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Where did anyone say a global ban or even national? I personally do not see it as "an incredible economic opportunity," I see it as a massive gamble that won't bear fruit, but that's beside the point. If localities want to bet on them fine, they can have them like I originally said.
"totalitarian" for a democratically elected representative government to ban something? How? If other counties or states want them fine, godspeed, take them. We'll be just fine without them.
- Lifetime resident of what might as well be called AWS us-east-1, Virginia now.
I'd say Farsi is too. I'm finding it easier than Spanish much to my surprise.
"people, universally, want the best product available"
Maybe I'm not a person, but I almost always pick one of the cheaper if not cheapest option. Rarely, if ever, do I care enough to get the best of anything...
No, this guy (the writer of the article) has no idea what he’s talking about. I say this as someone isn’t even on the left.
He sets a false dichotomy to protect himself from criticism. Zoning/building codes being too strict and monopolies existing in that market aren’t incompatible.
It’s worth noting that there’s a lot of money behind this abundance movement or whatever, so that’s something to take into account when reading this stuff.
RStudio is still a web app. It's GWT with QtWebEngine whereas this is Electron. Not too different.
You should read a bit more beyond Wikipedia. It’s a far, far more complicated and interesting story than you’re portraying it to be.
The Catholic Church actually initially funded Copernicus and was interested in his findings, but this was the reformation and counter-reformation, so that context is extremely important as to why their stance changed.
What they did to Giordano Bruno, on the other hand, is a massive stain on the church.
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He/she isn't used to it. Any R, Elixir, or F# developer would be right at home with this syntax.
Any chance you remember the name of the SQLite course?
Why? The first 4 government functions he dismantled or took over are CFPB, NLRB, USAID, and Treasury. Weakening, removing, or taking control of any/all of those directly benefit him.
Either way, it doesn't matter what his motives are. He's not Congress.
Pretty much everything you said here doesn't align with history. And if anything, Catholics are more inclined to agree that the Bible is a product of human writing and translation because they don't agree with the Protestant doctrine of Sola scriptura. Also, Catholics consider the Orthodox church to be in communion with Rome - they don't consider it a different religion and aren't opposed to the Bible being translated into vernacular languages. No idea where that came from.
Bun too
It’s an entire book length of material, but in short, for built up areas drivers are forced through street to design to be higher alert to their surroundings. EX: chicanes in the road, speed tables, brick roads, narrow streets, small/tight turn radius, no turn on red, etc. These all work together to make a system that is amongst the safest in the world for pedestrians, and by happenstance has the happiest drivers.
Also, bike traffic and vehicle through traffic are separated on different networks, so a conflicts are minimized.
Agreed. But I don’t think economics is off the hook here either. To me it’s the social science that best masquerades as a “hard” science while still make huge jumps in logic that are rarely justified in the papers I’ve read.
DC might not be the best comparison here as far as American cities go. I - and most people I know - walk around the city year round and I live on the top of a pretty steep hill.
I haven't found this to be true at all. In fact, I'd say the majority of studies I read - even from prestigious journals - is fraught with bad statistics. I have no idea how some of these studies were even allowed to be published. Some fields are worse than others, but it's still a huge problem pretty much across the board.
People conduct science, and a lot of those people don't understand statistics that well. This quote from nearly 100 years ago still rings true in my experience:
"To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of."
- Ronald Fisher (1938)
I can attest that the frequentist view is still very much the mainstream here too and fills almost every college curriculum across the United States. You may get one or two Bayesian classes if you're a stats major, but generally it's hypothesis testing, point estimates, etc.
Regardless, the idea that frequentist stats requires a stronger background in mathematics is just flat out silly though, not even sure what you mean by that.
Keynote is awesome. Last I checked a few years ago though Numbers was nowhere even close to Excel. No dynamic array formulas, Power Query, lambda functions, VBA, etc. All are pretty essential if you're doing anything beyond basic spreadsheets but I may need to checkout Numbers again.
Except that's not what I'm saying and it does in fact matter what's under the hood if you're looking for a scientific, causal explanation of organic intelligence. I know that AIs are useful, and that they can be logically sounds and make real world contributions. That's not what the article is arguing against. Human reasoning, by the way, is much more complicated than any of these things.
The article states that AI will never reach human intelligence, which LeCun defines as "reasoning, planning, persistent memory, and understanding the physical world."
I would argue that's still an extremely narrow definition of human intelligence. Even ignoring semantics current AIs cannot do any of those things, and to my lights never will for the same reasons LeCun says.
