It won't be the first time llamas helped fight an epidemic.
The Mapuche tribe in Chile kept llamas, and were exposed to bacteria and viruses endemic in their herds. This gave them greater immunity to withstand European diseases, and they suffered far less die back than other Native Americans. Their larger population enabled them to fight the Spanish to a standstill, and they remained an independent self-governing nation until 1883.
Maybe it CAN be secure, but it isn't by default, and there are more secure protocols, such as scp, that make ftp unnecessary. There is no good reason to run it on any system, much less an election server.
Statistically, it is safer to stay in a building than to try to drive home in a storm. Amazon made the correct call to keep people at work. They had no reason to believe that the wall was going to collapse.
Except the use case discussed here is on takeoff and landing.
The burst of power needed for takeoff is a big limit on the payload of electric planes. So this alleged breakthrough could make electric planes more feasible. An electric booster could also make fueled jets better able to take off on short runways, with bigger payloads, and/or with smaller more efficient engines optimized for cruising.
It is not just about takeoff, and it is not about landing at all.
San Fran to LAX is a heavily traveled route using aircraft like the A320. I don't know if 12 and 50 passenger flights can compete on price.
They compete on convenience by NOT flying from SFO to LAX, and instead flying from/to smaller regional airports.
I would pay a premium to fly directly from Reid-Hillview in San Jose, which is a 15 minute walk from my house, directly into Santa Barbara or Orange County Airports. That would save me $60 on Uber cost for every trip, and I would be happy to pay that much more for the airfare just to save the time.
Sure, change the name if it helps you attract funding and place graduates.
Exactly. UC is getting less and less of its funding from the state, and more from tuition. So they need to run the university like a business. If the applying students (customers) want data science degrees, then that is what you sell to them.
If the students learn skills that businesses want, everyone is happy, and it doesn't really matter what the degree is called.
Take India. Its population has almost doubled within the past few decades, even though its education level, affluence, urbanization, food, and everything else has approached modern first-world norms.
This is not true at all. You have obviously never been to India, or maybe just a 5-star hotel in Mumbai. Go visit a rural village in Uttar Pradesh, and you will never again believe that India "has approached first-world norms". India is poorer than Nigeria. Per capita GDP is a quarter that of China.
Your premise that affluence doesn't matter in India is also wrong. Middle class Indians reproduce at below replacement levels. The surplus births are coming from the rural poor.
Not Alexa, who just wants to sell me stuff and build a consumer profile on me for advertisement purposes
I have an Alexa in my kitchen and use it all the time. I have never, not once, had it try to sell me anything. I have never, not once, noticed anything I said or asked reflected in the ads that I see.
First, funding keeps getting cut. If you halve spending, you double the time.
Not true, because if you delay you can benefit from other advances, such as faster computers, better magnets, high temperature superconductors, stronger composite materials, etc.
That's what delayed renewables.
Most money spent on renewables went toward subsidies for installations, not research. Some people believe this was counter-productive since the subsidies made deficient systems appear to be economically viable, thus reducing the incentive to build products that actually made sense.
if 'stitching or sewing up patients' is an important skill for medical students, shouldn't they specifically be taught how to do so?
They are. They start with dummies, then cadavers, then real patients. When my daughter gashed her foot, I assumed the woman in the ER stitching her wound was a nurse, but she was a medical student. The doctor was just watching.
Surgical stitching isn't like sewing cloth. The needle is curved, and it is manipulated with pliers rather than fingers. It looks hard, but if you try it, it is actually easier than the way a seamstress would stitch. You can see better without your fingers in the way, and the pliers give you better leverage.
It could be that it is too late to learn that at medical school.
This is pure conjecture. There is no evidence that it is true. I have learned physical skills later in life, and so have many other people.
This is in addition to no evidence that the "loss of dexterity" even exists in the first place. It seems highly improbable. A generation ago students used computers with a mouse and keyboard. Today they still do that, but also use touchpads. Why would using your finger instead of a mouse result in less dexterity? It seems just as plausible that using the finger would cause better dexterity.
Do you really think that people accepted into medical school at Imperial College get there by playing video games on their cell phones all day?
most people can learn another language perfectly only if they start at early age
What makes this factoid interesting is that it is unusual. Other than learning a language, there are very few skills that are "locked out" by a certain age. With most skills, it is the total hours of study or practice that count, not the starting age.
So there are two explanations for the "problem" described in TFA: 1. There has been a vast decline in the motor skills and dexterity in the billion people born since touch screens were invented, but for some reason nobody noticed until now, and the journalist just forgot to cite the mountains of evidence that the good doctor has meticulously compiled. 2. Some guy is getting grumpy in his old age.
What TFA is lacking: Any evidence whatsoever that dexterity is actually declining.
