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"And yet most philosophers aren't Stoics"

You're moving the goal posts.

First you said:

"philosophy is utterly incapable of telling us what to make or do"

I gave you an example how philosophy is in fact capable of doing that, and it does so for many people (philosophers and non-philosophers alike).

Instead of granting the point, you move the goal posts.

Suddenly, philosophy being capable of telling us what to make or do is no longer good enough for you. Now you want answers to satisfy "most philosophers".

"You can ask a dozen physicists and they will all give you the same answer. Philosophy only tells you how to live if you ask exactly one philosopher. Ask a second, and you will be no better off than when you started."

Philosophy is not physics. There is no consensus on many of the problems that concern it.

Philosophy, by the way, is far from the only academic discipline that lacks such a consensus.

Harry Truman said "If you laid every economist in the country end to end, they would all point in different directions."

There are also many disagreements on fundamental issues in psychology, and probably many if not most other "soft sciences".

But philosophy is not a science, so why are you holding it up to scientific standards?

Art and music aren't sciences either, but most people recognize they have tremendous value anyway.

By the way, I've noticed that you're laser-focused on this consensus issue, while completely being unable to acknowledge that philosophy has value apart from the issue of whether it gives you answers that everyone can agree on.

How about philosophy's value in training the mind?

Please answer if you find that valuable.

How about philosophy's value in letting people question their own assumptions?

Do you find that valuable?

Or philosophy's value in letting you see things from a different perspective?

Can you specifically address these points instead of endlessly returning to the one point of philosophy not having answers that everyone can agree on?
Can Dogs Detect Covid-19?
Seems like this plan would work better if it didn't leave a big trail of breadcrumbs back to its perpetrator.
I feel like there’s some underlying relationship here with Godel and infinitely large numbers.

We cannot know all states of all particles that ever were or will be, how can we ever concretely analyze human existence when space-time is so infinite?

Michael Levin and team show us that manipulation of electric fields in animals ...well see for yourself: https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg

All that physical structure we nurture as concrete truth? Not so sure about that.
Console 30: Protein Folding, Decentralized Twitter, and Flags
I can't read the article to see if it's mentioned but a reminder that Arconic employees have refused to give evidence:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54792111
I totally disagree with her sacking.
My strongest argument is AGAINST managers at Google getting to micromanage, censor and to revenge-fire a researcher, just because they personally disagree with their published AI Ethics Research. A job said researcher was tasked with and leading.

Such behaviour, unless corrected, undermines Google's entire AI/ML and cloud operations.
The affiliate fee is a payment for someone who did the work of marketing the product and finding new clients that would otherwise be inaccessible.

You didn’t do any of that. You are just a customer at best and don’t provide any additional value on top of the money you pay for the product. Charging less then is just the company shorting itself for a single customer.
What I do know is that you don't hire a PR team to make you look bad. You hire them to make you look good.

You don't hire an ethicist to make you look bad. You hire them to make you look good at what you do: diversity in AI. Gebru failed at her job.
Yeah, and if you're lucky enough to find a seller that way, 9 times out of 10 it will be a wholesaler who will only sell you stuff if you have a corporate account, meaning you either own a business yourself or are cleared by your boss to purchase stuff.
Add to that the ludicrous shipping costs for anything weighing more than a box of cereal, insane import duties for anything worth more than say $50, plus a fat VAT slapped on top of all that, and most people in the rest of the world* will probably think twice about it.

TL;DR buying enterprise grade gear of any substance from across the globe as a consumer is a little bit more involved than ordering a pair of slippers frome some seller on AliExpress.

* as in: beyond the next Wal-Mart
Is it possible you meant the gtx 1650/1050 Ti mobile GPU like mentioned in Tom's hardware article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-silicon-m1-graphics-...

They have comparable TFLOPs range.

1080 mobile is way faster than 1060 (60-90% faster [^1]) and definitely ahead of M1 by a large factor.

[1]: https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1080-Mobile...
Really liked this post.
I dimly recall one was supposed to figure out what TECO would do when one typed one's name in (followed by the double-escape). Never did figure out what mine would do - was too afraid to try.
"No artificial neural network is near a point where we can talk about it having moral responsibility separate from its trainers’ and deployers’ – but we can make it sound like it does, and exonerate them, if we call it AI." https://twitter.com/shashashasha/status/1335067153402355714
From NeurIPS (today, actually), they showed that it works both in graph and eager mode in a short 15 minute talk. However, no discussion about any potential difference in performance.
But right there is where the power of your metaphor breaks down. It is quite unusual for a website to also be a verbal and physical abuser (recent eBay cyberstalking being the incredibly rare exception).
I don't know exactly what her job responsibilities were, but it's not the case as a rule that any position you can be promoted to is a union job. Anyone who has independent authority to "hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action" is by law a supervisor, and they can't join an NLRA-protected union because supervisors aren't protected by the NLRA. As far as I know, all Google managers have the power to assign, reward, and discipline their reports.
We're talking about Aston Martin, not Toyota.

