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by bicubic 8y ago
The tech required for search and rescue is the same tech required for search and destroy. We seem to be running headfirst into the autonomous killer bot future without giving so much as a second look at the implications. Slaughterbots [0] i
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by bicubic 8y ago
>Excitingly, successful prevention of Alzheimer’s disease by use of specific anti-herpes agents has now been demonstrated in a large-scale population study in Taiwan. So why isn't that a standard treatment now? The abstracts of both
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by bicubic 8y ago
Well, yes. That's exactly why the debate around 'fairness' has begun. ML will easily infer gender/color/religion from any other features about an individual. It should not be too surprising that those features play
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by bicubic 8y ago
So what's happening lately is that tech giants have gotten into the business of dictating how the world should be . No one was consulted about it, it was not put to a vote, it simply began, and over the last few years it's increa
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by bicubic 8y ago
Why the hell is this being downvoted? Collective bargaining is one of the primary purposes of a union
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by bicubic 8y ago
> One issue that keeps happening is an over-emphasis on CS-related questions No. If you go down that path, then you are implying that women do in fact perform worse at CS-related questions. That's a much bigger can of worms than the
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by bicubic 8y ago
Last place I worked at had to invest in additional resources to hire several females because the office was mostly male and applicants were overwhelmingly male. We did eventually find a few great female applicants, but it took a lot of work
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by bicubic 8y ago
We're talking about Amazon, one of the biggest powerhouse ML employers. I don't buy that the model was poorly designed or ineffective. They also didn't just scrap the model without understanding how or why it failed to meet i
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by bicubic 8y ago
Cheers, that was a good read. I'd still attribute the argument to Marx, because Smith doesn't seem to link this effect with the inherent values of capitalism. Turns out there's also a wikipedia page outlining the history of t
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by bicubic 8y ago
Mind referencing where Smith highlights this as a drawback of capitalism? I'd like to learn more.
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by bicubic 8y ago
Marx discussed this thoroughly. The same thing is happening to salaried jobs, just to a lesser extent. This phenomenon was one of his bigger objections to capitalism. All productive labour is being broken down into pipelined work streams wh
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by bicubic 8y ago
I think it's less a sign of how bad JIRA is, and more how bad project management and project managers are in software development. JIRA can be a decent tool. The issue is the way that 90% of all businesses big and small use it, is just
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by bicubic 8y ago
You have SpaceX shares? How?
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by bicubic 8y ago
You sound like a terrible employer.
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by bicubic 8y ago
"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by a government or private
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by bicubic 8y ago
If information that would typically be widespread was prevented from becoming widespread, then censorship has taken place and succeeded. If a newsworthy event has taken place but is not reported on mainstream media because of government int
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by bicubic 8y ago
You can't bet on an opportunity if you don't have any money to bet. I've lost count of how many ambitious and talented people I know who had ideas they wanted to bet on, but couldn't because of lack of disposable funds.
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by bicubic 8y ago
The Implicit Association Test is - shall we say, non-scientific. Because the results depend on the ordering of the associated categories[1] Psychology has too long been a field where people draw a conclusion first and then create some exper
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by bicubic 8y ago
> goal isn't and shouldn't be to make the best content possible, but to make the content that the most people would want to watch and be willing to keep their subscription active for That is dangerous due to second-order effect
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by bicubic 8y ago
>That could easily be the result of discrimination by professors, collaborators, reviewers, etc. Your go-to analysis of this data is that there's a grand conspiracy of misogynistic discrimination? I'm finding it really hard to
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by bicubic 8y ago
Is there a way to handle scenarios where the data does update? Like backfill of latent events within a 1-2 day window.
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by bicubic 8y ago
Where did the data catalogue come from?
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by bicubic 8y ago
That's literally the endgame of capitalism. Capitalism is, and always has been, about reaching a state where supply exceeds demand. One could argue that once a business reaches that stage, they can put up a Mission Accomplished banner
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by bicubic 8y ago
https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code_overview/reddit_i... It's pretty easy to get a firehose.
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by bicubic 8y ago
I think an ML model is not free if training dataset is not provided. You can't inspect it for vulnerabilities and you can't modify it in the common interpretation of the word. Whatever difficulties this view presents, this is the
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Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset and It Is Disappointing(digg.com)
8 points by bicubic 8y ago|0 comments
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by bicubic 8y ago
I think a direct democracy would be a disaster. The average person can't sink the time to become knowledgeable on all matters that affect them. Worse yet, the average person is trivially manipulated through mass media. To game the enti
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by bicubic 8y ago
> Tesla certainly has strategies to respond if GM/Toyota enter their markets. Elon Musk's stated purpose for Tesla is to kill the fossil fuel industry, not to create a profitable enterprise. And he is tracking well towards that
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by bicubic 8y ago
Many do, for that exact reason. If you ever pitch your startup idea to a VC, you're expected to explain how you're going to deal with this risk.
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by bicubic 8y ago
GM/Toyota have the resources to start operating in the same markets that Tesla has ambitions for. And they are certainly keeping an eye on Tesla's actions. After watching what Tesla is doing, they have chosen not to invest those r

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