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I'm glad the climate is simple enough that we can approximate it as a simple linear system

Bangladesh has to worry about rain-fed flooding on top of coastal flooding

Bonds usually have a maturity date

Most deep learning algorithms were discovered decades ago, so it's debatable that it was a driving factor behind the 2010s revolution. Backpropagation dates from 1986, convolutional neural nets from 1989 (neocognitrons), LSTMs from the late 90s...

For reference, the poorest quintile in the US earns 35k and the richest 230k (and the gap is widening), according to https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56575

Reminds me of The Great Silence by Ted Chiang, a short story written from the point of view of a parrot inhabiting the tropical forests of costa Rica :

"The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they've created an ear capable of hearing across the universe. But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren't they interested in listening to our voices? We're a nonhuman species capable of communicating with them. Aren't we exactly what humans are looking for?"

https://vimeo.com/195588827

Telegram tried to create their own cryptocurrency _twice_ : Gram which was cancelled due to the SEC cracking down on unregistered ICOs and TOM which is no longer affiliated with Telegram at all.

That is just sad.

I've been a longtime signal user (since the textsecure/redphone days). I've always given moxie a pass on his controversial decisions (no federalisation, no 3rd party clients, no fdroid repo, relying on Google play services, being slow to release serverside source code) because the team was small and obviously had to cut corners somewhere.

But learning that they spent their time adding support for a (premined?) cryptocurrency just because it's Moxie's pet project is disheartening. What are the odds that this would've been merged into the project if it had been a merge request opened by someone from the outside?

Are Tesla employees a representative sample of the Californian population?

There's also the fact that the more often you look at your portfolio, the less likely you are to see it go up (assuming typical returns and volatility). Something like ~51% if you look at it every hour vs ~70% if you look every month. Taleb uses that example in Fooled by Randomness.

In case others are struggling to watch this through reddit's video player, the person connected IR LEDs to a battery and taped them to sunglasses.

Corporations aren't replicators though (thankfully).

After-hours is a bad indicator.

It closed today at 194. Anyone who bought shares since Wednesday morning's peak of 300 is in the red.

It's not just about the processing. To match human vision, cameras would need to be able to swivel and to adjust their focus extremely quickly. Animal eyes are a lot more than static cameras.

You'd have more luck searching for videos of FGM-148 launches. It's smaller and ground-based but works similarly.

The number of bitcoins available (disregarding lost/forgotten ones) is fixed at 21M, and the rate at which they are created is more or less constant (by design), so anti-mining regulations will not increase scarcity. If anything, restricting the network hash rate will make the network less secure and thus less valuable

>Imagine if we rolled out robot policemen who only executed black people for no reason at the same rate as humans do.

Human cops still have to do the killing for now, but that's called predictive policing

>airplanes dialed back the functionality of autopilots to prevent pilot complacency.

Or maybe because the potential for disaster is too great, like the 737 max attempting to nosedive into the ocean because of a single sensor failure.

Reminds me of an interview a cosmologist from my university gave to the CBC around the time the higgs boson was confirmed by the CERN. When asked about real world consequences of the discovery, he answered "None."

Tesla's worst year (2017) had them at -3.5B$ cash flow. Apple has 200B$ in cash reserves. With that kind of money they could afford to purchase an existing car company and sustain similar losses for a few decades.

Right. To me cyberpunk is about what happens when extreme wealth inequality is coupled to extreme technological advances such that the richest are immortal (for all practical purposes) and don't need the 99% since all production has been automated and any attempt at a revolution is made futile by military drones

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

>Hiring more people might not get the same amount done as a few working really hard.

That is highly dependent on when the new employee is added to the project. If it's done early (as a result of proper planning), it's most likely not gonna hurt.

Why would you ever sign an employment contract that does not even mention overtime?

They make _far_ more money from mining all the data your device sends them about you. The secret sauce for Android is the proprietary Google Play Services package that contains all the APIs that make the device usable (and enables the snooping). The base open source Android OS is limited in functionality.

Isn't TSMC building a fab in AZ? Anyway I'd say the "spice" in semiconductor production is rare earth elements, since the CCP controls most of their extraction (and has artificially lowered exports in the past)

If you're spending a lot of time reading, I'd suggest getting something work an e-ink display. It's much easier on the eyes

Is it climate change? Is it because the stock market went up 10%? Because Saturn's orbit crossed it's periphelion? Or more seriously, could it just be the Hawtorne effect?

As you pointed out, without a control group, you cannot claim that any change in your measurements are due to anything. The fact that the researchers do attribute it to fasting is just bad science and makes me doubt the rest of their findings.

>[...] we conducted a pilot study in 14 subjects with metabolic syndrome who fasted (no eating or drinking) from dawn to sunset for more than 14 h daily for four consecutive weeks. [...] Further studies are needed to test the intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset in the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome-induced cancers.

That's the gist of it.

Did it ever have a single meaning? Every company I've been through had a different definition of what "AI engineering" should be