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If you're doing Impro, I can recommend reading the book by Spolin - Improvisation for the theater. The first (theoretical) part was the most interesting as it showed to me something I hadn't figured out myself, doing impro as a beginner.

In an impro game or play, you get a role and have a goal to fulfill. Your task is to fulfill that goal, and not to bother with the goals other people have. It's not to make things more "interesting" by making life for the others more difficult. As a beginner I thought that creating conflicts would result in more interesting plays, but it doesn't. It makes things messy, but not good messy. The different goals create enough conflict. And you can actually help eachother and make the play better by working together towards the goal of ending the game. Understanding that was an eye opener.
Exactly, this is precisely the kind of stuff I hear. Also not sure why so many downvotes lol, I think many misunderstood what I was saying
I would categorize that under "poor people are also kinda stupid."

My family volunteered at a local food bank quite a few times. At some point I threw up my hands. I wouldn't say I'm angry, but it's like dealing with little children. It seems to me that most of the people getting food at the "free grocery store" have money for cars, cigarettes, booze. Dare I say, drugs? They have money for all kinds of things somehow just not food. Know what? Put on your big boy and girl pants and get your priorities straightened out. And please stop depriving your kids due to your bad habits, that's just asshole behavior right there.

My take away is that there are a few needy people in our community, people with mental issues or actual handicaps and some who are genuinely down on their luck. But then there is the army of childish bullshit artists from far and wide who just take advantage of generous Christians. It's...tiring. They're playing the heart strings of guilt-ridden citizens who believe it is their job to help everyone without passing judgement. That's a nice concept, but it's out of touch with reality. I get up every day at 5:40am to saunter off to work for 8-9 hrs each week day. Somehow, I'm the fool. See the problem?

It used to be understood that in the process of trying to make the world a better place that you set an example and you held that high ground. The "cultural relativistic" approach is not working.
But engineers did know why. For 50 years.
How inconvenient is it to type your password in to buy stuff?

Disable unauthed purchases if a kid plays with your device.
Depending on where you are, this may be freely available to you right now through your local library.

Talk to your local library about whether they're on Overdrive / Libby. If so, you can listen to unlimited audiobooks, ebooks, magazines, and comic books 24/7. It's fantastic. It's free. Yay public libraries.
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But are people objectively as importantly unique as we subjectively perceive them to be?
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I haven't been following the literature too closely lately - have there been promising results in using it for topic modeling or semantic vector modeling?

My own sense is, the real problem that the space needs to contend with isn't that the math isn't elaborate enough. It's that we're still waiting for someone to come up with a really good way to deal with polysemy, and with multi-word phrases that form a single semantic unit.
its youtube is in spanish. Sad.
I paid 1600 RMB per month for 18 m² in Minhang, fully furnished, with cooktop in a corner of the living room and own bathroom. Your "bottom" is not the actual bottom. Those places for 1000 RMB or less are super tiny (as I said, the size on the listing is exaggerated), but they do exist.
You think consumers are going to have 3-7 bins in their homes?
I think we might be talking past each other. The procedural concern you mentioned is an ethical concern, a departure from the procedure is the unethical part.

Just having an ethical consideration doesnt preempt the conclusion of that consideration. I am talking ethical consideration not ethical statement. The consideration part might be summarized like you did here

> How do we quantify harm induced by a change regarding LinkedIn ad-density?

For the consideration what negative effects there are, there are ethic boards, as its generally considered unethical to make that consideration alone as a stakeholder. Forgoing the conclusion of that consideration doesnt mean we didnt need an ethics board in the first place.

There are two distinct questions here, what are the ethical concerns for the study and should there be an ethics board involved in finding an answer to the first question. Since we are talking about long term impact on peoples behavior, i think you can make a case that not considering the ethical aspects of that impact on unknowing test subjects is generally unethical?
As of last year, the last time I tried, the Google backed maps app still works on my first gen iPod Touch - last updated in 2009 and the first gen iPad.
Numerically integrating the emissions of China and US [1] from 1971-2016 leads to:

China: 183,000 million tons C02

US: 234,000 million tons C02

That's a 1.28x more for the US. Since industrialization in the US started well before 1971 (you can infer this from the graph), this is significant underestimate.

Obviously, the other important estimate is per capita emissions, which would be even lower for China than the 1.28x estimate above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_fossil_carbon_dioxi...
An anecdote from me: Before I discovered audiobooks I rarely read non technical books, especially fictions. I just couldn't find enough time to finish books at a satisfactory pace. What's more, I couldn't enjoy many types of exercises and because of that I just didn't exercise enough. I find the activity of doing those types of exercises by themselves or even with music is too low in information density, that I just became bored after a while.

