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by _0ffh 7y ago
No, companies need to take responsibility for what they sell, and how. Also, unfortunately, when I hear "The algorithms pushing content online have profound impacts on what we believe" I can't help but also hear "so we m
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by _0ffh 7y ago
>because they're statistically less healthy than those who never drink Um, that claim is not even supported by the evidence. Several studies have found health benefits of moderate alcohol use over teetotalling. Heavy drinkers OTOH d
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Sounds like what typically happens to companies that get too big. It's just a question of sooner or later, IMO. Google has become part of the megacorp establishment and finds itself besides IBM, Microsoft and Apple. It's dead, Jim
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by _0ffh 7y ago
The purview of "could have been" is that of the imagination, i.e. fiction. Nobody knows what would, or even could have been, one can only surmise. I submit that in this sense those "hints" are, in fact, science fiction.
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Given that the "Platform" document was written with anarchists in mind as the target group, maybe the authors just took it for granted? It seems to be more about strategy and tactics than about ideological basics. Which makes sens
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Funnily enough, there's also a completely different book by the very same name, written by a German sleep researcher. And this one's actually really good (imo). [1] [1] https://service.randomhouse.de/paperback&#x2F
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by _0ffh 7y ago
I'd say it stands to reason that in these quotes the word "democracy" is used as a stand in for "(centralised) representative democracy".
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by _0ffh 7y ago
I think Anarchism is ultimately but radical direct democracy with strong emphathis on the principle of subsidiarity. A paraphrase of a bit from the Makhno article on Wikipedia: """ The first Congress of the Confederation of A
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by _0ffh 7y ago
In case you're interested, here's an interview with Chuck on the Amp Hour podcast (2015). https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch...
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by _0ffh 7y ago
I'd like to point out that these "bullshit stories" are not necessarily lies. They could just be the post hoc rationalisation of hunches.
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>if I try to find concrete evidence that someone has done the work, there is no evidence that anyone actually has Unfortunately, the fact that negative results tend to get little if any publicity works against you here. And it's pro
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I think the true question is how you decide if an algorithm is actually biased or not. At a first shot I would suggest something like this: Divide some otherwise randomly sampled testing data into two sets, depending on the characteristic i
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Yup, I've seen on the graph it looks like at least an order of magnitude more training time until it starts to get interesting. Obviously this is only one example, so that factor might vary mightily. It might be an option for someone w
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Wow, that implies that given a large enough model, early stopping is actually a mistake! Who’d a thunk it?
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Wouldn't Lisp count for the top-down approach? Only that most of the thinking was done without thought spent on an actual implementation, and the actual implementation was done by different people who recognised the practicality of it?
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Oh, if I even had an assigned administrator! Fifteen years ago, there was indeed an "in situ" administrator for the department. Five years ago, I could at least still find a couple of that ever farther removed breed of man in a ro
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Oh thank god I'm not alone in thinking that this is a horrible way to design a "feature"! I've had very similar experiences as you. Every automatic "correction" of user input needs to at least be clearly indica
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by _0ffh 7y ago
That's some insidious auto-incorrecting there! I actually hate all auto-"correction" features with a passion. After every Office update at work I have to go into the Outlook settings and manually disable all of that crap, but
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Looking at these numbers, UK has also been stagnating since ca 2005. Comparing between 1980 and 2015, both had about the same growth in GDP per capita, and about the same absolute numbers. Only Japan did the bulk of it's growing earlie
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by _0ffh 7y ago
IIRC I read that for an outside observer everything that is sucked into a black hole does never actually pass "into" it. The closer it gets to the event horizon, the slower it's clock runs (from an outside perspective), and g
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by _0ffh 7y ago
We're getting there. I have the feeling more an more people subscribe to the hunch that combining symbolic (GOFAI) with subsymbolic (PDP/NN) techniques is the way forward. Research is going on, an example is the Neuro-Symbolic Con
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Looks very much like the ones we also eat where I live. Like baked with herbs and butter, although that variation is probably of French origin. We call them vineyard snails, and we've got a lot of vineyards here! ;-) Now I feel like ea
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Yearly reminder that there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. It is the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences", established in 1968, to coattail on the prestige of the original. Edit: Your DVs don't change the facts.
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Personally, I use the numpad to navigate source code and other text files. I very rarely use the mouse under those circumstances. So this very much depends on our personal style and use cases.
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No, that does not necessitate transactions to be public, just provable (and, arguably, legal).
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by _0ffh 7y ago
>Other illustrations appear in this old poem I'm pretty sure I read sentences very much like these in a translation of some historical Chinese Daoist text. Edit: Yup, it was Lao-Tse's "Dao De Jing".
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This here to emphasise parent
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Sounds like a habituation result, nothing surprising, but still possibly significant.
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by _0ffh 7y ago
>They calculate what Germany has payed in the past decades, including the very early phase of solar+wind development Yeah, while also ignoring the untold Billions in subsidies from the early stages of nuclear power. It's rather hypo
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by _0ffh 7y ago
Yes, entirely possible (I wouldn't know, I'm not US based). When the carrier breaks the phone, is it the original manufacturer's fault though?

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