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A few ideas:

1. Add "abstract" to your search query to surface papers.

2. Search for "... reading list". For example, Heidi Howard maintains https://github.com/heidihoward/distributed-consensus-reading...

3. Read blogs like "The Morning Paper" (https://blog.acolyer.org) but skip fields that are outside your scope. You don't have time to follow more than one or two (or three) major fields.

4. Use Google Scholar to find the most cited papers, or to find papers that build on papers you think are good.

5. Keep an eye out for the conferences where these papers were presented. Then read the other papers that were also presented.

6. When you come across an amazing paper, read other papers by the same authors or supervisors.

7. If you're lucky you might also find good "survey" papers that cover and reference the state of the art.

8. Lecture notes from Stanford or MIT or another university can also be a great way to get a big picture of the evolution of techniques for a given data structure or problem. For example, these lecture notes are just brilliant for getting started with stuff around memory hierarchies: https://www.eidos.ic.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tau/lecture/parallel_d...

These are a few tricks that I find useful. What else?
it's fair to say the game enables many different play styles, but it doesn't have classes, unless you think a class is nothing more than some starting attribute bonuses and whatever grab-bag of skills you choose. I expect a class system to affect game mechanics in a deeper way (eg, in KOTOR you get different allowances for attributes, feats, and skills depending on your class).

FWIW, I actually prefer the progression system in cyberpunk. rigid class systems make more sense in party-based rpgs. I just don't think it's accurate to say the game has a class system; it's more like it intentionally has the absence of classes.
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A team of developers (Saber Interactive) did so much work getting Witcher 3 onto the Switch that they presented it at NvidiaCon.

As of like yesterday, Nvidia started paywalling this great video, but I'll link it anyways: https://resources.nvidia.com/events/GTC2020s22697.

There probably aren't too many stones left unturned, and the Switch community despite issues at least could understand the gambit. It was called the impossible port.

The Cyberpunk 2077 team basically ran out of time on their release and, if I understand it, blindsided PS4 owners who otherwise had no reason to think it would be hitting 10fps in a gunfight.

So it seems there were very different classes of expectations going on between the two scenarios.
If they did, they'd get the reputation for leaving money on the table. Notgonnahappen.
That's definitely a thing. Very popular over here. The format is normally that you do a crash course over 2-3 months, and then do a year's on-the-job training as an apprentice.
As an American, it has been incredibly demoralizing seeing one institution after another fail miserably. I didn’t have high expectations, but oh boy did we fall way short.
This should be a good start: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/LiDAR_In...

Keep in mind that timber cruising is an industry, so there are also plenty of focus on software and hardware to speed up inventories: https://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/products/measurement/...
Does anyone have a link to more context about the strike? I found this on the union website— http://www.seiu121rn.org/2020/11/29/press-release-nurses-hea...
My wife just alerted me to new restrictions she heard about on Twitter. I went to https://www.smchealth.org/coronavirus to read more about it, and I don't see anything different from when you linked me to it 10 days ago.
Capitalism's whole ideological point is about producing things as cheaply and efficiently as possible.

I find it amusing that everyone suddenly hates capitalism now that the Chinese are good at it.
What is the value of such a degree? Mildly reduced insurance rates?
How important is a CS degree to a hiring manager? I have two unrelated degrees (both STEM though). Does a CS degree play a role when looking at a resume or does several years experience say more? I've been a software engineer for over 5 years and people still ask why I have the degrees that I do.
Thanks, if that works that would be amazing. I'm most often getting it inside in-app browsers, e.g. when opening a Twitter link in Tweetbot, Apollo or similar apps. Not sure if they share the same central settings/service workers.
I'm really glad for these guys, they made a phenomenal product that made life easier for me to develop on. I'm glad Google picked them for Android, it's a dream come true for a hacker.
Seems to me almost every Hollywood movie is a "man in the hole" / "boy meets girl", as in somebody leads a normal life, something happens (could be something not bad, like a new challenge) and the main character(s) come out victorious.

Maybe I'm simplifying and applying a template to the "happy ending" cliche.
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> I wish our education system worked enough like a market that it could hold lecturers, programs, and schools that to a higher standard, and destroy them if they cheated their students like this.

This is literally the justification for tuition, though. The university system certainly benefits from acting like they exist in a competitive market.
Maybe to handle knockback you could allow recoiling rotation around one axis and have the rotors automatically anticipate the force on fire.
The title says the company removed software, while the article says that they "removed references to Uygurs"

That looks like they just edited the documentation, the software is still there with all its capabilities.
“a successful $775 bet would return $100 in profit. It implied an 89 percent chance that Trump would win.“

Doesn’t imply anything of the sort. Get your shit straight Slate, this is junior high school level of statistics.
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It makes me wonder how the world would cope today with a Bubonic Plague or Spanish Flu, those two I reckon would probably be more similar to your hypothetical Sci-Fi disease.
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Moscow and St Petersberg... that is interesting.
I'm a fan of their tools as well, but it is good to learn the Russian angle and take it into account.
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If you study in advance, you're limited by how fast your institution can give you credits.

