I wish they would take this data seriously, but with our current mayor no one (except insurance companies maybe) will – and those who are supposed to enforce street safety are themselves some of the top culprits. They can’t even get Albany to allow the city to have speed cameras near schools.
Maybe the final drop among the reasons to leave here would be the new hire, a Japanese American woman with two grown kids, who has a peculiar and extremely annoying habit of frequent touching and calling me “honey”. She does it to others too. I seem to be the only one perturbed by this though.
An interesting question, with an absolutely ridiculous and presumptuous answer. One can always follow the rule about always doing more than the other person, and never counting who does what and how much. That is not enough, and it never will be. The key is to accept that it’s how it’s going to be as a fact of life, an axiom, a baseline of human condition, and try to not think of what could have been, ask too many questions, and focus on the few positives that do exist.
It helps to know that you’re not the only one. And I knew it ahead of time, too. But it was arrogant to think that by being informed we could somehow do better. https://qz.com/708438/the-parenting-happiness-gap-is-real-new-research-confirms/
I have finally concluded that if you are a top advisor to the fiend who is ripping immigrant children from their parents, and if, in the midst of this ongoing horror, you post a photo of yourself kissing your baby son, you have earned the epithet “cunt.”
A long piece by Andy Beckett, Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs, questions the central role of work in our lives. Are we headed for a work without work: the post-work era?https://t.co/VDWG7nOSVr
I needed some whole black-mustard seeds that our coop doesn’t have and went to an Indian grocery. This is why I love this city. Of course they had two shelves of every kind of mustard seed imaginable, but then this – I’m still in shock – all of this is just peppercorns….
Every packet is a different kind!
Today was cold, gray and very windy, but I got to hear the ocean and walk down a tiny trail and so it was pretty significant.
The latest three points on that graph, interestingly show reinforcement learning related projects, applied to games by Deepmind and OpenAI. Particularly AlphaGo Zero and slightly more general AlphaZero take ridiculous amount of compute, but are not applicable in the real world applications because much of that compute is needed to simulate and generate the data these data hungry models need. OK, so we can now train AlexNet in minutes rather than days, but can we train a 1000x bigger AlexNet in days and get qualitatively better results? Apparently not…
“This gradual shift from rich, big corporations to government sponsored institutes suggests to me that the interest in this kind of research within these corporations (I think of Google and Facebook) is actually slowly winding down.”
Saw friends today who said they also can no longer afford to live here, not even in places like Beacon, so moving further away, like Northwest Connecticut away. Looking at places that have barns in their backyards.
Both are accomplished and talented architects.
One got a job locally, the other will commute from the last Metro North stop 3 times a week.
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