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Power is one factor informing policy, empathy is another. Neither is sufficient for a policy that sustains the system for long on its own. Only focusing on power would result in e.…

That would be an out-of-context quote. I'd say that attempting to prohibit this tradition has a net negative impact on the integrity and functioning of society because the harm in …

Even a few days or weeks after the mutilation the consequences are extremely minor. It is a very low-priority issue.

It is very minor mutilation though, it does not matter.

Read the [...]. The harm is to minimal that it is a non-issue.

Actual barbarism would impair the functioning and productivity of society. The harm in this case is so negligible that it does not matter.

What matters the most is the cohesion, functioning and productivity of society, which is unaffected by circumcision. The notion of consent is arbitrary. You could also regard relig…

This inflicted pain and damage appears to have no significant impact on adult quality of life though. Circumcision may also even reduce the bacterial load and hence reduce chances …

You can always build things more safely with more resources (more maintenance, more checks, more testing etc.), the question at the end of the day is whether it is economical. I do…

Lilium's plane has 30 engines, multiple independent battery packs, and electric motors are way more reliable than jet engines (due to being so much simpler). A Lilium plane may hav…

It's behind a paywall for me.

I wonder what kind of speedup can we expect from neuromorphic computing within the next 5-10 years?

If they were too competent these bureaucracies would abolish themselves, or at least decimate their own funding.

The model only has about 1B parameters which is relatively small. The language models that produced very impressive results have >>50B parameters, e.g. GPT-3 with 175B, Aleph Alpha…

This proves that none of these institutions and politicians pushing for more surveillance actually care about the problem (while the urgency of the problem is dubious to begin with…

Do you really pay for less? Digital signage displays often run 24/7 in temper proof cases with relatively poor ventilation and heat dissipation. Thus you might actually get a displ…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-O7AZNzbzQ See the linked papers if you don't like videos.

That's not entirely true. Neural networks are fairly robust to noisy training data (a.k.a. garbage).[0] Well, stochastic gradient descent has the noise in its name. More training d…

Their initial intention was possibly genuine, but there are strong incentives for secrecy (trade secrets), in addition to the U.S. military most likely having an interest in suppre…

Currently, for a viewport width between 750 and 800 px there the main page overflows on the right.

Heart transplant recipients survive 15 years on average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_transplantation

> We all know what happens when content isn't curated, and it's really, really bad. Not true because law enforcement is still in place to take care of crime. Some amount of crime a…

It's a shame that these are stereotyped as female fashion accessory.

PI?