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by fchollet 13y ago
The information we have already shows that the US person/non-US person distinction is purely cosmetic, meant to allow them to pretend that they're at least trying to respect US laws to some tiny extent. It's rhetorical. In re
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by fchollet 13y ago
Immigration can be a huge force for growth and prosperity as much as it can be destructive. You can think of a country as a company, and of immigration as recruitment. Recruitment will make, or kill, a company.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Interesting quotes: "Two days ago, we published a document by one small part of the National Security Agency called the Secret Source Operations, one of the most secretive units of the NSA. And there was an internal document in this S
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by fchollet 13y ago
There is a bullet train, the Eurostar, that puts London at 2h15 from Paris. It's quite expensive though, compared to a car ride. Anyway, I do not think that the Channel accounts for the peculiar relationship of the UK with Europe. Ins
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by fchollet 13y ago
The drive from Hawaii to Mexico must be an interesting one.
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by fchollet 13y ago
So is it okay to do this? Even diplomacy has laws, you know. These actions are in breach of Articles 27 and 30 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (of which the US and UK are signatories): Article 27: 1.The receiving State shal
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Ai Weiwei: The US is behaving like China(m.guardian.co.uk)
6 points by fchollet 13y ago|1 comments
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by fchollet 13y ago
Maybe you're right, maybe most people think that they have "nothing to hide" and want the government to "protect" them against the current boogieman (the USSR, now Islamists, tomorrow China?). But most people do c
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Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying(eff.org)
412 points by fchollet 13y ago|58 comments
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by fchollet 13y ago
I believe it could store about 4000,000 times the current total data of Facebook.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Also, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON British journalist Duncan Campbell and New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager asserted in the 1990s that the United States was exploiting ECHELON traffic for indu
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by fchollet 13y ago
Nationalism is one of these archaic concepts that should have no place in modern society. Interestingly, I found the USA to be the most nationalist 1st-world country there is. By far. And in the case at hand, it doesn't help that the U
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by fchollet 13y ago
This is not about what the NSA does, this is about whether Google and co are handing out foreign users' data to the NSA. It appears they are. I hope every non-american netizen realizes that their private communications are being system
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by fchollet 13y ago
> "the only way in which Google reveals information about users are when we receive lawful, specific orders about individuals -- things like search warrants." Things like search warrants? What has been described in the PRISM
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by fchollet 13y ago
The White House has confirmed that PRISM existed, and has condemned the leak. This means that the power point slides that were leaked are real. Now go read the slides, and you'll know exactly what is going on.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Every single official corporate response in this story so far was formulated using the exact same terms, and did not constitute an actual, categorical denial of the claims. We have not giving "direct access". We are providing the
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by fchollet 13y ago
>> "Pedophiles are are a sociopathic rot, and should be treated as the worthless dangerous filth that they are. I'd feel worse stepping on a spider than I would putting a bullet in a child pornographer." Who's the sociopathic rot no
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by fchollet 13y ago
To the authors' credit, there seem to be a semantic pattern to the words that show profitable predictive correlation with the DJIA. Point #2 seems more significant to me... but yeah, I would agree.
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by fchollet 13y ago
The instant a meaningfully profitable strategy is disclosed, quants incorporate it to their tools, which generates an arbitrage force that makes it less efficient --and the strategy stops working right away. I wonder if quants had noticed t
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by fchollet 13y ago
This breaks the back button, which is really annoying. It also slow, buggy, and throws countless errors in the console.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Are you seriously trying to compare individual cells and fully grown mammals? Or are you just trying to be contrarian.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Actually, you can (run a scientific claim through a "compiler"): it's the principle of reproducibility. You should be able to repeat the steps of the researcher (whether it's an algorithm or a biology experiment...) and get the same results
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by fchollet 13y ago
In parent's profile: obligatory Ayn Rand-related quote...
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by fchollet 13y ago
Excuse me. Stealing a laptop for the valuable code it contains?
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by fchollet 13y ago
No doubt that intelligent processing on that scale will be feasible in time, and most likely soon. Opinion surveillance at the scale of a nation is too strategically important. And when it will start happening, it will also apply to today's
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by fchollet 13y ago
I like your demo. Do you have references to papers that you used as a basis for your code?
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by fchollet 13y ago
"by this point" == "given the degree of understanding of Intelligence that we have reached so far"
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by fchollet 13y ago
Curiosity, by this point, is extremely likely to be a required condition for intelligence in any species. You should look into the AI work done in developmental robotics and Artificial Curiosity...
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by fchollet 13y ago
But there is much more money to be made in reacting to the news at millisecond speed, and therefore without any critical analysis whatsoever. Many of the orders that caused the drops were probably placed by machines. Real-time semantic ana
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by fchollet 13y ago
What about Mikko?

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