andygroundwater

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by andygroundwater 5y ago
Macabre stuff, but indisputably scientific all the same.
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
It's stretching credulity beyond the usual exaggerated hype associated with AI. What we have now is semi-OK forecasting at scale, nothing more. We (as in the researches, platform and technology) can get a system to select what looks to
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
> It would never occur to me to create a programming library where you have the 'basic' open source version and the 'optimized' commercial version. It's occurred to plenty of others - look at the GPT-3 libraries
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
I've got a major a-hole neighbour that's been stealing my food when delivery drivers accidentally call at their home instead of mine. This guy has even claimed to be me to the delivery folks, which I guess is out-and-out fraud. An
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
In the words of the late Dr. Johnson, "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned".
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
Absolutely not! I got my current role by going in to an interview and critiquing my previous employer's architecture, data pipeline and (complete) lack of data oversight.
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
This just begs the question why? It's not the 18th century anyone, if you want to get from A to B there's better ways. Even if you want to go sailing, just go and do it and have it done. This seems like some form of nautical itine
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
> But Starbucks would never adopt such a robot, because they know customers wouldn’t like it. Incorrect - I would much prefer getting top-quality coffee from a robot than some barista all other things being equal.
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
Like it! Scrapegoating it is from now on in these circumstances.
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
The "do just the minimum" strategy of corporate inclusion and diversity.
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
Was working with a NOC technician who was responsible (along with some others) for a pretty large EMEA mobile network, with many millions of subscribers. There was an RFP to update their SMS/MMS system and a certain Israeli company cam
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
Damn, if that's how they treat the higher ups I can only imagine what they would do with IC's lower down the food chain. Stripe were on my "would like to someday work there" list until I read this, now it'd be no wa
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
This advice is all well and good, but what happens to your state of internal bliss when one of you a-hole neighbors deliberately brings their dog to do its business on your front lawn. No amount to karmic happiness will stop you from wantin
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
I guess all those malcontents working on "AI Ethics" committees now will be out of a job.
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
Fair play to the lads!
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by andygroundwater 5y ago
I hope they got around to fixing the D garbage collector, which was, and possible still is, pure garbage.
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by andygroundwater 6y ago
The track of this thing coming over nightly from Canada was so well known to the locals that they'd sit out and wait for it - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32608477-charlie-red-sta...