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When I was in grad school, I was working on general game playing AI. Unfortunately, I was in a "pure logic" research group, founded on the old-school AI principles that believed AI…

That's an extraordinary claim. You need extraordinary evidence to back it up. So far, we haven't seen anything to suggest that evidence exists.

A WSGI middleware would not be able to catch exceptions in production mode, as the generic 500 error page would already be completed by that point.

Many of the comments here seem to be missing the point. It is an object moving into the path of the car, and if the safety systems work as advertised, it should avoid that object. …

You might want to read this one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2020/08/19/why-t-...

Barring concrete evidence that is the case, it's a very dangerous assertion to make. It would also mean that the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 is much higher than we originally th…

The distinction comes down to factors that change (behaviors, mandates, regulations, etc.) and those that don't (age, gender, etc.). Saying we've reached herd immunity given behavi…

> Back in February, Lipsitch gave a very rough estimate that, absent intervention, herd immunity might happen after 40 to 70 percent of the population had been infected. Which is a…

68% tested positive at a clinic in one neighborhood. Getting tested, without proper controls, is highly subject to self-selection bias. People were sick, couldn't get a test at the…

Just because you and your friends weren't tested, doesn't mean the statistics are invalid. The link above was from random antibody testing and has a high confidence interval. I've …

In other places, mask mandates were correlated with a 46% drop in daily new cases. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/08/12/coro... And even if mask laws are lifted …

Different cities have different mask regulations, and even without mandates, many are wearing them. Disney is open with drastic changes to how they operate: https://www.tampabay.co…

I find it hard to believe, with the R0 numbers we were seeing initially, that 40% had a significant level of immunity. If the numbers were that high, then R0 among those without me…

While true, that map and a photo of an outdoor space with people in it are poor pieces of data to hinge your entire argument on. You completely failed to take into account people w…

Also, the JHU map is a poor indicator, as they are clearly basing the colors on suspect data, as in this case in Nebraska, which apparently had negative new cases yesterday. [1] ht…

NYC had only 20% prevalence in mid-June[1], after they had contained the initial outbreak[2]. Therefore, the drop in new cases is very unlikely to be from herd immunity, which woul…

CDC Data from mid June had NYC at only 20% prevalence. Considering their low new daily cases since then, it's hard to believe they are anywhere near 68%.

Seroprevalence studies[1] in Italy, France, and Spain indicated we were a very long way off form herd immunity. They were in the range of 11-15%, where herd immunity would only sta…

1. Online learning is a poor substitute for classroom learning. 2. Online learning is much harder on parents and kids. 3. We're in the middle of a pandemic, in a country that has h…

An email/password login is not difficult in the least. And, frankly, there is zero chance I'm going to host a site with a provider who thinks it is.

> This is a topic that I've spent a great deal of time thinking about, because we happen to run a site chock full of user generated questions and answers. The last thing I want to …

And what if you make the US median individual income of $31k?

A good supplement to this is Mike Monteiro's "Fuck You Pay Me" talk. https://vimeo.com/22053820