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> A weak argument founded on poorly-interpreted data is not better than a well-reasoned argument founded on observation and theory. So a good argument is founded on...good data and good understanding of data? The article more seriously
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"Singapore’s founding father thought air conditioning was the secret to his country’s success"[1] AC is an enabler of human productivity. [1] https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-
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The assassination attempt is indeed tragic. As for his being a good person, many would disagree. Unfortunately, both within and without Japan, he is a controversial figure. Even if one takes his armament of Japan in a sympathetic light,
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"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do." -- B F Skinner There is a vitalism[1] streak in some AI commentaries. People cannot quite define or measure human consciousness and yet readily conclude that m
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She said dont be scared Charlie you done so much with so little I think you deserv it most of all. Charlie was a man with a good heart, motivation, and self-awareness, and yet the world was not so kind to him. The story rem
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Summary: 1. Singapore's manufacturing relies on automation. The GDP share of manufacturing has gone up in recent years, reversing the earlier decline; on the other hand, employment in manufacturing actually dropped as a fraction of tot
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I appreciate your expertise and openness to discussion. How much of the business/industry cost is HR/wages, would you say? If the industry is already automated, further attempts to automate would not lead to great cost reduction.
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Indeed, this is my guess although it means I am having considering my colleague as an unreliable narrator (he is not "randomly recalling" as he claims. He is just regurgitating what he saw on his phone earlier in the day). On the
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Happened to me except even more far fetched: I shared a car ride with a friend for 20 min, and my colleague, being knowledgeable in trivia, mentioned an obscure historical figure that I couldn't even spell the last name of. I came bac
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Writing utensils definitely influence scripts. One tidbit I like is the evolution of the Burmese script. The Burmese script was originally square format but became round and cursive due to the popular use of palm leaves (and others) as a m
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The full podcast here: video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNl6Cr1k07c transcript and audio: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/marc-andreessen/
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Good feedback. Took out my hyperbole. Thank you. No intention to demonize Apple in any case.
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Whenever some AirTag news come up, I see the argument that GPS trackers had existed for a while, and they could be purchased readily through AliExpress. The argument implies that additional threat posed by the prevalence of AirTag is non-e
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This is an interesting claim. Could you share a reputable source on your claim that the US weather prediction facility is behind its European counterparts? How does the US depend on Europe for weather predictions?
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Great work! Also, where can I learn about your edge AI smart camera system?
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On a tangent, what distinguishes a successful bot from a poor bot? For many of the arbs, the logic is simple to imitate. I understand there is some infrastructure engineering (having servers close to some node) involved, but besides that,
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> Ethicists and medical officials, including those at the American College of Surgeons, have cautioned that surveilling surgeons to deter malpractice may undermine trust in doctors, hurt morale, violate patient privacy and discourage phy
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Beautifully crafted web page. For any experimental science, the integrity of experiment (thus reliability of data) is important. For experiments with human subjects, the question is whether the subjects answered the questions in good faith
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In your expert opinion, what is Gurobi's edge? The foundational mathematical formulation for solvers has been known for decades. I have read that Gurobi has many heuristics that statistically work well against real world problems. Wh
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>even the current interior point implementation in HiGHS can be unacceptably slow relative to Gurobi (60-100 times slower). Considering that even Gurobi requires a couple of days to solve huge practical problems illustrates that the use
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Decades ago, I did something similar but far cheaper. I hooked up a toy tank's remote to RS232 and started bit-banging through RS232. The bits correspond to the voltage of the RS232 pins, which in turn activates the toy tank's re
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Completely agreed. While I strongly believe in citizen science and people's right (and perhaps obligation) to critique established science, there is just so much poor analyses done by people to criticize some scientific findings they
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A replication crisis indeed exists. All the more reason to analyze rigorously. Poor analyses (and borderline name-calling) in the original article do not help with the crisis.
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The conclusion in the article: > Why so angry? I know I’ve taken this far too personally. I have no illusions that everything I read online should be correct, or about people’s susceptibility to a strong rhetoric cleverly bashing convent
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I noticed that your comment contains no complaint about Gurobi's performance. For comparable problems, was Gurobi superior in solution convergence speed or the quality of the solution itself? Gurobi, AFAIK, is considered the leading e
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Instead of working from a single 2D image as this work does, what is the state of the art for 3D reconstruction from multiple (non-calibrated) images? e.g. some casual shots of an object using my phone.
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I am not as familiar with the state of the art; are there NN frameworks that export the NN model such that it can be run within WASM?
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Does the Navier-Stokes equation model (experimentally observed) turbulence accurately? I was under the impression that this is an open question. Turbulence indeed is high Kolmogorov complexity (w.r.t some reasonable grammar of numerical ma
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by quanto 5y ago
Disheartening is to hear that people view Carter as a nice guy but incompetent. "Nice guys finish last." Perhaps it is ingrained in our Western culture that we expect leaders to be aggressive and aggrandizing. Carter is the only
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Working full-time in prediction markets is exciting. Congrats and thanks for your reply.

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