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These sort of headlines seem dangerous. People skipping vaccines because they think we have a treatment

“Joe Rogan says he's contracted coronavirus, is treating it with ivermectin”

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/joe-rogan-contracted-c...
> the presence of a foul smell caused a statistical difference in the outcome of the test

But the fact there is a statistical difference does not mean it affects everyone and in the same degree. E.g. they probably didn't test many experienced Zen monks trained to impartially and vigilantly observe what they perceive and feel and a couple of weird guys who do this naturally also didn't affect the statistics. Statistics is both a great tool and also a problem of modern science. I bet some medications dismissed for failing to show statistical significance in DBPC trials could actually work (by means of some real phenomenon rather than the placebo effect) in some rare cases.

> Our capacity to reflect and internalize is, to him, another output of a vast and continual, unconscious, shaping all life undergoes.

It probably is. No action can exist without a sequence of past interactions which led to it. Even if I stop, think and make a conscious decision, even if I try to come up with a non-standard one, this means my previous experience led me to the idea I even should. But this doesn't mean "humans have no free will", it means "free will" is a meaningless concept outside the realm of logic and neither saying it exists nor saying it doesn't makes any sense and being sad about this doesn't make any sense either.
> ...the principles of “free speech” are not synonymous with the US first amendment (which concerns only government limitations)...

I think this is the nub of the problem. There are common carriers like the phone company, and there are publishers. A publisher will be responsible for what they publish, whereas a carrier really just gives access to their infrastructure.

We have a situation now that seems like social media companies want it both ways (none of obligations and all of the prerogatives), so we get something like a phone service that censors your calls when convenient to the phone company.

I really think this requires a political solution, though one often sees technological solutions suggested (peer-to-peer, federation).

> ...free speech itself is not an absolute principle but one existing in balance with other considerations...

Yes, political speech is the most protected variety. Curiously, money can be considered political speech. So while I think the only kind of real solution here is a political one, I don't expect that to ever happen.
Oh it's definitely a trial run, for the various disruptions to come from climate change. Y'all just wait.
The lingering wrath of Jesus, collapser of empires.
This program used test pilots to test their space ships, killed one of them in the process, and later fired the director of their test flight program under dubious circumstances.
> Dealing with system configuration, operations, and maintenance remains an unsolved problem.

I have no experience whatsoever with them, but I think I've seen many mentions over the years of how IBM mainframes have been designed to keep running while anything is modified or swapped out.

I also remember years ago reading about a research OS, which journaled everything such that you could supposedly pull the plug at any random moment and recover the running state with no trouble.

Link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030430223846/http://www.eros-o...
You don't 'land in the desert'. It has to come down on a runway. Any risk to that means very high likelihood of injuries or death.

Was that the case here? Maybe, maybe not. But the flight plan was built with safety in mind, and the pilots should have aborted.
Most of my co-workers who have met me in person would describe me very differently to the few co-workers with whom I share the same continent. Jet lag changes my personality so significantly.
> Eight days after Branson’s flight, an H.R. manager booked time on his calendar, and then fired Stucky over Zoom.

Such a shame. You can bet that this will come back to bite Virgin, and should a serious accident happen and they get sued, Stucky could be a prime witness.

Don't burn bridges.
Assuming your position on any subject, especially novel viruses and novel vaccines, is 100% correct and immune to debate or criticism is irrational. When your position is "I'm right, they're wrong, they shouldn't be allowed to talk about it" you are the censor. If the facts support your position, why silence debate or criticism?

The scientific method requires hypothesis tested by experimentation. Have we fully proven via experimentation any facts about long term side effects from the Covid vaccine? Of course not, we have not had the time! As such, any true scientist would invite debate, discourse and discussion as we as a society attempt to balance the risk of Covid with the unknown risk of vaccinations. We must also analyze and discuss the vital topics of freedom over one's body, freedom of speech, and the intricacies of quarantine restrictions on our civilization.

That conversation is important and should not be casually censored off the internet under the guise of "protecting innocents from misinformation".
> the immense pressure that team at Virgin Galactic must have been under to get their boss into space and to beat Bezos, all for the inflated ego of one man.

