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The reference/source to that Wikipedia paragraph is: https://openreview.net/forum?id=yzkSU5zdwD
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Here is the course syllabus: https://apps.cs.utexas.edu/apps/sites/default/files/classes/... There course lecture notes were linked to in the blog post, but also: https://www.scottaaronso
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In one of his videos in Youtube, permaculture farmer Richard Perkins said that mankind has 6000 years of agriculture, but has mostly concentrated plant breeding efforts to annual plants. We mostly eat annuals. (Plants that grow and die in o
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> lessons from Black Mirror and 1984 Those are works of fiction.
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> Now, there is a word “Kari” in several South Indian languages but it’s used to mean spicy sauce or “kadipoda” which means spice mix, both derived from “black” in reference to the use of black peppercorns. Is this the same word as &quot
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You can get a digital copy of the book easily https://www.google.com/search?q=Sled+Driver+pdf
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> Some of the oldest human remains ( possibly the oldest ) in North America are actually on Santa Rosa Island There are several sites indicating human presence in North America 20 000 - 30 000 years ago, inferred from campsites and broke
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> as you can employ the same argument with fossil fuels No you can't. "Let's burn oil/gas/coal and then re-capture all the CO2 back" is not something that you can do feasibly, economically, and at scale.
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> How? Like this: > The thing it that synthetic fuels are cyclic. We collect the emitted CO2 again.
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> Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established. Yes, and they reduce CO2 emissions.
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> Maybe the commenter does not share the opinion that climate change should be addressed by reducing emissions. There really isn't any other way to address climate change than by reducing emissions.
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> "I don't know, sir, but one day you may be able to tax it". You can't just take any and every topic of research and apply this quote to it. There are always more potential research topics than there is research fund
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> The Standard Model has some issues but it's, in principle, a valid effective description of all the fundamental forces minus gravity. Yes. Theoretical particle physics has done a wonderfully good job in explaining everything it ca
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> I think the basis for this feeling is that people keep moving here. We feel it when traffic gets worse A city in Japan would build new dense neighborhoods and a new commuter rail line to serve them. A city in California would refuse to
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And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35265569
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> Not just the zoning issues, these can be solved... Those are difficult to solve California, and near impossible in San Francisco.
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Aperiodic Tiling with a Single Shape(leisureguy.wordpress.com)
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> I have spent probably too much time trying to gain a comfortable level of proficiency with LaTex and I have not been able too. I got quite comfortable with LaTeX after I read a book. For me it was the Kopka & Daly book. Maybe these
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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/01/30/future-factory/
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> The same thing happens in Saudi Arabia where they had some amazing results by (oversimplified, yes), digging some swales and putting some rocks on steep hills. The grass was coming back, trees were growing. And that's it, cut, no
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_pump I don't think that Wikipedia page makes a good job in communicating how controversial and outside of mainstream that theory is. Here is a 2020 Science article which
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> The general problem of "AI"s being trained on copyrighted content > The current (legal) answer is "unclear". European Union was ahead of times for once. The 2019 copyright directive, article 4, makes it legal to
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> uhh, we are moving into a very bad place I predicted few years ago According to Peter Zeihan, if Russia were to win in Ukraine, they would continue and Poland might be next. But because modern Russia is so bad at war, a Nato-Russia con
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In the beginning of the movie "Margin Call" (2011), why is Eric Dale, head of risk management, laid off by the bank?
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The Pragmatic Programmer book, published 1999, calls this "tracer bullets". Topic 12 in the book.
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> The Kepler equation is relatively simple compared to other equations re-discovered by ML. But the ML was given, as input, the locations of the planets already in the solar system level Cartesian (x,y,z) coordinates. I am skeptical that
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> How so? They don't fit the definition [1,2,3]. But I looked at the internet, and apparently many people consider neural nets to be statistical models, or "a kind of" statistical models. [1] https://en.wikipedi
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> I take Chomsky's points to be the following: 1. Statistical language models have had engineering success, but that is irrelevant to science. Well, deep neural nets are not statistical models, so shouldn't Chomsky now be at le
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> At the Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium held during MIT's 150th birthday party So 12 years ago. (The page doesn't have dates, and the links are broken.)
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> Most companies running ML in production need a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2 data scientists to engineers. At bigger companies like Stitch Fix, the ratio is more like 1:10 — way more efficient Did you write these wrong way round, maybe? Or are y

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