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I was responding to the enormity of his claims, not the question of ethics.

As long as you don't ask him about Neuralink (-:

In metro systems all over France I find the screech to be almost painful. Can anyone with more experience chip in on how say Paris compares to New York in this regard?

It's a bit of a double-edged sword, no? In many contexts, having identity tied to your online profile should make people act more like humans and less like they're role-playing their anonymous internet troll persona.

"rewrite" obviously implies a much larger change, in my opinion.

After passing a constitutional amendment, would it not be misleading to declare "The US rewrites the constitution" ?

If a 2nd edition of a novel includes a new preface, it would be misleading to advertise the book as "re-written".

You see it as "sexy sounding", I see it as intentionally misleading about the significance of the result.

Being in a relationship with a English/French language divide, DeepL was a total game-changer. I can't attest to its abilities in other languages, but it is obviously superior to google translate on correctness and "natural" translations for our use-case.

A reasonable strategy for me is: 1. Trawl through a resource like this when I come across them 2. If one looks interesting, do a quick google search of "[sub-category] recommended texts for [my-level] level" 3. Buy or Pirate the top recommended text

Resources like this serve as good inspiration to learn about something new.

https://github.com/fogleman/primitive is a favorite of mine.

I think the implication is that there is always a block for government over-reach and waiting for a convenient excuse to execute it.

Just as the implication isn't that the PATRIOT act authors did 9/11, they certainly took the momentum of the aftermath of a tragedy to push their pre-existing agenda.

Can't we at least mostly agree that mistreatment of workers is clearly a more tangible bad offense than most of those?

From personal experience, a small college town can support exactly this kind of atmosphere. Someplace with a healthy mixture of faculty, students and "townies". The one I frequented almost every day of my master's, it had exactly what you describe. No open mic though :)

All the regulars knew each other, the proprietor was abundantly welcoming and chatty, and new-comers regularly got drawn into whatever the running topic happened to be that day. Opened in 2012 and still going strong as of the start of the pandemic.

I can't speak to larger cities. I imagine the rent issue is a significant obstacle there.

Is it really the best comparison to use Stockholm vs. New York state instead of Stockholm vs New York city? A city-city comparison seems more logical, no? In the latter comparison, we have NYC 2x as dense as Stockholm with a much larger population.

I don't know the particularities of Sweden, so maybe it makes more sense as you have outlined it. My apologies if that's the case!

As far as I am aware, intelligence is not the variable we care about with respect to ethical experimentation. Rather, consciousness. All humans are assumed equally conscious, while clearly not equally intelligent.

Similarly, we understand (at least mammalian) brain structure well enough to identify animals like cows to probably have relatively minimal conscious lived experience, even if they have ample processing power, i.e. "intelligence".

So at least in examples from nature, there is no reason to believe that intelligence and conscious lived experience need be correlated meaningfully.

So in your example, we would need some way to quantify the degree to which it's conscious, rather than intelligent.

6L is about 2200 calories worth of sugar if you're drinking Schweppes, so it might cause other complications :)

Does anyone know of a cheaper alternative in this same genre of tablets? That is, E-ink with stylus, but more in the price range of say <= $250?

$500 is just a bit steep...

Damn, are caffeine and coffee associated with bad gut health? Is that anecdotal, or do you know of any research?

I think in mathematics and programming, you often are working with an abstract idea or algorithm, projected onto the tools you are using. Be that the syntax/style/limitations of a specific language, or a branch of mathematics.

In that way, it is the same phenomenon of trying to express an abstract idea, projected onto the language in which you are speaking, with similar issues of syntax/style/limitations inherent to that language.

However, a human language opens a whole dimension of culture and history that is somewhat truly inaccessible from the outside. In this way, math and programming don't appear to me to have an obvious analog.

I think it was a Trump joke.

>ITER will hopefully hit 10.

As a layman, is it right to think that this would mean viable fusion has arrived at that point? I mean, 10x energy out/in is a victory, no? Is there another factor that stops ITER from being immediately used and replicated for energy generation?

He also didn't define eigenvalue in the theorem statement, but you don't seem to be criticizing that as bad style.

Part of the art of mathematical exposition is to walk the line between under and over explaining your process based on your audience.

If the intended audience is academic mathematicians or even just people with a math degree, then the notation is probably familiar. I imagine that's the target audience here.

If you look closely, these alternatives are all labeled "almondmilk", "oatmilk" and "soymilk" for specifically this regulatory hurdle.

> but how many streamed Friends who completely missed it's original run?

23 year old here. I had never seen Friends, thus I never had any nostalgic interest in visiting it.

One weekend last year I had an onsite interview in Denver just before a blizzard hit, snowing me into a Motel 6 for 2 days. No wifi, so I did nothing but watch Friends and Seinfeld reruns on the TV. Probably the first time I'd used a television in my adult life.

I also caught Forrest Gump for the first time late that night. Not a bad film.

Al Capone had dozens of people killed. Surely you realize the absurdity in comparing the professional legacy of these two people.

I can't speak from any experience outside Romance languages, but English verb conjugation is significantly simpler, along with a lack of gendering of nouns. Those two points alone go a long way.

Am I misreading the gp's cited chart? According to that, it seems like hydrogen is only a factor of around 4x worse in terms of volumetric energy density, and is better than petrol in weight density.

I saw that too! What a brilliant idea, given that extremely technical articles tend to have inconsistent/incomplete coverage, and could benefit greatly from this kind of initiative.

If you come from a non-technical background, where many physical discoveries of varying difficulty all seem impossible, it's an obviously misleading headline.

I don't think anyone was really reporting on it notably until a big NYT[0] article a few weeks ago.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can...

> Movements like the Yellow Vest protesters in France, for instance, have a bigger and easier target to attack because the country’s economic and political power is concentrated in Paris.

In this case, wouldn't this be a feature of localisation of private and public elites? That is, it is easier for a grass-roots protest to take hold and target corruption in a centralized way?

The wikipedia page for Markov chains is really one of the best wikipedia pages I've ever seen for a technical topic.

Covers a ton of ground, and gives concrete examples to motivate the ideas.