Yea California really making a difference - SUVs, Trucks, all time highs, compact cars all time lows in sales.
It's called Display Driver Uninstaller. https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-
Nothing in particular? I wanted to start my own company and I didn't have any compelling ideas for making porn better.
"Here we show that every model learned by this method [SGD], regardless of architecture, is approximately equivalent to a kernel machine [i.e., a support vector machine or SVM] with a particular type of kernel" -- a type of kernel which Domingos, the author, calls a "path kernel."

As defined in the paper, a "path kernel" measures, for any two data points, how similarly a model varies (specifically, how similarly the model's gradients change) at those two data points during training via SGD. This isn't exactly your usual, plain-vanilla, radial-basis type of kernel.

We've known for a long time that SVMs are universal approximators, i.e., in theory they can approximate any target function. The importance of this work is that it has found a new, surprising, deep connection between any model trained via SGD and SVMs, which are well understood :-)
According to a seemingly credible account from a former employee, Timnit terrorized a Google Brain manuscript discussion forum with unfounded accusations of racist disregard for her contributions https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/com...

The thread is filled with agreeing comments from many people who seem to be ex-Google and who had access to the relevant thread.
> As shown in the amount of compute used to train deep learning models has increased
300,000x in 6 years, increasing at a far higher pace than Moore’s Law which posits that the amount of computation that can be done per unit area would roughly double every two years. This means that power consumption per unit area is not staying constant as implied by Moore’s Law [108].

IIRC Moore's law doesn't make any predictions about power consumption at all, let alone ones meriting being cited in a scientific paper.
A quick google shows car parking in Paris seems to be in the 100-150 euros a month range, which is pretty cheap to be fair. If you're paying less than that, you're being subsidised by the land owner (the city, and thus the residents of that city)

There is always land available to buy, €10k per square metre for this property for example: https://tranio.com/france/adt/1928891/

Maybe that's too much to park your car, but land has a cost, why should a car owner be allwoed to store their property on public land for free? Can I build a shed in that space instead?
That might be workable only if you specifically don't interface with the outside financial world.

If for example you require a third party exchange to sell to fiat currency, that should work.

But that exchange has to do the KYC stuff and the unbanked are still cut out.

Now if it's a local exchange for a local currency, not USD then is fine.
SpaceX: CRS-21 Mission
If it's the cost of the flight that scares you, you can't afford to live in Hawaii... even temporarily.
I like it.

Perhaps put a little description of what this page is at the top (An analysis of Lex Fridmans podcast popularity.) For those of us who didn't know who he is.

The top graphs has your drawing continuous lines between discrete points. You should pobably show the points on the top graph. (the lines are trend lines) its clear the like ratio stays pretty constant no matter what. You could put the podcast guest on the x axis too.
If you can gray the area in the bottom graph you are expanding in the above view that would be cool. Its moving forward in time automatically, but at some point it seems to run off the end (I"m not sure if I'm supposed to be able to manually set it)

In the topics/time the vertical scroll bar is a little strange but I'm not sure what could be better.

Despite these very minor points, I like the page.
Interesting, because the README in the repository states that it will only use CPU cores in eager mode:

Please note that in eager mode, ML Compute will use the CPU.
“You don’t need a fancy model, you can just find a similar example directly from the training data and get similar results”
"More insulin sensitivity" is better because that means that the body can better respond to sugars in the blood.

If you become insulin unsensitive this means your body cannot properly respond to sugars in your blood.

Sugars in your blood corrode blood vessels etc...if they are not removed.

So "more sensitivity" in this case is a good thing.
Tabula
Exactly what is the evidence of this directed microwave weapon?

As far as I can see there is absolutely none. A list of symptoms, based on interviews and self-reporting, no clinical measurement of any kind. And report that speculates on a cause in east and west.

Nothing beyond that.

The professionals signing off on this really should think carefully whether they are being used for political purposes.
It seems to me, an outsider, that MPs in the UK can get away with pretty much anything and they know it. The whole pedophile scandal and it's essential disappearance comes to mind.
One thing that hit me on reading the January 20th, 2020 blog description of MIR https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/20/mir-a-lightwei... is that it doesn't generate position independent code. Wouldn't that need to be changed for a copying GC like Ravenbrook's?
My terminal has been configured to use UTF-8 for nearly twenty years. Apparently I do not have any font with these glyphs installed though, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect that people do.
If there were no other unique identifiers for a machine how would they be able to create a key that's specific to it? If they can't create a specifc key the entire thing is just for show and it's certainly not with iOS devices.
It's a real shame the Alpha didn't survive. They were pretty brutal about cutting out anything unnecessary and most things that were difficult for a compiler to take advantage of. The earliest versions couldn't load or store singe bytes, and the compiler would insert the necessary bit manipulation to do single byte manipulations using 32-bit or 64-bit loads and stores. Apparently, anyone who wanted to add a new instruction needed to show a good business use case with simulated benchmark.

