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President Barack Obama didn't support same-sex marriage until May 9, 2012, three days after Vice President Joe Biden announced his support for it.
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-comes-ou...
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/us/politics/biden-express...
Sublogic also created A2-3D1, which was a fun, but very rudimentary, 3D animation package for the Apple II:
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-10/page/n27/m...
But the article explains that human-like AI triggers a "person perception" process similar to the one that we use when we meet people.
A matched case-control analysis of autonomous vs human-driven vehicle accidents
Published: 18 June 2024
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48526-4
"The analysis suggests that accidents of vehicles equipped with Advanced Driving Systems generally have a lower chance of occurring than Human-Driven Vehicles in most of the similar accident scenarios. However, accidents involving Advanced Driving Systems occur more frequently than Human-Driven Vehicle accidents under dawn/dusk or turning conditions, which is 5.25 and 1.98 times higher, respectively."
tl;dr "The authors highlighted two significant negative outcomes for level 4 AVs. It found they were over five times more likely to be involved in an accident at dawn and dusk. They were relatively bad at navigating turns as well, with the odds of an accident during a turn almost doubled compared to those for human-driven vehicles."
Microsoft did patent the taskbar. [1]
Very cool! But maybe change copies to copy.
In my experience, copy is used the same way as code. And just as you probably wouldn't say, "I changed the codes for the three apps," most people wouldn't say, "I rewrote the copies for the three websites."
"No one knows why, but some muskoxen hate the sound of a plastic water bottle being crumpled."
Muskoxen misophonia!
[Cromulent] was introduced in "Lisa the Iconoclast," an episode of the Fox animated television series The Simpsons that first aired on February 18, 1996. Coinage of the word has been attributed to the television writer David X. Cohen by Bill Oakley, one of the series' producers, in a commentary to the DVD release of the series.
You can read the whole paper here:
This link in the article about the history of the :-) emoticon -- proposed by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon on September 19, 1982 -- is really fascinating:
Here's more about Baker:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/theo-baker-s...
From 2016, when Gottlieb published his memoir, here's an interesting interview:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/27/robert-gottlie...
The essential quality of an editor, he told me, is sympathy. “You don’t take on books with which you do not have a sympathy,” he says early in our conversation. “Only trouble can arise if instead of wanting to make a book that you like even better than it is, you want to change it into something that it isn’t.” The most disastrous thing that can happen in an editing process is for an editor to insist on making the book their own.
And it's not about Southern accents:
Previous work has documented that speaking one’s native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of omitted variables. We collected data on workers’ speech in Germany, a country with wide variation in regional dialects. We use a variety of strategies in estimation, including an instrumental variables strategy in which the instruments are based on research findings from the linguistics of accent acquisition. All of our estimators show that speaking with a distinctive regional accent reduces wages by an amount that is comparable to the gender wage gap. We also find that workers with distinctive regional accents tend to sort away from occupations that demand high levels of face-to-face contact, consistent with various occupational sorting models.
Actually, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has indirect costs of 55%, in spite of the four research vessels that it maintain. [1][2]
In contrast, the Scripps Research Institute, a La Jolla neighbor with no ships, has indirect costs that were estimated at 89.5% in 2014. [3]
[1] https://scripps.ucsd.edu/cimec/resources/pre-award-informati...
[2] https://scripps.ucsd.edu/ships/scripps-fleet
[3] https://datahound.scientopia.org/2014/05/10/indirect-cost-ra...
I love the way that this article drives home the essential truth behind great UX design: you've got to totally, thoroughly understand your customers. There's no substitute.
PSA testing may catch prostate cancer early, but it may also lead to unnecessary -- and sometimes harmful -- treatment.
I found this analysis helpful for assessing the pros and cons:
https://www.hardingcenter.de/en/transfer-and-impact/fact-box...
This is such good writing: it's thoughtful, incisive, and revealing. Before long, AI will probably be able to produce something similar, but meantime, I'm savoring that special feeling you get as a reader when a writer's words resonate deeply with you.
The genie is out of the bottle. [1]
[1] No AI was involved in the creation of this reply. ;-)
"SIPC protects against the loss of cash and securities – such as stocks and bonds – held by a customer at a financially-troubled SIPC-member brokerage firm. The limit of SIPC protection is $500,000, which includes a $250,000 limit for cash."
Their Steve Jobs voice simulation is creepily good:
Update Jan. 20, 2021: The North America myopia trial is nearing the end of its second year and it is closed to enrollment. Based on the one-year data, the eyeglasses have regulatory approval to be sold as medical devices in Europe and Canada. They are currently being sold in Canada under the brand name "Kikko." Researchers anticipate regulatory approval in the United States in about a year that will be based on the two-year results. People can go to the Kikko website https://kikkovision.com/ and sign up to receive updates about U.S. availability. Once they are approved in the U.S., people will be able to buy the glasses from their optometrist or ophthalmologist.
https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/glasses-stop-myopia-are-success...
Their big breakthrough in understanding myopia occurred in 2008 when they studied a particular group of people who had a genetic form of myopia that’s very severe. They discovered a gene mutation that was causing the myopia.
“It turns out it was a mutation in the cone photoreceptors,” said Jay Neitz. “We then realized that it’s really just the way that the images are being encoded on the retina.”
What’s supposed to happen as your eye grows, is that things should begin to go out of focus in the periphery of your vision. That’s a signal for the eyes to stop growing.
But as long as things are still clear in the periphery, the eyes think this person must still be farsighted, because in the natural world things in the periphery are far away.
Neitz said his team was able to design a lens to make central vision clear and in focus, and give the peripheal vision much lower contrast.
“It recreates what is supposed to be going on with our eyes before we started putting all of these things in front of our face like computer screens and tablets,” he said.
https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/glasses-stop-myopia-are-success...
Their big breakthrough in understanding myopia occurred in 2008 when they studied a particular group of people who had a genetic form of myopia that’s very severe. They discovered a gene mutation that was causing the myopia.
“It turns out it was a mutation in the cone photoreceptors,” said Jay Neitz. “We then realized that it’s really just the way that the images are being encoded on the retina.”
What’s supposed to happen as your eye grows, is that things should begin to go out of focus in the periphery of your vision. That’s a signal for the eyes to stop growing.
But as long as things are still clear in the periphery, the eyes think this person must still be farsighted, because in the natural world things in the periphery are far away.
Neitz said his team was able to design a lens to make central vision clear and in focus, and give the peripheal vision much lower contrast.
“It recreates what is supposed to be going on with our eyes before we started putting all of these things in front of our face like computer screens and tablets,” he said.