Eridrus

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by Eridrus 8y ago
I read "The New Jim Crow" yesterday. A lot of it is familiar, but the sheer scale of how many black men are incarcerated was eye opening. The extent that we discriminate against released criminals was also eye opening, even if som
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Not sure if thermal pump is really the right term, but I meant Dandelion.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Waymo has a good shot at being huge.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
There's a salt battery project in X. Makani is also in X. There's a thermal pump company that graduated from X last year. There's also a team at Google working on Fusion research. Probably more I don't know too.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Was it? The numbers Look posted didn't seem super impressive given the number of people on the island. They also said nothing about reliability. I want to like Loon, but don't have much data to really go on.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Oh I know, I spent a decade in Security and work in ML now, and I can see how badly people want to put the two together, but it's basically 90% bullshit and 10% same old shit of varying effectiveness.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I am skeptical of anomaly detection since in my experience anomalies are common and diverse and don't actually matter, so I expect these systems to basically inundate people with false positives. Their offline training accuracy is garb
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> contribute public funding towards the private investment goals Is this actually happening, or is this just speculation?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, these terms are horrible for low wage workers, but these are also bad for tech workers. Does anyone know any any groups in NY agitating to ban these terms for all workers? I would be quite interested in participating in such a group. Bo
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by Eridrus 8y ago
But in the real world, should there be account recovery, or wide spread password reuse where hacking random sites gets people's passwords to more important sites.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, on one hand, I agree, password managers/FIDO should basically be part of every OS/browser and tech companies should come together to make it all interop seamlessly for the good of society. On the other hand, the biggest barrie
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Does anyone have an estimate on how these scandals would have effected down stream climate/particulate modelling? (I'm not totally sure what emissions were lowered)
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think this says more about top end compensation, rather than startup compensation. The effect is going to be top end employees not really being early employees at startups, but that's not necessarily bad.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Despite equity being worth nothing, that doesn't mean that employees are all fucked. If the company is actually buying the company for the capability they provide, rather than just customers+brand, there are usually generous offers at
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, does this course actually work at instilling critical thinking in students, outside the narrow classroom setting? Does this effect persist over the long term? Is it better or worse to teach this in the context of composition, or somethi
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by Eridrus 8y ago
As the other commenter said, once you're paying for the appeals, it's probably not abuse, and you can get better service because it's not coming out of the other party's bottom line. If it really costs Google $50-100 per
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by Eridrus 8y ago
But are they actually teaching critical thinking successfully? And why would you need to wait until college for those effects to show up? The humanities classes are taught throughout regular schooling.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Is there actually good evidence on the value of a "well-rounded education"? But in any case, I don't think shoe-horning general education into what is basically jobs training is the right approach. We put kids through 12 year
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I wonder how publishers would feel if they were charged for the cost of appeals.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Do you mean their Deep RL Bootcamp? I haven't been, but it would probably be interesting, and you'd probably meet some interesting people, but Reinforcement Learning in general hasn't really shown a lot of success in industry
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by Eridrus 8y ago
As others have said, the protocols are kind of crap, but it sounds like your concern is more about account takeover through customer service. Maybe Project Fi? I don't know that they're better, but Google takes security pretty ser
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It's odd to compare the top end of a few top-end job postings to the median salary in another location. I would guess that the folks accepting 140k salaries in SF are either really hopeful about their equity, or are just not the people
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think it's a really tough problem, and maintaining all the capability in house may not be the right move, but there must be some in house capability to use for prototyping and technical decision making, otherwise your procurement get
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't know what's up with Uber, and why they crashed into any object in the middle of a freeway with no other cars nearby, but Deep Learning is part of everyone's systems, including Waymo. Terrain analysis is great, for sta
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Beyond just incumbents - this would favor whatever the party favors, since it still let's you pack and crack anti-establishment forces in your primaries. Though I think primaries are a real cause of our polarisation.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think partisanship can explain a bit of these failures. People defend or attack the implementations of ideas based on their ideology, rather than implementation. If you like unions you basically don't want to admit they have problems
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by Eridrus 8y ago
As the sibling comment says, there is work on this, but the key question becomes "how do you define novelty?" You could say new rooms are novel, but this is basically just the engineering approach of defining a new reward, and isn
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This should be completely unsurprising; the implementation of rules/laws is always imperfect, even before you get into the challenges of doing this at the scale of internet advertising.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The thing that always annoys me about these articles is that they frame these "costs" as money the government would otherwise have, if they hadn't given it to these greedy companies. It depends on exactly how the deals are st
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I'm a big fan of the MOOC, even though it didn't explicitly cover it, it basically explained what people mean when they say "we don't know why neural nets work", which is that our previous generalization bounds woul

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