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Lack of empirical results is a recognized problem. I do however know of one effort to dig out and bring together data sets - http://www.knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/

Even in experiments where it's very easy to make a study replicable by simply sharing the code, many people do not. I take this as evidence that the goal of research is rarely good science.

You could potentially remove more?

I would maybe use this if it was Django and React only, there are many things in the tech stack which I just don't want to get into.

For example, I would be happy with sqlite instead of postgres. I'll migrate if sqlite ever gets near capacity.

Ya I use cygwin where I can, many of the reinventions don't improve usability.

powershell is ok, I guess, but the core issue is it's over-engineered.

Bash is weird, but it is everywhere and it's simple, and that simplicity is going the be very difficult to replace. How do replace nothing?

I love Python, do switch to it.

( The windows and MS stack is utter balls )

Right, I think the key is learning something new in an area where you know the least. Even getting to know the simplest concepts can go a long way.

My favorite example: cropping a photo to improve composition. It's simple and easy to do, but it can have a comparatively large impact on a photo.

Learning more and more specialized tech can give diminishing returns.

I edited my first video this weekend after installing kdenlive and watching a couple of tutorials on youtube.

Learning even the simplest things in another area can be very empowering and rewarding.

https://kdenlive.org

Super slow intro to the tool itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIdOlnpRzQ

Simple but effective techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_xMXzr2XY

Large corps can afford to figure out ways around the tax law internationally, while countries take a long time to legislate internationally.

Easier for states to retaliate by suing, or otherwise fining, like google in the EU https://www.wired.com/story/eu-hits-google-third-billion-dol...

potentially cheaper than paying taxes?

Stripe was valued at roughly 1B after 5 years. Realex payments, an Irish payments processor formed around 2000, was sold for 115M after 15 years.

Anyone have a link to the leaked documents?

I wonder how these pages change in content and tone across languages..

How did you find this?

I get at least 8 hours with Debian/Openbox on a Samsung Notebook 9 Pro 13.3" - NP940X3N

What alternatives exist and how do they compare? ( For example, jsinspect finds structurally similar code )

"US lobby groups for agriculture and pharmaceutical firms want UK standards changed to be closer to those of the US in a post-Brexit trade deal." https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47036119

Abstract: We present a PaperRobot who performs as an automatic research assistant by (1) conducting deep understanding of a large collection of human-written papers in a target domain and constructing comprehensive background knowledge graphs (KGs); (2) creating new ideas by predicting links from the background KGs, by combining graph attention and contextual text attention; (3) incrementally writing some key elements of a new paper based on memory-attention networks: from the input title along with predicted related entities to generate a paper abstract, from the abstract to generate conclusion and future work, and finally from future work to generate a title for a follow-on paper. Turing Tests, where a biomedical domain expert is asked to compare a system output and a human-authored string, show PaperRobot generated abstracts, conclusion and future work sections, and new titles are chosen over human-written ones up to 30%, 24% and 12% of the time, respectively.

How many Teslas are on the road, how many have been involved in fatal crashes, and for how many of those crashes was autopilot turned on?

The last paragraph includes this about Y Combinator: "in my opinion it’s also incubated a lot of nonsense." and "tends to produce great innovation with a generous pinch of bullshit."

Is there some backstory missing here?

Toyota has solved enough EV for practical requirements, in the form of hybrids. They've over a decade experience in deploying for practical purposes.

Toyota's "basic" software can be an advantage, it works. Autopilot is far from mastered, by anyone.

I've started using Ammonite for scripting, which certainly feels more solid than bash.

https://github.com/lihaoyi/Ammonite

Many times previously I've starting really quickly testing/prototyping an idea in bash, which eventually grew large and unweildy. Ammonite appears like it might allow quick hacking, but also the option to easily transition your scripts into scala proper while leveraging the good bits of Java.

This looks like a chuwi, same body?

Chuwi 12.3 ?

Open and quick is nice.. I guess.

How is the code interesting?

What features of this OS differentiate it from others?

Time to upgrade my laptop

"the underlying technologies are not yet scalable" - What does this mean?

Could someone comment on solid state solutions to harnessing wind energy?

If you've already learned to install and use Emacs, one more package aint gonna kill ya.

We might not be able to avoid proof of work, but we could make the work useful in some other way.

Primecoin is an example of this, where the mining process produces prime numbers which can be useful for.. something?

I wish more companies could just work on refining their products. It seems that many new products are no better than their predecessors, and in some cases they seem worse as companies strive to differentiate themselves at the cost of functionality.

I like the sound of a new ThinkPad.

It might have been hubris at the time he got the prize, but later he felt different about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUcmKDaklY

Feynman also said:

"Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize." [1]

Showing a limitation of the maxim or Feynman's hubris?

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman