PrunJuice

Check out Blendle https://blendle.com/

They aren't Apple but they do the pay per article thing.

Reminds me of social facilitation theory.

In particular "habitual" responses being improved by having an audience and non-habitual responses being hindered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_facilitation#Attention_...

Speculation: Just as boxing with gloves results in more head injuries than boxing without, so too it is with football and rugby.

So sitting AND standing are both out. Now what? Walking desks? Neutral buoyancy fluid desks? Supine desks?

If it's a shame that the brightest minds of our generation are working on UIs and advertising, what does that make this? (:

I thought the whole point was that you didn't have to write loops in Vue.js and yet here is a loop in Vue.js.

> If the value of the optimal solution has changed it means that the edge must be in the optimal optimization solution.

I interpreted this as meaning you were selecting the falsifying removals' edges, instead of removing the non-falsifying ones. You've got it.

One minor foible. Don't select edges that are part of the minimum path, instead remove edges that are not part of the minimum path until only the minimum path remains. This strategy works even on graphs with multiple minimum paths.

Sounds hard.

Consider that even with billions of years worth of evolution natural viruses have not developed any sort of Hivemind (tm).

Also, now that science has illuminated the human genome we are quickly (on an evolutionary time scale) advancing toward gene therapy treatments that could combat viruses.

Now consider executables. We have the ability quickly inspect AND edit executables, source code..., etc. Not to mention a much better conceptual framework for interpreting assembly instructions (compared to codons). After all they were created by humans for machines that humans built.

Then consider the resources viruses have had at their disposal to evolve. Every single cell [1] of every single living creature that has ever been infected over billions of years [2]. Assuming a conservative average number of 1e31 cells over the course of life's history that means (1e31 * 3.5e9 years) = (3.5e40 cell * years) of computations time. Then consider RNA transcription rates ~6.3e12 nt/year/cell [3]. So all together something like (3.5e40 cellyears) (6.3e12 nt/year/cell) = 2.2e53 nt. Approximation of course but probably with a few orders of magnitude.

Now compare to the number of instructions since the epoch. (1.5e9 s) * (2e18 instructions/s [4]) = ~3e27 instructions since the epoch. Again approximation.

(2.2e53 nt) / (3e27 instructions) = 6.6e26 nt/instruction.

That means we would be seeing the equivalent of viruses that evolved (3.5e9 years since first life) / (6.6e26 nt/instructions) = ~17 nanoseconds after life emerged.

Wow that was quite a tangent.

[1] https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?141294-How-many-... ~5e31 cells currently on earth

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat06.html life has existed for 3.5 billion years

[3] http://book.bionumbers.org/what-is-faster-transcription-or-t... In E. coli: (~5000 RNA polymerase molecules) * (~40 nt/s) * (60 s/min) * (60 min/hr) * (24 hr/day) * (364 day/year) = 6.3e12 nt/year/cell

[4] http://www.worldometers.info/computers/ 1 billion computers in use in 2008. with say 1 instruction per cycle and one core per computer at 2GHz that's (1e9 computers) * (2e9 inst/computer/s) = 2e18 inst/s

# SPOILERS

Great writing. Then ending was a real let down.

How could an "AI" as they describe simultaneously be so naive and ALSO protect itself in any meaningful way? Especially in its early stages. It wouldn't even know to hide. And why would Big Corp give up trying to fix this sort of problem.

Overall not a credulous conclusion. Hand waving in the final paragraphs after the author crafted an accurate and believable narrative left me disappointed. (grammar)

"They" is generally accepted as a singular gender neutral pronoun.

An interviewer once told me "You were selected because I liked a joke you put in your resume.", essentially telling me my application was a joke. Needless to say, I didn't get the job.

So which name is the correct one?