There what OP is about They studied ahead and did 3 years in school.

You're usually paying per credit for these transactional degrees though, not per year.

College debt is only a burden for scam private schools and people trying to buy their way into the upper class. If you go with community college Associates and public state college Bachelor, it's not a huge debt burden to get a degree. The time spent studying (not working for money), and paying to live in your own apartment (instead of supported in parents home) and get fed by the college restaurant (instead of home shared meals) is the main cost.
No idea what the source is, but it's exactly my perspective as well. Whether Apple is a "Good" megacorp or not is irrelevant. Their policies and their profit incentives are fairly well aligned with mine. Not always, they also do lots of shit which frustrates the hell out of me too. But more often than their competitors. That is about the best you can hope for.
There's "Against The Law", and there's "against the law". the latter usually has to be proven in court using a pile of case history and existing laws, which is difficult when the assets seized are from the lower rungs of society, who have no means to retain an attorney, who definitely don't see the benefit of continuing the case once the state settles and they get their stuff back, and who have the cards stacked against them (not sure if it's the same now, but states used to charge you state legal fees if you lost your case.)

Explicit is always better than implicit.
I understand why they went for the spike protein first, but now maybe they could try for something more generic, against all coronaviruses?
You mean, career politicians like GW Bush, who launched comprehensive pandemic preparation programs in 2005?
It's pretty interesting that there's so much variation in how we're understanding the advice.

I read this as John suggesting a stair step path to "learn deeply". If you can section off one defined area, a tool, it's possible to learn _that_ inside and out in a reasonable amount of time. Then you're useful and people want you around. From there you can expand outward or down or whatever.

This would be as an alternative to dabbling, learning the most commonly known things across a wide area.
Yes. We need accelerated testing. In the case of a pandemic, we need to make better use of volunteers. I believe that as the history of this one is reckoned with, one of the more interesting moral failures to be acknowledged will be the failure to utilize challenge testing protocols with willing volunteers (give them the vaccine and then deliberately expose them to the virus. It is a calculated risk.)

Earlier phases could have been accelerated as well. For mRNA vaccines, deleterious effects are unlikely, inefficacy is the likeliest problem. It might be possible to be challenge testing (highly informed) volunteers within a week of a novel virus being isolated.

On a similar note, national stockpiles of RT-PCR machines and reagents would allow widespread testing within the same week.

If I’m right, these indicate moral failures deeply embedded within our political and medical systems. Better luck next time.
> If civil forfeiture is as such against the law already in current form, would that just mean that courts who kept okaying it will just keep ignoring the law?

No. The courts interpret the law and civil forfeiture is currently in a grey area when it comes to the law. It can be argued to be unconstitutional, in that it appears to violate the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but there are a lot of laws on the books in the U.S. that on their face appear to be unconstitutional and it is up to the courts to interpret them and rule on their constitutionality. But if the legislature creates a law to make civil forfeiture illegal then that gives the courts less wiggle room to interpret the law.
These “features” are irrelevant to me and to most people. I don’t want rooting, hacking, adding iptables rules, etc. My hopes were that android has caller id blocking via internet databases, sms forwarding, out of box adblock, browser that is superior to safari, etc. I don’t want to stop programs or write them, to have “files” for every app to access them, to dig into the kernel things, etc. It is not a selling point at all, you just fight with your phone’s bad habits. I don’t, I needed simple things and expected at least part of the world that android users promised me everywhere, and it’s just was not there. It is not a privacy concern, these “solutions”, even paid ones, just do not work after you give up privacy.
It's not just proteins. The cells infected with the mRNA present those proteins on the outside of the cell to be recognized by other cells which start a chain process.

Skip to around 12:30 in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Idb_lCU4o

He goes through the entire biochem process. Even the cells infected with the mRNA will need to be removed by the immune system using cytotoxic T-cells, so they need to get the chain process going.

The reason we have "memory" for viruses is because a ton of random stuff in our immune systems evolved to multiply exponentially when they come in contact with viruses or proteins that indicate certain infections. It's a lot of stuff and you can't just inject that memory in; you have to stimulate the immune system to create them at a very large scale.

It's not just antibodies. There are memory T-cells, parts of the complement system that get activated; a whole host of things.

