A decade is nothing. If issues will be worked through a decade from now, that means the best time to think about opportunities/coonsequences related to that is now.
I don’t understand how this works. I know someone who founded successful startup based on art-painting robots. But why will anyone buy such art not attached to fame? Unlike bitcoin, the supply of such art is not limited. It’s still infinitely reproducible through the robot.
The Chinese government had built the infrastructure for the Great Firewall, allowing them to block whoever they want. The US does not have this capability.
US and Canada should invest more in finding a treatment for opioid addiction. A drug that cures heroin addiction would save so many lives and helps people reach their true potential.
Microsoft Publisher was great for making banners and posters for small businesses. It’s basically free for people with Office. Anyone knows a suitable replacement? Is it all Canva from now on?
His sentencing is in February. According to the plea deal, he waives his right to appeal any sentence not more than 18 months, so he might still be in jail for a short period.
According to the Twitter thread linked, at the beginning there were only 30 items, so using bubblesort didn't matter. The number of items has since grown to a thousand.
I don't think this is SPP. SPP highlights in the difference between the mathematically optimal choice and the choice chosen in practice. It is a difference between theory and practice. The problem proposed in this article occurs even in theory alone. Non-ergodicity means there is a mismatch between "the average of all possibilities in the next time-step" and "the long-term trend of one datapoint".
If we put bounds on the bank in SPP, the first coin toss would still have positive EV. In the new ergodicity problem, even with bounds on the bank, it is unclear whether the "first" coin toss is worth taking.
fun fact: an average "policy debate" speaker speaks 350 words per minute and is completely unintelligible to an average person. They speak faster than auctioneers. A "policy debate" is not your average debate and is more like its own sport. The goal is to cram so many arguments into the limited time that your opponents cannot address them all.
The article was extremely on point. We didn't dare to try. Life is much too complicated, and many retreat to the safety of the familiar. I agree with others this problem is not at all unique to Ivy League. Instead, it is rather the futility of trying, the absence of a visible goal, and the lack of direction in life that, perhaps, made an Ivy League student feel for the first time in his life that maybe there is some meaning in the non-pursuit of happiness after all.
What you showed are the advertisements of the homes, but these are not the instructions that Sears sold. I assume the instructions would include a bill of materials and the step-by-step assembly process.
It is amazing to me that people used to spend one month full time on their own to build their own house using the instructions provided by Sears. Does anyone know whether any instruction booklets have survived? And whether it is possible for someone today to follow the same instructions and build their own house?