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How is the international remote scene? Does it exist in big (top paying?) companies in the US? To clarify, can people outside the US be hired to do remote work for US companies?

His article "Am I a genius" is also interesting: http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/a-genius.html

> the main reason for this is that I’ve made no attempt to sell the idea. I simply wrote it up and put it on my website. I suppose that, were I to jump through the appropriate hoops, I could garner more interest for the idea. But that is beneath my pride; I am a thinker, not a salesman. I refuse to promote myself. I put the idea before the world and the world can take it or leave it. The world mostly leaves it.

I've heard some other people blaming a lack of "sales" for their ideas not spreading. As if you can not sell. Any sort of presentation is sales, if your product or idea is out there, it is selling itself.

Maybe the focusing on sales would, ironically, bring the understanding of what people find impressive in ideas, in games or products, and it might be completely different from what we thought before.

I have absolutely no problem with accepting proof of superiority in some area. I will listen to demonstrated expertise. But what is the proof of knowledge in "spirituality"?

Who used VB macros in old ms word?

I've read a wonderful paper on what information people use when driving, it is pretty similar to this driving simulation. The basic cue is "where you will be in T milliseconds", extrapolated using the current vehicle velocity, and trying to keep that point on the road by steering and throttling. Here is that paper, A unifying theory of driver perception and steering control (2019) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337024514_A_Unifyin...

Well, it is stil a matter of research of how to maintain anonymity, and the best ones are keeping their secrets.

The original article has the same error in the title. x^(-1/2) is the reciprocal square root. The fault is with math notation where rasing x to a negative power, i.e. x^-a means 1/(x^a); while inverse function F(x) is written F^-1(x). The inverse square root would be just square. Edit: I saw it called multiplicative inverse of the square root

Those videos are amazing. Analog computers are computing by analogy, eg. rotation speed represents variable A, and the roatation position represents the integral of A. Programming an analog computer means setting up an analog of a system of differential equations, then the system computes the solution.

My thoughts too, amazing machines! To start one in MockMachines, we would need an integrator...

> Could I achieve the same results with one of the three methods for example?

I don't see why the researchers would lump all three treatments together into the intervention group.

There is this, seems to suggest cold exposure: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.14814/phy2...

One option is starting to learn about DL from the big picture, then filling in the details as you go along, eventually going to higher math. I prefer this approach to the opposite where you first learn math foundation and then the implementation and use-cases. I liked the Fast.ai course.

OOP could only have been inspired by the then-available knowledge of cell biology, and it seems that even today we still have a lot to learn.

I had a very different reading of the article. The author acknowledges that books do work after the reader actively engages with the topic, does the exercises, rereads, etc. The issue is that this process of transmitting knowledge could be more efficient in a different medium. The post is not against books, but pro interactive teaching methods, as the author gives a link to his proposal https://quantum.country/qcvc

Oh, the old "I gave anonymously, but they still know my name" trick. Larry David had this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAKrb9b4s28

There are many developments relevant for cybernetics that were not mentioned in the book Cybernetics, like discoveries of H.S. Black and other engineers in Bell labs, or early mechanical analog computers. Here is a short review of book on the history of control engineering before cybernetics: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/acs.839

"[...] general reader could be forgiven for assuming that Wiener was the originator of the idea of feedback control. Significant though these war-time contributions were, they were not the whole story: as I and others have shown feedback control has had a much longer history"

That text includes more references to papers and books on the history of ideas relevant for control theory and control engineering.

Control theory certainly predates Wiener's cybernetics. He did not invent negative feedback analysis nor design of control systems. He did fail to cite previous work, so adherents of cybernetics think he did.

I just had the second one.

That's what I get, too. A "reward" is a subjective experience. If someone doesn't care about grades, then good grades will not be rewarding, and bad grades will not be punishment.

That depends on the dishwasher and the dish washer, though.

I think the core problem is our ignorance of psychology - we don't know how humans really work, what makes us tick, what are the 'incentives' that should be put in system design to move toward better science, and whether 'incentives' are even a good conceptualization of human motivation. We will not fix science until we understand what makes scientists behave as they do, and until we figure out how to design systems for humans. Though, Maybe we stumble upon a better system via blind variation in system properties and selective retention, based on some novel metric. Scientific psychology is rather weak in explaining and predicting how humans will behave.

> I have been conceiving and part-time developing an environment where you can model systems continuously in real-time (or faster).

That sounds interesting. I've been conceiving and part-time programming something like an analog computer simulator in a web environment, but with possible live plots and interactive elements. I have a simple solver, but the GUI with dragging and dropping takes a lot of time in javascript.

For me, this website is usually working, with relatively good search http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ Though, I often search on scholar and then c/p the title to scihub. Also, http://z-lib.org has a good search function, both for books and articles.

> Downloads equal to zero != not available.

I'm wondering about this too. What could be the possible other reason for the papers not being downloaded? Boring titles? Preprints easily available? Open access?

> and there's no reason to believe they weren't available back then.

Is it possible that the articles really were not available, as they used the data from sep-2015 to feb-2016, early version of SciHub?

Is there a graphical interface, like Simulink, for Modelica?

Sabine is wonderful. Her blog has a recent guest post on the same topic by A. Strumia: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/06/guest-post-who-need...

There are five known big mass extinction events in Earth life history, the first one is caused by... drumroll... small plants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAkjETPM1s4

> Yet you can find thousands of these hot takes from developers about the future of education. Or pick your subject.

I think you've missed one big point of the article. Videogames will become the reality of education when they become easy to make, so that it doesn't require an army of programmers to implement.

Well, you did learn to understand German sentences way before school and grammar, I think that was the point. A baby can learn any language without studying its grammar, and in the early period not being able to pronounce the words.

That sounds very interesting, could you elaborate or provide some links? Aren't there successful 'alternative' school programs?

Simulation and modelling are great tools in engineering, but it is still very difficult to create realistic models that predict behavior of the real thing well. There are always things you leave out, and sometimes they come back to bite you on the ass. Things like friction, thermal effects, small forces, delays... Stimulating organisms or institutions seems way more prone to errors of this kind. How do you verify that your agent represents realistic behavior of the thing or organism it is supposed to be representing?

(Of course, having a platform for models is a great first step, congrats on the launch)