.
It was presented as saving license costs by not using the standard product.
Just picked up a "livescribe" echo from eBay for $30. I don't do well with notes on a computer or tablet but I like the idea of digitizing them and recording a meeting at the same time; and pin point play back. We'll see how it goes.
this study is not objective to Chinese. we are not used to using e-mail, we prefer to use wechat or other social application. if we pick up a wallet, we will send it to the police office instead of sending an e-mail. can this be proved that we are not honesty? you even don't know the Chinese culture and you are just defaming our reputation.
> Could be the reason why humans are so bad at adressing some problems like climate change, plastic pollution or poverty.

I think that basically comes down to greed and ignorance.

> There is no clear pattern we can match [...] leading us to a solution.

Except, as best I know, both the problem and solution were recognised in the 80s but it wasn't in the companies' interests to torpedo their profits at the time.

e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
Black boxes are better than nothing. The ultimate black box is the universe, where experimental scientists can fiddle to try and understand. They give a great starting point to make progress, if that's what you want, and if not (like in some commerical applications) you have something that works (ish).
I hope that londons_explore meant dropping reliability requirements on the supporting tech so it can be added, not on the POTS itself.
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What's the most difficult thing AI should be be able to solve but can not as of yet?

I would say it is writing a program which writes an AI program. Why? Because it is so difficult for us to define what exactly an AI program should be able to do.

This shows that we have an issue with not being able to ask the right question. If we could answer exactly what the AI should be able to do then it would be much easier to create such a program and also create a program that writes such a program.

We could say that an AI program should pass the Turing Test and many have written programs that more or less pass it. But so now, write a program that writes several different programs that all pass the Turing Test one better than the previous one.

I don't really have an idea how I would start writing such a program that writes a program that passes the Turing Test better than previous AI programs. That makes me guess we are still far off from General AI. But I of course may be wrong, just because I don't know how to do something does not mean others would not.
Can you explain how you expanded Cornell? I started using Cornell this past year. Curious about the improvements you've made.
> One thing I noticed from looking at the data for the accent quiz, is that North Carolinians are far more likely to NOT say soda/pop/coke in actual conversation.

My family has been in NC for generations and my father's side of the family refers to any soft drink as a co-cola. Every soft drink is a co-cola.

Also, my grandfather always used to purposefully mispronounce Ocracoke as O-row-key-coke. Everytime I see Ocracoke I instinctively pronounce it in my grandfather's manner.
I think this is right on point. The BEAM is finely tuned for a specific problem and it solves it beautifully in a way that is extremely hard to replicate unless you actually are willing to invest in some kind of run time (which instantly makes you ineligible for consideration in a lot of peoples' minds). Every language that has tried, as far as I know, has done so as an afterthought and obviously does not end up replicating the important parts.

Knowing that, it's perhaps more pertinent to talk about what you can actually bring to that VM. Alpaca [0] could potentially be the solution. Interoperation with the rest of the VM languages and static typing on top of that. I have no doubt that most of the community would simply not use it, because they don't care about static typing, but I have zero reservations about saying it would be a better way to write code for the BEAM in the future.

Without something like that, it's unlikely that I will actually put any code that does more than something like routing messages to other services or the like on the BEAM in the future. Beyond a fairly low number of lines I simply don't trust anyone to write code that does exactly what they think it will do and no more in a dynamically typed language.

[0] - https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca
Started a new school again after 12 years and recently learned about this. Just picked it up along with some bullet journalling techniques and so far it's been great.
> How long until we could assemble an orchestra of computers that can interpret sheet music with feeling well enough to impress a human audience?

I think AIs making music will come long before AAA games and movies, both of which encompass music as an art and then throw in like another 5 artistic pursuits on top.

I think AIs will be making music inside 10-20 years or less. Honestly I think it could happen in like 1-2 years if a company with lots of AI resources chose to focus on it.
Fair question. I can't claim a definite answer as to when this general/commonsensical ability develops, but I think to some degree we are born with it/preprogrammed as you point out. Certainly by toddler phase most humans have figured out visual pattern recognition better than the world's most advanced machine learning algorithms.

My own thinking on this has been very much influenced by an early AI researcher-turned-philosopher and HCI practitioner, Terry Winograd. His book Understanding Computers and Cognition has some solid arguments for seeing cognition as a trait evolved as a form of "structural coupling" between a living organism and its environment. Highly recommended for anyone looking for an alternate perspective on AI from someone who was doing it way, way before it was cool.
In my tests using iftop, speed on PS3 seems to top out around 60 MB/s which is slower than HDD but should be sufficient for most games.

On PS2, the speed to access SMB is also slower than HDD at around 6 MB/s, however, this is nearly 6x the speed of the USB. Although it is slower than HDD access, it allows for playback of most games without stuttering.

Good point on calling attention to the OG Xbox, as I should have been more specific there. OG Xbox games can only be played back via HDD or Disc due to a limitation in the system itself, however, a number of emulators support SMB paths for playing backups.