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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
Great comment indeed. The number of universities that have created MS in Analytics or Data Science programs and the number of students that have enrolled in them over the last few years is staggering and IMO unsustainable. The quality of
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
I've often wondered the same thing. What if the entire universe is finite, but something like 1^(enormously large number) times larger than the observable universe? We could be this tiny speck of a backwater that's completely un
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
As a consultant myself (not Accenture) I chuckled over the difference in titles between the two articles - "digital transformation" vs "website redesign".
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
>>>Immutable here means no in-place update, you have to update using an "errata" record. Yes, and people have been building financial systems with relational databases using this journaling principle (updates and deletes
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
>"immutable, distributed, cryptographically-verified database" >Byzantine fault tolerance, public consensus, and mining Why would I want ANY of these things associated with the system that manages my medical records? I don&#
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
My understanding is that the doubling in life expectancy over the last 150-200 years was primarily due to the drastic reduction in infant mortality and elimination of most infectious diseases. If you only look at life expectancy from the p
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
Who is downvoting this? >Peak UX usability was native UIs in the 1990s and early 2000s So much this. Give me Win2K and Office2K style applications - multiple tiled or overlapping windows, modeless views, regular menus and toolbars, cont
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
Good. Focus on the use cases that actually work, namely a chatbot for handling customer service questions and an enterprise search engine.
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
>The crazy wages that tech companies pay aren't a data point? One of my co-op student got offered a position in the States with starting salary north of $120k Why is $120K a "crazy wage"? Perhaps labor in general, and par
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
Response to IBM's strategy re: the Red Hat acquisition?
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
>To me, the main mistake was the series of commercials giving the strong impression that IBM already had this incredible Artificial General Intelligence 100% correct. Had IBM marketed Watson for what it actually is - an enterprise versi
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
> See, that exact example is why I look askew at a lot of the field of 'AI ethics' The main focus of "AI ethics" needs to be on model bias and how to counter it through transparency and governance. More and more deci
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
>I would trust an ai ethicist with a PhD in philosophy or ethics of their ideas were coherent. Tech backgrounds are not necessarily required. I agree, it doesn't require technical AI skills but I would expect a person in this positi
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
It seems to me that Approval Voting might have the unintended negative consequence of electing a joke candidate, since you do not rank your choices nor are you limited to how many you can choose. Unfortunately, many voters would not give a
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
His concept of AI seems to be more AGI in the sense of abstract reasoning and creative problem solving applied to problems in one domain where the AI can then accumulate the lessons learned and apply them to another domain. As opposed to t
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
I think he's trying to make the argument that AI need not be limited to automating tasks that directly replace human jobs but can also augment human labor in a way that enables people to do new things that couldn't previously be i
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
>An amazon button next to the grinder. Amazon just announced, a little over a week ago, that they are killing the Dash buttons. As part of the announcement, they said they believe that the whole concept has outlived it's usefulness
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
>very common trope about razor blades in Halloween candy. You just brought back childhood memories of having to eat smooshed candy bars after my mom got done checking them for razor blades and needles. Every. Single. Halloween.
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
>refuses to recognize that market failure is a thing So much this. I call it "Econ 101 Syndrome". My undergrad was in Economics, and the amount of damage that has been done by requiring Business majors (and others) to take Ec
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
It's another example of the FAANG + Bay Area Startups world versus the other 99% of Corporate America. In the latter world, most of the "machine learning" in production is traditional stuff like Random Forest, SVM, and more
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
I don't know if I necessarily want Gopher back, but I often dream of returning to the days when "the Internet" was primarily Usenet, IRC, Telnet, and email.
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
20+ year technology consultant here. I have done work for dozens of clients across just about every major industry out there. The number of (relatively well paid) people I've seen at clients in this neverland between Business and IT
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by DebtDeflation 8y ago
> Yeah I don't know about that. At best they are starting to incorporate deep learning into Watson. I'm guessing Watson has always been a rules engine and more specifically one designed with a lot of statistical analysis. There