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How close are we to solving vision?(blog.piekniewski.info)
65 points by avivo 10y ago|25 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Fake News on Facebook Didn’t Change the Election(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by avivo 10y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 10y ago
We are developing systems to identify and check the impact of misinformation at scale (triage + human in the loop). If you're interested in potentially joining or funding us, let us know https://docs.google.com/forms&#x
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by avivo 10y ago
This is part of the larger Electionland project, involving over 1000 journalists & journalism students. https://projects.propublica.org/electionland/
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Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine(nytimes.com)
3 points by avivo 10y ago|0 comments
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25-Year-Old’s $500M Startup Fuels China Bike-Share Battle(bloomberg.com)
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by avivo 10y ago
From the paper: "Our goal is to select a subset of the input sequence as a rationale . In order for the subset to qualify as a rationale it should satisfy two criteria: 1) the selected words should be interpretable and 2) they ought t
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by avivo 10y ago
The general concept: we can figure out what lead to a particular classification for an item by finding smaller subsets of the item that still gave the same classification. For example, this can show which snippet of text implies a particula
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by avivo 10y ago
Why not cooperation ? Competition lets a market — something not known to have human values — decide how you can serve. With cooperation, you work together with other humans and can decide together the best way to serve each other. Of cours
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by avivo 10y ago
Why focus on "mass media"? As opposed to just "media"? It seems incentives are the key problem in an age where there are no real gatekeepers to "mass media." I'm curious the request isn't more like th
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by avivo 10y ago
I'm really happy to see YC putting attention toward the (increasing) market failure around media quality. It's a serious problem, with IMHO imperils governance and stability worldwide. I'm exploring a way to improve this dram
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by avivo 10y ago
Hmmm. Well, I just got to that point in the flow. It first required giving all your personal information (I put in fake stuff; also FYI the email went to my spam folder on gmail). There was no obvious way I could see to save the actual cont
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by avivo 10y ago
Definitely. Here's a small sample. Craigslist unintentionally decimated newspaper revenue from classifieds. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/08/14/sorry-c... Twitter unintentional
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by avivo 10y ago
I haven't figured out a way to find the actual text of the agreement(s). Does anyone have it? When I explored doing something like this in the past (a binding pledge via 3rd party under US law), one issue brought up by lawyers was that
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by avivo 10y ago
This is amazing. However, what we need even more is a pledge for e.g. responsible disruption . So companies could devote say 1% of their resources to modeling their effect on the world and compensating for (or designing away) the negative
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Post-Truth Politics: Art of the Lie(economist.com)
2 points by avivo 10y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 10y ago
Did WSJ have the $3B clickbait title and then change it? Or did the HN submission just add the extra "for $3B"? All the article says is that "a person familiar with the matter said Jet could be valued at up to $3 billion in p
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by avivo 10y ago
Some citations for if you're interested, skeptical, or want to doing something about this. Concrete evidence that facts & social media don't currently mix: https://firstdraftnews.com/recent-research-reveals-fal
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by avivo 10y ago
A society becomes post-fact when information spreads irrespective of how factual it is. This can happen for a number of reasons, but the current primary reason is that social media is biased against facts . Content that is controversial, e
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by avivo 10y ago
An interpretation: - Many people want to be able to have agency in what their future is like. - A quest for economic and technological growth makes the future unknowable, and makes predictions about what skills (and capital) will provide a
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by avivo 10y ago
The interactive parts don't work e.g. in http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap4.html If you want to annotate the original, interactives and all, you can use something like https://hypothes.is/
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by avivo 10y ago
The original post shows how the sausage was made (focusing on visualization/UX). Also check out the http://graphics.wsj.com/hamilton-methodology/ for what the sausage is made of (focusing more on algorithms&#x2F
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by avivo 10y ago
I use ulogme which also records when you are typing , and is more customizable (and open source and free). Explanation and demo with screenshots: https://karpathy.github.io/2014/08/03/quantifying-productivi..
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by avivo 10y ago
That's a really great story. I'm curious if this guy gets paid at all for this, if he just does it in addition to a day job, and perhaps family, etc. Can you share the link to his page? I'm also also curious if there (ever) w
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How predictable is technological progress?(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by avivo 10y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 10y ago
This would be a really good idea. The key idea from the OP: "A comprehensive, accessible record of competing interests could be used to produce more-precise estimates of their impact on research findings. Using these results as a basis
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by avivo 10y ago
What if the employees at Facebook instead asked "What ethical responsibility do we have to ensure that we, as the primary distributor of news in the world , do some minimal amount of fact checking." The goal shouldn't be t
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Stemcentrx bought for up to $10B(businessinsider.com)
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by avivo 10y ago
So the Falcon Heavy can get 13,600 kg to Mars for $90M. By comparison, the Apollo 11 lunar (landing) module was 11,900 kg and the command/service module was 28,800 kg at launch. There were also other components that added at least 600
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by avivo 10y ago
Key detail — unlike in the previous arrangement, he (and his heirs) will lose voting majority when he is no longer CEO or Chairman. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-28/mark-zucker... (attempted to li

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