So much energy invested in a dick measuring contest. I hope humanity reaches a point in which the incentive structure would stimulate a more meaningful investment of human labor. Not to say I'm not part of the problem...
Why would China want to hold back SpaceX when it's more rewarding to put people inside the company to steal their secrets?
he's a cop, of course...
Except it doesn't have to be more than one bank, just different accounts at the same bank. So if a bank creates a loan, which ends up deposited in another account, their deposits have increased from $100 to $195. So the question becomes, where does the money that has increased the banks' reserves come from? It was created when it was loaned.

Maybe we are saying the same thing, I can't tell.
Good catch, we're working on an update to the article that includes this label!
I don't think I saw any last time I strolled on University Ave.
How does this differeniate space and the ocean in your mind? Humans cannot survive in either without some sort of vessel to provide a suitable environment.
Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency
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REMOTE OK.
Once you know it, Docker is so much easier operationally.

The following things are easy:

- Tweaking a container version in the composefile to upgrade or downgrade

- Entirely swapping out the underlying Linux distro without touching a line of code in existing composefiles

- Isolating all incidental data generated by the application from the user-generated data (for backup purposes)

- Infrastructure as code (so you can easily migrate between servers, and version your setup)

- Quick iteration on service set-up are all so much easier with containers. It's possible to remove services entirely too, so experimentation between different options is very easy.

A sustainable self-hosted setup is one that is quick to maintain and upgrade. If you don't do both, security issues and incompatibilities will eventually be a problem.
The users were given the choice between accepting the endless lists of t&c's or using the tablet as an expensive paperweight. Lenovo is clearly in the right here. It's their software being used and if users are not happy they can just walk away. And how do you know that people don't find ads helpful?
Funny too because no one cares,few months after the event and it’s all water under the bridge.

People remember Yuri Gagarin, not these people.
> sort of autistic savant state where people can be turned into hyper-specialized computers, although at a higher level of abstract than normal.

That’s me after my Vyvanse dose kicks-in…
You're exaggerating. I use mullvad on 3 systems and definitely see captcha here and there but it's not very often. I can't imagine that mozilla's vpn is much different since the backen is the same.
This highlights why having automated pilots in spaceships is so critical. Software can be tested more thoroughly than humans, and cannot override safety protocols.

If the rules say to abort, the software aborts. Humans get to say "I think we'll be fine", and put lives on the line.
another vote for gpu
If you suffer from this kind of perfectionism and find it affects your productivity (i.e. in the form of procrastination) I highly recommend reading The Now Habit by Neil Fiore. It's helped me to not only be more productive, but also to feel less guilty and more confident about myself no matter how much I actually get done.
What's the advantage of using BerylDB over Redis? Is it speed, or something else in the feature set (current or future)?
just because you live in a place where you can't even see the night sky doesn't mean other people should be robbed of their view.
That argument would've had a lot of weight in 1940, when only 5% or so of folks went to college, but today nearly 2/3 of high school graduates immediately enroll in some form of college. It seems reasonable to assume that, if college were free, that figure would substantially rise.

The opposite of your specialization argument also applies. It costs $20,000-$40,000 to go through nursing school. It's hugely beneficial for society to have nurses, and we have a nursing shortage. Paying for nursing school means more nurses. On the other side, personally I'm in favor of there being a lot more people who have expertise in advanced non-STEM topics. The benefits are less obvious, but a well educated populace is far more desirable than a pile of folks educated just well enough to be useful as well.

Distorting the market is a problem, but just as high schools are public, I think increasing the number of public universities and public community colleges helps that problem. If there is enough high quality public education available, there's no need to subsidize private education.
That power efficiency also buys you thermal efficiency, which buys you silence. Silent small form factor PCs are available, but to get one that won’t throttle all the time is pretty spendy.
First come first serve becomes a lot less beneficial when you start trying to get things off the planet, or see things with this many obstructions.
Seems like an interesting thought. The feeds have a purpose or agenda, actively influence real people in real life, and do so in a way that perpetuates their own existence. As long as they’re effective, they have real world institutions to support them. As it happens, they are perpetually learning and growing. Putting that next to GPT3, it’s like an intelligent rescue dog next to a horse that counts.
You're right... But we don't live in a vacuum. I can try to live without WhatsApp but literally everyone in Europe uses it. It's just unavoidable. And that's just one example.

