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I've heard this among other Course 6 students and alumni, and I think I understand your point of view, but I respectfully disagree.

Python is relevant to 90% of the jobs to which I've applied in my lifetime. In contrast, I've never seen any developer or manager mention Scheme seriously in a professional setting (just my honest experience), nor have I ever been asked in an interview about my experience with Scheme.

Python is extremely versatile, and works very well with many different design patterns. It offers a gentle-enough learning curve that you can teach it in the first part of a course, then turn around and use it as a platform to teach concepts in the second half of the course. 6.01 does this with robotics, for example.

MIT is often difficult for pointless reasons. Some of the professors are brilliant engineers but piss-poor educators. TA's don't all have the tact or capacity to tutor students about basic concepts. Python's simplicity, ubiquity, and large online community make it a perfect language for self-study, and time-constrained self-study is often a hallmark of an MIT education.

Most direct contact with educators in 6.01 doesn't involve the professor, but rather some other student who took the course a semester or two ago. For example, one idiot 6.01 TA of mine deleted two hours' worth my code from the course's Python environment (no CTRL+Z at the time) when I asked him to help me understand a concept, just because he didn't like something about the order in which I had written some computations. Then he said "do it again" and walked away. (I think he was from Russia; not sure if that's how education works over there.)

If that happens to you in a well-documented, community-supported language like Python or Java, you can go to someone else for help. With Scheme, you're kind of left without resources.

I'm all for challenges, but they should be reasonable and realistic, not contrived nor quirky-for-quirk's-sake.

Unlike you, I never took the 6.001 version, so I admit that I have a limited vantage point. But I think my logic here is not too far off.
A 65c816 runs 6502 code natively.
They said "we expect the transition to take two years [...] we've still got some Intel Macs to show you soon [sic] [roughly what they said]" during the keynote.

This isn't just going to replace low-end machines; its every machine they sell, within two years. Probably starting with low-end, but moving up.
The iOS line looks like the low end device using last year's chip. How does binning help with that? Are they going to stockpile all the low quality chips for two years before you start putting them in the low end devices? Wouldn't that make the performance unusually bad, because it's the older chip and the lower quality silicon?
First of all, this off topic. Next, it's simply wrong, there is no ARM processor better than the best x86 processor in any category except insanely low power. All comparisons I've seen so far compare tiny mobile processors with huge server processes with orders of magnitude more I/O per watt. When you compare phone chips with Zen 2 low-power laptop chips and take into account the massive I/O disparity it's much less favourable.
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> how slow it's been adopted

My impression is that basically all web-based games use WebGL or Canvas these days. Now, most WebGL users are really using something higher-level like Three.js or Unity. But I don't see it being under-utilized for its intended purpose.
Just assign a second IP to the existing interface on the current box. You don't need a second computer or even a second NIC.
> Are there any papers/comparisons/tradeoffs on when GBDT predictive-power plateaus compared to a NN?

None specifically that I know of, but I haven't searched.

"Shallow learning" GBDTs can do pretty well on MNIST (https://www.kaggle.com/c/digit-recognizer/discussion/61480), getting 98%+ accuracy compared to the 99%+ of NNs. So I figured if they can handle MNIST, they can probably handle connect 4, and would be useful to explore the self-play training efficiency aspects of AlphaZero (at orders of magnitude less compute time/cost)

> with self play you can trade-off a cpu budget for both the GBDT depth, a NN depth, and the roll-out depth - which is super interesting.

Definitely. It'll be interesting to see if a deeper MCTS search with a less powerful model can do pretty well. I'm still fairly ignorant about the MCTS literature, but I've definitely seen MCTS married to other value/policy models (linear regressions, for e.g.) that used large numbers of playouts years before Alpha Go came out. Those didn't work out, so seems like the DL aspect of Alpha Zero is somewhat essential to be able to learn games as complex as Go.
Yeah I basically had the same thought.
What is N1?
Pretty neat. As I'm reading, this basically lets you embed Unreal in a CLR and play nicely with C# (and presumably F# and whatever else). That's going to be very appealing for any Unity devs who have been thinking about switching over.
there weren't many words, how come you missed the point completely?
I used to always make pictures and I still do make a fair amount but it tends to be higher-level system or data/process flows.

When it comes to getting a handle on complexity, I find it better to list all the dimensions of variability and decide how they relate. Any before-and-after (but not necessarily during) invariants are gold. Then I can choose where/when to deal with which dimension(s) while other parts are agnostic to those.
deep linking is evil. links everywhere (messages for example) get routed to apps on the phone.

oh, also auto previews of links are evil.

all of this kind of stuff should be opt-in.
Yeah it is. Maybe you get some more tickets through passion and work but that's the full extent of it. You can be brilliant, passionate and set new levels of hard work and not have your number come up. Most vastly wealthy inherited.

