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grp000··on Scientists find second ‘short sleep’ gene (2019)
I think that's down to risk management skills of an individual. It could also be the case that sleeping less means you're more aware of external threats and ambushes and you can be more productive.
grp000··on The World’s Northernmost Town
Hello from Phoenix, AZ! Could you describe some of these surreal experiences?
grp000··on ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program
One of the videos mentioned they were evolved in a different simulation.
grp000··on ST3000DM001
I'm not familiar with data center tools or terminology. What is a tazer in this context?
grp000··on Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen
That's just pomp and show business though. I think the ancients were very long term planners. One of the upsides to a regime with very centralized and absolute power. Great wall of China, Pyramids of Giza to name some.
grp000··on A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem
Phoenix is laid out on a grid, but you can hardly call the streets "tracks".
grp000··on Monetizing open-source is problematic
Are you allowed to retro-actively change your license to something more restrictive?
grp000··on Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)
Ironically, because of how ridiculous it was.
grp000··on Tesla crash driver posted videos of himself riding without hands on wheel
This just boils down to another tesla-tard being arrogantly confident in a very imperfect system that, while improving, does fail, with very high consequences. There is a reason the automated driving system requires attentiveness and proper hand/foot placement, much less being in an entirely different seat.
grp000··on Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case
In another incident, Sung “extracted” a promise from Chadha for $6,000 worth of luxury box suites at a San Jose Sharks game on Valentine’s Day, 2019, before issuing Chadha a CCW permit, Rosen said.

“Sheriff Laurie Smith’s family members and some of her biggest supporters held a celebration of her reelection as sheriff in Chadha’s suite,” Rosen said.

She's definitely not painted in a good light, that's for sure.

grp000··on A bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food
See, that's where it gets interesting. We can then move on to the next stage of the experiment where we give the crows hands, allowing them to fix the machine themselves.
grp000··on For Alaska shipwreck survivor, losing everything has been ‘sort of liberating’
NewGame+. Apply the same processes of your success (minus harder sacrifices that take a toll) to a cause/goal that moves you. Doors can probably be opened much faster with your previous success and wealth, but you can just aim for a harder area to break into, or a higher impact outcome.
grp000··on On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
That would make sense if documentation were a standalone product, but it's completely complementary to the language, so that doesn't make any sense.
grp000··on AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
Mmmm. Bowl of chocolate ice cream, tasty.
grp000··on AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball
I think in this case, the fundamental problem that other replies also stated is the lack of a generality of context. The system was trained to recognize balls, but it had no concept of a person. Train it on balls and people, and I'm sure the performance would improve because you can tell the system to not track things classified as a person. But then your system is also trying to draw boxes around people. So, now maybe your BB (bounding box) for people and ball keep overlapping. Now, you train it on image segmentation (draw an outline around objects) as opposed to bounding box selection and the performance also improves. The downside is now you require significantly more compute power on hand/lower sampling rate, etc.

I think it is a testament to not just human complexity, but human efficiency.

grp000··on AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball
its probably finding bounding boxes based on highest probability %. So, it's a shame the refs head looks more like a soccer ball than the soccer ball!
grp000··on AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th
With ML workloads being so ram intensive, more than a few times I wished AMD properly supported the right ML packages. Their cost/GB is such a good deal vs Nvidia.
grp000··on /* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (2018)
As things are getting more complex, more people become specialized, and there are a lot more interfaces between specialties that need to be properly defined so things don't break. The more interfaces mean a higher likelihood of a system going wrong. That, and I feel that as long as you have a good big picture, you have a higher fault tolerance because there is a general goal you can identify to strive towards when something does go wrong to correct it. Certainly, I feel that in any field that has become sufficiently complex, there is a practical human limit for a single person to understand the field as a whole. Even if someone can claim to understand a field as a whole in a general sense and how it's major components interact, they will still lose information because of how much they have to abstract.
grp000··on Scientists Create Living Concrete
There is a difference between a succinct argument and an incomplete argument. I'll leave it there because you seem like you want a reason to be offended.
grp000··on Scientists Create Living Concrete
That's a fair point. However, stating the case for my argument, gelatin is a by-product and not necessarily a by-product of beef which is well-known for being a big contributor of C02 emissions, but other sources like chicken. From my understanding, anything that provides collagen can provide a basis for gelatin. To reach a well thought out conclusion dictates a full analysis, my gut feel is just that gelatin could provide a more environmentally beneficial solution.
grp000··on Scientists Create Living Concrete
Cement accounts for 8% of global C02 emissions. The article says it would be a step forward environmentally, and I'm inclined to believe them.
grp000··on He Married a Sociopath: Me
I remember from my childhood a lot of supermarkets had cheap stuff at the checkout for people waiting in line. Gossip mags, candy bars, gimmicky stuff. She could be referring to that, something along the lines of putting a vapid mag in someone's cart that doesn't look the type to be into that kind of thing.
grp000··on Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
Agreed! As someone who is in a tough spot right now, this post really hit home.
grp000··on Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
America has the fundamental problem of large size, little EV infrastructure and poor public transit outside metro areas.
grp000··on When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
Time to put out an alert on raw onion-eaters
grp000··on Instant.page
They say two loads per click, so it sounds like you'll have 100% increase rate in requests less hovers under 65ms that click.
grp000··on Score matching with Langevin Sampling: a new contender to GANs
Most math heavy content is written very drily. Seeing emojis makes reading it feel more comfy and human. If someone maps the greek alphabet to emojis, you could enjoy the integration on a deeper, more intimate level. The math of emotion!
grp000··on What’s wrong with computational notebooks?
Doing data science in an IDE would be terrible. With a notebook, you get the chance to load the data, view it, clean it where needed, view it again, analyze it, model it and do anything else you need to it. An IDE means that you can't use the previous output to guide your next operation in a direct fashion like you can with a notebook.
grp000··on Ever-growing cars: why they keep on getting wider
The article is addressing the size increases in car models between generations. Popularity of SUVs over other types of car is a different issue.
grp000··on Ever-growing cars: why they keep on getting wider
From the article in the first paragraph: "To comply with today’s stringent crash regulations – by passing offset, side and roof impact tests, as well as those evaluating pedestrian protection performance – cars require considerable cubic metres of controllably crushable bodywork."
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