There is implied failure of services in Spookies response. Already here in vegas, my step dad works at a bread factory as supervisor, they are seeing an increase of demand. He's had to go in several times late at night to relieve someone who was on a longer shift. He says if they lose one person they will start falling behind.

The short term consumables or raw resources are the ones that matter the most. If people stop going to work to make bread or toilet paper or refine oil it's going to put a strain on a lot of things. The oil and chemical industries are really going to be important for producing medical items like gloves, sanitizer, cleaning agents, plastic ventilators, sanitary plastic containers for equipment and needles, etc. Not to mention the effects of lower oil production and the strain and cost on shipping those things back and forth to their respective factories.

But it will have to be pretty bad before we have to worry about that I think.

A lot of that can be attributed to the bullwhip effect. It is the effect that even small demand fluctuations down stream, e.g. consumers, in a supply chain can have on parties, and availability, up stream, e.g. manufacturers, suppliers, whole sellers and so on.

One of the reasons why panic, and the resulting changes in consumer demand for certain products, is so dangerous. Not because stores are running out of toilet paper, but because of the mid term effects this has on availability of all kinds of things. This effect is impossible to predict upfront.

So, yet another reason to stay calm and avoid this kind of stress on supply chains providing goods of daily need.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect

JIT inventory systems run everything from materials to people on razor thin margins with little elasticity against failures.

This is, in my opinion, a common misconception about modern day supply chains. JIT is mostly used for the last delivery step, component deliveries for automotive final assembly lines are the best example for this. And even there is a certain buffer, a well planned and monitored one.

All other steps involve buffer stocks and inventories. This inventory is sitting local warehouses for example. Or just dead weight in the various locations. More often than not, this is due to inefficiencies.

That beingsaid, JIT is simply to hard to implement to use it for anything else then the most important parts. and even there only for the very last step, everything else smply has to many variables for JIT to work.

The best example are automotive supply chains that kept running all the time through February.

And stuff like groceries are not run JIT, with the exception of the replenishment of shelves and local stores from a regional warehouse. And that is not true JIT.

Honestly seems like you are doing well and that many of these had quick solutions. Great job.

Great explanations. Hope you guys do well. I do like the fact you delete and destroy data and samples.

Thank you!

No boolean operators?! That's an odd choice.

We chose not to include support of Boolean operators and instead ask the students to implement that as part of an assignment. We use a self-grader for that. There is an assignment for bitwise Boolean operators. The assignment for logical Boolean operators with lazy evaluation is work in progress.

It’s a cute little exercise, to implement the three Boolean operations using operations on integers.

Shrooms are not way more powerful. To put shrooms on lsd level is kind of ridiculous. They're all different from each other of course but most are very mild compared to LSD. The very common ones are just serotonin reuptake inhibitors. I've seen some people say they see shimmers of light or visuals but I've taken the same ones and all I get is super happy and motivated. It's great but it's not on lsd level. I'd say it's same level of weed.

I know everyone acts different to everything but I've had trippier experiences with weed where my memory was so short I thought I was just appearing in places and forgot what my arms felt like. So I think the concerns of shrooms are greatly over exaggerated.

Then you didn't have proper dosage. I did, few times. Full out-of-body experience, complete dissolution of ego and personality, my physical self, losing all the senses. For few hours. Of course I wasn't running around partying, but laying in the bed alone listening to some soft shamanic music. It wasn't a big dose, according to web it was +- 1 full dosage, nothing over.

I mixed dried shrooms with fresh lemon juice, horrible taste but made trip much more intensive, and shorter (which was actually good because I got massive headache afterwards, feeling like keeping my brain in red revs for hours).

And then gradually coming back, composing my mind atom by atom, retrieving my senses, limbs and so on. Very profound experience. You need to know how to do psychedelics.

Even literal overdose on weed from very strong milk brew where all of us ended up vomiting and tripping super high was nothing compared to this.

Well it's not too crazy when you think about it. The web is just encoding location and size data for them. Any medium that generated the same results every time would do the same thing. I think because of their smaller intelligence it just seems more profound than it actually is because it represents a significant portion of their capabilities.

We see this in some types of machine learning. Echo state networks and reservoir computing essential just encode the data with their random connections.

So I think it's cool, but not that surprising. The spider is just learning the world through its web just like a musician learns music through a specific instrument. The difference is its not a significant portion of our intelligence and we have extra space/power to learn the world through different tools. Language, writing,reading, computing, mathematics, etc.

You're not going to. There is real incentive to divide people into categories. People in the grey are hard to deal with and hard to manage.

Massive tech companies like google have perfected how you are supposed to move someone from unaware and not caring into the firmly aware caring and loyal brand consumer. They extend that ability to anyone willing to pay for it.

All the twitter ads all the Facebook ads all the Google ads. Doesn't matter if it's for potatoes or Trump, they have the same ability to subtly move you into their camp. Even a basic search engine in reddit or google will constantly feed you the same bs day in and day out based on what you already search for. Take Google news. They aren't going to show you too much out of your region, even in world news as an American you are usually going to see American policy and any topics the engine thinks is important to you based on your previous views.

The whole of Internet technologies is meant to divide and feed you the confirmation bias info you love. Only stuff that already aligns with your views. You take that and couple the fact that ai algorithms are literally designed to take non linear data and plop them into definite categories and you'll get independent/grey thinkers slowly being pushed to one side or another no matter how complex the data.

Unless there is a way to forcefully break the feedback loop, you won't stop it. If you sat day in and day out twirling a butterfly knife or painting or whatever, you would be an expert eventually. That's what is happening now but not with a useful skill, just information aligned with what you already believe. Then after years of programming someone comes along from the other category and tries to break your beliefs, of course you'll get toxicity because it's hard to unlearn how to paint. The brain is not meant to unlearn constantly practiced behavior.

I deleted my Facebook a couple months ago. Now I wish I would have kept it just a little longer to see what they had on me.

But in the end I still would have deleted it. Facebook clearly can't be trusted with my data. Idc what connections it gives me. They have shown time and time again that they will exploit the tiniest things to predict and manipulate your behavior.

And apparently companies desperate for even slight up ticks in conversion rates will upload everything they know about you.

No wonder Cambridge Analytica, AggregateIQ, and Robert Mercer had such an easy time compiling psychological profiles and categories of Americans and Brits.

In the end, it's real simple. The human brain adjusts based on the environment and events around it. Id rather not have Zuckerberg, Dorsey, or anyone else they deem worthy, intentionally or otherwise playing around in my head.

It's still there.

Try logging in. You might have to reset your password, but the bastard's haven't really deleted it.

I tried this, but it only gives me the option to sign up. I think I deleted my account around two years ago, and it's seemingly really gone.

Dot variations in Gmail all belong to you by default. That's a Gmail thing not a Facebook thing.

I think the novelty terminology makes this more confusing than it needs to be. If the hippy "its a movement not a trend" speak was taken out of the descriptions I'd probably be able to understand what this is supposed to be.