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GDPR isn’t enforceable against foreign companies. It is enforceable against subsidiaries registered within the EU. Living in Germany means you are doing business with Google GmbH (…

Car sharing in Germany such as Bolt and Miles. The pickup and drop-off anywhere model is so much more convenient than the point-to-point or round trip model that zip car uses. They…

What sort of programming did you use to work ok your mobility? I’ve been looking to do the same.

It does indeed cover it, starting at the 35 minute mark. It’ll require some more digging if you want the primary sources they reference.

I’d agree with this assessment. The American liberal arts education can do a fantastic job at producing well rounded and well read students. At the very least exposing people to ar…

There has been a lot of work in this space, and it’s a lot of fun to read around and play with. The Magenta team at google developed a differentiable digital signal processing syst…

I thought immediately of LightOns work: https://lighton.ai/photonic-computing-for-ai/ And this is very much already a vetted approach. They use photonics circuits to implement rand…

My understanding is that the Julia community is quite interested in having SIMD via e.g. AVX “just work”. I recall reading this post on it a while back: https://juliacomputing.com/…

My take is that most modern PPLs have language bindings in JavaScript/Python/R because they are explicitly courting analysts/data-scientists/applied-statisticians, or they are taki…

The article does reference that Chinese study, as well as a more recent one from researchers in Italy and Spain. It is great to see the scientific process at work — building eviden…

The point still stands. Rental caps mean it is very difficult to find a place to live in desired neighborhoods. Of course, you can find places outside the ring, but those would hav…

Great timing: I just finished “Objectivity” the book she co-authored with Peter Gallison. It is a phenomenal work on the history of science, looking at the development of the conce…

This was a thorough yet concise overview of the Structural Causal Models framework that has been gaining in popularity recently.

Is there any chance the course material is available? I've been looking to better my Julia meta-programming. Most of the resources out there are geared towards other languages. It …

You have to look beyond CO2 emissions to assess climate change impact. The IPCC land use report from this past August does exactly this [1]. The associated reporting is also quite …

One thing this opens you up to is the average recommendation, which is biased towards inflammatory or click-bait content.

There was a log-normal version of the Galton board making the rounds last month: https://stat.ethz.ch/~stahel/lognormal/bioscience.pdf It really clarified where a log-normal distri…

One of the more remarkable results in 21st human genetics was that the top two PCs of a genotype matrix captures geography to an amazing degree [1]. This is the PCA of a N x M matr…

Fun fact: they are nearly the same implementation. See: http://markmail.org/message/ktzomp4uwrmnzao6

Those are fair points regarding energy expenditure for specific exercises. However, that doesn't take into account the effects of regular exercise on BMR. That normal exercise can …