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How about not jeopardizing the economy by ever more constraints and instead investing in better energy technology?


Maine banned all billboard style advertising decades ago. Our economy functions just fine thank you.


It's mainly about being in a social group that facilitates romantic relationships and marriage, and/or putting personal effort into dating. People with no hygiene mate a lot.


The Telegram web client uses all sorts of features and a reimplementation of React.

> The project incorporates lots of technologically advanced features, modern Web APIs and techniques: WebSockets, Web Workers and WebAssembly, multi-level caching and PWA, voice recording and media streaming, cryptography and raw binary data operations, optimistic and progressive interfaces, complicated CSS/Canvas/SVG animations, reactive data streams, and so much more.

https://github.com/Ajaxy/telegram-tt

The dev is pretty much a genius.


I hate to even ask, but for a security-focused product, is that a good thing?

I think there is a valid argument “there is no good video experience on web otherwise” but that’s still a long list of less-than-fully-mature dependencies.


What makes telegram security focused?


Uh, I guess they claim this?


any idea why they reimplemented react? to reduce bundle size?


Rhymes probably work relatively poorly because the neural net has a poor representation of what the words sound like.


It's interesting how one algorithm, a 'master algorithm', can presumably subsume all the others in the book, presumably a neural/evolutionary algorithm, that can simply learn/evolve when the other algorithms are useful for decision making/maximizing reward.


The more assumptions you relax, the more general the algorithms become, for example going from immediate reward to delayed reward means going from supervised to reinforcement learning.

The trade-off is the more general algorithms needs many times exponentially more data and compute to come to a similarly good solution.

That's why reinforcement learning has seen so practical few applications relative to supervised learning. There's no free lunch.

That said, as a ML practitioner I would love it if I could just apply a single master algorithm to all problems, but that is likely many years away.


Neural nets only need linearly more data for optimal performance: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/midXmMb2Xg37F2Kgn/new-scalin...

At the same time, fine-tuning sample efficiency increases with scale, so at some point you can possibly one-shot learn state and get rid of exponential searches, solving NP-Hard problems with heuristics. Sounds like a free lunch to me. At least if you can afford a net large enough.


It sounds like the more general the algorithm, the more stateful it needs to be before it can be useful. On the other hand, specialized algorithms need less to zero state but have limited applications.


Alternativeto is quite good in my experience.


If you always play with the alphas then it's no wonder you think everyone primarily cares about status. Most people primarily care about resources, the tribe and religion.


Status is not very important for humans, except for a minority of hypercompetitive individuals. Most people lack the nerves for status games. The collective, the community and belonging are more important than status. The problem is that the top of a large pool of people selects for competitiveness, so if you aim high you likely need to play their games. There is hardly a way around it except maybe luck, gambling or remote work.


The US has like 5 times the obesity rate and obesity is a relatively strong predictor of adverse outcomes with C19.


It's wrong but not an attack on democracy. Modern environmentalism is a big astroturfing campaign. It pretends to be a grass-roots movement with little girls at their front. In reality it is backed by billionaires who do not want their private islands to sink (metaphorically and literally).


Ah, yes! The weak environmentalists are ACTUALLY in charge, so they are the REAL problem, let’s just ignore that fossil fuel companies have been fighting against science for decades…

How about providing some evidence that environmentalists are astroturfed by island owning billionaires…?


Just dig a little the backgrounds of key activists, the institutions that back them or where they get to speak. These are not exactly middle, underclass or grassroots institutions, but multinational orgs, banks and media monopolies.


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