> Because AI doesn't have the factional conflicts or interpersonal issues that humans do. All the factional conflicts are in there, and there are also plenty of reports of people getting weird / toxic / passive…
In Finland, the government and the universities negotiate on how funding will be allocated between the fields. STEM fields are generally easy to get in, while places in arts, humanities, and social sciences are more…
At least a decade ago the system was anything but fair. The income threshold for repayment was low, while the interest rate was very high. At that point, the expectation was that those who got an average job after…
Things are already much better than they used to be. The 2003 heatwave killed ~70k. This year's heatwave was worse, but the number of deaths probably didn't go much beyond 20k.
I've spent more time in the Andes than in Lima. The Quechua are clearly an indigenous group, but they have been forced to adopt most of the European cultural package. If you travel in Russia, you can find many ethnic…
Ignore the political aspects for now and focus on culture. And feel free to use "Roman" if "European" sounds wrong. But "Western" is wrong, because the same cultural sphere extends to Australia, New Zealand, and Russian…
All real negotiations are private. When politicians debate or negotiate in public, they inevitably start talking past each other to the general public. Voting rituals would be a waste of time. The confirmation vote is…
That's how multi-party parliamentarism usually works. A minority is not allowed to choose the leader just because they are a slightly larger minority than the others. Because no party has an outright majority, there are…
> Culturally, America is much closer now to Latin America or Asia. That's an interesting statement. From my perspective, Latin America is clearly European, in the sense I understand the concept. It feels much like…
> At least 25% of us Americans have never had blood or ethnic ties with Europe. > African Americans make up around 15% of the US, Asian Americans around 7%, Arab Americans around 1.5%, and Native Americans around 2%.…
Payloads are expensive, because high-value businesses can outbid low-value ones. By the time there is enough launch capacity for low-value businesses, manufacturing improvements should have made launch vehicles even…
In that scenario, most of the value would be in Starlink. Launch vehicles have always been the cheap part in going to space. Payloads tend to be more expensive, and the actual value is in the services enabled by the…
You have a few misconceptions. The actual expectation is that after finishing PhD, you take a journeyman position, where you can practice the skills needed in an academic career and gradually gain independence while…
The US spends less on academic research than the OECD average. See, for example, https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb202326/academic-r-d-internatio... From a European perspective, the most noticeable sign of this is the…
Because there is less competition for jobs and grants. Europe spends more on academic research (as a fraction of GDP) than the US, but there are more people competing for the funding.
And the foundations of those statistical approaches are built on heuristics and shortcuts. For example, sequencing instruments include base quality strings in the output. Base qualities are estimates how likely the…
I guess you had more of those people after the revolution. Many combat veterans react to anything resembling gunfire and explosions. And you can add drone noise to that these days.
The strategic level is the level that matters. In a video game, military forces fight other military forces and the stronger side wins. In the real world, a military force may choose to fight enemy forces, if it…
That's video game thinking. The effectiveness of a military force is not based on its ability to fight enemy forces, but on its ability to achieve its goals and prevent the enemy from achieving theirs. US military could…
Poor ventilation is mostly an issue in homes built or renovated in the 1970s, when the oil crisis led to ill-considered efforts to save energy. New homes typically achieve energy efficiency by using heat pumps in the…
If you use memory-mapped files, cached pages count towards the resident set size of your process. If you use ordinary file I/O, they don't. That behavior has amusing consequences in HPC clusters that monitor the memory…
Public goods can be contracted out to private entities. And this can be done independently in each region, without having a single central contractor. EU countries privatized their postal services decades ago, because…
You often do, if the street has been there for a while. The exact location of underground infrastructure was rarely documented in the past. While the city should have a general idea of what lies under the street, you…
That would be a trap. It's healthier for a non-profit to have many small funders than a few large ones.
