derbOac

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   by derbOac 1y ago

   Yeah that struck me as odd. It's more like a Python library or something.
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   > going back to having to have a dedicated security device. ... and ...? There are ways to implement security without tying it to one of two app stores. Companies might even get creative and figure out hardware standards for secure verif
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   This is what worries me a bit, that this will be used as an excuse for walled gardens and so forth. "We can't allow side loading because that would be illegal in terms of age verification". I would love to be wrong about this
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   No offense to your father but I've always felt like the "innocent until proven guilty" philosophy is expansive and fundamental privacy rights are part of that principle. That is, the underlying principle isn't "inno
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   I've played this game a lot over the years. I wish there were more like it but I haven't found anything quite the same. I liked the earlier version of it more though. Although the newer version has some interesting encounters, it
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   WaveBoy(waveboy.bitbybitsynths.com)

   3 points by derbOac 1y ago|0 comments
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   My concern (?) is the task is unrealistically easy without more varieties of lesions to distinguish from cancer.
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   Cool but it seems like it would get more difficult with more non-cancerous but medically concerning lesions (eg due to infectious disease).
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   Reading the paper, I'm wondering why they didn't do an actual meta-analysis, to estimate average effect size or likelihood of publication bias. As it is, it's more of a systematic review. The studies in general they include a
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    My guess is it's due to two things. The first is persona-centric rather than topic-centric spaces. The former emphasizes individual posters and attention to them; the latter, topics. The second is upvoting and downvoting. As I've
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Out of curiosity I looked to see if there were more recent empirical papers and there are. For example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43493-0 It's a bit murky though and might reflect imprecision in B
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    My feeling is when someone becomes a public official, the rules change (or should change) due to public accountability and power. If you put something out in the public that's relevant to your position, I think the fair use of that mat
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    IMHO there should be challenges but also opportunities for self correction and movement. The problem with test score stratification is that you start treating kids as unchanging objects being measured by an infallible yardstick, when neithe
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    The problem is the cost of oil is downstream. The reasons why citizens want an alternative is because of those costs. If you added on all the environmental and health costs — all of them — you'd find oil is being subsidized in a diff
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I agree although I think the value of the piece is in literally mapping out the relationships, and in explaining the extent of the problems, such as in ties to defunding an entire university's research budget over it.
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    "The initiative aims to modernize data distribution and make federal statistics more accessible..." Yes, because nothing could be more accessible than an unspecified blockchain. Clearly there are no other ways to transparently mak
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    That's the 29 trillion dollar question I guess.
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    So where do we complain? (Aside from shaming Google on social media or writing to politicians.) If I look through Google's contact links, it's all oriented around getting help with a problem rather than letting them know I'm
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I don't necessarily think the funding source means the study is invalid or corrupt, but I do think it should increase scrutiny and attention to replicability issues and so forth. It shapes the actual (as opposed to claimed) posterior a
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    https://puri.sm/products/
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I'm wondering the same thing in the US. Aside from writing Google and complaining, and purchasing a phone with a different OS (GrapheneOS or PureOS, for example), I'm not sure what else to do.
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    "This research was funded by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), a contractor to the Beef Checkoff."
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Whatever cost it is, I highly doubt it's cheaper to cancel projects that are well underway without recouping any benefits at all, in some cases over the objections of local customers, without an alternative in place with environmental
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    The problem for me, speaking from personal experience with a spouse, significant others, friends, colleagues, my own degrees, reading job posts here on HN, is that it is the case that there are those who filter on elite schools before even
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Plant metabolism depends on temperature and light in a way they can't control. If it's too warm and/or sunny, plants "run too hot" and exhaust themselves to death. If it's too cold or shady, they can't &qu
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I think the problem with this analogy is that there are often externally imposed or other costs to ending up in a local minimum/maximum. I think this is how people (in the sense of society) should think about it, but in reality it&#x
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Arguments like this have been around for decades. I think it's important to keep in mind — critical even. At the same time, as I've been forced to wrestle with it more in my work, I've increasingly felt that it's sort of
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I've always argued that internet service was the original intent of requiring the USPS as part of the constitution, and that it should in fact offer ISP services. The purpose of the postal clause, per documents at the time, was to esta
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I think the title is misleading without more context but the focal distinction of the essay — impractical AGI versus practical domain-specific applied AI — is important.
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I'm too young to be a benchmark but I remember the former meaning having a connotation of being annoying to or causing problems for others, but inadvertently so. As in, you're a dimwit who means no harm, but does so because you&#x