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by archgoon 7y ago
The entire point of a content algorithm is that it handles different content differently. Regardless, the selection of the algorithm is not impartial. Content is pushed up or down to maximize engagement or whatever metric Facebook has dec
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by archgoon 7y ago
The selection of the algorithm is not impartial. Algorithms are chosen to maximize some quantity for the benefit of the corporation.
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by archgoon 7y ago
Since LBJ's signing of the Civil Rights act in 1964 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 and Nixon's embracement of the Southern Strategy (initially pioneered by Barry Goldwater) in the 1960
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Climate Change: There are no simple solutions(backreaction.blogspot.com)
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by archgoon 7y ago
A mathematician has spent years trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis – without success. Finally, he decides to sell his soul to the devil in exchange for a proof. The devil promises to deliver a proof within four weeks. Four weeks pass, b
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by archgoon 7y ago
Hey, I'm just citing the estimates from the financial help sections of Universities. 80k-100k is an accurate description of what UC Berkeley estimates for a 4 year degree.
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by archgoon 7y ago
This appears to be accurate. http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/tu... The Cal State system is basically the same: https://financialaid.calpoly.edu/coa1819.html Note, college loan
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by archgoon 7y ago
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but this basically only works when you've already done your data exploration phase, you've committed to a particular topology, and now you just want to optimize your weights? It seems that this wo
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by archgoon 7y ago
> > The example relies on using global variables. > It could as well rely on local variables with static lifetime, though. For those following along, static local variables are the same thing as static global variables[1], C just e
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by archgoon 7y ago
So, several years ago, I found that using the TUI environment increased the likelihood that gdb would crash (typically also in conjunction with the disassembly view). I do not know if it has become more stable in recent years; has anyone el
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by archgoon 7y ago
Hey; that sounds intersting; can you give an example of how you use Prolog in a SQL like context? How do you setup your 'DB'? How large does it scale?
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by archgoon 7y ago
Python's relevance got renewed by the ML frameworks (Tensorflow) and notebooks (Jupyter).
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by archgoon 7y ago
About 166 billion, based off of CPI.
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by archgoon 7y ago
The parent (akvadrako) is correct. For 2017 the budgets were: Social Security was $939 billion. Medicare was $591 billion. Medicaid was $353 billion. The defense budget was $590 billion. So Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security together a
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by archgoon 7y ago
If they've been writing for decades they aren't 'hot new writers' over 70.
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by archgoon 7y ago
There was a post yesterday about how it is desirable for Fortran to be preserved as opposed to porting Fortran code to C++, because scientists want to focus on expressing the science and math, not on the low level details of passing arrays
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by archgoon 7y ago
Machine Learning pipelines are at their core a sequence of data transformations. Having a concrete visualization of said transformations may make developing ML pipelines easier, and also allow for clearer communication between developers (a
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by archgoon 7y ago
There seems to be a missing question in the FAQ: Why is Fortran worth saving? What are the advantages of writing code in Fortran? Why not just allow the ports to C++ to happen? There might well be good answers to these; but it seems that if
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by archgoon 7y ago
> nobody used IE6 except grandmas and corporations. And a fifth of YouTube users at the time. "IE6 users represented around 18% of our user base at that point. We understood that we could not just drop support for it"
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by archgoon 7y ago
As someone who struggled dealing with physicists explanations in college I argue that much of the lack of clarity is a deliberate ambiguity as to the meaning of the underlying mathematical structure of the symbols you're informed to ma
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by archgoon 7y ago
Removing undefined behavior is not actually the same as making C safer. In fact, in a sense, well defined C exists (many versions in fact), it's whatever your C compiler spits out with whatever combination of flags have been passed in.
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by archgoon 7y ago
Not necessarily; it may have been a very important source that has dried up or has been superseded by alternatives. The phone program was launched prior to the iPhone and Facebook (even though we only found out about it after both). It may
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by archgoon 8y ago
Generally speaking, I find it effective, when I disagree with someone's sources describing an event, to explicitly provide my own. This ensures that the person I'm speaking with knows what sources I find credible, and knows the ve
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by archgoon 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Euromaidan_and_2014_re... > However, Members of Parliament voted on 22 February to remove the president and set an election for 25 May to select his replacement. That's not
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by archgoon 8y ago
I'm not sure why it was name Vampire; however, I wonder if it's inspired by Charle Stross's "The Laundry" books. In that universe, you become a Vampire by proving a certain Theorem. This causes your brain to attract
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by archgoon 8y ago
This is a more extreme position than many people are comfortable taking (and is perhaps not reasonable or consistent), but it is a fair position to take, and is not expressed in an inflammatory or demeaning way. Please do not kill this comm
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by archgoon 8y ago
Note, there is actually an article in the second half of the page past the photos and graphs.
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by archgoon 8y ago
> I assume you mean libertarianism, not liberalism? They probably meant liberalism. 'Liberalism' has multiple meanings. To my knowledge, the US is unique in equating 'liberal' with 'the left'. https:/&
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As a PSA, CRC checks are insufficient to prevent tampering. CRC checks are designed to detect accidental corruption, not deliberate. Cryptographic hashes, provided over a secure connection (not http), are the basic minimum. Do note that eve
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by archgoon 8y ago
Unless of course, you're dealing with a Absurdly Powerful Student Council. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbsurdlyPowerful...

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