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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Wonder how their surveillance infrastructure works. Do they duplicate all data and pipe it into some government datacenter? Or do they have some surveillance boxes installed on-site that just scan the data for certain keywords (like the NSA
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
That statement doesn't preclude some political activity if you consider it to be something that you can actually "impact and improve", in the author's words. Of course I can only speculate about the author's origina
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
How is bitcoin a good model for humanity? If anything, it strives to do away with the little trust there is left in society and replace it with an antagonistic system where everyone is out to sabotage their peers, only being held back by a
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Not that I would strive for it myself, but I think at least it was honest that the job posting was upfront about the requirements instead of being silent about it and then peer-pressuring the employee into 70 hour work weeks anyway because
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Were there no patent problems? I'm glad about it, of course, but it just somewhat surprised me that so many companies can use the same basic principle and there didn't seem to be too much hassle with people suing each other. Then
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Another angle of criticism would be that solving the Byzantine generals problem with the threat model that cryptocurrencies target (i.e. anyone can join and leave the network somewhat anonymously at any time) is simply not necessary in the
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Doesn't seem like Youtube was particularly good at copying established business models in the past (streaming, video on demand, etc.). But you knows, at least for the video-producing crowd (what fraction of Patreon users is that even?)
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Well, they include an error metric in the paper - basically average vertex distance of predicted face and actual face model (in interocular distance units). They seem to show that they are much better than state of the art with respect to t
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
It always surprises me that those intelligence agencies obviously think this is worth it, considering they certainly must be aware of all the potential drawbacks that occur when you fuel war and instability like that. They must operate with
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Very interesting result, somewhat encouraging to me, because it seems to cautiously indicate that you can actually do something about those echo chambers that may start as jokes but then actively normalize hate and discrimination, possibly
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Though the authors clarified that only the hate speech specific to the banned subreddits has disappeared. I think that's still a strong result, but maybe the users might have gone on to spread hate about different topics. (I think that
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Isn't this a result you should immediately be skeptical of because the results are so significant? I mean, the idea that you can detect sexual orientation from facial images seems somewhat plausible, but no way I would immediately buy
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Are they still using microarrays? Curious how far those can get you these days. Enough to detect common SNPs, but there's such a wide variety of other important genomic regulators that require whole genome sequencing to detect. I guess
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
They can force Facebook etc. to hand over the data anyway, so it does not seem like much would change in terms of the threat posed by governments.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Numpy is such an essential library for any type of scientific computing in Python that ignoring it would be missing the point, if anything. The library infrastructure is part of the appeal of a programming language and Numpy is the default
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Seems hard to judge which of his statements are caused by his condition and which by him just being a vocal and opinionated person in general - but I guess that's a point in his favor because if that distinction is hard to make, it&#x2
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
And is it a bad thing to let him know it is offensive? If he can't comprehend it naturally, maybe he can at least learn. I guess you could make a case that people who are diagnosed to lie on the autistic spectrum should get a bit more
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Is the hypothesis that seems important for the article - that civilization was mostly advanced by lone neurodiverse geniuses - actually true? Sounds dubious, but who knows. At least modern science seems to be a very collaborative affair. Wa
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I know programming within the constraints of mobile devices isn't easy and I want to take nothing away from the release, but when you are still used to Desktop computing it's kind of funny to see how seemingly trivial nice to have
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
>Subsequently she fired Victoria Taylor, an incredibly popular moderator at /r/ama. She didn't. Alexis Ohanian did: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/details-emerge-abo... She actual
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
You can defend her if you can resist your urge to praise Hitler and deny the Holocaust yourself in court. Again, that's all transparent and clearly defined in German law, so it literally had nothing to do with the original slippery slo
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I have nothing to say really about your first point where you do nothing but speculate about police motives, but the second one doesn't prove anything either. The second case is not a slippery slope because it does precisely what'
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Many European countries (like Germany etc.) have operated with free speech restrictions since the end of WW2 and the slippery slope that is always brought up never materialized. Slippery slope arguments are only valid if you believe that yo
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I wonder what the input for the bot was. Just a screengrab like in other reinforcement learning examples (like Pong or GTA etc.) or did they use some Dota API to make their lives a bit more easy? Impressive nonetheless, like others said, kn
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Seems like a pedantic article, but I liked his remark that the 'effectively constant' argument can of course be extended to any algorithm where the input size is bounded and therefore, shouldn't really be used to describe you
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
>Musk has been able to take two or three other previously considered impossible tasks and bring them to completion Such as? SpaceX and their reusable rockets might be the closest thing I guess. Tesla and his solar company use pretty conv
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
>You could have made the same arguments about smartphones 10 years ago That true, but the lesson from that is that no criticism of speculative sci-fi projects is allowed anymore or what? Besides, smartphones didn't come from nothing
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
>The primary problem to solve is discrimination against non-engineered people. You can't be naive enough to think that this problem wouldn't occur. On the contrary, if genetic engineering on such a level was realized (which wou
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Extreme libertarian views like yours have been rejected almost everywhere in the world. Maybe it's your opinion that allowing scammers to manipulate people is their basic right, but no one seems to share that sentiment.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Musk maybe oversells the state of AI a bit when he says it's potentially an existential threat to mankind - but on the other hand, the advances of the recent years alone are enough to disrupt the daily lives of almost everyone. In that

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