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by erdevs 10y ago
Not a single data point. First principles and logical analysis. Let me put it more simply: Did hunter-gatherer societies invent more artifacts that survived until today or did agricultural societies? This is an objectively quantifiable ac
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by erdevs 10y ago
I agree it would've been even more clear if I used "civilization" instead of "society". Fair point, as more precise language is usually preferable. Are you saying the main point / logic of my post wasn't c
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by erdevs 10y ago
I think your work (and your promotion of that work!) is awesome! Please take heart in all the appreciation and encouragement in this thread (and elsewhere)!
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by erdevs 10y ago
Funny comment. :) But actually this is unlikely to make a big difference on battery drain. Pokemon GO appears to be built on Unity and Unity is pretty notorious for having poor battery management. Whether you're pegging CPU or not, Uni
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by erdevs 10y ago
> Some people wouldn't know what clickbait is The term "clickbait" need never be used. One could describe the characteristics of clickbait and ask about them. "Do you feel this article was meaningful?" "Di
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by erdevs 10y ago
Why do you assume computers would've needed to be involved? One can plot space-time warping by hand. Indeed, Einstein had no benefit of computer assistance in developing his theories of relativity and gravity warping. Why assume a co
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by erdevs 10y ago
"Startup = growth" :/
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by erdevs 10y ago
You'd rather they pick losers? Spread investments evenly without regard to any evidence?
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by erdevs 10y ago
> It is only with the advent of "civilization", i.e. agriculture, that we find great power differentials, including the power of men over women That is exactly what I'm saying. Do you somehow contend that hunter-gatherers
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by erdevs 10y ago
> Pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies were primarily matriarchal and patriarchal societies only later became the norm with the rise of warlike/raiding and settled agricultural societies which co-evolved and co-depended on hig
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by erdevs 10y ago
The first recorded writer probably was a male, indeed. That's because most ancient societies were blatantly misogynistic. It's unlikely women were afforded the opportunity to be educated or trained in the scholastic, monastic, or
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by erdevs 10y ago
You make a great point which is spot-on overall. I wouldn't go as far as saying "the car part doesn't really matter", though. Having a viable primary vehicle (pun intended) to drive (heh) your technology forward is imp
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by erdevs 10y ago
Yeah, Interstellar definitely scratched this itch for me, and I appreciated it for doing so. Certainly the theory has developed greatly since then. But being even somewhat informed about the contemporary physical theory would've made
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by erdevs 10y ago
I can see that as a reasonable concern. Two points though: 1. Speaking personally as a user, I wouldn't mind this a bit. And would actually love the ability to provide feedback more readily. I often hate the content of my feed and I
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by erdevs 10y ago
I did read that. They note that this passive feedback / preference inference was insufficient in terms of achieving their aims. Which is why I'm asking about potentially gathering active feedback / explicit preference.
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by erdevs 10y ago
The SolarCity combo is absolutely brilliant. The chattering class and peanut gallery bet against Musk on Tesla and Space X as well, and there will always be naysayers to quote in the press for bold moves like this. The combo makes perfect
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by erdevs 10y ago
You're absolutely right that this is a similar dynamic. At this point this is FB's MO and you have to be a fool not to anticipate it as inevitable in each ecosystem/market they develop.
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by erdevs 10y ago
One could cynically view this as an extractive measure, dressed as a user-friendly effort. In other words: Sorry, Mr. Publisher. Your most effective titles are going to be exposed less frequently for free in your audience's feeds. H
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by erdevs 10y ago
I'm curious why FB chose to manually label the data vs collecting feedback from users. Eg via a dialog on a large sample of users and articles asking whether the article was clickbait, or asking users to rate it, or some such. The ben
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by erdevs 10y ago
This is often required work in supervised learning / any machine learning with labels. Sometimes you get better result with human judgment on the labels, and that means you have to grind through a meaningful corpus of data. If you bel
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by erdevs 10y ago
Thanks for this link. Really cool use case, and maybe Niantic will check it out, if they haven't already.
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by erdevs 10y ago
Ah, come on, it's pretty cool. :) And they do have a publications page: http://www.interactivedynamicvideo.com/publications.html I'm all for science being promoted/marketed, even if it's in a(n endearing
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by erdevs 10y ago
As regards the wormhole sequence, one must appreciate the innovation in technique, meticulous execution, groundbreaking visuals, and also the incredible cinematic boldness in showing such a long, strange sequence in theaters at the time. T
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by erdevs 10y ago
Yes, almost certainly the next phase for performance-intensive computing is more specialized chips, systems-on-a-chip, and whole specialized rigs. The TensorFlow Processing Unit is a good recent example of this, as are ASICs in bitcoin min
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by erdevs 10y ago
I think you are right on, on every point. (Including it being a dull article, at least for the audience of folks here.) This is great insight and it's something I've thought for the past few years as well. Big cloud computing pl
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by erdevs 10y ago
Until the deal is fully closed, or only ancillary closing conditions remain to be met, she kind of has to say that. Also for her golden parachute to deploy, she has to be let go so she can't sound as if she wants to quit. Actually sta
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by erdevs 10y ago
It absolutely is unhelpful in anything more than short bursts. It is very odd how obsessed she seems with hours-worked. Mayer is someone who proclaims to believe in the power of data. I'm curious then what data she has to back her vi
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by erdevs 10y ago
Boy, I disagree with Mayer's take on sustained crunch => success. But she seems to repeat it. > When reporters write about Google, they write about it as if it was inevitable. The actual experience was more like, “Could you wor
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by erdevs 10y ago
It has been interesting to watch US sex culture evolve the past several decades. Widely taboo in the 50s and before, partially romanticized in the 60s and 70s, more censorious in the 80s, then celebrated and promoted in the mid-90s through
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by erdevs 10y ago
Is there still any belief in serious circles that Wright is SN? Whatever happened to those credible thought leaders who initially supported his claim? I lost track of this after the initial splash announcement and immediately ensuing cont

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