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miemo23··on Jeff Bezos comes out in support of increased corporate taxes
> Mega corporations can adapt far faster than anyone or anything else

i really don't think this is true, many big companies are hopelessly bureaucratic

miemo23··on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
but there was a spike in pneumonia related cases... didn't a doctor sound the alarm on this (and was reprimanded for it)
miemo23··on Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)
If there are many generalists in a given space, doesn't that make them specialists? And you'd just be more-specialised? Can you think of an example of when this might have occurred?

Seems by that line of thinking today's specialists are tomorrow's generalists, even if they do nothing differently.

miemo23··on Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)
Would you believe, this article is a review of that very book ;)
miemo23··on Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)
This is touched on in "Beyond the 80/20 principle".

Much like your example, though I think it said specialisation itself can offer up new generalist opportunities, so internal forces as well as external shifts.

One of my favourite books of late.

miemo23··on Blockchain study of 43 solutions finds 0.00% success rate
Appreciated the quote, thanks
miemo23··on What Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Wrong About the Genre
Inserting RFID chips under the skin is a cool hacker trend. Someone was using that to touch-on to public transport.
miemo23··on What Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Wrong About the Genre
Thanks to the author for summarising every single possible ending. :(. Completely unnecessary to further whatever point they were making.

Confused about this analysis. They admit other NPCs engage with extreme body modification that falls in line with the core Cyberpunk genre, but still argue that not being able to customise your own player-character's hair style means CDPR have failed to understand the genre.

IMO, technical limitations of the game engine don't invalidate the worldbuilding and concepts they've very clearly intentionally baked into the game.

And regarding the author's implication that CDPR suggests the 'meat-body' is sacred which is at odds with Cyberpunk genre, using the 'Cyberpsychosis' illness as an example (being caused by people replacing too much of their meat-body with electronics), the actual storyline around this in-game illness is at complete odds with the author's point (which I won't spoil).

miemo23··on Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
QM doesn't happen in lorentzian spacetime, QFT does though
miemo23··on CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)
I've had zero problems with it on PC.

Fantastic game with maybe 2-3 bugs

miemo23··on Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction from Moments After the Big Bang
well neutrons decay in about 10min (avg) into fresh new protons (plus an electron) so perhaps not
miemo23··on Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning
Not a great article.

The lead-graphic misrepresents software development processes, the machine learning process is just an agile process which as a "software engineering process" directly counters the article's title, it clearly does work for machine learning.