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by carschno 5y ago
I fully agree with the addition that personal interaction can make waiting for 15 minutes acceptable if a reasonable explanation is given. I can accept that something has gone wrong if somebody feels responsible and apologizes for the misha
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by carschno 5y ago
I suppose exams of which answers are googleable are not very useful for anything other than pushing piles of facts (temporarily) into students' heads. But I also suppose that the Syrian governement is probably not the best counterpart
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by carschno 5y ago
It is mentioned: > Some Python plotting and mapping libraries offer minimal interactions – hover interactions, tooltips, interactive legends, etc.. This includes Plotly, Bokeh w/Holoviews and Altair w/vegalite. On the mapping s
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by carschno 5y ago
> However, it would most probably not be worth using such an approach because of the prohibitive computational cost. Looking at the current state of the art (Transformer etc), computational cost certainly is not the main issue.
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by carschno 5y ago
By these standards, everyone (in such a position) is always in some "conflict of interest". Had Fauci blamed that lab, he certainly would have been, as his organization also funds its competitors, and of course because he works fo
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by carschno 5y ago
When reading on all these work-from-home discussions, it seems pretty clear that the commute is the main factor. If I had to commute to my office by car or (crowded) public transport for an hour or more, I would hate going there. I am lucky
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by carschno 5y ago
I think the machine learning part in that is massively exaggerated, perhaps to avoid personal responsibility. Detecting the patterns in commercially successful movies hardly requires complex pattern recognition algorithms. I would claim tha
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by carschno 5y ago
That is one way to see it, aka a political opinion.
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by carschno 5y ago
Can you elaborate? I couldn't find anything toegang, but googling this without more information is hard. For starters, what does "African" refer to?
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by carschno 5y ago
Books are typically paid for indeed (even if you get them through a library etc.). Blog posts are an edge case, but the rise of paywalled sites indicate that more authors think they should be paid for their work. The interesting point here
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by carschno 5y ago
They could also hire people to do that necessary job.
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by carschno 5y ago
While I appreciate the approach of making "the world" a bit better once you see a chance to do so, I also don't think a company like Google should (be able to) leave it to random internet users to clean up their mess.
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by carschno 5y ago
That is also why media is one of the first targets of most "electoral" autocracies. This can be seen in European countries like Hungary and Turkey where independent media has more or less disappeared, and they are massively attac
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by carschno 5y ago
Ads are not primarily about making the user consciously _like_ a product. They are about making the user _know_ a product or brand. Once they are in the mood or need of buying something, product X "feels" vaguely familiar. This is
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Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine patents to boost supply(bbc.com)
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by carschno 5y ago
One essential point about this philosophical branch of AI research is to investigate where "intelligence" and "understanding" really begin. Saying "the computer does not understand and thus is not intelligent"
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by carschno 6y ago
UEFA is the European Football Association in which all national football leagues are associated. They organize European tournaments in which the top clubs of these national leagues play each other, while also playing in their national leagu
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by carschno 6y ago
The idea has been, presumably, to acquire much more TV licensing money from outside Europe, where people are not so much interested in the smaller "local" clubs; so they would pay more for seeing high-profile clubs against each ot
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by carschno 6y ago
Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism ) should be mentioned in this context, with his references to the "big Other", for instance Stalin's Whi
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by carschno 6y ago
The US is a pretty large market, plus carrier bundling is quite common in Europe too. You are usually free to choose a non-bundled phone as well, but I have no ideas what the numbers are. Within the bundled packages, my impression is that S
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Finland Had a Patent-Free Covid-19 Vaccine 9 Months Ago, but Went Big Pharma(jacobinmag.com)
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by carschno 6y ago
I wonder how this relates to the "15 minute city" concept discussed in (at least) many European cities like Paris: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201214-how-15-minute-... The concepts seem _very_
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by carschno 6y ago
This is amazing, thanks! Not sure how exactly you calculate, but couldn't you extend this tool "automatically" (I know there are pitfalls) to all places in the world which are well covered by OpenStreetMap?
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by carschno 6y ago
On the Papers without Code page, however, I see only 11 submitted papers, out of which 5 have been marked as resolved: https://airtable.com/shrWz8OF3uMZ8G4cY/tbl5ZzB7ahIui1EoD This does not seem very good data to empir
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by carschno 6y ago
I have no reason to doubt that this is factual. However, I have serious doubt that management will acknowledge they made that decision. Typically, this kind of decisions are made more or less implicitly during long meetings about priorities
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by carschno 6y ago
The goal of an ad is mostly to make potential buyers aware of a specific product/brand. Hence, showing ads to potential buyers is most effective, even if many/most will not become actual buyers (like you, apparently). The conversi
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by carschno 6y ago
Would you have one example of "how Obama is still seen as the messiah to socialist[s]"?
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by carschno 6y ago
Weighing economic costs against a human's right to live looks like a very strong indicator for a barbaric society to me. Although I'm aware that this is done (implicitly) in probably all societies to some degree.
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by carschno 6y ago
If the sample consists of volunteers, it's hardly random. In particular, given that these volunteers are "low-risk people", it means that the results of this experiment will yield virtually no useful conclusions for the highe
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Banning Trump won't fix social media: 10 ideas to rebuild our broken internet(theguardian.com)
1 points by carschno 6y ago|0 comments

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