[2015-09] Anne C. Reboul: "Why language really is not a communication system: a cognitive view of language evolution" - , Laboratory on Language, Brain and Cognition (L2C2), Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, Bron, France [1]
> [2013-09] Noam Chomsky: One of the most striking cases of incompatibility, that I know, is the sharp conflict between computational efficiency, and communicative efficiency. Language is just badly designed for communication, but well-designed to be efficient, it seems. [2]
> [2013-09] Noam Chomsky adds: There's a kind of phrase that is sometimes used for this that drives people crazy; "Language is beautiful, but unusable." It's kind of true, you know. Even if people don't like it. [2]
[2022] Nick Enfield: "Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" [3]
> Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), ... [3]
> [2023-01] Ev Fedorenko: "Although language and thought often go together, they are robustly dissociable." [4]
> [2023-01] Ev Fedorenko: Fallacy 1: "Good at language = Good at thought". Fallacy 2: "Bad at thought = Bad at language". Fallacy 3: "Bad at language = Bad at thought" (emphasis in being judged on how smart you are based on how you say something). [4]
In a web context, I was thinking this when I checked out the web site of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [1]; why would they use a thin, small typeface with light gray color on a bright/white background which makes the text less appealing to read? It must be subtle sabotage from within!
(Some may counter this with Hanlon's razor [2]; Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
Somewhat related: "The Egg" [2009*] is a fictional short story by American writer Andy Weir. [1]
> You, a 48-year-old man who dies in a car crash, meet God, the narrator, who says that you have been reincarnated many times before, and that you are next to be reincarnated as a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD. God then explains that you are, in fact, constantly reincarnated across time, and that all human beings who have ever lived and will ever live are incarnations of you. [1]
Related: 2016: Facts and statistics on domestic violence at-a-glance
> The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project: The world's largest domestic violence research data base, 2,657 pages, with summaries of 1700 peer-reviewed studies.
> Overall, 25.3% of individuals have perpetrated IPV.
> Overall, 22% of individuals assaulted by a partner at least once in their lifetime (23% for females and 19.3% for males).
> Rates of female-perpetrated violence higher than male-perpetrated (28.3% vs. 21.6%).
> Higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) among younger, dating populations “highlights the need for school-based IPV prevention and intervention efforts”.
> Among large population samples, 57.9% of IPV reported was bi-directional, 42% unidirectional; 13.8% of the unidirectional violence was male to female (MFPV), 28.3% was female to male (FMPV).
> Among school and college samples, percentage of bidirectional violence was 51.9%; 16.2% was MFPV and 31.9% was FMPV.
> Within military and male treatment samples, only 39% of IPV was bi-directional; 43.4% was MFPV and 17.3% FMPV.
> According to national samples, 0.2% of men and 4.5% of women have been forced to have sexual intercourse by a partner.
Cloud 1: Cloud does all the compute, logic, storage, and transfer.
Cloud 2 = Cloud 1, but delegate more compute/logic to edge/local computers to reduce cost. [1]
Cloud 3 = Cloud 2, but edge/local computer has hardware specifically made to do the compute, store intermediate data, and send the results to someone else who might give you something in return for free, and possibly make you pay for it later.
Marketing can call it Cloud <3 (heart). Some might say </3 (broken heart). [2]
> [~10 years ago] Smartphones began incorporating AI accelerators starting with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 in 2015. [3]
> An AI accelerator, deep learning processor, or neural processing unit (NPU) is a class of specialized hardware accelerator or computer system designed to accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, including artificial neural networks and machine vision. [3]
> The main thesis of the book is that we are very often not aware of our real reasons for most of our behaviours. Our behaviors are optimised for living in a social group and very often, from the point of view of natural selection, it is useful if we are not consciously aware of our real motivations. [1]
Android defaults to sending the IMSI (SIM ID) to Google.
> SUPL is used as part of the A-GPS (Assisted GPS) system to get a faster Time to First Fix. The problem is that Android's implementation automatically sends the IMSI (ID of the SIM card) to the SUPL provider for no apparent reason. And because Google is the default provider it's a big breach of privacy.
Sidenote: MSVC had an optimization option for Windows 98, I think it was /OPT:98 (/FILEALIGN:4096). It sets the "file alignment" of sections in the portable executable (PE) file to 4096 bytes (0x1000) = 1 memory page -> noticeably more efficient because it's a direct copy operation. It's sacrificing space (padding empty space with thousands of zeros) for time (one copy operation instead of many to shuffle data into memory pages).
(The file alignment still defaults to a 512-byte (0x200) sector size which means the inefficiency is there today even though you may not notice it in isolation, but the "sector"/buffer size has been at least 4096 bytes since 2011. [2])
> The /FILEALIGN option can be used to make disk utilization more efficient, or to make page loads from disk faster. [Assuming it matches the page size = 4096 bytes.] [1]
> All hard drive manufacturers committed to shipping new hard drive platforms for desktop and notebook products with the Advanced Format sector formatting [4096-byte or greater] by January 2011. [2]
In some 1990s sci-fi series, an alien race played the long game by directing some (invisible) energy beam at the sun, accelerating its transition into becoming a red giant, a process which would have otherwise taken billions of years.
Situation: There are N results shown per page. There are N+1 results remaining.
Rigid/simple: The last result is put on a separate page.
Flexible/human: If the last results are within some reasonable threshold then include them on the last page.
The last page is a different context.