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This is a disease of Mathematics in general.

Actual mathematics teaching, as seen in typical University classes typically introduces a new abstract definition, and then immediately follows that up with a number of "worked examples", either in the lecture itself or a follow-up tutorial class.

However, the reference material will typically only have the abstract definitions, but at least there will be a sequence of them building up the formalities piece by piece. In principle, a gifted mathematician could follow the trail and get to the "aha!" moment without even having to do the homework problems.

Encyclopedias like Wikipedia or Mathworld tend to just mention the most abstract, "end product" of a long chain of mathematics. Terse formulas by themselves are utterly useless to anyone who hasn't gone through the step-by-step learning process and already understands the topic completely.

It's like a historian being given a handful of Egyptian hieroglyphic characters before finding the Rosetta Stone. It's just squiggles and shapes!

An example I came across personally was the simplification of Maxwell's Equations using Geometric Algebra. In GA, it is possible to write the equations of the EM fields incredibly tersely, down to as little as:

□²A = J

This is total gibberish to anyone who doesn't already know volumes about Geometric Algebra. It literally states that: Square squared letter A is letter J. What!?

The 5 characters in that equation pack in an awful lot: The Geometric Product. Graded vector spaces. The four dimensional spacetime of special relativity. Vector calculus. Natural physical units. Etc...

Pasting that equation into an article can't possibly cover all of that...
Lying often reduces complaints. This doesn't mean users like being lied to, it means they don't know they are being lied to.
> Zero compromise doesn’t mean you get what you want

Yes, it does. If I don't get all of what I want, then, ipso facto, the product involves some compromise.

Now, if you mean “Zero compromise is almost always a marketing lie”, that's definitely true.
You don't even have to go that far if you don't want. I just use command hooks, the small ones that are made for hanging up lights outdoors. 10 bucks and 15 minutes of work and you never have to worry about cables getting in the way again.

It's really odd when companies try to come up with expensive laborious solutions to truly simple problems, and market it like it's solving this massive issue plaguing the world. Bonus points if they're reasoning is to trail blaze "how X should REALLY be like."
entropy is phenomenon of probability. It works because probability works.

People think entropy is some natural phenomenon in nature that is fundamental.

No. Entropy is a consequence of probability. The math works because probability happens to apply to nature. The below is the intuition behind why entropy occurs... once you will realize this it will make sense.

Disordered states tend to be more numerous then ordered states that's why any random configuration of gas particles in a system is more likely to be disordered.

Also when you try to purturb the state of random particles from state1 to state2, by probability state2 will be disordered because there are far more possible disordered states than ordered states... even when the initial state is ordered. Hence entropy increases.

The philosophical thing people should be examining is the nature of probability and reality which we already know is intrinsically tied with the nature of fundamental particles.

Probability is an axiom, entropy is a theorem derived from the axiom of probability, the fact that it is called a "law" seems like it's fundamental but it's not, entropy can be derived assuming probability is true.
Pretty sure you'll end up with exactly the same in an NSArray? ObjC is excellent but it's not doing anything fundamentally magic there
No, I don't think I even realized there was one. It's okay, thought, I only lost about $100. (I kept the balance low mainly because I didn't trust my own code yet.)
Oh hey another emacs user!

You can turn off all the telemetry in macOS and they ask you if you want it on when you setup the computer.

Agree to disagree on Big Sur, I love the new look. Keep in mind they’re calling it macOS 11, so there are probably bigger and less superficial changes down the road.
> it needs to have at least a killer app with an ecosystem around it

Give it 20 years and I can see it doing to Python what Python did to R.
Assuming you can sustain this, that's 33TB/month, or 33x more than the [more expensive] AWS lightsail.

It might not be _the best_, but for the price, how is that anything but great?

