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I got about 8 years into my four year degree program in between interesting part time and then full time jobs on the side, and recently came to a set of realizations:

1. I'm never going to finish this damn thing because I keep failing or almost failing math courses (and it happens the three required courses I have left are gated by math courses). All it does at this stage is make me feel inferior. (I do suck at thinking mathemetically, but I guess I've sucked at it for long enough I can deal with it in practice. Alas, they aren't buying it :b).

2. The only required course that remains which I'm really interested in doing is about writing a compiler, but I could do this myself. I'd miss having the excellent prof who teaches it, but that isn't worth the tuition until then. I already found my way into the others. There were some good ones which I'm really glad I did.

3. Upon graduating, my job prospects wouldn't change. Things are going fine. I might regret not having the piece of paper if I want to switch fields, but…

4. Outside of two or three excellent CS courses, the courses I have most enjoyed and grown from have been humanities and archaeology electives. They have a more interesting, diverse range of students; heaps of opportunity for cross-discipline thinking; and content I genuinely know nothing about, would like to learn about, and have no idea where to start. If I decide at some point I'd like to finish my degree, I'd probably take more of those courses and try to find an applicable degree than suffering through more CS.

The trouble with CS is (as a job training program, as opposed to a program about science and mathemtics), if you're the type of person who's doing the degree program because you're already doing this stuff, there's a decent chance you could find a relevant job while you're still at school. And that job _also_ provides educational opportunities, because that's how our field works. Unless you are in a place where that four year full time degree thing works for you, it makes itself irrelevant.
Wait a minute.

> It starts with a closed loop — any kind of curvy path that ends where it starts. The problem Greene and Lobb worked on predicts, basically, that every such path contains sets of four points that form the vertices of rectangles of any desired proportion.

> Their final proof — showing the predicted rectangles do indeed exist — transports the problem into an entirely new geometric setting. There, the stubborn question yields easily.

> The rectangular peg problem is a close offshoot of a question posed by the German mathematician Otto Toeplitz in 1911. He predicted that any closed curve contains four points that can be connected to form a square. His “square peg problem” remains unsolved.

How can the square problem possibly remain unsolved if the article is celebrating a proof that you can find the corners of a rectangle of any proportion in any closed curve. What if I choose the proportion "length = 1 times width"?
There is an ever-increasing library of skills and tools that all have major flaws that have to be used in IT/Software Development.

Nothing ever seems to work right - and because all software is written differently by different people in different companies and languages, old and new, you can't solve everything. Things just don't work, and often. Problems are ignored. Software is thrown out to users to be "updated later."
I bet they're referring to the objective space, not the input space.

It's easy to come up with pathological examples where that strategy doesn't help. E.g., if your objectives lie in the boundary of the unit square then the Pareto Front will have at most two points in it (near a corner -- which corner depends on whether you're looking at maxima or minima in each coordinate), but the entire set will be in the convex hull.

For a uniform sample it's more beneficial. Most points aren't in the hull (as the cardinality increases the hull density drops to 0), and in 2D the Pareto Front will be around 25% of the hull.

I'm not sure you can compute the hull any more quickly than this library in the first place, at least asymptotically, but there already exist some highly optimized solvers, so that might tip the scales a bit.
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It's quite simple why Quibi failed. They couldn't retain users during when the lockdown measures were in place in April, which they betted heavily on. If they couldn't gain those users at that time, then they would be finished as soon as the lockdown was being eased.

I guess that a mobile only, 10 minute video platform wasn't appealing to those users who bought into the original hype of purchasing this service and later switched back to the good old Netflix, Apple TV+ and Disney+. It had no chance and was dead before it was even born. The fact that all of Hollywood was backing this and throwing $1.7 billion is at most the top charts of product failures and part of the greatest hits of VC hype trains I've seen so far.

As the comments here already have mentioned, this can be best described as a high speed expensive train crash for investors.
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I expected an old-fashioned "click part of the image and go to a different link" where I could click on a book's spine and get linked to a page with more details about it. Of course, this is a lot more work so I can see why they didn't do this. But this was one of my favorite elements of '90s websites. You have some big (for the time) image up top and you, say, click on one of the characters in it to get to the guestbook.
> What Apple has done, though, is frame privacy-consciousness in terms of exclusivity and luxury.

That's an interesting point. Without delving into the rest of your comment, I'd like to expand on that one bit and add that part and parcel with exclusivity and luxury, part of Apple's brand has been simplicity, quality, and joy (or pleasure in use).

