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Implication of Big Data for Insurance [pdf](genevaassociation.org)
3 points by BeniBoy 8y ago|0 comments
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
It's not mine either, but I know where this kind of rhetoric comes from. I don't mean to belittle his work. But his point would come across much clearly without the last few slides. Let's not make this an idealogical issue!
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
This is an unfair description of the content. Some good points, interesting statistics, but some of the slide would belong more in some obscure subreddit than in a scientific conference. "I said Thoughtcrime according to Minister of Tr
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
Well it felt that way, and it seems like a show of good reputation. But I would be really happy to learn from more trustful sources! Care to share some or your experience?
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
For foreigners (like me) this episode of last week tonight[1] is quite useful to understand the role and possible abuses of prosecutors. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_b78GSBUs
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
I feel the same way. How do you function as an engineer in a world with too much stuff. The most useful thing I can do is not to add to the pile of useless gizmo we covered the world with. A bit over the top I know, but this is seriously im
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
It is sometimes even worse than that. My girlfriend used to work at a gouvernement service which specialised in "social media surveillance". Her job was basically to screenshot outrage reaction from random people on tweeter and se
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
Here are the numbers[1]. TLDR: Wind onshore emits a pinch less than nuclear (11 vs 12 gCO2eq/kWh) but far from the 820 gCO2eq/kWh of Coal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_emis...
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Bicycle Technology (1973) [pdf](veterancycleclublibrary.org.uk)
60 points by BeniBoy 8y ago|31 comments
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
It seems reckless to get your life advice from the richest person in the world without taking survivorship bias into account[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
Do chmod+x browsh_1.2.3_darwin_amd64 and then run it ./browsh_1.2.3_darwin_amd64
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India to Intensify Scrutiny of Citizens' Social Media, Emails(bloomberg.com)
2 points by BeniBoy 8y ago|0 comments
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The Other Side of Mechanical Turk(wired.com)
4 points by BeniBoy 8y ago|0 comments
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An Optical Digital Sundial(hineslab.com)
1 points by BeniBoy 8y ago|0 comments
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by BeniBoy 9y ago
I guess because the algorithm has been trained on 50% straight 50% gay and the 80% figure is actually for telling appart a pair of straight and gay persons, it will say gay half the time.. But this is confusing you are right. The explanatio
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by BeniBoy 9y ago
Look here [1] Very good explanation (though the op's one are too) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
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by BeniBoy 9y ago
This is the classic "false positive paradox"[1]. Commonly present in medical testing. Even if false positive rate is very low, if the positive value is very low too, the likelihood of being victim of false can be high. The exemple
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by BeniBoy 9y ago
Well, I am not sure this is the case.. The metric seems to be the ability to tell apart pairs of straight and gay people. >Among men, the classification accuracy equaled AUC = .81 when provided with one image per person. This means that
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by BeniBoy 9y ago
Indeed you can, from a disposable camera flash circuit[1]! Though I concur, might be used for evil purposes, couldn't resist posting this. I just love disposable cameras hacks. [1]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/20
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Using Deep Learning to Predict Lottery Numbers [pdf](crest.fr)
3 points by BeniBoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by BeniBoy 10y ago
Great build! Guess this is a pretty common need! My take based on a priority sign: https://github.com/Seed-Up/BusSign
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by BeniBoy 10y ago
My father encountered one of these voodoo issues once. He works in satellite images processing. Basically uses Spot data to analyse ground vegetation coverage. One day while processing a batch, he noticed one parcel was giving the most awkw
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Politecho – analyse your bubble bias(politecho.org)
4 points by BeniBoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by BeniBoy 10y ago
While this is strictly speaking true, considering todays fast bandwidth, I don't think this is that big an issue. I am using webTorrent's desktop torrent client which has a streaming mode and usually this goes like this: download
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by BeniBoy 10y ago
I kind of did that... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27pN25DA5TU
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by BeniBoy 10y ago
Actually this could be true. I had an assignment in our security class to investigate this[0] and it turned out three out of three printer tested used this! Made a little processing program to facilitate the detection[1]. Quite shocked to s