Don't kid yourself. Risk is risk. The only inevitability is death. (Remember when that used to be "Death and Taxes." We should go back to when taxes were in that list).
There you go! Someone finally figured it out. Apple is moving to Apple Silicon, not ARM. Try to get LG to announce they’re offering a PC with Apple Silicon tomorrow.

The absence of any ARM mention is marketing, nothing more.
My reading was that it was the opposite direction: integrating the CLR into Unreal.
The "celebrities" aren't being compelled to participate. Where is the lack of agency?
I guess that's the problem with moral clarity. When everybody agrees who's in the right, they move on instead of arguing about it and escalating. If escalation is the goal, you need to be divisive more than you need to be right.
better link an actual discussion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605557
This is an easy and somewhat scalable way for celebrities to provide a virtual "meet & greet" experience. It's like people who go to a comic-con and pay for autographs and a picture of their favorite star. This is probably going to take off even more in the Covid era.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605557
> I'd pay for a well engineered macOS 11 theme for GNOME.

elementaryOS is probably pretty close already...
It just feels odd that this isn't spoken about enough, and I think its because the media narrative is a bit too invested in the "danger" part of this virus

It feels odd that you blame the "media narrative" and then post two links to the New York Times.
Is their multi-core performance poor, or have they just made size/power trade-offs against increasing the number of cores? The iPad Pro SoCs are literally the only parts they've made so far with four big cores.
Rather than "invisible text", I've typically included a block of relevant items at the bottom of my resume in a smaller font under the heading "Keyword Clickbait".
True but the die size has also grown. So it not a 1:1 comparison.

An impressive feat for sure but it is just using brute force to increase performance nowadays.
How distributed is DNS these days in practice, compared to 10 or 20 years ago?

If the major internet powers agreed to stop serving responses to DNS servers they detected weren't respecting reasonable TTL's, do you think they could "bully" the industry into tightening things up? (Kind of how Google and others compelled the web toward widespread HTTPS)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605557
If it's the case that the auction provides bidders with the cookie even if they don't win, then that is indeed concerning.
I agree, but there’s no other way to reach out to the large % who supported this “movement”.

For whatever reason, perhaps because they’ve enjoyed fruits of labor by others, their views coming from an educated class skew significantly left.

Makes sense something like this happened in Seattle.
Because they want to? Why do they have to do what you want them to do? They are free to scrap the entire thing if they so choose.

H1-B has been massively abused for decades. Any attempt to reign this in should be welcomed by American workers, who are the ones this abuse affects most.
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My beef is that ESC in macOS is the universal non-destructive dismiss button. I'm glad they went back to making it a physical key.
Yes but same result Unity dev poaching
I once read a description of having durian as something like "eating vanilla while standing next to a trash heap" and I have to say that's stuck with me as fairly accurate. There's a good flavour with some pretty bad bits but over time you learn to ignore or even like them.

I quite like it, especially with dairy, but it seems to upset my stomach (durian burps aren't great).
One of my desktops is a C2Q and I swear I could get another decade out of it yet.
"As with the carrion crow study, when these crows were presented with playback of a more familiar acoustic style—in this case a Japanese speaker—they didn’t show a strong reaction. Play them what was likely a completely unfamiliar language—Dutch—and the crows were rapt. Or at least they acted more vigilant and positioned themselves closer to the speaker. In other words, large-billed crows were able to discriminate between human languages without any prior training!"

I would be interested to hear the respective recordings - is it possible that something else in the speaker's voice (tone/manner/volume) that they were responding to?

Edit: Ok so i went looking in the original paper which describes the method and it looks quite thought out - though i would still love to hear the recording or see the video footage.
(https://brussels.evolang.org/proceedings/papers/EvoLang13_pa...)

