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The closest thing I know of is the annual proceedings of Sigbovik. It's a humorous conference traditionally held on April 1st and "was formed in 2007 to celebrate the inestimable and variegated work of Harry Quacksalver Bovik. We especially welcome the three neglected quadrants of research: joke realizations of joke ideas, joke realizations of serious ideas, and serious realizations of joke ideas."

In 2020, there was even a paper about improving the peer review process called "State-of-the-art reviewing: A radical proposal to improve scientific publication"

http://sigbovik.org/

My employer's Outlook does have a button for a competing meeting service. (WebEx)

Some people are starting to use Teams for their meetings now because some of them like it better than WebEx, but it is exactly the same amount of effort to schedule either of them directly from Outlook.

From what I understand though, generators always have an advantage because the generator is allowed to "see" the discriminator's gradients during training. [0]

>The model for the discriminator is usually more complex than the generator (more filters and more layers) and a good discriminator gives quality information. In many GAN applications, we may run into bottlenecks where increasing generator capacity shows no quality improvement. Until we identify the bottlenecks and resolve them, increasing generator capacity does not seem to be a priority for many partitioners. [1]

Put another way: GAN training ends when the discriminator can no longer meaningfully distinguish real from fake. By definition then, the best generator will have no useful discriminator that can distinguish its output from real data. (conversely, if you did have such a discriminator, you could use it to train a better generator)

[0] https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/gan/generator

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/gan-ways-to-improve-gan-perfo...

I'm not so sure about that being an acceptable solution for civilian transportation… Even assuming automation can eliminate the risks and training overhead associated with in-flight refueling, there are still be some major hurdles that would need to be addressed before this could be considered a viable solution. The 3 big ones that come to mind are:

What happens if the KC-135 misses the rendezvous? What if the charging port fails to work for some reason? What about the carbon footprint of these airborne generators?

Plus, now you have the weight of the capacitors to carry around all the time, further reducing the effective payload.

A lot of infrastructure is funded via bonds already, but the interest rate is fixed instead of tied to a percentage of property tax revenue.

This idea would have more uncertainty for the investors, so they'd want a higher return than for a fixed bond. Taxpayers would be less likely to vote for the measure because it would have to raise their taxes even more than a standard bond.

(that being said, bond measures often take the form of "a 0.2% property/sales tax is to be levied for the next 20 years to pay off the bond", which is actually pretty close to what is being proposed by the GP. The difference is who is left holding the bag if tax revenues don't meet projections)

You're probably talking about MessageEase.

I've been using it for about 7 months now and it's been great. I especially like being able to type complex passwords without looking at my phone's keyboard. (like when joining a new wifi network, for example)

>While the analyses above suggest that SARS-CoV-2 may bind human ACE2 with high affinity, computational analyses predict that the interaction is not ideal and that the RBD sequence is different from those shown in SARS-CoV to be optimal for receptor binding

Sounds like it could evolve to be more transmissible in humans. The more people it infects, the more likely that is to happen.

With that in mind, "flattening the curve" is even more essential.

Medical insurance is more like $1,600+/month for a married couple, even more if you have kids. That's ~$20k/year which brings you down to $85k after tax.

And did you factor-in having to pay both halves of Social Security and Medicare? I believe that's another 15.3% [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/se...

People who reach out to them are probably cheaper than people that Google has to reach out to.

We will spend $479 Billion in interest on the national debt in 2020.

That's >22 NASAs-worth of money, if you care about space exploration. It could be roads or high speed trains or education or healthcare or whatever you care most about.

Instead it's going towards paying interest on debt incurred for cheap political wins in the past...

The Internet of the early 2000s was consumed by greed. What changes would you make to its replacement to prevent the exact same pattern from repeating?

The example I heard that really drove this point home for me is that humans almost all have 10 fingers, and the ones who don't are almost entirely due to the environment (frostbite, table saw accidents, etc) so the number of fingers on a human hand is actually a low-heritability trait.

>What about the free forms is painful?

