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by bbctol 10y ago
Also, how many times in your life have you heard a short list of people that didn't have two unusual names in common? Tens of thousands, at least.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Was this surprising? What exactly did it find? I haven't been able to track down the original source of the "Machine learning is like money laundering for bias" quote, but I worry about it in situations like this. To be clear
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's a way of fucking with neo-nazis in turn. The three parentheses were originally meant as a sort of euphemism or code: rather than be publicly anti-semitic, people would put the parentheses to highlight how often Jews were being hea
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by bbctol 10y ago
It says that umbrellas were seen as effeminate, and identifies him in the article as the first man to use one--was he the first umbrella user in England, or just the first male one?
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by bbctol 10y ago
ITC Avant Garde has made such a comeback in recent years I almost forget it's a 70s font.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Even worse, "love interest doesn't think she's pretty but only the protagonist is a nice enough guy to see past that." The whole book was a bunch of wish-fulfillment fantasies, but I found the romance the creepiest.
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by bbctol 10y ago
That particular tweet falls under the "never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity" razor, which kind of undercuts the rest of the author's (fair, but quickly sketched) points.
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by bbctol 10y ago
All of the features are pretty vague and certainly up for debate, but here's my shot at the potential links to the Trump campaign: 1. Cult of tradition. This, I think, has the weakest link to Trump; obviously the "Make America Gre
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'm unconvinced that a "loss" of democracy is a direction we're headed in. While I agree the points you raise are troubling, I can't find the trend line: -Convention machinations to get someone elected are certain
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think you just mean "shift" the curve right, as in translate; "skew" means something very specific in the context of distribution curves.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Seems like the sort of problem a deep neural network would be great for. I've already got some good hardware for it, but I'm a little apprehensive about acquiring enough training examples.
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by bbctol 10y ago
If you like more in-depth analysis on how fonts are used in science fiction, https://typesetinthefuture.com/ is a fantastic blog that goes into incredible detail.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Introducing Facebucks! Everything you buy is recorded to enhance your Facebook browsing advertisement experience!
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by bbctol 10y ago
That's a valid evolutionary strategy assuming your kids will be fine once you off yourself. If that plan lessens the chances of your children's survival to child-bearing age themselves, it would be selected against.
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by bbctol 10y ago
So you don't like charlatans with poorly supported explanations of human behavior... but you're a fan of Jiddu Krishnamurti?
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by bbctol 10y ago
There are a number of stories about von Neumann, but almost all of them are apocryphal. I do remember his former professors remarking that if they put unsolved problems on the chalkboard, he'd have them solved by the end of class.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Von Neumann was often considered by colleagues to be the smartest person they'd ever met. There's an old story that goes something like this: Von Neumann was asked a mathematical puzzle: two bicyclists start 20 miles apart and hea
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by bbctol 10y ago
This bugs me especially when Silicon Valley companies get involved in life sciences, closer to my field. So much of the buzz is around "innovation" and daring to "think outside of the box," while so much of the actual wo
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by bbctol 10y ago
It looks like the title's been edited after posting, as the url still says "will"--it's definitely a change in the right direction, as while I think this is a good article, it's certainly a little hyperbolic in its
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by bbctol 10y ago
They better add those things really, really soon, before the userbase gets bored. Because right now, there isn't much to do once you've caught them all.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think that also reflects Reddit's issues with mission confusion. Reddit does present itself as a single entity: "the frontpage of the Internet," and it was founded as a single community, a group of users on one forum. The i
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by bbctol 10y ago
The questions raised was "better," not "easier to learn." In absence of everything else, being easy to learn is a point in favor of natural language--but the inefficiencies, ambiguities, and probable weakness of using na
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by bbctol 10y ago
It seems like this is focused a lot on what people want to do, as opposed to what provides value. Not that that's a bad focus! But if you want to predict the future, I think market forces would be a better indicator; as much as we migh
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by bbctol 10y ago
Cultures change. It can be painful, but eventually, it will become inevitable.
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by bbctol 10y ago
http://fanlore.org/wiki/ A wiki of nerd fandom stretching back to the 50s. I can spend hours just hitting "Random Article" and seeing the minutes of a meeting on Starsky and Hutch slashfiction in some hotel i
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's a good metric, but I do feel there's something slightly different being said in human terms when we say a country is "rectangular." Turkey seems to have sharper, closer to 90 degree angles than other countries that
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by bbctol 10y ago
The move from pure standardized testing towards the more "holistic" approach to admissions was deliberately designed and implemented to limit the number of Jews at elite universities. See Jerome Karabel's excellent "The
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Plagiarism concerns raised over popular blockchain paper on catching misconduct(retractionwatch.com)
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by bbctol 10y ago
If Outlook Web Access worked or even looked at all like Outlook, it would be less confusing. Features and UI are completely different, and switching between the two if needed is a huge pain.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I hope there's at least going to be some agreed-upon best practices. Pokemon Go seems to draw from the Ingress dataset of interesting places, which excludes a lot of private residences, unless your house is particularly interesting: h

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