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by randcraw 4y ago
This likely boils down to how each party feels about the second amendment.
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by randcraw 4y ago
Does this work imply that the same tech could create ultra-high-speed switches that could match this bandwidth, thereby routing and propagating, and not just flow between two points? BTW, congrats on your success.
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by randcraw 4y ago
Voice recognition. Voice generation. Identification of music recordings. Game play (chess, go, poker, etc). Object detection, classification, and identification in images/video. Translation between pairs of natural languages (of c
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by randcraw 4y ago
Yes, left turning cars are my primary fear as a rider. Of course the problem arises during the day too, not just at night. It'd be nice if the OP's research had compared alternative forms of lighting to 'surprise' the o
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by randcraw 4y ago
The iPad boots up in just 1 second. I can do 90% of what I do on a computer on it, at a much more adjustable angle, and it's a lot more portable. A tablet is integrated into my daily routine to a degree a laptop will never be.
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by randcraw 4y ago
If a vendor can't recognize extreme overfitting in their product, don't buy it.
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by randcraw 4y ago
I agree, becoming an expert is too strong. Here's an example. Physicians in the early 1800s were taught many medical practices and concepts that had no basis in fact (the dynamics of Hippocrates' 4 body humors, the value of bleed
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by randcraw 4y ago
K&R 1e, 236 pages K&R 2e, 272 pages King, 832 pages
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by randcraw 4y ago
Software Developers: +26% (change in number of jobs in the next 10 years) Data Scientists: +31% https://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/data-scientists.htm
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by randcraw 4y ago
My laptop is raised to the height of my other monitors by Feynman's boxed set of Lectures on Physics, Aho & Ullman's Foundations of Computer Science, and a Scott Adams compendium. This way my computing is based on a strong fou
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by randcraw 4y ago
The growth of language size in the past 30 years is even more stunning when you compare today's C++ to C, or Java to Pascal (or Object Pascal) from 1990. No modern language can be taught in less than a thousand page textbook. And if
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by randcraw 4y ago
You describe only one reason for choosing a car: utility. But cars are often chosen for other reasons: style, status, some cool factor or compelling feature. UX is generally not a dealmaker, especially since nobody outside the car sees it
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by randcraw 4y ago
There are many possible knobs on such a tool that could be wonderfully useful. I'd love to press a button that provides critical feedback: marking for errors or suggesting improvements for style (grammar, better word choice, useful id
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by randcraw 4y ago
Poor writing is the main cause for the illegibility of referreed science and engineering articles too. Historically this was partly due to publishers' demand that the article be quite short (often < 8-10 pages). Of course, this co
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by randcraw 4y ago
I would have benefitted greatly from taking the author's principles to heart when my career began 30+ years ago. I tend to be destructively critical. It has not served me well. The article makes a couple excellent points: 1) assure t
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by randcraw 4y ago
And if it chooses the wrong prior topic (among several possibilities) the smartbot could behave maddeningly obtusely. I suspect even the best of these today will have little idea what part of the conversation is more relevant to the human&
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by randcraw 4y ago
And the first few seconds of red lights.
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by randcraw 4y ago
I think it's largely because speech recognition operates on only one sentence at a time. If you need to clarify a term said earlier or provide an explanatory phrase describing an earlier one, it can't connect the second utterance
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by randcraw 4y ago
I know essentially nothing about this topic, but it seems likely that some particles are more dangerous than others (though I've seen no suggestion of that). I'd prefer to go after the elephants in the room before the hamsters. T
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by randcraw 4y ago
A lovely image.
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by randcraw 4y ago
All the classic economic models for choice that I've seen fail to consider that the perception of not only risk but reward are BOTH nonlinear. IMO, this has been an Achilles heel of classic price and game theory. The rise of behavior
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by randcraw 4y ago
According to Phillips' book, his main innovation was designing the shaped charges that brought the halves of uranium/plutonium together at the right rate. This he achieved by calling around at Dupont (IIRC) until he found someone
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by randcraw 4y ago
If this web app is less of a resource hog than the Teams app on the Mac, I'll switch to it in a heartbeat. Between Teams and Outlook, M$ consumes over one GB of my mac's RAM. If a browser's memory footprint grows by less th
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by randcraw 4y ago
The problem of mishandling fear affects not only kids. Most adults seem to be very bad at understanding risk vs reward and responding appropriately. (To wit, how should we compare different kinds of risk/reward, like a very severe ri
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by randcraw 4y ago
Bricks and mortar retailers have long been prosecuted for fraud by law enforcement, local or federal. But “marketplace” e-resellers circumvent enforcement because their e-tail hosts (Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba…) don't hold them responsi
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by randcraw 4y ago
Ann Arbor MI closed Main Street for the summer months to allow restaurant patrons to sit outside. I think this began during year 2(?) of covid. This especially makes sense in a college town when the students are away (half the population) a
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by randcraw 4y ago
Yeah, I live about 15 miles outside Philly and don't know anywhere nearby safe enough to ride. Local drivers think nothing of missing you by only a foot or two, often at a speed difference of over 20 MPH. Even offroad spaces set aside
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by randcraw 4y ago
Many similar negative books about AI have preceded this one over the years, perhaps starting with Hubert Dreyfus' "What Computers Can't Do" in 1972. In my experience, few naysayer arguments prove to be the game-stoppers
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by randcraw 4y ago
AKA "self-inflicted robotification"? Yeah, I think the willingness of humans to reduce themselves to a stereotype -- politically, professionally, or socially -- in order to advance themselves (or to just fit in) is a much greater
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by randcraw 4y ago
Bright color is seen as upbeat, happy, optimistic. But we aren't.

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