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by randcraw 7y ago
'Grounded' means the plane could not take off. It was on the ground and must remain there. Landing a deal (or a fish) is like landing a plane. A human acts to cause a desired outcome. Unlike forcing a pilot to involuntarily lan
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by randcraw 7y ago
'Landing' an aircraft does not imply shooting it down. 'Downing' an aircraft does imply that. These uses of 'land' and 'down' are military euphemisms for the use of force to compel a reluctant pilot
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by randcraw 7y ago
1) The pilot [voluntarily] brought down his aircraft. 2) The pilots [involuntarily] brought down their aircraft [because some authority figure(s) forced them down.] The active verb 'land' can be performed by different actors: pilo
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by randcraw 7y ago
I think it's the more disruptive forms of curiosity that are actively discouraged -- where you publicly question whether a fundamental fact is wrong and suggest that it be corrected before we proceed with sopme standard operating proce
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by randcraw 7y ago
I'd say popular magazine articles and research articles share similar demerits, just from different perspectives. The popular article is shallow and broad and overspimplified while the research article is deep and narrow and usually o
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by randcraw 7y ago
Yes to both. Doesn't 'fundamental' often span a wide range, from bottom-up to top-down? Surely CS fundamentals lie not only at the bottom (e.g. assembly language or discrete math or algorithms), but also at the top (e.g. pro
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by randcraw 7y ago
If design patterns don't overlap in a major way with objects then something is very wrong. Re-use of design (concepts and implementation) lie at the heart of both initiatives.
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by randcraw 7y ago
K&R C is a minimalist introduction to the C language. And I love it for that. The book does not try to forewarn you of the myriad pitfalls inherent in C code. Nor does it delve into the language's extended API available via a ple
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by randcraw 7y ago
Reading tech books requires that you frequently stop and think, and work problems or write code. This slows the read speed significantly. At slowest, reading math can take 30 minutes or more per page. Likewise, if you intend to ace an exa
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by randcraw 7y ago
I have one of these, but honestly haven't used it enough to assess it. It seems well made and bright enough to make a difference without being intolerable. I think it draws 14 watts. Verilux HappyLight VT43 Luxe 10,000 Lux LED Bright
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by randcraw 7y ago
One of the first rules you learn when working for the US military is, if your kick doesn't go between the goalposts... find a way to move the goalposts. Every military contract/mission officer wants one thing: to claim success for
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by randcraw 7y ago
I don't think the average driver employs rationality when scanning the road. I think their attention is governed simply by probability. 99% of activity on the road are moving cars and trucks. So drivers look for moving cars and truck
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by randcraw 7y ago
More appropriately (since armor won't protect you from a two ton SUV), do you wear bright colors, reflective tape, and night-time illumination when walking? The answer from any smart pedestrian certainly should be yes, but it's su
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by randcraw 7y ago
I scanned the article. The authors make no claim that they reversed a year of cognitive decline. Nor did they assess the health of the subjects at any earlier date in order to compare post-treatment performance to that pre-treatment perfo
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by randcraw 7y ago
Agreed. In industry, if you want to work in R&D or climb the technical ladder, the PhD is a clear win -- as long as your expertise area is regarded favorably. If it's not, you've largely wasted 3-5 years of your life. Worse,
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by randcraw 7y ago
Yes, the 4th and 14th amendments are most often cited, but others also apply. For more see here... http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightof... https://injury.findlaw.com&#
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by randcraw 7y ago
Maybe 'fuzzy set' categorization would be better than 'deterministic'?
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by randcraw 7y ago
Trusting Mayo a bit to do the right thing here, I believe they will rein in Google's lust for reselling personal data, and limit the partnership to providing labeled data Google will use to train their latest pattern recognizers. I sus
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by randcraw 7y ago
Seems like AI-as-a-service would just delegate the AI objective function (OF) to someone else. But unless demand for smart services ignites into a business value multiplier (like elimination of existing human labor, maybe), I don't se
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by randcraw 7y ago
It seems to me the heart of this discussion is objective functions -- the goals of parent organizations and emergent 'AIs' being created within their R&D departments. It's not clear that the current goals are coherent, t
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by randcraw 7y ago
An alternative form of downvote is to reply with a negative comment. This makes a lot of sense since upvotes imply that you agree with all or most of the post while a downvote reveals nothing about what part of the post you dislike or why.
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by randcraw 7y ago
Agreed. I think the purpose of papers like this is not to advocate for the therapy today, but to encourage scientists and research funding figures to more seriously investigate the phenomenon. As others here have noted, the past studies ha
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by randcraw 7y ago
Most people have trouble even taking a pill regularly. And that's painless. Regularly self-inflicting pain like hunger for 40+ hours at a time has absolutely no hope of becoming a standard therapy in medicine. The percentage of pati
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by randcraw 7y ago
No and yes. No doctor will take the time to read through your original raw log full of narrative and commentary. But if you're recording instrumented values like daily blood glucose, blood pressure, temperature, etc, and you extract
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by randcraw 7y ago
Right now most jobs using ML do marketing or advertising. Fewer deal in image analysis, voice recognition or generation, or signal processing. But soon more jobs are likely to use ML to make mainstream apps, services, and tools more fault
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by randcraw 7y ago
The small gas tank was needed for the car to qualify for a California tax break as an electric car rather than being a hybrid. https://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/28/why-the-bmw-i3-has-such-...
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by randcraw 7y ago
You expect owning an electric car to be different, yet Teslas also have the very systems you mention will wear out -- brakes, electric bits, etc -- making them comparably consumable to any ICE or hybrid, especially after 20 years of daily d
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by randcraw 7y ago
My greatest regret with the rise of Amazon is the fall of used bookstores. No pastime compares to browsing a hole in the wall bookshop with creaky floors and narrow passageways where books of every variety climb the walls as far as the eye
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by randcraw 7y ago
After a couple decades of verbal swordplay on the net, I have to agree that slaying trolls has lost its allure. I've learned that a frontal assault on a paragraph errant just isn't that compelling to write or read. In heaven and
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by randcraw 7y ago
It's hard to imagine that any discussion of Koch's legacy won't be political, which is something HN's moderators generally prefer to avoid.

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