He's got a habit of self aggrandizing, antagonism, and deception in an effort to promote himself and his brand, I worry that his explanations are designed to maximally benefit him, rather than to maximally explain the topic.
I agree generally but read the post and it only mentions cellular automata briefly and promotes Wolfram Alpha once. Overall it's very good at moving from Markov chains to neural nets with decent examples and graphics.
I'm curious how much excess energy has been consumed, and won't be consumed any longer, as a result of this improvement - even just limited to reduced CPU usage on Windows machines using Firefox to watch Youtube.
I love thinking about the impacts of tiny improvements at scale like this, might do some napkin math on it later and see if I can come up with something in the right order of magnitude.
Running lights during daytime seems to reduce crashes by about 5-10%, and crashes consume a lot of energy. Depending on crash severity there's at a minimum the wasted time for all involved parties and frequently the necessity for repairs (including the production of replacement parts, paint etc), and at the high end the involvement of emergency personnel and their vehicles, hospital beds, doctors, the production of entire new cars as replacement for totaled ones, etc.
I'm not so sure that running lights isn't a net positive, especially with the introduction of LED lights.
It's infuriating how much work one has to do to clean up what should already be a bare-bones, stock, factory environment. All of these 8 kb "apps" like LinkedIn, TikTok, etc. that you "uninstall" but then re-appear right in the Add or Remove Programs menu.
I haven't tried, but what do these little TikTok, LinkedIn apps even do? I imagine they don't install a local version of LinkedIn to peruse, right? I don't totally understand how the economic incentive for MSFT and manufacturers can be high enough to make these actively user-hostile actions worth it.
I installed a fresh copy of windows straight from the official ISO a month or two ago and was bombarded with candy crush, tiktok, CNN, instagram, LinkedIn, etc. It took me a few solid hours to get it out of my way as much as possible.
After that, even on my brand new Ryzen 9, it took 15 seconds to open a web browser. I decided to quit my windows-only games and delete windows in favor of Linux (like usual).
It's not just OEM installs, perhaps you got windows a few versions back and updated it avoiding the new bloatware crap.
Went down a rabbit hole after reading your comment - clearly a lot of the people in this community (that I also just learned about) care about him very much. Hope he turns up.
I did notice that his site was renewed on 2022-06-09 16:56:27 UTC, although from a comment on Emaculation it appears that this is exactly one year to the day that it was last renewed, meaning it was probably done automatically.
Management and shareholders would not be personally on the hook for missed payroll in the event of insolvency.
If all the cash evaporated from my company's account, we were forced to declare bankruptcy, that's pretty much game over. The employees would be among other creditors figuring out their turn to pick over the remains. The employees may end up near the top of the list, but they wouldn't get to hold the C-Suite or shareholders accountable on a personal level.
They're contractually obligated to pay their employees, but that contractual obligation rolls up to the company level, not the people who run or own it.
I don't which other states may do this, but in Cali Labor Code Section 558.1 - company managers and owners are personally liable for missed wages. It is a codified approach to piercing the corporate veil. I learned this well when we had a single digit bank account and were waiting on funding to get wired in as payroll was coming due.
Ahh I wasn't aware of this - wow. Thanks for informing me. Can't imagine the stress some of these depositors must be under with that added personal liability on top.
I really like simple, reliable, tools like this - just watched the demo video. I hadn't heard of mastery learning before, but now I'm thinking about trying to map some Excel lessons towards this and see if I can implement it at work.
I've found that our youngest employees are coming out of school with little-to-no knowledge of how to work spreadsheet software - even those who are otherwise pretty technically proficient.
While programmers tend to eschew tools like Excel, in consulting (or at least the consulting we do) it's critical to being able to understand how a process works before designing an automated solution. Excited to potentially have a way to share that understanding.
Thanks for the feedback. An excel course should be doable. Currently the most general way to write material is to use this: https://trane-project.github.io/generated_courses/knowledge_...
Basically a folder of lessons where the flashcards are pairs of markdown files.
There's also another tool to write simple flashcards and lessons in a json file, run a command, and build all those directories and markdown files for you, but I have not written the documentation yet. Here's an example for a course based on a reworking of Euclid's Elements: https://github.com/trane-project/trane-math/blob/master/cour...
But plain markdown files for now should get you going.