"We used twenty Dutch and twenty Japanese sentences as stimuli. They were all declarative, adult-directed, approximately 2.5 seconds long, and spoken by four
female native speakers. After the habituation to the aviary on three consecutive days, the crows were tested for their responses to the Dutch and Japanese stimuli
in a total of eight trials which were distributed over four days (i.e., two trials per day). Four crows received Dutch stimuli for the first four trials and Japanese stimuli for the last four trials, while the other three crows were assigned the opposite language order. Before the start of each trial, the crows were given 3–5
min for familiarization to the surroundings. Each trial consisted of four blocks of stimulus presentation with inter-block intervals of a 1–2-min silent period. Within
each block, a set of ten sentences spoken by two different speakers was continuously presented twice in a random order. A 30 min silent period was inserted between the trials each day. The trial schedule including stimulus presentation was controlled by the programme PsychoPy 3 (Peirce, 2007). The sound level was set at a range between 70 and 80 dB across the perches. According to the different behavioural responses to 1,000 Hz and 1,600 Hz tone......"
Lots of words and vagueness without much of a point (other than someone really didn't like being called a grifter on twitter dot com, I guess?). After reading the entire piece I have no idea what the author is really alluding to, and they have to be alluding to something because it wouldn't sound eerily specific otherwise. Why not just state your point with the example at hand instead of uselessly theorizing? Seriously, this is what happens when you take online too seriously - using grandiloquent words like orthodoxy, skandalon, attention economy or citing Girard and Durkheim as though this weren't about petty spats no one outside Weird Twitter has ever heard about. If your reputation and livelihood doesn't depend on your being extremely online, why would you care about this stuff? If it does, and you actually profit from talking about this stuff and playing contrarian, how can you object to being called a grifter?
It is run through the App Store process, and AR on iOS is an...eye-opening...experience on performance characteristics of their CPUs
It's going to be an ARM clone of Hypervisor.Framework.
Nice development board for $20, even if it takes some work. Bought one!
No because that would probably bypass things like deep linking where apps get fed URLs.
I personally use microG and disable all of the features that call home to Google, except for those anonymized by microG. Works flawlessly, except for some apps that don't work but are easily replaced.
It's durian! Brain fart
I'm sure the only reason we buy Macs is so that we can still target iOS.
ehhhh I don't think thats a distinction that you can reserve for people running startups

and being effective at an executive role at a startup or big company doesn't mean a child has to be neglected

sure thats what happens a lot, but its not intrinsically tied together

I do find it interesting that the patches to this in some developed countries - regarding paid and extended paternal leave (1 to 3 years, job guaranteed) - are incompatible with corporate growth, and those countries are specifically not known for being able to "move fast and break things". So although I would offer those patches for the American market, the rebuttals are too predictable.
I've remapped Caps Lock to Control, which turned out to be very useful in various Remote Desktop and VirtualBox scenarios since it requires a left-Control key, which Mac laptop keyboards are missing.
Check out the SoftBART method, I think there are interesting optimizations possible there. XBart also looks promising as an approach.
A minor nit, the us military created the nuclear industry to begin with, it did not lobby and co-opt it into building nuclear weapon material, that was a major goal from day one.
Re: mangosteens, the author isn't saying mangosteens taste disappointing, they're saying that finding lots with the 'mustard blight' is disappointing.

If you can pick your own, though, they're in my experience pretty avoidable: go for ones that are purple, not black, and avoid any that have traces of yellow leaking from the top.
AFAIK, they're going to make their own GPU. A recruiter from Apple reached out to me a few weeks ago trying to poach me from my job at a large GPU manufacturer.
They scarcely ever have with regards to iOS either; architecture has never been a talking point for their CPUs. How long was it from iPhone announcement to knowing it was ARM? How long from the Apple A4 announcement to knowing it was ARM?
You can build LineageOS yourself if you want. The procedure is on their website. Then you can also read the code to make sure nothing funny is going on.
But their software is always on the backend of this. I suspect they're letting it happen because webkit (with all their hooks) will be an integral part of all the apps they allow.
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They're admittedly not applications most users run every day, but many multimedia applications (audio processing, encoding, decoding) is mostly done with hand-crafted instrinsics, the same goes for video stuff.

In an even more niche area (high-end VFX apps, like compositors, renderers) SSE/AVX intrinsics are used quite a bit in performance-critical parts of the code, and auto-vectorisers can't yet do as good a job (they're pretty useless at conditionals and masking).
"Unusable" for human eyes, or unusable for computers? The images do not need to be very pretty for a computer to extract street signs and other features.
> Defunding the police is an actual policy decision that can be made on a local scale to address issues of over policing and start reinvesting in crime prevention rather than punishment.

Can you give an example of a country that does what you recommend? If you can’t, what evidence do you have that it is the solution?

I’m not American. My criticism above is that the movement appears to have developed a policy idea that is not used in any country with a successful policing track record.

As for your claim that individual districts can’t take action....why? Cambden did. They’re hardly perfect, but it’s an improvement. They’re a local area.

And this story shows that when they did try cutting funding, before the reforms and it didn’t solve the problem. Only a concerted reform effort did.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-city-disband...

Comment above was heavily downvoted, but no one has provided a meaningful reply to the stats. The numbers are clear. Compared to places with better policing, the US has a smaller number of officers per capita, and spends less.

The US does spend much more on prisons however, which is surely a mistake. To your point on shifting focus away from punishment this is one of the first places I would look to cut money: prisons.

