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by evancoop 5y ago
Isn't the more fascinating element of this story the lack of medical understanding regarding what seems like a fairly well-understood body part (a fingertip)? How much knowledge could be gained simply be seeking seemingly minor exampl
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Seems like there are multiple issues here. The first would be rather ineffective management that fails to notice or address a lack of productivity. The second would be a lack of interest in one's current role - most folks would proba
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by evancoop 5y ago
It seems like this discussion should be raised up a level. We can debate the merits of the app itself, but then that leads to opposing, valid arguments. The app's creator can assert the numerous beneficial uses of the app. Detractors
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by evancoop 5y ago
How does one distinguish between "marketing," a process that can be analytical with respect to consumer behavior, survey data, market testing, etc. and "hustling," which is less rigorous, and more ado about effort in gen
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by evancoop 5y ago
Let's consider that the question can be altered slightly to "how much private space can one single entity acquire?" Perhaps the current understanding of public/private is sufficient, e.g. "a private company can bar
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by evancoop 5y ago
How much of the underlying issue reduces to incentive structures? Any large entity (Google being one) has plenty of monetary incentive to reduce the number of customer service professionals. Any algorithm that minimizes human interactions
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by evancoop 5y ago
"Use a steering wheel lock, which will also work as a visual deterrent." For years, my friends and spouse derided my use of "the Club." After all, there are so many more technically sophisticated mechanisms to deter and
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Neurological data models are created beyond the walls of the academy?(ae.studio)
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A competition between the best neuroscience researchers on planet earth and data scientists is underway. We should all be watching.
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by evancoop 5y ago
Whether it's a scandal of this ilk, or the Lori Laughlin variant thereof, at some point, don't we need to consider the underlying incentive structure of the broader system rather than the specific behavior of the bad actors? If t
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by evancoop 5y ago
This is one of numerous societal examples where the relevant detail is the ubiquity of the standard rather than the optimality. Once a given set of parameters is broadly-applied, any improvement requires too high a short-term cost to justi
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I would be curious where the economic costs truly lie. Is Disney rent-seeking? Well, that would depend how many non-Disney entities are deploying Mickey Mouse and paying royalties for so doing (probably not common). Is there Mickey Mouse
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Consider the following: The majority of professionals in ANY field are mediocre at best, given the distribution of talent. Most developers aren't 10x folks. Most professional athletes aren't superstars. Most recruiters aren&#x
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The broader argument here is less about fingerprints, and more about using anything immutable as authentication. You cannot change your fingerprints. You cannot change your social security number (at least not easily). These should there
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by evancoop 5y ago
Let us posit that the patient's goal is to remain alive and well (maximize quality-adjusted life years). Let us posit that the doctor's goal is maximal renumeration. Cannot we simply compensate the doctor quarterly as a function
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by evancoop 5y ago
Perhaps there is some definition of freedom in mathematical terms in which the total scope of decision-making autonomy is maximized over all citizens? The barbarian example would yield a low tally, as the leaders of a hoard are "free,
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by evancoop 5y ago
Can we truly scour the internet for small-time violators? Sure, if a massive entity like NYT or WSJ fail to comply, that could be called-out and addressed. But are we prepared to enforce such a paradigm at scale?
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by evancoop 5y ago
Are the companies that offer honest service disadvantaged in the long-run? Sure, in the short-term, a captive audience is profitable, but eventually, this should harm LTV?
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by evancoop 5y ago
There's something odd about legislation of this ilk. Virtually every comment here bemoans these nefarious activities, and the commenters themselves try to avoid companies that utilize these dark patterns. The market, therefore, seems
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by evancoop 5y ago
An overlooked notion, analogous to fat-tail, high-upside ROI is the absence of a similar downside risk. In the case of the sclerotic, flagging, midsize company failing to adapt, we're actually talking about a fixed downside (the compa
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by evancoop 5y ago
I might argue that computer science theory is not fundamentally harder, so much as the available tooling is far more sophisticated. Not so many years ago, the function for mean and median needed to be written rather than accessed within na
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by evancoop 5y ago
The contrarian in this case would be making Elizabeth Holmes' argument "first they say you're crazy...the you change the world." Of course, the folks delivering such an argument are either peddling vaporware or actually
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The best counterargument here is that currently, the market adjudicates this already. Roles demanding after-hours access typically yield higher compensation than similar roles that do not. The market essentially offers an employee the opp
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by evancoop 5y ago
That would suggest an oscillation - network effects to inflate network sizes, abuse, mismanagement, frustration, disruption, creation of a new paradigm. Lather, refactor, repeat?
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Personal agency requires a sober assessment of priorities. Everything has an opportunity cost. Certainly, a full-time job and a non-trivial side project takes from self-care and family. Certainly, self-care and family (and sleep!) can pr
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One question of great relevance is the change in the statistic implied by the article's title over the past couple decades, and the projected change in the decades to come. Is this Moore's-law-esque? If so, eventually, these con
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by evancoop 5y ago
While ads are frustrating, isn't the pervasive nature of surveillance capitalism worse? Would we rather pay some small amounts for the digital products we use, watch a handful of ads, or handover the totality of our thoughts, intentio
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by evancoop 5y ago
TL/DR. Taxpayers fund research that they cannot access without additional payment. Same thing almost occurred with weather data ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p... ) Simply a
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How many fascinating analogs exist for this problem? "...the corrosion on the glass also forms millions of tiny pits. The authors think those pits could serve as tiny reaction chambers..." In other words, the experimental conditio
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A poem in honor of Halloween! After a stint running advanced analytics for a mid-size professional services firm, a few observations emerge regarding an institution's readiness to use data (or lack thereof!).

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