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by frabcus 8y ago
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In my experience it is even worse than that. I interviewed several professional statisticians with regard to consultancy on a particular experiment. They all worried about different things (sources of error or misinterpretation), according
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"Organic" posts can have their ranking boost by money... Essentially, there are no organic posts. It is all advertising.
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The obvious way is financial services.
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It's not difference of opinion that is the problem - it's often quality of argument. Political discussions generally these days are very low quality - not actually trying to work out the best policies that will work best for socie
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I quite like the plugins that remove the newsfeed too - or unfollow (not unfriend) everyone. It's a nice intermediate step so you can still use events and messages, but the most annoyingly addictive bit is gone. The light versions of t
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Unfortunately, that doesn't help me against the consequences of others not using such defences.
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Anyone know anything about the technicality of the change? The Facebook content filtering end of year 2018 report talks about engagement going up the closer to a policy line (any policy - hate speech, nudity etc) content is. And that applie
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Roger Penrose basically suggests what you say in "The Emperor's New Mind". Roughly, it says that the brain (likely, according to him) uses quantum computation, and so we can't make an AI out of a classical computer. The
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One option would be to give the account password to a friend and get them to change the email and password and not record the new ones.
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Brainstorming a better YouTube recommendation algorithm(flourish.org)
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There are some similarities. But the key difference are: 1) Solid is designed for you to store large, complete sets of data you care about over the protocol. OpenID is mainly about identity, and the associated bits of metadata are small and
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The recommendation algorithm seems to radicalise people politically. There is some research on this - Zeynep Tufekci is the best communicator of it. Overview in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/1
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Currently the adtech companies trying to rely on the legal basis of Consent - they get the user to explicitly agree to the processing required for targeted advertising with a popup advert. There is a great NGO of lawyers called NOYB (None o
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The UK Government has said GDPR will continue to apply after Brexit, and passed the laws to make that the case. http://www.blplaw.com/expert-legal-insights/articles/gdpr-an... The official reason given being: &quo
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Mental illnesses have psychological (eg issues from childhood), chemical (eg neurotransmitter balance) and yes social (communication and meaning) aspects. It's easy to pay attention to only one (a definition shift would be social/
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The news article (and hence the headline problem description figures) are to market the charity's new site which brings together resources for helping with mental health at work. https://www.mentalhealthatwork.org.uk/
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Nice to see Google trying this again! It's one of those areas they have long attempts at involvement in - e.g. Google Public Data Explorer which never quite reached it's potential, and Freebase which although flawed was good and w
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Curious, why's YC investing in this? Is there some new technology element? Or a tech switch happening making this possible?
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Google's a monopoly in multiple areas by any reasonable definition. So yes, I hope they are being entangled in a Cambridge Analytica type scandal. It is the job of the press to do so. Personally, I think the YouTube recommendation algo
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The point is that it doesn't need to record that data. It doesn't give technical details, but the article seems to make it clear that it does record locations. If I just open Google Maps, I don't expect Google to permanent
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I don't think we know quite enough about the detail of Magic Leap's technology yet - there are some analysis articles based on their patents, but it's an incomplete picture. However, the general concept of a "light field
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The name is meaningful and standard to me. I call it a "Light field display" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field See also the reverse "Light field camera" https://en.wikipedia
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Patchwork / Secure Scuttlebutt are worth looking at
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This seems a good place to ask... How do I get into jazz? I can listen to it and find it pleasant. But I'm missing something - I'm not spotting the patterns. It all sounds the same and empty. What is a good route in? In contrast I
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To show this is possible: Note how ubiquitous git is now as such a filesystem and protocol for developers. Remember how that has come about over the last 10 years. Imagine the same thing happening with a consumer targetted file storage syst
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I think the main thing that this misses is the potential benefit of an open protocol. We still don't have a standard open equivalent of Dropbox.js (deprecated). That is, a user controlled account which a browser or phone knows about th
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While you're here... It's really unclear from this what the security best practice is for where to put the Cloud SQL password. Do we just assume the password is public info and rely on IAM? This discusses really clunky methods to
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I've been using Gnome on a Dell XPS 13 for a few years, and it's fine. In many ways the user interface is considerably better than the Macbook Air I had before. In particular, connecting external video always works really well. An
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Right! YouTube simply knows what you'll find tempting to watch by being just a bit more radical than you currently are, in a spiral. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-p

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