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Why isn’t 60 in French something like tres-vingt? French is a language full of exceptions which need to be memorised and which are rather random.

Excuse me but I understand vigesimal (base-20) like a potency. The French are not following through on that at all.

If you have a look at Mayan math you will understand how to do "proper" vigesimal.

With proper I mean that what we consider single digit numbers (0-9) which is a range of ten, to be the basis of single digits.

The Mayans actually could represent first twenty (0-19) as one "single digit".

Their idea of numbers was just much more composable than ours is.

I’ll try to give a short explanation:

There are three "words" which make Mayan numbers. A dot, a line and a shell.

The dot represents a one, the bar represents a five, the shell represents a zero.

5 dots make a line (similar to Roman)

One dot above one shell makes twenty. (1 * 20). Like we consider a one and a zero (10) to be greater than 9.

One dot above one shell above one shell makes 400 (1 * 20 * 20)

One dot above one dot above one dot makes 421 ((1 * 20 * 20) + (1 * 20) + (1 * 1))

Compared to the potency of this mathematical language the idea that French are using vigesimal is laughable, because they only denote their 80 like this.

It’s quite fascinating how logical and functional their math was, they were using the potency of zeros long before we Europeans discovered that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F53HuD2lcb8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_numerals
It wasn't about medical treatment. He was taking his son for a school test so that he wouldn't have to waste a year. Education is critical to climbing out of poverty there.

Also this isn't a normal situation. They usually take a bus or train, but public transportation is shutdown because of covid which is why they traveled on a bike.
The Vietnam of Computer Science – Ted Neward (2006)
plastic face shields are a good alternative to masks
Neat project, but I was really hoping there might actually be a video feed of the current sunrise and sunset. It seems like a missed opportunity for the subject matter and medium.
“Shit tests” is a term I’ve seen used for this behavior, particularly among women to men in their romantic relationships.
We need policy that works for people, not policy that wins debates. That’s all I’m saying.
Adjusted per vehicle mile, or per capita? Is that also adjusted for differences in types of driving (city/highway)? I don't doubt your numbers, just want to make sure I have more clarity before I remember it.
A federal judge formally blocked North Carolina’s new voter identification law on Tuesday, ruling that discriminatory intent was likely a motivating factor in how the measure was crafted.
The decision from US district judge Loretta Biggs could have big consequences in North Carolina, a key state in the 2020 presidential election that is scheduled to hold its presidential primary on 3 March. Donald Trump carried the state in 2016, but Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, won in 2016, by just over 10,000 votes.
This week’s ruling was a blow to state Republicans, who overrode a veto from Cooper to enact the law last year. The measure came two years after North Carolina’s previous voter ID law was struck down as part of a host of voting restrictions a federal appeals court said targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision”. African Americans make up about one-fifth of registered voters in North Carolina. Turnout among African Americans dropped six percentage points from 2012 to 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/01/north-caroli...
The post is how they are not using rust, how could you possibly have come to the conclusion that the builds are going to get more complicated?
Also, depending on how physics and the mind works, it's possible that human minds would be representable as finite state machines. If this argument were valid, it's an argument against human consciousness too in that case.
There is a fairly decent demand for orchestrating VMs using kubernetes (kubervirt), many legacy apps are too expensive to be rewritten in a cloud native way
There's almost zero reason to run a phi in general.
There's a difference between recognizing hardship and celebrating it as if it were a good thing, and the American variety of dystopic 'uplifting' news generally does the latter.
Sorry - I didn't read the article - I was mostly trying to translate what (I incorrectly thought) the person you responded to was trying to say. I apologize.
1. I don't need "a point" to attach a relevant information.

2. But I indeed have one - giving algorithms so much power without an appropriate checking and appeal process is clearly wrong.

3. This doesn't imply we shouldn't do science or develop AI systems.
My mistake. Was trying to translate (and very clearly didn't read).
Isn't that what conservative politics has been doing all along?
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Morbidity has definitely reduced some, both because testing is now covering non-severe cases and because treatment protocols have improved.

But a major factor is that deaths have consistently been a lagging indicator for this disease, both because the progression is quite long and because the most active spreaders tend to be younger and healthier. It's likely that they'll see a matching resurgence in deaths over the next few weeks, as other areas of the world with case surges have consistently seen.
>but that AI machinery - qua computation - cannot understand anything at all

Ugh, here we go. I swear this was all gone over with a very similar post just a week ago where it was pointed out that if an author says physical things can't 'understand' or whatever else, they are implying some non-physical soul-spark in humans.
Indeed, a lot of hard laborers need the addiction to plough through their life. Although one unfortunate aspect of this habit unlike in other countries is the casual disregard for spitting anywhere.

