Surprised to see this here. Toone has been working on a production model for ~4 years now — hopefully it will arrive soon, as the customs are usually made of fine recovered woods, aluminum and unobtanium.
Although a Stratocaster (of any brand) can play perfectly—and every guitarist should own a strat—I'm very curious about drastic innovations. A guitar being a guitar, to make the smallest incremental progress in playability and tone, beyond what was achieved by the '90s, drastic things have to be done.
It seems to me that Toone breaks the cost/benefit threshold. However, I'm interested :-)
In addition to latinos and vegans, there is a likely explosion of ketogenic eaters to come very soon, thanks to all the research pilling up about the great benefits of being in ketosis.
Avocados are usually part of an omnivorous ketogenic diet.
The author omitted an important one: microservices are the new source of spaghetti code.
When trying to implement as multiple microservices something that should actually be a single service—i.e., the ms's are not useful as independent units—answering a single API request is an amazing mess of distributed calls all over the place and unnecessary serialization/deserialization of queries.
"Real world systems often have poorly defined boundaries" ... I have seen teams getting hit by that multiple times. As usual, it is a bad idea to try to make everything fit a single model before attempting to understand the consequences.
There should also be a comparison of type of cognitive task vs type of music.
Once I have the solution to a problem in my head, I do great writing code while listening to instrumental music with a lot of repetition (some progressive electronic fits this, but it is not the only style).
Under no circumstances I can listen to music with lyrics while performing any type of cognitive task.
Yes, it can happen for multiple reasons. I have personally seen it fail once: a PhD candidate in physics was asked a random but basic question about quantum physics, he couldn't answer, and the committee "voted" no.
From what I have seen, it is more common for people to simply quit their PhD candidacy once they form their PhD committee, because the committee members will ask for a soul crushing extra amount of work before the defense (happened to two friends of mine).
I agree, there is no ghost. Consciousness is an emergent behavior of those elements: neurons, their interconnections, neurotransmitters, etc.
However, in theory it may be possible to reproduce those elements down to a molecular level, allowing the emergence of the "original" consciousness from new matter.
So, if you imagine that "ghost" is metaphorical speak to, say, to summarize, the film is not strictly wrong.
That line, that one opening line. Once I read it, it was instantly etched into my brain.
I read the book in Spanish. It was the first magic realism book that I read, and also the first book authored by Márquez that I read. I had no idea what the book was about, but that opening line hooked me, and I could not put down the book afterwards.
Unsurprisingly, I tried to read everything else written by Márquez :-)
I remember showing my desktop with E14 (or 15?)—a later version than mtoddh's screenshot—to people that only knew about Windows, and they thought that I was a visitor from the future.
This is great news! I have been waiting for a very long time, and it is finally here.
A month ago I installed it in Fedora and Ubuntu, to get rid of Gnome3 and Unity ... and guess what? Linux is once again an amazing workstation—beautiful, fast, and flexible.
At first I assumed that the scientists must have been out drinking, or must have made up the data ... but, no, they simply gave the best prediction they could, as they should.
I guess that forecasters of quakes and weather in Italy now have two alternatives: always claim a disaster is upon them, or move to a country where judges understand statistics.
Will definitely follow :-)