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I agree with you there's a lot of anti SF content floating around these days. Just wanted to point out that in this article the author does go on to say he loves SF and thinks any …

Does it go something like this? Content creator posts content on their site that they own and pay to operate. Mega-3rd-party shares links of this content, sometimes posting blurbs …

Please take 10 minutes to educate yourself on this topic. https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/frequently-...

"Just solve homelessness" - GhostVII Why didn't we think of that?! Thanks GhostVII we'll get right on that.

Saddles are a way of conceptualizing high dimensional optimization problems. If you have a 3 dimensional surface you can imagine a saddle as an isocurve that follows a minima in at…

Hey @moultano in response to your argument about walls and Nets not being in a minima, its my understanding nets always live on high dimensional saddle points and that's commonly r…

I appreciate your response but respectfully disagree. (1) you posted above completely miss-states the facts. From the voter pamphlet text itself; "A YES vote on this measure means:…

I am so against prop22 it pains me so here I am ranting on the internet. What's going on is a negotiation between the state and these companies that are able to take advantage of a…

Depends on the application. Often down-sampled data is useful for drawing trends but not so useful for better understanding failure events.

This is a common misperception. You cannot estimate the shape of simple things in low light. Even humans are susceptible to optical illusions and are effectively blind during certa…

Just today I noticed when searching about "building " upon typing in "bu" 'burger king' showed up in autocomplete. Has nothing to do with my search history, this happens on any goo…

Time to start burying the powerlines fellow Californians.

The article said nothing about selective dispersal. For all we know these drones are just fancy crop dusters.

Car owners in small towns posting in here like "finally that fake gig economy is dying" City dwellers posting the opposite because they rely on the product to make their lives work…

Age has nothing to do with talent. Older devs tend to have more experience, go figure.

Not to mention the nightmare that is organizing the compiler on large projects. I've seen multiple large companies employ teams of 10+ engineers just trying to keep the compiler in…

If it was written before 1998 I expect you'd find a version of C++ that existed before 1998 :) If it was written today, I don't know that's a really good question. I think its a mi…

Are any of those languages even remotely similar after 25 years? For example, C++11 is practically a different language from C++<98.

Avoid using these whenever possible. Readability is more important than WoahNeat Factor.

These are general overall topics. Dive into any one of them and you'll find hundreds if not thousands of open questions. My particular field was amorphous solids and the glassy pha…

The mining industry has dreamed of self driving vehicles to replace humans in dangerous work conditions for ages.

You don't have to respond to a text immediately, you don't have answer a phone call. Students can contact you all they want and you can simply ignore them when necessary. Many stud…

Hey Floya, I'm writing this here hoping you'll see this comment. You're getting a lot of unjust responses in here. The commentors are reading your thesis with the eyes of a trained…

The goal is for the student to get some experience with performing their own research wherever that may lead them. This is actually a pretty impressive piece of independent work fo…