There are already insurance companies offering coverage for legal expenses. The interesting part here is maybe that by restricting it to patents the insurer has a very clear idea of the risk being covered, as all the patents are public.
Edit: on the other hand your potential customers will be difficult to convince. To pay insurance you must have risk aversion, something I don't expect to be abundant among startups
>But we can and should do better. Why is DLL-hell still a thing? Imports should specify versions, defaulting to a default if none is specified. Languages barely even consider versions today, they are almost always hacked on via magic text strings in filenames.
So suppose you fix the version number when you import the library. You then need to copy paste the version number to other imports in your code base? Or maybe you mean each import may have different versions? which is all right until you need to pass some data between two versions of the same library. This wouldn't be so difficult if semantic versioning or another equivalent was respected, but we know it's a lie. This wouldn't be a problem at all if there were some kind of contracts in place when using modules/package/whatever instead of a silly number based on convention but how to specify the contracts is not that easy, and it's similar to say having static typing. I think improving versioning it's doable but it's very hard.
I'm all about improving tooling, I have been obsessing for a few months about the sad state of program documentation and navigation. Why is the computer doing nothing while I think so hard while I'm programming? Why there is so little money in this space?
> There is even research by now that aims to use ML to find good heuristics for a given family of problems (where the common characteristics of the problems might lend to a dominant heuristic).
I think I have spotted some papers about this for combinatorial problems but not for continuous variables, which makes sense given their relative hardness.
Do you know some papers, journals, conferences about this?
I'm interested specially about the view from people working in optimization research more than in AI.
I think we're probably thinking of the same papers. There was a competition /session at last year's neurips and there's related papers linked from their webpage.
He got 2/3 of the shares necessary for gaining control. The Bank of Portugal was the only one who could prosecute money forgery and it was being acquired with forged money. This guy was a hacker.
I doubt he would have succeeded nevertheless. In the end the law was changed to apply to him retroactively, which was unconstitutional (and I'm sure it's still unconstitutional on most parts of the world), and that only to give him more sentence time. He would have been removed from the bank, one way or another.
I'm trying to do a PhD part time while working although I don't plan to go to academia, now or in the future.
For me it's a way of focusing on some topic related to my work: I'm a machine learning engineer and I'm doing the PhD in AI/optimization. I have spent just a year on it so success is still far away.
I know people however that went back to academia but they had some previous experience for example as teaching assistants.
Road atlases were the same in Spain. I think the reason is that they are not interactive, that's the all the zoom level you are going to get and so they are extremely dense with information.
I think that for interactive use google maps are way better, they avoid information overload by presenting a very schematic representation. Old road atlases look like versions of Where's Waldo?.
I came to exactly post this. I previously had a HP ZBook with Nvidia Quadro inside and although I managed to get it running nicely I recently bought an LG Gram with integrated graphics and I'm not looking back. Both came with a Windows which I immediatly changed to Linux.
If you are not into gaming you can save big bucks and weight buying a laptop with integrated graphics. If you need a GPU for work you most probably need one with >8GB anyway.
PD: Why do so many laptops come with crapware instead of vanilla Windows? Why??? Why do laptop manufacturers tarnish their product so much? It remembers me so much of Android phones.
I also own a ZBook and I looked at an LG Gram as a possible replacement in case something happens to my laptop. I use the 3 physical buttons (click, paste - a Linux thing, right click) and the LG doesn't have them. That made me immediately discard the idea. On the other side this Lenovo has the physical buttons. I wonder how terrible the touchpad actually is. I only need to move the pointer and scroll. No gestures, no clicks.
If you don't care about gestures as they've always been fine in my experience. I can't speak for gestures because the only one I use is right click (two finger tap). But for pointing the cursor and pulling the trigger the touchpad/trackpoint works fine I use both constantly since sometimes the trackpoint is easier to reach or the touchpad is easier to reach. I also use both sets of buttons as well as sometimes it's easier to have your left hand at home position and your right hand trackpaddin' but you use your thumb on space to left click.
Edit: on the other hand your potential customers will be difficult to convince. To pay insurance you must have risk aversion, something I don't expect to be abundant among startups