Like many luxury brands ; ). Or high-end brands. It's a mix.

And I think that Apple is using it's privacy features to enhance the "quality" and "simple" part of their brand in addition to the other aspects you mentioned.
This begs the question, if Geekbench developers have the DTK? Since this is not iOS there is nothing that prevent them from releasing an update now on ARM platform.
And, ironically, the better the school the more theoretically focused the curriculum tends to be. That said, I did take a manufacturing processes course (basically machine shop plus some related theory) undergrad and I did have project-based classes that involved actually designing and building things.
> Make a native app if that's what you need.

i.e. Make binary that includes a web browser just for this one web app.
I'm 29, live in the Bay Area, and recently moved back to my parents place. At first I was embarrassed, but while running around the neighborhood I keep bumping into old high school and college classmates who did the same thing in order to save money. Like you said there's nothing to do anyway since everything fun is closed. I'm also saving about $2500 per month (more or less) and hanging out with my family is nice. Honestly, your parents will be happy to have you back anyway. There's nothing lame about moving back home since a lot of people are doing it and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
You mean incident at level 4 biolab «Vector», in Novosibirsk, Russia? What can go wrong if some Russian soldiers will stole some equipment from level 4 biolab and then go to Military Games in Wuhan, China?
You hate the town itself or just you hate the mental constraint of being around your parents and all the things that trigger your childhood? I don't hate my hometown but I do feel some mental constraint when Im here.
I was curious so I looked it up the desk, and surprised, I did have one of those.

Sure you can adjust the height, but once you have your monitor, books and what not, it is a pain to make any adjustments.

It has been in "sitting" position for as long as I can remember.
A lot of parents have no social life. This will only get worse with age. When you move back in with them, you give them a false sense of a social life and friendship, which will leave an even bigger hole when you move. Something to keep in mind.

Edit: For all the people negging - the point is that you should encourage your parents to have a social life, which is proven to be good for health, happiness, etc.
I'm in the USA and I've heard the name once or twice ('some viral video series coming soon!' type ads), but didn't even realize it launched. Maybe I'm not the target demographic.
You know, it's a hard pattern to break out of.

For me, I've always worked the hardest on the things I've failed the hardest at. Failing motivates me to try more - even if I only achieve supbar results after not failing.

In my later years, I've become better at being selective about these things. I try not to spend too much resources on things I know will not mater, or bring me any more happiness.
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The covid-19 travel restrictions have unfortunately delayed an international move for me. I'm not considering moving back home, but in the event that the restrictions are not lifted before my current lease expires, I will certainly be trading my expensive urban apartment for something more remote and closer to nature. All of the advantages of city life are inaccessible for the foreseeable future, so why not move?

I can rent an entire house for half of what I'm currently paying for an apartment!
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I guess you missed where I said:

> They needed a solution and what was available was either woefully insufficient or non-existent so they developed a proprietary solution that met their needs.

Lightning is 8 years old and shipped in products 2 years before the USB-C specification was even finalized, 4 years before it was standardized. And it wasn't until 2018 that USB-C began being widely adopted.

USB-C is still kind of a shit show in terms of compatibility, you can get a charger/cable combination that will charge one device and destroy another. Until that gets ironed out, Apple probably won't be using it in Phones.
I'm a lifter who runs. Love both, but I found learning running form to be more challenging than learning how to squat or deadlift.

I started off doing the Couch to #K programs, and they helped me commit to something without having to figure out the decisions. It told me to run, and I ran. It told me to walk, and I'd walk.

I ended up dong a Chi Running introductory thing, and then a full blown Chi Running course (the day long one). It was very helpful. There are more "running form" Youtube videos now than when I was doing this, but I'd still recommend a Chi Running session for anyone getting into it.

Nowadays I do low heart rate running, and though I'm not all that fast, I can run pretty far. Ultra- far.
Sure, that's low, depending on context. At 6 significant digits, a million-dollar bank account would have a margin of error of up to +/- 5 dollars.

And if you add up a million of any item with 6 significant digits, that's enough for inaccuracy to propagate all the way into your first significant digit. (It would require systematic inaccuracy in one direction, but there are certainly data sets and contexts where that would happen.)
Yeah with Covid no way. Basically no dating. I have a gf that lives in the city... so idk how long that will last.
Well, a more interesting review would address not only what doesn't work well and what you can't really use it for; but also what you can use it for.