So, I still go the trouble to bend the ecosystems to my will... Like Matrix bridges. It's a lot of work I'll give you that.
> If you then add additional stages, you can have it spend 8 hours on each stage, deploying to prod every 8 hours, so a higher frequency, but any given build is still preprod for 24 hours, so frequency has tripled without a change in latency.

Got it, thanks for the clarification. I'd interpreted your argument as: each stage is a deployment, therefore deployment frequency goes up (which also, of course, would mean lead time goes down -- so I was confused).

I like that this scheme could maintain continuous integration by having the "B" staging include the patch under test in "C" -- clever solution!
I’d like to submit Botox as an example that, yes, it can be.
TLDR; Basically a meta data driven engine on the client and a server that sends configuration to render the UI.

Kind of like... a browser. :)
Talk Shows are the worst for this. Many of them have a rehearsal with the guests. It's no surprise that all of the guests have amazingly funny or interesting stories about every topic the host brings up. Once you know this is how they work, it's impossible to unsee it when you're watching them. I'm sorry I ruined talk shows for anyone here who may like them.
If the code in question was standard code, this would not be such an issue.
However, it is code that runs with all the privileges, and is therefore the one where security issues would hit the biggest. That is even more true as this code manipulates what is running on the computer, which is easy to get slightly wrong (For instance, for a long time, the LDD binary could be used to execute arbitrary code and it was therefore unsafe to run dracut with dependency resolution on unsafe binaries)

I am not saying that I am against Mozilla's transparency, especially as they were clear on this issue and said by themselves they intended to change this code before release. I'm simply explaining why some may find it either a bad faith or strong security issue.
Inverse kinematics is about reconstructing body motion from position marker data, not really about modeling. For example, glue some tennis balls to a person's arms and legs, track their position from video of the person walking around, and use inverse kinematics to reconstruct their joint angles (their skeletal pose) across time. It's also possible to do this with marker-free methods.

Inverse dynamics takes the kinematics data from above and, in combination with ground reaction forces measured from a force plate (or instrumented footwear, etc.), calculates the forces and moments on each joint. Since control of the human musculoskeletal system is over-determined (the same motion, forces, and moments can be produced by multiple muscle activation patterns), EEG data or even ultrasound elastography is sometimes used to better constrain estimates of muscle activation patterns.

In your example the usual approach would be to use (elements of) the above methods to find out if a patient had unusual motion patterns, like the suspected abnormal leg motion in your back pain patient. Statistics comes into play once you have population data to classify as "good" or "bad", and when you're trying to determine if the hypothesized relationships between symptoms and particular motion / muscle activation patterns genuinely exist. Of course, it's fine to try different approaches (but don't forget to obtain IRB review and comply with the various regulations on human subjects research).
I'm not so sure that dichotomy holds up.

Jobs and Musk may have outcompeted their rivals, but both have been notorious for taking advantage of employees as well as anti-competitive practices in multiple cases. Not to mention Musk taking advantage of customers with misleading and at times unsafe products like self driving.
> NPR reported on Tuesday that Purdue Pharma and its attorneys launched a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign aimed at convincing the DOJ not to challenge the plan in court.

> NPR acquired an early draft of a letter distributed by the drug company to groups supportive of the bankruptcy deal.

> The letter is framed as a direct appeal to DOJ officials and purports to be written by those injured by the company and members of the Sackler family.

> "We collectively speak for the overwhelming majority of the state and local governments, organizations, and individuals harmed by Purdue and the Sacklers," the letter states.

> There is no mention in the document of the company's role launching the effort or crafting the message.

Not shocking that the group largely responsible for the opioid crisis would lie like this, but still disgusting. I'm hoping the DOJ appeals.
> there is something there

There is indeed. I'll recount my own words after my first proper exposure to the model, in the form of playing custom stories in AI Dungeon:

"I played more of it today, and I can confirm that prolonged exposure makes me feel like I'm half awake, and half in a dream - particularly when the real world interrupts, I feel like I didn't fully wake up.

