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Academic code has always been a mess (from the standpoint of professional software developers). Anyone who has ever worked with code from academia knows this. If you think this code is messy, check out any random Matlab simulation strung together by any random series of grad students who aren't professional developers in any random lab.

People in industry don't always do better, either. Look at the notebook code shared on Github by Kevin Systrom for the rt.live site. It's just as messy. But the point is that he shared it and that helps everyone see what is going on and lets anyone improve on the work.

Publicly sharing model code on Github is a recent development and is amazing for everyone. It gets the work out faster, allows for feedback on methodology and coding style and generally lets everyone get smarter over time. We shouldn't discourage this.

Posting retraction demands in Github issues based on coding style is not helpful and shows a lack of communication skills. What is helpful is providing useful, specific bug reports, submitting improvements, or sharing your own, improved model. If you want to demand a retraction, do it via alternate means.

Remember, this crisis appeared suddenly on the world stage and whoever had a model sitting around got thrust into the forefront of public discussion. But scientists don't make policy. Policy makers make policy. A github issue is not the place to blame someone for a policy you disagree with. That only discourages people from sharing their work which would be a loss for everyone.
If Wolfram's got it nailed, let him produce the warp drive.

There's no problem admitting he's forgotten more about science than I'll ever grasp.

The discussion seems more about a Newtonian Ego System than about the fundamental questions of the universe.
Tip #1 includes the example of "Your boss just threw you a curveball and you have no idea what to say", tip #3 is to use emojis and gifs, especially to avoid misinterpretations. Do people send gifs to their curve-ball throwing bosses? :)
(Also I feel that emojis might actually lead to _more_ misinterpretations in async communications.)
Definitely. It's also a really good (if painful) way to decide what things are actually important to the delivery.
Indeed, I forgot how late the UK/US policy changed. The claim that this study affected policy around the world doesn't seem to hold up.
> it's not that hard to write code whose performance is bounded by io latency/throughput

I suspect that most people don't, though. How many applications are built in Ruby, Python, or PHP, using some very productive but inefficient framework? Those are all very fine tools in their own way, and are the right tool for the job in many contexts. But they're unlikely to saturate IO.
This is such a dangerous precedent. This type of call out will only discourage the release of source code making legitimate peer review more difficult.
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The SDK contains the library. I guess in app developer circles these terms are conflated.
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Exactly.

You end up cobbling together half a dozen plugins (auth, forms, orm, admin) and adding dependencies that, albeit useful, are complex themselves: Celery, SQLAlchemy, etc.
I was part of the GitHub team that helped get the code ready for public release. We fixed a few bugs, reduced memory consumption, made it portable across operating systems, etc., but the code you see is largely what was written by Neil Ferguson and his team.

Given your concerns, I would like to mention two things:

1) the code was originally a single source file, so I'm not surprised the module boundaries are imperfect - the code is many years old and the module boundaries have existed for only a few weeks.

2) this was not written by professional software engineers, but epidemiologists, and they were working with limited budget, time, and programming experience.
The free version I think will suit most people. It's what I use.
What do you mean by "servers"? Anything that isn't a client machine, or just customer-facing infra?

We have a pool of 15 build servers for our CI. They run basically 100% cpu during office hours and tranffer terabytes of data every day. They have no real requirements for backup, reliability etc, but they need to be fast. If I run a pricing calculator for hosting those in the cloud it's ridiculous.
We are moving source and CI to cloud, but we'll probably keep all the build machines on-prem for the foreseeable future.

For customer facing servers the calculation is completely different. More traffic means more business. Reliability, Scalability and backup is important and so on.
Would be nice to have GraphViz interfaces, such as import/export to DOT file format, and auto-layout using a WebGraphViz plugin:

http://www.webgraphviz.com/
> that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition

Could also mean they're using AWS Transcribe (or similar) instead of rolling their own speech to text engine.

But that's only the most optimistic interpretation.
Lack of money absolutely does remove them. Billionaires like Murdoch and the Koch brothers have had a massive detrimental effect on US politics (and British, in the case of Murdoch). Without the capital they control, they wouldn't have anywhere near that kind of impact.

Not every billionaire uses their money for that kind of power, but some do, and it hurts democracy when they do. In fact, it's even been argued that legitimate philanthropy is undemocratic, because it's rich people deciding which problems society will fix, rather than a democratic process.