Larger cities would help more, as the root issues are education and specialization. A city should be large enough to have multiple potential employers to minimize the risk of getting trapped in a bad job. If you are…
> Because AI doesn't have the factional conflicts or interpersonal issues that humans do. All the factional conflicts are in there, and there are also plenty of reports of people getting weird / toxic / passive…
In Finland, the government and the universities negotiate on how funding will be allocated between the fields. STEM fields are generally easy to get in, while places in arts, humanities, and social sciences are more…
At least a decade ago the system was anything but fair. The income threshold for repayment was low, while the interest rate was very high. At that point, the expectation was that those who got an average job after…
Things are already much better than they used to be. The 2003 heatwave killed ~70k. This year's heatwave was worse, but the number of deaths probably didn't go much beyond 20k.
I've spent more time in the Andes than in Lima. The Quechua are clearly an indigenous group, but they have been forced to adopt most of the European cultural package. If you travel in Russia, you can find many ethnic…
Ignore the political aspects for now and focus on culture. And feel free to use "Roman" if "European" sounds wrong. But "Western" is wrong, because the same cultural sphere extends to Australia, New Zealand, and Russian…
All real negotiations are private. When politicians debate or negotiate in public, they inevitably start talking past each other to the general public. Voting rituals would be a waste of time. The confirmation vote is…
That's how multi-party parliamentarism usually works. A minority is not allowed to choose the leader just because they are a slightly larger minority than the others. Because no party has an outright majority, there are…
> Culturally, America is much closer now to Latin America or Asia. That's an interesting statement. From my perspective, Latin America is clearly European, in the sense I understand the concept. It feels much like…
> At least 25% of us Americans have never had blood or ethnic ties with Europe. > African Americans make up around 15% of the US, Asian Americans around 7%, Arab Americans around 1.5%, and Native Americans around 2%.…
Payloads are expensive, because high-value businesses can outbid low-value ones. By the time there is enough launch capacity for low-value businesses, manufacturing improvements should have made launch vehicles even…
In that scenario, most of the value would be in Starlink. Launch vehicles have always been the cheap part in going to space. Payloads tend to be more expensive, and the actual value is in the services enabled by the…
You have a few misconceptions. The actual expectation is that after finishing PhD, you take a journeyman position, where you can practice the skills needed in an academic career and gradually gain independence while…
The US spends less on academic research than the OECD average. See, for example, https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb202326/academic-r-d-internatio... From a European perspective, the most noticeable sign of this is the…
Because there is less competition for jobs and grants. Europe spends more on academic research (as a fraction of GDP) than the US, but there are more people competing for the funding.
And the foundations of those statistical approaches are built on heuristics and shortcuts. For example, sequencing instruments include base quality strings in the output. Base qualities are estimates how likely the…
I guess you had more of those people after the revolution. Many combat veterans react to anything resembling gunfire and explosions. And you can add drone noise to that these days.
The strategic level is the level that matters. In a video game, military forces fight other military forces and the stronger side wins. In the real world, a military force may choose to fight enemy forces, if it…
That's video game thinking. The effectiveness of a military force is not based on its ability to fight enemy forces, but on its ability to achieve its goals and prevent the enemy from achieving theirs. US military could…
Poor ventilation is mostly an issue in homes built or renovated in the 1970s, when the oil crisis led to ill-considered efforts to save energy. New homes typically achieve energy efficiency by using heat pumps in the…
If you use memory-mapped files, cached pages count towards the resident set size of your process. If you use ordinary file I/O, they don't. That behavior has amusing consequences in HPC clusters that monitor the memory…
Public goods can be contracted out to private entities. And this can be done independently in each region, without having a single central contractor. EU countries privatized their postal services decades ago, because…
You often do, if the street has been there for a while. The exact location of underground infrastructure was rarely documented in the past. While the city should have a general idea of what lies under the street, you…
That would be a trap. It's healthier for a non-profit to have many small funders than a few large ones.
Larger cities would help more, as the root issues are education and specialization. A city should be large enough to have multiple potential employers to minimize the risk of getting trapped in a bad job. If you are…