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I’ll take that as a yes.

Oakland is already gigantic.

The old navy is not closing, then?

Might be cyclical, or maybe it’s Detroit v2. We will see, hoping the former.

https://twitter.com/sfstandard/status/1662145831351336977?s=...

Those are certainly important questions and the answer i like is probably USA shouldn’t meddle in other countries concerns. But I think it is true that at least some of the often listed examples of USA supposedly interfering in democracies are not quite black and white.

Would guess related to public opinion of the ceo. Though polarizing, Elon’s apparently among the most popular “political” figures.

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/166044592518006374...

If there really is a risk here it seems quite naive to think some regulations are going to prevent them: Whereas it’s hard to build a nuke at home it’s relatively straightforward to train a model. If a recipe exists to cause havoc someone’s gonna do it.

Here is the pic linked to, it’s quite high up!

https://twitter.com/MattDevittWINK/status/750689348526432257...

I saw this (now aged by four months) post from openAI on a method of detection. It’s not perfect but there is certainly some signal present.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-...

I agree. Nevertheless I’d love to see the USA spend more on research. Many highly skilled people get PhDs here with the hopes of doing academic research but end up having to leave due to lack of opportunities.

Maybe the current state is optimal. Those talented people often go on to work in industry after all. But how to decide if it’s optimal?

I can’t relate to this, as it seems to imply you just don’t believe that really talented people exist and that these people can accomplish things other simply can’t. Doesn’t jive with my experience.

Cool, thanks so much for this info. I only knew the name from scipy, where one of the optimization method options carries his name. Good to learn more … and wow what a contribution.

High crime, bad public schools, and high taxes… sounds like a common set of problems being faced by many us cities.

It’s not surprising that those opposed to this ideology have been most motivated to catalog its excesses.

BTW, to get crisp: she and similar others (I’m in this camp) support fair and equal treatment of minorities. What we oppose is the following (a common def of the form of wokeness they oppose). (1) assertion that any observed inequality is due to racism sexism etc (2) that we should fix this via racial or other quota systems.

We think (1) is obviously wrong and that (2) is highly unethical — Ie this particular ideology is rubbish and very harmful for our society.

Others disagree and they influence many of our institutions today. Maybe you think these axioms are cool, I don’t know. At any rate, There are people who do and in fact they are prevalent. Bari Weiss’s work (among other things now) catalogs examples of people who follow these principles and in this context argues why she and others find their principles wrong.

Subscribe to Bari Weiss’s substack (free press) and you’ll get an article about this every other day. Her backlogs will give a fairly lengthy list, but certainly not exhaustive.

If the mechanism is not known, what do we know? Since almost everyone got covid, in what sense do we know this is at all associated with covid?

Pretty interesting to think about how the internet has changed engineering. Eg if most things were learned by book in the past, I’d guess that would result in more coalescence around the standard libraries — need enough readership to make it worth writing a book on it, and it’s also easiest to find the books that are most widely available. Now that we have internet and can easily find stack overflow pages, it probably leads to package proliferation, and less solid knowledge of the standard libraries.

+1 In fact there were many different schools of thought back there both within Athens and across city states. For me, learning about the vibrant debates between them was one of the most fun parts of studying Ancient Greece.

I’d expect docs would have tried giving these patients antibiotics though, just to see what happens. Maybe once the disease catches the bacteria can be killed off but the disease persists.

So you think the liberalism in sf is helping these people and we need more of it? Or do you think the liberalism in sf we have now is not the right variant?

I don’t believe the problem can be solved, at least in full, but instead we have to pick our poison. We must either choose the current dystopian solution, or instead criminalize / institutionalize these people against their will.

One hurts the full population. Is the liberal solution honestly any better for the addicts?

“It’s important to get a grip on what’s going on today and not what was going on in 1985,”

Amen. Some don’t agree though. They say we should favor historically mistreated groups because it’s important context. Yet, in higher ed this often entails favoring the child of doctors who will help diversity numbers over the poor white male.

I believe the culture wars would decrease dramatically if we’d drop the identity politics and simply say: let’s help the poor.

This is an interesting example. The wiki said he was worth $200B at his death, while his boat cost $200M when built. When he died it sold for 230M. So in a sense it was an asset, in that it did not depreciate (ignoring inflation). Though I’m sure it cost a lot to operate and maintain.

So he spent 0.1% of his wealth on this! Pretty reasonable budget to spend on something you enjoy IMHO.

He also put it to use on some exploratory missions, rescue mission etc.

The usual argument is you need a metric and a check metric that can catch gaming the first. Eg unit sales and mean price per sale — the latter preventing a race to the bottom on price point.

I’ve had my ikea desk through six moves and 17 years. True, a bit rickety in spots, but it still works.

Men of mathematics, by Bell

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_of_Mathematics

Sounds to me like he was an elite engineer concerned with how regulation would affect him and others like him, while the regulations would primarily be aimed at constraining the output of lesser beings. He argued that the lesser beings would follow the rules blindly and that these would not guarantee safety anyways.

226M / 50k ~ 4000 events a year. Poor fellow couldn’t pull that off.

The drug companies that produced the vaccines were real hero’s of the pandemic. I’m sure they benefitted from various forms of government support … perhaps we should focus government resources where it’s been impactful, such as to research grants like those that led to these results.

The three main talking points here are (1) mtf in female sports, (2) mtf in women’s only physical spaces, and (3) children undergoing irreversible operations that they may later regret. The first two indeed involve a co flick of interest, granted not one that’s generally physically hurtful.