Self reporting is a notoriously bad measure. It would be nice if we had actual, measurable data to go on.
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> Although a majority of the state’s voters approved an energy transition ballot question last year, large-scale projects like Battle Born Solar have drawn backlash from conservationists, endangered species advocates and local businesses that cater to tourists.
But you don't need to take anyone's word for it. Here is a local group very proud to assist Save our Mesa to kill the project [5][6][7].
If you would like to read more about how environmental and conservation groups sometimes oppose renewable energy projects, you can do so [1][2][3][4].
[1] http://archive.today/2021.06.15-141516/https://www.wsj.com/a...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-wars/special-report...
[3] https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2021/06/16/true-impact-of-high...
[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-29/san-franc...
[5] https://twitter.com/BasinRange/status/1418497834949636098?s=...
[6] https://twitter.com/BasinRange/status/1323327146585022465?s=...
[7] https://twitter.com/BasinRange/status/1418665885263228928?s=...
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At some point we’re going to have to grapple with the fact many “concerned” groups don’t actually care about climate change. Instead they use it as a stalking horse for other political projects.
[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=47776
[2] https://apnews.com/article/technology-government-and-politic...
Last year incomes went up for the lowest earners. When less wealthy people get more money they tend to buy material, mass market goods. Large corporations tend to be the main suppliers of those goods. Thus, increasing buying power at the lower end of the income distribution results in companies earning more money.
Using taxes as a means of controlling inflation (raising them when inflation rises) may be true in theory but it is of zero practical importance. Raising taxes during inflationary periods, compounding the loss spending power, is a fantastic way for a politician to lose their job.
If this was true, the phenomena of feral children would not exist [1]. Human brains are socially engineered by an array of informal (family, friends, social context) and formal (schooling, governments) institutions.
I am aware of a healthcare company which currently has a model in production which alerts healthcare providers if a person displays suicidal intent. They have several confirmed instances deaths being prevented because of the interventions taken due to alerts from their model. While I don't think ML should be used to manipulate people's emotional states, I think this is a case where having a model that can read people's emotions is a good thing.
> It's not profitable to use AI for wholesome and healthy things for people, so nobody does
The purpose of the ML systems I build is to detect when things go wrong in order to keep people safe. These systems are both important and extremely valuable. They just aren't quite as sexy as the latest computer vision or large language models. But that's ok. Normal people only become aware of such systems when things go horribly wrong. It's sort of like plumbing in that regard.
Source: https://www.nycourts.gov/courthelp/criminal/sealedGoodResult...
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This [6] is a more in depth look at hierarchical / multi-level modeling. The prediction section [7] specifically goes over cross validation and inference.
[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/probability/examples/Multilevel_M... [2] https://pyro.ai/examples/forecasting_iii.html [3] http://edwardlib.org/ [4] https://mc-stan.org/ [5] https://docs.pymc.io/ [6] https://docs.pymc.io/notebooks/multilevel_modeling.html [7] https://docs.pymc.io/notebooks/multilevel_modeling.html#Pred...
Stuff like this really should be handled using survival analysis.
I'm a bit surprised julialang.org only links to a the oreilly store page. Seems like you would want to call attention to a resource like this.
>It is entirely possible that every section of the mind is just a huge freeform fpga that is initialized by DNA, but I think it is more hardwired than that.
I agree that it is more hardwired than that. We have too much wetware devoted to various tasks, the most notable of which is visual processing, for it to just be completely freeform. Although it's pretty interesting just how close the wetware comes to resembling an FPGA. People who are blind from birth don't just let all that processing power to go waste [1].
> My thought on it is that there are many subconscious thought streams that we are normally unaware of. People who become aware of them are thought to be crazy, but really I think the normal blocks from their conscious reasoning are just weak.
I think your view is supported by our current understanding of the evidence [2]. It's interesting to think what other processes might be running silently in our subconscious.
> I agree also that some people don't have the same "internal dialogue" and the stream of tokens are not equal to words like we communicate with others. I don't think that invalidates that there is some sort of token stream though.
I didn't mean to imply the token stream idea itself was bad, just that it being in the form of language doesn't hold up. I agree with you that there is some sort of token stream going on.
> The question I've always had is "how much of consciousness shuts down when you sleep" and/or "does staying awake longer mean your conscious thought process gains more access to the rest of your mind". My speculation is that the latter is true, because if you stay awake too long you will appear to be "crazy".
I'm not sure this is a question of gaining access to more of one's mind rather than it is an abstraction beginning to leak. When functioning properly all this information should returned in process when the brain scans its state. But when we lack sleep the summarization process might brake down. If the brain operates in a sleep deprived state for long enough connections may begin to form where they shouldn't introducing bugs in the brain's ability to perform state summary. There is some interesting research into how chronic lack of sleep may contribute to alzheimer's [3]. This research is by no means conclusive and I am not anywhere close to being a neuroscientist, but its interesting nonetheless.
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-does-human-ech... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059570/ [3] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/sleep-d...
This is the most common way for humans to experience thought but it is by no means necessary. [1] Weirder still, we know that only half of a brain is needed to operate a human body + consciousness since people with hemispherectomies exist and basically the same as before their operations.
I think you could roughly characterize capsule networks [2] as approaching something like the communication between sub networks you described.
Honestly I don't think you're wrong wrt token passing, but I think it probably looks like those tokens are actually compressions of sub network data rather than expressions themselves.
[1] https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/44494/1/li...