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by Cynddl 9y ago
Has anyone here recommendations for research papers on how advertisement works in practice? And how it affects different people? While the argument used in the article (“you've seen it a lot = you'll buy it”) seems reasonable, it
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Uber's differential privacy… probably isn't(github.com)
3 points by Cynddl 9y ago|0 comments
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by Cynddl 9y ago
I found biking in London much easier than in many large European cities, especially since a large fraction of drivers keep enough space on the left for bikers to pass, making commute fast even in heavy traffic. In France or Belgium on the c
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by Cynddl 9y ago
Same in France. I've never bought a single textbook, as we either had to take notes during classes, or study documents printed by professors for us. Many professors would actually either write handouts notes, or ask student at some poi
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by Cynddl 9y ago
I don't understand the article. They explain than going in and out of the airport is burdersome, and that taking the Eurostar from London to Amsterdam is a much better experience, except for the change in Brussels A London to Amsterdam
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by Cynddl 9y ago
> The simple fact is, if you drink untreated water, you’re taking on a non-negligible amount of risk. I wonder how much the propensity for American backpackers to filter water comes from the actual risk faced while drinking water in US r
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by Cynddl 9y ago
It can actually be considered as a form of harassement or defamation. While it might be a gray area in the US, it is likely not going to be the same in Europe.
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by Cynddl 9y ago
If you were expecting anything more than Google trying to k-anonymize your datasets, you will be disappointed. “K-anonymity was born out of a desire both to quantify the re-identifiability of a dataset, and to balance the usefulness of de-
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by Cynddl 9y ago
The deletion page she refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio... Seems like a reasonable debate.
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by Cynddl 9y ago
I still find that Louvain-la-Neuve have failed to build a city for cyclists, but I can't pinpoint exactly why. There are very few people who bike there, almost zero bike parkings despite being a car-free city. The city is small but sti
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KDE Plasma 5: The Silent Revolution(datamation.com)
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by Cynddl 9y ago
> Our computations show that trapdoored primes are entirely feasible with current computing technology. Can anyone explain to me what is the risk with such trapdoored primes? Thanks!
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by Cynddl 9y ago
Despite the title, the article raises an interesting point: why do we prefer new code, with less features, to old but robust projects. > Unfortunately, we were affected by cognitive bias: old code is bad code. But the truth can be the o
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by Cynddl 9y ago
There is also pyinfra [1], which provides the same sort of features for both local and remote devices, yet designed for consistent deployments and state diffing. [1] https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra
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Negative News (2015)(jefftk.com)
1 points by Cynddl 10y ago|0 comments
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Hope from Paris(nytimes.com)
1 points by Cynddl 11y ago|0 comments
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Enigma – secure data and protect privacy without compromising functionality(enigma.media.mit.edu)
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by Cynddl 11y ago
I'm not sure when the website was built, but it seems relevant to share it. The content is well presented and their FAQ section really clear, amazing job!
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NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming(climate.nasa.gov)
2 points by Cynddl 11y ago|1 comments
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Streamtools: a graphical toolkit for working with streams of data(blog.nytlabs.com)
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by Cynddl 11y ago
That's a interesting study about strong and weak ties on Facebook. I wonder if the result apply (or not) for other social networks, and what is the impact of recommendation algorithms on our own information retrieval.
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Exposure to Diverse Information on Facebook(research.facebook.com)
7 points by Cynddl 11y ago|1 comments
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Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think(scientificamerican.com)
160 points by Cynddl 12y ago|180 comments
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by Cynddl 12y ago
Thanks!
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by Cynddl 12y ago
Posted six months ago on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8525237 . > We will soon release the implementations for these algorithms described. I would like to see them now.
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Fast Randomized SVD (2014)(research.facebook.com)
54 points by Cynddl 12y ago|9 comments
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by Cynddl 12y ago
> Improbable was started three years ago […] That sounds like a wonderful project. Alas, not a lot of details on their website/blog. I found this talk on their Facebook page: https://youtu.be/1fpaoKLxSE4
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Towards practicing differential privacy(blog.mrtz.org)
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by Cynddl 12y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9184479 from two days ago for more context.
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Towards practicing differential privacy(blog.mrtz.org)
7 points by Cynddl 12y ago|2 comments

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