vibrio_bobtail

> The GP wasn’t trying to make light of his brother-in-laws crime (if he was, he wouldn’t have said what the conviction was).

He was making doing exactly that when he said no one was injured. Just because someone wasn't physically injured doesn't mean they weren't profoundly harmed by being a victim or armed robbery. How long did it take that victim to feel safe in their community again? His brother-in-law took that away from someone and deserves harsh punishment.

I've never really understood this. If I had the choice today to be born today or never,I would definitely choose to be born. Why would my unborn children decide differently. Honestly curious how you would answer this question.

I wouldn't contrast it with machine learning or deep learning. Probabilistic programming is focused on building languages or libraries that incorporate fundamental probabilistic building blocks, model building statements and inference strategies as first class citizens within the language. Its been remarkably successful, check out Stan, Pyro, PyMC, Tensorflow Probability, JAGS, BUGS and Turing as very successful projects that have been used to tackle challenging and diverse problems with probabilistic modeling . The more modern probabilistic programming languages are actually designed to incorporate the advances of deep learning by making it easy to embed ANNs into models by using them to parameterize random variables, Pyro and Tensorflow Probability are probably the best examples of this.

Yes, although I was a bit slower. Three years at community college, three years at UC. First job out of college was at Google as a software dev.

This issue does not seem murky at all. The legislators way over reached when writing this bill. There are absolutely people who are being exploited as independent contractors like uber drivers and other gig economy workers. If the law focused on these areas I would have no problem. But they took it much further and legislated entire industries of professionals.

Specifically both my wife, a freelance writer, and my mother, a court reporter, have been negatively impacted by this law. I know more about the writer point of view and it is clear the legislators didn't both to understand the industry when placing the 35 article limit per client. My wife has multiple clients whom she writes a weekly blog post for. This is now illegal to do and my wife has lost clients over it. This area of the law is totally backwards the only time my wife has been exploited was as an employee. She went from making 40k as a full time employee to a range of 120k-150k as a freelancer. We are definitely planning on leaving the state over this and will be voting republican (except president) for the first time in our lives over this law.

The TLDR of this law is that arrogant legislators decided to write a bill about dozens of industries they didn't bother to learn anything about.