People don't read things thoroughly for good reason: there's too much shit to read. If we read things thoroughly, we'd all waste our lives reading terms of service, user agreements, and fine print, and never get anything of value accomplished. Internet search and ctrl+F are some of the most time-saving inventions are conceived.
Industrial Revolutions required many things that Frodo's world lacked:
1) Abundant and cheap coal (heat, steel making, steam engines, etc). We know this didn't exist, for why should Saruman rely on the comparatively bad fuel of green wood to power his engine of war?
2) International demand for goods via global trade networks. The societies are clearly fragmented with little interchange...polar opposite of Europe in the 1750-1900 period.
3) Abundant laborers and innovators to create necessary machines. England had a number of innovative entrepeneurs who needed steam engines to pump water out of the mine so the miners could get the coal that was slightly deeper.
4) Scientific progress on metals, machining, and scientific method. Starting with Francis Bacon, Newton, and others, England saw a very strong burst of scientific progress right before industrialization.
5) Governmental support of industry (e.g. tariffs/regs in USA/Germany). This one is perhaps the hardest to study, we don't know much about governmental policy in LotR, but it seems to be monarchical and/or authoritarian, maybe war-lord driven...not what you need for an economic-technological revolution.
LotR in Frodo's Day is a sparsely populated world that used to be grand. If the Elves and Numenorians of old, with all their splendor, didn't start a revolution, then how could the ghost-towns of men and elves?
I thought the distinction was: "white papers" are not necessarily peer-reviewed by an academic journal's editors; white papers tend to be internally-made documents within an organization, edited by that organization's members, for the purpose of knowledge/information.
Academic papers as a whole can include both "white papers" and "peer-reviewed journal articles" aka the "papers" that many think of. I would surely put a "white paper" onto my resume if I thought it was a great piece of work.
Assuming your confidential code is in private repos, you're fine. From their FAQ:
> [GitHub Copilot] has been trained on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.
You can't know (although they claim it was trained only on public code, presumably including proprietary public or leaked code). GPL folks are wondering if it is possible to convert proprietary code to GPL through CoPilot.
I think you can pretty safely know. People store sensitive information, passwords, keys, etc in private repos aaaall the time. It would be an entirely unnecessary complexity for copilot to try to filter out that sensitive information. It's not like there's a deficiency of public code on GitHub. It wouldn't make any sense to train on private repos.
All that stuff is in public repos too, so really they should filter out those things from public repos too. The only difference I can see is that private repos are usually proprietary and GitHub didn't want to anger their paying customers, who usually have proprietary code on GitHub.
I think the average person living in today's world has it way better than 99% of humans in history, it's easily the best time to be alive. Infant mortality, life expectancy, chances of dying to violence or starvation or preventable disease, all kinds of gruesome things have drastically declined over the course of history and civilization. When else was it possible for most healthy people to live to 70, to travel the world a few times, and to live in relative peace and harmony?
And entertainment, joy in the arts, categories of aesthetics have vastly improved as well. Look at art and film and music in the past five hundred years. Look at the works of Bach and anyone before him, he's clearly the greatest musician known in the world up to 1750, and since him in just 275 years, we've had hundreds of phenomenal musicians that outrank any before Bach. This is one mere slice of culture which is evidence of the vast improvement in human capability in modern times.
I didn't downvote you, however I think people may dislike the idea of one having their own pet hypothesis without linking serious evidence to back it up. Amyloid plaques have been heavily studied and may have some tangential but real link to Alzheimer's, it's a plaquey protein found in the brain along with Beta-Tau which is another protein I believe. I personally haven't heard of any fungi theory yet, the main ones I've heard were viral things, pollution, or perhaps some breakdown in the brain's ability to clean itself up over time. And why are certain individuals spared and not others? I know there are genes that predispose one to it, and there are early-onset cases which come on more often than others.
If it was anything obvious in the environment, I'd hope we'd know by now...but it may be something hard to measure in large epidemiological studies like a more rare pollutant or something we overlooked in creating large observational datasets?
Anyway, I'd encourage you to link the best studies you've found and that may help some to read them.
I don't think we should discourage people from having a pet hypothesis if they're open about it. I seriously doubt that in academia most don't have their own pet hypothesis. I think the problem is when persons aren't open about whatever being their pet hypothesis and or even deliberately going out of bounds on what's acceptable based on their own pet hypothesis. As I said to another person that replied to me, you can google "fungi and Alzheimer's " to easily see the research in great detail. Maybe even visiting researchgate and doing the same. Also thanks for replying because I do have family members that have it.
Most pet hypotheses of researchers are informed by actually knowing about the disease, and not disregarding things such as 1) years of schooling (protective) 2) early onset alzheimers (genetic) 3) APOE2 (protective) 4) APOE4 (higher risk) and the multitude of other factors.
Basically, if you’re going to make a claim and not be some armchair scientist, you need to not Dunning-Krueger yourself. I’m not saying you have, but the way you’re representing yourself suggests you’re at risk of it
I think people are acting unfair towards me if what you're asserting is the cause of the behaviour. Unless my interpretation and expression of a "pet hypotheses" was truly wrong of me to do. Since I don't think writing about one's pet hypotheses is making a claim in what would indeed warrant negative behaviour.
In northern New England, we see a lot of homes using heating oil and woodstoves. These create a lot of local emissions and can be expensive or use a lot of time/effort (woodstoves). Heat pumps that work especially well in cold climates would be a huge efficiency gain over oil, woodstoves, and electric resistive space heaters which are also commonly used as stop-gaps in the region.
Consider: ADHD reduces executive functions, which are like the "secretary" of the mind. This means they can not direct attention onto where they need to: work, school, onto family and friends, etc. Those with ADHD have less 3 friendships on average, due to less ability to hold their attention on others. As they age, they may find relief in drugs like cocaine, caffeine, nicotine, and THC, which may lead to more drug abuse than neurotypical people. They're more likely to commit suicide. These are evidence-backed conclusions from the literature, which I reviewed for my MS.
All of these problems then feed into depression and anxiety. Is that so hard to believe? Less friends, less success, more abuse of substances, it's a potentially rough life.
This is an old article, it's 15 years old which makes it ancient in the battery world. I have a Prius from that generation and mine doesn't have V2G. I can't find any numbers, how many Priuses actually have V2G capability?
Don't see anything on that page about consequences for your Toyota warranty. Assuming it's invalidated, this looks like a solution for owners of older hybrids only.
