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by bschne 6y ago
I think they do use "donated" credentials in the background, but the article makes it sound like people would be phished into handing over their logins, which is not the case at all.
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by bschne 6y ago
This article is giving me a major case of Gell-Mann Amnesia. The writing follows no thread, the article contains no more information than interleaving parts of two press releases would give you, it's a complete mess. This would not pas
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by bschne 6y ago
There's a paper by Schmidhuber [1] in which he argues, IIRC, that not the surprise as in high or just-right entropy is what satisfies the observer of e.g. art, but the fact that it teaches you a new, previously unknown pattern of regul
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by bschne 6y ago
Mc Hammer is debating philosophy on twitter and clubhouse these days, who knows, might still happen
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by bschne 6y ago
I thought „pump and dump“ refers to coordinated penny stock fraud whereas this was less of a coordinated scam and more the internet being the internet?
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by bschne 6y ago
I loved this footnote: "NB: if puzzled by a pawn move, please check for en passant before reporting a bug"
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by bschne 6y ago
Coursera has definitely aggregated some great content, but the evaluations on most of the courses if you go for the certificate are ridiculous — it works well for auto-graded programming assignments, but so much of the other stuff is peer-g
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by bschne 6y ago
If I understand this correctly, A—E are not individual actively-managed funds, but actively managed portfolios of actively managed funds? It would be interesting to see the distribution of returns among the contained funds. I lean heavily p
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by bschne 6y ago
The problem with this approach is twofold: a) At the margin, a few people doing this does _nothing_ to mess with big companies' data collection & analysis. But opting out also has the same problem, obviously, so at least it's
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FarmOS – web-based application for farm management, planning, and record keeping(farmos.org)
3 points by bschne 6y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
This is such an odd choice of pricing model. The usual approach is to say you get multi-device sync as part of a paid plan and single-device usage for free, or to place an upper limit on the device count, not count of types of devices. My g
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Animation Is Eating the World(michaeldempsey.me)
2 points by bschne 6y ago|0 comments
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Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says(wtsp.com)
579 points by bschne 6y ago|290 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
I've never actually gotten around to diving into this topic before, but every time one of Tai-Danae Bradley's publications pops up I am awed by how much care she puts into crafting these from the layout to the illustrations
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by bschne 6y ago
I loved reading this earlier! > well - have you heard the story of statistical prediction rules in medicine? That just crossed my mind recently with all the talk of bias in AI/ML applications (let's not say "algorithms&quo
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Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics(astralcodexten.substack.com)
104 points by bschne 6y ago|30 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
If you want to see more about him, there's also a short documentary on youtube[1], and he has apparently written an autobiography called "Thanks for Coming!". - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KSizpv_1g
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Jim Haynes: A man who invited the world over for dinner(bbc.com)
1 points by bschne 6y ago|1 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
Yes, but to me the important difference lies in what proportion of that learning curve is conceptual/inherent in the domain (knowing what 100 filters and their parameters, or 25 different layer blend modes do; Learning what filter you
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by bschne 6y ago
TBH I don't know, it seems to be mostly tech and tech policy people, but the hype with people mentioning it on LinkedIn et a. has gotten to the point where mainstream media is covering it. One thing I've noticed: If one of my cont
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by bschne 6y ago
Joined yesterday after it started taking off in part of Europe for some reason or other. First impression is that it's nice that people talk longer, don't cut each other off as much as in other debates, etc. but it definitely soun
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by bschne 6y ago
There's definitely a point about commercial software overfitting on first-use experience as opposed to reaching a higher productivity / usefulness plateau with some initial investment. That being said, I would not overly romantici
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by bschne 6y ago
I've seen the tiktok meme taken up on twitter, but somehow it's always the same song (Wellerman) and only about 2-3 variants of it being reposted. Is this a bigger thing with more variety that's going on on tiktok, or is it j
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Edelman Trust Barometer 2021 [pdf](edelman.com)
1 points by bschne 6y ago|0 comments
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Unendurable Line [video](vimeo.com)
1 points by bschne 6y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
Ha, this reminded me of Ted Chiang's short story "Exhalation" — great read! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhalation_(short_story)
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Hidden Cities(nadiaeghbal.com)
1 points by bschne 6y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
Not sure where you're getting this from my post, but that is false. I actually deleted it, did not log in again during the "grace period" where they will just reactivate it, and my new account I created was initially empty (n
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by bschne 6y ago
Isn't the existence of large enough centrally controlled networks for this exploitation to become possible pretty much inseparable from it becoming a public topic that gets addressed by governements and discussed by the wider public? I
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by bschne 6y ago
I signed up for facebook again a few days ago because I need an account to manage some events / pages whose target demo is still reachable on the platform. My account was dead for about two years or so before that. Within a minute or t

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