alex_stoddard

The same propensity to develop a harmful (until my mother's generation invariably fatal) immune response attacking the body's own insulin producing cells might be an advantage to fighting off certain infections (possibly in a different genetic context or living with a different set of environmental exposures).

https://www.baen.com/boundary.html

(Like 1632 it also has a dreadful cover - actively despised by Ryk I believe).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_reader

"Unlike most programming languages, Lisp supports parse-time execution of programs, called "read macros" or "reader macros". These are used to extend the syntax either in universal or program-specific ways."

read-string is a convenience over calling read itself as it will take a string rather than needing you to create a java.io.PushbackReader yourself.

As such read and read-string were implemented as core to Clojure's self interpretation and implementation, not as part of a general safe serialization API.

Unfortunately the temptation was to reach for read-string for de-serialization in general as it was so convenient and in the core. In a dev setting where you control and trust all input that is fine. In other contexts it definitely is not!

Influenza genetics are weird: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/change.htm

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06945

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp0904819

I want my electronic documents to do it better, with true re-rendering and inline/overlay display on demand. But it is partly a matter of taste, and there is also something to be said for a degree of skeuomorphism.

Unix - the documentation is excellent if you already know how to do it...

Very roughly it looks like they should have said 0.1 or 10%.

10% of combinded GDP is very much not an easy investment to make!

I found its approach to the philosophical issues it touched on was facile and pretentious. A very cool looking movie but it could have been so much more profound.

  "The Solitaire cryptographic algorithm was designed by Bruce
  Schneier at the request of Neal Stephenson for use by field
  agents in his novel Cryptonomicon, enabling them to
  communicate securely without having to rely on electronics or
  having to carry incriminating tools, It was designed to be a
  manual cryptosystem calculated with an ordinary deck of
  playing cards. In Cryptonomicon, this algorithm was
  originally called Pontifex to hide the fact that it involved
  playing cards."

(And not the A4 size common in the UK and elsewhere. http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithing/a4-vs-us-letter/)

I remember the frustration as kid getting a book of designs from the US and having none of them work quite right.

> All of the AFM cases have tested negative for poliovirus.

"Patent" just means "open", in this case openly declared, not secret.

Ideally "patenting" an invention provides an alternative to an inventor hoarding a trade secret that dies with him or his company. The quid pro quo for the public good of making a technology open knowledge is a temporary government granted monopoly.

The ideal and reality seem to have parted company a long time ago...

Yes impact factor matters to current science as practiced but there is plenty of good criticism to show (at least as it is currently calculated) that it is a lousy measure of what is likely to end up being true, reproducible and useful.

They do say the rules used for all games, including self-play, set komi consistently to 7.5 .

If the strongest AI was consistently winning predominantly with one color it would be an indication that komi isn't fair for the best play.

Of the 20 games released for the strongest play it appears white won 14 times and black 6. I don't think that is enough to be conclusive but maybe komi is too high.

I wonder if different "correct" play at the strongest levels would be learned with a 6.5 komi.

My experience comes from presbyterian churches which have some highly analogous features to corporations deriving from theology and predating by thousands of years the modern corporation. Thus there is a annual "Congregation and Corporation meeting", which is really two meetings for convenience held at the same time but which are formally started and ended separately. Participation is almost identical save that the "Congregation" can have communicant members that are minors and therefore not legally voting members of the earthly corporation.

What I realize I don't understand is the meaning of "Generation at Utility Scale Facilities" in the header of the table. What does this exclude and how meaningful is the exclusion?

According to the table, net generation at utility scale has decreased 10% over the last decade. How much of that is driven by non-utility scale generation versus decreased energy usage? (Alternatively non-utility scale generation has outpaced total growth in energy use - I'm ignorant of total consumption data so I don't know what is really going on).

Either way, the numbers do seem to suggest a case for new nuclear generation overall.

Do you really find it more credible that I am lying than that the massive release of diplomatic cables has had at least one severely negative and unintended consequence?

To provide a bit more context - it is common for any Christian in some countries to be accused of being a US collaborator. Once your name appears in US diplomatic cable, regardless of the reason, it is very bad news.