It is not news that some old geezer thinks the world is going to hell because kids-these-days are corrupted by some new-fangled thing. That has been happening since Socrates was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth in ancient Athens.
I doubt if the scientists at Apeel said "no chemicals". They may have said "no artificial chemicals" and the journalist (she has a degree in religious studies) rephrased it into nonsense.
If we feed everyone today, soon we will have ten billion people on Earth.
This is complete nonsense, and the exact opposite of the truth.
People react to food insecurity, environmental stress, social turmoil, and high mortality by having MORE KIDS and investing less in each. The highest population growth in the world in in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, affected by drought, famine, and civil war. The highest birthrate in Asia is in Afghanistan.
The way to lower birthrates is peacekeeping, better healthcare, better nutrition, reduced infant mortality, education, and urbanization. When people are confident that their children will survive, they will stop popping out more and invest in those they already have. This is what has happened repeatedly all over the globe.
It is not news because Bill invested in Apeel years ago. There is no actual "news" in TFA.
It is also not news that their product is "an oil rich in fat lipids", but it would be news if was an oil NOT rich in fat lipids. That would be like dehydrated water.
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I wondered if there was something like kids in rural areas are more likely to play outside than those in urban environments.
Obesity is higher in rural areas.
Perhaps rural kids are LESS likely to play outside, since an urban park full of other kids is a nicer place to play than a rural cornfield.
Do these Kenyans know that in 15 years their cab and truck driving jobs are going bye-bye?
You are implying that automation is bad for an economy.
If you open your eyes and look at the world around you, you will see that this is the exact opposite of reality.
> only million cpu's, isn't that a few orders of magnitude to small to emulate a human brain anyways, which has hundreds of billions of neurons?
No. There is no reason that you need 1 cpu per neuron.
A biological neuron fires 200 times per second. A single core can simulate the firing of 10,000 neurons per second.
Also, there is no reason the simulation needs to be real-time, so the speed isn't really that important.
It won't be the first time llamas helped fight an epidemic.
The Mapuche tribe in Chile kept llamas, and were exposed to bacteria and viruses endemic in their herds. This gave them greater immunity to withstand European diseases, and they suffered far less die back than other Native Americans. Their larger population enabled them to fight the Spanish to a standstill, and they remained an independent self-governing nation until 1883.
My guess is they won't get new tablets once I feel they are ready for phones.
When my kids got phones, the tablets went unused and gathered dust, sort of like what happened to Woody in Toy Story 3.
Enjoy their innocent tablet-days while you can. Soon enough, they will have smart phones and 500 friends on social media.
Make movies that don't suck *or* halve the admission price -- problem solved.
I've never understood why good movies cost the same as bad movies.
Also, movies should cost more on the opening weekend, and then decline in price each week.
make a quality movie that people who like quality cinema can recognize.
How big is that market segment?
They are trying to make money, not win an award at Sundance.
This is what the AI is going to recommend: Fast and Furious Nine
Ftp actually can be secure.
Maybe it CAN be secure, but it isn't by default, and there are more secure protocols, such as scp, that make ftp unnecessary. There is no good reason to run it on any system, much less an election server.
I worked in IT 30 years ago, and there were plenty of incompetent people back then as well.
I am skeptical that the proportion of incompetents has actually gotten worse.
This appears to be a case of Golden Age Syndrome.
Two persons tragically killed at work... are you people actually joking about this?
Roughly 150,000 people die every day. Unless you know these two people, there is nothing special about them.
Why should you care about them any more or less than the other 149,998 people?
It would be a reasonably straightforward exercise to build an electric launch catapult mechanism into runways to get that first 100 mph or so.
EMALS delivers about 3-G of acceleration. I don't think that is acceptable in a passenger plane.
Also, the airframe has to be built to withstand the 3-Gs, which means extra weight.
Statistically, it is safer to stay in a building than to try to drive home in a storm. Amazon made the correct call to keep people at work. They had no reason to believe that the wall was going to collapse.
Except the use case discussed here is on takeoff and landing.
The burst of power needed for takeoff is a big limit on the payload of electric planes. So this alleged breakthrough could make electric planes more feasible. An electric booster could also make fueled jets better able to take off on short runways, with bigger payloads, and/or with smaller more efficient engines optimized for cruising.
It is not just about takeoff, and it is not about landing at all.
San Fran to LAX is a heavily traveled route using aircraft like the A320.
I don't know if 12 and 50 passenger flights can compete on price.
They compete on convenience by NOT flying from SFO to LAX, and instead flying from/to smaller regional airports.
I would pay a premium to fly directly from Reid-Hillview in San Jose, which is a 15 minute walk from my house, directly into Santa Barbara or Orange County Airports. That would save me $60 on Uber cost for every trip, and I would be happy to pay that much more for the airfare just to save the time.
