danblick

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by danblick 9y ago
I'm glad you're questioning that assertion, but I don't think your counter-argument is very convincing. The economics of the printing press were different than the economics facing Google. For example: Google search benefit
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"But, probably the most important channel of adjustment is through reductions in labor turnover, which yield significant cost savings to employers." If this is the case, you'd think employers would have an incentive to raise
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by danblick 9y ago
Doesn't your argument basically assume the first company will always be able to hire workers? If wages are so bad, workers would seek other options, like developing a skill or taking a job in a different industry. http://blo
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by danblick 9y ago
Just in case anyone was unsure, that's not the libertarian argument. (It's maybe the Malthusian argument, and Malthus failed to account for technological development and declining birth rates.)
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by danblick 9y ago
This kind of reminds me of the Econtalk episode on "why the law is so perverse". There's a sense that people can't make rational decisions under conditions of extreme stress. "I think part of the reason is we worry
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by danblick 9y ago
I'm less certain than you are that good online education resources for K-12 would also mean the end of teacher jobs. The anecdote about bank teller jobs and ATMs comes to mind - https://www.aei.org/publication/what
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by danblick 9y ago
Something like this: http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20130710/could-artifi... "After a while, Swithers said, it's like the mouth keeps crying wolf, and the brain and gut stop listening. As a
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by danblick 9y ago
It's been a while since I learned the scientific method per se, but I remember something about "repeatable, controlled experiments". There are many, many questions in life just can't be studied in a repeatable, controlle
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by danblick 9y ago
I'm not suggesting we ignore evidence; I'm just saying we should be honest about what the evidence really shows and also honest about our inability to collect conclusive evidence at times. I agree that mouse studies can show that
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Worse, it would mean violating my Microsoft boycott. ;)
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by danblick 9y ago
Perhaps I'm just eccentric, but I avoid artificial sweeteners because I think they support behaviors that will ultimately lead to weight gain. (In particular I suspect we may subconsciously learn that sweet foods do not provide energy.
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Declining Profitability for New Miners Threatens Bitcoin Decentralization(cryptocoinsnews.com)
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by danblick 9y ago
If you read the jobs page at SRI, there's a bunch of stuff about modeling microwave communications/in the atmosphere/for offensive cyber. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy were involved in that sort of mission.
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by danblick 9y ago
Am I wrong to see this as a bit scandalous for computer vision as a field before 2012? (It kind of seems like maybe a decade of research at the Berkeley CS department will be tossed out?)
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by danblick 9y ago
Doesn't the claim that "algorithms need to look at better (high quality, informative) examples" suggest they will need to use less storage, not more?
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by danblick 9y ago
If you manage to offend 8 people above you in the org chart (without winning others to defend you), and you get fired solely because these people don't trust you, what's the case against that?
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by danblick 9y ago
Probably not. Hiring is expensive and time consuming, as is training up new employees.
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by danblick 9y ago
I wonder if maybe it's intended for use when the filesystem is intentionally wiped out, maybe so you can deny any data exists on a disk at all. (Like anti-forensics?) I don't know, I've never really wanted to do anything like
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by danblick 9y ago
In the curriculum for Udacity's self-driving car nanodegree program, your suggestion was made explicitly. ~"(re: why are we focusing on vision?) Humans drive with just our eyes (even one eye would work), perhaps in the future cars
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by danblick 9y ago
Lately I've been thinking about how funny it is that we make heroes out of the heads of tech companies. Especially in technology, does anyone really believe that if these particular individuals hadn't contributed their talents, th
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by danblick 10y ago
Is there any hope I'll be able to find a major ISP that doesn't sell my data? (Google Fiber, I wish?)
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by danblick 10y ago
Fairvote.org works on electoral reform issues that are meant to help with issues like this. I think that "the marketplace of ideas" in the US is too much of an oligopoly. Ideas like single transferable vote seem like realistic op
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by danblick 10y ago
Near my old workplace there was an incident where somebody tried to set a fire at night and the police got involved. The criminal got away that night, but I was impressed that they actually caught him a few days later. I got to thinking ab
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by danblick 10y ago
You make a good point that Netflix has a pretty sophisticated system for delivering video (not just served from AWS Cloudfront). However IIUC they still use AWS for preparing video files for their CDN.
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by danblick 10y ago
Okay but that does not solve the problem I am concerned about. That doesn't ensure a diverse mining pool. Already it doesn't make sense for me to mine Bitcoin (I don't have access to these ASICs). I think that economic forc
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by danblick 10y ago
In this context "deliberate practice" means more than just "practicing on purpose". The description here looks okay: http://expertenough.com/1423/deliberate-practice However in Ericsson's book
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by danblick 10y ago
This article seems to support my suggestion. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/declining-profitability-for-... Quoting the conclusion of the referenced paper: "Each future halving of the Bitcoin block reward will narrow
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by danblick 10y ago
If you accept that (1) there are economies of scale in Bitcoin mining and (2) miners are rational and will only mine when it is profitable, then doesn't this suggest that large amounts of mining power should become concentrated in the
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by danblick 10y ago
I only learned about "head on" in the last month or so. In case anyone missed the reference, it's an annoying TV commercial: https://youtu.be/f_SwD7RveNE
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by danblick 10y ago
How do you measure - measure a job search? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7LRuusFqo

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