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Don't need to encode it in some sort of machine code. Just need a git repo with the law so we can submit a PR to the CA assembly and get this fixed.

I don't own many DVDs, but when I see them in my bookshelf they remind of the story the tell, the context when I watched them, and my theories about society, sci-fi, and utopias that those movies inspired.

With books it's even more extreme. I get the physical copy sometimes more to have a physical representation of an idea than to read the book.

That list ignores that countries trade electricity. If, say, Germany produces a lot of electricity by renewables it can sell the excess to France (which has lots of nuclear). If Germany is low on electricity, it can buy from is neighbors. The system as a whole is nowhere near 90%.

The one exception are probably countries that have all hydro and biomass.

1. Procrastination seems to be a type of early stopping. I knew I had a good strategy in school!

2. Something that seems to be sorely missing in machine learning (I'm not a ML expert) are error bars. If you take the example of the figure at the end, as you increase the number of parameters in the model, your error bars become larger (at least in the overfitting regime), and they are infinite when you have more parameters than data points. Indeed, chi^2 tests are usually used in physics/astro to test for this. Of course, you need error bars on the data points to do this. So perhaps the difficulty is really in assigning meaningful uncertainties to your pictures/test scores/politicians.

I think we learn that older people are less willing to put up with silly instructions.

Yes. I feel like the author conflates the language with the package ecosystem. Pure Python is pretty horrible for scientific computing (3*[3]=[3,3,3] is about as counterproductive to scientific computations as it gets), but Numpy changes the semantics of those operations.

In other words, Python has an absolutely stellar package ecosystem. There have been attempts to bring a package ecosystem to C, but it never took off. However, I do wonder how C would fare if it had.

[1] http://www.zedorock.net/winde.html

This line of reasoning works really well for those who understand (and want to understand) how git works. I know plenty of people who don't care about their development tools (e.g. scientists), and for them the index is a chore in the way of more important problems.

In many ways it is too early to do this research, so it is a kind of art (as is a lot of research, imho). As long as only a few people do it, it's cool and useful so we can be aware of our potential future.

On the other hand, since we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrials, it would be surprising to find a civilisation so advanced to build a Dyson sphere. If they can build Dyson spheres, wouldn't they already be all over the place?

Ok, I suppose I should actually go read the paper now...

I've had a professor who said that the purpose of an exam is to study for it.

The same professor said that if you don't learn something in an exam, then the exam is useless.