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’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.
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.
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.
The point still stands. Rental caps mean it is very difficult to find a place to live in desired neighborhoods. Of course, you can find places outside the ring, but those would have been cheaper anyway!
That’s not to say it isn’t sensible social policy. It is less disruptive to people who have lived there for a long time. But if you move for work, you will have to either pay a lot more than you would have in 2011, or get lucky.
Great timing: I just finished “Objectivity” the book she co-authored with Peter Gallison. It is a phenomenal work on the history of science, looking at the development of the concept of Objectivity throughout the enlightenment through the lens of scientific atlases. Her writing is beautiful, concrete and lucid. Highly recommended to any Hacker News readers.
Is there any chance the course material is available? I've been looking to better my Julia meta-programming. Most of the resources out there are geared towards other languages. It would be amazing to see some simple parser/interpreter implementations.
You have to look beyond CO2 emissions to assess climate change impact. The IPCC land use report from this past August does exactly this [1]. The associated reporting is also quite good [2].
The grandparent is right: cutting down forest to grow cattle feed is a triple whammy.
One of the more remarkable results in 21st human genetics was that the top two PCs of a genotype matrix captures geography to an amazing degree [1]. This is the PCA of a N x M matrix where you measure M genetic markers in N people in a relatively homogenous population (Europeans in the paper above).
Those are fair points regarding energy expenditure for specific exercises. However, that doesn't take into account the effects of regular exercise on BMR. That normal exercise can elevate your BMR is certainly plausible, and many people have conducted studies that have reached this conclusion.
Metabolism is a complicated thing, and there are conflicting answers on the subject. Results differ under a variety of conditions (human, animal, forced/voluntary, etc.). The abstract in this review summarizes the state of the research nicely: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14692598