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by bbctol 10y ago
I think each individual action is fine, but I don't understand how it's easy to manage privacy as a whole. Each aspect of privacy is separate, and can be finely customized in one particular way per session. There's no way to
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by bbctol 10y ago
As was mentioned below, in Google's case I'm particularly looking for ease of use and a UI that lets me turn things on and off quickly and intuitively. That might sound odd, as if I care deeply enough about my privacy to complain
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by bbctol 10y ago
True! I suppose I was thinking of earlier space-age fantasy more than TNG. It was rather odd how easily people could look up details on crewmembers aboard the Enterprise, but I suppose the situation's different on an organized ship.
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by bbctol 10y ago
What I want mainly from Google is more and easier ways to customize my level of privacy. The article touches on the EFF's stance against incognito modes briefly, but it's an important one; I don't want lack of monitoring to b
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think we just envisioned a highly anthropomorphized AI: essentially, a very smart and entirely obedient person to serve as the perfect aide. The Star Trek dream emerged before computing technology was very far advanced, and well before th
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think there's a corollary to the old "Any headline that asks a question can be answered with 'no'": any question in the discussion section of an academic paper that they don't even try to answer can be answer
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'm not in this field directly, but I have spent a lot of time interacting with scientists and medical professionals regarding new approaches to the field. I'm a little surprised I didn't see more about resistance to unfamili
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by bbctol 10y ago
I am extremely familiar with imageboard culture, and have spent a lot of time on anonymous boards. 4chan is not "all racist." 4chan also has a lot of organized and motivated racists, which have had a particularly negative effe
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think it's more likely that without 4chan, the general trolling and immaturity may leak onto the rest of the internet, and the really intense racism/misogyny/conspiratorial weirdness will go further underground and anonymou
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's a weird world we live in where a marketing headline sounds like the voiceover introducing a cyberpunk dystopia.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Getting gender parity in programming happened before a large programming ecosystem was established; more money and structure in the CS education system led to inequality.
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by bbctol 10y ago
What are you talking about? I thought previously you were asking serious questions, but this is just hilariously untrue. Pre-state tribes invariably used gift and sharing economies, and well up until the European Middle Ages those had evolv
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by bbctol 10y ago
Planned state economy might be pushing the usage of the word, but the government and economy were so intertwined in ancient Greek city states it's hard to call them capitalists. At the most extreme, they were palace economies, with all
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by bbctol 10y ago
Basic income isn't far left under any definition. It isn't full-on libertarian either, but it's definitely to the right of organized welfare programs.
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by bbctol 10y ago
The gaps between animal understanding and human awareness are just as fascinating as the similarities, and I'm glad that someone's reminding us to push back on the "They're just like us!" narrative of how animals mi
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think we'll wait until a practical application sees adoption before handing out Nobels.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah. It's a post hoc explanation of something better explained by luck. Tom Anderson of Myspace really is a spooky-smart hacker with great intuition, and no one was calling Zuckerberg a visionary until truly recently.
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by bbctol 10y ago
The phrase "Education is not an externality" is so baffling to me. The education system is of course not an "externality"--those are two completely different classes of things. On the other hand, the process of education
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think it's definitely intentional. This profile isn't meant to be purely congratulatory--the undercurrent that some of this is creepy and undeserved that other commentors have picked up on is deliberate.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Hawkins' memory-prediction concept is quite more specific than general CTM, and not borne out by evidence.
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by bbctol 10y ago
This article gave me awful flashbacks to organic chemistry exams. I got just as far as I could on memorization and math, but as soon as the questions started just being gigantic molecules and "so if we hit this with an acid, what would
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by bbctol 10y ago
And it would be an... interesting job to tag the training set. Although for higher level content, I suppose lots of porn videos have very specific category tags that could be an interesting data set to play with. Uh, to analyze.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Microsoft is spending a ~billion dollars a year on their entire research department, which AI is a part of.
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by bbctol 10y ago
It also raises troubling implications for how much individual power a dictator or rogue actor could hold. In order to have military power, you currently need to be able to persuade large numbers of soldiers to follow you, and if this claim
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by bbctol 10y ago
Google isn't "manipulating search results to steer people from ISI," nor have they suggested it. A bunch of advertisements were bought that would link ISIS keywords to videos of anti-ISIS propaganda. It's something anyon
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by bbctol 10y ago
This is some strange type of promo piece. What FiveThirtyEight does is definitely not Big Data; they just have a particular method of weighting polls and a couple of assumptions that have turned out well so far. I appreciate the site a lot,
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by bbctol 10y ago
If anything, population size matters way more when picking out the cream of the crop than the averages. I think the point being made is less about the Olympics specifically and more that it makes little sense to divide up the US economy by
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'm a little surprised at the mentions of it being a better place to raise kids. Admittedly, I'm not as familiar with Palo Alto, but I think of the suburbs of Boston as an extraordinarily good place to raise children.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Decidedly clickbaity title: this guy's new implementation of the algorithm for computation is the story, while the algorithm itself is as non-revolutionary as you could get.
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by bbctol 10y ago
To the surprise of no one, but the embarrassment of many. Adams has gotten real weird since his divorce, especially about masculinity and "persuasion," but I still read his old strips fondly.

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