Now with audiobooks I read many non technical books while I do those types of exercises I couldn't enjoy before. If a book is not great I dont find it a waste of time. The combination of audiobooks and exercising is the right amount of information density for me to enjoy the moment. The result? I exercise much much more now.

Also I started to use the local library for audiobooks. Comparing to the effort of borrowing paper books or device restriction of borrowing ebooks, borrowing audiobooks is just a much better overall experience.
"The annual UN report also found that income inequality is rising in many of the countries where hunger is on the rise, making it even more difficult for the poor, vulnerable or marginalized to cope with economic slowdowns and downturns."

Why? That doesn't follow at all. Increasing income inequality does not mean that poor people are getting poorer or their lives are getting more difficult in any way. Political grandstanding from the WHO, which is a shame.
it takes them ~$1500 and 6 months
to make a chicken sandwich

I watched that video and there's nothing really explaining what went into that price. Did they include the flights to the coast to gather salt? Hiring the boat? Renting an apartment to boil the sea water down?
The pricing for the higher margin trims offers amazing value for those focused on performance. Is there much competition for that kind of performance at this pricing?

Model 3 Performance at $54,990: 0-60 in 3.2s

Model S Performance now includes Ludicrous at $99,990: 0-60 in 2.4s

Model X Performance now includes Ludicrous at $104,990: 0-60 in 2.7s
Also, multi-coated white is now the default paint (previously one of the most expensive options). Which is nice and possibly saves some energy in "normal" climates (white cars are cooler).
I think languages can definitely make things worse. Dynamic languages are harder to refactor using automated refactor tools.

In a code base with no tests, I'd rather start with something had a powerful type system.

But you are right that you make a mess in any language.
Meant outside of management. Status among the general public. That's become one of the three main things associated with software development, from what I've seen, alongside "nerdy" and "kinda makes a lot of money, maybe".
Another question:
How do you avoid getting overwhelmed when starting to learn? In fact, how do you decide what to learn?
Size problem is a factor too. I'll take C++ over python for fast iteration if the problem requires thousands of programmers and millions of lines of code. (Java or C# could be better yet. Or you can make a convincing argument that good architecture interfaces would break the python problem down to interfaces that you cannot iterate)
> pressured to take shortcuts

I work in software, and this happens all the time and it is not the end of the world. It normally means doing even more work later, or shipping without all the features. Its done by not coding in most cases.

But this is a car. What sort of shortcut could you make when assembling parts to a car that has already had every part planed out?

Edit: never-mind, I skipped a entire paragraph somehow. Tape, it is tape guys.
If IQ is biased to skills that make a society advanced and competitive, is it really a bad way of measuring intelligence?
Bipartisan bill to prevent Trump administration allowing business with Huawei
New Delhi and other cities are suffering from farms burning off dry wheat stalks. Will a charcoal process offer an incentive to farmers to burn hay cleanly?
System files aren't writable by normal users in any Linux distribution.

System recovery from backups is pretty easy and well understood too, so I'm not sure what benefit this would bring.

If you want transactions you can install on btrfs and use apt-btrfs-snapshot to automatically take snapshots. It seems this isn't that well-known though, probably because the problem it solves isn't very serious.

As for Android, it's already a frustrating system on phones, something like that on desktops would be total trash.
People are very reluctant to purchase BEVs that do not have mileage comparable to ICEVs because conceptually EVs aren't common place and people don't understand they can start the day with a full tank every day.

There's a portion of the market who will compromise range just to have a BEV and I would imagine the Model 3 has cannibalized most of that market from the S and X.

Honestly when you're talking about vehicles that cost almost 100k, it's hard to quibble over a few thousand dollars savings from a smaller battery.
"I'd rather fly ... in a Boeing"

Yep, as one of Russian cosmonauts said when asked if he was afraid: ones, who are afraid, do not fly to space.
> Your data objects shouldn’t be more complex than is trivially represented with JSON or else you have a different problem.

That's the whole problem I'm talking about. Like I said, it forces you to reduce all these interfaces to lowest common denominator.

> Besides, while I’m not a microservices enthusiast, isolation isn’t the main goal of microservices, it’s being able to deploy, scale, and operate services independently from other teams.

