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Comment · 9 years ago
The thing is, for car driving you need combinatorial search combined with a good model (statistical) of the world. Research I've seen does not incorporate any kind of meaningful search.

Company that has all the roads and surroundings scanned and knows exactly where the car is at all times is at a huge advantage.

Partially observed world gets your head hurting. Not modelling other cars practically makes everything useless.

If you can't hallucinate everything around you as close as possible, the problem gets very very difficult.

I'm pretty sure there are companies close to solving the problem, as they have more data and some also know practically every road in the modern world.

Modelling and tracking other cars is a bigger issue, including pedestrians.

Comment · 9 years ago
Cyanobacteria would still use oxygen when there is no light, and other nutrients. By allowing them to burst in numbers they would easily suck it all out of the sea.
Comment · 9 years ago
They suck out oxygen too. That's how you get ocean deadzones.
Comment · 9 years ago
Corn and wheat.

Most of nitrogen is ferilizers and cattle poop. Most of plants grown and farmland used is for cattle.

I don't think farmers would care if they had nitrogen sucking gmo plants for their cattle since they already feed them tons of GMO.

Plants grown for human consumption are invisible in the profiler.

Comment · 9 years ago
The things is that these small things might just be noise from some confounding factors.

http://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2517494

For example, here sample size is huge, USA population gets significant increased risk, while EU population does not. Mixing the two together would result in a smaller but still significant increased risk.

Given the size, it's quite clear that USA population has many other confounding factors that cannot be eliminated by mathematics alone (there is no control).

Comment · 9 years ago
Do people really eat that much fish? I thought fish is mostly raised as fishmeal for cows. Making an even worse bioaccumulation chain.
Comment · 9 years ago
Finding a polynomial algorithm for #P problem implies P=NP.
Comment · 9 years ago
Damn it. I didn't know it's NP hard. I thought I would discover the generating function for the number of possible solutions for board sized N.
Comment · 9 years ago
I don't know. It's fine for keeping tasks but seems quite slow.

Just clicking on create issue takes 4 seconds. Switching between issue types takes about 1.5 seconds.

This should all be just simple javascript change and layout calculation but there seem to be network requests for every single click.

To me, that sucks a little.

Comment · 9 years ago
I believe `await` is sequential in the scope. `Promise.all` would be truly parallel.

edit: just checked and your version is indeed parallel. Interesting.

Comment · 9 years ago
I love how machine learning went to statistical learning and then back to machine learning. Playing is exactly the word to describe the discovery process.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is becoming true for most of the first world. Women are more successful in educational institutions than men on average already.
Comment · 9 years ago
Is there a way to measure healthiness of a single ingredient? I didn't find anything allowing me to label stuff as healthy or unhealthy. At least not scientific. I do not even think there's a scientific definition of healthiness of one single ingredient. I guess by your definition (vegetable oils increasing risk of some cardiovascular diseases) makes all meat, animal breast milk, eggs unhealthy.

I thought only diets and lifestyle can be healthy, regardless of what a single ingredient can do.

Also, if it is vegetable oil, how come there's protein in it? I thought oil is just fat? There's 4 grams of protein in 100mL of soy/oat milk (about the same as cow breast milk). Almonds on the other hand are a big scam with only 0.x protein, water with some flavour.

Comment · 9 years ago
The biggest chuck of CO2 footprint is heating and cooling. I'm pretty sure people don't want to stop using their AC.

Second biggest is cars and animal agriculture.

So, three most convenient things in the modern world, cooling, transportation and abundance of umami luxurious products and yet what, one industry to blame?

Climate change is happening because of the way society works, individuals works. It is a social problem.

What you need to fight is the ingrained greedy human nature. You need to fight the desire for convenience. Desire for luxury.

Many people will never inconvenience themselves by not eating animal products or by not driving a car, or by not cooling their rooms.

It's not the fault of the industry. It's a collective guilt shared by all and given that no one teaches you anywhere to fight against your greedy nature (well, maybe some religions somewhere do it right) I do not see how this will stop.

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