The issue is that India is a highly resource strained country and most internal issues are manifestations of the same fights over limited resources that show up as something else.
I was going to say EN wikipedia goes on at great length how Yeltsin's american campaign consultants had very little influence on the campaign, but now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_elec... no longer even mentions them. :)))))

The interested might have to try contemporary sources, e.g. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601960715,00.h...

Bonus track (1996 in russian pop): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBo5DxhJ12w
California bullet train contractors botched bridge project
I am not talking about compounding interest. I am talking about exponential growth and loss. The startups that make many founders wealthy experience exponential growth. The wealth tax is exponential (look at the formula in the essay and note the exponent). Compound interest is an unrelated example of exponential growth. income tax and capital gains taxes are not exponential. You don't use an exponent when calculating income tax.

>It doesn't mitigate the miracle of compounding growth any more than a capital gains tax.

The point of the essay is that a 1% wealth tax over 60 years is equivalent to a 45% capital gains tax.

If you own a stock that doesn't pay a dividend, you don't pay capital gains taxes till you sell the stock. Are you aware of that?

Thanks for helping me to crystalize my ideas on this topic.

On a personal level, I am concerned you deceive yourself and that you have resentment of wealth and success that blinds you. I implore you to seek guidance and help.
There is now secular push towards use of custom operators instead of OSB.
I wonder what finally caused this.
That is not remotely like UBI. It has all the pitfalls of a standard welfare program and none of the upsides of UBI.
Positivity requires you to actively change
The money isn't going to change anything. The best thing you can do is to learn perspective. Realize that billions of people are worse off than you will probably ever be, and that they can only dream of the opportunities you get every day.

Western society would be a lot better if more people understood this.
And nicotine usage is heavily skewered towards people who have had a bad quality of life.

Usually due to financial issues.

It's also surprising that we could've played a better role with tobacco but instead heavily promoted and romanticized it for decades.
We dont have a minimum wage here in Denmark, yet fastfood workers get: 18usd an hour, 5 weeks paid vacation, maternity leave, pto for childs 1st sick day, 8% on top of sallary towards personal pension plan.
Point #1 -- computers have no place in an election. Or voting.

#2? Canadian parties do this all of the time. We have parties from coalitions, and then form the government.
Instead of being in the possession of a spy itself, it could be a trojan horse for spyware. You give the iPod (or several iPods) to important people around the world, and when they plug it in to a computer it executes some sort of Zero-day exploit, potentially even a backdoor embedded into iTunes developed simultaneously with this project.

Or maybe these iPods were used for multiple purposes at the same time. Anywhere where you needed a non-suspicious device to do something extra, you could get one of these custom iPods.
Precisely. There is no way I could live he life I want on €1200/month.
Top secret classifications usually have time limits. As in secrets in the project loses its classification status after a few years.
I really don't mean this in an inflammatory way. Please take the question at face value.

Why does anyone who's a creator of anything stand for this?
I remember reading tales of the WHO’s legendary corruption from a book made of paper at a library. That was a long time ago.
LOL! If you mean the "S" which is not there, then you are right. But then there is no such thing as absolute security on Internet. It can only be hoped to be improved.
You give your diver's license to Amazon?
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'Heated Debate' is another similair phrase- IMO the difference between a 'heated debate' and an argument and a fight has to do with the level of severity of the thing involved, as well as the scope of where the heat is being brought, and what's being attacked.

Here's kinda what I'm thinking for a division-

Debating is more or less arguing a point or idea with someone else, heated debates are still arguing over the point.

Fighting happens when the debate and points argued over shift from being about the merits of the point to the merits of the speaker (e.g. their history, esp. when, as others mentioned, it becomes a highly critical / mean meta-analysis) - this is the kind of thing that becomes especially harmful to partnerships.

Also, W/RT damage to partnerships, etc., a heated debate about what desktop wallpaper someone should pick can probabmy damage a relationship just fine.
When was this "very little taxation that worked"?
The real concern is systemic inflamation caused by sugar (both high average levels and large spikes are bad)
But it does! For example, in Tanzania (the place in Africa that I lived), a lot of women sell vegetables. They don't have enough money to buy them outright at the beginning of the day, so they take them on credit, and then pay for them at the end of the day. The vegetables on credit are very expensive, 25-50% more. The vegetable women is always one day behind, and losing a ton of income because she is being fronted.

If she had enough money to buy the vegetables outright, it would make a huge difference in her life. And indeed, this is the whole problem microfinance loans aim to solve.

There are so many people who just need a very small amount of money ($10-$20), and it would jump start their business.

But instead of saving until they have it, they spend everything they have at the end of the day. And it's easy to see why: when life is very hard, you need something to just feel okay enough to start it all again tomorrow.

