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This is what filter bubbles actually look like(technologyreview.com)
1 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
Since the post with the product page got merged here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080... Most of it is dramatically lit renderings of fans and vacuous marketing-speak of course, b
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AI for cybersecurity is a hot new thing–and a dangerous gamble(technologyreview.com)
1 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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CRISPR ‘barcodes’ map mammalian development in exquisite detail(nature.com)
1 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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Psychologists Vote Not to Return to Guantánamo Amid Debate Over Torture Legacy(theintercept.com)
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by etiam 8y ago
Does anyone have a good free software solution for backups on Android they'd like to tell about? Personally I really go too long between off-device backups. Something for automated backups to a PC would be valuable, and I suspect I&#x2
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by etiam 8y ago
A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing
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by etiam 8y ago
Perhaps this is a good time to dig up an article which presents one mechanism I found interesting a few years back. https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(14)01049-6 It turns out skeletal muscle is importan
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Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook(theintercept.com)
1 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery(technologyreview.com)
154 points by etiam 8y ago|108 comments
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Business Is Booming for the U.K.’s Spy Tech Industry(theintercept.com)
2 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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You Can’t Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows(theintercept.com)
3 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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Pr0nbots2: Revenge of the Pr0nbots(labsblog.f-secure.com)
2 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
Fools! Failing to fulfill their most important duty because one member brought a lecherous boor to some of their events and may not have been impartial in the vote on some awards. Now it's really a scandal.
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by etiam 9y ago
I wonder if there are biochemical pathways in, let's say, Neisseria gonorrhoeae that are actually handy to have in a night on the prowl...
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by etiam 9y ago
Swap notes with Garrett Lisi and the Pacific Science Institute ( http://www.pacificscienceinstitute.org ) ?
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Syria Strike Ordered Based on Secret Legal Justification Even Congress Can’t See(theintercept.com)
2 points by etiam 9y ago|0 comments
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Confidential Document: FB Uses AI to Predict Your Future Actions for Advertisers(theintercept.com)
3 points by etiam 9y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 9y ago
Yes, that does seem more in line with the track record, doesn't it.
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Either Ignorant or Deliberately Misleading Congress(theintercept.com)
162 points by etiam 9y ago|82 comments
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by etiam 9y ago
That's nonsensical. "Actual science" isn't even a well-defined thing and it's certainly not an entity that holds opinions. Your assertion is nothing more than name-calling.
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by etiam 9y ago
> Science is the best mechanism we’ve found for developing towards truth. Mostly by destroying theories that don't hold up to scrutiny. Possibilities still need to come from somewhere. > I’m not saying it should be dismissed for
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by etiam 9y ago
> “Ayurveda medicine is considered pseudoscientific” [1]. I'm sure it is. By whom and why? And more to the point, is it right in this case, regardless of its scientific status.
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by etiam 9y ago
whether the benefits outweigh the cost, and that is something doctors should discuss objectively with their patients when considering such a treatment. These substances are yet another instance in the history of psychopharmacology whe
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US Polarization Is Driven by a Team Sport Mentality, Not Disagreement on Issues(theintercept.com)
1 points by etiam 9y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 9y ago
I think that's a fair point, but I question if it's an apt comparison to the situation with some big players of the surveillance economy. Let me make that a bit more convoluted for you: Let's say, very hypothetically, that
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by etiam 9y ago
> To be precise, you almost certainly cannot use this data to recreate anything remotely resembling the original dataset. This type of dimensionality reduction would throw away enormous volumes of data. There is no meaningful sense in wh
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by etiam 9y ago
I think the ML model has a lot to do with it in this case. One of the arguments I expect to see is that "Oh, no! We removed all the data . It's gone. I mean, that was only a few hundred megabytes per person anyway, but we just
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by etiam 9y ago
Spoiler warning. Article punchline ahead. "The whole point of a dimension reduction model is to mathematically represent the data in simpler form. It’s as if Cambridge Analytica took a very high-resolution photograph, resized it to be
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by etiam 9y ago
> Nothing requires that you post your beliefs, work history, daily plans and such. Except a lot of information about these things can be inferred simply from using the network, through metadata and behavioral analysis. Facebook will also

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