The Alpha's memory model is notoriously low on guarantees, to give the processor maximal opportunities to re-order memory operations. It's the lowest-common-denominator that influenced what guarantees are made in the Java memory model. Of course, Java could have gone with a stronger memory model and forced Alpha implementations of the JVM to insert a lot more memory fence instructions.

One under-appreciated aspect of the Alpha was that its firmware (PALCode) was essentially a hypervisor that only supported one guest. The True64 or VMS Kernel actually made upcalls to the PALCode to manipulate page tables, etc. I think it would have transitioned well into the hypervisor world, needing minimal modification to the PALCode, and all OS kernels on Alpha were already para-virtualized to use PALCode upcalls, so there would be very little overhead in running those kernels on a multi-guest hypervisor.

If I remember correctly, DEC also invented/patented hyperthreading, and successfully sued Intel over it. Though, as I remember, the settlement conditions forced Intel to buy the StrongARM business off of DEC, which I think was another case of selling off a profitable business to get operating cash for unprofitable businesses. It's the business equivalent of payday loans.
If you're looking for a Scheme with a very active community these days a and production oriented packages, Chicken is a strong choice.
Do you remember whether there's much coverage of the vendor selection and evaluation process that led to the choice of cladding?

One suspicion I have is that these companies may rebrand and continue to operate under different names.

What I wonder as a result is: when future evaluation processes take place, would decision-makers make the connection to formerly-operating-as company names?

I think and hope that the processes are thorough enough to uncover simple avoidance techniques like that, but I also think it's wise not to assume that the process is foolproof.

(I'd also wonder whether many web search engines currently perform this kind of second-order entity name resolution automatically)
Part of the reason this is interesting is that deep learning has to have some kind of inductive bias to perform as well as we've seen (given a learning problem, it's biased toward learning in particular ways). In general though, a neural network can approximate _any_ function, so reigning in that complexity and uncovering which functions are actually learnable (or efficiently learnable) by deep learning is an important research direction. This paper says that the functions uncovered by deep learning (with caveats) are precisely those which are close to functions represented by a different learning technique, which is notable because this new class of functions is not "all functions" and because the characterization is explainable in some sense, giving insight into how deep learning works. That connection also winds up having a bunch of other interesting implications that somebody else can cover if they'd like.
Unfortunately, I can totally see this happening in the next decade or so.

:(
Exactly.

People who use linkedin regularly either have an inflated self ego or are desperate to find work.

The times I use linkedin - to connect with someone who said "add me on linkedin" or when I'm searching for a job. That's it.
> believe Google vs believe a solitary worker

But it's not a solitary worker, many Google AI workers have spoken up and said that even if the management narrative is true as to what happened in the specific case, it would represent a radically different review process — both as to what the review looked at and the request to retract rather than correct when there was a plenty of time for corrections for the conference — than is applied in Google AI research to other workers.

This strongly suggests that even if Google's incident-specific behavioral narrative is true as far as it goes that the entire incident was constructed as personally-targeted harassment, and that the narrative about qualitative motivations and regular process are false.
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Well unless they also support acceleration on AMD GPUs, this is not so interesting. Training on x86_64 CPU cores or integrated Intel GPUs is really slow compared to training on modern NVIDIA GPUs with Tensor Cores (or AMD GPUs with ROCm, if you can get the ROCm stack running without crashing with obscure bugs).

Also see the benchmarks in the marketing PR:

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/11/accelerating-tensorflow-...

The M1 blows away Intel CPUs with integrated GPUs (and modern NVIDIA GPUs will probably blow away the M1 results, otherwise they'd show the competition ;)).
China to ban all solid waste imports from day 1, 2021
The readme has a link to the blog post describing MIR -- it's a great read and is probably where you actually want to go:

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/20/mir-a-lightwei...
I'm not sure I agree. First of all, it's not "Europe" but rather "Euro-accounts" (so no cross-currency transfers). Also not that fast - don't work overnight, on the weekends, payments might take a day to arrive.

