Chris Langan is a fraud, and not even a good one, he claims to have discovered a revolutionary new neural network architecture but lost the napkin he wrote it on.

This is my favorite video mocking Langan, made by someone smarter than him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57IN9sBhYyg

Yes, but focusing on that is pretty much the opposite of the intent of the article.

Hear Hear! If you have the Social Intelligence and work hard to cultivate relationships you can become President of the United States, even if you think you have a good idea to stop a respiratory virus by injecting disinfectant.

Scala supports it with for-comprehensions which are equivalent to Haskell's do-notation but STM is not part of the Scala standard library. Zio and Cats Effect are two popular Scala effects systems with STM.

I don't think this is a great article but if you hit Google Scholar and look for papers concerning OOP you'll be hard pressed to find any recent ones. Almost every programming language research paper is about functional programming. Recent practical crypto papers seem to use Go a lot but that isn't OOP.

OOP was a dead end and academia has moved on if they were ever interested in the first place. It is strange that industry is 180 degrees out of phase here even as they stress the importance of "computer science fundamentals" like data structures and algorithms.

> So I approached the question of shopping cart abandonment the way I would any puzzle about human behavior: I collected data. My evidence came from an unlikely source: Cart Narcs, a small group whose mission is to encourage cart return, sometimes gently, sometimes less so.

CartNarc videos are selected for the reaction of the subject. Many videos where the subject just returned their cart or didn't get sufficiently agitated end up on the cutting room floor. It isn't a representative sample, there is heavy selection bias. No conclusions can be drawn from them despite the attempts of the author.

It isn't even "somewhat" scientific as the author states.

I have my study with the sample of one as well.

At Kroger, they have these shopping carts that locks their wheels if they were to be taken too far from the store. Well, sometimes they just lock without any reason, so what does the person do as they grab one as they're entering the store an it's locked? They just leave it there, and pull the next one.

And over time, the Kroger entrance is just full of shopping carts that are locked and every customer that comes in gets agitated because all the initial carts they interact with are locked.

> Can't wait for the "open office" BS to die next too, literally a boomer mindset that came from government offices back in the day, and they think it's more productive that way.

Open office is the densest and cheapest office layout. That is the reason it exists and the reason it will persist. All other reasons are inferior.

I would think the only way to fairly evaluate the performance of these models as they approach that of professional human voice actors is to evaluate them against humans in a sufficiently powered randomly controlled and blinded trial.

Agreed, but this doesn't approach professional human voice actors - unless they are acting like an android.

She is doing a fine job, being greatly assisted by A1.

A1 also assists the flavor of steaks and burgers.

This is a really excellent tutorial, thank you for making it.

Why would any state enter into a treaty with a state that doesn't recognize them? Diplomacy requires it so it has been in the USA Constitution since the beginning:

Article VI, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.