You temporarily need (during summer only): either
1) a professional academic to work with your AI team to produce published research, or
2) a professional academic to develop tools and curricula to "teach" AI to a non-STEM audience.
Location: Anywhere / Remote
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Temporarily only
Technologies: AI, Python, R, JavaScript, PHP, SQL.
Email: ProfSummerGig@gmail.com
Résumé/CV: Looking for a Summer Gig near warm surfing water: Not looking for a permanent job (am a tenured full professor at a university in the mid-west). I get summers off. Have studied AI via Andrew Ng's MOOC. The goal is to work with an AI team and publish peer-reviewed journal papers. I don't need pay. Preference will be given to offers involving: "enough room to lay my sleeping bag plus access to a kitchen & bathroom -- near the beach in SoCal or Florida or some such". 46 years old, born in India, U.S. citizen, language learner (basic Spanish, basic French, proficient Hindi), good cook, surfer, very active and into fitness. TEDx speaker. One of my interests would be: "teaching" AI to a non-STEM audience.
He sure has an interesting story and great priorities! I also wish you best of luck and lots of fun, düde!
PS: Please talk to Brian Harvey and Ken Kahn about Snap! and ecraft2learn, if you like teaching AI to kids! The surfing's not great in Berkeley, but you'll love Santa Cruz!
The black hole is warping spacetime around it in a severe fashion. The innermost (unstable) orbit is called the photon sphere, and light can make several orbits around the hole before either falling in, or going off to infinity. The result is that (depending on the hole’s rotation relative to your point of view) you’re going to see roughly the same image we have today. You’re actually going to see multiple images of the entire hole, stretched around the outer edge, and those images multiplied and distorted again. If you could somehow “stand” by the photon spehere you’d see the back of your own head many many times.
The other factor is that while the event horizon itself is a spheroid, the accretion disk of bright infalling material is not. The horizon is totally black, so it will always look roughly like seeing a disk face-on no matter where you look at it. The accretion disk is a “hoop” that’s stretched and the image is multiplied and distorted by the strong warping of spacetime in the region. As a result you get smeared and repeated views of the entire disk including portion behind the hole in a kind of bent band. Plus the whole thing is subject to strong Doppler beaming hence the bright and dark regions.
I said divine miracle in my initial reply for a reason. I experienced what is known as OBE or Out of Body Experience while laying down on the floor, high off of my senses. I never did any drugs after this apart from a smoking habit I had to break. So, to summarise, that was 3 years worth of addiction resolved in one evening. Over the years I have understood the experience more, but not something I want to share at this time as I would like to include that in my book.
They mentioned religion but when describing the experience they called it "OBE or Out of Body Experience", which my friends use interchangeably with "hallucination". Drugs that are less harmful can cause hallucinations (even weed), and I know meth can lead to sleep deprivation which can cause even more hallucinations. I do realize that for some people drugs are a religious experience (e.g. I have a friend who claims she sees and speaks with Jesus every time she gets really high, and she believes it's real and not a hallucination). But "Out of Body Experience" seems to me like it doesn't have a religious connotation, and I didn't see any further details about the OBE like "and then God said ____". If you still feel I was being condescending, consider that Wikipedia agrees that both of our interpretations of "OBE" are valid:
But it seems your interpretation (that OBE == religious experience) was actually what they meant and my interpretation was not, based on this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19588813
I think not challenging a notion because it may be religious in nature is the actual condescending stance. Why is asking questions about a religious experience different from asking about any other? Can they not handle an iota of push back?
While it seems we agree about religion, I disagree about questioning this person's religion. This person is talking about writing a book about their experience which they believe to be a divine intervention that changed their life and got them off of meth. Clearly, this is a very big deal to them and something that matters to them a whole lot, and they believe the story is so good that they won't even post the details of the divine intervention on HN because they want to save it for their book.
Pushing them on this topic is mean because it's such a big deal to them, and it's counterproductive because you'll never be able to prove it to them. Even if you say something like "go through some sleep deprivation and see if you hallucinate" and then they do, you won't have proven that their previous experience was a hallucination. Instead, all you'll be doing is telling them that things they hold very deeply are all stupid, and never changing their mind. There is no positive effect from this, it's all just negative.
That's an incredibly uncharitable insinuation. Do you think community organizers do it for the money? There are a lot of reasons people choose to advocate but regardless of weather you think they're right they generally do it because they actually believe in something. It's unlikely fighting Amazon is a very profitable venture.
They certainly do it for the power (the majority of them). Very few people put themselves in that position without an eye for moving into politics to continue their power growth.
Remember, the vast majority of people do not do things long term for altruistic reasons.
I mean, judging by some reporting[1] it sounds like the final meetings involved a framework for unionization efforts which to Amazon was probably unpalatable enough to pull out entirely just based on that.
I guess if you consider "working with the community" to equal "greasing the local union bosses" then maybe. But it's just more logical to just imagine that Amazon doesn't want to exist a blueprint for other unionization efforts nationwide.
I'll tell my sister about this to see if it helps. I did just now find an FAQ about "family and friends" transactions on PayPal, and it should be relatively easy for her to find.
Odd thing is that she's sent money to my previous PayPal account before without a hitch.
Once you've torn them limb from limb, once Pecker is rotting in a jail sell and the only thing the National Enquirer is useful for is recycling them into cup holders; then you walk into Playgirl and do a photo shoot of these exact photos just to make sure they all know it was never about the pictures.
I interpret that after reaching peak absurdity, the reputation of the whole discipline was tarnished and its practice abandoned, even if (applied reasonably) it was really an useful discipline. I think there are many current examples of this.
I was wondering about that too: the safety considering how secretive manufacturers were.
Intuitively, I'd think the particles are just too large to be a considerable risk. The photo of the man wearing a mask is because they're around it all day every day (+ OSHA I'm sure), but I'm sure people have though the same thing about asbestos or pink fibreglass insulation.
