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by doublekill 6y ago
What happened during start of pandemic is WHO and big tech meeting up to discuss the threat of an "infodemic". Companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, agreed to suppress amateur takes on COVID. Mentioning COVID would vast
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by doublekill 6y ago
An Israeli had build a tool to detect anti-semitism in videos and comments. Not being able to sell to YouTube, they pivoted to targeting advertisers ("make sure your advertisements do not appear next to racist content"). Part of t
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by doublekill 6y ago
She tried to bypass internal review. She knew that internal review was part of the process. She auhored a paper under the Google banner, not making note of her colleagues' work which combat the bias she was decrying. Then she submitted
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by doublekill 6y ago
This is just an experiment to see how long it takes for a random comment on a submission currently ranking 533 will take if it contains the word "chinese bioweapon". Feel free to ignore if you happen to be in this thread on coinci
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by doublekill 6y ago
The journalist won't get to talk to the neurodiverse person. Usually someone lacking a thick skin or easy to take offense, goes to HR to complain (anonymously if need be) about offensive, awkward, sexist, racist, far-right, ... speech.
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by doublekill 6y ago
My first European colleague was a male-to-female person. She had worked at a major company for years, got a bad performance report, and attributed it to her transition. It went to court and the company settled, instead of defending not prom
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by doublekill 6y ago
What I learned from diversity training is that you need to accept the fact that society is systematically racist, and as a white person you benefit from this. So all whites are profiting from racism already. They have to come to terms with
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by doublekill 6y ago
I just did. The research is divided into two: those that look at clinical outcomes (such as cardiac arrest) do not find that vitamins help. Those that look at quality of life indicators, recovery, infection severity, and muscle strength do
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by doublekill 6y ago
90 percent of the restaurant is eating, but just 20 percent of those are still hungry :). They can stop eating and return next week when they are starving. For me it is proof enough that my wise mother told me take my vitamins, but more sci
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by doublekill 6y ago
Deficiencies disparately impact minorities and poor people. And when I was a student even I could not afford that Bell pepper. 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 are real people. If you take the prescribed one pill a day, how are you going to form overdose?
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by doublekill 6y ago
So what about: > The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nearly 10% of all Americans have a nutritional deficiency. And what about very low, but non-deficient levels? It very much depends how the study is designed: in t
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by doublekill 6y ago
They only measure clinical outcomes such as cancer or heart attacks. "Multivitamins do not cure cancer" would be a better heading. Or even "30% of Americans taking multivitamins report enhanced quality of life".
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by doublekill 6y ago
Terrible study if that is the conclusion. Yes, multivitamins don't help with cancer or heart attacks. Yes, it is better to eat a healthy diet. But vitamins do physically help when you are deficient. Your energy levels and immune system
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by doublekill 6y ago
Having someone else do your prison time was fairly common. Now with more cooperation between organizations and improved biometrics it has dropped. Different people would be arrested, show up to court, or enter the prison. Impossible for org
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by doublekill 6y ago
Vitamin C is listed as fake news on WHO. Fact checker sites listed vitamin D as false, then switched to correct after research. Doctors, journalists, and health experts in Brazil and the Netherlands chided social media for not removing &quo
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by doublekill 6y ago
Experts and health authorities were adament to tell us that vitamins have zero effect against COVID. Not: we don't know and taking a Vitamin C can't hurt, unless you count an upset stomach. But: stop sharing fake health informatio
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by doublekill 6y ago
We can use 90% of our brains at the same time, but the medical term for that is a seizure and it seems to involve a lot of involuntary movements.
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by doublekill 6y ago
Agreed. Also, nobody is, or should be, using deep neural networks, for legislation and law enforcement. Explainability should be a core design decision when making an algorithm, and not slapped on top of an inherently black box algorithm. B
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by doublekill 6y ago
Move away from one-size-fits all, but have the UX adapt to user behavior. Personalized UX is pretty close to perfect.
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by doublekill 7y ago
No, there is a 2009 study which compares N95 mask efficiency with surgical masks, because they predict that during a pandemic N95 masks will be in shorter supply. (1) They don't find significantly more efficiency for N95 masks, but oth
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by doublekill 7y ago
Deep learning is mostly focused on image recognition, and classification on tabular data is way more common for smaller businesses. Your activity online triggers 10s of AI models for every hour. AI is just not much of a consumer technology,
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by doublekill 7y ago
The newspapers of the time also dubbed the Spanish flu: just a familiar grip we've seen time and time again. China desperately wants to save face, at the cost of lives. They rejected help from the U.S. CDC as to not appear weak. They a
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by doublekill 7y ago
Did he not donate to a legal political cause, without publicizing it? I doubt funders care about your opinions on gay marriage, but they do care a lot about the stink the cancel culture raised around him. The poison seems to be applied exte
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by doublekill 7y ago
Your facial features don't change after you do a crime (except maybe for some new prison tats). They don't need to change to keep criminal classification from head shots. Age, race, gender, income, attractiveness, testosterone lev
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by doublekill 7y ago
Have you verified that this is impossible or was gathering evidence for your strong claim too obvious for you? It is possible to do this better than random guessing!
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by doublekill 7y ago
Did not downvote, I hate all views equally. Perhaps it is the enormous cognitive dissonance. Western companies also take military funding and their surveillance systems were always better and more invasive. The US is using statutes for nati
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by doublekill 7y ago
I do not think it is the SEO, but Google adapting to its less-technical userbase (people who search for "facebook" and click the first result). It makes sense for this target audience to give broad results. They seem to be relying
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by doublekill 7y ago
Up until a few years back, crypto was left completely behind. Still possible to beat the quants and the suits, iff you know where to look.
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by doublekill 7y ago
Because it is not a social science paper or a government policy (smoking causes cancer, so we should forbid advertising smoking to teenagers). You do not combat shoplifting by knowing the causes of shoplifting (being unethical causes shopli
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by doublekill 7y ago
Sucks to be poor, but that can never be an acceptible excuse for criminal behavior (as long as you can feed yourself and your family through legal ways, shoplifting is hardly a desperate necessity for first world inhabitants, but damages fr

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