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> But then what is the MacBook Air now ?

There isn't one. There's the MacBook Pro, which is the higher end laptop line and the MacBook Air, which is the lower end. That said, both the current Pro and Air are thinner than the original MacBook Air and the same weight or slightly lighter.
Same here. Used Antergos before and after the project ended, I used Fedora for a number of months, but recently switched to EndeavourOS. Arch is just so flexible--I find it easier to install the things I need.
Do MBAs 2020 have heatsinks detached from fans too?
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> Nobody seems to know what is being done with the time we're 'buying'.

You're allowing people to get infected, but reducing the rate at which they get infected, thus allowing your healthcare system to cope with the demand while the rest of society slowly builds immunity.
And setting up a NN is easy, you just need a laptop.

In general, if you find yourself using the phrase "you just need (to)..." Then you should probably take a step back and consider the actual work that goes into "just" doing the work.

Or, in the case you've outlined, not even doing the work, but just ordering the PCR equipment, since apparently the kit will just run itself? (I'm also assuming here that you realize that this isn't PCR + gel electrophoresis, but qPCR.)
Pardon the dumb question, but has anyone just tried quinine? I've been wondering if a hefty gin and tonic would help matters.
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There’s going to be huge criticism over mismanagement of the crisis. The criticism will be at two levels:
1. You didn’t act fast enough and lots of people died before their time.
2. When you did act, it was too late and that has ramped up the cost to the economy.

As it is we might be headed towards a yo-yo epidemic. Interesting argument here: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/he...

Ps wasn’t sure if you were being sarcastic...
I'm very confused by the fact that this page itself does not have a visible focus style on interactive elements, making it very difficult for somebody who navigates the web with a keyboard to see what they are clicking on. I could not tell even if all the links on screen were actually reachable by tab key.

Maybe I've missed the point, but there are people who use they keyboard exclusively when navigating a web page already, and I would think accessibility for those people would be a big consideration in what you are doing.
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Oh... this actually makes sense. MIT is still accepting the main SAT test and AP tests.

SAT subject tests were always a weird thing in the middle. AP tests cover the same goal, but with more rigor and differentiation. (I remember taking the SAT subject tests just to "cover my bases", because they were there, not because there seemed to be any real reason.)

Also -- remember, even if your high school doesn't offer AP courses, you can still study for and take the AP tests on your own.
i agree with all the intangible benefits and personally got very little out of college which is why I took a job without finishing. That being said early in your career a Computer Science degree is still very important. With 2 yoe ive been looking for a new job and 2 of the FAANG + Microsoft company recruiters immediately ended consideration with that as the stated reason why. Just some competing anecdotal evidence :)
Yep! But there are a few more barriers in the way if your school does not offer AP courses (you'd need to find neighboring schools that do allow it and talk to the AP coordinator at that school).
For subject tests, there are pretty minimal barriers associated with signing up. You just register as you normally would for an SAT exam IIRC.
>The UK chief scientist, Patrick Vallance, has stated that they suspect a winter resurgence is possible, thus I also question the value of waiting and flattening curves.

By winter we'd have more equipment, masks, drugs tested, doctors taking a break, etc. The big spread also stops in warmer climate.

>World governments should clarify this matter by saying that a bad winter resurgence, months after nations are fatigued with lockdown, is definitely not going to happen.

Of course it's possible and very likely to happen. The answer is not no lockdown, it's a second lockdown then as the need arises.
So I've seen several folks say that they do.
Define "reasonable".

Reasonable in the sense of "in a just world, it would be a good idea"? OK.

Reasonable in the sense of "in this world, it's a good idea"? Absolutely not. It gets you physically hammered to whatever degree they decide is necessary to get you to the point where you don't (or can't) resist any longer. And then it gets you charged with resisting arrest.

And if you're going to say that, even if it's a bad idea in this world, it's the only way to move is toward that more ideal world, I would say that it does not seem to be having any effect whatsoever in doing so.
I am always wary of universities removing testing requirements as they are usually motivated by activist pressure (vilifying meritocracy and pushing for equity, AKA equality of outcomes) rather than evaluating for the best talent more precisely. Anyone know more about what the story is behind this one?
I would love to see what you're doing here. I'm pulling it from JHU, it's been pretty consistent, but not as up to date as I would like. But I'm looking into aggregating data from other places such as Wikipedia. It would be great if there was more of a group effort here.

I've seen some efforts such as: https://github.com/covid19-data/covid19-data which is looking to separate out the data aggregation from the dashboard. However, they are scrubbing out the state-based information which I rely on.
Lubuntu on an old laptop because it just works and is nice enough. I find it less irritating than Fedora.

