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Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to live in simulated universe.

Level up. Use AI to build more sophisticated services/tools. It's not like we have solved world hunger or climate challenges.

We have a fancy new tool. Let's play!

We are at brink of starting another World War. Climate change is only accelerating. Pandemic is not over yet.

Is it only me or does future look gloomy? I'll set a low bar, as long as we don't kill enough skilled workers (pick your flavor of annihilation) we, humans, should be able to carry on trajectory of technical evolution even if world order changes in next few decades.

Which podcast?

Is it possible to store the data, extracted from my data, your service needs in my Google Cloud somewhere or will it expose your secret sauce?

I am with you but you missed a key issue of comparison: granularity.

Unix Epoch is by definition at granularity of seconds. How do you compare 2 epochs where one is in seconds while other in milliseconds. We sort of end up in same comparison game.

Can someone with more understanding than me please comment what can be acheived with this tech in next decade or several decades.

From a layman perspective this seems outstanding to me but I am failing to imagine what can be achieved from this?

I wonder how did this really happen? I mean, mountains don't move, at least not the the timescale of a submarine's motion: 1. Don't submarine use some form of radars to figure what's around then and where are they headed? 2. Assuming there were radars, were there no alarms or were the alarms ignored?

Wow! If we can go from code to diagram, can we also go the other way? It'll be awesome if I can draw seq. diagrams for my service and code gets generated from it.

Anyone with more knowledge than me care to comment on veracity of this?

Thanks in advance!

Apart from science experiments and taking pictures, how can this platform be used to deliver business value?

Why is this being voted down?

Hmm.. it screws up CORS to get user subscription info. Good find! (and good lesson)

From the article

Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTi-g18ftNZUMRAj...

Video(not in English): https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/coronavirus-diagnosti...

I am not so sure. 9/11: concerns USA and terrorist organisations. Vietnam: USA and Vietnam Cold War: This comes close to world wide concern.

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Atlantic presents Inter Continental Ballistic Car (ICBC).

Travel from NYC to London in a less than 20mins strapped on top of rockets that were designed to carry Nukes. What can go wrong?

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Oh Great! thank you!

As a small investor (investing around few thousand USD), how do I know which app to trust? There is Robinhood and Stash for ETFs and Stocks and then there are robot-wealth mangers like WealthFront etc.

Should I always stick to big firms like Vanguard or Fidelity? Thing I don't like about firms like Vanguard and Fidelity is that you cannot buy fraction of a unit which Robinhood/Stash allow you to do.

Any advice?

> Is this how people typically write a paper to Medical Virology?

I wont assume that (I am software engg.)

I see where you are coming from. Here is my perspective, think of this like a outage of your service. No one has exact answers so team starts to dive in and starts sharing what they find.

These findings mostly prune the "solution space" of the problem.

I see, so it's matter of time before off-the-shelf microphones become technically advannced enough to counter this.

Can someone please explain what is stopping these recording devices (Alexa/phone/etc) to filter out ultrasound?

> ... sound great until you need to SHARE data ...

If by "share" you mean one writer and others with read-only access, then staleness of data is a question. In java we have volatile for that, I think there is a similar keyword in C++. However, you'll have to maintain the invariant of "one writer and others with read-only access". If you don't need absolute latest version, you can do message passing/pubsub etc.

If by "share" you mean multiple writers, I'll have to question your design decision. Why do multiple threads have to write to same memory location? Most of the time, you can get away with partitioning/sharding.

If you disagree, I'd like to know why?

> By definition, viruses aren't alive, and amoebas are.

Interesting, I thought we don't have a definition for "alive".

Care to explain?

Unless underlying protocols (OSI layer) OR government policies don't stop WG from working, there should be no other variable to technically stop WG from working.

I (almost) always fall victim of one-off errors in competitive programming when working with counting numbers in range. Sticking to convention like 2 ≤ i < 13, as Dijkstra observed for Mesa programmers, sounds like a good idea.

But do you see the difference between Boston Dynamics (BD) and {Savioke, Fetch Robotics, Bear Robotics, MiR} ?

BD's robots move using limbs while others use small-er wheels which limits the terrains these robots can be used in.

This is standard task scheduling problem (see CLRS section 17.5) with added constraint of slowing down processing as number of tasks finishes. This added constraint is justified by the fact that as people board they won't stay put in their seats in aircraft, they move move around increasing the time to board for passengers who haven't boarded yet.

This still remains a greedy problem and hence allowing slower passengers to board first will reduce overall time taken to board.

Ever heard human flight was impossible?

Ever heard that faster than sound was impossible?

Ever heard splitting of atom was impossible?

I understand that I might sound dreamy but here is the thing it's far better to believe, try and fail than to never believe.

Agree with all your points except that "never migrate to another planet"

Humor me for a minute: (from strictly scientific view point)

Universe began with just photons disintegrating to matter and anti-matter. Starting from that somehow proteins evolved and eventually animated matter (life). On a very boring planet after 5 complete extinctions of "animated matter", humans show up who have the audacity to attempt to understand beginning of universe and controlling the forces which created them.

And now, you sir, suggest that this rudimentary life form will never be able to travel to an exo-planet and thrive. Well, to put it mildly, you are lacking perspective.

Why so serious? /s

On a serious note, I hear you and agree with you to a certain extent.

Indulge me for a moment, in long run most likely universe will end up in heat death. So yes, we are screwed. But right now, it's time for action. We need to think of engineering solutions.

There are 2 key problems here:

1. amount of CO2 in atmosphere

2. heat added by sun every day.

Fix any one of them and we stand a chance. There are ways of fixing it from accelerating photosynthesis (chemically or by optimizing plant growth by controlling env. it's growing in etc.) or having a sun shade at L1 or just literally planting more trees.

I am assuming you are a techie, so you are well equipped with tools and you are certainly not happy, so you have a motivation.

We may not be able to solve it perfectly we can certainly make a huge dent.