Mediocre Piano Players
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The Reflecting Pool -
Funny PicsOur local elections have a version of this. The two dem candidates for town supervisor are arguing over who’s more pro choice. That reminds me today is primary day.
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A Championship Is Not, Apparently, Sufficient IdentificationEven cheap Taiwanese silicon can perform well with a sufficient amount of
AmericanChinese engineering.FIFY
So American engineering laundered through Chinese corporate espionage. Got it.
Jürgen Schmidhuber: German
Geoffrey Hinton: British
Yoshua Bengio: Canadian
Yann LeCun: FrenchThe giants on which this tech is based weren't very American.
The main American contribution was to make it practical and throw gigantic compute power at it.
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Tulsi -
TulsiHer association with the (other) cult is old news, the extent to which the cult leader called her shots in her political roles is new AFAIK. And one wonders how much sensitive information was relayed back to the cult leader. Hopefully someday we'll have an administration that would be willing to investigate that. Even though Trump will likely pardon her preemptively.
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RIP Alan GreenspanThis was very weird news for me to read today. Literally just yesterday, which turned out to be the day he died, I noticed his memoir on my shelf and thought to myself ‘I think he turns 100 this year’, having remember for some odd reason that he was born in 1926. I briefly considered posting about it here and also looking up what other well known figures from public life are or will be 100 this year.
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Housing billI heard that, against all odds, the housing bill ended up being good. Despite a bunch of horrible stuff that was proposed by both parties to add to it.