If you're just talking about each team having its own service, that's not what's usually meant by "microservices".
Algorithmic Coding tests and programming problems don’t tell you too much about whether they can translate business rules into code or their ability to work in complex code bases.
Re: promising results

Yes, there have been. https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap_paper_notebooks
The author of UMAP shows impressive results with 3 million word vectors

For dealing with multiple meanings,
It's already been done. Sense2vec resolves most of these issues and a wordnet integrated version of word2vec or the newer "XLNet" would be state of the art by a long shot but no one seems to want to implement it so the world waits longer for good NLP models I guess...
That's pretty much correct.
You would typically calculate a vector for "King-Man+Woman" and then do a query on this based on a cosine distance (or similar measure) over the entire vocabulary.

The query would give you a ranked list of the closest word vectors with scores that indicate how good the match is.
Yes. Most publishers want 25-40% of the book's cover price.

ACX/Audible pays 40% for exclusive royalties. So your $30 audiobook will get you $12 in royalties. Amazon makes $3 from your subscription or $18 if someone buys it straight up.

Even at a 25% royalty structure you're still looking at $7.50/audiobook which doesn't work well with an all you can listen/netflix style program as 2-3 books puts the store in the red. Some companies will offer 'all you can listen' but will cut you off if you listen too much.

To get it to work publishers would need to agree to a flat fee for unlimited listens for a period of time. Which doesn't seem likely at this point.
Doesn't solve the fact that there just isn't enough material to heat (ice and rock) to create enough of an atmosphere for decent pressure without importing massive amounts via asteroids.

I'm all for manned exploration of Mars, I think the amount of science a team of humans can do during the necessary mission times (while waiting for the launch window for the quickest return) will be insane. Actually, the amount of science humans could do in a WEEK would likely generate more data, and more discoveries, than every probe and rover sent to Mars to date. I think the extreme risks to the crew, which may remove any reasonable hope for a good qualify of life upon return, and could result in fatal cancer, is absolutely worth the sacrifice as long as the crew is 100% volunteers that have adequately been explained the myriad of risks.

That said, as cool as it would be to colonize another planet, Mars just isn't going to realistically be it. Not until we are well on our way to being a Type II civilization (arguably we are still decades, at least, from being a Type I) but constructing something like O'Neill cylinders is far more realistic, as long as we can figure out asteroid mining (especially if we can automate it).
My main gripe against my otherwise entirely loving parents was that they didn't get me up in the middle of the night to watch the landings on TV when I was little!
This is honestly frustrating to see whenever massive corporations are responsible for creating a deal in which users will be given away data in order to receive a small compensation. Data, especially personal data should not be a means in which anyone can make any sort of financial compensation from. personal data is stolen every day and used against individuals - and by creating a means in which more people will give you their data, the larger target you have from individuals who are seeking to steal others data.
Thanks, Thought I was going crazy.

Lol about it being crops and not trees, what a crap article.
After you set your initial city base and have successful finances, it becomes Traffic Simulator and Traffic Management almost exclusively.
You still need a heat sink of some sort to extract usable energy from any reactor, nuclear or otherwise; this is a universal property of engines [1]. Radiators are very inefficient for this and would be far heavier than the equivalent water cooling method. Same for air-cooling (especially in mars's thinner atmosphere). The cooling systems are not just there to prevent meltdowns; you need heat to flow, in large quantities, from a hot place to a cool place in order to extract energy.

You're right that, if you could find some useful endothermic reaction like vaporizing CO2, you could use it as a heat sink. The problem is that distributing heat to arbitrary places in the martian ground (remember, this CO2 is not magically flowing to you) requires an even more complex heat exchanger than that used by a simple earth-based reactor.

Not to mention that having no shielding would be hell for your robots; radiation hardening of automated systems remains non-trivial. But the fundamental thermodynamics strike me as harder.

Maybe there are niches where this would make sense, but the thermodynamics is the elephant in the room.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency
We promote a socio-economic system centered on exploiting and then act surprised that it fails people on all sides?
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I think levels of impurities and surface treatment of the metal may cause variation in whether something is considered suitable or not?

For example, from [0] (which is declassified from 1974!) :

"Titanium can react violently with strong oxidizers if the oxi-dizer penetrates the oxidized surface layer."

"Free chloride, ions in nitrogen tetroxide can cause an accelera-tion of intergranular corrosion in titanium."
The FANG effect in Silicon Valley, where salaries have skyrocketed over the past 10 years, has nothing to do with current productivity and everything to do with effective monopolies, whether due to network effects, or data, or whatever gives each dominant company it's lead.

Google's core search/ads is hyperprofitable, not based productivity of the current workers, but instead the accumulated R&D that created the great product that it is today.

This hyperprofitabity means Google can pay high salaries to many thousands of very talented people, most of whom are not working on core search/ads. Many of whom seem to be "working from the bus" when you stop by Google at 4 in the afternoon. One can speculate on the average productivity.

