AutumnCurtain

Somewhat reminiscent of the Watts Towers or the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Towers?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hampton_%28artist%29?wpr...

It outright states meritocracy is wrong...

I fear there is a whole new industry of worker surveillance emerging with the rise of remote work, like the already-implemented constant photos of the user's face via Webcam. Makes my skin crawl.

Particularly in the era of remote work, I anticipate LA moving towards a denser downtown and West Side and relying on expanded suburbs in the inland empire and OC to provide the classic single family housing neighborhoods for those who want them.

For Tenet specifically, lots of dialogue without masks was still nearly inaudible on my home theater, while gunplay was deafening. It's not a mask issue, or at least not exclusively - it's an audio mix issue. There are scenes with just two unmasked people that were inaudible to me without having the background sounds painfully loud.

The more I study the history of writing systems, the clearer it becomes what a tremendous organizational and cultural advantage it is to be able to commit thoughts to stone/papyrus/whatever media you choose.

It's really something to think that this treatise from 1500BC accurately documents the current medical recommendation for dealing with guinea worms. Sometimes a simple mechanical solution is all you need (for millenia)

It seems beyond charitable to call him an Indiana Jones type to be honest, it glamorizes and romanticizes a man who spent his life bribing officials and robbing graves for his personal satisfaction.

I once recognized a former football teammate from the stands years later when he was in full pads and helmet just from how he ran onto the field. No doubt an AI could be even more accurate, which is why I recommend wearing a mask and riding a hoverboard everywhere.

It is a "pugio", a sort of small dagger sidearm for Roman soldiers. I can't think of any reason to refer to it as a short sword in English as that conjures up the image of a much larger weapon. These are essentially the same as the daggers used to kill Julius Caesar, for example.

Yeah, it's the sort of exercise that people do when they're trying to establish good habits (and in this case maybe diet? She's eating very lightly). Seems very much in the "Think and Grow Rich" tradition

I still have a freebie shirt they gave me in like 1994. Who knew it would outlast them

>In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_%28sociolinguistics%2...

Of all the things to doubt in the Bible the ability to cover yourself with a fig leaf is not a major one for me

I have a DX7IID that has been in constant use since it was built in the late 80s and aside from a single battery replacement it's still in perfect condition. They are extremely durable.

The memoir "Indian Boyhood" by Dr. Charles Eastman gives excellent examples of this. He describes life in his native American tribe as alternating between the best life can offer and desperation / extreme discomfort. They did little to no work in spring and summer but faced constant warfare and often bitter winters, not to mention the risks involved in hunting large game. He notes how they lived at all times just moments from calamity but didn't live in fear per se.

This is also how my two year old likes to spend his time. What a charming idea, and how wonderful to see them embrace it in a productive way.

>Also shows that when the USA prevented people in nursing homes from even going outside (to get sun exposure) it was the worse thing they could have done.

Is this something you feel is supported by the article or is this your own synthesis? And if it's the latter what sources led you to that conclusion?

I guess I don't ascribe particularly high value to the category of games, I think even very simple games designed to take money from the player count. But I do agree on the mobile vs PC divide broadly in terms of what's on the market. I would actually cite Civ as a series that's still trying hard to do engaging things, in the form of constant but varied puzzles with intellectual complexity which reward planning and forethought.

The lesson for me from modern mobile games and microtransaction models is that addictive gameplay is actually distinct from engaging gameplay and very few modern developers are focusing on the latter. It seems to be very nearly the exclusive domain of indies nowadays.

A "wash trade" is a trade which generates no value because it represents a swap in kind. For example, if I sell a broad market ETF like VTI and buy a nearly identical asset at the same price from a different firm, that could be a "wash trade" for tax purposes (simplifying this, but this is basically the gist). In the context of crypto transactions, it's typically referring to trades which are just shifting the same assets through a cycle of accounts without representing meaningful transactions. For a crypto real world example, see: https://mobile.twitter.com/MarcusFongNFT/status/145391172161...

>Small town may seem idyllic but they are often hell for that one gay resident.

Precisely. And that enforcement of the orthodoxy often takes far more severe forms than online criticism.

>social media enables the construction and enforcement of intellectual and political orthodoxy.

You hit on it, but this is the crux to me - what makes them think this wasn't possible before? Or, if they did think it possible before, how does voluntary sharing to a community compare with, say, church-driven enforcement of intellectual and political orthodoxy? I agree, there were no good old days on this topic.

Only stalk people in areas where there are only Androids, I suppose, which is pretty much nowhere in US cities at least

Thanks so much for the response! It's really interesting stuff.

>AlphaZero’s neural network evaluation function doesn’t have the same level of structure as Stockfish’s evaluation function: the Stockfish function breaks down a position into a range of concepts (for example king safety, mobility, and material) and combines these concepts to reach an overall evaluation of the position. AlphaZero, on the other hand, outputs a value function ranging from -1 (defeat is certain) to +1 (victory is guaranteed) with no explicitly-stated intermediate steps. Although the neural network evaluation function is computing something, it’s not clear what.

I find it fascinating that we can create something that can "learn" in some sense in a way we don't fully understand. Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of this passage?

This strikes me as a very naive sort of romanticism, as someone who grew up in alternately a very safe and very dangerous locale.

Important to note than a seven year timeline with his calculations would take extreme penny pinching and would yield a fairly low sustainable annual income compared to your previous salary, but it's certainly possible.

1.5 million seems woefully inadequate for just the security element of a pre-established plan.

> The internet voting project is, for reasons unclear, categorized under the Open Source Voting project, despite “open-source” not being mentioned in the grant paperwork, Jerdonek, an open-source voting proponent, says. Open-source voting technology uses public computer code to process paper ballots. It is unrelated to online voting. On Tuesday, San Francisco Supervisors began crafting legislation to conduct a long-awaited open-source voting pilot.

This really concerns me.