This is the sort of stuff that made Brexit appealing to me. Remainers make out that we (UK) are xenophobic in some way, because we left the EU. No - we don't hate European people, they're great - we just hate the unelected, undemocratic, wannabe-communist institutions.
In my view, such skill with painting is largely mis-labelled as creativity. It's pretty much a technical skill. The design and subject matter of the posters are where the creativity lies. The two things often get conflated, perhaps because of their joint use in the creation of great paintings, but they're fairly separable.
It could be argued that the "decompressor binary" is actually a female human, which sounds a bit like the old "store large parts of the compressed data in the decoder to get a smaller file size" trick. :-) Maybe the sperm / egg are deltas? I wonder if there has been any research done with parental similarity with gestation using surrogacy vs. natural mother.
I'm not going to say that consent doesn't exist - but it's sufficiently ill-defined as a concept that it is somewhat meaningless. What constitutes consent?
If I finally agree to something after being nagged interminably - have I consented, or have I just given in?
At the other end of the spectrum, if someone asks for something which doesn't particularly suit my purposes, but I agree to it as it seems fair enough - is that consent?
One situation seems like it is, the other one probably not. But where is the line? To me, consent seems like a vaguely letter-of-the-law, CYA type of word.
I don't think that distinction is as stark as you make it. Spouses can be overly, annoyingly controlling - and it can happen gradually. I'm sure that for every person who doesn't mind their partner knowing where they are, there's another who has been pressured into it - perhaps by it being insinuated that their not wanting to be trackable means that they have something to hide.
I started getting something a bit like that with bread. My whole mouth would go numb. I've eliminated it from my diet - was a bit of a wrench, but I've got over it now, and no more numb mouth.
One definition of ultraprocessed that I heard was the sort of food that needs specialised industrial processes and / or ingredients to create - something you couldn't really prepare in your kitchen.
"Just like the old floating-point is slow; always use integer when possible."
I know this was only an aside - but it took me the longest time to properly internalize that floats were fast these days. I'm still getting used to the idea that double precision isn't a preposterous extravagance. :D
A while back I implemented a sort of hierarchical clustering on points using a recursive k means algorithm. I thought it worked quite well, though I admit it's probably considered a naive approach.
That is truly chilling, man - I'm a father myself, and I just... oh man I'm so, so sorry. There aren't really words, but if I were in the same room as you, I would hug you.
I wonder if that technique could apply more broadly.
For example, if a person suffering from a bout of depression, were to write their depressed feelings "there is no point, no hope" etc.. then rip the paper up and throw it away, might it have any effect on their mood?
That phenomenon goes a lot broader than young kids. Verbal fluency and rhetoric has almost become a sort of personal marketing technique. Sounds impressive at first, but doesn't necessarily correspond to anything of substance behind it. My tentative hypothesis is that it's a symptom of the "optimization" of educational content on the internet.
I seem to be able to get it in around 7-8 guesses usually - based on a fairly good initial guess (85% or so) and the heuristic that if the percentage went up by 1 in the previous axis increment / decrement, that axis is now at the correct value. It's a really entertaining game. Kudos to the author!
The article mentions encoding speed as something to consider, alongside compression ratio. I would argue that decoding speed is also important. A lot of the more modern formats (webp, avif etc) can take significantly more CPU cycles to decode than a plain old jpg. This can slow things down noticeably,especially on mobile.
I agree with you regarding Ectoplasm, but one could choose a different mystical example. The ancient notion that thunder and lightning were the Gods getting angry or fighting. Lightning is real enough, but ancient people didn't know what it was, so had a story to explain to themselves what was happening. People like stories. I used to know an atmospheric physicist whose project launched small rockets into thunderstorms to try and trigger a lightning bolt discharge. He would joke that he was tempting the Gods' anger.
But that's hot vs cold. As I understood it, this article is talking about difference in rate of heating vs. cooling, from the same starting temperature.