curious_fella1

Awesome!

Thanks!

Thank you for the comprehensive response! That was very interesting :)

I took a Biopsychology of Drugs class in college and found it fascinating. Do you know of any good (text)books on the subject?

> Several classes of opioids have been shown to cause neuronal degeneration

Question for you - is this "brain damage" that I often hear results from taking a particular drug the result of intentful downregulation of certain neuronal receptors (e.g., meth -> too much dopamine in synapse -> downregulate dopamine receptors), or is the drug actually killing brain cells/neurotoxic?

Can you share some of these strategies?

More looking for an ETF

For the Tesla bears out there, is there a way to invest in the S&P500 - TSLA ?

One loud, crazy voice doesn't represent the majority.

This is stupid. I've seen 0 signs of this as the FAANG company I work at (my gauge being our internal forum). Absolutely 0 mention of this. No mentions from coworkers, friends, etc.

It sounds like you're projecting your ignorance of another people onto that people.

Perhaps our artificial representation of neurons are simply much less energy efficient than a biological neuron?

Science is not interested in political correctness.

> his parting words were “if someone offers you a seat on a spaceship, don’t ask which seat”

Lol what a jackass

> and it the only company with increase in # of deliveries among the 10 largest autos globally

I'm sure others have commented, but this is some real silly logic. Yes, going from (fake numbers) 100k -> 110k cars sold is a lot easier than going from 1M -> 1.1M.

This is great.

They suspended spot bonuses, not your yearly bonus. These are sometimes given out at the end of a long project, they might be worth ~2k.

Still really annoying, but also kinda click-baity title.

I think these death notes sum up the most interesting parts of the debacle.

Hypothermia; leader of group

Hypothermia

Internal bleeding from severe chest trauma

Hypothermia

Hypothermia

Hypothermia

Hypothermia

Fatal skull injury

Severe chest trauma, eyes missing

They were practically absent from day to day affairs anyways. This is unsurprising.

Only slightly worse:

https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a1edfced5820d0fa07/mast...

At least one misleading source from the article: when talking about the limitations of Uber's self-driving tech, the author links to a source mentioning Uber may be paying license fees to Waymo for their AV tech, insinuating that Uber is unable to move its AV program forward on their own. The article linked actually mentions Uber being court-ordered to pay for the tech (the Lewandowski case)

God forbid that it takes more than a few days for decent chat bots to appear on Reddit from a troll farm in eastern europe/china/wherever based on these new models. Or has that already happened, and we're simply unaware?

Google has been introducing a new parser for natural language queries

https://www.blog.google/products/search/search-language-unde...

Detecting Gmail spam is a wildly different problem than detecting paid shills on a forum.

The question we should be asking is how much retraining had to occur to accomplish the new task? If it's significantly less than to the accomplish the original task, the algorithm has transferred its latent knowledge from the original task to the new task, which is significant.

Was gmail made in house?

You said it yourself: software engineer

So we are allowed.

Interesting!

This is a flawed argument. If you were to never make your bet in the first place, the "person who can't stop gambling" would still be losing their money to the bookie. You're not enabling the bookie taking their money.

In fact, if you're winning more than you're losing, you're decreasing the profit of the bookie. You are therefore making it a less worthy venture for them to hold these ethically-negative gambling events. If you were to win enough, the bookie would lose money from the venture, eventually resulting in them no longer hosting gambling events.

So actually, winning money off of bookies is an ethically good behavior, since it's negative feedback for them enabling other gamblers with "uncontrollable behavior" to lose their money.

How does that affect this?

Do you have any sources? I haven't heard of that (although it would hardly surprise me), would be curious to read.