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Thank you for your thoughtful response. Acknowledging potential biases openly in a public forum is never easy, and in my view, it adds credibility to your words compared to leaving such matters as implicit insinuations.

That said, on page 8, the paper says that 'standard licensing agreements with commercial vendors prohibit public comparison with their offerings.' Given this inherent limitation, what alternative approach could have been taken to enable a more meaningful comparison between CT and CMP?

In the conclusion of the article, you said: "While I concede that there are things the ISPD authors could have done better, their conclusion is still sound. The Nature authors do not address the fact that CMP and AutoDMP outperform CT with far less runtime and compute requirements."

One key argument in the rebuttal against the ISPD article is that the resources used in their comparison were significantly smaller. To me, this point alone seems sufficient to question the validity of the ISPD work's conclusions. What are your thoughts on this?

Additionally, I noticed that the neutral tone of this comment is quite a departure from the strongly critical tone of your article toward the AlphaChip work (words like "arrogance", "disdain", "hyperbole", "belittling", "hostile" for AlphaChip authors, as opposed to "excellent" for a Synopsys VP.) Could you share where this difference in tone originates?

Do you have a past example where this already-proven theorem/new tools/objects would have been only possible by human but not AI? Any such example would make your arguments much more approachable by non-mathematicians.

Thank you for these amazing answers. Mother's curse is a notion I had no idea of, but it makes sense now that I think about it.

And chloroplasts have separate DNAs from the species ones? That really is also eye-opening.. Biology is full of wonders.

It doesn't seem the article addresses this, but I'd ask these questions: "would it be possible that mitochondria's evolutional interest and the organism's interest are not aligned?" "how many independent DNA can an organism possess?" "why mitochondria do not elicit immune reactions? Or can they?"

I find a light exercise for extended duration of time right before sleep helps my sleep the best. The key for me seems not doing anything stressful right before sleep after the exercise, and drinking plenty of water but not food/sugar. I wonder blood sugar level is associated with some of the sleep problems.

What is your opinion of the addendum? I think the addendum and the pre-trained checkpoint are the substance of the announcement, and it is surprising to see little mention of those here.

"sick days reduced by a third" does not seem to be a level of reduction that could induce a problematic rebound.

Can't they simply charge more premium and pay for the reinsurance? Uncertainty is where the premium comes from, and I would think insurance business in BRK should thrive with it.

What is the alternative? Have you considered a possibility that those could be the best out there for 911 despite their imperfections?

Does emergencies make speeding legal for usual cars? I could imagine police cars or ambulances could be exempt from the rule. Also, adjusting the insurance cost based on the speed limiter seems a balanced policy to me regardless of those freeways.

Is there any underlying reason for the high traffic incident rate from the insurance company? Glendale seemed relatively safe when I was driving there.

Typically benchmarks have limited aspects they are measuring. I can imagine another suite of benchmarks with longer contexts, but in that case, it might be more difficult to do it in a blind comparison form. At the least, it would be quite costly to run such benchmarks.

Would insurances cover it on the basis like that? I wonder if there is any similar medicine that is covered for a similar total treatment reason.

For one individual, maybe your analogy might be closer to what evolution tries, but I suspect in a large group of individual in a species over a long period, a more eloquent description could be emerged.

In that case, I would think the company should also show that an equivalent job is offered to non-visa worker with a similar pay. Without that, such rule would not be sustainable.

It seems the Ask culture's norm is more favorable in welcoming new members whereas the Guess culture's norm is more favorable in building loyalties to the community among members. IMO curiosity and fear are underlying factors of the cultural differences.

An interesting thought exercise is when Ask people somehow happen to live in a Guess culture. It's like all the guess culture members are working with their own cryptography that's not allowed to the newcomer, and when the new person asks for the code, no one can clearly give the code to the newcomer. The code has to be learned by spending enough time with the community members.

Language is one such barrier -- unless you learn it at an early age, it is sometimes almost impossible to master the intricacies of a language. There are also other numerous cultural aspects that take time and effort to learn, which helps the coherence and integrity of the "guess" culture members.