In the UK, police killed only 3 people in 2019. There has been surprisingly little inquiry as to how they do it. I get that US police are bad, and so spending less money to get less of them might be an improvement. But to actually solve the problem it seems that changing the police is the better answer. And this will necessarily be local because most of the important stuff in the US is local.
I believe N# are names of various process nodes. Shorthand, people refer to something as the "5nm node" but really there may be multiple (processes | nodes | technology nodes | process nodes | process technologies) that are "5nm".

wikichip has five nodes listed under "5 nm lithography process", two of which are TSMC's:

- N5

- N5P

so N1 would be a hypothetical future process that can produce '1nm' "features".
Last year, staff at the University of Canberra library were forced to evacuate the building due to a suspected gas leak, but a search revealed the stench was in fact caused by the fruit.

That's what I've always associated the smell of durian with --- not stinking or rotting as others often say, but "gas leak". Not surprisingly, the same compound is responsible for both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanethiol
strong disagree. MacOS and iPadOS will take cues from each other, but they will remain fundamentally different. MacOS for the old-timey folks who want root access and to be able to browse the file system, iPadOS for people who like having all for that abstracted away from them a-la iOS. neither is right or wrong, just caters to different kinds of people who prefer different ways of working.
Private trackers may have free entry but cost money in other ways. It's not easy to get buffer on a home connection. I have probably spent $200 on my seedbox over the years. Pay-per-bite sounds a lot cheaper in contrast.
> Which would those be?

Most of the top-tier R1 universities; i.e., ivies and similarly competitive institutions. Also, similarly competitive departments at otherwise less selective universities (e.g., UW's or CMU's CS programs. Getting into either university is considerably easier than getting into the CS program).

NB: I guess the sentence you quoted is slightly too strong. You can first go to community college and then transfer. But it's not the default path, and request some special effort. That's also true in Germany, by the way. You can go to University without going to a gymnasium.
What if mutations happens with much more frequency than people imagine, such that it is almost analogous to spontaneous creation sometimes - or actually is spontaneous creation. Like, natural selection and inherited mutations are just one process, and there actually is a level of spontaneity occurring.

Science has a way to factor that in and update its assumptions, but not when everyone dismisses the idea because so much energy has been put into a polar opposite process.
I used to think that. Then this term happened. Or I still do but severely underestimated "only so much damage".
Got a write up or demo? Pure curiosity of how it works
In general physical presence of police helps crime in the short term, but not in the media to long term, instead it likely makes it worse. The spousal abuse example wasn't mine, but the GP's.
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> You potentially don't need intersection control with all autonomous traffic

I thought this myth had been widely debunked. In a world where every commuter drives a 100% autonomous car, you still have hobbyists driving old vintage cars, cyclists riding non-autonomous bikes, pedestrians, birds, runaway shopping carts, etc. disrupting the flow of traffic. Without traffic control you make the intersection in-crossible for a significant subset of the traffic.
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That's well and good until you have eczema on your groin or underarms.
Thanks. I wasn't aware of vouching.
Pretty exciting. I've tried to get into Unreal before due to its graphics system, but gotten scared away by modern C++. This could seriously undercut one of Unity's last major advantages.
A year or two ago FB partnered with a Counter-Strike tournament organizer (ESL) for exclusive streaming rights, and that was probably the most high profile partnership I've ever seen associated with it.

It definitely did not go well for them, though; the community were not fans and they promptly went back to Twitch after their year was up. They had to have paid a pretty penny to get that deal inked!
Is this CPU any different from the CPU in a Raspberry Pi? Will it be binary compatible?
Have you personally audited every piece of code on your phone?
Design is not all. There is a reason IC design houses are vanishing, it is too expensive to design custom chips. Only large companies can afford the tapeouts, testing, Packaging, and large volume production.
In my city if there is a 911 call for a medical emergency you will get the firefighters or the ambulance faster, and depending on the emergency might not get police at all.

In any case, if you are giving anyone defibrillators and locating them to minimize response time to cardiac incidents, it would be absurd to give it to the police.
I guess it depends on how you define a startup.

Many of the "cool" startups that make the tech press are made by kids fresh out of college, but IMO these are only a tiny fraction of actual startups created in the world every year.
Well, there was the Saturn C-5N [0] - basically a Saturn V with a nuclear upper stage instead of another J-2. That increased the payload to LEO from 118,000kg to 155,000kg. (and an even larger increase in mass to TLI/TMI/etc)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_C-5N
Pure speculation, but probably the same reason they ran Oracle for so long -- not many cdn providers when amazon.com launched. Afaik akamai still has one of the biggest edge networks of all the providers.