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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Not in any way to defend Dave, but I think it would have been wrong for him to publish specifics as that could cause further distress to the victims involved. But I strongly support them coming forward and telling their own stories. That h
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Partially. And partially over-the-top tone. But it's also got a very troubling incident of Altman publicly stating he's got "some interesting information" on Pando, implying of course that it's negative. Without bot
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
In this case it could simply be a sizable fraction of the value of the land. Apparently he values this strip of access at $30,000,000 so that's where the fine should be based. Hey, it's his measure of the value.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The first selection, the short story "Kin" by Bruce McAllister, is one of my favorites of recent years. It was a Hugo finalist story, and in a different life I tried to get a film version of it off the ground. The rights have long
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I bet Nimoy would never have been the voice of In Search Of... without having been Spock.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
It does. People migrated there when there was opportunity and migrated elsewhere when there were better opportunities elsewhere.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I think in the long run it won't matter. For the most part, the jobs they could get in the cities are starting to vanish as well. In 10-20 years, the cities will have it even worse at the lower economic end. People might as well stay w
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
You may consider it private, but that doesn't make it legally private. Which is the kind of privacy under discussion in this thread.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
You're also on the side of every political campaign in America. Collecting and/or modeling this information is standard practice in the industry.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Whether or not he's still a kingmaker, he's definitely someone I would talk to if I wanted to run for California governor. Dude's got that state politics knowledge.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Google Art Project, which makes the wallpaper for new tabs into a work of fine art from Google's library of museum scans. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-art-project...
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Hmmm. If this hypothesis held up, you'd want to factor it into the Drake Equation. Number of systems that didn't cross some threshold of intensity or frequency of arm crossing events that could cause mass extinctions often enoug
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The dataset as described in the paper linked below- "In the initial evaluation of our system, we use three voices; one English male and female (M1, F1), and one Spanish female (F2). The recordings consist of short sentences sung at a s
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
At this stage, it's still trained on the voices of individuals, making ownership of the songs a fairly straight-forward thing to negotiate and adjudicate in court if necessary. But what if it was trained on a dozen top pop stars? A hun
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Why does the final example in figure 14 fail completely? The outputs are correct as far as they go, but they're all incomplete. Is it because the scoring metric has a point where enough of a good start outscores an alternative in the b
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What the Heck Are These Electronic Devices in Trump’s Situation Room?(warisboring.com)
30 points by Gargoyle 10y ago|1 comments
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
True. But when I was reading the Techcrunch reports on these last Demo Days, every time I read one of the batch had some dozen or two customers I couldn't stop thinking "How many of those are just other YC companies?" In othe
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Well, more the National Guard that's literally the same people as the armed rednecks in rural Texas. Keep in mind the National Guard are the "weekend warriors", only now many of them have months/years in actual combat zo
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Quick guide to asking Cambridge Analytica for your data(medium.com)
2 points by Gargoyle 10y ago|0 comments
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I need to make a bot that automates the posting of this type of response every time the subject of automation comes up. Imagine the labor savings!
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
That same article starts with "Before I start, let me say as clearly as possible that I agree with the scientific consensus on climate change. If science says something is true – according to most scientists, and consistent with the sc
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Can you link to where he says climate scientists are delusional? I've only recently looked at his blog, but what I've seen him say on the topic has been this- 1. He doesn't have the training to evaluate climate science, so he
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
In my memory of the internet becoming a thing in the early 90s, there was an intense fight over the commercialization of it. There was a group that really didn't want it to support money-making enterprises. Even at the time it seemed l
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
The next form factor is pervasive computing, of which Alexa and Google Home are the first stumbling attempts.
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Supreme Court rules uniform design elements can be copyrighted(reuters.com)
1 points by Gargoyle 10y ago|0 comments
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
And coincidentally building a portfolio with lots of stock grants at more than one of our coming AI overlords. Not a bad plan for the future!
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I'm not sure I personally see much difference. In both cases, the hosting corporation is reproducing a pirated file. One does so physically and one does so on an electronic screen, but both processes are automated piracy.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I'll be a believer when it can handle a Thomas Crown scenario - multiple people in the same outfit crisscrossing around each other. While a bowler hat flashmob is unlikely, a group of similar dark jackets etc isn't.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Can anyone think of an attack this would prevent? Anything a pad (or even a laptop) could do could be done by a phone, at least hackingwise or whatever. So something with the physical aspect. A jammer of some sort? A way to intentionally
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Sure, they'll keep that going as long as they can. The point is, though, that narrative is slipping away from them. They need to make a convincing case that it's real, and do so soon.

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