I really liked OpenSCAD as a concept, but when I started designing things that had a fair bit of complexity the rendering engine really shit the bed. This was a powerful rig as well.
No. In the movie, President Camacho recognized the smart guy was smart and wanted him to help because he was smart. We don't have leaders with that kind of wisdom and good intentions.
> No. In the movie, President Camacho recognized the smart guy was smart and wanted him to help because he was smart. We don't have leaders with that kind of wisdom and good intentions.
Also, Joe seemed genuinely interested in helping everyone, and didn't seem to neglect the needs of significant portions of the population to achieve some ideological goal or another.
Maybe there's such a thing as being too smart to have power.
To be fair Camacho was setting up Not Sure to be the fall guy. I don't think he really thought Not Sure could fix things.
That being said, it is a society who elected the smartest guy in the world president, and then when a smarter guy came along elected him as the successor.
When I watched the movie I laughed and thought it all ridiculous. I've since been shown that having well-intentioned, self-aware, cooperative people in government is probably more important than their intelligence.
In Idiocracy the masses are aware that things are not as good as they once were, they recognize and value competent people, and then voluntarily agree to put them in power so that things may be fixed.
IMO that is a depiction of some kind of meritocratic utopia - exactly the opposite of what we have, on all accounts mentioned above.
There is something subtly wrong with the world as presented in that "documentary" in general it is that somebody has to keep the lights on, the machines running, that is, there is too much working infrastructure for the citizens ability level. I suspect the big corporations maintain a hidden educated population and are happy to run the world from the shadows.
Now honestly it is just a goofy movie premise, and we should not look too far into it, but sometimes it is fun to go full nerd.
It could be that many people just died in between and there's a lot of remaining operational equipment that past smart people built. Costco is massive.
"America's funniest home videos" got dumbed down to "AFV" and the content was mostly "ow, my balls!". They even added a warning to the viewers to submit "wows, not ows".
Although to be fair,some of that happened before Idiocracy came out.
With the public money used for sports stadiums, that element of the movie to have government sports teams is slowly coming true also.
that's a good point. They are tightly integrated into the college whose charter is to educate. whereas a pro team will take anyone for the express purpose of the performing the sport well.
Further, colleges receive public money but are not free to attend for most students. And I am not talking about "free" from the students perspective, I mean most would not be permitted to enroll if significant tuition dollars were not deposited (unlike public schools, for instance). Also, plenty of colleges are private but have NCAA teams.
If you search YouTube for "fail army" there is clearly a whole ad supported business model for revenue from something that is about the same as "ow, my balls!"
The movie was based on the (indisputable?) fact that intelligence is heritable- but not Eugenics, which takes that a step further and advocates for people deciding which other people are inferior and superior and organizing society around that. One could argue that the movie tries to make a case for eugenics, but it didn’t directly do so. I think the movie could also be seen as looking at culture instead of genetics, and also assuming that is passed down from parents.
I agree that it does wrongly depict poverty as a major indicator of intelligence.
For better or worse, "eugenics" at this point is basically a cultural repulsion field surrounding most of practical aspects of genetics. You dare to even suggest there are measurable genetic differences between people, and someone will shout "eugenics", rounding any conversation down to "yeah nazis said the same thing".
I suspect your idea of “practical aspects of genetics” includes ideas about how people different from you shouldn’t be allowed reproduce, and very little about things like researching the function of a newly discovered microbial enzyme.
Not really. It does, however, include ideas such as "perhaps we should learn to correct genetic diseases directly in the reproductive cells", which is a rounding error away from someone saying something like you just did.
The intro of the movie makes it pretty clear that their premise is "IQ is heritable, and stupid people have more kids." It's not a coincidence that the "high IQ" couple is portrayed as wealthy and the "low IQ" people are shown as poor.
Thank you. It's astonishing to me how few people remember the text of this movie -- it is so clearly saying dumb people are breeding, smart people are not.
There are search spaces that are quite large that are used in optimal control. GPUs can be used to drastically accelerate finding a solution.
