Reg. 2: What is the time window within which they need to secure the said contract once laid-off, failing which they'll be required to leave the country?
30 days for someone early in their career to find a new job in the bay after being fired for insubordination from Meta is not a bet most feel absolutely sure they can win, and the consequences are high. They may not be able to come back given the immigration climate right now.
Learned recently that lot of our initial knowledge of neural cells structure and functioning was derived from working with giant squid neurons which permitted work/observation of structures an order larger than their mammalian counterparts. What aspects of real neurons would you list as particularly "amazing" (I know they seek out connections and such) ?
Imagine downvoting John effing Nagle. However my humble opinion is that sometimes revisiting, if not reinventing, the wheel is beneficial in light of accrued epistemic benefits (or for the fun of tinkering with a cutesy creation) . Not for patenting, of course. Besides, the bulb form-factor is not too different from cctv cam ceiling installations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489395. Related old submission by me. Did you guys know we have a neutrino image of the Sun? Remarkable stuff. The Japanese really led the groundwork on this one.
@dang, you perhaps have mistakenly favorite-d an inane comment (I've got showdead on). And yes, I want to be teacher's pet. Let me know if you hate me too (please don't).
Thanks for posting the link. Found it fascinating. I wonder if negatively charging the droplets would suppress the coloumbic explosion as envisaged here. In effect, generating a cell overpotential by applied external emf.
The general drove on. "At the present time our chief bottleneck is the fact that missiles are limited in intelligence. The computer controlling them can only be so large, and for that reason they can meet the changing nature of anti-missile defenses in an unsatisfactory way. Few missiles, if any, accomplish their goal, and missile warfare is coming to a dead end, for the enemy, fortunately, as well as for ourselves.
"On the other hand, a missile with a man or two within, controlling flight by graphitics, would be lighter, more mobile, more intelligent. It would give us a lead that might well mean the margin of victory. Besides which, gentlemen, the exigencies of war compel us to remember one thing. A man is much more dispensable than a computer. Manned missiles could be launched in numbers and under circumstances that no good general would care to undertake as far as computer-directed missiles are concerned . . ."
We don’t even need to imagine that world, Russia is doing it today.
Missiles and ammo are too expensive, so they send people to run at the enemy, revealing their firing positions. Then they drone the people who revealed themselves.
If I was an AI, I would reason that a T-800 is far more valuable than a man soldier who I must feed and clothe and heat. Use the disposable soldiers first and save the robots for later.
sloppy (that is, negligent) writing. Something is either (in)dispensable, or is not. Either use something that can take degrees of comparison, like valuable (A man is less valuable etc) or reword it: A computer is indispensable, a man is not.
No - the computer is not indispensable. The computer is just harder to replace than the man (in this imagined situation).
Hence - the man is much more dispensable...
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The water in my water bottle is much more dispensable than the toothpaste in my toothpaste tube. But both can be dispensed (in both meanings - distributed or replaced).
> “There is no such adjective,” Scalia said. “I know we have used it, but there is no such adjective as choate. There is inchoate, but the opposite of inchoate is not choate.”
I'm not sure what this quote is from, but I almost down voted you in disgust before realizing that was exactly the intended effect. In other words, "Thanks, i hate it"
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