JamilD

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by JamilD 7y ago
> I'm sure Uber engineering are tackling tough technical problems They definitely are, but I think the point is that those technical problems aren’t core to the service. The value that Uber provides to you is a platform for independ
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by JamilD 7y ago
For tourism and appeal for businesses it can have a clear ROI; both of those are important for Hong Kong.
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by JamilD 7y ago
Not just technology, but the landscape of our cities too; suburbia, car culture, skyscrapers in the urban core; there haven’t really been radical transformations there either.
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India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped(nytimes.com)
237 points by JamilD 7y ago|205 comments
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by JamilD 7y ago
Their business model is interesting: > The difference is that Walmart won't require a monthly subscription to access these shows, but will instead generate money through "new advertising technology." This is described as &
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Walmart Bets on Original Streaming Content(bloomberg.com)
5 points by JamilD 7y ago|1 comments
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by JamilD 7y ago
The article implies so: > They quarantined Chinatown, preventing any movement of food in, or of its inhabitants — many of them cleaners, cooks and labourers — out. […] Outside Chinatown, the middle-class white population was outraged by
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by JamilD 7y ago
Not exclusively. There has been a lot of conversation about ending “chain migration”, which is legal migration based on family connections, as well as eliminating the diversity visa. Today’s immigration talks do center around illegal immigr
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by JamilD 8y ago
Exactly. The main downside to plastic bags is not the carbon emissions or landfill contributions, it’s just what the OP said: ocean plastic and street litter. Each factor isn’t equally weighted.
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by JamilD 8y ago
Ornamental features are not obsolete. Many animals are selected for their ornamental features, which may act as heuristics for fitness (both for the opposite sex in reproduction and for the same sex in combat/competitiveness). I know n
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by JamilD 8y ago
> Ever since Neolithic times, people have kept the average time spent per day for travel the same, even though the distance may increase due to the advancements in the means of transportation. I wonder how they deduced this. There isn’t
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by JamilD 8y ago
Or the extinction of the California grizzly within 75 years of gold being discovered. It’s a common pattern — maybe the issue isn’t with the game…
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by JamilD 8y ago
When does the author claim this? He says the probability could potentially rise, and doesn’t make any claim as to the actual value of that probability. Just that it could increase instead of decrease due to some factors others haven’t con
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by JamilD 8y ago
Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
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by JamilD 8y ago
In Waymo’s most recently reported month, November 2017, they reported over 30,000 miles driven with only a single disengagement. It’s hard to dispute that they’re years ahead of the competition at this point.
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by JamilD 8y ago
I get way more time in parks and nature in San Francisco than I did when living in suburban North San Jose or Sunnyvale. The suburbs were asphalt nightmares with few trees and no parks within walking distance. In SF I can easily get lost in
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A visualization of what Tesla Autopilot can see and interpret(electrek.co)
2 points by JamilD 8y ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 8y ago
MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM) YouTube channel is a gold mine of interesting videos at the intersection of ML, neuroscience, and cognitive science. It’s definitely worth checking out.
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by JamilD 8y ago
> It is an approach that has proven to be surprisingly effective. According to a study by researchers at the University of Tokyo published in the Journal of Affective Disorders in 2013, data analyzed over a 10-year period shows an 84 per
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China’s Social Credit System: An Evolving Practice of Control(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by JamilD 8y ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 9y ago
The Milpitas and Berryessa stations are being built by VTA, not BART like Warm Springs. They're already ahead of schedule and under budget; the original timeline was for them to open in Spring 2018.
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Ontario to launch universal basic income pilot in three cities this summer(theguardian.com)
2 points by JamilD 9y ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 9y ago
The challenges of "messy politics" and rigid habits of existing carbon emitters pale in comparison to reactive solutions. For example, it'd be far, far cheaper to forcibly take over the world and shut down every carbon emitti
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by JamilD 9y ago
Patrick Winston is a great lecturer -- and it's worth it to do the whole 6.034 course if you have the time. A lot of the topics he goes over are considered "out of style" now, but sometimes old-school AI algorithms find their
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by JamilD 9y ago
The analogy is (of course) imperfect. There's an element of risk and stochasticity in climbing the hill; you might fail, or you might realize you're actually doing the wrong thing. If you stay at the bank, or at a nice job, you&#x
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How Technology Has Failed to Improve Your Airline Experience(nytimes.com)
2 points by JamilD 9y ago|0 comments
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Learning from Demonstrations for Real World Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)
3 points by JamilD 9y ago|0 comments
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The linguistic backflips used by Deliveroo(boingboing.net)
2 points by JamilD 10y ago|0 comments
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Another Uber executive implicated in Waymo self-driving car suit(cnet.com)
1 points by JamilD 10y ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 10y ago
Regardless of what you think of Uber, it seems like a no-brainer for small towns to subsidize distributed, on-demand shuttles rather than run a public transit system. We need to see more suburbs do things like this for last-mile transit too

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