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The chaotic nature of these images, full of local minimas, makes me intuitively think that genetic algorithm approaches to optmizing hyper parameter searching are better suited than regression-based ones.

Auto manufacturers don't have the skills to design or implement good UX, and they don't have the leadership with the skills required to hire the people with the right skills.

Dark Mode doesn't hurt my eyes. Light mode does. "Something something science". Whatever.

As someone who tinkers with these things a lot, I'm happy for the voltage I'm playing with not to be increased. There's plenty of scope to improve the plug design without approaching anything near the fragility of this nVidia adapter. There's no pressing need to increase voltage.

I had this effect laying on a rooftop as a teenager watching a meteor storm. The meteors were streaking in straight lines across/through the sky. The illusion of the "dome" of the sky was broken, and my senses were directly telling me that Earth is hurtling through space, and these things are zipping by it. It was an almost physical sense of mind expansion.

AI Whisperer is totally going to be a job

I think the correct title would technically be "Destructively interfering the hype from the facts of quantum computing"?

Suggest editing to "wimped out" instead of using slang for female genitalia as an insult

NGL I was expecting some kind of database designed for operating on tor

This overstates the difficulty of crowd-sourcing expert consensus. Even if two percent of experts are saying "!X" about the pandemic, then yes, that's still a lot of people and it's easy to find one to counter mainstream opinion "X". However, if you filter inept science journalism, populist narrative, etc., and listen to experts in relevant fields, it's pretty easy very early on to identify the 98%-ish consensus.

The 2% of "everyone" who doesn't know the earth is round, doesn't really impede the reliability of everyone knowing the world is round. Likewise, the "what every expert knows" (maybe not futurist prophesying, but at least about what is true today) is accessible, useful and pretty up-to-date.

If I had to determine whether a planet was hostile, "fired 500 million needles into space" would be pretty freakin high up on my criteria

Internalize that human worth has no connection to ability. Easier said than done. As a thought exercise, think about individuals you care about. How strongly does their productivity correlate with how glad you are they are alive and part of your life? Why do you apply different standards to yourself?

I've thought for a long time that battery swapping is the only way to go for all electric vehicles. A subscription or pay-as-you-go service for battery changing is practical and would make battery replacements costing tens of thousands of dollars a non-thing. I know some batteries are heavy, but if stations can provide petroleum pumps, then they can provide mechanized battery exchange infrastructure, right? Bring on the ISO standards for vehicle batteries!

Does anyone have any reason why this wouldn't work? Perhaps parts being stolen from the rental batteries before they're returned or some such?

My PROdesigner and I had been very clear that the final print should cover 46cm x 27cm, all things considered.