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And also the Haredim Jewish sects are seeing strong growth.

Both the Amish and the Haredim reject a lot of modernity and are quite conservative as well look to keep traditional families and gender roles. Probably not a coincidence that there are the groups still seeing strong growth.

Is there any computer-based clustering/analysis you did of the individuals? Sometimes this can reveal a typology of the underlying root causes. Maybe you could see which cluster of symptoms predict others, thus suggesting root causes....

I think ADHD and it's subtypes is probably a description of something like 8 different actual neurological causes, which all show up as 'ADHD'.

This is the case with I believe probably the majority of psychological illnesses that have not yet been nailed to a clear biological cause.

Schizophrenia definitely has a bunch of sub-types. As does anxiety. As does whatever is sociopathy/psychopathy. ADHD included.

Over time, individual types of each of these mental illnesses will be carved out from the general type and tied to specific biological causes, thus making the vague categories even smaller.

Empires all do end and when they do they often fracture because of a built up of social discontent, but they are predicted to be ending 1000x more often than they end. Eventually someone calls it correctly though, and generally you only know who in hindsight.

The core problem is that for someone knowledgeable in the field, everything becomes straightforward, but the further away you are from the field, the more novel it becomes -- this is true across the board. Even the great accomplishments where people win Nobel prizes, often it can be argued that it was going to happen anyhow because it was the next step in scientific progress given the context.

Thus defining "non-obviousness" is super hard to do -- because it is all context dependent and humans are like a million monkeys inventing everything that can possibly be invented in aggregate.

Any videos or audio of that? Which was his main persona? Did he do drugs?

Intel's strategy is often to hire the best talent of their competitors. Case in point Jim Kelly from AMD who did a stint at Intel after the success of Zen.

This guy was not the head of the M1 processor initiative from my readings, but he was involved in it.

These things are constantly re-invented. Will StumbleUpon come back as well?

When doing C++ compiles and also renders I see a 2x benefit generally. It is rare that I do not see something close to 1.5 to 2x speed ups.

That said I did switch from Intel over to an Apple M1 anyway.

Would it actually have more resources that say Apple? I think if Apple can not do it, I am unsure if anyone else could. All supposedly secure smart phones are not, but they are at least obscure.

I think that one should probably buy an Apple (at least they control everything rather than the cobbled together android clones) and disable basically everything except exactly what is needed. At least that reduces the surface area. And keep personal stuff on a separate phone.

But do they have access to the phone numbers that their customers are targeting? That seems by itself to contradict their statement ("nor has any access to any kind of data of its customers") right there.

Something isn't adding up.

NSO seems to be used by tyrants to go after legitimate opposition. The NSA isn't used by the President to target the party out of power no? But in NSO case in India apparently it was: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/key-modi-rival-...

NSO is used to keep those with money and access to NSO in power undermine their legitimate rivals. It can be used to plant evidence on their devices as well as monitor everything they do.

Anyone notice that this statement from NSO in the article doesn't make sense:

"NSO does not operate its technology, does not collect, nor possesses, nor has any access to any kind of data of its customers."

If this is true, how do we have a singular list of all phone numbers penetrated? If there was this type of "segmentation" or firewall between NSO and its clients, why was there this huge central data leak?

NSO is tracking what its clients are doing. It may not be telling its clients it is also tracking them. I wouldn't be surprised if NSO could also access every one of those penetrated devices as well independently of its clients.

I was trying to say one could map the std deviation and mean feature size between the two. Currently that isn't done. Thus the 2D scale appears to differ between the two as well as the min/max delta.

The owner also goes around suing people regularly: https://insight.rpxcorp.com/entity/1308032-wsou-investments-.... Thus you definitely do not want to touch that technology in a commercial product.

Although it does seem like it expires next year. Sweet!

Has someone come up with a mapping from Perlin to Simplex? It looks to me like Perlin is slightly low resolution and less amplitude scale. Thus it should be possible to write an equation that mostly maps one to the other -- thus simplifying replacing Perlin with Simplex and vice versa while keeping the distribution relatively the same.

With statistics I bet one could derive this mapping equation pretty quickly. Then it would be interesting to compare the resulting residuals or statistical differences at that point. Because it would be comparing the actually differences rather than these more surface differences.

You are basically saying do not get upset about this because maybe it is manipulation. But if it turns out it isn't manipulation, you have successfully tamped down outrage over something that was actually deserving it?

The issue is in Egypt and other Arab nations they never meet any Jewish people at all. They just see the stereotypes, etc. When you never meet people you can view them as complete evil because you buy the propaganda.

This leads to the contact hypothesis as a means of reducing prejudice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_hypothesis

This is a fact of life for Israelis and surrounding Arab countries. I am unsure why we pretend that these negative sentiments about each other do not exist -- they are incredibly widespread in these populations.

Unfortunately in the countries around Israel with whom they have had wars, there is significant anti-Semitism: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3136059.stm

And in Israel there is significant anti-Arab sentiment, which rose significantly as a result of Palestinian terrorist attacks in the early 2000s: https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-large-swaths-of-isr...

This makes sense. It is a competitor to Amazon's Windows Desktop environments. Microsoft should beat AWS's offering here because well, they make the OS that they are virtualizing.

I can see this working for a lot of places where you want good information security. You can never get the data out of the cloud except via screenshot.

Very neat and well done.

I wonder how hard it would be to make one that takes hand drawn input and converts it to professional like charts. Basically pick the symbol output style and it converts your hand drawn charts to this.

React, Kubernetes both show the big drop at the end of 2020. Strange.

The MacBook M1 battery life appears to be better than the iPad Pro M1 battery life in my testing. I wonder why that is?

Are you sure you are not building a Pitch Deck Co-Pilot?

We are the... Snap for... Farming.

"Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme." Meanwhile Coinbase goes public for $100B.

"The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Could be in a service on a server, which in this case a RegEx DOS could lock the server for all users.

I found that much of the underlying cause is those mass reporting regex denial of services as being high severity bugs.

So many people are reporting these in tons of different projects: https://github.com/search?q=regex+denial+of+service&type=iss...

Anyhow it is just annoying and they broke NPM Audit based on these reports.

It is good to fix all possible bugs, but many of these are not anywhere close to the level of bad that the reports are making them to be.

But maybe this is needed to just get rid of these issues in genera? So a wave of regex vulnerability reports and then we build this type of checking into prettier or similar and we do not have these in the future?

EDIT: It appears there as a project that found 100s of CVE reported Regex vulnerabilities in npm projects -- this is maybe one of the sources of mass reports. See the bottom of this resume: https://yetingli.github.io

Unfortunately it fights wars in order to maintain its apartheid like domination over “others.” This tends to invalid any possible moral stance it may have or pretend to have.

Neither is designed for a CAD engine. CAD uses generally NURBS and a scene graph based around constraints. Game engines are not constraint based but rather about independent behaviour agents interacting using triangle meshes. Quite different.

Article says: "Over the last couple of years, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been using AI and supercomputers to identify locations of Hamas activity and plan strikes to remove any strategic advantage."

Does this work well? Or does Israel not care about civilian deaths in Gaza? Here is the NYTimes article on who Israel has been killing in Gaza:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/26/world/middlee...