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If someone wants to throw enough money at doing that. Solving the Navier-Stokes problem cost a few million dollars. I don't know how much the other problems cost but I suspect they're all above $100.000.

If indeterminism gives us free will, it's like making a decision by rolling dice. I wouldn't call that free will.

One explanation that I heard of free will is that it depends on the complexity of a system. A simpler being might think it had free will while it is predictable to us because we see how it works. A much more complex being might be able to predict what we will do.

I didn't read David Byrne's book but I heard about it on the radio. Doesn't it also mention that drummers started playing with less tempo variation since drum computers are used?

I agree, but I prefer old jazz from before I was born. Modern jazz doesn't appeal to me, it sounds too clean and unoriginal to me (maybe gridification, I don't know, I'm not a musician), with some exceptions. But maybe I didn't find the good modern jazz.

I only see the graph in the paragraph titled "Where an Amazon sale goes", which tells what the fees are now, not which fees have increased since 2014.

I prefer online retailers because there is a lot more choice there. I can't find an inflatable knee pillow in local stores. The supermarket close to me even stopped selling batteries.

Interesting article. But I wish it explained which fees made the share that Amazon takes go from 19% to 46%. The fulfilment fee is evidently necessary, it takes people to do that, and doing it yourself may cost more. The advertisement is also evidently necessary, but could have risen. The referral fee alone can't explain the increase.

And the fulfilment fee is not a fixed percentage of the price, it depends on the size, weight and price tier of the item.

I suspect the first ANN researchers called them neurons to get more funding.

In essence an ANN is just a complicated mathematical function that you can tweak to fit the training set. Originally the activation function of a neuron in an ANN resembled real neurons, but later it was found that other, very different, functions are much better, like RLE.

I used it for a few hobby projects in VSCode. It's not 100% smooth, e.g. I couldn't compile and run my code with a single shortcut. It's supposed to be possible to show graphs in VSCode but I couldn't make that work.

Debugging worked quite good. I didn't look for static analysis.

But I find programming in any language in VSCode less polished, compared to e.g. programming C++ with Visual Studio, which works out of the box.

Strange, I walked in different regions of Tokyo, and I found it to be very clean. This is in part because in Japan it is not done to eat while walking in the street.

I remember that in Osaka on Saturday night there were young people kicking trash around, that was the only time I found Japan dirty.

IME, when words like this become common, it allows people to identify them more easily, so it's a good thing to introduce such words.

If you're allowed to change the speed of light, you can also change the gravitational constant G to compensate since the Schwarzschild radius is r = 2GM/c^2, where M is the mass of the object.

I think that light coming from different parts of the lamp arrives at different times. So if the lamp turns off, you see the part closest to you go black first.