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by cowpig 10y ago
I don't think this is a problem that's specific to any one bias, nor will it go away when "rogue employees" are dealt with. I think this is an issue that's inherent to turning dials to tune what you want people to s
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by cowpig 11y ago
Those "house percentage" numbers in the last section don't make any sense to me. House edges per bet aren't nearly that bad[1] (and if they were nobody would ever have fun at casinos), and if the numbers are based on the
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by cowpig 11y ago
I really find it discouraging that Sam Altman is at the top of that list. Most of his articles fall into two categories: promoting things that will make him money directly[1], or myopic musings/self-serving advice to people that will m
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Show HN: Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser(cowpig.github.io)
3 points by cowpig 11y ago|1 comments
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by cowpig 11y ago
You seem to be implying that the current minimum wage system is effective in some way. Try living in any city in the US on minimum wage... Tips are weakly proportional to rents and other costs of living (restaurants have to charge enough to
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by cowpig 11y ago
I see tipping as just a form of socially-enforced minimum wage. Since businesses are unwilling to pay their employees reasonable salaries, and the government is unwilling to regulate wages, tipping has become a way to make earning a living
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by cowpig 11y ago
Can you please please stop publishing in Nature (and behind paywalls in general)? I don't attend an expensive university but I like to learn things.
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by cowpig 11y ago
> Other than these I use Lyft, Spotify, Dropbox, Drive, Amazon Underground, Phone, SMS, and Calendar. Instagram is my only social media app, mostly because I think the @soylent account is awesome. Signal, phone, google maps, firefox&#x2F
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by cowpig 11y ago
Pigoons!
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by cowpig 11y ago
I kinda feel like a cranky old man saying this, but I miss the days when this would be a thread on a forum and not a 'news' article
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by cowpig 11y ago
> a government agency whose budget depends on a perception of ever-bigger threats will be more reluctant to violate people's privacy than Facebook What makes you think that a public ISP/whatever would rely on 'ever-bigger
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by cowpig 11y ago
Does this nvidia-hosted history include the hundreds of thousands of man-hours developers have spent trying to get their models to train on nvidia GPUs in linux?
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by cowpig 11y ago
> did his high math regression analysis thing, put the data in the computer, and out comes this bell shaped curve where the perfect amount of sweetness, not too little, not too much, is at the very top of the curve What is High Math, exa
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Rustic Automata [video](aeon.co)
1 points by cowpig 11y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 11y ago
All I want is a quick summary of the data (and methodology) the people mentioned are using to come to their conclusions.
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by cowpig 11y ago
To me this just mirrors what people would write about drinking in the prohibition era[1]. There are some people for whom gambling is a profitable profession (I was one such person), some for whom gambling is a reasonable recreational activi
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by cowpig 11y ago
It's mentioned in the article that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) this was tacked onto a must-pass safe port bill hours before adjournment for 2006 elections. It doesn't go into much detail. From wi
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by cowpig 11y ago
The headline "Boeing releases ...." led me to believe that this research had been done at Boeing. Is my assumption unreasonable or is the reporting disingenuous?
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by cowpig 11y ago
Avaaz Foundation | Fully Remote/no visa required | Dev Ops Engineer We're a global activism organization, dedicated to effecting positive change in the world. We tackle such issues as climate change, poverty, and corruption. For m
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by cowpig 11y ago
This reads like a press release from Uber
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by cowpig 11y ago
It's hard to say, because not everyone lists that they came via HN in their applications, but probably ~100.
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by cowpig 11y ago
This is fascinating, wonderful, and tragic story, brilliantly told. Would it would make sense to treat crimes in which there is no victim differently from others?
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by cowpig 11y ago
That's a lot of condescending language and he's basically trying to make the point that he doesn't care about banner fraud because most of the cost is shouldered by people who produce content and not the companies who are pay
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by cowpig 11y ago
Well, you could certainly argue that python has the best machine learning libraries. So it's at worst a relevant programming language to the field. edit: +1 to Andrew Ng's Coursera course though!
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by cowpig 11y ago
In my personal experience, charter schools in the nyc area are working wonders. I think that we could learn some things from that program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_schools_in_the_United_... While I admit t
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Invisible Child (2013)(nytimes.com)
1 points by cowpig 11y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 11y ago
Avaaz Foundation | fully remote | no visa required We're a global activism organization, dedicated to affecting positive change in the world. We tackle such issues as climate change, poverty, and corruption. For more information, check
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Montreal 311 Service Requests – an analysis(nicolas.kruchten.com)
5 points by cowpig 11y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 11y ago
This article comes off as judgmental and out of touch. I dropped out of school because I didn't like it and was miserable. I was in school because that's what people do at 18. Five years later I had a lot more life experience, a c
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by cowpig 11y ago
I work for a global campaigning/petitioning organization and one of our focuses is climate change. I'm wondering who the key players are, what is currently being done, whether there's opportunity for public pressure to influe

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