Could it be useful to use these to charge long term batteries to be used millennia from now? So that future generations living centuries from now can have easy power when the fossil fuels run out?
I am surprised that Algorithms to Live By has not been mentioned. (Disclaimer: I am still reading it.) That book is both accessible and practical for any layman. However, just enough hints at variations of the discussed algorithms are given that even a non-technical reader might be motivated to dive further into theoretical CS and read a paper or two.
You should check out the VOLT paper, I think it would work well. It's a new technique for splitting up a vocabulary into subwords while minimizing entropy. These subwords could then be mixed and matched, maybe by a neural model, for better results.
This is better for more advanced topics, like dynamic programming (well, advanced for me, anyway). I started out taking over an hour to solve the first problem in the problem sets, but they build on each other slowly, so I was soon able to see solutions within minutes. It took me a weekend to go through chapters I was struggling with, and I did really well on my coding interview the next day.
Those are very interesting empirical results. This lecture explains the deeper vs shallow tradeoff theoretically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpuLxXrHQB4. He's an amazing lecturer; wish I didn't need subtitles!
(If you're too lazy to watch, it turns out that there exist functions that a shallow network can never approximate)
> I wish we'd see an app that teaches financial literacy and responsibility
I agree with you 100%. I'm not sure how feasible it is to build a business around it, though, since monetization techniques are likely to turn people off or harm the product. Bogleheads is an awesome existing resource, in case anyone's interested
That's really sick, UI is really pretty! As an idea for a follow-up project, I wonder how difficult it would be to make it non-deterministic; i.e. play a different variation each measure.
Hopefully someone can provide more info, but apparently there are some bacteria in geothermal vents near Baja California that seem to be able to handle venus-like conditions. No idea what the details are though
I'd like to play the foil to enrich the discussion.
Our instincts force us to seek validation and approval from others as individuals. I wonder if the success of blogs, Twitter, and academic research stems from incentivizing people to maximize that self-centered sense of ownership. For example, being first author on a well-cited paper is a powerful motivation to produce better research, which in-turn benefits the community and strengthens the institution.