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Interesting work. I would have expected the data visualization README to have an example of what you seen when it runs.
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Vivaldi's business model was primarily Patreon. He also had a steady side hustle teaching music and composing for the local orphanage's renowned orchestra and choir. #SoPure Vivaldi first went viral with his album "The Harmon
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In context it reads as parent disagreeing with grandparent's statement that a "leader [who] cannot emotionally bear to give up engineering work and focus on leadership work… signals a lack of maturity" by saying "[Musk s
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I'm sick of "but Elon Musk does X." Yes, the guy's exceptional. That literally means not representative , outside the normal rule or distribution. So like a black swan, you can point to him and say "proof X is poss
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While most of the random starting weights converged quickly, this one got stuck with a fairly incorrect worldview, so to speak: ![data=blueberries in center ringed by strawberries; model=top and bottom third red, middle third blue instead o
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Sub Brief is another good channel: - how submarine systems work: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9K78gj2FP2fDVRu_Bkc... - sonar acoustic signal analyses: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9K7
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There's so-called "nuclear breakout time" for how quickly a non-nuclear nation could create nuclear weapons.[1] Time for a similar "slaughterbot breakout time."[2] However unlike with nuclear weapons, this is someth
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> You start to put some teeth into laws where people are facing serious consequences for bullying and pushing people to suicide Counterpoint: kids aren't all neurologically and socially developed enough to understand life-altering c
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Agreed. That's probably because of just how much manual work went into it: "Each song [representative of other songs in its group] is analyzed by a musician in a process that takes 20 to 30 minutes per song. Ten percent of songs a
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Stand-ups can be a drag. My last stand-ups were literally 3-5 minutes, which I attribute to everyone working on long-running project where we all either knew what "Today I'll be fooing the bar" meant or knew it wasn't im
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> they think an algorithm can decide better what I want to see than me myself I agree with your points, except I believe there is a limited role for algorithms that help users discover new things they might like but not know about. I pre
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A basic site, sure, but eminently readable. Kudos!
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To me it's respectful. People on a bus or train can't really leave, so they'd have to listen to your conversation (until headphones, that is).
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> it's just too easy and morally dishonest Again, we're back to this being less about fixing the problem and more about controlling behavior.
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To state the obvious, in case we're talking past each other: terraforming other planets (i.e. Mars) is certainly not a way out of our climate problems on Earth. I meant that the tech to fix Earth will help us on other planets—a one-w
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> no real long term application That's just not being creative enough. Terraforming other planets to be more Earth-like is the most obvious long-term application, but there are certainly much more near-term applications for advances
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> For the truly terrible people, you really shouldn't need a code of conduct to kick them out. Good point, often overlooked. Though I hear the creak of an opening door to "we just don't like you" culture-fitting exclu
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Less fluffy article than expected—worth a skim. Some excerpts: > The workplace is so important to be able to create either a sanctuary for some, where they can have peace and quiet[1], and for others to have the sense of energy, belongin
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I think we just don't appreciate it as much here. It doesn't add to the conversation other than to indicate that 1: the author disagrees (but may feel they can't do so directly), and 2: the author is clever (which of course i
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To be clear, they are not currently—nor have they ever—landed on the Moon. better: s/Is Using/Will Use/ best: s/Is Using/Intends to Use/
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> "The 'practice of engineering' means any act … that requires the application of engineering principles" Error: cycle detected. ^__^ Software is by its very nature systematic and quantifiable. Is the quibble with whe
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Stripe focused on, built, and has amazingly mostly maintained goodwill and good word of mouth among developers. The others haven't focused on that. BrainTree was decent a few years ago, but PayPal acquired them and that seemed to drain
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Exactly! AI, there's your goal, now bridge that gap. Even non-ML software is capable of surprising its designers with so-called "emergent behavior" so creativity is possible. The Starcraft II AI AlphaStar (which as I unders
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> I've actually wondered if most people might not need to be protected from unregulated content in the same way that people need to be protected from exposure to lead, radon gas, etc. Yes, but that means deciding which content is
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That's absurd. How did they not run afoul of false advertising laws? (Oh, that federalregister.gov link says "The RLDWA revised the definition of lead free.") My layperson expectations: • "low-X": < 1/3 is
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A general goes to the commander of a group of soldiers and says "In 3 months, I want them to be able to demo the "march in formation" feature in front of the big-wigs who decide whether to give us more funding." So the c
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> We actually got featured on the Today show for it a few months ago. AMA? How did you get featured on the Today show? Who initiated that?
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I might quibble that the troglodyte doesn't know the drone operator's location, but I think we agree on the larger point: privacy and surveillance are about power and vulnerability. Surveillance increases the vulnerability of thos
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With modern surveillance, no longer can the watched watch the watchers. Being under reciprocal social surveillance may have been the norm for humans, meaning living in tight-knit villages or open floor-plan, multi-generation homes—situati
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While we're dreaming… serving officials (and anyone they can't be compelled to testify against) should have to, before taking office: 1. Disclose their income and assets, and keep doing so each year while in office 2a. Put

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