As an example, imagine you are given a height map, a 2D discrete search space overlayed in the height map, 4 legs, and robot dynamics for every configuration of the legs in their constrained workspace. Find the optimal toe placement of the 4 legs. Although a GPU isn't designed exactly to deal with this sort of problem, if it's framed as a reduction problem it still significantly out performs a multi core CPU.
These are sparse systems, factorization is not a strength of the gpu architectures. Typically adding more cpu cores is a better investment rather than trying to parallelize it through gpu. Nvidia has been trying for some time to make progress with cuSparse etc, although not much has been achieved in the space.
Maybe they try a completely different approach with reinforcemnt learning and a ton of parallel simulations?
I actually worked for a startup that makes tiny FPAA's (Field Programmable Analog Arrays) for the low powered battery market. Their major appeal was that you could reprogram the chip to synthesize a real analog network to offload the signal processing portion of your product for a tiny fraction of the power cost.
The key thing is that analog components are influenced much more by environmental fluctuations (think temperature, pressure, and manufacturing), which impacts the "compute" of an analog network. Their novelty was that the chip can be "trimmed" to offset these impacts using floating gate MOSFETs, the same that are used in flash memory, as an analog offset. It works surprisingly well, and I suspect if they can capture the low power market we'll see a revitalization of analog compute in the embedded space. It would be really exciting to see this enter the high bandwidth control system world!
Ideally this would be a standalone app (perhaps ported using electron) that I could run locally, and import codebases directly. Sourcegraph was on the right track, but eventually fizzled out unfortunately.
I would love to use a tool like this to navigate the unknown on rails!
Sourcegraph CEO here. We stopped making a standalone Electron app (which was an experiment) and instead remained focused on our web app and editor extensions. You can use Cody in your editor with no server needed. We didn’t fizzle out. :)
That is definitely an option. However what you get from a hosted service is that we do the indexing for you. That can take a significant amount of time for a huge codebase.
Love the idea, but isn't the "indexing" part of many editors and language servers already? Ctags and stuff? Never got the impression that to be a huge problem on modern hardware.
I doubt, there will be much demand for throwing large non-public code bases into third party services... However, I can totally see how this would be a hit as a FOSS project.
I've built a code search engine in the past so I know how painful debugging long indexing jobs can be and I would certainly be reluctant to support private repos until I know I can index thousands if not tens of thousands of open source repos with no issues.
Why do the whole high and mightly we're using ASCII thing, then to throw me to WordPress. Certainly a bit of HTML with a few inline images fit the overall goal better.
That said, I wish them the best, and I hope that they dominate their market. :)
Your statements are true, but please present this information with nuance. Yes you have an increased risk of cancer, but it's a small percentage and not a guarantee. Untreated bowel disease is guaranteed to have side effects, horrible QoL, and a much higher risk of cancer than medications.
Prednisone is the one exception though, unless life is completely unlivable or you have a significant chance of death (typically from perforation) I would avoid it.
I think that the benefit of the medication is clear, or else why would anyone take it? I definitely do not want to imply that I don't think the cost-benefit analysis comes out in favor of taking the medication. I just wanted to underscore how difficult of a situation it is to have a disease that necessitates the use of these drugs.
I wonder what implications this has for other autoimmune diseases. I personally suffer from Ulcerative Colitis, and would love to see this kind of foundational research done instead of new sets of immunomodulatory drugs.
UC is one of several autoimmune conditions linked to the HLA-B27 gene variant! A blood test showed that I carry the gene and I wound up with Crohn's, AS, and relapsing polychondritis.
I've considered a second job as well, but I'd have to skip out on my noon Jiu Jitsu classes and freedom to play Pickleball whenever I please. I'm paid well enough where the value my hobbies bring outweighs the extra income of a second job.
To be trash-philosophical about it, sometimes we forget the aim of life isn't to get a particular number (the amount of money in our bank account) as high as it can be, like it's a video game score...
A significant number of these folks appear to be FIRE focused though. It's an interesting idea, sacrifice your 20s to live the rest of your life work free.
