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23% 1-star reviews? They need to buy a lot more 5-star reviews for me to even start reading the negative reviews and then to consider to buy the product.
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https://xkcd.com/810/
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I also blame browsers. Create an empty .html file and open it in firefox. Load time 370 ms (according to an addon). It's a local empty file. How can firefox spend 234 ms on DOM processing? Chrome seems to be better here. Edit: window.p
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And the rich are so few that you wouldn't save much by exlucding them.
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Given the choice, would you prefer an automation system with some environmental assumptions, high speed and perfect repeatability, or less environmental assumptions, slightly higher cost, slower speed and poorer reliability?
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Could it be that a refrigerator is a final-state-machine and a robot is higher in the hierarchy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory
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>Generally we prefer to find a _global_ minimum of the error function because then we can expect the resulting approximator to generalise better to data that was not available during training. Sorry to nitpick, but is this true? We are d
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> If it's unique, it's PII. Ok, Ill just reuse each generated ID twice and I'm safe. The data gets only a little blurry.
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>This is just another misguided attempt to adhere to the letter of the law while going against its spirit. It's easy to say this and hard to draw a line between PII and what I can store without consent. "yesterday I sold 5 prod
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How? We can only fix it if we caused it?
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hard task: generate a pile of money in short time. If an AI accomplishs this task, I don't care whether it is general intelligence or not.
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No. If the first person writes 1000050000 then the second person knows that the first earns <= 50k. Same problem at the other end of the interval.
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It's not only economic cost. To get results like in china you have to be (like) china. It's easy to sell drastic measures to the population if the infection (and death) numbers look scary. But if the numbers stagnate at low values
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But we are talking about psychology. I mean, I can improve my mood by smiling.
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Would you consider this comment to have less/no value if you found out that it was generated by a bot? What if quality and information density of automated text surpasses human contributions? Will it still be just spam?
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>and GDPR made that illegal by default Why didn't GDPR make it illegal in general then, if it is such a no-brainer?
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The next step takes place after the singularity and ist the other way around. Humans try to stay below the awareness of the AI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_War:_Fleet_Command
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Maybe this is temporarily? I pay with card now. But intend to go back to cash after covid19.
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>Also email is an interoperable standard If emails from no-name servers/domains are increasingly dropped/refused (considered spam), is email still interoperable?
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If explanation, reasoning and thought processes are required then make them part of the job description. A detective who can't explain his action is unfit for the job. A software which can't explain it's recomendations is unf
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>because software becomes a black box. Is the brain of a detective not a black box? >But here we are talking about people's lives, far stricter processes should be in place Yes. And I want these stricter processes to protect me f
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> the only thing that will get them to vote the right way is to hear from enough real constituents that the lawmakers feel like their reelection will be in jeapordy if they do vote the wrong way. Like most real world systems this sounds
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I just found out that Home button ( without Ctrl ) works in browsers. I knew the Ctrl + Home combination ( which also works in other programs ).
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>I’m just saying racism isn’t the root cause here There is the idea that all people are unconsciously racist based on cultural inheritance of the last centuries (imperialism). It is just assumed by everybody that white people are superio
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>Log-analyzers as alternative You mean... no opt-in popup is required for logfiles? Isn't it also PII? IP + browser + timestamp + referrer? It's almost enough to identify unique visitors.
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And random structure to break nth-child selectors. Even better: draw everything in a canvas.
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So, there are no success stories so far? https://github.com/mikeslattery/tunic/issues/12
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>Could you give a few examples of this? I still can't think of anything particularly common that would reasonably justify more than a dozen tabs at once... I clicked an internal link in this thread (in firefox) and after it loaded (
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>In such an economy there's no incentive to work on further automation. And no need if the work on further automation is automated.
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Great work! I think simulations/models are a great tool. some feedback: >there is no tradeoff between saving lives (due to COVID-19) and reducing widespread economic damage It is easy to show that there is no tradeoff by assuming th
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