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by ausbah 7y ago
The internet started as a government program, and so much for a "free market" when monopolistic ISPs control access to it.
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by ausbah 7y ago
I feel like the comparisons this article uses between current AI systems and humans on the front of learning to induce skepticism on the overall ability of AI is a bit misleading. Current systems may suck at learning like humans (on most fr
903.
by ausbah 7y ago
Libertarians like UBI because while they don't like large government giving out entitlements, but they know they've lost the battle in trying to repeal entitlements - so if they're going to be stuck with the system they'
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by ausbah 7y ago
Less gatekeeping, but lower average quality?
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by ausbah 7y ago
Is there anything significant that could be learned from DNA and applied to traditional computer storage methods? Or is this efficient something intrinsic to DNA that can't simply "be transferred"?
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by ausbah 7y ago
It isn't magic! To the best of my knowledge it's all about framing the problem as a graph, then performing a search on the graph to find solutions with some heuristics.
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by ausbah 7y ago
Like the abstract mentioned, I think this is also a good criteria for helping "level the playing field" for groups with lower budgets so the phenomenon of simply throwing more computational resources at a problem with an existing
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Ocean Cleanup's debris collector is finally picking up trash in the ocean(cnn.com)
1 points by ausbah 7y ago|0 comments
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by ausbah 7y ago
How do SAT problems compare to constraint satisfaction problems? Is the latter a subset of the former (with the right modeling)?
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by ausbah 7y ago
I think you're forgetting that the "replication crisis" also occurs in your so called "100% deterministic fields". CS has the issue of ML models, medicine drug studies, etc. The bottom line is science is hard to do,
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by ausbah 7y ago
So social divisions in authoritarian countries with a seemingly homogeneous populace are a facade. It is simply because there is no dissident political avenues from which social divisions can attach themselves to and make themselves manifes
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by ausbah 7y ago
I've liked Bumble's solution, make it so only woman can start a conversation if matched with someone.
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by ausbah 7y ago
From the millions of dollars pumped into money laundering, tax avoidance, and forgery that seems to perpetuate high price art sales - it find it hard to see any benefit to the industry and practice of private ownership of such pieces.
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by ausbah 7y ago
What's also worth noting about the Wallfacers is how for 3/4 of them, the aliens and their human supporters were still able to figure out their "inaccessible plans" simply by deducing from their actions. In some ways it
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by ausbah 7y ago
The Uber of fintech and e-payments.
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by ausbah 7y ago
Corporations aren't accountable to everyday people, democratic governments are. Both big tech and big government should be kept in check, but governments accountable to their populace I think are the only realistic way to keep technolo
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by ausbah 7y ago
Uber always positions itself to be whatever is most advantageous for it given the current situation. Just a "technology-based platform", no, they are a just a modern taxi company that uses a tech platform. I think for many "b
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by ausbah 7y ago
It's been 10+ years, they're just being a matter of fact.
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by ausbah 7y ago
That's a bit dramatic.
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by ausbah 7y ago
They receive tax payer money, so have some accountability to the public?
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Uber and Lyft don't have a right to exist(jalopnik.com)
86 points by ausbah 7y ago|113 comments
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A+, the Programming Language of Morgan Stanley(aplusdev.org)
28 points by ausbah 7y ago|20 comments
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by ausbah 7y ago
People are rabidly dismissive of Project Veritas and another one of their "exposures" because of their attempts to "make evidence" by tricking people into admitting something, cherrypicking what "evidence" they
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Geneva Freeport(en.wikipedia.org)
57 points by ausbah 7y ago|14 comments
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by ausbah 7y ago
Biggest ROI the government can get, invest in the fucking IRS. Something like a 1:15 or 1:20 return if I remember correctly.
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by ausbah 7y ago
What are you trying to say? He is remarking on the ignorance / hypocrisy of the woman, who laments when other people receiving government subsidies as "welfare queens" disregarding the fact that she is also receiving governme
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by ausbah 7y ago
What's better though? Helping existing smokers with Juul, or exposing a whole new generation of kids to "cool hip smoking"?
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by ausbah 7y ago
The tragedy is things like sanctions against authoritarian regimes do nothing but to hurt the average citizen. The we'll connected in such regimes have the means to evade sanction, the lower classes don't. Look at Iran, North Kore
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by ausbah 7y ago
Lobbying to protect national parks might be a better roi.
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by ausbah 7y ago
I don't think you lose bluffing, most of bluffing is simply chance and leaving a land or two untapped.

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