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Yeah, I'm talking about Dimon. China deserves the negativity, but dunking on them publicly like that only makes it easier for the government to drum up anti-US sentiment.

I'm not a big fan of China, but it's probably best if our business leaders didn't mock each other's countries in poor taste.

(These are all Eleanor Roosevelt, BTW)

Not necessarily.

- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

- Do something every day that you're afraid of.

- Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

- It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

- Be confident, not certain.

- It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

- You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

- You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

(High five if you notice a pattern)

You can still make socks, blimps, or cakes with any sort of monkey image you want... or even non-monkey images. The technology is out there.

The curse of dimensionality strikes again!

This was way more impressive to me than the invention of the internet IMHO.

There's some completely different programming patterns that are useful when dealing with streams. Streams really come into their own within DAGs. DAGs are to streams what module structures are to programs. You organize streams within a DAG, and can manage different use cases and goals with different branches. Exceptions can be handled flexibly if they are turned into data for the stream. Same goes for configuration.

Lately, it seems like our only remaining choice as a civilization is to decide if we want to be exploited or controlled.

I'm not sure why we can't manage to ship a unicode database and an open text rendering library with every user-facing computing device. At minimum, we need something for text like libuv that gives a platform abstraction on top of the various cross platform libraries and resources that are already provided, so they're not recreated ad nauseam.

It’s a good form of secondary support for authentication, and is a reasonable foothold to start expanding circles of trust (I.e. second hand trust.. or “trust what my trusted source trusts”).

I think intelligence as defined as "mapping inputs into goal states" is pretty well handled by models, and the models may be able to pick and choose states that are sufficient for achieving the goals.

However, the intelligence that's created by language models is very schizophrenic, and the human-level reflective intelligence that it displays is at best a bit of Frankenstein's monster (an agglomeration of utterances from other people that it uses to form sentences that form opinions of itself or its world).

I think that modeling will help us learn more about human intelligence, but we're going to have to do a lot better than just training models blindly on huge amounts of text.

Pretty soon we'll have drones and who know what else delivering agile high speed unstoppable explosive payloads. Sounds like fun!

As part of my graduate studies I was able to get funding from a research-oriented startup. The amount of hoops I had to jump through with the university to clear all of their IP related concerns, and to come away with a small fraction of the funding for living expenses was surprising. It made me realized that the university wasn't really on my side, and soured me on an academic career.

I wound up setting up funding through a clinical trial protocol that's normally reserved for medical testing. I love the people at my old grad school, but I think academia (in general) is putting administration, IP concerns, and rights management above everything else... and if that's the case you might as well go into industry and at least get paid properly. I loved my research (in recommender systems), and I was willing to sacrifice a good deal to focus on that. However, past a certain point I wasn't.

Could divisive click bait titles become the new journalism?

Wanted to give a shot out to Larry Yeager who wrote software for this all the way back in the mid nineties : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld

He was a professor of mine in grad school, he also did visual effects for The Last Starfighter, and the early work on character recognition in the Apple Newton. Cool dude.

This is a great crossing of literary flair and fairly sophisticated research. Is this a thing? Can I get more?

Skyfall was great in that it grounded the relationships that Bond had with M. I believe he/she is just as interesting a character as Bond is... but never fully developed. I always thought if John Le Carré was writing Bond the focus would be on M, and might even make for a better book. Skyfall been the only recent movie that has added something meaningful to the Bond persona IMHO.

I suppose I have to agree with you. "Movie Bond" is entertaining on its own, and deserves a fan base... especially for their scripted set action pieces. The actual espionage, intrigue, and interpersonal motivations are barely there though. It's just Bond fighting some incredibly implausible supervillain with some kind of stylish deformity... there's a girl involved, and Bond will usually have a go... rinse and repeat through a dozen movies. You know what? It's a formula that works, and I'm not going to be a hater.

I highly recommend this "Let's Read" thread on James Bond from SomethingAwful : https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=38...

My takeaway on Bond is that he's way more interesting as a flawed protagonist, much in the same way Fleming himself was. Through the movies, he became symbolic and idolized in a way that I don't think Fleming intended.

The Casino Royale movie reboot was pretty great IMHO. The direction Bond is going now is pretty hit and miss. I'm guessing every few decades we'll need to tear down the mythology and start over with something better grounded in reality, and give a reminder of how imperfect Bond can be.

It's probably easier to think of consciousness as "learned". That is, we have these brains that can extract patterns from noisy or sparse inputs, and the notion of a "self" is just something it learned to recognize. The rest of the "common sense" that guides our course through the world is basically just adaptation and learnings of how to preserve that self in a given environment.

It's interesting to think of situations where the self becomes subordinate... family, sex, certain types of anger, etc. There are some old and deep patterns in the brain that can override the control of "self"... and they roughly correspond to very primitive parts of the brain that govern simpler and essential fight or flight mechanisms.

Whenever someone mentions 2d code layouts they typically show examples of "node and links" or "spreadsheet" coding. However, those examples are largely focused on one presentation. I'd really like a language/editing environment to be able to handle all three styles, depending on what I was trying to do.

Ok, glad to know I'm not the only one to do this. However, the plot thickens... why is this happening?

Thank you for this, you're doing the Lord's work.

On a geological time scale, it's probably more economical to cut through them and shave time off of every journey between eruption events.

This is a great analogy, I might have to steal it.

Yes, but I think it's a relatively new or transient interpretation. I couldn't find much of an authoritative basis for it. It would be great if you could post any links that you know of.

There's a wikipedia article on it, but none of the key references exist any more : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_tax

Upvoted you. After reading the comment again I see that it should be interpreted the way you describe.

I'm not a fan of labelling tax code as "regressive" in this case. It hasn't moved "backwards", it's stayed the same.

I also question the rationale behind giving our city and state more money... they haven't exactly exhibited forthright stewardship of existing tax resources. I have doubts that taking more capital gains taxes will be a net positive. This will in all likelihood negatively impact the region's yearly charitable donations. It will be interesting if someone does a before/after comparison of the net effect of this new tax.