ProjectArcturis

I for one am happy to see a billionaire get screwed by ordinary investors for once.

Yup. When a VC-backed company goes bankrupt, no one bats an eye. When Solyndra's loans go bad, even though it was a tiny fraction of the government's green energy portfolio, you get headlines and congressional hearings.

At least they've only sold 3800 so far. But what are the odds this is the only thing that will need to be recalled?

Thanks for the background. It sounds like hydraulic robots are fundamentally flawed, either in their expense or their performance?

What's the difference between reasoning and pretending to reason really well?

I can see it dramatically reducing the need for fertilizer, making farming cheaper and less polluting. I hope the patenting company does protect its IP and makes a ton of money from the good it would do for the world.

Creating a food crop plant that contains these organelles will be an incredible challenge. They will need to solve dozens of difficult technical problems. It is obviously non-obvious.

It's mainly intended to reduce the screening burden at the TSA checkpoints.

ML skews more senior, so the average is probably higher, but matching seniority there isn't much premium at all.

Why would you want to? There's a huge glut of ML engineers.

I had a colleague who was an Air Force neurologist during the Vietnam era. His main job was to study pilots' EEGs to make sure they had a very low risk of epilepsy (because, of course, having a seizure in a fighter jet is very very bad).

Well, back in those days, boxing was part of the training, even for pilots who would never see hand-to-hand combat. My colleague found that pilots who had their EEG scans after a boxing class were far more likely to show epileptiform brain activity.

It was hilarious when Banksy did it. He released videos of him in an absurd costume sticking the painting on the wall of the museum. I heard an interview where he explained, "Well, it can take them a very long time to put you in the museum, so I figured I'd just cut out the middleman."

This just seems like the same gag, but not as good.

I think it's a reasonable explanation for the name, but it almost completely rules out these three people as the author of Bitcoin. Using part of your actual name as part of your pseudonym would be incredibly stupid.

Chelsea Manning (nee Brad) was caught almost immediately because she leaked her documents through an account with the username "bmanningfm".

In Italy, getting something notarized costs $1-2k. As far as I know, the position is still passed down from parents to children.

> a customer (UK Ltd) who declared bankruptcy owing us a money and then then next day founded a new Ltd company and tried to act like he didn't owe us the money because it was a new entity.

That is... how bankruptcy works? He literally didn't owe you money anymore. Obviously you shouldn't extend his new company credit, but extinguishing old debts is the exact purpose of bankruptcy.

If that was the good side, I certainly don't want to see the bad side. Maybe they gave her an honest answer, but the better answer would have been to help her learn the language.

Hard to evaluate without seeing data. In particular I think this tool would have problems distinguishing autism from other developmental disorders.

US police buy almost exclusively domestic vehicles.

Long-term opiate use can really mess up your bowels. Matthew Perry nearly died of a perforated colon a couple years before he finally died from other drugs.

Oh yes, it's been like that for years now. I see the attraction: high salary, cool title. But you need to have the right kind of brain for it, and more importantly, a lot of companies have gotten burned on their DS experiments and pulled back their investments.

As a data scientist, I would advise against moving from software engineering to ML. There is an enormous glut of junior DS/ML people. The boot camps and masters programs capitalized on the hype, and now there are way more than the market can absorb. Anecdotally, my recruiter spam has gone way down over the past couple years.

The only worthwhile related masters degree, IMO, would be in large AI from a top-tier university.

It would be obvious to you if your esophageal cells started producing TTF3? What would that feel like?

I think the problem is not so much that the stories feature characters who are not white men, but more so that they've completely saturated the market for those IPs.

At this point, in the Star Wars and Marvel universes, it all feels pretty formulaic. The stories have already been told, but now they have to keep producing something in order to make this quarter's earnings numbers. None of it feels essential to watch.

Out of curiosity, I found a study, "A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England", which dug up his bones and estimated he was 170 cm (about 5'7").

I've always wondered about the accuracy of the book, in part because the junior samurai kill themselves a LOT. They're forced to commit seppuku for being late to their work in the morning. There's a scene where a samurai jumps off a cliff to his death just get his boss's attention (I guess yelling would have been rude).

Also ninjas are depicted as super-powerful badasses. Which fits the legend, certainly, but isn't particularly realistic.

This collection doesn't address those criticisms -- it's more of a literary analysis than a set of fact checks. But I'd still like to know.

If you made half a million bucks doing something in high school, it'd be pretty hard to go the college route and hope to eventually get a job grinding $100k a year.

I do not have that information. How do they make their money?

This isn't just evil, it's stupid. I can't imagine a worse policy for the long-term success of that site. Like, I just don't see any upside -- what usage boost are they going to get from putting real names on there?

>adding that TerraPower planned to bring the plant online in 2030.

I'll take the Over.

Once you climb that steep learning curve, absolutely.