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This is a cute little story with some technical merit - the brief description of the three bugs is kind of interesting.

What is the density of a normal set of polynomials?

More importantly, how does Szemeredi theorem fit in here?


by this I meant things like proving that for any polynomial (e.g. x^3+1) there are infinite primes of that form (as long as the polynomial doesn't factor), and that their density corresponds to what you'd expect from the prime number theorem.

Things like soft drink taxes already begin to do that.

Have those stuck anywhere? I know it was trialed in a few places (Berkely for one) but I don't think it lasted.

Great idea though; just like taxing tobacco helped reduce smoking (among other things)


We have taxes on sugary drinks in France. The tax depends on how much sugar is added, in kg / hl. Funnily, synthetic sweeteners are also taxed, but at a flat rate equal to the "up to 1 kg / hl" of sugar. See [0] for the official text.

I'm not convinced this has had a great effect, since I hear there are more and more people who are considered obese [1].

[0] https://entreprendre.service-public.fr/vosdroits/F32101?lang...

[1] https://presse.inserm.fr/en/obesite-et-surpoids-pres-dun-fra...


I wouldn’t say it’s instant. These kinds of models have been out for at least 6 years (depending on if you think BERT, or GPT-2, or whatever is the first).

Their capabilities and short comings, at least in a general sense, are pretty well known.


This makes sense, and I actually believe that it isn’t a search. It is definitely a _seizure_ though and I do wonder how often these two things are distinguished in law.

How often do the police raid a place and confiscate filing cabinets but not look through them.


The seizure was done pursuant to a warrant too. There’s an argument that, once the warrant extensions expired, keeping the device in police custody constituted a continuing seizure. But it doesn’t seem like the defendant made that argument (or at least the court didn’t address that argument)

Usually one has to petition/request the return of seized items. So it's not unusual that something is still held until requested.

Usually instead of fixing what they have, they tend to destroy it.


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