This high pay at Google (and Facebook and Apple) has raised the pay for all talented developers even at early stage startups (where productivity is zero, there's no product yet shipping to anyone. Like my company, please don't take this as a dig against startups).

EDIT: Don't have a gripe, it's just an observation
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Musicians are used instead of imaginary button pressers because this is a real world effect.

Think about it this way...assume everyone is paid fairly for the value of their work, no "exploitation" (although that's a tough thing to impartially define). A factory worker who does 10% of the work in producing 1000 widgets per day can enjoy a much higher standard of living than his grandfather who made 5 widgets a day with hand tools. In fact, all else equal, his standard of living could theoretically increase 20X, but in reality widget prices go down and there is a factory owner taking a cut.

A doctor who still sees 10 patients a day, the same rate her grandfather saw, will not have seen any increase in standard of living at all, unless she's charging more per patient.
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It’s not a 20% reduction in wealth. It’s an 8% share of an income pool that’s six times bigger versus a 10% share of an income pool that’s much smaller.
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I find it odd that you claim to be a former Google search engineer and in the end boil down the success of Google search to brand recognition / loyalty. You kinda glossed over the insane complexity of building and maintaining a high quality search engine, really weird comment to be honest.
How much data is one limited to?
Not a Turing Machine
(and a whopping 2 weeks in)
Cengage was terrible to use as a student but it wasn't the worst. Trying to cite the resources from the courseware is impossible as you manually have to type it out removing any benefit and making it literally less useful than a physical book especially if you only have a single screen. The worst online platform I've used it took me a week to figure out the terrible UI to actually use the textbook part, you had to go into the text section, know exactly the section you were going to and then browse the pictures of the physical textbook. Questions for homework build only be accessed through a submenu of this section. Every 10 minutes you'd be prompted to take a break, ruining your concentration, and every hour you'd be signed out. It was a nightmare. I much prefer the books.
I would say a real secret weapon for startups would be C++. If your service/product is 10 to 20x faster than your competitors using mainly interpreted or GC languages... That extra bit of performance is something you can actually market and sell. Also extra performance allows you to do more stuff for the same time frame, so you can trade it off with more features. Write C++ in a modern, functional way and its a very productive language.
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>Seems like a sensible move.

Cutting prices (again) on a product for which there is "unlimited demand" and they claim to not be able to build fast enough while the company loses hundreds of millions of dollars is sensible?
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But don't use it to often in a row, because the battery will be getting hot and will limit the power output to level, which is way below any term related to performance.
Keep in mind this is from cnbc - they consistently push an anti-tesla position

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/28/40-tesla-headlines-on-c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/9b71x0/40_tesl...

And for more insight google “why does cnbc hate tesla”
It seems like another shortcut they took was over automation. Looks like some areas are better off with a human. Can robots apply tape?
If you're listening on Libby, you can long-press on the speed icon and drag down.

That'll get you all the way up to 3x. It's fantastic.
OT (but not really): putting DDG into Google Image Search first shows DuckDuckGo about 2/3 of the way down the page: https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&sou...

Putting DDG into DDG Image Search yields nothing but pictures of U.S.N. destroyers: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DDG&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images&iai=...
What marketing materials? Tesla doesn't buy ads
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Agreed. It's high on the list of books that changed the way I think. Between his analysis of status transactions and reading de Waal's "Chimpanzee Politics" so much of human behavior suddenly became explicable to me.
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We have raised world standards for the vast majority of people. It doesn't matter to those who we haven't raised it for, but for the rest it matters.
I've always heard Pearson has been reasonable on the global education front, so might expect more buy-one-give-one style offers to emerge in the future (although perhaps naive on my part there).
In the most basic sense, you can make a computer with it.
That's fantastic. I just love what happens to electrical tape in hot cars. I can't wait to reach up into there to try to fix something a few years from now.
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At least they're transparent about it and you're getting paid for your data.
Here's a discussion of all the papers I know measuring the causal impact of ads: https://www.gwern.net/Ads#replication
Expands their profits beyond what the market would bear were it not for lock in, lack of competition, and no consumer choice in the way they consume. They only choice you have is not to go to school.
Since when is 0-60 the go-to stat for performance?

It's once metric of many in how a car performs. And yes, there is plenty of performance competition at those prices. The 100D runs a 10.5 quarter mile, which is really good, but not world beating. Factor in any of the competitors pricing their cars below production cost and the landscape looks much different.
Baumol's effect isn't meant to explain the cost of tech workers. Software has an incredibly variable ratio of labor in to economic value out, so it is the thing that causes "cost disease" in other industries, not an example itself.
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