If money only provided luxury, people would have less problems with this inequality. And people would probably be less interested in amassing more wealth than they can consume.
This is the correct approach. We, the "software engineers", can jump in and help. If it eventually comes out that the results were wrong then the papers should be retracted. At the moment there is no proof of that.

That's the beauty of open-sourcing the code: people can help or verify. Needlessly shitting on other people's work without any proof is just disheartening to me.
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yeah I've heard about its issues (I've always dig around for a very long time before buying new phone), but it seems that they've fixed it since Key1 Black edition and later ones right?

And yeah, I also consider Key1 BlackEdition - pity that they haven't released it in Silver color haha :)
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Indeed: in fact someone must have found the issue eventually, as newer versions exited with an error instead of core dumping.

Sadly, academic constraints (time; results required the day before) prevented me from actually filing a bug report.
Riiight, because you don't need people to keep the cloud stuff configured and working /s
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This.

Essentially, all the quantum annealing stuff that D-Wave does follows the patter of mapping a problem onto a spin glass and then finding the ground state with annealing.

The only really interesting theoretical aspect is finding good maps form hard problems to spin glasses.

This is a nice reference:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5843
The new cursor is like being handed a jumbo marker when you are used to a fine point pen. I've been using iPads since the second one came out and I think Apple is just as confused about making a mobile interface into a desktop as Microsoft has been making a desktop interface into mobile. The iPad has never been more powerful, confusing and unintuitive.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080059

sigh
I love Kraftwerk, but didn't enjoy their show.

It felt high tech but low effort, and I know folks are okay with that, but it all felt so trade-show/product demo and not rock show. I would have been happier if it was a bar and not an arena.

This may be because: The Knife and New Order, though. Much better shows ..

/ymmv
Learn it. Just like a new framework.

It's really not that hard.
So it worked "better", yes. It's not about closing down or opening up, but proper preparation and responses according to the circumstances. So we can draw ideas from countries that manage better.

If the goal is herd immunity, of course, it's not better. However, that comes with heavy costs and there's no consensus which strategy is best. Likely, the differeing strategies will converge somewhat. We can live fine with a scaled-down, controlled pandemic.
People in Washington (or elsewhere) who wield a lot of power without being rich, wield that power because it has been delegated to them. They are accountable for that power. Rich people are not, but probably should be.

The problem isn't merely the concentration of power, it's the concentration of unaccountable power. This is also why people are upset about secret courts and lack of congressional oversight over secret services: it withdraws accountability from an institute wielding power.
Interesting tool. I am using hnrss.org to get posts in my aggregator and did not have to complain so far. That is probably because I filter the posts by points, so I only get the most popular ones.
Sure, I may be missing a few posts I would have liked, but this way I am avoiding the distracting habit of checking the homepage too often.

https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100
How was your experience with the keyboard? Is it usable?
I enjoyed wolframs framing of the problem, yes it wasn't peer reviewed or asserting new claims - but everyone is acting like it was.

I think it's a cool idea that may have results in the future, which is how I felt he presented it.
Why would you need Codespaces for that? They released a standalone GitHub app recently just for this purpose. Not sure if it also works with the web version. But Codespaces seems to be the wrong tool for this job.
I can't wait for the first "your AI stole my original character!!!" furry thread on Twitter.

Impressive achievement, I'd love to see the outcome of re-training it with fan-art removed from the training set. There's a lot of Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps in there...
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Use TypeScript without transpilation how is this achieved?
I don't think anyways arguing that oil isn't a replacement for butter. I think we're curious about the expectation. Can we expect most Indian restaurants or caterers to use oils instead of ghee? Do you need to ask them if they use ghee?
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> shows a lack of communication skills

Your reading is very charitable. The political debate is a complete gutter, and everyone is ready to jump at absolutely anything that can advance his argument in the slightest.

As you can see in this very thread, jMyles is hardly unbiased on the matter. He's just playing politics, code standards are an excuse.
Yep. Also, speaking from academic point of view, code won’t make you advance on your career by itself (only papers based on it will), so the minimum is done until the thing is usable for its goal. So forget about CI/CD, proper test suits, documentation (I hate this point personally and document my projects a bit more than the average researcher) and engineering best practices.
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aaah, ok, so an internal joke then. :)

Thnx for clarifying.
awesome :) i was able to upload a big file and immediately share it and view it in browser! very nice! what pdf viewer component did you use? i also like the pastebin functionality.

im sure you hear this a lot but... has anyone done a heads up comparison with filecoin?
Blame the politicians who listened to some random guy with some code instead of the random guy with some code himself.
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I disagree. A lot of progress in physics was by providing another formalism, which predicted nothing, but provided another picture, provides a theoretical foundation, etc.
Take the Langrangian formalism for classical mechanics (you write a book about Noether, right?) - it is equivalent to the causal laws of motions, yet provide a powerful practical and theoretical tool.

