We really ought to come up with some new terms in this space... it is just confusing to mix "strong consistency" in with "eventual consistency" in any way.
I’m pretty sure the term came from Google (at least that is where I heard it first described) and just referred to a backend engineer with speciality in this area. Now usually these roles have “distributed systems” in the title, even if you aren’t really on the inside of the systems. That or “systems and infrastructure”, “data infrastructure”, or “AI/ML infrastructure” or sometimes “MLE” for those kinds of orgs. Or back to good ole “big data” now that it’s no longer tacked on everything.
Lower intelligence would likely surface as hedonistic behavior which is probably hard to distinguish from decadence. Decadence and hedonism were constantly being complained about long before the eventual fall.
You're going to have to explain your point to me, or perhaps you misunderstood my own.
My point is that while it may have been unclear to the Romans as to the cause of changes in behavior they did notice a change and did complain about it a lot. I accept the premise that lead poisoning leads to lower intelligence.
What we know now is that lead’s effects are more pronounced as developmental issues. A little lead exposure as a child can lead to a violent temper. So once children were not born into a low grade cloud of lead contamination, they were set up for fewer mood disturbances as teenagers and young adults. Feeling like violence is your best avenue for conflict resolution leads to crime. So the change wasn’t over night, it was over 20 years.
I expect that whatever effect was going on in Rome if there was one, which seems to be up for debate, counted on pregnant women exposed to lead via alcohol and acidic foods, neither of which young children would normally encounter. Meanwhile lead dust from exhaust got -everywhere-, and paint a lot of places.
I still think you are agreeing with the implied and later stated accepted premise that there is a correlation and it’s not always obvious, I’m still unsure as to what it is you are trying to add.
> Violence in the US declined as children born around and after leaded gas was banned reached the average age of first offense
My pet hypothesis for the generation born after in the mid postwar era having been a general scourge on America is that we had a population boom amidst lead.
Personally I think an updated camcorder would be incredible. CCD with global shutter and in a pocketable format with modern stabilization, a video analog to the rx100. Way too niche though.
I’ve seen people who seem to know what they’re talking about cast doubt that you could create your own probiotic yogurt in a typical kitchen since other strains are likely to dominate without a sterile environment and careful methods.
The strain you want has a huge headstart, and there shouldn't be much bacteria in boiled milk to begin with. Containers can be also sterilized with boiling water. Then keep it cool after it's done (14 hours). It doesn't seem likely that some other strain would dominate, but who knows.
Hello! My name is Brian and I have around 7 years of experience - the bulk of which I spent developing high-scalability storage software for HPC and enterprise. I focused on high-throughput data processing components that automate HSM and data lifecycle policies/operations primarily built with Scala, Spark, and Cassandra. Primarily passionate about systems-level software but open to a variety of roles. Thank you for reading.
In my opinion it will or already has redefined our conceptual models of intelligence - just like physical models of atoms or gravitational mechanics evolved and newer models replace the older. The older models aren't invalidated (all models are wrong, after all), but their limits are better understood.
People are waiting for this Prometheus-level moment with AI where it resembles us exactly but exceeds our capabilities, but I don't think that's necessary. It parallels humanity explaining Nature in our own image as God and claiming it was the other way around.
If jaw placement is an issue you can get corrective surgery without an apnea diagnosis (AFAIK). There’s a lot of info on Reddit, you can generally tell from your side profile or bite if it is a potential culprit.
