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by czzr 6y ago
I suppose part of this is fashion, but I’m sure that part of the explanation is resale value. Choosing an inoffensive colour makes it easier to sell, and I think (anecdotally) that that consideration became more prominent over time.
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Black LinkedIn Is Thriving. Does LinkedIn Have a Problem with That?(nytimes.com)
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Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world’s largest botnet(washingtonpost.com)
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by czzr 6y ago
As often, xkcd nailed it: https://xkcd.com/1886/
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by czzr 6y ago
“researchers from three Boston-based universities showed children are proficient at learning a second language up until the age of 18, roughly 10 years later than earlier estimates. But the study also showed that it is best to start by age
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by czzr 6y ago
Because few humans are writing “no I’m not” in response to that question in the training corpus.
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by czzr 6y ago
Excel can deal with it, as long as you store the data in rows not columns. Storing in columns is so odd and inconvenient that honestly I cannot imagine how someone managed to build this. (Assuming the stories about this are correct, I don’t
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by czzr 6y ago
Behavioural profiling is perfectly fine, racial profiling is not. The problem with algorithmic based approaches is that they often embed naive correlations that apply population statistics to individual people - this is exactly what you don
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by czzr 6y ago
Why are you trying to publish it in a journal?
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by czzr 6y ago
2007
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by czzr 6y ago
Actually SSRN is a preprint server, so this has not been peer reviewed.
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by czzr 6y ago
Obviously people do buy them otherwise they would stop. Passenger luggage is targeted partly because it is pure cost, but also it’s a price discrimination mechanism.
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by czzr 6y ago
It’s a phone. An iPod. A revolutionary internet communicator. A phone. An iPod. A revolutionary internet communicator. Are you getting it?
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by czzr 6y ago
It’s also the sort of response this got: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray To pick one of many, many examples. There are errors in both directions (dismissing correct ideas, accepting pseudoscience), and overly sim
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by czzr 6y ago
It’s ok - I got to nit pick and sneak a physics joke into HN, so all good. Thanks for the link to the book, that is fun.
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by czzr 6y ago
That’s not a limerick, though. A limerick has 5 lines, for example: There once was a young lady called Bright Who travelled much faster than light She left one day, In a relative way, And returned on the previous night!
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by czzr 6y ago
How is that related to this?
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by czzr 6y ago
Could you give one example? (Of making an agreement and then threatening to intentionally break it very soon after?)
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by czzr 6y ago
Basic research is a public good, and corporations will not provide enough of it.
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by czzr 6y ago
Somebody should train a model to do it.
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by czzr 6y ago
But it’s easier to find Arab women. Or an Irish girlfriend of an Arab man. Or two old Korean people. (All real examples)
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by czzr 6y ago
I have never asked this before, as it’s usually a useless question, but - why on Earth is this being upvoted? There is nothing edifying about this thread. Coincidentally I was wondering the other day if there was a good summary of the desig
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by czzr 6y ago
It was FaceTime and there was a patent issue.
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by czzr 6y ago
Completely off topic but - the US today “EU experience” is amazing. Just a simple clean page you can read.
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by czzr 6y ago
It’s not a job, you don’t have to feel bad about that ;-)
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by czzr 6y ago
Presumably displace as a default global assumption. Don’t see it happening myself - it will follow economic power, not population.
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by czzr 6y ago
Definitely not what I saw - strange that it would be different for different users. Doesn’t seem to be something that would be personalised.
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by czzr 6y ago
Interestingly a current search still shows this, and the root cause is the fact that there are no pictures of Greg Egan available. This is a fascinating failure mode - Google works on a best effort basis, so it doesn’t have a strong enough
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by czzr 6y ago
This is a great read. If I understand correctly they basically built an analog computer into the front of the missile.
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by czzr 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what’s the issue with those names in Japanese?

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