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I hope positively surprised :) That's Paul Carter - he's a regular presenter on the BBC, particularly their tech show "BBC Click". Here's a nice interview (https://disabilityhorizons.com/2019/09/paul-carter-journalis...) he gave to Disability Horizons a few years ago about his experiences.

Reddit vaguely has a workable approach with subreddits, but it's still high variance, and they have to discourage long-lived comment threads.

And it doesn't matter what his credentials are, that's appeal to authority. If he thinks this should be used and trusted by people for decision making, then he should submit it to independent peer review and regulatory approval.

This project might lead to people thinking they're in the clear and not seek appropriate medical treatment, or be overtreated due to an error. You should always talk to a qualified doctor if you're concerned about your health, and not use projects like these for decision making.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35362474/

Or any country that isn't the US?

Maybe you don't actually think that the issue in the Tokyo medical school was such a big deal after all?

If you solve Schrödinger's equation with periodic boundary conditions on the potential what you get are Bloch functions, which are the product of a phasor and a periodic function.

"The pound won’t be around for much longer"

so the original sentence is sort of a pun. Maybe "around" is a local use of English.

I guess the distinction is rarely made by professionals because

- It requires defining a reference frame.

- It makes no difference to the causality.

- Time is a function of distance, which usually has large error bars on it, so it's better to discuss the distance instead.

- Time as a function of distance gets more complex on cosmological scales.

On the last point, you can get the exciting realisation that, due to the expansion of space, objects actually start getting larger the further away they get beyond a certain distance.

I don't know how you determined this, but the optimizer minimize op definitely only does one step, equivalent to doing the gradient update yourself.

In terms of utility to effort ratio, I think it's right to start with national legislatures. However, I hope there will eventually be a dataset that's as deep as Political Graveyard for the entire planet, even if just to satisfy my inner data nerd :)

epoch_100: Stick to making an awesome data source and interface to solve the one problem you've picked :)

In the UK mySociety does similar things, their WriteToThem services gives a drill-down on the politicians for a given postcode. You'd probably be really interested in their http://www.everypolitician.org/ project, which is trying to do this for the entire planet -- but generally working from the top down.

I'm involved with https://democracyclub.org.uk/, which works particularly on developing really good election data. epoch_100, reach out to one of us if you want to chat :)

There are exemptions which are pretty low and clearly don't cover the above examples. Plus you still have to do the overly onerous reporting of all your bank accounts. Ultimately the winners are the accountants.

It's not justified at all by services that the US does for overseas citizens, many countries do that without needing a draconian tax system for non-resident citizens.

I think it sort of comes down to Americans believing that you must be up to something dodgy if you want to live in another country :)

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/bor...

In my experience, sites that do this sort of thing usually fail. They're ghost towns, and no-one cares what an unrepresentative sample of internet people think about bills.

I'm not based in the US, but I think the other points are covered by sites like https://www.govtrack.us/. Open Congress was another, but was shut down when the Sunlight Foundation went a bit haywire.