I just checked - paying 10EUR from my UK account to the EUR area takes 2-4 days (I'd need to pay 15GBP for an "urgent" next-business-day transfer) (same rate as TransferWise) whereas if I want to send 10kEUR I'd pay 250 GBP (!) for a "no-fee" (!!) transfer than with TransferWise (a.k.a. scam). Paying from EUR to EUR account (cross-border) costs about 0.1% (0.38 EUR fee to send 350EUR) which isn't too bad.

Suffice to say, room for improvement.
Either way, the only actionable morsel I think anyone could take from this if such a person existed is that they probably don’t need to buy Cytosport’s expensive Muscle Serum(tm) and rip it mid-workout, something that probably does the average person no good anyways beyond turning their piss neon green.

Not that anyone changes their life over a scientific paper. The other year I read part of a frightening paper on heart disease that had me google “how to prevent atherosclerosis”, and later that day I stopped through the McD drive-thru just for three large fries.

Gonna have to come at something a little harder hitting than science to inconvenience me, baby!
It also looks like the various government agencies mentioned in the article are either compromised or really phoned it in while certifying these products.
I grew up with the Internet and learned to navigate fake "download" buttons, ads etc. Not to brag too much, but I don't find it hard to use LinkedIn without accidentally consenting to spam my friends. I've never accidentally spammed my contacts via LinkedIn nor ResearchGate nor Academia.edu.

If you use it right, it can be useful. LinkedIn isn't your friend, but you can use their platform for your advantage.
> thought leader

It's a negative signal. Go build something instead.
99% of it is low level consulting crap, underpaid positions desperate because they can't keep people because underpaid, etc.

LinkedIn is for the "desperate." Companies having trouble hiring, and people having trouble getting jobs. The rest is just business card maintenance and having a presence so real recruiters know you actually exist and have that job you said at X networking event.
But that implies that people protesting are doing bad things themselves, as opposed to just working at the same company.
I've got a theory about why it works. Basically you're tiring out parts of your brain when you exercise and activating others. Somehow that regulates the neurotransmitters at the heart of add for a while. If I only lightly exercise, I don't get the same effects. The workout has to be strenuous and I need to feel like I worked both body and mind (finishing that last rep under heavy load takes willpower and concentration).

I bet that HIIT could be as effective as weights for me because the curative part seems to come from exhaustion and exercise of will.

Meditation may or may not be as mentally strenuous, I am not really familiar with it.
I agree, most people dismiss claims of harm because they themselves are not personally affected by it ( example perfumes, allergies). Or do not see the immediate effects of it. ( eg. DDT ). Greed,ignorance and mostly stupidity plays a role here. Further they turn the tables and ask for proof of harm of the technology in question, instead of having to prove proof of harmlessness (which can be done but they do not do it).

>It's almost like the X-ray thing all over again. Or smoking. Or DDT

History repeats very reliably.
Battery use maybe? Worse connection through walls? More anthenas should be installed to create better coverage?
I know these are not great argument against it, especially because any 5G phone also supports 4G.I can't think of any reason not to want it.
Why? If the workers can apply pressure and get their employer to change whatever objectionable behavior it's doing, why shouldn't they?

Why shouldn't workplaces be more democratic? We got rid of kings everywhere else, why should we keep them around just because they're signing our paychecks?
Apple is forced to include charger for not demonstrating environmental benefits
This has always anecdotally appeared to be the case when investigating the predictions of neural nets. Particularly when it comes time to answer the question “what does this model not handle”
You are a moron, has anyone told you that?
I think the post is frustrated with the attitude of authors who should really know better; Sanjeev Arora is a giant of theoretical computer science, and he should know to do better than this
Paypal canceled people just because they were thought criminals. At the point where you become a global payment processor (Paypal, Mastercard,...) a different ruleset should apply to you: no banning unless directly criminaly charged.

Because as it is now Paypal can ban you for whatever reason you want.

When you become global and directly affect people's livelyhoods it should be illegal to cancel people just like that.

The "it's a private business it can do whatever it wants" argument simply doesn't apply anymore (unless you want to end up with corporations for nations since you now have to bow down to private corporations if your opinions are not acceptable. In other words: corporations own your mouth, they own your speech, you cannot go against privot corps. Nightmare fuel. Well you can go against them but you will then lose all of your income which is centralized in a few global corps who also most likely share data on dissidents).
You are wrong. Several went to prison in recent memory for small amounts of fraudulently claimed expenses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_parliamentary...
Your viz techniques are stunning af. I'm afraid there might be too many moving parts on the canvas than enough to be not distracting to be honest.
I was mostly disagreeing with "wrongful termination" - a "conditional resignation" is a good reason for termination, and there's nothing wrongful to terminate the employment earlier than his proposed terms as long as you respect the contract (pay for the notice period, to the extent that such period exists).
Several months later Nvidia QA are going to close the bug without neither a comment nor a fix.
What was wrong with paper?