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121.
by ced 9y ago
True, but there's probably 10 times more young men who would like to be professional footballers than professors.
122.
by ced 9y ago
> I'd argue that the actual solution to global warming will be more akin to "stepping out of the way": people will evacuate from major cities, major cities will be destroyed, And the people too poor to evacuate will stick
123.
by ced 9y ago
That's one hell of an inflection point. What happened in ~2005? Was it the 2008 economic crisis?
124.
by ced 9y ago
> Those Pensions and Wages were not sustainable. Why were the wages not sustainable?
125.
by ced 9y ago
Sadly, Canada's immigration officials can be just as invasive, though it's still up to each officer's discretion/prejudice.
126.
by ced 9y ago
The paper says that the input is video + the set of sprites used in each game. This simplifies the problem quite a bit. I tried to work from screenshots of Mario to recover the sprites, and it was a surprisingly challenging problem.
127.
by ced 9y ago
Julia has had a good REPL since its inception, (along with the awesome Jupyter notebooks). It also allows live code replacement (eg. Revise.jl).
128.
by ced 9y ago
I'd like to understand this better. There's two villages. A businessman from village B comes to village A and buys a store from Bob for 100$. Bob keeps the money for a rainy day. Where is debt increasing?
129.
by ced 9y ago
Most of us have never been on the receiving end of mass hatred, though. Those laws came on the heels of WWII which was, to put it mildly, terrible to a certain hated group of people.
130.
by ced 9y ago
Julia has export statements to make things public. You can always access the non-exported parts, yes, but that's true with _ variables in Python too (we're all adults and all that).
131.
by ced 9y ago
Yes; Julia isn't unique in being a modern high-level high-performance language. But it's the only one I know that explicitly targets numerical computing, and it chooses its trade-offs accordingly.
132.
by ced 9y ago
Julia boasts performance as fast as that of languages like C or Fortran, and is still simple to learn. I think the greatest benefit is that Julia code is both high-performance and (mostly) high-level, which makes it easy to change. I don&
133.
by ced 9y ago
Not that I doubt it - heard similar tales in Chile - but do you have specific events in mind?
134.
by ced 9y ago
Raymond Chen from Microsoft on maintaining backward compatibility from Windows 95 to Windows XP: Look at the scenario from the customer's standpoint. You bought programs X, Y and Z. You then upgraded to Windows XP. Your computer now c
135.
by ced 9y ago
It seems to be pretty strict, eg. Example of prohibited advertising: The Rappido Company is advertising a remote-controlled toy car like one seen in an animated film. The advertisement is broadcast on Saturday morning on a T
136.
by ced 9y ago
I don't know about other provinces, but "In Québec, the Consumer Protection Act prohibits commercial advertising directed at children under 13 years of age." https://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/media&#x2
137.
by ced 9y ago
In many higher density areas, public transport tends to be okay. Apart from NY and SF (?), what other areas are you thinking of?
138.
by ced 10y ago
Given that we can record how much fuel was put in, and how fast the motor was spinning at each point in time, why can't you model how much fuel is left in the tank? Is fuel consumption-to-motor-use very variable?
139.
by ced 10y ago
What's the gist of it?
140.
by ced 10y ago
which term do "we" have control of exactly? also... define "we"? I initially wrote "I" instead of "we", and I should have stuck with that formulation. I have control over my own emissions. Climate c
141.
by ced 10y ago
Why not? Even assuming that the runaway is unstoppable, that's a fixed quantity. The final outcome will be runaway CO2 + everyone else's CO2 + our CO2 and we've got control over one of these terms.
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by ced 10y ago
As someone with no Rust experience... a) access to invalid memory regions, b) dangling pointers and attempts to free already freed memory, c) memory leaks and, d) race conditions. The first three benefits also come with essentially an
143.
by ced 10y ago
That's interesting. Would you mind going into specifics? Are you American? How long have you been there, and what are the main challenges? I see you're in Beijing. I lived in Kunming, and it did seem like a pretty appropriate plac
144.
by ced 10y ago
These people usually choose these jobs because they're the best option available. I'd rather lower my lifestyle, send as much as I can towards development NGOs, and vote for candidates trying to build mutually beneficial trade agr
145.
by ced 10y ago
I'd be curious to see the back-of-the-napkin math behind this.
146.
by ced 10y ago
Certainly -- I can name a dozen, each of them demonstrated using scientific methods. Asbestos. Ionizing radiation. Sunlight. Tobacco. And so forth. Each of these can be shown to cause health issues in vitro as well as in vivo -- using prop
147.
by ced 10y ago
Can you name one source of pollution suspected of causing health issues, that meets the criterion of falsifiability from evidence? It seems to me that as soon as behaviour X is suspected of killing people, it becomes unethical to do a contr
148.
by ced 10y ago
What's agent modelling?
149.
by ced 10y ago
Please do. That was a lot of interesting material, and the tone was unfortunate.
150.
by ced 10y ago
Do you know about expected utility? Optimal behaviour (of any kind) can be framed as "At each step, pick the action that maximizes your expected utility." So, for instance, you might study hard tonight because it'll lead you

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