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Tuesday, July 31, 2018
 
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Playing CartPole through Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic (A3C)…

https://medium.com/tensorflow/deep-reinforcement-learning-playing-cartpole-through-asynchronous-advantage-actor-critic-a3c-7eab2eea5296

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Are Jews allowed to lie?
Are Jews allowed to lie?
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Michael Safyan, Rabbi's grandson, attended Jewish day school
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Judaism generally does not condone lying (in fact, Torah law prohibits bearing false witness, which is a capital crime with the same level of severity as murder, [...] however, Judaism does allow telling a lie under some circumstances:

It is permissible to lie in order to save an innocent person's life [...] a notable exception to this is that one cannot murder an innocent person in order to save a life
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It is permissible to tell a lie in order to bring about peace and family harmony. For example, according to Jewish tradition, Moses's brother Aaron would make peace between feuding brethren by approaching each one separately and falsely claiming that he had been sent with a message of apology from the other one.

It is permissible to compliment the groom on the beauty of his bride on their wedding day, even if one does not personally consider the bride to be beautiful.
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Other than these three categories / scenarios, however, it is not consistent with Judaism to lie.
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https://www.quora.com/Are-Jews-allowed-to-lie
https://www.quora.com/Are-Jews-allowed-to-lie

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- posted by Oleg Zabluda @ 7:52 PM | permalink | | | technorati | bloglines | feedster
 
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Contrary to popular belief, Judaism does not maintain that Jews are better than other people. Although we refer to ourselves as G-d's chosen people, we do not believe that G-d chose the Jews because of any inherent superiority. According to the Talmud (Avodah Zarah 2b), G-d offered the Torah to all the nations of the earth, and the Jews were the only ones who accepted it. The story goes on to say that the Jews were offered the Torah last, and accepted it only because G-d held a mountain over their heads! (In Ex. 19:17, the words generally translated as "at the foot of the mountain" literally mean "underneath the mountain"!) Another traditional story suggests that G-d chose the Jewish nation because they were the lowliest of nations, and their success would be attributed to G-d's might rather than their own ability. Clearly, these are not the ideas of a people who think they are better than other nations.
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http://www.jewfaq.org/gentiles.htm
http://www.jewfaq.org/gentiles.htm

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- posted by Oleg Zabluda @ 7:39 PM | permalink | | | technorati | bloglines | feedster
 
Машина Времени - Наш Дом (1982)
Машина Времени - Наш Дом (1982)
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Двери покрепче справим,
Рядом на цепь посадим
Восемь больших голодных псов.
Чтобы они не спали,
К дому не подпускали
Горе, врагов и дураков. [OZ: Oxford comma: Беды, дорог и дураков]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHsaJTNT3Gk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHsaJTNT3Gk

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- posted by Oleg Zabluda @ 3:19 PM | permalink | | | technorati | bloglines | feedster
 
Машина Времени | Старые песни, альбом Картонные крылья любви (1996)
Машина Времени | Старые песни, альбом Картонные крылья любви (1996)
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Все, что мы любили - жило в той поре,
Там, где мы застыли, словно мухи в янтаре.
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Старые песни, время не одолеть.
Я уверен, наши дети их не будут петь.
Все, что мы любили, остается тут,
Вместе с нами жили,
Вместе с нами и умрут.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jSWabO0qjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jSWabO0qjE

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- posted by Oleg Zabluda @ 1:16 PM | permalink | | | technorati | bloglines | feedster
 
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multivariate analysis of data on shooting cases extracted by the authors from police investigation files for assaults that took place in Boston, Massachusetts, between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2014. [...] In all cases the victim sustained 1 or more gunshot wounds in circumstances that the Boston Police Department deemed criminal.
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Results The final sample of 511 gunshot victims and survivors (n = 220 fatal; n = 291 nonfatal) was predominantly male (n = 470 [92.2%]), black (n = 413 [80.8%]) or Hispanic (n = 69 [13.5%]), and young (mean [SD] age, 26.8 [9.4] years). Police investigations determined firearm caliber in 184 nonfatal cases (63.2%) and 183 fatal cases (83.2%). These 367 cases were divided into 3 groups by caliber: small (.22, .25, and .32), medium (.38, .380, and 9 mm), or large (.357 magnum, .40, .44 magnum, .45, 10 mm, and 7.62 × 39 mm). Firearm caliber had no systematic association with the number of wounds, the location of wounds, circumstances of the assault, or victim characteristics, as demonstrated by χ2 tests of each cluster of variables and by a comprehensive multinomial logit analysis. A logit analysis of the likelihood of death found that compared with small-caliber cases, medium caliber had an odds ratio of 2.25 (95% CI, 1.37-3.70; P = .001) and large caliber had an odds ratio of 4.54 (95% CI, 2.37-8.70; P < .001).
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2688536

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2688536

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- posted by Oleg Zabluda @ 11:42 AM | permalink | | | technorati | bloglines | feedster
 
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In a divided U.S., therapists treating anxiety are hearing the same name over and over: Donald Trump. 'Trump Anxiety Disorder' may not be an official diagnosis, but therapists know the symptoms
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the founder of the D.C. Counselling and Psychotherapy Center refers to it as a "collective anxiety" among patients who feel on edge about how potentially dire the president's decisions could be.

"There is a fear of the world ending," she said. "It's very disorienting and constantly unsettling."

What's been called "Trump Anxiety Disorder" has been on the rise in the months following the election, according to mental-health professionals from across the country who report unusually high levels of politics-related stress in their practices.

This week, it was a menacing all-caps Trump tweet warning Iran about potentially historic "CONSEQUENCES." Previously, it was his Supreme Court picks and fears that the legal right to abortion could be overturned, or his immigration policies separating families at the border, or his apparent submission to Russian President Vladimir Putin before a global audience.
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The symptoms

In a 2017 essay for a book co-edited by psychiatrists from Harvard Medical School and the Yale School of Medicine, clinical psychologist Jennifer Panning of Evanston, Ill., called the condition "Trump Anxiety Disorder," distinguishing it from a generalized anxiety disorder because "symptoms were specific to the election of Trump and the resultant unpredictable sociopolitical climate."
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the symptoms include feeling a loss of control and helplessness, and fretting about what's happening in the country and spending excessive time on social media, she said.

(Trump and his supporters, for their part, have their own term for a malady they see as afflicting only reactionary, anti-Trump progressives: "Trump Derangement Syndrome.")
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intense consumption of media coverage of this presidency is making some people's Trump-related anxiety worse.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-anxiety-disorder-mental-health-political-divide-us-1.4762487
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-anxiety-disorder-mental-health-political-divide-us-1.4762487

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