What's a case where you want to (and more importantly can) burst more than that, but only for a very short time, on such hardware?
You don’t mean front running. That’s a term of art in trading that means a specific thing. That is, trading against someone’s position you know in advance and you have a fiduciary duty on their behalf (e.g. your brokerage trading against you).
I haven't tried it yet but this honestly looks pretty close to vanilla, the post even says that they contributed their patches to upstream. What differences have you spotted?

Of course their storage backend is going to be S3 and they are going to send logs to Cloudwatch, we have been doing it in a similar way for quite some time and it is what I expect from a solution managed by AWS.
May I ask for recommendations on where to trade Bitcoin? The fees on Coinbase (Pro), Kraken, etc seem prohibitive to me, especially for larger sums.*

*) I‘m used to commission free stock trading with no volume limits in Germany, for any private individual. Don‘t know how this handled in other countries though.
Emoji is part of font support, and Apple takes that stuff seriously. It would be embarrassing for them if messages sent from iOS didn't show up properly in the Messages app.
> Stop changing the UI like you’re working at Hermès. It’s not fashion.

Of course it is. Our phones are intimately close to us. Physically, cognitively, socially and even emotionally. They may be the most widely-owned intimately-connected object humans have ever invented outside religion.

Our computers don't occupy as close of a niche. But they're in a similar space.

I agree with your observation that the new OS feels like molasses. I wish they went for a "snappy" feel. (Though keyboard shortcuts get around that.) But ignoring that Macs and iPhones are objects of fashion as well as computing devices misses a deep part of what Jobs saw that technologists missed.
I was careful to only quote the first sentence of the comment. I understand and agree with the point being made in the remainder of the comment.

I also think the "default experience" matters in terms of web browsers. Why do they all default to Javascript and cookies enabled. In this case, and there are hundreds of thousands of others, neither was technically necessary to read the blog.
Users aren't being fooled here. People learn that progress bars aren't accurate, and things like the author mentioned, "when it gets to 75% it will really be done".
> The lemur pro is interesting. I don't know if you'll find the specs for the screen/speakers, though.

I've seen a youtube review demonstrating that its speakers are abysmal [0, around 7:30 minutes in]. I have a feeling that this is the quality that is to be expected of Clevo laptops :-(

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v6u1CbQ574
Because men prefer to aim to be in the top 20% than make life better (and average) to 100%.
It sounds like your use-case doesn't require battery power (at least when fully-deployed). Wouldn't it be better use a consumer laptop and focus your efforts on optimizing wall-powered monitors for packability?
What’s your elo rating
Where I work our similar reports only will show average number values in context of at least 6 responses. And open ended text responses in context where at least 25 people responded.

So often a direct manager can't see open ended text in their context but their skip level manager could.

They shouldn't have ever reported on a sample size of 1. That's a bad system
I’m sure Asians had the highest education and lowest number of kids and previous marriages, so if anything, normalized data would show Asian males are completely screwed.
Normalized height would be interesting, and could explain some of the bias.
Hit the nail on the head. Pure form over function for people that don't actually use a desk 8+ hours a day 5 days a week.
Thinking of speed in terms of processing capacity consumption, 10x would be unbelievably generous. It's realistically a LOT closer to 1000x
Thank you so much!!!! I've been trying to find something like this
everyone is coming up with more complicated systems to usher it to the flames (e.g. vacuum it up and robotic arm drop it in, hook up a fan on low speed, etc) when it's really as simple as steepening the angle it drops in. also about 2 hours ago they didn't have a spot light on the subject to be torched so maybe they will get there.

it certainly re-energized the creative side of me to think up some similar live stream rube goldberg device so i like where their head is at
For low volume, manual purchases, Robinhood is comission-free. If you want to make a bot and need an API, there will be fees.
What ticket costs 500+tax per month?
The thing with interfaces is that there's no inherent need for change if the method of interaction doesn't change. It was a non-touch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse/trackpad 20 years ago, and it still is today. Some things just work great. They're tried and true and battle-tested. Like, you know, densely packed windows that are optimized for the precision of the mouse pointer.
I believe the idea was that reference counting was more memory efficient than other forms of garbage collection, such as copy collectors and mark and sweep collectors which commonly make up generational garbage collectors.