Batocera because I'm exploring easier ways for emulation and this seems okay, but there are probably better choices.
I was under the same impression. Zinc acts to disrupt cellular replication of viral cells, and this is true for MANY viruses. Cloroquine acts as a zinc ionophore providing a pathway for zinc to cross the cellular wall at much lower concentrations, greatly improving its effectiveness.
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He could easily argue that he was being cautious, trading on news reports out of China. That was all public. The buyer could've done the same.
> Just treat it as harmless hobbyism

Any other time, yes. In a time of widespread panic? Dangerous.

People are going to try to build and use these at home in an act of desperation to "do something", and end up killing their loved ones.
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The argument that we should find a balance between saving lives and maintaining a strong economy is reasonable, but seems to have a catch-22 to me. If our economy is truly "strong" it seems it should survive a few months of "social distancing", right?

Perhaps the argument would be better stated: We need to balance saving lives and maintaining the thin veneer that is our economy.

That isn't quite as inspiring, but perhaps that is reality? Even if our economy is a "veneer" we still need it. I find it less compelling though. I'm far more willing to trade lives for a "strong economy" than I am to trade lives for "the illusion of a strong economy".

"Grandma and Grandpa died at home without medical support, but at least our economy is 'strong', so strong it could probably survive weeks of social distancing!"

If our "prize" for sacrificing hundreds of thousands of elderly to an exceptionally uncomfortable death is an economy we all know can't handle even a minor pandemic and is incapable of doing what China and other countries have done, that will be a sad trade.
These greener pastures do exist, only they require a bit of knowledge to find and then operate. Places like Diaspora, Friendica, and Mastodon, just to name a few. Interestingly, the same barrier to entry serves as a filter to everyone looking for low hanging fruit... so to folks who are generally capitalists in other ways as well.
Congrats on shipping, looks great for small projects. I'm not sure if I'm a fan of items moving around when their status changes though. Diffs won't be as useful to track tasks — for example, did this task get removed from the scope or did it move to another state? If the item stayed still, it would be a one-line change, if the item moves around, you have to see if it's elsewhere now.
When there is not a pandemic happening you can get 99% isopropyl at a reasonable cost. Its great for cleaning electronics and lots of other things.
http://www.csszengarden.com/214/

Neat project - thanks for mentioning. Definitely in line with what I'm imagining.
In my home country Iran we had the equivalent of SAT general and subject tests. I did pretty poorly in general tests, but the subject tests saved me (near perfect scores in physics and math) and opened the door for me to go to a good university in my country. Just to get a clear understanding of my financials, I was living off 1$ per month at that time which was just enough to buy heavily subsidized food stamps in college. I ended up graduating with a PhD degree and worked at several top companies in the US later. This seems to me like a case of a cure that is worse than the disease.
>nothing replaces the low-latency engagement (intimacy) of a one on one phone call.

For a lot of people, texting absolutely does replace the intimacy of a phone call. I have an ex-girlfriend who almost never talked to me on the phone, and only wanted to text, and she was like this with all her friends too. Note the "ex-" part here...
This article shares insight into how the virus progresses.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/biograph...
I'm not a doctor (yet) but I believe quinine has immunosuppressant effects so you don't want to take it preemptively, only when you have your own immune system in overdrive.
Are you saying the masks are helpful to prevent contraction of the virus, or to stop the spreading of it from those who are contagious, but don't know about it yet?
It's all in French:

1st February: https://www.lejdd.fr/Societe/le-professeur-didier-raoult-ce-...

"This coronavirus isn't so bad"

26th February: http://m.lamarseillaise.fr/analyses-de-la-redaction/decrypta...

"The coronavirus isn't more dangerous than seasonal flu."
So you are mad at people misusing the word intelligence?
It's certainty been in service on the network I use for many years. It is noticeable when I call another enabled endpoint.
If one could remove a lot of the heat and convert it to electricity, it wouldn't be so super.
I see you’ve stepped out of a time machine from 1999. You’ve got some catching up to do.
This is false based on my impressions which were based on twitter / medium outcries for help type messages confirming this.
Universal mask wearing combined with unlimited testing is the quickest way to get the economy restarted. We need to ramp up both. And of course more ppe for medical workers. We don't need a ton of ventilators. Without skilled medics ventilators by themselves are not useful.
Well in China they seem to have forced everyone to stay home?

The UK appears to have decided allowing 500,000 of us to die was a bad idea and we're now on "lockdown". At least everyone is _advised_ to socially distance, because - it seems - then businesses can still fire people for not turning up to work, and insurers can avoid paying out ("you chose to stop the event, you weren't obliged to").

I'm not sure we can tell what the rates are, what's the testing false positive rate? UK gave up testing a while back (except emergency hospital admissions).