The first time I used FreeFillableForms, it was also my first time doing taxes manually. Reading all the instructions and then going off and computing whether or not the AMT applies to me, researching whether I was eligible for this and that deduction, etc was very time consuming. I estimate it must have taken me over 12 hours which was definitely not worth my time financially, but I did it anyway as a matter of principle.

THEN I ran into a nasty snag: I had put a "0" in a bunch of the fields that I'd decided didn't apply to me, but the IRS validation script expected those fields to be blank and repeatedly rejected my submissions with cryptic error messages about form validation errors. It takes at least a day to hear back after you submit, so it took me weeks after I was "done" with my taxes before I could figure out the problem and get all the fields changed from zeros to blanks that the IRS needed in order to actually accept my taxes.

>I think people think they are "painful" because they need to read and comprehend more.

That's part of it, but FreeFillableForms is not user-friendly at all. The whole federal tax process is an absolute mess. Doing my state taxes is so much easier, thanks to CalFile doing 99% of the work for me. It's a shining example of what our federal tax returns process should be like.

Sounds like some kind of Witness Protection program.

>So those places seem to breed conversations where people take the time to hear one another and avoid breaking down into pure tribalism.

Another way of looking at it is that in that context, they are interacting as fellow members of their "rec team tribe" rather than as members of competing political tribes. (which they may also be a part of)

Not the OP, and I disagree with their assertion that chickens and bugs are of similar intelligence, but there ARE some very intelligent spiders. (which I know aren't technically "bugs")

>Besides having the capacity to make plans, act on the basis of object permanence, represent specific goals and solve novel problems, Portia often has to confront more than one other spider at the same time. [0]

>Our findings suggest that Portia represents 1 and 2 as discrete number categories, but categorizes 3 or more as a single category that we call ‘many’. [1]

We seem to naturally have a strong tendency to disregard the intelligence and emotional lives of animals. (which if you think about it, was probably strongly selected for at some point in the past)

[0] https://royalsociety.org.nz/news/jumping-spiders-can-count-1...

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsfs.201...

Correct. The city council is elected by residents of the city, and land owners have a strong financial incentive to elect representatives who will limit housing. (The shortage drives-up their property values)

You might think that renters living in the city would eventually outweigh the landowners and elect council members in favor of new housing, but instead SF passed a rent control measure which prevents the current renters from feeling the sting of the housing shortage so they aren't strongly incentivized to vote for more housing either.

No, but it will unlock from just (apparent) proximity which allows the thief enter the vehicle where they are then able to push the "Start" button. Again, the car will think the key is present and will start. At that point, the thief can stop the signal relay and the car will keep running without the key being "present".

Bettridge's Law of Headlines

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...

As much as I hate all the block chain hype, I could see smart contacts facilitating this kind of coordination.

I guess there would still be a discoverability problem, not to mention the very significant risk of putting your money into a scam.

Actually, it's ever so slightly higher than 1/2 because there is a non-zero chance of them being identical twins. If we assume an identical twin incidence rate of 0.4%, then the actual probability would be 63/125 that the second child is also a girl.

I imagine the little guy is going to have a hard time beibg price-competitive with companies that can buy HDDs by the truckload.

It wouldn't make it to production. Multiple design agencies send multiple mockups each to Netflix. Someone at Netflix picks a few that they like and then the original design agency has another set of artists ("Finishers") who made the high-res, non-watermarked, final image.

The problem is, if your source images have watermarks and the competing design agencies' don't, Netflix is going to pick your mockups for finishing less often because they don't look as good. The market selects for design agencies that don't use images with massive watermarks in their mockups.

I've seen some work on using GANs to generate 3D models from single images, but the results aren't particularly high-quality yet.[0]

[0]http://3dgan.csail.mit.edu/

SPAM = the meat product

Spam or spam = unsolicited emails

Game Master

Rudolph's "red nose" actually refers to his uncanny ability to sniff-out communist sympathizers. As you might imagine, Santa simply can't afford delays like labor strikes or communist revolutions.