braindongle

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by braindongle 8y ago
I for one am fine with the idea that 'phone' means something different now. That's how important smart phones are. They changed the meaning of 'phone' in under a decade. I disagree that this skews the conversation a
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by braindongle 8y ago
Absolutely correct. And so-called general AI may never happen. Regardless, this is shocking. It immediately needs to be factored into any speculation about what the world will look like in 20 years. Innumerable questions.
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by braindongle 8y ago
This is an excellent list. I actually fired off a snarky reply to a snarky work email just before reading this. Thanks for reminding me to check myself.
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by braindongle 8y ago
>...counting words, which is what data analytics and machine learning are really all about The piece is welcome anti-hype, but, what? How can a true expert in the field say something like this? Or, maybe I should tell my colleague who is
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by braindongle 8y ago
Critic: "System for Dream Control", i.e., "People are suggestible as they fall asleep." Fan: "But this is closed-loop. It keeps you in the hypnogogic state." Critic: 1. Optimize a simple open-loop system usin
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by braindongle 8y ago
Please don't use "guys" this way. This is not PC nitpicking, It's important. "People" or "folks" may not have the ring you're after, but too bad.
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by braindongle 9y ago
What is the best RSS reader that has a customizable tiled layout, like http://www.protopage.com/ ? By this I mean, I have (nearly) the whole screen at my disposal, can choose the number of columns and rows, and the height (n
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by braindongle 9y ago
Thank you. Hacker News works because adults make their points succinctly and without personal attacks. The exchange above this is the kind of "you don't understand" "no, you don't understand" time-wasting that
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by braindongle 9y ago
The rude part is that Youtube is forcing Wikipedia deeper into the fake news wars, and not even talking with them about it, apparently.
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by braindongle 9y ago
To wit: "The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years (95% CI, 14.4 to 14.8 years) for men and 10.1 years (95% CI, 9.9 to 10.3 years) for women" https://jamanetwork.com&
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by braindongle 9y ago
I would love to hear a digital forensics expert weigh in on the doomsday prophesies surrounding this sort of thing. Yes,digital fakery is going to get more and more convincing, but we are not without weapons in the defense of truth. http:&
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by braindongle 9y ago
Wha? Isn't the VPN market about accessing geo-restricted content? My non-geek friends often ask me "Can I stream X for free?" Moral and legal questions not-withstanding, the answer is often yes, using a VPN service. Could res
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by braindongle 9y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks. Interesting. The minifier must be smart enough to know that you're not doing anything with the return value, since the two aren't equivalent in that respect. false && console.log('foo'); &
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by braindongle 9y ago
JS novice here. Is this an idiomatic way to conditionally perform an operation in JS? It saves typing, but if(){} is much more explicit. a && this.oo.push(x.V.TH);
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by braindongle 9y ago
I was aware. Thanks for mentioning that. Personally, I think that the layout of the site, the size of things, the number of clicks it takes to get to particular information are all important when my goal is to understand what messages they
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by braindongle 9y ago
Tangential: I follow cnn.com because they matter and I think we need to read widely these days. I just couldn't deal with the aggressive, auto-play video all over the place, so last week I wrote a userscript to monitor all of their pag
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by braindongle 9y ago
From my pithy mentor: "There are no randomized controlled trials demonstrating the efficacy of parachutes." Similar logic here.
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by braindongle 9y ago
In the context of this thread, I thought: if I don't want the machine to presume male or female, than what do I want it to do? he/she was what I came up with, but this does not address non-binary gender or fluid gender, weakness
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by braindongle 9y ago
It certainly can be difficult to work around gendered language. The point is to think about it and avoid it when you can. You never met your daughter's surgeon: "I'm sure the surgeon did all he could to help her." "
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by braindongle 9y ago
Agreed. I edited my comment to add what I think would be a reasonable way to handle it. "he/she" is just silly for humans to say, but is seems appropriate when the text is coming from a machine and there is uncertainty.
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by braindongle 9y ago
"...such a statistical association is, well, meaningless..." Good point, but it's even worse than meaningless. It's stereotype-reinforcing. That particular inference, that the role in society is such-and-such, so presume
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by braindongle 9y ago
"Crop the beaver"? Seriously? It also says "Shave the beaver"! Is it me? Is this thinly veiled high school innuendo?
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by braindongle 9y ago
Thanks for the thoughts. Room for improvement. I had in mind something more like a bridge toll. Two people leaving NYC, one going to New Jersey, the other to Pennsylvania. To get over the George Washington bridge, they are charged different
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by braindongle 9y ago
Is this an efficient doorway into understanding CSS grid, one that has the bonus of giving you useful code? Or, is this more of a crutch, the output of which will not educate you about the grid goodness? I'd like it to be the former, s
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by braindongle 9y ago
We geeks do indeed need to be armed with apt analogies for Net Neutrality and its absence. My current favorite is: toll booths that charge you different amounts depending on your destination. Or, highways with different speed limits dependi
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by braindongle 9y ago
Great idea. Especially because it's low effort. People just don't stick with things that feel like a chore, but this just takes a moment and gets you thinking about what's right in your life. Nice.
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by braindongle 9y ago
An interesting angle here is the arms race between manipulation and forensics. In image forensics, clever people are using clever techniques to keep us tethered to some notion of authenticity in digital media. Like this guy: http:/&#x
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by braindongle 9y ago
I can imagine something like this being useful in psychotherapy. Your phone could ping you to answer once-per-day, allowing you to optionally enter comments. American Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry are strangely devoid of routine outcom
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by braindongle 9y ago
"Maximization is charging the most you can extract in each sale" Wouldn't that be the price that gets you one, or very few, sales? Isn't demand elasticity still a thing?
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by braindongle 9y ago
Speculation is fine and all, but the "we've got a 70% chance of not starting a full-on revolution in the streets" (paraphrased) claim sure is bold! It's the kind of wild ass speculation that one confines to after-a-few-d

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