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Exactly. It takes time to organise action but the AMA and the ACP are not visibly doing so. I guess the issue is that most direct action that the AMA and ACP can take hurts patients (most of whom did not vote for this, and in those areas where most of them did vote republican, so did the doctors...

The way I have been discussing it with colleagues is that we are expecting AI to allow people (not just students) to skip the "production phase" and jump right into the "editor phase." I am skeptical that that this will be fruitful in the long term.

I’m pretty sure that measles and polio can either kill your or leave you significantly weaker

I can also give a good example. I often end up needing scientific information (peer reviewed pubs) on topics for which I don't have much background. The problem with literature search as it was implemented is that you need to know the right keywords to get the important articles. When you are...

Bangkok Chiang Mai Kuala Lumpur Sydney Canberra (I think) Dunedin Wellington Auckland Amsterdam Enschede Eindhoven Utrecht Groningen Maastricht Den Haag Rotterdam München Münster Berlin Antwerp Brugge Paris Tolouse Rome Florence Cardiff Edinburg Dublin London Birmingham Bristol Hastings Okay, I...

If trump dies, the republicans will stuff him and run him anyway Edit: ninja’d multiple times

It might be interesting to see if they applied for ethical approval at their home institution

I get the feeling that there is a lot of native speaker bias in these comments. Ihave lived and worked for 20 years in a country where English is not the native language. I have been in the situation where I am the only native speaker to help get a paper's english up to speed. I have also been...

I think the point is this. I find common ground with person A, who find common ground with person B, who finds common ground with a Nazi... to send a person to Mars. Am I okay with that? No, not really: going to Mars is not important enough to me to sacrifice my self esteem to that extent. The...

VDL already supplies ev garbage trucks and city buses.

That’s true. Four wave mixing in waveguides can be quite efficient, if you can deal with the phase mismatch. But, as I said initially, controlling the process is difficult

While the numbers might be true, the comparison isn’t meaningful. Your inverter uses x joules per bit. The equivalent optical inverter uses y joules per operation, but the number of bits encoded in the operation depends on how accurately we decide to measure the light amplitude. So a 1 bit...

That’s not exactly fair. Current AI consists of repeated matrix operations followed by repeated nonlinear operations. This chip demonstrates exactly that, but at a much smaller scale than modern AI

A faraday isolator is also an optical diode but that is even harder to integrate in a pic than frequency doubling

Frequency doubling is also a multiplication operation

Well, most 2nd order nonlinear optical crystals (like ktp) are incompatible with standard lithographic technologies. Assuming (I’ve not read the paper yet) it’s InP based, then you only have third order processes available. High confinement can make them efficient, but they are really hard to...

Although 68 million sounds like a lot, it really isn't thanks to how institutions count costs (which is the most byzantine fuckery) Every employee comes with extra costs associated with IT support, building management and all the other internal bullshit funny money (which is actually real...

A very eccentric list of languages. Limburgish and Tongan but not Māori or Thai. I don’t see any logic in their choices ¯\(ツ)/¯

The problem is that the AI-doomer arguments are so incoherent that they are hard to argue with. For instance, in one example of accidentally dooming humanity, a super-intelligent AI is told to clean a house. It is basically, the sorcerers apprentice with a patina of silicon chips. An AI is given...

Hi All, I am not sure if this question belongs in the developer zone or here, so lock if necessary. I was wondering anyone was any experience developing AR apps for xReal Air2/pro? We are actually thinking more about mixed reality than AR, so things like object tracking and object overlays are...