Those that end up in a good place are the very people who have the willpower to delay their consumption. Most aren't like that, but some are, and the difference in outcome is stark.

I actually started a school over there, and taught some classes about personal finance, investing, compound interest, etc to a class of mostly young women (young men are much more difficult to teach).

Their minds were totally blown by how powerful even just saving 25 or 50 cents a day. One even told me a year after she attended the class that I had changed her life forever. And indeed I had, she went from having nothing and selling donuts (essentially) on the side of the road, to opening her first small convenience store, to saving money for her second.

These things matter, and there's a lot of low hanging fruit in terms of affecting change in 3rd world countries.
Or study what happen in countries without a minimum wage, like Denmark. The argument isn’t that you shouldn’t pay a living wage.

In Denmark there’s no minimum wage, yet people are paid well. The wages are agreed upon by the employeers organisations and the unions. It does set a minimum wage per industry, but the important part is that it’s not set by politicians who have no idea what the real world looks like in each industry.

A universal minimum wage risks being to low for one industry, while being to high for another. It makes more sense to do collective agreements per industry, and by having the unions act on behalf of the employees you ensure sufficielt leverage against the employers.
A related charity is GiveDirectly, which is one of the most efficient charities according to GiveWell, who rank charities on QALYs per dollar or something like that.

Obviously, for a scheme like that to be efficient, an expert would have to distribute the money where it'd do the most good, rather than you picking individuals who showed up in the media.

https://www.givewell.org/charities/give-directly
... so says a curve fitting machine operating in a hyperplane in 100 trillion dimensions
These pictures are disturbing and apparently illegal (since Spanish law seems to forbid the photographing of identifiable people in public, IMNAL) but damn they struck me and left me well aware of the utter despair and loneliness of these women.

If that was the goal of the photographer: well done, despite the breach of law.

For me, as someone with little to no real live exposure to this metier, they did more to explain the desperation then anything I've seen before.

I'm sad now and will be looking for a way to... help out?
Same timing as Sweden who didn’t do a lockdown, and all other European countries. Not convinced it is the lockdown.

https://mobile.twitter.com/yinonw/status/1295152579941249024
That is a ridiculous standard, totally unachievable in any populous region. It's simple numbers. There are 10M people in Los Angeles county alone and we will never see zero new cases there per 14 days in our lifetimes no matter what we do. So what are exit criteria that would actually be possible in the real world?
One of those campaigns did more than 'hint' at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF7habaTvAY
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You are right but try Spotify Lite https://www.spotify.com/lite/

And Spotify Stations

https://www.spotify.com/us/stations/
I think the problem with the Chinese room is that if you have something that can "mechanically" translate via algorithm, maybe that means it already understands. It's like saying a blind person cannot understand anything about the world because they cannot see. But to the extent that the blind person can successfully navigate the environment belies a sufficient understanding of that domain.
So this is the cause of community spread in the US..
Nothing can make poverty (as a national problem) go away overnight. But if a guardian started buying 50 rupees (USD 80 cents) worth of milk/eggs/notebooks/pens instead of cigarette, tobacco and alcohol tomorrow, or just saved that up for later, the quality of life will start rising for sure. That fifty rupees, which is what an average person spends a day, makes a difference.
You can make a pretty good argument that the _rulebook_ is the Chinese-speaking intelligence in the room. "But it's an inanimate object, if the human stops following the rules it will be inert". Yeah, and if your mitochondria stop producing ATP you'll be inert too.

Also. People taking Seale's position rarely reckon with just how big that rulebook would be.
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There are a lot of flavors of nihilism, so I'm not sure that having a pessimistic worldview precludes joyfulness.

I'd call myself a realist -- and I think there's a lot of overlap with nihilism there, in that I try and see the world "as it is", and not "how I wish it was".

The world is a messy, ugly, dark place. It really is, and it's kind of amazing how people go out of their way to pretend that either that darkness doesn't exist, or that it's somebody else's job to keep it at bay.

There is a light in our world, though -- it's us, if we choose to be.

And so, regardless of the futility in the grand scheme of things, I invest effort to find joy in all that I can, and bring that sense of joyfulness to those around me, because it makes my corner of the world just a little brighter.
Yes. The only difference from what I can tell is that each service/node on the bus is a VM/Container rather than a bespoke built machine.
Wasteful on a societal level, not an individual level. If everyone did what you did, we'd all need more space, and a non-trivial amount of steel. Hard to do that if you live in a studio apartment, etc. You just can't apply your situation across the population.

Personally I can walk to my gym, and I get far greater quality and variety of equipment by not having to pay for, maintain and store it myself. There are no duplicate machines at my gym, yet it spans a whole warehouse, and I've used every machine at some point as my programme evolved.

