Walking through Manhattan this Summer, I once saw several delivery people sorting dozens of Amazon packages directly on the sidewalk. I could not believe my eyes.
This is an every day sight here, especially during the holiday season. It's not uncommon to see entire carts stacked full of packages left unattended on the sidewalk as the employee is delivering packages inside a building.
USPS employees still push carts with letters and packages around [0] and in NYC have master keys to many buildings' front doors so they can put packages inside.
NYC is not the most accessible city, and as such you'd have a hard time bringing a cart into many apartment buildings that have steps but don't have a ramp. Even if you manage to bring a cart to the front door of an apartment building, you'd still likely have to deal with a self-closing door which will fight you while trying to pull the cart through. Sorting inside the building is just not feasible.
Only the end I would change. First I would put Cyberpunk into the 1990-2000 years. And then I would add another category for all movies that have this "bright", "plastic" and "clean" look like GATTACA, 2001, Minority Report or Oblivion. And then add another category for all the rough and dirty movies like District nine or Edge of tomorrow that seem to be fashionable now. But I don't have good names for these yet. What do you think?
First of all, that is a great "timeline" of the "-punks"!
To your question about a name for the District 9, etc. era, I'm thinking something depressive, sort of "not looking forward to what the present/near future holds"...but can't think of anything better than: nihilpunk or nilpunk. Good question though!
First I would put Cyberpunk into the 1990-2000 years.
I don't see how this works, most of the core Cyberpunk books were at least technologically well past even current level, let alone 2000ish. What is your thinking for 1990-2000 ?
Up until the final categories, it seems more like it is attempting to delineate time periods sourcing that dominant flavor of scifi, not the time period postulated in its fiction. It lists the contemporary topics influencing that fiction.
But, it then goes wrong as it wavers and transitions into future time periods.
Sticking to the writers' eras, it is the listed "cassette futurism" period that is really cyberpunk. That's where it was born, influenced by those technologies, dystopian ideas, and noir aesthetics. By the 90s, we were into post-cyberpunk works like Snowcrash, reacting with parody and snarky absurdity.
I not sure I agree, and read it it is an attempt to map the source material influencing the writing, not the writers eras at all. Steampunk particularly doesn't make sense as a map to writers eras.
At any rate, I understand the confusion now. As you note Cyberpunk proper was having it's obituary written, in some ways, in very early 90s, and the core of it was written well previous to that. So 1990-2000 doesn't fit well as either writers timeline or (in a handwavey sense) technology timeline.
I may be showing my ignorance, but I think those like Verne and even Shelley were the original steampunk authors. I don't think of it as a totally separate genre as people continue to try to recapture and riff on the same styles and set pieces almost two centuries later. It is born of that era.
Similarly, I think you could still write new cyberpunk. It's not dead, but on hiatus.
Well most of them had a sort of "sideways" technology, better in some ways but worse in others (not unlike how a lot of 1950s SF had people on starships fiddling with slide rules). Cyberpunk generally posited human-level AI and near-realistic VR, but generally didn't feature mobile phones (payphones were common) and presumably analog TV ("The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel" implying analog static).
Can you point to any good tutorials for replacing OOP with functional patterns in Python? I often use OOP to semantically group functionality and "manage" state e.g. avoiding methods with multiple variables or cases where I have to pass one (not changing) variable to multiple functions.
Sounds like you discovered that OOP and Functional are the same thing. Closures are the poor-person's objects. Objects are the poor person's Closures. If you never mutate the internals of an Object, or mutate with copy, isn't just a coherent closure?
Personal choice. Some people like the idea of splitting the data from the functions that operate on it. Others don't like mutability and presume that OOP requires it. Scala and other languages make it easy to have immutability and OOP. Look at Clojure. The interfaces look a lot like Object definitions.
Well, there are plenty of cars in Berlin, so unless they're all masochists they probably enjoy that more than the other options. That I personally can't see why doesn't change that.
To add to this: I wouldn't call it "most car friendly city in Germany", either - but driving there isn't "hell on earth" either: I felt it's neither better nor worse than e.g. Kaiserslautern or the 10k inhabitants "city" I went to school - the traffic is just on a different scale due to the city being huge (compared to most other German cities).
(Disclaimer: I'm a relaxed driver; my experience might not hold for those who enter the full-rage mode when starting the engine)
Berlin built a very expensive tunnel in the city center, still expands the inner Autobahn ring, has large east/west streets (Stalinallee and 17th June), parking was free in residential areas until very recently, tickets for parking in the wrong spots are a joke and cars parking on sidewalks or bicycle lanes are pracically never ticketed. Bicycle police which was introduced to ticket cars and bicycles practically in the same way never tickets car drivers [1]
Compare this with the pedestrian infrastructure (many bad sidewalks in the East) or bicycle with no or chaotic lanes [2]. Also when houses are build or roads are maintained, car driver concerns are always prioritized above cyclists and pedestrians [3].
I like, that the price is so high. That makes it a least seem to be a sustainable business. And when you pay your ML people 10k a month, the $25 is less than the coffee they will drink in the office.
Hi, looks great! Love the feature of tracking code changes. But how does this work? Does it upload the code to the servers every time I launch a training?
So you would considered the latest committed version as the 'code of the current experiment'? Maybe to rephrase: I start a training with my local code and then I change one variable in the code or comment some processing and start the next training. Would I need to do something for comet to know how the code has changed?
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