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Look, nobody is talking about Nebraska. the density of the east coast is easily high enough to support high speed high quality rail.

the same reason omnivores are sometimes highly critical of veg*ns: there's a moral claim going on, so their identity/ moral standing is threatened.

maybe I'm just super used to it at this point but I don't really notice any friction in 1-1's. larger groups there's some (4+), but tbh it's not that much worse than the friction of that size in person

> And that, perhaps, is the real danger of kudzu. Our obsession with the vine hides the South. It veils more serious threats to the countryside, like suburban sprawl, or more destructive invasive plants such as the dense and aggressive cogon grass and the shrubby privet. More important, it obscures the beauty of the South’s original landscape, reducing its rich diversity to a simplistic metaphor.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person that's read a given article... Though I guess I actually read it last time it was posted.

> everything visible from the highway,

But isn't this exactly what the article is arguing?

> As trees grew in the cleared lands near roadsides, kudzu rose with them. It appeared not to stop because there were no grazers to eat it back. But, in fact, it rarely penetrates deeply into a forest; it climbs well only in sunny areas on the forest edge and suffers in shade.

> Still, along Southern roads, the blankets of untouched kudzu create famous spectacles.

Facebook immediately comes to mind. Does google even have an ad-free version? Youtube nominally does (though that doesn't stop channels from running their own).

Then separate out the basic science from the defense work which requires that bureaucratic oversight. Or direct that funding to universities. My main point is allowing monopolies because they direct their excess profits to research to hide their excess profits is just a complicated tax to fund basic research, which we would be better off spending directly on research without bloated executive salaries and distorted markets in e.g. search or browsers.

just skip the middle man skimming off the top and 10x the national labs funding.

https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html has most of the public ones

this is kind of a thing in the States, the program is called Nwss. https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html

The losers. The winners are too busy governing to give a shit. https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/

journals have zero incentives to care about any of this.

banks aren't safe because they're unrobbable, they get robbed all the time. They're safe because they're the ones taking on the risk. Data isn't fungible like cash though.

modern polite way of saying rtfm

Generally agree, though Mathematica is for physics, I rarely saw it used by mathematicians, especially compared with MATLAB, which was closer to the programming language of choice. That or Julia were both more common.

> I think that Python is what you get when you have real programmers (^TM) try to create the programming equivalent of something like MATLAB, Mathematica, and R.

I think this is a better description of Julia tbh, at least relative to MATLAB.

in addition to neighbor, there are multiple standards for everything, even core language features like objects, which makes reasoning about code difficult. dplyr and friends, which make the aforementioned data analysis easier, require interacting with one of the least consistent metaprogramming systems I've ever dealt with.

I'm in this picture, and I'm begging my collaborators to move to Julia or Python.

with FDIC gone? unlikely, in such a case the dollar will probably have lost value as a means of exchange, if only temporarily

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

if FDIC is going down you have way worse problems than mere access to cash

A difficult to guess fraction of all of these results are training to the test in various forms

privacy isn't really a market power problem though, because you can have a market in such data. We need comprehensive laws protecting privacy before an agency can enforce them.

As far as I understand it, there's a standing hypothesis that cortical columns have a similar structure that is designed to learn arbitrary patterns via predictive coding, and that a lot of human plasticity arises from the interaction and flexibility of these columns.

Numenta has attempted to implement a system to this effect (see the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory) for quite some time with not particularly much success.

Personally I think the kinds of minds we create in silico will end up being very different, because the advantages and disadvantages of the medium are just very different; for example, having a much stronger central processor and much weaker distributed memory, along with specialized precise circuits in addition to probabilistic ones.

You could maybe make a case for CNNs, but the fact that they're feed-forward rather than feedback means they're fundamentally representing a different object (CNN is a function, whereas the visual system is a feedback network).

Transformers, while not exactly functions, don't have a feedback mechanism similar to e.g. the cortical algorithm or any other neuronal structure I'm aware of. In general, the ML field is less concerned with replicating neural mechanisms than following the objective gradient.

Because the tools we need to measure differences between the proposed models are more than the current total economic output. We'll need several generations before its feasible.

There's no reason it's intelligence should care about your goals though. the worry is creating a sociopathic (or weirder/worse) intelligence. Morality isn't derivable from first principles, it's a consequence of values.

no, there's really no comparing barely nonlinear algrebra that makes up transformers and the tangled mess that is human neurons. the name is an artifact and a useful bit of salesmanship.

So only applicable for students, but office hours are frequently extremely under-utilized, and professors love to talk about their subject of interest.

Back in Sacramento I saw a 1500 with a decal of mud on their shiny spotless truck. They went out of their way to announce how useless the vehicle actually was.

Well if that doesn't demonstrate their priorities I don't know what would.