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"Everybody lies." ~ Gregory House "Talk is cheap; show me the code." ~ Linus Torvalds "To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program." ~ Alan Perlis
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Here's the secret sauce: "Using machine learning, the algorithm serves videos to users based on their proximity to other clusters of users and content that they like." It's impressive how they arranged to be transparent
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We're looking for one of: * Defunding. There was a moderate budget cut already, but we want more, and we want the city to not just remove budget from PPB but actually put money into social welfare programs. * Non-violence. The city cou
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Sure. Do you want to explain why you believe that we need more police? Right now our nation is in the middle of a massive consideration: Maybe we have had too many police. This comes on the heels of police evolving from slave patrols [0],
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I live in Portland. This legislation is an obvious no-brainer; we've known since Philip K. Dick that this sort of technology is primarily meant to harm and control the populace. As a nice side benefit, the sort of neoliberal surveillan
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Yes. I suppose my sarcasm didn't come through very well. To paraphrase a popular meme, Plato is only known to us today via his wrestling nickname. His opinion on leadership was that a philosopher-king, somebody both thoughtful and powe
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Right, we need a tough-guy philosopher-king who wrestles his opponents into submission.
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This sounds like apologia from a big closed publisher (AAAS) explaining why open-access is supposedly bad. See, sometimes open-access journals fold, and when that happens, nobody knows what happens to the articles. But they'd like you
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I am reminded of two curious statements which are not normally linked: (0) There could be a Siegel zero [0], like an "indentation" in the Riemann zeta function. The prime numbers need to all collaborate to "shift" the ze
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Jacob Geller had interesting commentary along these same lines last week [0]. In some ways, a walkthrough is an extremely detailed first-person critique: Exploring the game with the walkthrough as a guide, the author highlights each element
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This article is both too long and also, by virtue of being a linkfarm, too short. Let's try something simpler: All software metrics eventually fail to indicate useful directions for progress, by Goodhart's Law [0]. A corollary is
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Today I learned something. Thank you for posting this. (Sometimes upvotes aren't nuanced enough.)
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True fairness is justice: Everybody involved agrees that everybody involved has the best possible material outcome for themselves, even under permutations of perspective. Concretely, imagine some judge Judy who is judging some dispute betwe
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You're meant to pick up the history as you learn the techniques. You're supposed to learn about Galois when you study groups, Cardano when studying complex numbers, etc. We explicitly invoke the names of mathematicians not to try
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I agree with your direction, but have qualms with your points. Suppose for absurdity I replay my original argument, but with humans, and you reply "that doesn't mean humans are conscious; it means that the things which are housed
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The fact is that our democracies are not equipped to repel torturers and tyrants. The mainstream media, oriented as it is around broadcasting without nuance, has no way to reflectively consider itself. And the consequences are stark. We put
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The bad news is that even the easiest versions of the problem are intractable. The good news is that it can be explained to kids using basic concepts [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting
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Interestingly, all of the definitions are a little short of true equality, true equity, true fairness of outcomes, etc. since they only take one POV into account. For a precise example, they give causal discrimination for a classifier based
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This seems like a reasonable next step after considering the failure of Totoni's IIT. IIT has the "problem" that a diode is a little conscious; the authors embrace and extend this "problematic" viewpoint to cover th
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Do we? I also think that police officers must live in their precinct. No Portland cop should live in Vancouver. I also think that legislators are obligated to do their job. No Oregon legislator should live in Idaho. I also think that you, b
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We favor legal immigration. Have your papers in order, be able to speak coherently and talk to people, and be useful to society. We aren't fond of random fascists coming in from across the Washington-Oregon border, let alone driving in
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Which buildings have been burned, exactly? Local reporting covered the Molotov cocktails last night [0] but did not indicate that any buildings were being burned down or even caught on fire. Portlanders continue to note that most of the cit
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This is a fresh look at one of the nastiest software engineering disasters ever. While it was not the deadliest nor the most harmful, it is a great case for examining what we desire when we ask for our computers to be correctly programmed.
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A Brief History Of: The Therac-25 (Short Documentary)(youtube.com)
1 points by Kednicma 6y ago|1 comments
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Jaynes should have known about the Kochen-Specker theorem [0][1]. I imagine that he thought it was, since it came along with Bell's theorem, simply a corollary or remark. But I think he was wrong to be so confident in the ontic nature
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Why Your Favorite Musicians Are Broke [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Kednicma 6y ago|0 comments
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What is the nature of respect, exactly? It sounds like "respect" boils down to being polite and considerate, not actually being forced to examine and see the world through another person's perspective.
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When people post podcasts here, as in [0] recently, then we have discussions. However, consider that podcasters don't want your questions, typically; the folks that do want questions will publish a phone number or email address allow
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Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice(acoup.blog)
111 points by Kednicma 6y ago|53 comments
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Rust, Zig, IPv6 in Linux, Wayland, EGL, PulseAudio, PipeWire, and of course BusyBox. Compare and contrast with the fact that the banking industry is still searching for COBOL maintainers.

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