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I am arguing for a different telos of education: maximize the number of Mozarts and its equivalents in every field. Not a system that maximizes the average score of the nation's Jingle Bells performance over time.

I care singularly about the Mozarts. Identification of talent, airlifting the proto-Mozarts out of Jingle Bells classrooms, putting them in company of their peers and under the tutelage of the best pianists alive. Sink or swim, let the eagle soar or faceplant. If they soar, we get Mozarts. If they faceplant, they can always go back to practicing Jingle Bells.

As to what you do with the mediocre masses - I personally think it's cruel and inhumane to force them into Jingle Bells practice for years on end if they hate it, but ultimately I only care about rescuing Mozarts from being swallowed and stifled by mediocrity, not the suffering masses. Too much money, careers, egos tied up in torturing the masses with Jingle Bells lessons and Jingle bells diplomas and overruling that is not my concern.
I think the same advice works for Chromebooks. Sure, you're still being "tracked" - but let's be honest, that's happening on the web for most users one way or another. In most cases, seniors need a consistent, reliable browser - and nothing else.

That's not to say a $250 Chromebook is the solution, but a $500 one (equal to the value of the laptop in the story) would be exceptional compared to any Windows experience with the same hardware.
>>> possible to calculate the direct lighting analytically ?

I don't think that is the trend the industry is following. I think all investment research is poured into neural methods and ai-enhanced sampling. Joy to be breakfasting over such illuminating (pun intended) discourse & fractal art. My interest in 2D texture synth is more toward creating the stunning graphics found in classic sega style cell shaded titles like jet set radio. So I'm into the oldskool deterministic fractal geometry techniques, and adding dynamic luminaires and guassian blur passes is enough to create cool tron glow type effects ;)
> That’s why experienced people are paid more after all.

They are paid to stick around? I thought good people would produce work that was well thought out enough to not require endless amounts of "maintenance".
We are currently living in a time when many people feel the need to dispute that rigorous education can have any meaningful impact on a child's abilities.

Every chance to record and shares true facts, we should.
Couldnt you just take a portable co2 monitor with you? They are not that expensive?
Is it possible to calculate the maximum upper bound on the amount of data possible here?
Original source: https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/video/715758729345106257... .

As mentioned in the video, there are other designs, e.g.: https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/video/710602314370956011... (terminator). Profile page with more videos: https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist .
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It's crazy! On one side, I have a neighbour with all slate and concrete backyard, and a barrier at the top of the fence (to keep the fancy cats in 'o_O ) covered with plastic vines. I think they have one actual living tree and maybe a flowerpot.

Fortunately, on the other side ... I have the head of the groene commissie (neighbourhood gardening enthusiastc) and a beautiful tended garden. Mine is the most natural: a barely-tended jungle which gets trimmed and brushed once a year. We have hedgehogs!

We installed ~200m^2 of green roofs in the neighbourhood and there are bug hotels all over the place so we are doing relatively well. Quite a few different varieties of bees.

All this green absorbs a lot of heat, and manages rainwater which is important at 0 above sea level and 2m below the nearby canal.
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They don't decide this is what they want, they decide this is the least bad they will bear.

I don't like Android, I don't like iOS. What do I buy ? Not the one that is best for me, because I don't have a real choice, but the one I will hate the least.
I like that he made choices based on value per effort. I would’ve done the same thing too.

But that’s a fair take. Go’s web server ecosystem has diversified a lot too, and I’m sure his pick would’ve affected the outcome a reasonable amount if he had chosen fasthttp or gin for comparison.
In the sense that those who are willing to pay the most get preferred resource allocation in a way that is self-adjusting.

If a company is able to pay more for their commodities, it means that it is able to create more of an economic value of the commodities than a competitor (otherwise it would not be able to pay this price). This leads to a more efficient and effective use of the commodities that are traded on the market.
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> will have enough batteries for 20-30 minutes of flight

Where does this number come from, exactly?

Also, why not circumvent these questions by using electrolysis to make zero-carbon fuel from sunlight, and just pump that the regular way?

Or ships, which can be wind powered most of the time and backed up by PV-H2 and/or beamed power in the doldrums?

We can probably also use lightweight PV coatings (or beamed power) on a blimp for air travel that won't crash when power fails. (But probably only for cargo; the Hindenburg meme will probably prevent passenger interest).
Actually most of cellular networks are running under NAT or CGNAT so you can't open an ports to them.

Much easiest is to get some RPI and setup this:
https://www.pivpn.io
You want the program to hang indefinitely in production because it hit an assert?
Why would that be any different than the current situation?

