Jugglerofworlds

I follow the UFO community, that stuff is still going on. The military man, David Grusch was recently on the Joe Rogan podcast where he talked about steps moving forward.

The next big thing coming down the pipeline is ensuring that "The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023" proposed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer passes the house. Yes this is the real name of the act, and has already passed through the Senate as part of the NDAA. The opposition in the House is coming from members from districts with entrenched military/military contracting interests.

I'm a PhD student at a top CS research University, and I'm leaving with a master's degree. I agree that the bar for admission into the program is way too high. I only got into two Universities despite having multiple publications as well as experience working in government research labs.

The majority of my fellow students are international, mostly from China. I know hardly any other Americans in my program. At this point I see the system as more or less a way for international students to gain citizenship. I'm all for immigration, but I think it has gotten to the point where American students don't even want to go to graduate school at their own Universities, and the system imports foreign students who they know they can abuse for cheap labor. If grad student salaries were higher I'm sure we would see more Americans joining.

I decided to leave due to abuse by my initial advisor. So many of my fellow students have experienced abuse or neglect by their advisors. By neglect I mean that advisors won't even talk to them because the advisor has tenure and doesn't care. Many CS doctorate holders I've talked to have expressed that their degree was not worth it.

I've used Unity since around 2014 or so, for personal projects and also at work for a VR startup. The primary problem with Unity is: 1. The editor has become so slow and buggy, to the point where it is unusable, 2. Features are half-baked, like the new ECS which has failed to replace the old user scripts, lack of a networking solution despite years of development time, etc. My relatively small personal project causes the latest Unity versions to constantly freeze with loading bars that never complete. I think that peak Unity was 2019 or so, all versions since then have been worse.

With the ironSource acquisition complete, I don't think things will turn around. Unity didn't have a cashcow like Epic, so some sort of acquisition was pretty much inevitable. The profits from Unity licenses and the Unity asset store just isn't high enough to sustain development.

This happened to me, but with a high dose of marijuana. It was maybe maybe 3rd time I ever tried it. There is a confirmed connection between marijuana use and psychosis in those genetically susceptible. Hang around any schizophrenia forum long enough and you'll see plenty of stories from people who obtained their mental health problems from drug use.

As someone with schizophrenia I am disappointed to read all the negative comments, probably coming from people who don't have to bear this horrible disease. I've already decided that the only way I'll ever have kids is through some sort of genetic screening process. I know many other people with schizophrenia online who also purposely will never have kids because they don't want to pass the disorder down.

In my case it's definitely genetic. I've taken 23andme, run my data through Promethease and I have a ton of genes that put me at high risk of the disorder.

I don't give a shit about your high IQ designer baby, just at least give me the option of having a kid before all the pearl clutchers take it away.

Could this be used to help save endangered species?

Ironically old.reddit.com is working fine.

Presumably because the cars would be substantially more expensive than an ordinary car due to all the high tech packed into them. Assuming that the components of the car have a finite lifetime, it might be possible that the overall cost is so much significantly more than a normal car that they won't be able to compete with a human driven solution like Uber.

Does anyone have any actual statistics/calculations on this sort of thing?

This is why I'm anticipating a vehicle/drone delivery system hybrid. Essentially an Amazon van will drive around, and the drones will fly off from the moving vehicle to deliver packages. Meanwhile, the driver starts and stops the vehicle as is typical right now to deliver the heavier packages.

As someone with aphantasia, I strongly object to this test which has nothing to do with coding.

I think that people ignore the fact that the population of the United States has dramatically increased over time. We now have 331 million people whereas there were only 210 million in 1970. So of course housing is going to be more expensive. The issue gets even more dramatic prior to 1900.

I don't think Khan Academy or 3brown1blue are a replacement for upper level math and physics courses. Khan seems to stop at calculus/statistics and not dive into any of the proof based math. I'm not sure on 3brown1blue since I haven't watched very much of him.

I'm planning on applying for PhD programs this fall to work in this area. There are only a few places in the world right now that I know of working on these types of problems. They are:

* Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich

* Dawn Song, University of California Berkeley

* Eran Yahav, Technion

* Miltiadis Allamanis, Microsoft Research Cambridge

If anyone knows other advisors looking for graduate students in this area, please let me know. Due to personal circumstances I can most likely not apply to ETH Zurich or Technion (I don't speak Hebrew anyway), which leaves me with only one potential advisor in a program that I really want.

There is also the Python writing model that Open AI showed recently at the Microsoft Build conference, so maybe there is some interest growing at other places as well.

I was also recently working on a deep learning decompiler but was unable to get my transformer model to learn well enough to actually decompile x64 assembly. I have the source code for the entire Linux kernel as training data, so it's not an issue with quantity. If anyone is interested in helping out with this project, please let me know in a comment.