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I get bronchitis once or twice a year. The method by which I clear it is to hang upside down until the s * just comes out of me by coughing as hard as I can. That sounds awfully si…

You're not the only one leaving stuff in the garage. but for some of the big-ticket items or food items I have doused the box in Lysol spray and let it sit for 10 minutes and then …

And if it doesn't hopefully you stocked up on toilet paper and purell to trade in the new hellscape economy...

Buying them for my elderly Chinese inlaws, yeesh. As an asthmatic, I already had a bunch for fire season so I really don't need any more.

Unavoidably slightly political but... I saw a shift in behavior following Trump's conference appointing Mike Pence as the effective coronavirus czar. Every morning there was a smal…

Every thousand miles or so. Which is to say three times a year because I walk/run about 10 miles a day, which I once thought was original behavior, but see Nikolai Tesla.

Seems like running shoe Luddism to me. I've been using Brooks PureFlow shoes for years. They just happen to be at the slowest running shoe ever created. I'm looking forward to what…

Completely different viruses, but right before the coronavirus outbreak, there was a plague outbreak in Beijing and the CCP responded similarly ineptly to it. The article below is …

There's an interview with an African grad student in Wuhan who says that strange cases of pneumonia were happening all the way back in September of 2019. And this interview was the…

I agree, but it's so very interesting that when a similar sort of loyalty oath was used even when I was in grad school 25 years ago to enforce loyalty to the state government at Pe…

I just want to know when we're going to start playing Six Degrees of Jeffrey Epstein here...

While I don't think there's going to be an AI winter either, I don't think GPT-2 will achieve sentience or anything close to it. And that's for the same reason that no matter how m…

And if we started treating behavior like this as equivalent to the search for bug bounties, we could iteratively patch the law until it is no longer cost-effective to search for th…

Just charge a vacancy tax like Vancouver does. https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t...

It's also my favorite episode of The Outer Limits reboot... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667957/

I'm going to disagree. Yes, the biggest perpetrators aged. But in my experience it became more "50 is the new 40" than it went away.

Or you could engineer the roads and the cars to provide telemetry on where they are in high resolution in real time. This would reduce a nearly impossible job in machine intelligen…

Like so many of these rants, he doesn't actually demonstrate his ideas fix the problem, he just insists that they do so without proof. Less thought-leadering, more actual results p…

By the law of large numbers, the sample mean approaches the population mean as the sample size gets larger. The law of large numbers goes hand-in-hand with the central limit theore…

I've had a simple rule for the past 20 years. If you offer me less than 1% of the startup I'm not interested in working with you because I am a plebe if I accept that offer. It has…

My dad spent his entire career at GE research. One day he arranged for Bill Lorensen to give me a tour of their computer graphics lab. Great guy! Sad to hear that he has passed.

We failed to deliver on nuclear power. And that's on all of us...

Forget 20 years, go out 50-100 years. Given a prior where we haven't annihilated the top of the food chain to give the planet a new shot at intelligent life... We will have solved …

I don't know how old you are but I'm a lot older than 41 as well. I am also stymied by the increasing tribalism in this country and I don't feel like a member of either major tribe…

The funny thing for me is that if The Economist had just hacked the input into GPT-2 so that it was an ongoing conversation they would have found that it's OK at holding a conversa…