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by cirgue 9y ago
> Everyone's perception is shaped by their environment - you are no exception. Different people interact with media differently. We can probably say something interesting about loud people with extremist opinions on the internet tha
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by cirgue 9y ago
> I wish I could nerd out with more of my friends, instead of talking about hiking/skiing/whatever. I guess the grass is always greener :) I would be happy to trade!
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> That idea of rationality, and rationality over all other concerns, still holds a lot of sway in economic discussions. Rationality in economics is typically assumed to mean that an actor can unambiguously rank order preferences. It typi
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by cirgue 9y ago
> What's the name for the bias whereby someone reads this list once or twice and then thinks they are immune to cognitive biases? ;-) Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/795/
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by cirgue 9y ago
> People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t. People love some of the products that silicon valley produces. They definitely don't like the tech industry's staggering myopia, arrog
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by cirgue 9y ago
Non-users are also exposed to the problem because not using those services weakens social networks and interpersonal relationships.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Deflationary assets can be good investments but are terrible mediums of exchange. The Fed has an inflation target and not a deflation target for a reason. Or did I miss the sarcasm here?
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by cirgue 9y ago
> reducing that exploration to a proxy for your worldview and consequently making character judgements or finding a way to get offended to the point where the identity politics card gets played The problem with the internet is that you o
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by cirgue 9y ago
Vertica and Teradata are two others that seem to be popular among really big enterprises.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> The commentary doesn't specify, but what private sector use of OSS might be declining rapidly? Does this claim have any merit? I'm an engineer at a fortune 50, and from where I am sitting this is claim as no merit at all. Our
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by cirgue 9y ago
> We've always lived in a world where the best liar wins. True, but we also seem to have collectively become a lot more skittish about excoriating bullshit because "everyone does it". That's definitely not the optimal
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by cirgue 9y ago
This has been my experience working in enterprise. There is an enormous amount of "tactically motivated analytics" going on, and not just within the realm of marketing.
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by cirgue 9y ago
>The reputation is where the bias lies. So there's a difference between bias, which exists in every human communication imaginable, and abjectly bad writing and reporting. The major problem today is the latter. > Also, note that
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by cirgue 9y ago
> With the exception of encyclopedias (and even then...), newspapers (owned by robber barons since day one, and then later mega-corps), text books (read "lies my teacher told me") etc have always been about profit. This is a pr
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by cirgue 9y ago
Empirically, single-company incentive/abatement efforts tend to be exceptionally bad deals for municipalities.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> We have a problem with the distribution of wealth and this is where the anger comes from. This is a tractable problem for a society that has the capacity for reasonable public discourse. This is a completely intractable problem for a s
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by cirgue 9y ago
Another major problem in consulting projects is accountability. There is no central repository of data on major consulting firm's success rates, and there is no way for most administrators to objectively determine the risk associated w
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by cirgue 9y ago
The processes that generate a huge proportion of online content do so to maximize ad revenue. You might not be aware of ads, but the advertising economy is still a major force in what information you and many others see on a daily basis.
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by cirgue 9y ago
People want gold not because it took energy to mine, but because other people also want gold. Gold is like any other currency system, except that the process that controls supply is basically stochastic (and there is a small industrial dema
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You don't have to be. What's your point?
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This is also the world institutional humanity has lived in for several centuries.
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by cirgue 9y ago
The outfitter that I used to work for. I taught whitewater kayaking. Great people, play outside all day, interesting clientele, sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. It never once felt like work. The pay was not good by software in
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Just because you don't think of him as a politician doesn't mean that he won't do a good job. This is a really silly argument. Zuckerberg is not a bad candidate because it is hard to imagine him as a politician. He is a
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> But today anyone can ask IBM for some Watson queries That's the metric for cool AI functionality? The Watson query tool is basically a search engine with a layer of (not super reliable) text synthesis over it. It would be more i
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by cirgue 9y ago
> What I've never understood is why anyone does drugs to begin with, under any circumstances. Poverty and the lack of opportunities to participate constructively in society do really fucked up things to human psychology. The current
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by cirgue 9y ago
People in the future will probably view smartphone use/ the internet in general similar to how many people view television now: as an activity that is fun on occasion, but is mostly a boring waste of time and generally bad for kids.
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by cirgue 9y ago
"Culture' is an exceptionally poorly defined term, and there is no hope of applying any kind of rigor here. Most of the time it's shorthand for a constellation of behaviors that a) exist independently of each other across cul
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by cirgue 9y ago
Playing the crazy card is the only thing the NK regime has going for it strategically. Kim Jong Un wants to make sure that the prospect of regime change in NK is as unappealing as possible for the US, China, SK, and anyone else that might w
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Do you not think that easily available distraction is a cause of and not a solution to this problem?
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Machine learning systems that perform a job and make money are still overwhelmingly stats-based, and the knowledge required to understand, tune, and optimize any ml system, regardless of design, are based on statistics and always will be.

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