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Well your awareness contains: beliefs you need a car, desires to do stuff with that car, concepts of money and bank account. It basically contains your life and is not incompatible with the fact of a life happening.

It is not in your brain. Thinking "it's in my brain" happens in your awareness. You think that there is a brain and a body and a world but all these things show up in your awareness and never elsewhere. Look outside, where are the images? Where are the sounds? Where are the feelings? In your awareness. The feeling of 'something outside me' itself is in your awareness.

Where is your awareness? Can you locate it? No because it is always everything you feel. When you move and travel awareness doesn't move. It doesn't have a location or a size or any physical attributes. It is always one field representing all aspects of your life right now.

The brain has effects on the things that can show up in awareness, but not really on the experience of awareness itself. Awareness is always the simple direct experience of things (thoughts, images, sounds, body feelings). You might not get images or get modified thoughts when you have some brain diseases, but you are always this aware field of things appearing.

The thoughts to buy the car, the touch on your wallet, the images of your car, the sounds, all happened in consciousness.

All that evidence appears in the mind and assumes conciousness is located in the brain, when our actual experience is that conciousness is just the container of everything and does not have a location. You can locate your brain but can you locate your conciousness? Everything you see or feel is in your conciousness right now, even the concepts of time and space. How could you conciousness have a position in space?

Your concept of brain is happening in your mind right now. You think there is such a thing like a physical world and a brain but all that is really in your 'conciousness'. Can you feel electrical signals in your brain? Or can you feel senses in your conciousness?

Disclaimer: I have some meditation, observation of the mind and advaita/Zen practice.

If you look at all your experience since you are born, it all happened in your mind, exclusively. The faces of your parents, your first girlfriend, your job, swimming, eating all sums up to senses which all appear in your mind/conciousness. So it is not only that conciousness exists, it is what everything you have ever known is made of. You can claim you experience something that is outside of you, but there is no proof for that. There will never be a proof. A proof would happen in your mind as well. The thoughts of 'outside of mind' will also happen in your mind. Based on experience conciousness is the only thing that really exists.

Just a touch of optimism here. I suffered from depression for 7 years, then started meditation. I can say I am now very happy after 4 years of regular practice. I don't really care if my brain was a bit damaged then. Don't lose hope, everyone has a big potential of happiness just waiting to be explored inside. Have a happy life!

I have been feeling that way ever since two years ago when I first looked at the language. I still don't understand why this language has such popularity. It's really bad for the reasons mentioned. C++ is a solid language where you can do everything you want and also write memory safe code in a clean way with unique_ptr. C++ is not perfect but to me no alternative come close yet, rust and go comprised.

Here are a few thoughts:

- Starting something new is hard, but it can get better after a while. Be patient and maybe you'll discover a better side of your job, meet exciting people etc.

- Maybe you're not doing what you really like. Try to find what you're really passionate about and do it.

- Maybe you need a deeper meaning to your life. For me it was meditation. I needed that deeper breath in my life and it gives me a lot of joy and hope. For others it might be traveling the world, family, volunteering... Your disappointment might be asking for such a change.

I disagree. If you read the atari paper you will get plenty of details and you can infer how it is applied to electricity consumption. They were using reinforcement learning. The algorithms would learn to get a better score by looking at the screen and sending actions accordingly. Here you could imagine the same algorithm with energy consumption as a score, a set of datacenter metrics as the screen (state) and change of metrics as actions.

How about VPN + regular HBO?

I agree about this. I wanted to give rust a go and tried to implement a graph for a DFA. I realized it was a pain. Even in general I find rust super hard to use with the references lifetimes etc. I don't understand the buzz going around rust when it's so hard to use in practice.

I am frustrated with new languages. I agree that C++ is old and needs a more modern replacement but:

- Go is weird with no templates and no functional programming.

- Nim comes close to my dream language but has a GC and some very awkward features like globally imported namespaces.

If I had to start a new project I would probably pick Nim or C++.

I meant that learning about ML and getting some field experience helps you figuring out when to use ML and how. For how to get into, there are a lot of resources and state of the art algorithms/papers/implementations are freely available. For me working on ML projects at my job and talking to some experts was ideal, but I am sure it is possible to learn on one's own with enough motivation. Good luck!

I don't believe in "everyone should work on machine learning". I worked on several deep learning models but I don't really like it. It is a very different job than software engineering in my opinion. ML is more about gathering data and tuning the models as opposed to building stuff. I have spent months working on models and barely wrote any code. It is more efficient to have ML experts focus on the modeling and software engineers use the model.

I do believe however that some experience is needed to understand what is possible and best benefit from existing tools or to be able to communicate with machine learning engineers about your needs.

Wouldn't the price of everything raise accordingly, so that you basically can't afford anything with the basic income?

Allowing anonymous users would be great. For example I would like to create such a group/space for my family even though some of them do not have google accounts.

Does this book mention attention models?

I have a lot of respect for someone who went through so much. At a much smaller scale I think that one can be depressed when pursuing a strong goal comes to an end. It could be a project at work or a degree. I have been depressed in such situations. I think being able to let go the past and move on to a different life can help. In my case meditation helped me realize happiness is not so much about goals but more about being satisfied with simple things.

Try meditation, it got me out of depression after 3 years of pain, seeing a lot of psychiatrists and taking multiple antidepressants. There is always a reason why we are depressed. We need to go deep into ourselves to find it, there is no other way.

You should allow people to delete their profile.

I was wondering what was the template behind all these similar designs. Today I learned. I really like that template and I love the idea that one can build a beautiful website with little effort. Why reinventing the wheel?

Can someone explain me why the researchers themselves don't publish their work for free? The article says they are not paid for the articles so I don't see why they couldn't do that.

There should be laws against this. A judge should be able to tell when a behavior is harassment, and forbid the harasser from contacting the person again with more severe charges if he does again.

I wish the design and image quality of the emoticons was better. They look a bit ugly and the resolution is low. It looks pretty bad on my retina screen.

Quote from the dalai lama: Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

You can also compute the factorials at compile time with templates:

template<int64_t n> int64_t fact() { return n * fact<n-1>(); } template<> int64_t fact<0>() { return 1; }

The book "Modern C++ design" from Alexandrescu extensively covers that kind of stuff.

There might even be a way to use a loop and constexprs.

This is great news. I work at a big company with advanced machine learning tools and infrastructure. Everytime I use them I am amazed by the tools but kinda sad for the students and researchers who have to deal with simpler/less powerful tools. This gives me hope that the best tools will eventually be open source.

This is very exciting to see these distributed deep learning frameworks open sourced by top companies. What I do not understand is why amazon AWS and other top cloud service are not integrating these frameworks in their services. Training a distributed neural net should be as simple as defining the model and specifying the resources.

This is nice but what are the use cases for such an optimization ? My understanding is that such an optimization will not matter anyway compared to all the I/O and other expensive operations. And if a program is really too slow then the true optimization is to scale with threads or distributed computing.

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