In other words, yes, it's fair to say "don't use this for surfing the web or if you have an EVOO laptap". But ideally you would then suggest what you could use it for and how it works in those areas. I would have expected at least to understand the state of desktop productivity software, music playing, networking, hacking, playing games, printing, etc.

And given that a lot of readers (unlike yourself) will never have used BeOS or be that familiar with it, what's it like? If you read an email and someone sends you a PDF, do you save it and open it in a PDF reader? Does something else happen? Is any of it interesting in some way?
I found what I can confidently say is my favorite non-fiction book I've read in a while from randomly walking into a book store. I was meandering through the history section and found a book that went in great detail about Lawrence of Arabia titled (Lawrence in Arabia).

Looking forward to the day that can happen again.
Goddamn, why didnt I choose a different field.

Funny enough when I was a teenager I wanted anything but to become the latter guy, I even had my own unrealistic goals to avoid it. Unfortunately reality would kick in not too much longer later and I was forced to resign to that life.
They spent 1.75$bn in 3 months??? If they spent that kind of money on original series on a worldwide CC license, spammed the shit out of it on social media and provided integrations with every video platform in existence, they would've achieved much more than whatever it is they were trying to achieve.
MATE (https://mate-desktop.org/) is the modern, supported, version of Gnome2. It's a great desktop environment and all your old nautilus scripts will work with just a s/nautilus/caja/ regex replacement.
I used this technique to layer graph areas that overlap so you can still clearly see them even in black and white. Use a dot series to get a 3rd overlapping series you can see.
Vitually any library will take recommendations, and a source such as Cowen (or Gates, or other notable academics/authors) will tend to be well-received.

Few of the best books are recent, as Schopenhauer noted.
"Wrongful death", hoo boy. That is some HR language right there.
Great points, but not everyone wants to be a founder. Some people join high growth startups to move up quickly in corporate so they can hit executive level positions faster in their career. In this case, they probably still value job security and are significantly more risk averse than someone who would jump straight into being a founder.
> Note that these tests are running under virtualization, using Apple’s Rosetta technology

totally unreliable info, but interesting.
> It starts with a closed loop — any kind of curvy path that ends where it starts. The problem Greene and Lobb worked on predicts, basically, that every such path contains sets of four points that form the vertices of rectangles of any desired proportion.

> Their final proof — showing the predicted rectangles do indeed exist — transports the problem into an entirely new geometric setting. There, the stubborn question yields easily.

Except that the article then contradicts itself by saying how they haven't actually proved this. They proved it for smooth closed curves, not for any closed curves.

This is a really bizarre article. They seem like they want to describe the math. But they can't bring themselves to do it in a way that might be helpful. They're just waving words around.

And then there's this:

> it’s possible to rotate the Möbius strip in four-dimensional space so that you only change one of the coordinates in each point’s four-coordinate address — like changing the street numbers of all the houses on a block, but leaving the street name, city and state unchanged. (For a more geometric example, think about how holding a block in front of you and shifting it to the right only changes its x coordinates, not the y and z coordinates.)

You can certainly translate a space along an axis without affecting its coordinates along other axes. But that's not a rotation.
Oh yeah. Even when I was in my mid twenties, when I visited a Google office during some software event, I felt that the decoration was too childish and frankly ugly.

The testing or whatever tips on the toilets also felt a little invasive.
Yeah but is that worth it in the fall/winter when you're paying close to 2k just to live in the city? Idk.
I've found during quarantine that the elimination of my commute and the ability to do chores during time I'd otherwise spend on a mid-work mental break has really helped me feel happier with the work I'm doing. Laundry and dishes and home maintenance don't feel like I'm digging into my free time. If I need to get away from my desk, I take my dog on a walk.
Also was in NYC. My inlaws have a place in CT with a basement that is larger than my NYC apartment. Moved out a few months ago and won't be renewing. Might move back to the city in 6-12 months covid dependent but for now, I'm thinking we'll sit tight and enjoy the summer and fall in the foothills of the berkshires. no garbage on the street, lush green mountains all around. really hard to want to go back to the city at this point...
This is a really cool dive into the interpretability of intermediate-level neural network activations. I really like the way that they've identified a core debate in the ML conversation, and created a relatively simple test-space to better understand it and (hopefully) move the discussion forward.
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Not an option, and boy do I wish it was.
> resurgence of fixed point arithmetic in hpc

Where is fixed point arithmetic resurging in HPC? Serious question; I haven't heard about this, but if it's happening in places I haven't heard about, I would be interested in looking at them.
It's sad to see somewhat bright minds, spending their life analyzing what companies are doing to maximize profit.