Sure, change the name if it helps you attract funding and place graduates.
Exactly. UC is getting less and less of its funding from the state, and more from tuition. So they need to run the university like a business. If the applying students (customers) want data science degrees, then that is what you sell to them.
If the students learn skills that businesses want, everyone is happy, and it doesn't really matter what the degree is called.
Take India. Its population has almost doubled within the past few decades, even though its education level, affluence, urbanization, food, and everything else has approached modern first-world norms.
This is not true at all. You have obviously never been to India, or maybe just a 5-star hotel in Mumbai. Go visit a rural village in Uttar Pradesh, and you will never again believe that India "has approached first-world norms". India is poorer than Nigeria. Per capita GDP is a quarter that of China.
Your premise that affluence doesn't matter in India is also wrong. Middle class Indians reproduce at below replacement levels. The surplus births are coming from the rural poor.
While I do not have kids, this is the absolute worst-case I can imagine.
If this is the "absolute worst-case" you can imagine, then parenthood will be huge shock. Perhaps you should consider a vasectomy.
Not Alexa, who just wants to sell me stuff and build a consumer profile on me for advertisement purposes
I have an Alexa in my kitchen and use it all the time. I have never, not once, had it try to sell me anything. I have never, not once, noticed anything I said or asked reflected in the ads that I see.
First, funding keeps getting cut. If you halve spending, you double the time.
Not true, because if you delay you can benefit from other advances, such as faster computers, better magnets, high temperature superconductors, stronger composite materials, etc.
That's what delayed renewables.
Most money spent on renewables went toward subsidies for installations, not research. Some people believe this was counter-productive since the subsidies made deficient systems appear to be economically viable, thus reducing the incentive to build products that actually made sense.
if 'stitching or sewing up patients' is an important skill for medical students, shouldn't they specifically be taught how to do so?
They are. They start with dummies, then cadavers, then real patients. When my daughter gashed her foot, I assumed the woman in the ER stitching her wound was a nurse, but she was a medical student. The doctor was just watching.
Surgical stitching isn't like sewing cloth. The needle is curved, and it is manipulated with pliers rather than fingers. It looks hard, but if you try it, it is actually easier than the way a seamstress would stitch. You can see better without your fingers in the way, and the pliers give you better leverage.
It could be that it is too late to learn that at medical school.
This is pure conjecture. There is no evidence that it is true. I have learned physical skills later in life, and so have many other people.
This is in addition to no evidence that the "loss of dexterity" even exists in the first place. It seems highly improbable. A generation ago students used computers with a mouse and keyboard. Today they still do that, but also use touchpads. Why would using your finger instead of a mouse result in less dexterity? It seems just as plausible that using the finger would cause better dexterity.
Do you really think that people accepted into medical school at Imperial College get there by playing video games on their cell phones all day?
most people can learn another language perfectly only if they start at early age
What makes this factoid interesting is that it is unusual. Other than learning a language, there are very few skills that are "locked out" by a certain age. With most skills, it is the total hours of study or practice that count, not the starting age.
So there are two explanations for the "problem" described in TFA:
1. There has been a vast decline in the motor skills and dexterity in the billion people born since touch screens were invented, but for some reason nobody noticed until now, and the journalist just forgot to cite the mountains of evidence that the good doctor has meticulously compiled.
2. Some guy is getting grumpy in his old age.
Apply Occam's razor.
What TFA is lacking: Any evidence whatsoever that dexterity is actually declining.
It is not news that some old geezer thinks the world is going to hell because kids-these-days are corrupted by some new-fangled thing. That has been happening since Socrates was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth in ancient Athens.
I doubt if the scientists at Apeel said "no chemicals". They may have said "no artificial chemicals" and the journalist (she has a degree in religious studies) rephrased it into nonsense.
If we feed everyone today, soon we will have ten billion people on Earth.
This is complete nonsense, and the exact opposite of the truth.
People react to food insecurity, environmental stress, social turmoil, and high mortality by having MORE KIDS and investing less in each. The highest population growth in the world in in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, affected by drought, famine, and civil war. The highest birthrate in Asia is in Afghanistan.
The way to lower birthrates is peacekeeping, better healthcare, better nutrition, reduced infant mortality, education, and urbanization. When people are confident that their children will survive, they will stop popping out more and invest in those they already have. This is what has happened repeatedly all over the globe.
is not by and of itself "news".
It is not news because Bill invested in Apeel years ago. There is no actual "news" in TFA.
It is also not news that their product is "an oil rich in fat lipids", but it would be news if was an oil NOT rich in fat lipids. That would be like dehydrated water.