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by evancoop 5y ago
During my doctoral years, two students in my department took their own lives (separate events, to be clear). The events themselves were horribly tragic, but the lack of even a clear acknowledgement of the causes of death left a surreal sen
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by evancoop 5y ago
This is even more terrifying when one considers the possibility that the result of the second test is not independent from the result of the first. That is, some trait within the population increases the probability of a false positive (an
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by evancoop 5y ago
The next question is how Lloyd's of London will handle the insurance risk at scale. Clearly, Mercedes is going to need one heck of an insurance contract to justify the policy. What happens if the system is hacked and the number of pa
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by evancoop 5y ago
How's this for an alternative? ( https://www.agencyovervideo.com/ ) Looks like someone built a solution awfully quickly!
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by evancoop 5y ago
The idea here is that there are certainly costs of storage and streaming. And there are certainly SOME customers that probably aren't optimal to serve. The question is whether one can help those customers grow, and if not, avoid the b
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by evancoop 5y ago
There are a few issues here. First, the rather clumsy manner in which this was handled - even if certain customers aren't profitable, asking 'em to suddenly pay 10x what they paid before is a recipe for bad press. Second, if Vimeo
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by evancoop 5y ago
Desperation might build motivation, but it will also ensure short-term thinking (needing to pay one's bills and feed one's family tends to do that). The most successful companies adopt a longer view, and this might be far easier
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by evancoop 5y ago
Apart from the clickbait headline, there is an important division between restorative and augmentative applications of BCI. The former, when the patient has already suffered serious neurological injuries (or even paralysis) presents an att
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by evancoop 5y ago
Is the proper mechanism naming, shaming, reporting, and solidarity? Or is the mechanism proper compensation for the officials in question so that bribes are unnecessary to sustain a sufficient quality-of-life in their jurisdictions?
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by evancoop 5y ago
I might reframe the discussion slightly. Wikipedia is growing with respect to time (that would seem factually-verifiable if the number of topics with a Wiki page is larger in each successive year). Increasing the number of pages should inc
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by evancoop 5y ago
Unfortunately, this is a statistic without context. If a random, Toyota fails on the highway and causes a fatal collision, it's unlikely to yield an article of this ilk. So, how frequently has this type of failure occurred? How often
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by evancoop 5y ago
When a private citizen buys software, the question is "does it do enough, for the price, for me to buy it?" When an enterprise procurement office buys software, the question is "is there anything it does NOT do that will caus
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by evancoop 5y ago
My algebra II teacher sung the formula to the tune of "pop goes the weasel." "X equals negative b / Plus or minus square root / B-squared minus four a c / All over 2a" Decades later, I have never forgotte
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by evancoop 5y ago
I have battled impostor syndrome throughout my life. The anxiety is real. It is a suitable antidote for some elements of Dunning-Krueger, but is a painful way to operate day-to-day. In terms of software or any other professional field, th
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by evancoop 5y ago
In a world that contains non-fungible tokens, it is ironic that a human being itself is, well, fungible.
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by evancoop 5y ago
The antidote seems to be taking the long view. Minsky moments in finance would have been diminished if CEOs of banks were compensated based upon the status of the firm in 10 years or if their estates' incentives were aligned with the s
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by evancoop 5y ago
Admittedly, the alliterative title is catchy. Curious if what occurs in the learning process is really "pattern recognition," then innovation. When a child learns to play the piano, are they "imitating" Bach and Beetho
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by evancoop 5y ago
How many products are subsidized on one and and regulated on the other? Corn is subsidized in production, but then when those subsidies yield health-hindering quantities of cheap sweetener (corn syrup), we attempt to regulate its applicati
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by evancoop 5y ago
I did not see this data placed alongside the number of traffic fatalities. Our intuition is that the new work-from-home/social-distance world leads to fewer cars on the road. Fewer cars mean higher speeds and possibly, less attentive
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by evancoop 5y ago
About 18 months ago, GPT-3 composed an article for the Guardian ( https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-... ). So the notion of algorithm-generated prose is not new. Comedy is a log
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by evancoop 5y ago
This is a fascinating defense: "When publishers choose to use our advertising services, they keep the majority of revenue and every year we pay out billions of dollars directly to the publishing partners in our ad network," a Goog
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by evancoop 5y ago
The ability to generalize patterns is the link between current brain-computer-interface (BCI) technology that must be recalibrated daily and solutions that might generalize for a single brain across time or even multiple brains (of which no
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by evancoop 5y ago
Academia risks becoming another such field. Professorial salaries are not commensurate with the educational years, as there is little demand for published research in journals. As a result, journals demand payment from the writers themsel
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by evancoop 5y ago
That's the argument in Sarnoff's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sarnoff
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by evancoop 5y ago
There are four ways a business can grow: 1) Add more users 2) Sell more to each user 3) Retain a higher proportion of users 4) Reclaim churned users (a corollary of #1) It seems like Meta, Oculus and such notwithstanding, had essentially fo
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by evancoop 5y ago
Seems like an issue of incentives at varying scales. A private business has an incentive to produce the quantity demanded and nothing more. Surplus is a cost, and capacity should be designed to meet, not exceed demand. Then, a stress app
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The “Poll: Where do you live?” Visualized(ae.studio)
1 points by evancoop 5y ago|0 comments
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by evancoop 5y ago
The notion of "normal" is dubious. For a decade preceding 2008, minimal verification of income or employment was required to buy a home (prices soared). Thereafter, the pendulum swung mightily in the other direction (having trie
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by evancoop 5y ago
Most responses to this will be positive, and they should be. Typically, the real evaluation is the market (will more students and professors be drawn to MIT?). However, there is already a tremendous demand for admission (from students) an
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The Altruist’s View on Brain Computer Interfaces(ae.studio)
2 points by evancoop 5y ago|0 comments

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