neovialogistics

When I was finishing high school I was introduced to an interest in programming through finding the limits of a composition applet on my Nokia (which was probably a 6300 but I'm away from home and unable to check).

I know this is an unrelated tangent but does anybody have any links that talk about the one or more of the composition apps or applets for smartphones or feature phones from that time period? Symbian, early versions of iOS, J2ME, I'll happily take anything on offer.

I see where my post above was unclear. For the theorem to apply to a 1+2n dimensional object, the vector field on the 2n dimensional surface of the object must be restricted to the surface - it must be tangent to the object everywhere.

The proton is fully 3-dimensional AFAICT so the vector field on the surface (if it has a surface, I'm not a physicist) can have non-tangent components, pointing inwards or outwards.

Looking at the article, the statement they display to blocked users could do with either a change in tone to be more legally formal or a change in tone to be more approachable to less-literate users - bullet points, multiple headings etc. Right now that message is the worst of both worlds and will get a very low conversion rate.

I've been away from this line of work for over a year, though. Does anybody here who has current experience in effective messaging, legal communication or marketing want to read the message Mindgeek put up and give their two cents on it for our entertainment?

It's not applicable. The theorem applies to the boundary of 1+2n dimensional balls - surface of an ordinary sphere, bulk of a 5-ball, 6-surface of a 7-ball, etc.

Giving the police expanded powers won't backfire the next time an authoritarian-adjacent party wins an election, will it? After all, look how well the enabling act turned out for the lawmakers who passed it.

Few people are asking why such a large proportion of the public are easily scammed, a status which is different to prior eras. The answer isn't education, fyi.

Unsure why it's capitalized in the article (it shouldn't be, consider terms like ice giant and sub-Jupiter or even the hycean planet Wikipedia page) but I'll point out that there's a pun there you've missed. High seas.

Not mentioned: do amateur paintings by others with the same techniques as Pollock produce features with a similar fractal dimension? My question is intended as a proxy for investigating how much of Pollock's quality is integral to the method regardless of artist skill.

Scale. Providing accurate recommendation algorithms for thousands+++ of people across thousands+++ of data items is surprisingly expensive in compute and electricity. For any one user, sure you can do whatever you like. When you divide your resources across your userbase the prices get larger and larger.

The idea that you can substitute a culture of company 'lore' for paying millennial and generation z staff well as a way of engendering employee loyalty has some merit. Human psychology is susceptible to exactly this.

Unfortunately, this guarantees the loyalty of some mediocre employees at the cost of likely alienating the highest performers.

This CNN article is just a tweaked copypaste of earlier FT reporting. The FT article has no sources and a credulous comment section, some of whom are alleging that ChatGPT is an equally reliable source: https://www.ft.com/content/d6b2e4d6-2f84-4ef9-bf99-10d76d92d... The FT article says that dozens of state-owned enterprises have set up PAFDs in the last 12 months but fails to mention that China has over a million SOEs.

In the english-language internet there are only two prior articles about PAFDs; an RFA article from the third of October last year,: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/enterprises-militias-... and a VOA article from the 7th on November.: https://www.voanews.com/a/why-is-china-highlighting-militias... Of these two, the RFA article has some sources but they aren't great and both of these news orgs can be alleged to be 100% biased (regardless of what the facts may be) for obvious reasons.

Confusingly, the system for enlisted infantry recruiters also uses the PAFD acronym which means that regardless of search engine, half the results (War on the Rocks, RAND, Asian LII, JSTOR, DoD, DTIC, mod.gov.cn) are useless.

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Anyway, let's suppose that it is happening as CNN/FT reports. There is an important context question: Is this an order from the CPC at the top or is this our perspective of an ordinary corporate fad in China, their equivalent to six sigma?

Military intervention or something else?

The reliance of the German industry on the prolific use of petroleum and gas products isn't just an energy/heat generation story. Their economy sits on a foundation of cheap downstream intermediate products produced domestically with very few middlemen compared to other national industrial complexes: cheap propylene oxide, cheap monoethylene glycol, cheap acetaldehyde, cheap acrylonitrile, cheap cumene, cheap C4 aromatics, etc, etc,

Each of these chemicals, plus more that I haven't mentioned, sit at the base of their own value chains. All of those have recently lost their comparative savings versus product refined elsewhere which means an end to German manufacturers enjoying cheap rubbers, resins, coatings, greases, fuels, paints, plastics, etc

Crystallography is basically just 3d geometry (with some DE) anyway.

At what point in history did the FBI first begin to require aptitude tests to become an agent?

This seems like two different questions being interwoven, asking both why high-turnover business models exist and why the management culture in those business models is the way it is.

I can't answer the first, but AFAICT the latter is just an evolutionary pressure of a sort: as more ruthless cultures are selected for, the successful individuals in those cultures become those who embody ruthlessness all the time instead of people who adjust their level of compassion up or down as the situation dictates.

Does the change in incidence rate predate 2020?

Very basic explanation here, you will only need the visualization powers of high school physics:

Most gas that approaches a black hole does a gravitational slingshot and escapes.

This paper proves that the majority of escape trajectories eventually return to the black hole (effectively multiple attempts at getting absorbed). This has long been an assumption for running low-fidelity statistical modeling but it is now proven that the assumption is valid and that therefore the models are (mostly) valid.

Fever has tradeoffs: it kills most pathogens but it also does small amounts of permanent damage to brain, nerve, lung and marrow tissue. Far better to eradicate the pathogens before they enter the body, wherever that strategy is feasible to carry out.

According to the management of LiveJournal competitor Dreamwidth, you get approximately one violent mentally ill person stalking and sending actionable threats of assault or murder to their partners, ex-partners or family using the platform as their medium of choice for every 20,000 US based users, each of which has approximately a 10% chance of carrying out one or more violent felonies in each year.

For each of these cases that do then occur, approximately 10% of them require somebody representing the platform to attend court (usually briefly) and approximately 1% of those result in a judgement against the platform even when they show that the platform took all reasonable precautions and legal requirements including, where applicable, closing accounts and reporting inappropriate behavior to the relevant authority.

So let's run the numbers for one million US users. You have 50 real psychos on the platform. Roughly 5 violent assaults (or worse) connected to the platform occur a year. 0.5 of them require the platform to send a legal representative.

Assuming the platform is following all legal requirements and can show this, there are 0.005 legal judgements in the USA against the platform for enabling violent crime per year for every million US users.

Or, if you have 200 million US users, you can expect 1 court judgement for not doing enough about violent criminal activity a year. Now, what about the four other major categories of crime communicated by US residents on the internet: drug sales, child sexual exploitation, domestic terrorism and piracy of entertainment products? That 1 judgement a year, unless you have a very good legal team, will become 30 judgements a year.

When they say that "people could die" they are using an attention-grabbing shorthand for "if we can not demonstrate a commitment to full legal compliance then the headquarters will be raided by two dozen FBI vans, or, if we're unlucky, Secret Service vans." Note that appearances matter much more than results, particularly because of the senility of the average policy maker in the United States. Look how badly Meta has had to drop the ball to get 9-digit fines and they have ten times the userbase of our hypothetical.

I saw the best minds of my generation get jobs in fintech, adding dark patterns to ridesharing apps, reinventing databases from first principles and pseudo-journalistic influencing instead of becoming policy makers.

I can't think of a counterargument to the aphorism that good times produce weak men. Nobody knows the value of anything and counterproductive things are prioritised.

Sure, you could say that the counterexamples are just distributed away from politics, but that feels like haggling with the premise of the argument instead of disproving it.