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by clavalle 8y ago
What this breaks down to is that not everything that is valued can be expressed in hard currency. The idea that hard currency is a universal lingua franca is deeply flawed and you've hit on a very good example of one area that is stark
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by clavalle 8y ago
Why can't you let your kids roam in a suburb?
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by clavalle 8y ago
You don't need a PhD to do data science. It sounds like data science is more in line with your experience and interests.
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by clavalle 8y ago
My vote for dumbest fad would be using business tropes on rank and file employees and, worse, clients. No rank and file employee wants to be a 'brand ambassador' and clients don't want to rate your 'sense of urgency&#x27
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by clavalle 8y ago
Honestly, that's more than most that come out with their own pet data transfer standards. But, looking at the models, there is a loooong way to go. And once you have more than a handful of these very small, very shallow models they&#x
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by clavalle 8y ago
Let me repeat this loudly so people in the back can hear: TRANSPORT MECHANISMS ARE NOT DATA STANDARDS! It is great that they want to build on REST and use common authentication standards and what-not: but that's not the hard problem.
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by clavalle 8y ago
Let me ask you this: how much would you bet that he didn't? Because I'd be willing to bet $100 that he did. Am I sure? No. It is impossible to be sure. But I think it's highly likely considering the detail of the article
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by clavalle 8y ago
It is interesting to see how we got here. Seeing a long arc of...dismissed ideas, let's say, can give us perspective on the ideas we hold today that are more or less a historical accident and, hopefully, the conceptual room to change
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by clavalle 8y ago
Knewton is very cool, thanks for the link. I'm assuming they break things down into traditional objective units within a standard curriculum and material that is relevant. That's great but it is a very manual process. Remember Yah
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by clavalle 8y ago
Sure. Existing adaptive tests were an inspiration for the idea, of course. But putting together a good adaptive test is, itself, very time-consuming. And the test itself doesn't do more than measure ability. The crux of the idea is t
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by clavalle 8y ago
Well, the hope was that Watson, having explored and built a connected knowledge graph from various sources, could ask probing, adaptive questions to find out where a person landed. So, say I'm an undergrad at a good university and I te
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by clavalle 8y ago
I briefly worked with a Watson team on a cool idea to map a person's 'knowledge space' (or probable knowledge space given their background) against Watson's knowledge space and guide them to relevant learning materials a
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by clavalle 8y ago
I'd prefer an animal not be tortured before I eat them. And that's the concern, here; torture.
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by clavalle 8y ago
For the same reason it is ok to collect felon's fingerprints to compare to crime scenes...the felons have shown they commit crimes.
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by clavalle 9y ago
Your criteria are almost exactly what I assign. I start with a phone screen. Then onto a (relatively short 45 min to an hour and a half) face-to-face. This is a 'let's get to know each other and our expectations' low-stress
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by clavalle 9y ago
I think I heard the maxim once "If it can be abused, it will be abused." We need to start getting ahead of worst-case scenarios and to hell with people that think that approach is paranoid.
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by clavalle 9y ago
And the claims section basically says 'collect online data, compare it to a trained socioeconomic classifier and classify said data into socioeconomic groups'.
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by clavalle 9y ago
https://weekly.biotechprimer.com/putting-the-car-t-before-th...
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by clavalle 9y ago
So, any degree of coercion means there is an involuntary transaction, full stop? And, second question, should involuntary transactions be considered illegitimate like slavery or a mugging?
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by clavalle 9y ago
>An employee has plenty of time to peruse offers in the marketplace before accepting one of them, and even more time after accepting one of them. You seem to be extrapolating middle-class experience and choices to the working poor and be
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by clavalle 9y ago
>Lastly, a transaction is either voluntary or it is not. There are no degrees of 'voluntary' if you use the word in the conventional sense. If that were true there would be no such thing as coercion. There would be 'force
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by clavalle 9y ago
While it is the norm (certainly taught as the norm) to profit by coming together in a transaction where both parties leave with more value it is also possible to profit by taking value. This can be done through outright robbery but it can
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by clavalle 9y ago
And that's great if you want a collection of uncontroversial answers to common questions. But if you want to go off the beaten track a bit it leads to problems. And any expert is going to ask questions off the beaten track. So...they a
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by clavalle 9y ago
I've had a some outsourcing successes and failures. In the first one, I got what I deserved. I underpaid developers from a poorer country who ended up being 'yes' men who continually checked in catastrophic, unmaintainable c
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by clavalle 9y ago
The Pedant Police make Stack Overflow very difficult to use.
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by clavalle 9y ago
Each is a creative and skilled discipline focused on bringing things into the world that haven't existed before for the advancement of humankind. I have no issues. It seems to mirror the ascent of design in the tech world. Might as we
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by clavalle 9y ago
Like any right, there is no absolute. When your rights conflict with my rights there has to be a limit placed on one, the other, or both. Finding a simplistic approach that will work in 100% of cases is impossible. Once that is realized yo
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by clavalle 9y ago
Yeah. The main problem with keeping a space station at a stable orbit above Earth is friction with the atmosphere. There might be small adjustments that need to be made where Earth's atmosphere is almost completely negligible but ther
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by clavalle 9y ago
It would work (maybe) but the generated current would be about 50,000 times weaker than it would be using the Earth's magnetic field...at least at the distance of Earth from the Sun.
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by clavalle 9y ago
I don't think morality has much to do with it. Taking violence out of transactions by simultaneously making the consequences of violence very expensive and the alternatives to violent dispute resolution relatively inexpensive is what m

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