As a renter, when I move I don't have to lug hundreds of kg of weights and equipment with me.
I think you accidentally made my point.

If the real returns to investment in impoverished regions are so high, why are those investments not being made? The fact that your advice "changed [a] life forever" is strongly suggestive of outsize returns to capital, which should attract strong investment.
> Look at the promise of AI: "machines that think like humans!". Look at the reality: "We're generating value!". OK.

OK, I hadn't realised we had such different implicit views on what the "goal" of AI / AI research was. Of course, I agree that the goal of "having machines think like humans" is a valid goal, and "generates value by serving production traffic" is not a good subgoal for that. However, this is not the only goal of AI research, nor is it clear to me that for e.g. public funding bodies see it as the only goal.

I use MT (at least) every week for my job and for my hobbies, mostly translating stuff I want to read in another language. I love learning languages but I could not learn all the languages I need to a high enough level to read the stuff I want to read. The old non-NMT approaches produced translations that were often useless, whereas the NMT-based translations I use now (mostly deepl.com), while not perfect, are often quite good, and definitely enough for my needs. Without NMT, realistically speaking, there is no alternative for me (i.e., I can't afford to pay a human translator, and I can't afford to wait until I'd learned the language well enough). So how can you say that AI "remains completely useless"?

Basically, you have implicitly assumed that "make machines that think like humans" is the only valid goal of AI research. And, from that point of view, it is understandable that evaluating NMT systems for how well they approach that goal using human evaluations, has many downsides. However, while some people working on NMT do have that goal, many of them also have the goal of "help people (like zodiac) translate stuff", and in the context of that goal, human evaluation is a much better benchmark target.
But it’s not pointless. Teaching children to sit still and do what they’re told by authority figures is what school is for. Pointless busywork is at minimum half of all schooling. See Unschooling Society, The Underground History of American Education or any of the many other books taught in education schools that have had no effect on the practice of education.

School is to submit.

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/04/school-is-to-submit.h...
I once already ride a Uber cab in Pittspurgh, where they were actually testing this latest Tech. Even though the driver was there but he wasn't driving at all. This was a strange and exciting experience. However the cab was running on its own all guided by its own and all the heavy sensors fitted on the cab. It looked like a vehicle from future will all the 360 degree big cameras on the top.
'even Dirac': just a human. one human is not superior to another.

people say things - even in their autobiographies - that they dont fully subscribe to. they worry about how they will be perceived for their true feelings.
I'm not sure why people prefer to cling to tribal preferences rather than actually resolve disputes in a mutually agreeable fashion.
Surely there is a way for everyone's needs to be met with creative solutions?
I feel disgusted that I donated to that fund and encouraged family and friends to do so also!
then use keyboard combinations. they are faster and much more reliable. I am using a wayland window manager called sway, and while im pretty sure you can do everything with a mouse, you can configure it to do a lot of things with the keyboard. for example, I found the three-finger-tap which is used for copying and pasting was too difficult and slow, so i just bound it to mod+c and mod+v
I own a ICE car with a manual gearbox. The lag is there. The engine needs time to find his torque at low RPM so you need to drop one or two gears if you want some power. Mine doesn't have a turbo, but when I drive manual cars with Turbo, the turbo lag is huge. A manual gearbox doesn't fix this problem. You may drop gears before you need the power, to overtake someone for example, because you plan ahead and want the full power, but that's slow.

And even when I do it fast, I'm much much slower to manipulate the clutch and change gears compared to a modern automatic gearbox.
Why does someone need a magic number of 50.1% to be valid?

Why is that "the number"? Because it's more than 1/2? You're thinking "two parties".

If you're worried about "most people's support", then why isn't the number 80%? 99%? 100%? Why does '50.1%' make it 'OK' and less 'not'?

I don't get this arbitrary fixation on "but, that guy didn't get 50.1% of the vote!!". So?

Let's say there are 5 parties. One gets 40% of the vote. Yet if each party had equal votes, that would be 20% each. The party with 40% of the vote, received 2x the votes compared to the number of parties.

Is that OK? Why not?

I don't get what's wrong with a number less than 50%. I don't get why anything above 50% is fine.

Let's say you have 10 people, and 4 plans. Plans to defend the city from invasion. Each plan has its merits. You ask people to vote. 2 abstain. The next 2 receive two votes each. The last receives 4 votes.

4/10 is less than 50%, yes? Yet, clearly it is the most popular. Must the 2 abstainers vote? Must those that don't agree, be forced to vote for a plan they don't agree with?

How is this undemocratic? Were the people's voices heard? Was the most popular plan voted on?

I literally don't get it, or understand the issue.
The data is in aggregate; I am talking about the impact on individuals.
Am I going crazy or is the webcam in my 2012 macbook pro better than the new one?