I started using it in the last couple of days after reading this and I find it amazing. It's limited in the sense that it may lack templates and a lot of other things, but it's so easy to code for it, that I expect the community will make everything that is needed really quickly. I am SO impressed. I love it.
Might still be pretty limited, but I've been looking for something with a more modern syntax for years, and this seems a good candidate! Thanks for sharing.
Of course it will take years to replace LaTeX, but we need to begin working on it.
I'm also an Italian who taught himself how to code at 16 (I'm now 34), although not even remotely at your level. Then I studied physics, did a PhD, a postdoc about neural networks, etc., but I felt that what mattered to me the most was to inspire young people like the one I was, and I decided to come back to Italy and become a high school teacher starting this year. I'm also organizing an extracurricular python course in my school. If you're not based far from Milan and are interested in talking to my students, we could consider that! Good luck with everything.
If a guy becomes famous almost exclusively for having a beef with someone else (and this someone else really doesn't need to beat any drum in order to be famous), then something is wrong. Basically these days this is what Schmidhuber is associated to. Which is kind of sad, really.
I teach in a high school that is very humanities-focused (and the students explicitly want that, they chose it). I realized statistics was not taught, and I introduced a module on it for my classes. I thought it was insane to do three chapters on trigonometry, including solving useless equations with goniometric functions, and doing zero stats and probability. These students will likely (and statistically) choose uni careers such as medicine, psychology, law, politics -- the ones who choose engineering are very rare. Statistics is THE ONE field of math that they need.
I had a wonderful trip in Thailand last year by doing two things: 1. roadtripping: I rented a motorcycle and chose a (relatively touristy) destination, but enjoyed the trip to get there over several days, during which I designed my own itinerary and stopped to look at the countriside and visit small towns. 2. I designed the itinerary while avoiding Lonely Planet and the like. By now everybody uses that and goes to the same places. Instead, to my surprise, I found that Google Maps makes a great guide. You can click on any places around an area, and see how they look like, whether they have hotels and cafés, if that temple over there is worth a look, if the view along that road is nice. For ANY town.
You should not be relying on an interview for evidence anyway. I am no expert and I have no opinion one way or another. But you shouldn't have preconceived opinions either. Look for scientific literature if you're interested.
Because the kind of drug use you're thinking of means addiction to a substance (one that typically numbs you or makes you feel unnaturally happy). Here he's discussing about people improving their condition after a single dose.
Did I say that Switzerland is in the EU? It is in the Schengen agreement (which managed by the EU and part of EU law, but also extends to other countries).
- The Schengen agreement, i.e. no border controls between countries
- The fundamental right to free movement for citizens of the EU.
There are countries where Schengen applies (you can go without visa or with the same visa as the rest of the EU, there is no border control for people normally), but there is no right to live there automatically (Switzerland).
There are countries without Schengen so there are border checks, and the visa system for foreigners is separate, but EU citizens still have the right to live there (Ireland).
When I first learned about Jevons Paradox, I thought of what a colleague once told me: "I believe that low-power neuromorphic chips is one way computational neuroscience can help use less fossil fuels by reducing the power consumption of AI". Because of the paradox, I now believe that the effect would rather be to make small AI devices more widespread instead, with no impact on total power consumption.
I remember reading an article on how movies and TV today are not quite able to make meaningful and interesting sex scenes that are actually well made and add to the story. I think this was specifically for western movies. But I can't find it now.
This is a cool idea, but I wish we didn't call everything that is bike-friendly "Dutch". There are many towns and city centres that are good for cycling and walking, across Europe and beyond.
I was just thinking of language deprivation experiments [1], and I realized that Nicaraguan Sign Language is like a real-world experiment of that kind.
People think in different ways and have different levels of education. We would never learn if we weren't allowed to ask silly questions. It is very important not to discourage people from asking them.
For hayfever, different kinds of solutions exist: "vaccines" can help in severe cases; antihistamine pills are the main solution, but I found that some don't work for me and others do: you should ask a doctor and try another one; cortison-based nasal spray and eyedrops also work very well for me.
Wouldn't this depend on location and source? I used to live in Scotland, where sheep graze on grass in fields that don't really take away space for vegetables (unless you want to survive on potatoes and cabbage), and they're local. So I assumed they're not that bad.
It's very weird. Mostly, it's only a few minutes of international news, about the latest G20 or the war in Ukraine, with a focus on what the Japanese government does in relation to it.
Weirdly I sometimes listen to their Swahili news broadcast. For some reason, the Japanese radio's is the only decent short podcast I could find in Swahili, very strange