Any recommendations for youtube lessons?

Practice against a wall with tennis balls, it’ll take a day.

Which absolutely should be done, but having energy sovereignty is never a bad thing.

The past two weeks I've had code that was delivered and declared as done (it did pass tests) but failed in a review by Codex. This has looped to a painful extent. The code in question deals with concurrency issues so there's an acknowledgement that its tricker, but still, I expect more from Claude.

If the energy is plentiful then it seems like they could recycle the oxygen created by processing the CO2 generated by breathing: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160008985/downloads/20...

energy is plentiful some of the time, so systems will need to be designed and sized to process all of a colony's basic needs in a short period of time, and then have excess storage capacity and reserves for contingencies. Since food and water will also need to be produced on site, there will be the oportunity to integrate all of these systems, as it is my belief that any comercialisation of say deuterium, will require a permanent human presence, but so far surviving the lunar night has proven to be very difficult even for machines to do once, let alone for years.

We need to stop treating business's resource extraction from foreign countries as "national security".

And I'd be all for "nation building" if it actually worked and moved countries to be democratically run. The +$6T spent on Iraq and Afghanistan are an indictment of our efforts to "help".

We just fucked with Venezuela -- where are the reports of us "helping"?

There's a stealth Civil War II currently going on. The South had their fingers crossed when they surrendered.

The one neat trick to end extreme poverty is to give women full and equal rights, most importantly, bodily autonomy.

I do not follow, could you expand please?

There's a lot out there if one were to search on the topic, but basically, by allowing women to engage in entrepreneurial endeavors by giving the rights to conduct that work, and, more importantly, not forcing them to be baby-making machines unlocks the potential of half the population.

In societies where they are effectively slaves (and breeders), they are not part of the economy and therefore cannot add to it.

And then there's just the humanitarian part of it too...

  https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/3-essential-issues-to-empower-women-and-end-poverty/
  https://caribbean.unfpa.org/en/news/empower-rural-women-%E2%80%93-end-hunger-and-poverty-1
  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8293807/

It's more complicated than that. Here in East Africa women are allowed to work and run businesses. In fact, most of my friends here who run a business are female. The majority of them run small shops selling food, one sells phones and accessories and another works in such a shop that is also female owned. A number of these are also single mothers because their husbands left them, mostly because they were unable to provide for their families. It is not just about the right of women to earn an income, but also about men being under pressure by their peers to be good providers, and being unable to do so. Some women told me they are not even interested in getting married any more. They just want to have some kids and then manage on their own.

Either way, only education can change things. Both men and women (boys and girls) need to be educated about better ways and how to cooperate to provide for their families together.

It's heartbreaking. There's plenty of US History to be ashamed of, but lots of accomplishments too.

We've not just thrown it away, but but set fire to it so that if it ever is possible to wrest control away from these vandals, it could take generations to repair.

Likewise, there's plenty about China to be wary of, but the way that they have collectively invested in the country to move it from a backwater to a premiere superpower (without the shortcut that WWII gave the US), must be recognized as a triumph.

We could be living in prosperity for all, but no, we have to argue over pronouns and bathrooms. FFS, we can do better than that!

Public restrooms are a sign of advanced civilizations. It's a pity that they have to be built to withstand damage from hooligans.

The existence of well maintained and clean public restrooms and hooligans is a shibboleth for culture. Some cultures are simply superior.

I’m currently travelling in China and the total absence of graffiti and the wide availability of public toilets as well as the general cleanliness of the place is a stark contrast to London. I am somewhat dreading that part when I return.

You haven't gone away from touristy track. A friend of mine did last year and the stuff I heard was pretty bad

touristy track is covered by cctvs and they are used to get people for anything including public urination or graffiti so of course it's clean

If by tourist track you mean several cities each with a population count greater than London then sure. :) But it is true I was there as a tourist to see a few places and China is an absolutely huge place.

I wish the touristy places in the UK were as clean though.

Also, writing this comment on a crowded, dirty and smelly train from Gatwick Airport, which has 2 carriages inaccessible because of broken doors and crawling due to signal failure on the line, I already miss the clean and comfortable Chinese trains I was taking from place to place.

That said I do get to work 945 here for more money so I am grateful for this for sure. :)

The restroom building provides more utility than most buildings do to a hooligan. Unclear why it is an enemy.

Vandalism scales linearly with [accessible, visible, unsupervised].

Uncorrelated with the usefulness of the building after controlling for other factors

Any "private" space in a public place becomes valuable with more density. It's basic scarcity incentives. It unfortunately incentivizes hooligans to make the restroom appear even more disheveled and unsafe to increase the privacy (less people want to go in it)

You're reading way too far into it. Private spaces are simply easier targets.

So the solution is obviously https://juxthpose.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/m...

Having a "indexed global data collection" of the markdown would be a kumbaya moment for AI. There's so much data out there but finite disk space. Maybe torrents or IPFS could work for this?

I'm actually sort of working on this! https://github.com/ctoth/propstore -- it's like Cyc, but there is no one answer. Plus knowledge bases are literally git repos that you can fork/merge. Research-papers-plugin is the frontend, we extract the knowledge, then we need somewhere to put it :)

Awesome! TIL about Cyc, and it's quite intriguing. I'd been thinking about how being able to integrate Prolog or similar tools might be a valuable endeavor (although I've yet to write anything in Prolog myself).