Languages like Java also do not yet support stack-allocated value types outside a few primitives like integers, and heap allocations are both slower and less space efficient due to the indirection and memory management.
Likewise ^^. Great explanation.
Complex flows can be represented by a tree control full of checkboxes that tick off for things that are done, which can be hidden behind a "show details ..." button next to a regular progress bar. If the users can see the detailed tasks, maybe they will be less ticked off by a jumpy progress bar.
so what you're saying is wait another 8 years?
Can I make this my out of office reply?
Ah, that's a shame. I'm refurbishing my house and was thinking about something for one of the walls. Thanks for letting me know.
The only downside of the amazing new M1 MBP is that it runs WoW on max settings 60fps. And now I'm back into the world of Azeroth. Especially with the launch of Shadowlands.

What the hell, Apple, I thought I was safe and immune from video games with my MacBooks.
Sure, maybe just simple arbitrage. To tell you the truth I don't know the exact details. Of course he wasn't doing anything illegal (I wouldn't write about it), he didn't have any special access to the exchange
You two are hilarious (:
The about page [1] has a bunch of other Garfield variations.

[1] https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/about.php
> people claiming that 8 GB isn't enough for the average user

I'm not claiming anything of the sort.

My point is that memory consumption seems to be greatly reduced in Big Sur, and that might make 8GB machines much better to use than before. All of my testing is on Intel machines. It's not exclusively an M1 phenomenon.

I would still recommend 16GB to anyone, and if the extra $200 was a factor, I would recommend that they buy last year's Intel with 16GB of RAM.
"Morals aside (where would space travel be without the unpleasant demise of Laika the Soviet space dog?), I set about creating ten dummy dating profiles on the world’s fastest growing online dating site: OKCupid."

And this is why real researchers have to deal with a review board.
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As a pastime invented by humans and enjoyed by a big percentage of humans, why would it not be representative of human intellect?
The animations on the iPhone are what made me return to Android.

On iPhones, you can only "reduce motion", which still has the "moving through molasses" feeling, replacing them with a fade in/out. Can you truly disable most animations in MacOS, or are they simply replaced with fade in/out animations?
> Most of us are just herds who secretly want to be led by a strong, charismatic leader.

Why do ‘most of us’ want this?
Sure, all of this is speculative, but the eukaryotic jump is notorious for getting casually dismissed on account of being misunderstood. I think it's one of the better candidates for a filter, so let me advocate it for a second and make sure that if you still want to dismiss it's not due to oversight.

The problem has nothing to do with having a nucleus. That's the solution. As you note, it's possible to imagine other solutions. The problem is dealing with gigabytes of genetic data instead of mere megabytes. Typically one would use units of base pairs, but in the context of talking about potential alternative forms of life I'd argue that units of information are more appropriate. In any case, the "easy" strategies suffer from a severe dead end that prevents them from going beyond a few megabytes. Lots of things go wrong at that limit, and while other forms of life would encounter those obstacles in slightly different places, the problem of "simple strategies that don't scale" is almost certainly universal.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Genome_s...

Eukaryotes, in contrast, scale.

It's not an easy task. The strategies are highly elaborate and severely intrusive. They touch the most fundamental, highly conserved aspects of the genome, of cell functionality, and of reproduction. Genes have to be organized hierarchically, packed and unpacked, and everything that interacts with them has to be made compatible with that reality. Further, everything must be done in parallel. The entire architecture of the genome changes as a result. It's like a distributed system vs a monolith. It's a tough, deep-reaching transition to pull off, it's a tougher transition to justify, and that's if you're an engineer capable of things like planning, prediction, and delayed gratification! A greedy optimizer bumbling around in the dark can't rely on cognition (or even a hype cycle!) to propel itself from one mountain range of local optima to another mountain range.

