The best jobs: - 100% remote - 100% async - no scheduled meetings - no whiteboard interviews - no monitoring systems

Machine learning is the science of credit assignment. My new survey (also under arXiv:2212.11279) credits the pioneers of deep learning and modern AI (supplementing my award-winning 2015 deep learning survey): people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-… P.S. Happy Holidays!

A significant number of zoning laws are restrictions homeowners put in place on other people's property to ensure their own property maintains or gains value. This is great if you're a homeowner, but it sucks if you're Andrew Heaton 🎩.

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Reminds me of a great carrot salad I used to buy in Kyiv, Ukraine. I think it tended to have some garlic in it.

I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity increase (since the days of agriculture) didn't eliminate poverty. Some of my friends reply, "What do you mean, poverty is still around? 'Poor' people

I'm not saying it's the same thing, but there's something beautifully poetic about the fact that the cost of a 24TB hard drive ($439) is less than a single month's rent for 24TB of storage on AWS S3 ($552). Much of the cloud is like this.

Stopping robocalls has to be a higher priority. Here’s my proposed solution: Add a 1 cent fee on all outbound calls. Trivial cost for real people making normal phone calls, but would break the business model of robocall spammers.

Researchers race to document voting machine vulnerabilities ahead of November nextgov.com/cybersecurity/… via @Nextgov

The nation’s best hackers found vulnerabilities in voting machines — but no time to fix them politi.co/3MnI6Ff via POLITICO

In the US, law is adversarial. That's rooted in common law, which predates the US Constitution by a few thousand years & is the foundation on which it's based. If one side is fighting for me, I want to see them fight as hard post-election as the other side did when they lost.

Today we learned that German intelligence had early information—known with a high degree of certainty—that Covid originated in a lab, and the German government deliberately buried it. This isn’t some academic point for historians. The virus’s origin had enormous implications for