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Bridgestone - Shojiro Ishibashi (Ishibashi is spelled with the characters “stone” and “bridge”)

I wonder what the folks at graphite.dev think about this announcement.

How does this compare with Stripe Treasury (banking as a service)? https://stripe.com/treasury

Daniel Lemire’s simdjson probably belongs in this discussion and I would be surprised if it is not the fastest tool by some margin.

https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson

Do analogous tools exist for GCP and Azure?

One thing I haven’t seen much mention of is getting things to run on the M1’s neural engine instead of the GPU - it seems like the neural engine has ~3x more compute capacity and is specifically optimized for this type of computation.

Has anyone spotted any work allowing a mainstream tensor library (e.g. jax, tf, pytorch) to run on the neural engine?

Who is the Matt Levine of other fields (e.g. law, medicine, etc.)?

I believe there was a thread on twitter about this, but can't find it anymore.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned what I see as the biggest failings of notebooks: poor handling of connection loss / re-connection. The kernel will continue to run, but a connection hiccup will often make the notebook UI stop updating (and lose any kernel output).

This is superb!

Differential privacy seems like a pretty good approach to this problem. https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/12/06/learning-with-p...

I'm sorry. I think the idea of private funding for research is interesting, but this really seems like a scam.

1. Zero people on the team or among the advisors have any experience doing research in molecular biology or virology. Check for yourself: http://www.immunityproject.org/ ("Meet the Team") They have an anesthesiologist, a bioinformatics guy, oncology researcher, epidemiologist (who studied HIV, but mostly from a community medicine perspective - e.g. things like gels and microbicides), 4 marketing/biz people, a media strategist, a general pediatrician, and another marketing person.

2. They have zero publications and no references to even preliminary data. Anyone can say they have "very successful mouse data." If these guys are actually scientists, why don't they talk about their science - their site is 100% marketing jargon.

3. By not going through the NIH, this group is not required to release any information about their technology to the public.

4. It's not trivial to do HIV research. If you are working with the virus, you are required to work in a bio-safety level 3 unit. Do they have approval for this? Is there any reason to think that the FDA will approve their trials?

5. What is this mysterious "final experiment" they need to do before starting the FDA approval process? (https://pledge.immunityproject.org/the-free-hiv-aids-vaccine).

It really seems like these guys are just trying to make money from the suffering of others. I find the use of stock images of poor children to be exploitative. Perhaps the NIH is not funding them for a reason. Who would fund someone before they've shown any evidence whatsoever that their technique works.

Okay, I'm off to go fundraising for my Malaria Vaccine Initiative with my fantastic preliminary animal model data from my lead marketing anesthesiologist. If the NIH won't fund me before I have data (I just need to do that one first^H^H^H last experiment), maybe random people on the internet who don't know anything about science will.

That's 72% of the approximately 4~5% that smartphones represent of the Japanese phone market.

http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/05/30/smartphones-not-impres...

As others have pointed out, virtually all "dumb" phones in Japan support email and network. The clamshell form's keypad is comparable, if not superior, to mobile querty keyboards for typing Japanese language text. A sizable number (perhaps even a majority) of "dumb" phones also support streaming television, a contact-less payment chip, GPS, music playback, an app store.

I find the 4~5% (mostly foreign designed) smartphone percentage a lot more interesting to think about.

Anyone consider that the difference might have to do with the strings? For example, perhaps the strings gain slack while not in use and the linear density or string stiffness changes as a result.