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by facepalm 10y ago
What "antics" - using data to advertise?
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by facepalm 10y ago
Is it fair to judge a web site by their comments section? I'm sure "The Guardian" or even Hacker News get pretty nasty comments, too. You could demand censorship, but maybe some people simply are against it.
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by facepalm 10y ago
The article seems to be a good example of why people don't trust the press anymore. Little actual information, but a lot of fear mongering: "billionaire trying to control the world", "data analysts controlling our emotio
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by facepalm 10y ago
Is that really all the fault of Trump? Not being from the US, my impression was that traveling to the US has been an ordeal for quite a while now (maybe since 9/11)? There were also famous cases of people dying, wasn't there a tas
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by facepalm 10y ago
Do people typically enter the field via an instructor/lessons?
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by facepalm 10y ago
Why would diversity the yardstick? The yardstick is creating useful products. (Edit: no there can not be more yardsticks in the long run - a company needs to survive. It gets paid for great products, not for virtue signalling).
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by facepalm 10y ago
Do men never leave computer science? Or do they just write less about it, or if they do, it receives less attention? For sure men are unhappy with their companies. Otherwise nobody would ever switch jobs. Also it should be considered that w
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by facepalm 10y ago
Citation needed. How and by whom are girls being chased away? I mean when I was a teenager, it was exactly the other way round: kids who liked computers were social pariahs...
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by facepalm 10y ago
By "take into account" I meant it should be possible to statistically distinguish the factors of being male and being male+immigrant. So that it can be seen if being male is really the only factor driving increase of crime. As for
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by facepalm 10y ago
Do you have a link to the clarification? I missed that one.
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by facepalm 10y ago
What do you mean by "willing to take into account"? Male or poor, the problem is still that if immigration imports many male and/or poor, crime levels rise.
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by facepalm 10y ago
They claim the last terrorist attack was 2010, but Wikipedia mentions two incidents in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Copenhagen_shootings#Krud... Guess it depends on how you define terrorist attacks...
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by facepalm 10y ago
I think it would make sense to reduce the number of poor people. If taking in immigrants is likely to increase the number of poor people, there is a problem. The discussion is not about what should be done, only about Sweden's claim th
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by facepalm 10y ago
I'd say THAT is irrelevant. If I become victim of a crime, it doesn't console me if the perpetrator is poor. I just don't want to become a victim of a crime.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Doesn't the claim about refugees in Germany use the same trick the Swedish Government uses? There are fewer refugees than native Germans, so even if the absolute number of crimes conducted by Germans would be higher than the absolute n
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by facepalm 10y ago
Shouldn't it be the responsibility of the original experimenter to provide the information necessary to repeat the experiment? I see nothing in your list that sounds like a good excuse for not being repeatable.
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by facepalm 10y ago
What is the point of professional sports? The only benefit I can see is learning more about the human physique. But does that alone justify the scale and investment, or could that be had in cheaper ways?
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by facepalm 10y ago
You could say that about all sports competitions...
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by facepalm 10y ago
I didn't say they were.
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by facepalm 10y ago
So how would you measure it? Another test could be if there are stretches of time when the account gives the impression, that is length of tweet chains without any white men. I have explained various flaws of my little analysis, but you pre
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by facepalm 10y ago
I have found our original discussion, it was 57 days ago. So let's do another analysis of their timeline two months ago (December+November, for example). But this time, you tell me how to categorize their tweets. For example, should th
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by facepalm 10y ago
You working on statistical models is a scary thought, given that you seemed unable to understand my criticism of my primitive analysis of lofeatgoogle. I read a book in German (specifically on how to lie with statistics), don't know wh
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by facepalm 10y ago
I don't know what your problem is? Somebody asked for how to spot fake news or find the truth, I answered. Just because everybody could look for certain signs, doesn't mean everybody does. Everybody can learn about certain signs.
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by facepalm 10y ago
I didn't say I differ from typical people. Everybody could see these signs. But if you want: I am a trained mathematician, so I am trained in identifying the root assumptions of problems. I am aware of the typical ways to lie with stat
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by facepalm 10y ago
I didn't minimize or dismiss any woman's story: the isssue here is the reference to imaginary women's imaginary stories. I can not dismiss an imaginary story, because it doesn't exist. The issue is that because of bias a
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by facepalm 10y ago
Huh wtf - what does seeing women and PoCs have to do with a "world view"? You think I am not aware that women and PoCs exist?
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by facepalm 10y ago
My claim about them not presenting any white males was from another time - do you recall by any chance when it was? As I explained, the sample size I used now was small, and a few pics can have made a big difference. I think when I made the
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by facepalm 10y ago
HN won't give me a reply button further down, and I want to go to bed, so I am replying here: Yes, it reflects demographics of the US, but not demographics of tech or demographics of Google employees. So the account definitely doesn&#x
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by facepalm 10y ago
This time around there were more white men, I think - in part because of some specials like Tensor Flow, or a picture from an actual office. It is still biased against white men (if it is supposed to reflect the actual distribution of Googl
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by facepalm 10y ago
There are always some ranking factors at play for ordering the search results.

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