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duality | 6 years ago

Do these "life hacks" apply in other developed countries, or is the US special in this way too?

duality | 6 years ago

If a company is okay with employees "cross training" is that a problem? They're not forced to train employees, but the good ones will.

duality | 6 years ago

I stopped reading when he said IBM Watson was somehow key in this "globotics" revolution. Even IBM seems to have stopped advertising Watson.

duality | 6 years ago

Very likely different forms of "lower social cohesion."

duality | 6 years ago

What is the right data format to move around? JSON?

duality | 6 years ago

Not sure exactly what you're linking the Wikipedia article on quantum states, but if you like it as a reference, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_state#Mixed_states. The operation of "projecting out" the E&M field in my previous comment would be realized on the density matrix as a partial trace over the electromagnetic field. You can also take the partial trace of this field of the Hamiltonian operator to see the effective dynamics of the atom when "ignoring" the E&M field. This is a fully quantum description of the state, so I stand by the statement that your claim "An atom can be described by its quantum state only if it's isolated and in that case its energy is constant." is incorrect.

duality | 6 years ago

"An atom can be described by its quantum state only if it's isolated and in that case its energy is constant."

How do you figure? As a contradiction, take your atom+electromagnetic field system, describe the transition from excited atom to unexcited atom + photon state, and project out the E&M field. Voila, now you have a quantum description of an atom transitioning between different energy states. Its dynamics may look funny, i.e. they may appear nonlocal, they may not conserve energy, etc. but that's different from saying "there is not a quantum description of these dynamics" which is what you're claiming.

duality | 6 years ago

Maybe a different class of games will do best on a streaming platform.

duality | 6 years ago

How did you buy Inbox? Wasn't it free?

Seems like a false equivalence "free skin on top of Gmail" != paid-for service like this one.

duality | 6 years ago

Going to prison doesn't exempt you from the law from the rest of your life.

duality | 6 years ago

Is regulation really "one and done"? MS got fined (repeatedly) around 2000 so they're done with regulation?

They at least have shady sales tactics.

duality | 6 years ago

FWIW they might still be.

duality | 6 years ago

It's possible they're looking elsewhere for a reason. In other words, selection bias.

duality | 6 years ago

That's a far cry from "just the facts" reporting. Is that sort of editorializing in reporting really a step in the right direction?

duality | 6 years ago

In my experience, many fintech/Wall Street firms outsource their recruitment efforts to "head hunting" firms.

duality | 6 years ago

"Basically any fundamentally correct buffer encoded as message A will decode successfully as message B for any B."

This is incorrect. I suspect you're overextending proto3's treatment of unknown fields to include discarding incorrectly typed fields too. If A has field 1 types as an int, and B has field 1 typed as a string, an A message with field 1 set will not parse as a B message. However, if the A message has no fields set, or sets a field number unknown to B, that could parse successfully with "leftover" unknown fields.

duality | 6 years ago

The EU copyright directive won't help its image once enacted. They may come to wish it remained more about boring fish quotas.

duality | 6 years ago

This will likely prove to be a false equivalence.
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