For the last week, at least, all new cases here are in theory emergency hospital admissions. 700 cases per day (and rising), 10% of our normal number of intensive care beds.
Yeah that's a fair point for sure and I've seen examples of those too. However, even then some well resourced parents will still clear a path for these children to get into selective schools as the recent college admissions scandals revealed.
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Absolutely on board with both increasing availability and then making them mandatory. Along with gloves.

Masks are very hard to come by... that might be why it looks like business as usual? I'd love to get some myself, tips appreciated.
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They’re helpful for both, but even if they were only helpful for one, it’d still be worth doing.
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For those not understanding the jargon (like myself).
I don't mean reasonable in a market equilibrium sense, more of a "hey, that price seems about right" sense.

I'm sure it's not trivial to make multiple versions of the same test every year where the scores are all comparable with each other. then you have to distribute the materials while minimizing the chance that they leak and people come in with the answers memorized.

the college board itself makes about 15% profit each year. definitely a lot better than some market segments, but hardly exorbitant. I guess they might find some ways of trimming the fat if they had more competition, but who knows. more competitors means fewer test-takers to amortize the test design costs over.
Really appreciate you putting this together.
saw this on reddit, still excited about it, gunna see about actually taking a minute and installing it
Yes I do, under direct supervision of the next passenger.
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Brings back memories! Thanks for sharing the game.
They do both. But I was saying that at the very least masks would also remind people to actually keep distance from one another.
We showed it to some people who are unfamiliar with command lines and they liked it. It's just that most non-technical users never encountered an interface like this, but they do like it if you show them how it works. This is why we're going to add an interactive tutorial.
That's kind of the problem. We don't view companies that go 12 months without revenue as high risk and/or failed investments anymore. How long can companies like Uber continue to raise capital to operate when they're only generating a fraction of the revenue now and investors won't accept the long term risk?
> His state has the highest infection rate

NY doesn't have the highest infection rate, just the highest raw count.

This likely just reflects the fact that NY is doing a lot more testing than any other state.

Alabama has had roughly 80% of their tests come back positive, and they've only done a little more than a hundred.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testi...
Why do you wince when you have to sign one?

As an engineer I can see why you would find the spec inelegant.

But as an end-user, using it to fill in forms couldn't be easier.
Do you have sources for that? Would like to know the numbers.
10% of the population of NYS is 2 million people.

It may be falsely advertised if it was claimed as “free college for every New Yorker” but I’m hard pressed to understand why people who support things like tuition free college programs get so angry about steps in that direction.

Even if it’s only 10% of that 2 million people that actually need to go college it’s still 200,000 Americans that are better off than they were before.

And didn’t NY’s legislature not turn blue until November of 2019?

I may be wrong, but if helping hundreds of thousands of low income Americans get access to higher education means your only skill is “talking a big game” and makes you a “bad neolib” I’m not sure that’s a message I can get behind.

I don’t know all of Cuomo’s policies or history, he may indeed be a bad Governor, but I really have trouble understand the people who shit on others for moving us in a positive direction because it’s not 100% of the way there yet.
I'm taking it, I've also got my family and neighbors on it. I was unable to convince doctors since February to take me seriously that hydroxychloroquine is likely to have prophylactic effects so I took matters into my own hands. I know what I'm doing. Those who don't know what they are doing should not just jump in since they need to manage and understand the dose, the drug interactions, and the side effects. None of which are a problem for most people. Most. The ones that aren't though the interactions are well enough known and documented. I am not recommending it to anyone, that would probably be a crime. I'm saying if you're smart and understand science and thoughtful and not reckless you might be able to use it with the same safety that indians did for thousands of years. I still don't think you should though. Push for HCQ instead.

Commercial tonic is limited by federal law to 20mg per 8 oz, so I make my own tonic.

It would be much much better and would likely stop this whole problem if we'd just mail prophylactic doses of HCQ to the whole population instead of mailing a $1500 check to everyone like they've decided instead.

It's very humorous how people look at tropical countries that still have widespread HCQ use for anti-malaria and announce that they must be undercounting cases since their reported numbers are far too low. No, their numbers are not too low. It's just a lot of people in these regions are essentially vaccinated.
Thanks for asking!

Value is actually the value of a state itself, and it can increase or decrease from one state to its successors. If the value must increase or decrease monotonically, then that (very useful) information can be given to Hop through a Bounds() method.

In the simplest cases, value is added or subtracted with each state transition, and can be stored in an attribute. However, that isn't required. It's possible to do just about anything in the value function, such as run a simulation to estimate a KPI.

If estimating value is expensive, then it's probably best to keep the diagram width low, and/or use a searcher that dives to high quality solutions before expanding the search. Hop comes with some of these capabilities built in, and most of its solver components are plug-able through interfaces so you can provide your own if you need.

