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by currymj 8y ago
Some would say the elites in Great Britain simply don't have any respect for scientific knowledge -- this has been argued going back to CP Snow's "Two Cultures" essay. Everybody in power did PPE or whatever and being an
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there’s decades of history about the practice of redlining in the US (good term to Google), as well as more recent court cases related to subprime lending.
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this article is of course reasonable, but what’s depressing is we genuinely have made really incredible strides in machine learning. like enough that it shouldn’t be possible to overhype it. of course people manage though.
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by currymj 8y ago
During the Depression, there was discrimination against internal migrants, famously the "Okies" moving from Oklahoma to western states. They were the subject of all kinds of negative stereotypes, and were sometimes turned away at
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by currymj 8y ago
You can find a copy of “Markov Chains and Mixing Times” online, which is good and relatively accessible.
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by currymj 8y ago
It may be that now editors and journalists get instant feedback about number of clicks, shares, ad impressions and so on, so that they can chase dopamine hits just as much as the audience can.
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by currymj 8y ago
After the Brian Wansink thing, I have a natural skepticism of nutrition science coming out of Cornell, especially with a hypeworthy subject, glossy photos and a PR campaign.
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by currymj 8y ago
wonderful explanation, thank you!
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by currymj 8y ago
I hope a well-informed person will clarify what exactly this means in practice. I have to assume that it will still be possible to compile some code and run the executable without first passing it through Apple’s servers.
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by currymj 8y ago
If you have literally any other option, don't work for these companies.
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From AI to ML to AI: On Swirling Nomenclature and Slurried Thought (2018)(approximatelycorrect.com)
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by currymj 8y ago
I miss the days when it was unfashionable to call things "AI". It forced people to think more clearly, and it made the models used sound to normal people like boring applications of numerical optimization, which is pretty accurate
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by currymj 8y ago
people who haven't studied economics tend to think in moral terms that employees deserve a fair wage, and that it's wrong to exploit a desperate person. there may be lots of underlying reasons for these moral intuitions.
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by currymj 8y ago
the law also targets male Jews and Sikhs, though, so the idea that it’s about liberating women doesn’t make much sense.
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by currymj 8y ago
adding the crucifix ban is a ridiculous fig leaf, as there's no obligation to wear an enormous crucifix in any Christian sect that I know of. whereas there is clearly an actual obligation to wear a kippah, headscarf, or turban. the bil
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by currymj 8y ago
this is true but I am okay with GS having my data and using it for their own nefarious schemes; I am bothered by the idea that it may be shared promiscuously with dozens of data brokers and companies in a personally identifiable form.
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by currymj 8y ago
do those have privacy features, and do they promise not to share your purchasing history? (not intended as rhetorical question, if you are a credit card nerd maybe you know of cards that can compete with Apple in this area.) i care about th
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by currymj 8y ago
excellent exploration of this idea in the wonderful history book “The Secrets of Alchemy”. the author actually followed some alchemical recipes which were thought to be nonsense. yet under the right conditions (using iron implements, bad co
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by currymj 8y ago
there is some chance this will completely reverse around February 2021 if a different administration is elected. the current White House has promoted paranoia towards China, and made a general push to curtail even legal immigration.
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by currymj 8y ago
Extremely pleased to see the weird feud with Schmidhuber sparking up again, completely pointless feuds like that are very entertaining, especially since all involved figures have done good work and don't seem to be sabotaging each othe
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by currymj 8y ago
it's in the Style section, which has basically always been writing articles about weird trends among a small number of rich people. readers have been complaining about this nonstop since it got started almost 30 years ago. generally wh
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by currymj 8y ago
People who get seriously into optimizing credit card rewards won't go for it. But that's a niche audience. For me, I'm basically indifferent between all credit cards in terms of rewards, but the promise of stronger privacy an
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by currymj 8y ago
they have been quietly hiring a lot of experts in differential privacy. there are various schemes for doing machine learning on populations while hiding information about individuals. it seems likely that this is part of their strategy.
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by currymj 8y ago
as media luminary Matt Levine has often pointed out, the blockchain doesn't solve a technological problem in cases like this, it solves a social and organizational problem. at a big bank, managing the process of modernizing or replacin
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by currymj 8y ago
there was a strong model of the world in AlphaGo, which allowed it to accurately simulate games that followed the rules. that is quite a lot of domain expertise, much more than in most ML systems.
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by currymj 8y ago
where can I find out more about this? all I'm going by is them saying in their keynote that its running "on the Stadia instance".
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by currymj 8y ago
I haven't personally tried to do anything on an AMD GPU, but AMD actually has a very active GitHub repository https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/tensorflow-upstream . If you go through the issues you can get
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by currymj 8y ago
this is certainly just a neat gimmick, but it's interesting to me for a particular reason: the Stadia box uses an AMD GPU, and per the Google announcement, all the style transfer is done in real time. this suggests that we may soon hav
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by currymj 8y ago
The mainstream way of thinking says "the government must tax in order to spend" whereas MMT says "if the government wants to spend it will have to tax".
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by currymj 8y ago
the idea of the p-value is a useful and reasonable one. it's a good statistical tool that can help you tell whether your results are due to something real in the world or just dumb luck. the problem is people leaning on it too heavily

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