Why is that interesting and at what point do you notice that every move these companies make, is anti-human?

Take Apple: their entire business model is reliant upon the government never waking up to enforcing open standards and protocols to ensure consumers get hardware-agnostic, operating system-agnostic, service-provider agnostic, company-agnostic tools and services, which is what everyone would agree we want, except the sociopaths who value profit over humanity and run these corporations.

That's what got everyone excited about Bitcoin for a hot second. That it finally escapes the walled gardens all technology is living under. Instead of fixing the walled gardens, these delusional fools think they can technology their way out of corporations owning all key infrastructure. Jesus Christ.

Back to Apple.

Apple's entire business strategy is creating a walled garden because it benefits them, at the expense of everyone else. They give consumers crumbs and call it 'the biggest release ever'.

Facebook's entire business strategy is being a surveillance network, which is again, entirely reliant upon the government never waking up to how creepy, immoral and counter-productive it is on so many levels! There are enough sociopaths in government who think oh good, a surveillance tool, we can make use of it! Good luck having Facebook regulated when we live in a corporatocracy folks!

Everything these big companies do is against the interests of human beings. People are just too dumb to see it because if you drip-feed them 'new emojis' and 'you can have a weather widget on your screen in 2020', they don't realize they are getting fucked!

Sorry, carry on with your 'analysis' of what these sociopaths are up to and pretending you have valuable insight, when the only sane insight to be had is 'these fuckers are out of control'.
You mean that renting furnished makes it easier to move right?
I blame it on quarantine, but for the past week or so I've really been longing to spend an afternoon in a library. They were one of the best parts of my childhood and teenage years: scanning a shelf and picking out something that catches your eye was a more efficient process, yielding more spontaneity and serendipity and quality, than the existing "recommended books" algorithms that exist on my library's online app. Finding books on similar topics was so much easier with the Dewey Decimal system. It's amazing to me that, decades into the information revolution, we still haven't been able to replicate the efficiencies of that manual sorting system online.
They are not even in the same universe when it comes to comparing trustworthiness .

It’s NK & China and then there is everyone else.
Also, while we are on the topic of Shakespeare, you are overlooking the tragedy of Othello, a black (Moorish) protagonist who is betrayed by the white Iago.
I remember barely getting through the instructions when a lightbulb went off, I said, "oh!", and immediately started juggling. That book explained it so simply. Before that, juggling seemed to be some sort of dark art requiring amazing dexterity.
The article to me seems to be saying that if you pour your heart and soul into a skill, let's say playing guitar, and after several years despite your best efforts you are still not very good, you probably should not depend on it to support yourself financially. This doesn't preclude you doing it for fun on your own terms.

> Why should you aim to have an unfair advantage over anybody?

Cynical: This makes life easier. Exploiting an unfair advantage over others ensures you don't have to spend a large percentage of your life fighting for the basic elements of survival. It's selfish, but the number of people you are is 1 and not more or less, which also matches the number of people who truly care about your quality of life.

Your mainframe example is bad because those people are still making a lot of money maintaining legacy systems somewhere.
kyrie irving made waves asserting that the players could form their own league and keep all the profits for themselves.

he elides how difficult that would be, even for a bunch of millionaires, in the face of a bigger bunch of billionaires and the massive power structures behind them, but i applaud him for having the gall to put it on the table.

it takes the likes of an extraordinary talent like michael jordan to break the color barrier of nba owners, whereas white folks can just inherit teams and/or the wealth to buy them.
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Currently manufacturing the very first batch: we're waiting for the PCBs to be shipped, then we'll proceed with assembly, testing, etc.

Conservatively I'd say we'll start shipping around Sep/Oct. But for sure there'll be some "limited edition" tokens in circulation before.
The original "engagement" optimizing algorithm.
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Yeah that's what I was thinking. Taking a "breather" from the city life, I've had a few years there doing that whole jazz.

Might be good to save, live healthy, evaluate what I want from the next 5 years.
No way in hell my parents would take me back in and no way in hell I'd deal with that again.

That being said, I really wish I could because I might be able to afford going back to school in that case.
So this might be an enormous opportunity for low-cost and more performant AI if someone was able to build an FPGA of some sort that could handle these types of computations as efficiently right?