I'm sure there are plenty of strategies for scaling genomes, but if they're all difficult -- and the crazy elaborate mechanisms we see in Earth eukaryotes suggest that could be the case -- then they still constitute a filter.

But yeah, this is all speculation. Nobody really knows.
This remind me of a question during my last interview:
"Why should we hire you when you are X times more expensive than a fresh graduate?"
In Swift you can add value types to the heap-backed array directly, in ObjC you can use stack allocated arrays (since you have all of C) and there are optimizations such as NSNumber using tagged pointers.
What?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

> Besides the additional cores on the part of the CPUs and GPU, one main performance factor of the M1 that differs from the A14 is the fact that’s it’s running on a 128-bit memory bus rather than the mobile 64-bit bus. Across 8x 16-bit memory channels and at LPDDR4X-4266-class memory, this means the M1 hits a peak of 68.25GB/s memory bandwidth.

The point of the memory bandwidth is so that it never has to swap to disk in the first place.
Also Ziply Fiber bought Frontier’s network in WA, OR, and ID, and started investing in their infra and expanding areas.
I bet $100 Netflix does the same. From my "experiments" during outages, it seems to show you a timer based progression from 0-25% no matter what, while it waits for stuff to queue/load properly, then it takes off to 26-100% in short order.

So when it Netflix is up, it slowly climbs 1-5% then rockets to 100% and plays.

When it's slow, sometimes it goes to 15%, then rockets up.

When it's down, it reaches 25% after 12.5s or whatever it is, then sits there forever/shows an error message.
I am not sure this contradicts what I said. Those goodies were provided by assigned status.
I respectfully disagree. Not only do cloud native versions of an OSS encourages innovation and enrichment, it also lowers the operational cost of running it in-house and aligns closely to Devops principles.
I understand the machine is great or going to be great for most use cases. My mbp is my main workhorse, but as a freelance SRE "devops" guy, the Apple ARM platform won't be suitable for my job any time soon, if ever.

Docker is not yet available - but even when it would become available, emulating virtualised x86 code is explicitly not going to be supported. That in many cases means pulling a docker image built in a ci/cd pipeline where a dev screwed something up and debugging it locally is no longer an option. If I wasn't freelance, I could probably get away with some cloud instance to run all my docker stuff, but I'm dealing with too many different environments, for clients with various different legal requirements making this simply 'not an option'.

Too bad, because the machines look very promising for everything else. Development tools aren't there yet, but I expect that to be fixed pretty quickly.
sure, but even the wrong numbers can be useful because they provide some information.

like the "75% max" example from the post. Does it lie? yes. Can it be useful? very much, it is pretty easy to compensate.
You didn’t really answer his question though.
Wait MSFT, how are we (the "Free World") supposed to keep pointing finger to China and its awful social credit system!?
Could you compile methods with error codes into two versions - one that handles error codes and one that ignores them. Then when you want to return an error code, you also transfer control to the version of each method that handles the codes.
I'm lost, you're saying because their product has a monetization strategy that it doesn't count somehow? By that logic, we've reduced the statement I'm replying to into the tautology "cool products with no monetization strategy aren't monetized". Doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

Edit: I guess if we want to limit it to cool technologies that are directly monetizable, the ford motor company of the early 20th century (or maybe Tesla) is a better example? It's just as silly a statement either way.
Indeed. When Apple become extortionist you go to another handset maker, when the government becomes extortionist you either pay or go to jail. There is a scale of Evil.
Amazon Sidewalk – Connected convenience beyond your front door
> There is also the possibility we could create organizations set up for other kinds of people to succeed.

“My exciting insight came in 2001 when I read Bernard Lietaer’s book, The Future of Money. It helped me see the ways our monetary system has shaped our culture and even our sense of humanity. That’s when I realized the things we had invented (in my company) were in fact new kinds of currencies, and that currencies are the main tools we use to shape patterns in community and culture. They are the DNA of our social organisms.”

