This article explains the Kakeya Conjecture in amazing detail and understandability: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wins-2026-fields-me...
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What Artemis is doing is not impeding innovation: its building our muscle back to work on such things; the discipline, rigor, scale, and attitude needed to execute such missions is unimaginable and orthogonal to the technical innovation and stack used. I also believe that its completely fine to use a 2000s-era flight computer, if that suffices for this purpose. Somehow, for such critical missions, my mental model is to use at least 10 year old technology that has stood the test of time, before going into space. If there's a need for the latest technology - then yes, it should be leveraged.
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_That is because the structure of the world economy — choices made starting with Bretton Woods in particular, and cemented by the removal of tariffs over time — made them nonviable. Say what you will about the viability or wisdom of Trump’s tariffs, the motivation — to undo eighty years of structural changes — is pretty straightforward!_
Yes, they have the right, but it doesn’t mean this is the right way. Consumers don’t suddenly stop consuming, and factories in the world don’t immediately start producing. This is like a slow flywheel; had we been almost spinning and ready to jump, it would make sense. This is not that.
Also, China is a super power which controls more than factories today. I agree they need to be checked, but sudden changes are not the way. I wish we did it by building trust with allies and then pushing China. Right now, even our allies are wary of us.
Online bullying and social media pressure are real issues that cannot be ignored. At home, we tackle it by appropriate parental controls, education, and transparency. However , we are privileged to have the time, money, and awareness, for this to happen.
I genuinely feel we need some generic change, somewhere, (I don’t have answers) to incentivize companies to do the right thing to discourage continuous engagement and also build the right set of judgement skills needed by teens to navigate online social space.
It probably starts at home and perhaps an online social media class in school.
My thinking is that Lindy Effect runs strong in a lot of Big Tech, and with deep pockets, they can afford to not be innovators but build moats on existing frameworks.
If the definition of an AI Powerhouse is more about the capability to host models and process workloads, Amazon (the other company missing in that list) and Microsoft are definitely them.
That’s likely not because of the wisdom in the article per se, but because of rising complexity in managing streams and connections downstream.
You probably know some that have enough non-China presence.
>> The act of shouting "fire" when there are no reasonable grounds for believing one exists is not in itself a crime, and nor would it be rendered a crime merely by having been carried out inside a theatre, crowded or otherwise. However, if it causes a stampede and someone is killed as a result, then the act could amount to a crime, such as involuntary manslaughter, assuming the other elements of that crime are made out.
I’d say that leads me to believe it’s an app issue versus just Bluetooth. Agree that BT by itself has a reputation to match, but in this case Sonos is to blame. The other apps recommended in the post work well.
How can such a large change not be staged in some manner or the other? Feedback loops have a way of catching up later which is why it’s important to roll out gradually.
Having clients suspend retries altogether allows the service to come back up. Manual retries triggered from user action would be fresh requests.
>> The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel[2][3][4] (Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award funded by Sveriges Riksbank[5] and administered by the Nobel Foundation.
Although not one of the five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel's will in 1895,[6] it is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics,[
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...
Carbohydrate abundance was likely important in moving people out of hunger and poverty but excesses of the same kind of diet are a reflection on obesity.
My guess is that calorie-per-gram-per-dollar of carbohydrates is still lower than fat and protein.
It eventually becomes a bad proxy metric.