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by 2-tpg 6y ago
From FIRE on the current state of US academia: > Nevertheless, freedom of speech is under continuous threat at many of America’s campuses, pushed aside in favor of politics, comfort, or simply a desire to avoid controversy. As a result,
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
> What probably puzzles me the most, however, is that some of the forms of oppression that Bari Weiss talks about are so foreign to me that I really wonder whether I've been living in the same educational system as the one she descr
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The Programming Edition: On learning, mathematica, and being a novice(whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
> 1. Crypto has too much volatility and hence poor risk-adjusted returns compared to stocks. Can not get enough volatility. Compare a 5% chance of a 1000% return versus 95% chance of a 15% return. If you pick the latter, you pay a high p
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
In my country, bitcoin guards against inflation. Local currency in relation to the dollar, in 2020, I lost 50%. Bitcoin in relation to the dollar, in 2020, did 300%. Bitcoin here is a wealth transfer from the older generation to the newer g
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
Gebru was fired for unprofessional conduct and disturbing the work place. She tried to sneak a Google authored paper through internal peer review, by submitting it on the day of the deadline, and having the paper approved without incorporat
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
The political activist collective is slowly falling apart. If you get blamed for racism when firing an employee for telling colleagues not to pursue KPIs, there is not much you can do to continue placating these professional victims. They a
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
She is an authority on Ethics, being listed on the ICLR conference as part of the Ethics Review Committee: > Margaret Mitchell, Google Research and Machine Intelligence But I do think they can miss her, since there are already 8 people r
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
For me, semantic information is information which allows you to predict future world states, or remove uncertainty about current world states, while optimizing for your utility function. If your utility function is to remove all sense data,
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
Recent work in information theory has formalized the concept of semantic information, where Shannon deliberately avoided semantics, and focused purely on the information content. They define semantic information as: Information which helps
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
Israel has one of the best biowarfare offense and defense in the world. For them, Iran releasing a bioengineered pathogen is a legit threat. The El-Al flight that crashed in Amsterdam in 1992 was carrying materials to produce large quantiti
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
> The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. --- Dijkstra Better/faster we would not directly compare to humans, but to benchmarks and timed experiments. Le
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
Deflection may have been positive side-effect. Officially it is: > U.S. President Donald Trump Monday said his "Chinese virus" statement for weeks was a counter-propaganda strategy to fight Chinese allegations that American sol
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
> Anything to avoid admitting that a cop killed a black man in cold blood by kneeling on his neck for eight minutes, even after he said "I can't breathe" repeatedly. This shows how you view me. You judged me as a racism de
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
Would you agree or disagree with the statement that "accusing cops of intentional cold-blooded racist-motivated murder on the basis of his and his victim's skin color, without presumption of innocence, sourced from emotion, and wi
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
> We can also punish someone for discrimination simply for exhibiting a pattern of discrimination regardless of intent to discriminate. It is scary, right? "We can also punish" hides behind the "we", unclear if they m
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
He was dying from an OD, brutishly helped along by a poorly applied restraint move, held too long, because filming onlookers challenged the authority of the cop, and the cop was afraid to have to fight Big Floyd, before the ambulance arri
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
What lies? > Floyd was a career criminal unworthy of sainthood or role modeling. Floyd was arrested for a home invasion, where a 1-year-old baby was present, and he threatened a woman to tell her where the money and drugs was hidden, by
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
> Ms. Sawyerr said ... Of course she said that. Big bad company silenced her co-suiters with money, after their spy devision learned that she was bringing suit. Now she has no recourse to go court herself, she absolutely needed those fou
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
No edit, I just replied to you in my previous comment. Are you under the impression that Coinbase makes Work-From-Home decisions based on the skin-color of their employees? If yes (which it seems like to me), I'd like to learn more a
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
Take it to court then. Collect circumstantial evidence and allow for an objective ruling on discrimination and racism in the workplace. If the circumstantial he-said she-said is of any substance, you can prove your guilt. Don't do tria
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
That behavior (passing over an employee due to their skin color) is not only problematic, it is against the law. Did the editorial show that Coinbase is engaging in illegal discrimination practices? No, but they sure implied it. Would it be
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
Not in response to the rule, but to the media cycle that followed publication of the rule. I don't believe that in the editing room they went: "Next item. The Coinbase controversy. Let's do an objective investigation of this
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
It does not work that way (logically). Listing a 100 weak, baseless arguments is a debating tactic to confuse your opponents, not allowing them to address and debunk specifics (and if they still manage: "The lady doth protest too much,
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
The article was written as if the hook/angle for the article was created after the No-Politics-Policy, then filled in by contacting former and current employees. I don't think a report with "Coinbase gets lots of unfair flak,
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
> ignore that an exception was made for the single White employee Let's not ignore that this exception is being positioned as being based on skin color (racist motives), not job role, tenure, exceeding expectations, caregiving respo
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
> And that it is a complete and utter insult to people with actual social disabilities when he blames “being on the spectrum” for being bad at his job? That cuts both ways. Discrimination on neuro-diversity is also bad. > And that it
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
The blog post about leaving politics at the door was in response to the death of Floyd and some employees upset about their perceived "silence" of upper management, where more woke companies did speak up. So it's relevant and
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by 2-tpg 6y ago
You can aim for both. If you just aim for profit, then you can get lucky with just average, or even random, betting. If you find a weighted coinflip (which is not impossible), provided by how many times you can flip that coin, you will see

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