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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Compassion is supposed to be the key reason for mankind becoming the dominant species on our planet, and with intelligence being key to survival, it would follow that compassion would be a key marker for intelligence. A lot of scientists generally fit this characterization, a classical example being Einstein. As a counter-example, a lot of people regarded as poor leaders would probably also rank low for perceived compassion.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
The innovation needed here is for everyone to be able to have a premium rate phone number, and be able to set fee rates for contacts or "classes" of callers. Spam & robocalls need to become too cost-prohibitive to pursue. Everyone's time has value, so it seems mad that we can't set fees for incoming calls or texts.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm a bit out of the loop on these, but,

1) Is there any Copilot alternative that is open source, and,

2) Is there any Copilot alternative that works with Vim?

Comment · 4 years ago
Yep, and this is link to disease that people often miss - when we attribute conditions and diseases to "genetics", what is implied is that it is due to some environmental exposure or detrimental pattern of behavior that hasn't been identified, causing some gene expression/mutation that ends up being harmful.
Comment · 5 years ago
Is there a standard process anywhere for vetting some software for information leakage? I would imagine that someone would deploy the software behind an MITM proxy and then look at the traffic, but it would be nice if there was some standard process or framework for this somewhere.
Comment · 5 years ago
I would be curious to know if anyone has audited this for malicious code, or how one would go about doing that in the first place. Is that kind of software auditing a use case for Ghidra? A demo of using Ghidra to audit Ghidra would be interesting I suppose.
Comment · 5 years ago
One might view it as a way of discouraging remote work in Colorado for various reasons. I suspect that Colorado cannot collect much income tax on remote workers given their low flat income tax, so if the tax collected in the remote employers state is higher than that of Colorado, then Colorado gets nothing.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
There is no mention of Python Bundlewrap (https://bundlewrap.org/), which I have really liked, though I don't know how speed and scalability compares. I believe Bundlewrap will welcome contributors for these enhancements.
Comment · 7 years ago
As someone who obtained their Master's in Physics, I have to agree with the article. The breadth and depth of my scientific training has made me a much more capable data scientist (and engineer) than most of my peers who went the CS path. I only wished that I could have double majored in biology. I would say that my study in physics has taught me how to better see the "bigger picture" and to try to account for all possible outcomes in a given scenario.

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