My issue is that our immune systems are incredibly complex, and there are a lot of components to this "memory" that are not entirely understood. Every other vaccine is an inactivaed virus (via heat treatment) or attenuated (virus run through other hosts to make it less dangerous to humans). The first vaccine was just a close relative: cow/horse pox instead of smallpox. The former are not dangerous in humans, but seem to produce the same immune memory.

The mRNA vaccines are at attempt to say, "Let's strip out all that other stuff and find just the thing we need." But our immune systems are incredibly complicated. It will be interesting to see if these things actually work at scale.

The trials were to make sure the vaccine is safe in a short about of time. It's not really going to test effectiveness until deployed at scale.
Could you please elaborate on the nature of Project Karl? Their website doesn't seem to have too much information. Thanks!
I was a sole provider making under $100k.

Edit: salary. We were receiving small bonuses ($10k) at the time. but we learned to keep our expenses down, and every bonus we did receive we rolled right into debt before spending it on stupid crap.
> I mean...the smart controllers on the HVAC systems in these companies have to be replaced don't they?

Hah, no. And it’s definitely not the worst of all time. There is really no reason to be any more concerned than you were at this time last year.
1. In 40 years, there have only been 20 protein drugs approved.

2. Yes the cells go back to to normal after the mRNA degrades. The mRNA does not last long, it is like data in ram vs data on a hard drive.

See this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-DMKNT7xI
I have an old phone (who doesn't) which I leave plugged in on my desk, with a £5 payg sim card.
I took a "study drug" once for fun in college. My friend warned me: "it doesn't focus you on studying, you might end up very meticulously cleaning for a few hours". I ended up playing Nonogram for 3 hours into the night.

On the "focus what's important in life" I feel like everyone should consider Effective Altruism - focusing on the effectiveness of one's pro-social actions first and foremost.
Not a hiring manager, but of the engineering jobs i've had, school never came up (I have no degree). That said, i've had plenty of rejections without even getting into the interview process. Would a degree have changed that? Possibly.
The nurses in CA have been unionized for quite a while now. At the point that a strike is happening I’m not sure the union is having much success negotiating with the hospital over something that should be basic, obvious and mutually beneficial.
One of the big complaints that people have about Unions (under US law) is that they do not really care so much about employee welfare as much as some specific set of bargaining points. The union just adds another large bureaucracy that you personally have minimal bargaining power with. (Last unionized job I had actually negotiated a salary decrease for us but claimed some ideological win over facilities). I feel like something closer to employee ownership/cooperative business models are a better approach to providing for human needs, and to that effect the NLRA should really be reworked.
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Well, it is a Russian company (although not legally, for obvious reasons). Kotlin is named after an island just of the coast of St Petersburg, for example.
The DPA was not employed to ramp up production of PPE.
Do you have a citation for that? I'm not aware of anything about having a clearance which indemnifies you for fraud.
Speaking of SAR, well the other SAR (Synthetic-aperture radar) it was discussed yesterday that a radar reflector can be used to bounce SAR signals back, which would highlight your location, such as it's used for marine applications.

Perhaps carrying one of these folded up ready to deploy in an emergency wouldn't be a terrible idea as the availability of SAR imaging goes up. Much cheaper to carry that than some of the GPS/beacon devices sold to hikers. Image detection is already a common ML tool for Earth observation analysis so building in something that looks for that marker in a known area of forest sounds possible.

https://www.westmarine.com/WestAdvisor/Selecting-a-Radar-Ref...
That's great. Well, if they're in at all between Christmas and New Year maybe they can quickly sort the common cold out. Then full steam ahead in January and they should have all the plagues of humanity pretty much wrapped up by Easter?
None of those came to market. Many did make it through trials. This is more about pushing this as a first onto the market so pharma companies can finally prove they're safe, and then making a shit ton of money on more vaccines after.
OT, but I have to remark: this is an example of a pleasantly fast and writing-focused web page.
> This is why they're not burned out.

So your solution is to just not give a shit like everyone else? The reason that I've become so good at my craft is by giving a shit. The reason that my projects always succeed is because I give a shit. Not giving a shit puts a ceiling on your career as a developer. Not giving a shit will prevent you from learning. The irony in my situation is that I am investing in myself by doing the work, I am learning and improving myself while others stagnate. I try to remind myself of that.

> And IMHO, this sounds a lot like sour grapes. To be rewarded for good work your management needs to know you're doing good work. For them to know you're doing good work you need to tell them. This is just a basic fact of life. And it's not super hard. You just need to maintain a relationship with your boss and ideally your boss's boss.