Or:

- Schroedinger vs Heisenberg description of QM

- Path integral formulation

- Feynman diagrams (here you can argue that it is not even a formulation, "just a visual representation")

The problem with Stephen Wolfram's theory of everything is not that it does not explain new things. The problem is that (as it is right now) it does not explain new things (he should wish to get there). The problem is that it follows the pattern:

1. Simple graph automata rules.

2. A loose connection with a few physics properties.

3. ???

4. Theory of everything! Profit!!!
This thread has been illuminating, a lot more non-cloud people than I thought! Drinking the cloud kool-aid had me thinking cloud was the only realistic way to go.
Come to think of it, I started programming on Windows, and my first introduction to the filesystem operations was iostream in C++. Being a kid then, I haven't learned about syscalls or inodes until a lot, lot later. I always imagined the filesystem as a more sophisticated version of an array of pairs <startAddress, length>. Thus I assumed shortening a file is trivial (just decrement the length), but making a file longer may require copying it over to somewhere else, if there isn't $newLength bytes available after the $startAddress. I believed that defragmentation meant removing gaps caused by shortening or deleting files.

(N.b. this is how simple memory allocators work.)

So in the end, for a long while, I hadn't had an issue that would make me double-check those assumptions.
That's an amazingly disingenuous comment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamess...

He said that if it was the same as the 1918 flu, you could probably scale it up to 200M people. He didn't predict 200M, he speculated that it could be that bad.

And he wasn't alone - "A global influenza pandemic is imminent and will kill up to 150 million people" said "David Nabarro, one of the most senior public health experts at the World Health Organisation"

"A Department of Health contingency plan states anywhere that there could be between 21,500 and 709,000 deaths in Britain."

An unnamed WHO spokeswoman said "best case scenario" would be 7.4 million deaths globally.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7787-flu-pandemic-let...

"And yet, the models show, if targeted action is taken within a critical three-week window, an outbreak could be limited to fewer than 100 individuals within two months."

Oh, he also showed how to react and keep the number of casualties to a minimum.

Don't believe what you read in dirt rags.
Hopefully Apple patented it and I won't see it on websites, normal cursor works fine.
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Not OP, but I never got on with forced stops either. I had some success treating it like a mini-deadline to achieve flow-state - work on something for 25 minutes, and if I don't feel like I want to keep going, take a break and try again.
Regarding the scrolling, is it maybe the case that when touching the screen, iOS can “prepare” for a scrolling event by preloading stuff around the viewport?

Whereas a cursor does not signal “scrolling intent” as good: it can be sort of anywhere (it can be “left behind” while you are reading som text) and is always on screen as opposed to your finger.
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State UI + the federal weekly stipend + the one time grant is far more than what the average out of work due to lockdown EU resident will get unless this drags for much longer past June, depending on the state people can be getting as much as $15K between March (backdated to Feb if you lost your job then) and end of June.

While much of the EU has overall much better unemployment benefits these were never tested in a period where so many people could lose their jobs.
Many of the customers of my previous employer had hardware on premises, including the customer that I was handling.

It had both compute and storage (netapp). It had two twin sites in two different datacenters. The infra in each site consisted basically in six compute servers (24c/48t, 128gb ram) and netapp storage (two netapp heads per site + disk shelves).

Such hardware has basically paid itself across its seven or eight years of life, and having one of the sites basically in the building meant basically negligible latency.

The workload was mostly fixed, and the user base was relatively small (~1000 concurrent users, using the services almost 24/7).

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The main difference is in admin effort even with the same amount of automation. It doesn't scale linearly because of economy of scales. With reasonable automation a relatively small team can handle a pretty large cloud fleet. For smaller on-prem fleets the scale down might not be ideal though.
I am a pianist that went throught this. The first time I wrote something of my own "taste" was when I was 15. A couple of somewhat important guys told me "We can't wait until you are 18."

