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 (or likely, the Irish subsidiary). Don’t want to comply with German law? Then Google GmbH must exit the German market.
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 are cost competitive with public transit or private car ownership.
I highly recommend Dr. Kelly Starrett for all things mobility. Thereadystate.com (his website) is my daily source of mobility instruction, both for daily mobility work, and for getting me through many an injury. Reading the Supple Leopard (his book) is useful, but it’s hard to beat the follow-along videos for usefulness.
Plus, he’s a huge Dune nerd, which comes through in occasionally hilarious ways.
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 arts and humanities — or conversely to the sciences.
> The American liberal arts education can do a fantastic job
This kind of American exceptionalism is remarkably naïve and unwarranted. The American style of education is only unique in that most other places in the world do that in K-12 already. American public K-12 though is a complete dumpster fire so everyone has to catch up in college.
Correct, but it wasn't always like that. I suspect many of us were raised in a time when K-12 was also structured in liberal arts, and was relatively decent, compared to today's standards. Am I alone in this, or are my suspicions correct?
That was my experience, at least. My own interests are spread broadly across almost every topic, though philosophy and computer science are my main loves.
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 system that is what you are describing. Here it is doing some tone transfer:
https://sites.research.google/tonetransfer/about
And this is very much already a vetted approach. They use photonics circuits to implement random projections, which can be used to speed up t linear algebra in modern ML workflows. It’s no magic monocle, rather a pretty interesting co-processor racked away in some data center.
Sure, but you can only do that if either that's a way to express what you want directly or, in the example you gave, there's a common idiomatic style that the compiler can recognize and handle.
What is the idiomatic way to write the popcount of the intersection of two 256-byte byte strings? My C code is:
static int
byte_intersect_256(const unsigned char *fp1, const unsigned char *fp2) {
int num_words = 2048 / 64;
int intersect_popcount = 0;
/* Interpret as 64-bit integers and assume possible mis-alignment is okay. */
uint64_t *fp1_64 = (uint64_t *) fp1, *fp2_64 = (uint64_t *) fp2;
for (int i=0; i<num_words; i++) {
intersect_popcount += __builtin_popcountll(fp1_64[i] & fp2_64[i]);
}
return intersect_popcount;
}
I haven't figured out the Julia way to write it so it would use the POPCNT instruction (if available), the AVX2 popcount technique (if available), or the VPOPCNTDQ AVX-512 instruction (if available) - falling back, I suppose, to the SSSE3 and Lauradoux implementations - the last being the fastest generic C implementation I found. (See https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-0... ).
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 taking advantage of modern technical stacks implementing auto-diff and co-processor routines.
Most pre- and post- processing (with the exception of visualization) should probably be a part of your model!
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 evidence for a phenomenon. It also underscores one of the biggest benefits of preprints: faster dissemination of information.