Sour grapes? Only one or two sentences complained about recognition. I'm talking generally about the majority of developers at big orgs. Deal with management? I work in a global org that already has plenty of communication issues, people don't want to be bothered. Moreover I don't want to deal with politics as I am a long-term contractor. I try to remind myself that I just need to bill my hours and forget about it, but I'm essentially treated as an employee and my insane efforts carry a team of 8 people (including other contractors) that literally do nothing while reaping the pay and recognition. They run mouse movers all day and enjoy their paid staycations. "Spend the budget" -- since I provide 10x the value then give me 10x the pay, the other guys are doing nothing while it's expected that I work my ass off. A manager that I befriended once told me "yeah that's usually how it goes, team of 8 but one or two guys do all the work. typical" How is this acceptable? If I give up like the others then I am no better, I become the person I despise and I contribute to the horrible culture that has taken over the industry in big orgs.
Occam’s razor telling me this isn’t aliens :/
> Does this mean that the research basically was about creating sort of like a "template" vaccine that can then be specialised or programmed with the specifics of the thing you're trying to vaccinate against?

That may (or may not) have been the effect (at least within a narrow family of similar viruses), and is definitely something they market about their “mRNA platform”, but their immediately-previous mRNA vaccine work which was ongoing when they shifted to SARS-CoV-2, was specifically directed at MERS-CoV, another very similar betacoronavirus of significant public health impact (though a lot less widespread than SARS-CoV-2 has become.)
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I have a great way to fix this.

Grab the first person you see off the street, and cut their face off. Dry it. Tan it. And sew it into wallets, belts, book covers, and shoes as gifts to the ever growing number of authoritarians who dare command economies and tell everyone what to do from far far away. It's okay because authoritarianism and tyranny is not government. It's not even being a crook or a bully. A malignant tumor that learned how to type is the best I can describe it. Destroy with as much motivation as wiping out polio.

It's one thing for international marxists to do this. It's another thing for the cannibals of Borneo, or Supermax inmates to do this. Blame them regardless. They opened the door. We've lead them well into the technology frontier. Time to shoot their scouts, and let the wild devour them.
>by not being an idiot with my money

It was also due to the fact that you were making $80k/year ABOVE your living expenses.
You're right. But I also changed my mentality. We became intentional with our money. Its amazing how you can find money in a budget to put towards debt. Its also how you stay out of debt going forward. You learn to prioritize your spending.
While I'm glad to see growing support for rolling back some of the most obviously horrific excesses of the War on Drugs, we still have a generation or two of Americans who eagerly support simply destroying the lives of people involved with drugs they've been trained to be afraid of. I mean, it's great so many people are finally willing to stop obliterating the lives of strangers who like to smoke weed instead of get drunk, but why do they still think it's OK to ruin the life of some twenty-something selling cocaine to his friends?
Thank you, seriously.
He briefly discusses it in this episode of „Das philosophische Radio“:
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/wdr-5-das-philosophisc...

I went on listening to other interviews with him on Apple Podcasts where he touches this and other ideas, but eventually got one of his books that is specifically about burnout (“Vom Burnout zum Flow”) as an audiobook, where he describes such imagery exercises in detail. I also liked how he chooses his words very carefully.

It’s all in german however, a lot of his books have not been translated yet. He often mentions that C.G. Jung influenced him, but I’m not familiar with his writings at all.
The article literally mentions it. While it may not be a large stockpile, there’s ppe to be had.
In many ways, this was a worst case scenario for countries without a history of fighting respiratory diseases. It’s lethal enough to rack up a significant body count, but “safe” enough for large portions of the population to disregard the risk and potentially transmit it. Oh, and it’s airborne and you’re infectious before you have symptoms.

Ironically, a disease with a much higher case fatality rate probably would’ve killed fewer Americans, since we’d be more aligned on stopping it, and it would have a greater tendency to burn itself out.
This is fine if you're spending all your money on junk ordered through the mail, which admittedly is a perk. Not so great for paying rent, attending college, or going to the hospital.

Pushing back comparisons to the 16th, 17th, or 18th century will produce a flattering comparison, and people should be aware of how much things have improved since then, but in a conversation about Amazon it's not relevant. Companies like Amazon and Walmart have led to monopsony (buyer advantage) dynamics that have gutten communities, stifled innovation, and led to stagnant wages. The issue is that these companies wind up not just competing on their own comparative strengths, but take advantage of their size and market advantage. I notice you're not singing the praises of, for example, Spectrum (formely Time Warner), because the obvious market power and complete lack of competence or innovation in that sector is hard to talk around. Amazon's Bezos is actually pretty savvy, and Amazon leads to some lower prices for consumers and occasional innovation, so the damage to competition in various markets is easier to ignore. But these companies are dangerous, in that they can turn market power and cash in hand into political power, and they do. Size matters.