But even in those Guess cultures, there are also people with curiosity and willingness to learn new cultures, which could move the cultures toward the Ask cultures. That's at least what I learned while I studied the 19th and 20th century history of Korea and Japan. They are not always successful in making changes and progresses within the society, but when they do or when the changes come, they are those thriving, by asking questions about the new world and the new norms. IMO this curiosity is the catalyst for the change from a more Guess culture toward a more Ask culture.

On the other hand, there's fear, the fear of the newcomers. IMO that's what drives the Guess culture, and also another powerful motivation that moves a culture toward more "Guess" culture. In US or European politics, you see all these nationalistic movements. As one of the comments said, even in US, the Guess culture is more predominant in the locations where the fear against other ethnic groups is dominant. It's just the correlations, but IMO there's some feedback loop between the fear and the Guess cultures.

In the end, it's easy to see why the Ask cultures would become more dominant: Ask cultures can easily talk to each other and learn from each other, while Guess cultures are exclusive even among themselves, which make them more difficult to learn from others.

Why mainly through GMO foods? I am wondering if other non-GMO ones would use mostly non Roundups, which would be a surprise to me given the availability of Roundups for vegetation control purpose around houses.

My experience with PAs and NPs have been mixed. I would still prefer MD doctors if I have a choice.

Now that there are many reasonably good medical education systems outside US, why doesn't US just open more to those international MDs? I would prefer those MDs to NPs or PAs. Maybe doctors' golden years have been passed, but I don't think that necessarily means more accessibility to quality cares.

I doubt US would be able to see a level of medical accessibility on par with many European countries. The medical education system has a perverse incentive to reduce the yearly graduates -- the less graduates there are, the more profits and prestiges each of the current members can garner (with arguably better trained graduates) -- and as shown in the article, they seem to have monopolistic capability for the throttling. And the incentive is only larger when people spend more disposable income for their healthcare, which has been the case. Maybe political powers may shift the direction a bit, but I do not see any evidence of a major course correction.

This sounds amazing, but at the same time, I am concerned about the rain forest. Obviously more economically useful crops would accelerate repurposing the rain forest. Maybe the world would need to subsidize Brazil more to keep the rain forest? And could Brazil be expecting more subsidy with this development?

Sorry for my ignorance, but is NL Netherlands? Also, could you give me some more context on why the people would be laughing?

One more factor in the demand side: population. IMO it is hard to predict.

Those two types of maps are targeting different groups -- paper maps targeting the somewhat advanced users who know the basic navigation and have little need to consult the legend. The electronic maps target much wider audience and can be dumbed down since people can interact with the map. Sure, the electronic maps probably can stuff more info to be shown at a glance, but my impression is that they chose not to.

It is like the search engines vs. SEO arms race. The hope could be that such proliferation can be managed by disincentivizing such abuses. The reality might be vastly different with codes that have more regularity and better chance for AI's emulating humans than the natural language texts.

Citation needed. Magnesium is definitely critical for living organisms, humans or or other animals or plants alike, but that shouldn't be confused with the question of whether Magnesium deficiency leads to hypertension.

Maybe being an ER doctor itself could bias their decisions more favorable toward CT scans. ER people may see dead people & people with tumors more often than pediatric doctors in their offices. The usual pediatric doctors would see much more patients with ear infections.

Also, to ER people, knowing the root cause is probably important for patients' survival, whereas for pediatric doctors, more often than not, lives are not at stake and customer service/easing parents' fear is more important.

I can think of a few milestones in the future for AVs:

  * the first accident between two fully automated AVs.
  * the first such accident within AVs from the leading company.
  * the first fatality in fully automated AVs
  * when uber or lyft or any similar company starts to use AVs more than human drivers in a metropolitan.
  * when a city gets half the driving hours in AVs.
  * when human drivers no longer get insurance coverage by a major insurance company.

I wish the order in reverse.

I think the word "allegedly" probably indicates SEC did not use the messaging app as the route to uncover this.

If I were a part of SEC, unless there is some regulatory hurdle, I'd use some other information (e.g., some gov documents? linkedin?), and use that to construct a giant watch list for insider trading even before trades are made.

Who pays the bill eventually? I would wish the people directly benefit from the power line should pay for it. (The article seems paywalled.)