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by jungturk 2y ago
The president appoints new bosses at all the executive branch agencies, and those bosses approve the access. Several recent news stories have described situations where the agency head resisted and was removed.
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by jungturk 2y ago
This video w/ Dr Iva Fuentes, from two weeks ago, spends a few segments on the breakdown of the equivalence principle w/ quantum clocks. https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc?t=4006&si=Ykt0JDqEKk1ObMp3 Video notes have
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by jungturk 2y ago
For at least some of the investors, a successful exit doesn't require building a profitable business.
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by jungturk 2y ago
Sorry, my point was to (almost facetiously) interject the topological concept of "boundary/bulk" correspondence (as also exists with holograms & AdS/CFT) rather than suggesting the correctness of AdS/CFT. The id
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by jungturk 2y ago
Perhaps "outside" means "resident on the boundary of", a la holograms and Maldecena's AdS/CFT work, and so still within reach of experiment?
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by jungturk 3y ago
Right - in that story that requisite process has slunk into the background - that "everything is chopping wood" means something quite different to someone who has read all the scrolls, and counseled all the kings, and attained the
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by jungturk 3y ago
PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder are very different scenarios, so it wouldn't be surprising that treatments for one wouldn't be effective for the other. The initial data looks promising in this case, so it'll be interest
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by jungturk 3y ago
> now wondering...if there's some conserved quantity in the neural network that is _directly analagous_ to conserved quantities in physics Isn't the model attempting to conserve information during training? And isn't info
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by jungturk 3y ago
https://www.budgetrewards.com/ Free for a couple months, run by a husband/wife duo as a small business, lots of budgeting in addition to the basic account dashboard and transaction syncing you expect.
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by jungturk 3y ago
_Will be_ available. Rollout is happening slowly. Tesla's supercharger map shows which stations are open to non-Teslas so far: https://www.tesla.com/findus?v=2&bounds=66.26595543136888%2C...
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by jungturk 3y ago
Most larger companies will use treasury management software within their finance organization to handle these issues (asset mix, risk, prediction, transfer, etc...). Scanning the players will show you how some of them solve some of the prob
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by jungturk 3y ago
The downside applies to "heavy vehicles" more generally, which includes most battery-bearing EVs in addition to most pickup trucks and SUVs driven in the US.
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by jungturk 3y ago
The article isn't a WaPo assessment of the causes of the increases - it's relaying statements and changes made by participating insurance carriers. "At least five large U.S. property insurers...have told regulators that extre
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by jungturk 3y ago
That's because its inordinately expensive to prove that a motive contributed directly so we resort to heuristics. This asymmetry is well understood and exploited for disinformation purposes (though there's often some collateral da
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by jungturk 3y ago
My very first intern software engineering job was at 7th Level and it was absolutely surreal walking through the QA lab during my interviews and seeing umpteed buggy animatronic Barney toys going through their test loops.
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by jungturk 3y ago
Thinking about depth: Using it to present stacks of information (version history, undo/redo chain) Using it to render background information that doesn't need to be swapped into the foreground to be useful - the architecture/
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by jungturk 3y ago
I was just poking that the parable ignores that the iterative side also requires an additional element - a target state to converge to over time, whatever that may be - repetition isn’t sufficient.
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by jungturk 3y ago
This parable elegantly explains how McDonald's came to offer the world's best hamburger.
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by jungturk 4y ago
> "Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet." This is subtitle of the article, just above the byline, so I suspect he's talking about how impressive the demonstration was to him.
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by jungturk 4y ago
More interesting to me than the analogizing of computer science to alchemy is the power dynamic he highlights in the applied sciences - namely the tendency for the craft to acquire and distribute power outside of (and even contrary to) the
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by jungturk 4y ago
The metric they're less desirable against might not be an obvious one?
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by jungturk 4y ago
Not a plug-in hybrid, and not data, but I'm down 5-10% total range after 80k miles over 6 years in a plug-in (full) electric vehicle.
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by jungturk 4y ago
I've got one in my garage, and a shitload of TSLA in my portfolio. They're an engineering marvel, and I'm proud of the employees of Tesla that pulled it off, and I'm happy its a product of American manufacturing. But its
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by jungturk 4y ago
> if you accept the assumption that consciousness is biological The poster wasn't making that assumption - they're stating the implications of those who do.
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by jungturk 4y ago
I've used Jaxx (now Jaxx Liberty) for many years for a local (Mac) wallet. Many coins, no maintenance issues so far. https://www.jaxx.io/downloads
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by jungturk 4y ago
Because being representative of the community you serve is useful in establishing credibility.
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by jungturk 4y ago
A sustainable process that can evolve healthy brains is the source of consciousness.
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by jungturk 4y ago
On further exploration, attention schema theory does a good job of connecting the dots - with the layers being biology, neurology, psychology (which then hosts the elements of AST that produce the claims/experiences of consciousness)
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by jungturk 4y ago
I agree with your two statements: > Essentially everything is an example of emergence and this is no different. > There's no magic behind it, just mystery because we don't understand it. But I still believe there's a ha
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by jungturk 4y ago
He also mentions he's on a corp-to-corp arrangement, which means the "employer" is invoiced by the "employee"'s company. The pay is likely going to an LLC via its EIN rather than to a person (him/her) via

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