I believe you, and LLMs are no doubt useful, but "under the hood" it's still just predicting what the next token should be based on the provided context. I take it he's saying that no, there isn't really a ghost in the machine, its still just linear algebra/calculus and is no reflection of actual organic reasoning.
I think the difference of opinion here is between science and technology. Too many people in my opinion take the latter to be a synonym for the former.
If you're genuinely interested in this below are a couple things you could read to help get some background. Its actually a pretty fascinating history.
Judging by your phrasing, your interpretation of antitrust stems from Robert Bork and has been the mainstream thought for a long time. Read The Antitrust Paradox by him to see how we got here and why the courts have acted how they have for the past 40 years.
The current chair of the FTC, Lina Khan, was actually an academic prior to working for the government and has a long paper trail of how she interprets the law. In short (and extremely oversimplified), it modernizes the Brandeis interpretation that bigness is bad for society in general, regardless of consumer pricing. EX: If Apple were a country its GDP would surpass the GDPs of all but four nations. They argue this is bad flat out.
Can't say it was the only cause, but Khan's paper, Amazon's Antitrust Paradox - note the reference to Bork's book - is partially what resparked a renewed interest in antitrust for the modern era if you want to check it out.
Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns by Mark Seemann.
Examples are in C# but it's a great book about OOP in general.
F# has something called Fable. It originally just compiled down to JavaScript. Recently they've added Python and Dart.
The whole high rise situation in almost every U.S. city you described (i.e. small central cluster of high-rises) is more a result of insane zoning policies, not traffic safety. High density and peace and quiet really aren’t mutually exclusive, although admittedly 99% of towns and suburbs in the U.S. fail to build such places, largely, in fact, because of traffic engineering.
For example, I lived in a town of around 100k in the Netherlands called Delft for a while - high density, walkable, and far quieter than the two suburbs I lived in the United States.
Not saying the situation will ever change here. But it is possible.
Jet.com has a lot of good ones yeah. One I was looking through the other day is a GitHub repo under /ScottArbeit/Grace and it’s an interesting take on version control. It was a pretty cool repo to look through. To make it easier though, remember that F# source code files are all “in order” so you read them from top down, which Github doesn’t currently have functionality for.
So many, I like reading how other people write code.
R - sf package is a clean example of functional OOP
Python - pytudes (Peter Norvig’s notebooks)
Haskell - Elm compiler. I could mostly understand what’s going on even though I barely know any Haskell.
Ruby - Sequel is really nice.
Rust - Ripgrep
Pretty much any F# codebase is super readable too.
Oh definitely agree on both parts. And yeah that's what I meant by the last point. I couldn't care less about politics or the federal government, the outer neighborhoods are where the "real" DC is at in my opinion.
I've lived in the area my entire life, and DC proper for around the past 7 years. I love living here and am without question biased but I'll do my best to give you some objective advice.
- As others have said, it's a very transient city. A lot of people live here for 5 years then move. Most of my friends/family live here so this isn't an issue for me but take this into consideration.
- There is definitely a tech presence outside of the defense industry, especially in the suburbs as others have mentioned. The scene is not nearly as big as San Francisco or NYC though. That said, if you are able to get a security clearance - do it. Without question do it. It opens a ton of doors around here and you can have an extremely lucrative career with one. DC also has the highest rate of remote workers out of any city in America, so you really don't need to work for a company around here if you don't want to.
- Not sure what you're into for fun, but it's very much a "drinking" city. A lot of socializing revolves around going to bars, breweries, concerts, brunch, etc.
- Despite what some may tell you, the suburbs right outside DC (Arlington and Montgomery County) are not cheaper than DC proper by any means. In recent years rent in Arlington on average is more expensive than DC. Parts of these suburbs though are highly developed, and if you didn't know better you'd probably think you were in the city anyway.
- The whole area is expensive. No way around that unless you move to Baltimore.
- DuPont and Logan Circle have a ton of transit and are very walkable. Two of the best neighborhoods in DC. Consider ditching your car. I haven't had one for 10 years and I can't think of many places I'd need to get to that aren't accessible by transit/walking/biking. If I do need a car, we have something called ZipCar which is a car rental service that charges by the hour for quick trips.
- Traffic is absolutely absurd. To me, it's worth it to pay more than commute from the further out suburbs. Anything beyond Reston, VA will be a miserable commute.
- DC is actually a pretty small city relative to other major US cities. I like this about it, but I've heard this come as a surprise to people that have moved here.
- Certain parts are pretty dangerous. The city is gentrifying quickly (for better or worse), but have some awareness and you'll be fine.
- If you do end up moving here. Venture out to the neighborhoods away from the mall and downtown. This is where the fun stuff happens.
Hope this helps. Happy to answer any questions if you have any as well.