When it comes to scale, we're trying to make it so Hop scales up and down well to different size problems. As you add side constraints such as precedence, time windows, driver hours, capacity, etc., you'll likely find that DDs do better since those constraints tend to support the search.

Dash is a generic discrete event simulation engine that (intentionally) looks a lot like Hop (JSON in/out, runners that package up sims as atomic binaries). Sim actors conform to a simple interface and use an event sourcing architecture to publish events, update state, and record measurements. We should have a blog post about it in the next couple weeks, as well as our docs posted online, so check back!
If a university's objective is to select the applicants most likely to reflect prestige and wealth back onto it, the university is best served by picking those who can most effectively cause themselves to be selected (rather than the most academically gifted students).

Admissions essentially boils down to "impress me." (Not saying that's good for society, but it's good for the university.)

It's one of the exceptional cases where Goodhart's Law—"a targeted metric is no longer good"—doesn't hold.
Yeah, I hear you. Some products get the value proposition really great (MBP 15" and MBA 13" both circa 2015), and some you can just settle for. I totally understand how different those buying experiences feel.

The new MBA seems to be well received by reviewers.
You understand that soon many people will lose their jobs who have done nothing wrong? They are not avoiding work but they are being laid off.
She had an pre-existing condition: compromised immunity after a stage 4 cancer.
Any avenue that could save lives is worth investigating. It's not an either/or situation.

Stop spreading FUD
Any time a company growth scheme is "get this product implemented in an emotional rush, so it replaces a specific process, in a way thats hard to reverse" without allowing time to plan, they are taking advantage of the consumer.

Or like the box.com model with a "install this behind your companies back, and once enough of you reach a critical mass where its painful to undo, they wont be able to ignore it anymore, and the ramifications will be their problem not yours."
Those things are happening too. Here's a summary of sixteen companies' efforts according to https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/19/an-updated-guide-to-the-...

- Gilead Sciences; remdesivir for treatment; currently in phase 3 clinical trials

- Ascletis Pharma; danoprevir/ritonavir for treatment; currently in phase 1 clinical trials

- Moderna Therapeutics; mRNA vaccine; currently in phase 1 clinical trials

- CanSino Biologics; attenuated vaccine; currently in phase 1 clinical trials

- Arcturus Therapeutics; hybrid RNA vaccine; currently preclinical

- BioNTech; mRNA vaccine; currently preclinical

- CureVac; mRNA vaccine; currently preclinical

- Eli Lilly; isolated antibody treatment; currently preclinical

- GlaxoSmithKline; vaccine adjuvants; currently preclinical

- Inovio Pharmaceuticals; DNA-based vaccine; currently preclinical

- Johnson & Johnson; attenuated vaccine; currently preclinical

- Pfizer; assistance with both vaccines and treatments

- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals; engineered antibody treatment; currently preclinical

- Sanofi; hybrid DNA-based attentuated virus vaccine; currently preclinical

- Takeda; isolated antibody treatment; currently preclinical

- Vir Biotechnology; isolated antibody treatment; currently preclinical

Most of these are in very early stages, but I'm optimistic that that speed of development of both treatments and vaccines will exceed the consensus expectations.
He's wrong a lot, in big ways. For instance, here's an article I quickly googled:

https://analyticsindiamag.com/the-many-failed-predictions-pr...

I think Musk is more often wrong than not, but a lot of people focus so much on when he's been right that they forget all the rest and form a false impression.
I recently looked at segment and I was quoted 40k for personas. I think what you are doing is great and if you can do personas , I and my org would be eternally greatful.
Kinda defeats the whole purpose of SVG. Only photos should be bitmaps. Graphics should be vectors. This is the 21st century, folks...
Wow, this is a remarkable level of gaming that I never was aware of!

> - Within the grammar questions, Choice (e) "None of the above" is 99% of the time NEVER the answer.

> - The math questions will usually have (1) answer that is an outlier. 95% of the time, this is not the correct answer; (2) will be similar to the correct answer in different ways; and (1) will be the correct answer

This is exactly the reason that, when I design tests, I strive to make "none of the above" or the outlier answer the correct one about 20% of the time. I really hope the SAT writers are doing that now.

> ALL sections (and sub-sections) have questions that strictly increase in difficulty / projected "miss-rate" as time goes on.

The computerized GRE goes even further... it's like a videogame, it feeds you harder questions the better you do, then reverts to easier ones when you mess up.
The premise of your answer is that MIT wants good "students" and "test takers". What if that's not what they want so much anymore? A test is supposed to be a metric, an indicator of something. But metrics tend to become target as soon as they're exposed. Maybe then they still remain an indicator of something, but not necessarily what they were originally intended to filter for.

I understand that it might feel like the goalposts are being moved for people who optimize to score high on such metrics, but such is the nature of this type of games. That's also why search engine companies have to keep refining their algorithms.