"No one is coercing anyone else" - in a way they are. As a software developer I don't think I have the choice not to use one of the big clouds. Protonmail and DDG I do use, but I can't use Hetzner instead of AWS or GCE if I want to remain competitive. (Offtopic: I am actually starting a new project and this is what I'm struggling with.)
Just to put this in perspective: Apple has about 30 times more cash unused than this German investment in AI. Plus this R&D budget is only "potentially" impactful.
That is funny! I thought about it the other way around: if I _have to_ put a tie on for a meeting - or conform in other ways - than how valuable am I as a consultant? I see a simile in visual design as well, e.g. Craigslist could be that white suit consultant...
Ten years late, but hopefully not too late. In 2007 I worked in a project that promised a distributed IoT platform. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was called.
Not sure what to think of this yet, but it is refreshing to have an interesting new angle on the brain. This guy reminds me of Marvin Minsky, who once said "I bet the human brain is a kludge."
Yes, there are. The Basecamp founders wrote books about it, Rework and Remote. The reason you don't hear more about them is that heroic work is more glamorous to discuss. It is worth following https://twitter.com/dhh
This is data, not even a model, and interpretation is hard. You may see the decline - of e.g. PHP - as an opportunity or a threat. Anecdote: in Finland there is one person providing APL training. Guess how much insurance companies pay him ;)
Good one! Let me try another angle: the greatest trick is to cover up the simple fact that the redistribution of wealth is arbitrary. We could agree that the owners of German Shepherd dogs do not pay VAT on Thursdays if they have a green hat on. Royals and the like were convincing people for who knows how many millennia that their status and power is from god. In a way we have the same with current tax laws, we all think they come from "somewhere", whether it's a necessity or logic, experience or a textbook. The search space is much larger than what we make use of.
Sorry to nitpick but that "smack dab in the middle of nowhere" is 40 miles from Paris :) Anyway, it is very surprising that freelancing and remote work are taking off so slowly. At the company where I do remote freelance work I think less than 10% are freelancers and less than half of those are remote, even if the opportunity exists for almost everyone, even employees could switch to a freelance contract.
Could we somehow estimate how much electricity unnecessary design - mostly meaning unnecessary js running on pages - costs the planet? I guess it was done already...
Jeez, how painful to think that she has to explain her role regularly just because she is a woman. My wife and I are both software developers, and recently moved from Helsinki to Berlin, with two kids. If you could see the faces when we tell people how we moved here, "with _her_ job" :D First they look at her, like "does she look the part", and then looking at me, like "what does he really do?" It's actually fun, and more of "our thing" to watch those reactions than a pain, but in the bigger scheme of things what a waste that we are scared of all those wonderful women who could work with us, but don't.
I love to write SQL queries and even use them extensively in my code. However, almost everyone I talk to resists this, and warns me that "one day you will regret..." It gives me an uneasy feeling that I actually might, though it hasn't happened yet.
From a moral point of view there is. My point is that from the point of view of science the same self-correction should work in both cases, so the bigger story to "somebody lied" is that "in case of this attractive lie the self-correction didn't work well".
Could we think about this experiment as a meta-experiment? Zimbardo experimenting on the research community and the public how long we keep something like alive just because it is an attractive story? (I am not defending him!)
You are right, it is not OK to deliberately lie. What I meant is it's OK from the point of view of science and science will correct these kind of "lies" in the same way it corrects erroneous measurements, documentation errors, misunderstandings, whatever. Scientific papers are actually full of these, and I dare not guess how many of them are written due to publish-or-perish (which are also some sort of lies, as the writer has not much to say, or only something with negligible importance). We could even think about lied about results as viruses which the immune system will handle.
The narrative of the original experiment may be a "lie", but in what way is a Medium article the "truth"? It would be very important to educate and remind ourselves about how science actually works. It does not work with simple lies and truths, it is a path we follow and where we make many missteps. Even if Zimbardo did everything wrong - experiment, documentation, publishing, narrative, conclusions, influence - it is perfectly all right, the big river of science will slowly but steadily float it in the "right" direction.
Just wondering if it's time to start to decouple the client and the server. I did that with mail and use a native client only, and hosting a git repo on DO or similar should not be too big of an issue either.
"a billionaire is an example of market failure"
This is at least funny, but might have a lot of truth in it as well. I formulated something similar about the marching almost-monopolies like Apple and Facebook: they are a gigantic failure of competition.
Not expecting mind blowing insight, just insight. Data turned into knowledge and models, showing relationships and significance. Gathering data is an intermediate step in this process. But true, it is a nice dump of data!
I'm also skeptical of reports where one seems to need 294 slides to identify a trend. But drowning viewers in data and having no conclusions at the end is all the data I need.
Zuckerberg is a very rational and collected person, so if he didn't make friends then he didn't want to make friends. It also implies the actual significance of the EU.
Already four years ago they ran experiments [1] on how to program your mood. They built an API to your emotions, and they started selling it, without you knowing it.
I wrote my MSc thesis on Genetic Algorithms in 1998 and I've been waiting for the time when they become popular. There is a lot of discussion going on about the need for "explainable models" and I'm quite surprised that it's not considered trivial that e.g. Genetic Programming builds computer programs that are actually models. Explainability is of course harder but how much closer can you get to building models automatically?