- Arthur Brock [1]

[1] https://www.artbrock.com/2014/11/21/designing-social-flows-c...
For the emergency room bills most of it is paying for other people who didn't pay. It's kind of socialized medicine.
Might as well delete that. Turns out this information is wrong. The sister later explained that she misread the coordinates which are nearby, but are not at the exact location of, the monolith.

I can no longer edit or delete my parent comment here.
I quite disagree. Long form media tend to be just very long narratives. Newspapers are narrative wrapped around a single factual event, to fit that event into a preferred narrative.

Tweets can be narrative driven, but sometimes they’re centered around some primary source document or chart or something like that, and in that case they can be far more useful than a newspaper article.

My view these days is give me the primary sources or GTFO. For example, I don’t trust you to tell me what’s in a court filing—the first thing in your article better be a link to the filing itself and you had better actually quote the source material.
If your hardware enables more regular/efficient garbage collection, then it absolutely can lower memory consumption.

Given that the M1 chip was designed to better support reference counting, it makes sense that doing the same for HC could lead to a benefit
> You can turn off all the telemetry in macOS and they ask you if you want it on when you setup the computer.

That's false. You can turn off OS analytics but there is tons of telemetry built into almost every Apple app, separate from that, that you cannot disable. It tells you about it on first app launch. Open Maps, for example, and it will tell you about the unique, rotating identifier it uses to track your searches. Opting out of OS analytics does not disable telemetry for the other Apple services now deeply integrated in the OS. Even disabling these features doesn't prevent the mac from talking to the services, such as in the case of Siri.

Additionally gatekeeper OCSP checks on app launches serve as telemetry in practice, and this has no preference or setting to disable it.
I bought one and I have 0 regrets.

A laptop that satisfy my long battery life ultrabook experience AND capable to run steam games without compensating on performance.

Though the 13" air is not in the same target user group vs. the 15" pro, so you might not find the same excitement as I did.
I'm pretty sure I made the T-rex thing up after trying to find a way to describe the difference between that style and the ones I currently have. Glad you like it :)

Most of the big companies such as Herman Miller, Haworth, Steelcase, Knoll all have online stores where consumers can buy individual items. Those brands also own a bunch of other brands such as Muuto, Hay, Naughtone, turnstone, Coalesse, BuzziSpace, and more which could have some crossover into the home office setting (and can also be shooped for online).

I imagine as the consumer market for home office heats up other brands will figure out how to manufacturer limited lines with limited options for finishes and fabrics so they can be made and shipped more rapidly.

For C9 though, you actually don't need the rail (we have 3 single desks in our office without a rail). While these are more expensive than something you could get elsewhere, they are built like a tank and manufactured to order to the specs you need at a facility in Washington State.
Yeah, a lot of spacing... except of dismissing notifications! The small X icons are so hard to click on Big Sur!!! I miss the old notifications! The grouping makes my work even harder! It's a notifications disaster!
... I wrote Hacking Healthcare, created ClearHealth & HealthCloud, many other credentials...

I have negotiated with the AMA in several arenas. If they had anymore lawyers in a single place it would create a black hole.

Everything in healthcare anything (procedure, test, sponge, scalpel, etc) that gets billed or reported to the federal government, that is roughly ~2.7 Trillion worth of transactions a year, roughly 160 billion line items, requires a CPT code (current procedure terminology). The federal government legally requires this. CPT is owned and licensed by the AMA, they spend incredible lobbying dollars to maintain that the CPT codes are used and required by the federal government. It is legally impossible to create an alternative. It is complete regulatory capture. That CPT revenue was 160 million a year as of 2018. A pure tax on healthcare, sadly one among many. Also a reason truly fully open source systems are impossible in healthcare.
A candle in the darkness!