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by air7 6y ago
I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately. It seems to me that the nefarious ways in which modern media operates are responsible for a large portion of the problems we see in the world today. That's because the world in gen
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by air7 6y ago
> I think most people who are in the vicinity of a news story irl have such experiences What's funny though is that although this is true, we still tend to believe all other news stories as though they are 100% true.
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Zersetzung(en.wikipedia.org)
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by air7 6y ago
This is a absolutely mind blowing. Imagine this connected to a VR headset.
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by air7 6y ago
> There were only a few consular officers of color in Juarez. They, too, had been pulled into secondary inspection a few times at the border, but CBP officers seemed to be more aggressive with me, probably because I had begun regularly t
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by air7 6y ago
Data is just as much a story you choose to believe as mythology is.
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by air7 6y ago
Results with such confidence intervals should not be allowed to be published. As if we don't have enough fake news/hype going around.
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by air7 6y ago
I met a guy that was in your situation. He would wake up with an alarm clock, shower, get dressed "properly", eat etc. Then leave the house and walk in a predetermined path around the block to arrive back at his house for "wo
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by air7 6y ago
This, ironically, would be lying to your kids. There are very few (if any) pathological truth-tellers and you are likely not one of them. Any health adult would intentionally lies in certain situations and would be considered foolish/
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by air7 6y ago
This is one my favorite science stories. A tale of how truth eventually surfaces and holds in front of ridicule. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect See the section called "Mpemba's Observation&quot
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by air7 6y ago
"Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash" These headline-esque sentences are very hard to parse without context sometimes. It took me ages to figure out this one. It's a small hobby of mine.
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by air7 6y ago
The possible silver lining is that companies will quickly realize the data is garbage (which is causing then losses) and stop using it.
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by air7 6y ago
I'd like to do that to. Any ideas on how to get access to it to play around?
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by air7 6y ago
Higher salaries are not compensations for higher CoL but rather both are a result of more demand to live in a certain area (partially because of there being many jobs but that's unrealated). If a company wants to attract talent in an a
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by air7 6y ago
Wouldn't he have his own tickets flushes away with the hundreds of erroneous ones? Seems to have worked albeit with some extra labor.
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by air7 6y ago
Sadly, I can't edit the comment anymore. Here are a few more. - German Chocolate Cake - Named after the English-American chocolate maker Samuel German. - Baker's Chocolate (popular American brand of baking chocolate) - Named after
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by air7 6y ago
I find this post and comments to be surprisingly delightful. I'll aggregate the scattered gems in the comments here: - Sideburns : Named after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside. - Heaviside function (a mathematical step f
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by air7 6y ago
I don't think so. This is of course a philosophical point but without some underlying thing we can call "intelligence" this will never be more than a quirk. When something/someone is pretending to be something they ar
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by air7 6y ago
This (highly enjoyable) article is all that is wrong with "AI". The Turing test was a hand-wavey method to determine if a machine was intelligent, yet since the times of Eliza most (all?) of the efforts are geared at exploiting th
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by air7 6y ago
how do such services escape the clutches of DMCA? I assume they're used for pirating content.
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by air7 6y ago
How about we just call them "the M word" and "the S word" as we're already accustomed to that. /s I find this type of virtue signaling very annoying and a slippery slope on the free speech/rage culture fro
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by air7 6y ago
I totally agree. There are many fields and situations where the cost for a certain type of error is negligible or non existant. This inevitably creates a system biased towards making gambles that end up create such errors. If for example,
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by air7 6y ago
From my reading of the data, I feel that banning plastic bags (for example) would do more harm than good (in 1st world countries). The alternatives require more reuse than actually occurs in order to be environmentally viable [0], waste ma
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by air7 6y ago
The problem is not with the technology, but with how it's used. A medical test is also not 100% error-proof which is why a professional needs to interpret the results, sometimes conducting other tests or disregarding it completely. A c
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by air7 6y ago
> what do you think is a reasonable number of shootings of unarmed people? Personally, I think that number is zero I humbly suggest that if you give this some thought, you'll see that isn't a very good answer. Any complex syste
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by air7 6y ago
I'm getting mine in a few days and I'm very excited. Can you recommend some jaw dropping content to try on it?
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by air7 6y ago
I just don't get it. The number of unarmed black men shot by police across the entire US in 2019 was 14. [0] How does such a small number spark this level of fear and protest? Also, do people actually think the police generally and on
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by air7 6y ago
OT but I never understood the issue with insider trading. Obviously it's unfair to unknowing traders but isn't this essentially just making the market more reflective of reality? How does it undermine the market?
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by air7 6y ago
Is human&computer better than computer only?
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by air7 6y ago
def free_will: return QuantumRNG.random() > 0.5 Unpredictability doesn't infer free will.

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