In fact, I think conducting this more publicly would have huge benefits. Perhaps you would attract more motivated staff, like pedophiles to go through CSAM?
Wow, it's refreshing to see a Dutch person write down the impact of nitrogen as facts. Around me, its seems like slowly everyone is starting to doubt/deny the impact of nitrogen and whether it's something we need to care about. I'm starting to feel less at home in this country by the day because of it (and all the upside down flags consequently).
> Plastic is only used for convenience and cheapness, let's make it less convenient and cheap than glass and metal.

Plastic is cheap and convenient, but its material properties are also advantageous. It's lightweight, allowing more actual product to be transported on trucks. If it breaks, it doesn't make a dangerous mess the way glass does.

We should absolutely work to reduce, reuse, and recycle, in that order of priority, but we need to recognize that other costs exist too, such as more product being damaged and more higher transportation costs (monetary and pollution wise).

All that said, I agree companies respond to incentives, and given sufficient costs, they would lean towards more recyclable products.
> E.g. on Windows: "path\to\..\file" is always the equivalent of "path\file". Whereas on unixy systems "path/to/../file" may take you to a completely different parent directory.

Worth noting here that Plan 9 is using lexical names[1], and the Go standard library offers the function path.Clean[2] to achieve similar results. If your language/library/OS doesn't offer this behavior by default, it's likely a good idea to add/reimplement this function, unless you need bug-for-bug compatibility.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220824070659/https://9p.io/sys...

[2]: https://golang.bg/pkg/path/#Clean
There are standard criteria for what can become a CVE, and I guess some Rust users are very zealous with bug reporting. At first glance, it looks like a lot of these issues are minor, but not normal, bugs to see in a programming language. I guess abnormality rises to that level.
This should be obvious. There is some good news in that the human population is plateauing, and is projected to gradually decline, as a result of urbanization, educated women, mass entertainment, secularism, and other influences.

If we want a natural world around us, we have to leave a lot of it natural. Sometimes it reminds us that's not really an option, but a requirement for survival. One thing we will learn from space colonies is that humans cannot thrive in a monoculture surrounded by sterility.
This is very very difficult, but Tantivy tried: see https://github.com/quickwit-oss/search-benchmark-game
The real way to address this would be to not make users hate updates.

That would mean doing as much of the work as possible in the background in a way that doesn't impact the user and making sure the reboot where it actually gets activated doesn't take noticeably longer. It would also mean not doing things that are against the user's interest like moving things around, installing new ads or misfeatures, or breaking things.

I don't know anyone who hates or wants to disable Chrome updates, for example (I'm sure such people exist, but it's much less common than Windows updates), despite Chrome updating way more often than once a month.

Of course, overcoming the aversion people built over years because of past bad behavior is going to be hard, but forcing people against their will and making updates more disruptive isn't going to help with that aversion. People really dislike being forced to do something, even if they don't actually mind the thing itself that much.
Like climate change, there's no scientific consensus.

The mainstream scientists, European governments, China etc all think that recycling plastic is better than burning or landfill for reasons they've documented in depth in multiple Lifecycle Analysis papers and meta reviews of LCAs.

But, there is a very loud minority, funded by the same network of think-tanks representing fossil fuel interests that fund climate change deniers who say this is all nonsense and really everything you've been told by the "consensus" actually either does nothing, or actively makes things worse, so you might as well keep using and burning fossil fuels.
Again, I'm not saying CGI is the fastest but that it is fast enough. Opening a new connection (or better yet, using SQLite), reading a file that contains a prerendered HTML string are fast enough for most use cases
I agree, but ES should re-write their core engine to be more lightweight, otherwise a viable competitor will emerge.
>including the forced updates making desktop unusable for hour every month.

Hours is weird way to spell 5min on pc over half of decade old.
No, civilian satellites with no military utility are no valid military targets; joining DARPA network though would make them valid targets.

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Related:

>> b. Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts: ii. Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;

Source:

- https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml
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To me it seems the “alternative to” part is more damaging in that sense than dropping a big name. The name is used to put a complicated piece of software in a context many people are familiar with. The same thing happens with the “Tinder/Uber/Airbnb for <x>…” type of services.

The friction is introduced where it’s not made crystal clear how it’s similar, and which concept are different or missing altogether. Then it will cause unmet expectations.

Perhaps it’s better to say “inspired by …” or “similar to …” to make a more precise statement.
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I think it's contextual, there are meetings where my presence is all that's needed from me, and after that I have plenty of time to mentally prepare for work. Of course if I have a meeting with a client or something like that, I would want to be up, showered and have any notes, docs and context prepped.
You can find bits of a plant that you can apply this analysis to; and likewise, bits of a river.

