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by aqsalose 5y ago
Concerning DNA testing in general. Recently there was a case where the Finnish police arrested a person as a suspect for a robbery of a convenience store on basis of DNA evidence: the robber had dropped a plastic glove, presumably to hide f
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by aqsalose 5y ago
I was introduced to the "Hard Problem of Consciousness" some 10 years ago in high school philosophy class, and have been mulling over it ever since. Today I am sympathetic to Dennett's argument in Consciousness Explained: the
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Finnish Parliamentery Committee for the Future organized a hearing with GPT-3(eduskunta.fi)
1 points by aqsalose 6y ago|0 comments
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by aqsalose 6y ago
>The BBC is committed to creating a truly personalised experience for everyone. We believe that a more personal BBC helps us build a deeper connection with our audiences, and helps us to extract more value from online. We have so much to
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by aqsalose 6y ago
I agree with your general thesis. However, this line got me thinking: >It seems impossible to imagine the BBC being truly unbiased Thought example. If there was a truly objective, unbiased source of information about political and physic
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by aqsalose 6y ago
Where I live, while the use of leased property in various unacceptable and/or illegal activities is a basis for canceling the contract and subsequent eviction (among other reasons more directly relevant to housing), one generally needs
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by aqsalose 6y ago
>Arresting them and putting them in jail is just cruel and unfair! Isn't this the point? It isn't a responsibility of the electricity company or the landlord to investigate or apply punishments in criminal matters. Arresting th
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by aqsalose 6y ago
In my limited experience as a disillusioned PhD student dropout, the issues are in approximate order: 1. Publications in prestigious journals have become a measure, not a way to communicate. This leads to perverse behavior. Any kind of proj
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by aqsalose 6y ago
>Also, proportional voting introduces all kinds of unnecessary problems like not having districts and thereby constituents having their votes diluted and not having a specific representative. I'd rather phrase it, the proportional s
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by aqsalose 6y ago
The other way I have heard the same idea, but phrased with slightly different motivation: Your children are important part of your life, and you are important part of their life (especially in the early years). This has also an implication:
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by aqsalose 6y ago
Paraphrasing Umberto Eco, there are two kinds of libraries: one kind are collections of trophies and mementos, but the other kind can be formidable resource in right hands. The latter one is knowledge management tool, and contains also unr
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by aqsalose 6y ago
Got to disagree here, r/AskHistorians is a top-tier academically-minded Q&A forums, and their wiki is possibly one of the best resources on the current internet for layman interested in history. They are not necessarily the best
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by aqsalose 7y ago
It didn't fit in the title but they are complaints about GDPR violations. I am not a tech nor law expert but it appears that summary of technical evidence is presented in the complaints; it might be of interest to HN.
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Norwegian Consumer Council files complaints against Grindr and five 3rd parties(forbrukerradet.no)
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by aqsalose 7y ago
This sounds damning: >At the climax of the hearing, however, he had trouble explaining what was done about an internal FAA study showing that there would be over 15 crashes of 737 Max aircraft with 2,920 likely fatalities if the MCAS sys
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by aqsalose 7y ago
Suppose I want to research a $topic, and get recognition for my research. As a recent graduate or soon-to-graduate undergrad student the traditional path to "doing research for the public good of the mankind and personal glory as a sci
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by aqsalose 7y ago
Yeah. Do not underestimate the amount of technology that goes into bicycles. Wright brothers were bicycle mechanics, before they pivoted into inventing heavier-than-air flight craft.
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by aqsalose 8y ago
Also was wondering the same thing. Also, the linked adjoint method tutorial discusses more general class of problems and it is not immediately clear to me how to map them to this linear equation version: here B is the unknown we want to ev
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by aqsalose 8y ago
And as an added afterthought: given how much time and effort drafting this kind of obvious counterargument took me, I believe the author of the talk OP linked to was correct in arguing against trying to engage such thinking. Refuting formal
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by aqsalose 8y ago
The claim amounts to saying that the space of definable goals and algorithms for achieving is large, and it would be a strong claim to say some particular corner of that space is impossible. However, from "improbably thing X is not imp
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by aqsalose 8y ago
Quickly scanning the paper I did not find any actual comparison of metaheuristics and their behaviour, sans the table 1 which lists their possible parameters. It's all well and good to list sensible sounding principles "for meani
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by aqsalose 8y ago
While there no doubt has been great deal of changes in our schools since I was a kid (00s) and teachers have a great deal of freedom when it comes to planning how they teach, I'm fairly certain this kind utopian student freedom is not
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by aqsalose 8y ago
>If Twitter shuts down, you’ll lose your followers. Maybe my way of using Twitter is particularly weird, but I'd be more disappointed if I'd lose the thematic lists of interesting Twitter accounts that I have collected over sev
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by aqsalose 8y ago
> Thus, the real information is still strongly dominated by beliefs about the width and centering of the distributions, which we still don't know, and as long as enough of the parameters have high uncertainty with some potentially h
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by aqsalose 8y ago
The source is this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sam_power_825/status/1009192761122271233 but I think the slideset pdf is easier to link to.
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Functional Analysis Meets Deep Learning [pdf](statslab.cam.ac.uk)
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by aqsalose 9y ago
Yeah. There some irony in the symbolism: this time we have a SV firm that launched satellites that literally move fast [1] and potentially break things (namely, other satellites). [1] See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com
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by aqsalose 9y ago
According to some security professionals (see the link in a sibling comment) Estonia's system has vulnerabilities, but my guess is that complaints will continue to be ignored until there's concrete evidence that someone has fals
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by aqsalose 9y ago
>I live in a world where most people I spend time interacting with are smarter and wealthier and more successful than I am on several other axes Maybe this is a relatively rare situation. I'd assume for most people, their FB life an
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by aqsalose 9y ago
>How is this any different than society at large? How is this any different from TV and newspapers? I suppose social media like Instagram makes the experience different, more intimate perhaps. Reading newspaper accounts of super-rich lif

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