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by ckcheng 7y ago
Yeah, it's like their algorithm misses that once you've got X, you probably don't want X (at least not for a while). But I wonder why they don't just flip the prediction? If you bought X, then advertise anything but X.
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China takes desperate, “wartime” measures to stop coronavirus in Wuhan(arstechnica.com)
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Boeing's botched Starliner test flirted with 'catastrophic' failure: NASA panel(reuters.com)
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The transfer problem in computing education(medium.com)
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A European Commission proposal to create a single market in data(reuters.com)
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White House proposes regulatory principles to govern AI use(reuters.com)
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U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software(reuters.com)
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by ckcheng 7y ago
Maybe the pure science of ML is descriptive and not prescriptive. But if the rest of the world uses ML prescriptively in application, then in practice it's basically prescriptive. It's a bit like dictionaries: they "learn&qu
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Sleep fragmentation and cognitive impairment in adult Alzheimer’s(advances.sciencemag.org)
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by ckcheng 7y ago
Maybe it's debatable now whose property it is. But I'd imagine many people think it's their own property that they allow Facebook to hold and control on their behalf. The users still retain all the ownership rights associate
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by ckcheng 7y ago
> With more studies showing teachers are not as critical as schools want to believe, maybe we can start focusing on other metrics to gauge suçcess. Like cost of hiring? Seriously, if teachers are not as critical, why not hire less or pay
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by ckcheng 7y ago
> system affects how the flight stick feels and that's really it I kept hearing this too, so I wondered why they didn't just directly change how the stick feels, like with a force feedback system? And I looked it up[1]: Turns
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by ckcheng 7y ago
> a long series of repetitive and routine work every day...aspects that are frictions / repetitiveness / tedious routines...this is what life is Thanks. Just reminded me of this: "One always finds one's burden again.
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by ckcheng 7y ago
How about just the previous older version of VeraCrypt for now?
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by ckcheng 7y ago
The neighbor or utility providers have a say if there's an easement, e.g. you can't build as to block their right-of-way access for maintenance purposes, despite your ownership over the land. Also the developers and architectural
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by ckcheng 7y ago
"deranged dream" = brexit?
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by ckcheng 7y ago
At right angle means the screw is loaded in shear rather than tension right? And that's why screwing in deck boards is good, but not for joists. Use nails for that instead, unless using engineered screws. So I'd be curious if you
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by ckcheng 8y ago
> Maybe someone will make a react-qt project. There's https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop It'd be nice to have a React Native for GTK though. There's https://github.com/
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Lack of leisure: Is busyness the new status symbol?(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by ckcheng 10y ago|0 comments
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In a world without work, being busy will be the new status symbol(cbc.ca)
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by ckcheng 10y ago
Printing out or otherwise saving the QR code (somewhere safe) is also the only way to have a backup code in case the device is lost or broken, because they don't provide one-time backup codes (unlike pretty much everyone else). Then ag
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by ckcheng 10y ago
I'm also happy to pay - it's less than Netflix. It would be great to go ad-free so I could watch online without the commercials. I watch it almost daily. The thought also occurs to me that if CBC could make headway into immigran
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The way out of burnout: why simply trying to relax doesn’t always work(1843magazine.com)
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by ckcheng 10y ago
Some use LibreOffice to maintain compatibility and consistency between Mac, Windows, and Linux. I switch between all three platforms regularly, and it's nice that LO has tri-platform compatibility. LibreOffice also makes it easy to re
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Canadian File Sharing Lawsuit Could Upend Copyright Privacy Protections(michaelgeist.ca)
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by ckcheng 11y ago
I've got quite a few old ClarisWorks files as well. At some point I realized all that data would become unreadable (at least not easily) when that file format becomes unsupported. So I went through every ClarisWorks file (with a scrip
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by ckcheng 11y ago
I think "legally and practically prevented" is key here. Not sure if anyone noticed but this article is like a continuation of the story from days ago [1] when the judge in the case "questioned the government’s authority to c
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by ckcheng 11y ago
It was a light-hearted article, but the maple syrup issue made me wonder, so I (unbelievably) did some checking. The quote about "poutine, Nanaimo bars, and butter tarts" was in the context of "Some words refer to things Amer
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by ckcheng 12y ago
Actually the rules around the P.Eng. titles are provincially regulated as opposed to federally, meaning the rules in Ontario (where apparently the term "Engineer" is protected) is different than in Alberta (where the protected ter
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by ckcheng 12y ago
Besides workload issues, I think some people who drop computer/software engineering programs to go into computing science programs may simply be finding that they have no interest in things like physics or chemistry at the university l

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