lake99's comments

You're using an outdated document as your source.

I will not post direct links. Instead, I invite you to browse tags like #HongKongPoliceTerrorism, #HongKongPoliceBrutality, #HKpolice, etc. on Twitter.

We all know not to trust COVID death counts from China. HK police brutality is something like that. We have video evidence of a few murders. As for the actual count, no one knows.

Non-violent protesters were getting killed by Hong Kong's police in broad daylight for the last few months. Were the Rust people not aware of them?

Twitter does not work on Tor unless you also give them your phone number, making the exercise pointless.

I'd call it malware behaviour, but I agree with your general point.

Has anyone here come across good research-based methods of dealing with procrastination?

Indeed. Thank you!

I was hoping to learn about GPU and neural network accelerator architectures. This seems like a conspicuous absence in the course.

I don't know the specifics of the people in the article, but examples like Cédric Villani demonstrate that it's not OK to be rash in one's judgment.

I'm Indian, so some of my predictions are about India.

# Global Issues

1. More pervasive surveillance states across the world.

2. Even more polarized politics across the world, with major riots between factions, i.e. hundreds dead as a result.

3. More Indian cities with unbreathable air. More toxic pollutants make it into our food-chain, and hundreds of millions of Indians and Chinese will find themselves unable to escape the rather drastic consequences.

3. Antibiotic resistant diseases are way more common, all because of how animals are farmed in the developing world.

4. The problem of corruption (esp. India) still has no end in sight.

5. China to be the de facto owner of many countries.

# Sci/Tech

1. Intel/AMD/Nvidia, Android/iOS will remain as dominant as they are now. But Android will borrow some features from Fuchsia.

2. China and India continue to install GW-scale solar energy farms.

3. Lab-grown meat available at your local grocery.

4. More electric car brands manufactured across the world.

5. Neural network will become more ubiquitous, often going hand-in-hand with IoT.

I haven't seen any evidence that birthrates have anything to do with having a high income in developed economies. All the evidence I have seen points in the other direction, where when women's education and career are de-emphasized by the society, the birthrates are high.

I have no experience in handling raw PDF data, but as a user, I sometimes notice that the computer is not reading the PDF text the same way as I'm reading it. Here are a few examples:

1. When searching (Ctrl+F) a commonly used phrase that occurs multiple times in a PDF, some occurrences fail to show up because of line breaks, accidental hyphenation, etc.

2. Once in a while, I come across PDF files where searches for words containing "fi", "ff", etc. fail because of some insane ligature glyph replacements.

3. Some PDF files that have a two-column layout for text still treat lines across the two columns as one line. Search fails again.

> especially vegetarian

Given that you have already made that choice, I'd recommend "How Not to Die" by Dr. Michael Greger. One of my biggest criticisms of Greger is that he is ignores any study that shows benefits of eating animals, even for specific conditions. People who would like to continue eating animals would find it easy to dismiss Greger for being so one-sided in what kinds of studies he cites. However, if you've already made the choice to prefer vegetarian, Greger's book (and videos) are an easy recommendation.

Education of tourists is something that should be required in lots of other places too. Speaking from an Indian perspective, foreigners coming here should be told about what kind of food is safe to eat, what kinds of people to not trust, etc. I have come across a case where a previously healthy German visitor went back with Hepatitis C, which he got from a dodgy tattoo parlor.

I don't know which recent stories you're talking about. I have read only one story here recently, and it was about an outdated version of Julia. Compare these two:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

To anyone who can understand Urdu or Hindi, it's trivially easy to find speeches of terrorist leaders on YouTube. Hundreds of thousands of people have watched instigating speeches of Masood Azhar, Ilyas Ghuman, Israr Ahmad, hundreds of thousands of "likes" on the videos, thousands of appreciative comments.

Agreed. A couple of examples to illustrate this: in boolean arithmetic, 1+1=1, in modular (2) arithmetic, 1+1=0.

> CAD program or an alternative 3D modeling program in Electron. I'm not so sure if the manufacturing or the games industry would take a second look at that

Why not? Onshape is browser based, and quite a few mechanical engineers and the 3D printer community seem to be happy with how well it works.

https://www.onshape.com/

No criteria. I think the problem is with the low number of seats available. A similar quality of education can be made available at a much larger scale if the country is so motivated. It's understandable that not all branches of engineering at other universities can acquire the kind of funding that IITs have. Apart from some specialized lab equipment, there is no technical reason all universities can't offer a comparable quality of education all over India. There are only bureaucratic reasons.

> people are largely indifferent.

Count me among them. While I'd be happy with rising tiger populations in specific tiger reserves, I do not want them roaming towns like leopards do these days [1][2].

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/udaipur/leopard-mau...

[2] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/leopard-en...

Not ROCs, it's ROCm. AMD's GPU compute libraries. It won't make NVidia better, but will provide an alternative to those who are stuck with NVidia for doing tensorflow, PyTorch stuff.

https://rocm.github.io/