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I've never heard of a company paying non-salary employees during a plant shutdown. (In the US, things may be different in Europe for all I know)

Isn't the assumption always that accessing a web page programmatically is allowed unless specifically asked not to in robots.txt?

They aren't, we can easily extend the concept by using it as metaphor.

It's a metaphor, metaphors aren't literally physical work implements.

>I suspect that metaphors are the tools of cargo cults while analogies are the tools used by those that actually understand a system in order to convey it to those that do not. Are…

They're also the world leaders in automobile safety-defects.

If you have a probability vector, you would typically take the max, not model the action on the probability distribution. e.g. If an image (from the forward camera) returns the pro…

Just guidelines at this point. https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/us-dot-releases-new-aut...

Yeah, but he feels sort of bad about it... http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/book/hieroglyph All the way to the bank.

Check your orbital velocity at the surface. It's not 0. The direction you head does matter.

I haven't read the paper, but I think: >undermine the ability of democracies to sustain truthful public debates. Is coded language for exactly what you're talking about, in the sam…

How is your concern different than what they are calling political security (~1/3 of the paper)? >Political security. The use of AI to automate tasks involved in surveillance (e.g.…

I think the major difference is this notation has the count of loose wires corresponding to dimension, and Penrose notation has the count of loose wires corresponding to tensor val…

There's not much point in trying to hide what your doing, if what your doing is holding a public vote.

>For functions of a single parameter, /partial operator/ is equivalent to /full derivative operator/ (for sufficiently smooth functions). Are you pulling my leg here, or do I need …

I concede the point, nuclear strikes on the US and Japan are reasonable responses.

Conditional on a non-military action which had already taken place.

> If I write a theory and take over an existing word in everyday use, it seems a bit much to accuse every one else of colloquialism when they use an existing but less strict defini…

I don't know the semi-conductor specifics... but it's a broad engineering concept. Validation: Does the thing you designed actually do what it's supposed to do? And the related con…

Friends don't let friends use ambiguous date formats. https://xkcd.com/1179/

That specificity implies one of these cancers apriori occurs in 5% of the tested population. Is that about right taking into account pre-screening? We can identify a population tha…

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