Even if we buy that parts of the brain have some properties which discretely encoded are "plausibly modelled" by a transformer network, this claim isnt surprising. It isnt surprising applied to a plant.

In other words a descriptive "computationalist" project is almost always going to succeed. I can describe the orbit of the earth around the sun as 010101...

But the transition from the earth in front of the sun (0) to it being behind (1) simply describes what it is we're trying to explain.

Likewise pretty much every possible system has some aspect that can be described by the sequence 0101010...

`F = GMm/r^2` however is not a descriptive project. It provides properties, causes, measures, and so on... it says what exists, what it is like, how it functions, and how the target of analysis (gravity) is controllable... ie., we can produce more of it with more mass, or less distance.

For computational explanations to count as explanations they must elucidate some explanatory aspect of the system's function.

In general, it's very hard for computational descriptions to do this; and this issue is made worse because the people who use it are (discrete) mathematicians and not scientists and really think that saying "orbits are ellipses", "leaves are ellipses", so "orbits are like leaves" is an actual explanation.

The purpose of a transformer network, as used by data scientists, is not captured by brain function, nor by plant function. And finding a pattern in the brain which could be modelled this way, carries over no "explanatory power" of transformers as ordinarily used.

This mistake is at the heart of much "computationalist pseudoscience".

> System S has abstract discrete properties P, System T so too has them, so our explanations of T provide explanations of S.

This is magical thinking, and a product of the people in this game never having really been familiarised with experimentation and the scientific method.
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If I remember there wasn't anything that needed to be done on our end, if your account qualified it was just done. Is it possible you have more than one account?
I would've done the same thing had I been in your situation
Similarly, this kilobyte of text took over half a minute to load and render (on Firefox Mobile). Slower than a 33k modem. Presumably Twitter's attempt to steer me toward using their app for better surveillance.
I say to people that Linux is now the most usable of the big three. And not because it's improved.
The PDF format is suitable for terminal documents, intended to be stored as memories. For exchanges on the web, living text documents are needed, universally recognized by browsers. HTML is an answer. But the father of LISP, John McCarthy, lamented the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML : « An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice. » The {lambda way} project - http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/ - is a reflexion about that, it could be an answer, small and simple, at least a sketch that could be discussed.
Because if a name is not crytopgraphically unguessable, then it's guessable and subject to dictionary, brute force, and other forms of attack.
> Apple has had choice to allow side-loading.

They had that choice, and they've chosen not to. This, on one hand, keeps you from side-loading 2GIS, but on the other hand, keeps seniors' iPhones from crapware (as per TLA).

> That's not the problem with Android

The wider problem is what will happen when your side-loaded APK will need to make a TLS connection to 2GIS website, but its TLS certificate has been declared invalid by the cert authority (because sanctions). Or what will happen when the BGP routing protocol will direct the traffic to 2GIS website to go to a sinkhole (because sanctions). Or what will happen when 2GIS web servers from HP and Dell will be rendered inoperable by a remote command (because sanctions).

> it's funny that Europe pushing for side-loading could potentially help with by-passing sanctions.

No doubt Linux, OpenOffice, and RISC-V will be of tremendous help to Putin's Russia.
> The problem is that as we get older, we tend to value our time differently.

> Eventually you too might say to hell with it

I agree 100% and that's even kind of my point. You're choosing not to care about that stuff, which is fine (honestly, probably even healthy at a certain point), but it's not as if there is some biological imperative that as you age you are less able to use technology.
Well, it's not that much of a problem for me, I just buy the "multi use" ones and use them a single time.. It's just silly, it makes me feel annoyed, because of this, I'm throwing away more plastic than I'd otherwise have.

Also, they pose a safety risk as they are hard and will cause much more damage to mouth and teeth than the softer ones if I stumble while using them.

The problem with plastic in the oceans is very real, not so much because a lot of single-use plastics are made, but because pretty much all plastic is not being properly disposed.

Re-usability may be low, but burn it hot enough and pollution is not a problem, if we did that in developed countries, we can do it responsibly while generating energy much needed for heating purposes.
Its still exponential growth so it will eventually mean all possible useful wind and solar is used up. Then what?
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I disagree.

"kids are unfocused and need someone to focus their attention" is simply not true on its own. I think it needs the caveat of "focus their attention on things they're not interested in".

"Remote learning", or sitting in front of a computer and using it for a few hours in a row, is something many children do willingly and must be pried away from with continual arguments, see video games.