What's worse, whenever I tried to talk to a real person today, I've felt like I'm just feeding words to an AI, and anticipated "story" to evolve.

Never before has a game messed up with my mind so badly. I'm not sure if it's safe."

To which I got a reply perfectly summarizing the phenomenon:

"AI Dungeon feels a bit like a fever-dream."

--

It's been a year since; thinking back, I feel the trick here is, GPT-3 crosses the threshold of being able to produce plausible and interesting text - where by "interesting" I mean "almost, but not quite, unpredictable". The way other people and their stories are interesting - their words aren't totally random, you have this feeling for the possible trajectories the conversation can take, but you can't quite guess what they're going to say next. GPT-3 does that well enough that it's easy to suspend disbelief and feel as if you're dealing with a mind. But then the feelings that arise in you, that's just you projecting - engaging your mental machinery for dealing with other minds.
I think they get pulled down by the combination of atmosphere and gravity. As you pointed out, gravity alone is not sufficient. But also, if there's only an atmosphere but no gravity, they don't get pulled down.
And you don't really remove it. You just deactivate it, and only for the main user.

If you do it without --user 0 it will actually uninstall it, but this only works for non-system apps and most manufacturers mark all their crap/spyware as system of course. Sigh...
I'm not sure if this is a joke or just another person from the ad industry desperately trying to justify their moral free behaviour.
I don't know if it was very, very off-putting, but I agree that the length of the piece together with the bolding made it harder to engage with the ideas.

If the author is open to advice, mine would be this:

1. Consider your audience

How might an audience of knowledgeable adults read into a piece that visually emphasizes every idea or phrase the author has decided is important?

Might they feel that the piece is condescending to them? It's possible, and that is indeed how I felt reading the piece.

2. You have a lot of tools to emphasize important ideas. Don't use them all.

Throughout the piece there is a lot of bolding, a lot of italics, and several ideas. Where each distinct clause is a sentence. Where each clause modifies the first subject.

Pick one of these. Maybe two. But don't do everything, or the impact is lessened.

3. Edit yourself mercilessly

Honestly, you're already on the way to editing this down - the important parts are bolded. Cut around them and see how much you can actually afford to lose.
While I'm super excited about the future of space tourism, I dread a "Hindenburg" catastrophe that stops the whole idea for a generation.
Hello Stefano, thank you for your post on Epistemic AI. I don't have the experience to apply there yet, but I was wondering if you could suggest any tips to someone from a non-tech engineering background looking to enter tech, and AI in particular.

Thank you in advance!
But Big Pharma and the FDA (which approved these opioids) are totally trustworthy, folks. Don't you dare ask any questions, or you'll be banned from Facebook.
Good. Joe Rogan is an asshole.
That's less like a technique and more like saying "just learn the material".
FWIW, I had that college experience, and it was fun, but definitely not worth the cost of admission. On the other hand, junior/senior year at college was fantastic and really formative. So imho you got the best of both worlds.
These people are still worth billions. You shouldn't get to walk away with billions when you should be rotting in prison for the rest of your life.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise announces $2B contract with the NSA
It's a neocortex that doesn't have the rest of the brain. : p
Your standards are too high.
But what's the advantage here? Once Mozilla blesses Mullvad, then... customers already know that Mullvad is good. It's understandable why Mullvad could have a partnership agreement with Mozilla, but it's not obvious why customers shouldn't just bypass Mozilla and go straight to Mullvad with cheaper prices.
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Yup, Walmart seems the obvious comparison, at least for retail. Much of what you'll find on Amazon, you can find there, including fast, free shipping.
I don't like the idea of justifying misinformation to combat misinformation/misunderstanding.
> nose-and-finger webcam on the bottom of the screen

FWIW, I believe they've fixed this in recent revisions, as well as added a 16:10 ratio screen.

This is one of the very few laptops I'd consider vs a macbook at this point, especially given the preinstalled linux option.
Hi Jordan!

I checked out your website (based on your email). Are you looking for full-time roles? Or, are you solely looking for contract roles?