This is the only field in which I had this kind of luck. (I am about 30 now and I can write a song within about three days that I would be happy with. A more recent one was when I took an Estonian poem by Johan Liiv and set it to music. I can sing the words, know their meaning, wrote the song accordingly, but I don't speak Estonian.)

My other interests had no such kind of luck. I am still aweful at soccer, but better than other people who started off as rugby players. My MSc was the first time I discovered/invented mathematics and I still am looking for my taste, though I know what it is (self-dual frameworks). I can program the way I think in mathematics, but I am not an accomplished programmer. All of this takes a lot of time, but the recognition along the way is important–especially that one song that I could write at an early age–but then again, I started playing piano when I was, indeed, a six-year-old.
"Hyping", or "puffery"
Softlayer, while not as cheap as a straight ahead colo, strikes a nice balance between cloud and bare metal. You can provision metal on demand and manage hardware servers via an API. They also have data centers across the world and services like managed SAN/NAS storage. Worth a look for sure.
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It bugs me that a lot of friends who are interested in physics (but themselves are not physicists, or at least - not yet physicists) think that history is happening in their eyes.

I suggest them (even if they are not physicists!) looking at the "The Crackpot Index" by John Baez (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html) and manually calculating the score for Stephen Wolfram.
It's generally not used to push policy affecting billions of people, though.

But as I said in another comment, let's blame whoever listened to that garbage fire of a model, not the model itself. We don't listen to Minecraft modders for structural engineering advice either, and we did, they would not be the ones to blame for collapsing buildings.
Not only that. It's an awful precedent to shoot down any research based on the implementation of it. That's more than just a misunderstanding; it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how research and scientific processes work.

The issue claims the tests are broken because they're checking for checksums instead of actual data -- but what they really do is to check for the sanity of the implementation to be actually implementing the mathematical models that are underlying to it.
The nightlies have a lot of UI bugs, Filtering options disappear randomly, the left column is kinda weird etc.

But still with all those UI bugs I prefer it over any other client.
Sweet, thanks – haven't had time to even skim yet!
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At the risk of being hyperbolic, isn't this a similar argument as saying that we shouldn't make burglary illegal and should instead build better doors?
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Except they didn't write down a "specification." They simply asked Matten & Wiechers to come up with something that could automate their tape loops for Trans Europe Express. Dirk Matten & Hans-Joachim Wiechers both designed and created the Synthorma to handle that task. This is well-documented. So no it was not the same a writing a technical specification any more than I'm writing a "specification" when I call my local pizza place and ask for a large pepperoni.
>> “‘If we suppose that a rabbit was coming out of the hat, then remarkably, this rabbit would be coming out of the hat,’” Aaronson says. “And then [going] on and on about how remarkable it is.”

That has to be one of funniest quotes I ever read.

I did have this thought that Stephen Wolfram may be overrated in the past. He is a good businessman for sure. The amount of attention he gets from the media does appear to be disproportionate to his achievements and perhaps may cause overconfidence.

That said I do understand the view that the scientific community may have become so narrowly focused on rigid scientific review processes that they could be missing out on real innovation and alternative ideas.

For example I can't help but think of what would happen if some random (not PhD) engineer came up with a new and highly innovative mathematical construct and published it on their blog... I doubt their idea would get any attention at all; no matter how useful or impressive it is. It would be lost in the noise because scientists are not going to review it.

Science is still operating on an outdated idea that all scientific knowledge is centralized within universities and that all credible innovations must necessarily come from these universities and all great scientists must be somehow be socially connected to existing great scientists. As if direct social connections are still the only pathways through which cutting-edge knowledge can flow. It completely ignores the existence of the internet.
On the contrary, front end isn't good enough yet, and getting to the point where it's ideal will require more complexity. Users want things to work fast. If you're including a roundtrip to a server your app will never be good enough for a user on a rural 1Mbps satellite connection with 500ms latency. That's the goal - your app has to work well for that guy. You can't get it to be fast if you're using the network a lot. We need concurrent rendering, async background processing, and as much work shifted on to worker threads as we can manage. All the things that native apps do to crank up the performance need to happen on the web too.

Also, don't forget that the web is fantastically backwards compatible. You can write web apps without the complexity if you want to. You can use Dreamweaver! You can server-side render every page. It works. If that's what you want to serve your users then you should do that. Just don't complain when they use the competitor's app that's faster, more responsive, and does fun things like working offline.
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