I argue the problem, generally, isn't the fact that students need to sit at a computer, but that remote learning, much like current in-person learning as you say yourself, is simply boring.
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The bigger point is that in case of Lenovo, this “surveillance turf” is part of Xi’s & CCP’s growing digital empire. It’s worse than incompetence and greed, it’s far more serious.
> Every chance to record and shares true facts, we should.

Sure, but it seems to me that we should do so in a controlled and rigorous fashion. A few questions:

- Are we sure that the tests are exactly the same difficulty each year? If not, what is the falloff?

- Who decides the difficulty?

- How do we think about tradeoffs between grasping concepts correctly versus doing test prep?

- Do the increased test scores from 2003 to 2020 actually translate into meaningfully better further education or quality of life on average?

If you are making confident statements about "test scores dropped and this is bad for children", you should know the answers to all these questions.

I feel like most parents handwave this sort of stuff away when it comes to children's test scores and always assume that it's perfect – but would start asking this kind of stuff very quickly, for example, if they were asked to, say, do a similar test as adults to determine what their bonus for last year should be.
> I don't like Android, I don't like iOS. What do I buy ?

Not buying is also a possible decision. You should of course choose this choice if all other available option have a negative net value for you. The fact that you decided for Android or iOS shows that both of these choices have a positive net value for you - so what are you complaining about?
I once worked for a company that transferred low performing engineers to customer service over the phone support rather than firing them. That way they could say they never lay off employees. Which you could argue is better that firing. But working customer support was the worst. They did have excellent phone support though.
Yeah, for backprop you need an error signal (probably not a rope now because it's signed), and to multiply it by the activation (which suggests another seesaw for the multiply), and to bump the connection horizontally proportional to the product. Then fan out the product into the previous layer's error.

I have no experience at mechanical design -- I got to thinking about this out of irritation at a pop-science explanation of neural networks in the New York Times magazine which explained nothing. Could you help people to a real understanding (a basic one) by letting them play with a tiny network in tangible form, where you can see the activations and feel the forces?

I guess making it work with all the details and practicalities would probably end up with the basic parts too complicated, and too many of them for this purpose of learning, but it'd be cool to try.
He does mention that "safety is paramount" and that the light is at low power for now. I'm glad he's not just winging it.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. On hot summer evenings the fireflies were spectacular. The cooler summers of New England meant many fewer fireflies. But, in the past couple of years I have noticed more of them where I now live.
I have a similar anecdote. I had to make a 5 hour drive this weekend up to Raleigh, NC, and for the first time in years, my windshield was dotted with bugs.
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It's gotten a bit better, but I still remember booting up my machine (after not using it for a while), getting a "WOULD YOU LIKE TO UPDATE NOW OR IN 10 MINUTES?" dialog, and sure enough, after 10 minutes, the system force-rebooted, discarding any unsaved work (!), and spent the better part of the hour I had available to finally play a game on installing an update.

Might have been the same update that reset my privacy settings.
I did, but I shouldn't have because I was too lazy to explain what it is.

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<<Forgive me, but you sound like someone who has never needed help from another person, or the help you received you felt you deserved.

That is not accurate. Just the other week I had to pay people do complete a task for me. The task in question I could not do on my own simply due to its nature and my lack of skill in that domain. I absolutely needed help. I fully accept I live in a society and there will be times, where my skills will simply not be enough to face every situation thrown at me.

<<We have a social responsibility to pursue a society where those effects lead to happy, healthy people.

Do we? Why is that thrown as an axiom of some sort? I am looking at the history of human race and the history of various societies is at odds with that statement.

<<If you think you’d rather live in a survival of the fittest jungle there are plenty of countries you can move to.

I am relatively certain I live in one of those countries now ( US ). I think most would argue it is considered part of 'the west'.

<<In the west, we consider the progress away from such things as one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments.

Who is we in this statement? There are entire groups in US devoted to the exact opposite position.
Not practical yet, the novelty is the frequency comb which allows +200 channels across wavelength with only a single laser, where before one required 200 lasers.

In an experiment like this, only the initial light source is modulated and therefore all channels carry the same data. The equipment for the transmitter and receiver chain is so expensive that university labs can barely afford one of each.
Chicago's downtown at least feels like it's coming back. I'm not sure how, I guess a higher percentage of people back in the office compared to a city like SF. My company barely uses our office now but I used it most of last week and surprisingly the mornings felt "normal", there's lines during lunch rush, there were packed bars during happy hour. It honestly felt bustling for the first time in close to three years. It's not back to pre-pandemic levels, but perhaps getting there.
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