We don't know why a neural network make the choices it makes either
Sure we do, it's a summation of weighted inputs passing a threshold. Look at any iteration close and hard enough and you know why. And with a faster computer running the same neural net, you'll be able to predict the outcome before it happens. It's a deterministic process.
A computer (CPU) follows rules. Can you write a computer program that has free will, ie, a program that you are unable to decide the outcome of before hand, even if you had an identical computer to test it out on first and gave it 100% identical inputs?
Anything you assert without evidence can be dismissed without any.
Where is the evidence for free will? It's like computer that deciding which instructions it will and won't execute via magic, ie, an indeterminate and unprovable mechanism.
Came here to make the same comment. We would be living in a mostly pre-WWII world otherwise, not have gone to the moon and the iPhone would not have been invented.
The test was of an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945.
Many prominent evolutionary theorists propose that neoteny has been a key feature in human evolution. Stephen Jay Gould believed that the "evolutionary story" of humans is one where we have been "retaining to adulthood the originally juvenile features of our ancestors".
I see the same thing at private engineering companies. I don't know if those people really hate their jobs, but they would ave a difficult time leaving and finding a similarly paying position. Or worse, if they got laid off.
Identical experience here. Getting an internship almost guarantees a job after graduation, especially from a company that you interned with.
You go through orientation, get a desk beside people you've worked with before, know where the cafeteria is and how to fill out a time card. Nobody has to show you anything and not only are you immediately productive, but you know all the latest technologies and are still a few years away from burnout and coasting the remainder or your career.
When I was in college in the 90's, we were told that the Japanese thought of college as a four year party after which you would get a job at a big company (the bigger the better) and work there the rest of your life. I don't know how true this was, but I knew ALOT of Japanese students and every one seemed to talk about it like this.
I don't know much about college outside of the technical degrees, but most people studied very hard and had almost no time for drinking or partying.
A high percentage of engineering interns that I worked with dropped out of college after their freshman or sophomore years and continued to work as engineering aides. It was a pretty good deal for only having a semester of calculus and physics or chemistry. The pay is only 1/3 to half of a degreed engineer, but the same in most respects. The big problem that I saw with that is it ties you to a specific company and makes it almost impossible to find anther job if you get laid off. That said, many of the people I know who chose this route are still there doing it, but I do know some who were laid off and were never able to get anther job.
Something general, but with hard skills like a math or physics degree will get you into most jobs if you are motivated and learn a bit about a specific industry on your own (follow trade magazines is a start).
I can't tell the difference past 46. It just sucks, but you deal with it. Work at night or early morning when possible, drink lots of water. Same as below -15, it becomes difficult to differentiate. And cooling is less energy intensive than heating and is easily accomplished with zero CO2. It also maps well to solar.
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Isn't that Calvinism?
We don't know why a neural network make the choices it makes either
Sure we do, it's a summation of weighted inputs passing a threshold. Look at any iteration close and hard enough and you know why. And with a faster computer running the same neural net, you'll be able to predict the outcome before it happens. It's a deterministic process.
Similarly, the universe follows rules.
Anything you assert without evidence can be dismissed without any.
Where is the evidence for free will? It's like computer that deciding which instructions it will and won't execute via magic, ie, an indeterminate and unprovable mechanism.
Good insight there, Neil.
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Neoteny
Or you worked and saved enough through high school because you had to.
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Hey, I was in that class! (it was true too)
I see the same thing at private engineering companies. I don't know if those people really hate their jobs, but they would ave a difficult time leaving and finding a similarly paying position. Or worse, if they got laid off.
My highschool was 5x more difficult than college. I was so bored for the first two years that I didn't go to any classes.
You go through orientation, get a desk beside people you've worked with before, know where the cafeteria is and how to fill out a time card. Nobody has to show you anything and not only are you immediately productive, but you know all the latest technologies and are still a few years away from burnout and coasting the remainder or your career.
And you see what that got Greece? Feynman talks abut this in one of his books.
I don't know much about college outside of the technical degrees, but most people studied very hard and had almost no time for drinking or partying.
A high percentage of engineering interns that I worked with dropped out of college after their freshman or sophomore years and continued to work as engineering aides. It was a pretty good deal for only having a semester of calculus and physics or chemistry. The pay is only 1/3 to half of a degreed engineer, but the same in most respects. The big problem that I saw with that is it ties you to a specific company and makes it almost impossible to find anther job if you get laid off. That said, many of the people I know who chose this route are still there doing it, but I do know some who were laid off and were never able to get anther job.
Something general, but with hard skills like a math or physics degree will get you into most jobs if you are motivated and learn a bit about a specific industry on your own (follow trade magazines is a start).
Also Cold kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries.
I can't tell the difference past 46. It just sucks, but you deal with it. Work at night or early morning when possible, drink lots of water. Same as below -15, it becomes difficult to differentiate. And cooling is less energy intensive than heating and is easily accomplished with zero CO2. It also maps well to solar.
I lived in Phoenix wen it got up to 50C one day and was/is regularly above 45C. And no AC either other than at work.
First, convert to Kelvin. 90F = 305kelvins. Then you can double it. 610kelvins. Now convert back to Fahrenheit. 610kelvins=638F.
That's a lot of climate change.
It's far worse than you thought. 638F. That's hot enough to melt Lead an is 200degrees above the temperature at which paper spontaneously combusts.
And Tucson is 5 degrees (2.77C) degrees cooler than Phoenix. Almost pleasant if ou are used to the later. Awesome monsoons too.
If the sun 'went out' today, it would take a thousands of years for venus to cool down.