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The entire deep learning / AI industry relies on running GPU compute on Linux, mostly CUDA on Nvidia GPUs.

The software focused teams all use Linux workstations afaik, look at their job boards and blind. Their embedded systems (robotics / av) are all Linux as well.

The entire world is stuck in a liquidity trap and we have negative real interest rates. No advanced economy has had north of the 2% target for a meaningful amount of time prior to the pandemic. Inflation is something to watch out for. IMO, deflation is the bigger concern.

Source: former deficit hawk convinced hyper-inflation was just around the corner for half a decade.

Why would any country want herd immunity from infection when nearly every developed country has demonstrated the virus can be contained without such a large loss of life? It's not as if the specter of maxed out hospitals on the news for months on end is going to help the economy.

Protecting the vulnerable has never actually worked. In theory it's possible, but it would require constantly testing nursing home workers that don't have the money to do this and an administration that hasn't shown the ability to support it. Every area that's had a significant level of spread has had issues where nursing home care workers brought in the virus from the community. The exception is Hong Kong where nursing home residents were quarantined in hospitals for significant periods. This presupposes the leadership to setup a system like this and the willingness of nursing home residents to be isolated for long periods of time. If we had either of those things we'd be able to contain the virus in the broader population.

There isn't enough evidence of long term immunity to make herd immunity a sensible strategy. It's smeared by the media b/c it's way less preferable than the alternative of containing it like nearly every developed country in the world.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/immunity-to-covid-19-uk-stud...

Florida is really thinking outside the box. Schools will have no problem opening up if children have herd immunity. This is the type of creative thinking school administrators have been looking for.

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FB political ads don't seem to be the root cause of their radicalizing influence. My understanding is that it's more related to how their algorithms push more and more extreme pages and groups.

A relatively non-partisan person who likes a news article about gun rights gets pushed news and pages that promote more conservative viewpoints, and those pages lead to fringe ideas, conspiracy theories, and the groups that promote those ideas.

Trump/Biden ads seem less problematic than memes about vigilante justice against minorities that float around FB.

It's plateaued and has been hovering around 100k per day for 2 weeks (outside California clearing its backlog on 4/4). The White House promised 27M by 3/31 and we were at 1M. It doesn't look like it's ramping up.

It's transliteration. There are characters and sounds that are used to mimic the sound of foreign words.

曼德博 sounds like man de bwo (man4de2bo2 in pinyin). 迈克 (Mike) sounds like my ke

The inventory chart at the top of the article is a bit misleading. It'd be better to use a months supply of inventory chart. A 100% increase in inventory is equivalent to a -50% decrease in inventory, but they show up out of proportion. It's much easier to increase inventory by 100% if the months of supply is very very low. (e.g. going from 1 month of inventory to 2 months of inventory is a lot less substantial than 2 months to 4 months)

Most of the research on FODMAPs have come out of Monash University in Australia. Here’s a video from one of the lead researchers making a presentation on it. https://youtu.be/ByszVbFBPtY

I’ve been on this for two weeks. The diet is incredibly restrictive and unenjoyable. My symptoms have been a little better judging from my food/symptom log.

Anecdotally, on WeChat 微信, top Chinese social media app, I know some friends have received solicitations for good reviews in exchange for free goods.