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by ascendingPig 9y ago
When I worked at Facebook, an intern had never had a profile before. She made one for work, and kept commenting that she was the only person who was seeing the features Facebook advertises heavily to the low-friendcount users. She doesn&#x2
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by ascendingPig 9y ago
Another entry in the already-saturated genre of people who went to college but squandered the educational opportunity telling the rest of us that college is a waste.
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
You don't even have to leave the US to see cities like NY, where fewer than half of all households have a car, even including the spacious areas in Queens and Staten Island. Have you visited any of these dense cities?
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
> For example, tolls make basically no sense ever. Once you've paid for the road you might as well get as much use out of it as you can. What about maintenance costs? Those are dependent partly on the level of use a road experiences
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
This is handy, but I wish it had been posted a day earlier -- gutted that I missed the Edinburgh Women in Data Science tea.
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
How big were these unicorns before they started employing h1bs? I wouldn't count this visa as a big win for startups, because most startups can't afford to enter the lottery, even if they're going to be profitable in the futu
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
I have spent more time dealing with compiling from the source and handling weird package interactions on osx than on any linux system I've used recently. At least the Linux system will come with a standard package manager that supports
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
Why should it not be fair? Under this constraint, the perfect equal opportunity model would be a model that accurately represents who will pay back a loan.
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
Uncanny Valley used specifics to satirical and humorous effect, whereas this post just deployed brand names every 10 words. I was really bored.
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
I don't buy it. Even DL researchers will point to representation learning systems like word2vec, a shallow NN, as as examples of the success of DL approaches. My take: "Deep Learning" is performative ( https://en.wi
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
Starting from only the people who apply gives a free pass to biased recruitment.
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
Is Agora Energiewende still counting ethanol as "renewable"? Any article about German energy that doesn't mention the country is following the same disastrous path (of fulfilling new energy demands, caused by the loss of nucl
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by ascendingPig 10y ago
Having a less flexible employee is a real upside for certain notorious companies. Having an employee who can't leave your company or they get kicked out of the country? That's a situation ripe for abuse.
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by ascendingPig 11y ago
Ugh, is every medical startup with female founders going to fall into this "Theranos" semantic frame now, with all the crappy assumptions about viability and research integrity that entails?