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by fromthestart 7y ago
A couple issues with the science here: >Between 2005 and 2015, global rates of fracking went from producing 31 billion cubic meters per year to 435 billion >In the last half of the 20th, century levels of methane in the atmosphere ros
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by fromthestart 7y ago
If we allow entry of students from underperforming schools into colleges with historically high academic requirements, one of two things will happen, neither of which are particularly good: 1. These students will struggle and be much more l
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Well, no, and here is the Crux of the issue with affirmative action, and possibly one of the strongest base drivers of the cleavage between the American left approach to race and equality, and the American right approach to the same. These
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Perhaps because vegans and vegetarians are substantially more likely to be thin and, well, less traditionally manly, both in appearance and in values. It's a different set of cultural values and it isn't invalid just because it di
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by fromthestart 7y ago
The big deal is the fact that being told that the "flavor won't be missed" or that I won't be able to tell the difference is condescending.
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>we use a wonderful Italian caterer, so flavour isn't going to be missed A non meat dish is still going to taste like a non-meat dish. Perhaps your colleagues were just being polite and avoiding treading into politically charged ter
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Not to add to the sensationalism, but it is worth noting that U-238 is probably dangerous to ingest moreso because of its behavior as a heavy metal rather than it's radioactivity. In which case because of the bioaccumlative properties
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Wow, side note, compare China/SE Asia PM2.5 to the rest of the world.
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>The fact that you go from one no-context quote to "silencing conservative perspectives" is not good. Please keep thinking critically There's more context than that single quote, including the other strong evidence of over
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by fromthestart 7y ago
You don't debunk something by saying it's debunked. So her claim is that because she was no longer in the trust and safety team at the time of the video, her opinions are irrelevant? Of course she's going to claim that the vi
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by fromthestart 7y ago
The hidden camera captured an interview with Jen Gennai, Head of Responsible Innovation, Global Affairs at Google. You could at least watch the video and find out for yourself. I think the real problem here is that people are aware of Googl
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Where do you go for official sources when the entire modern media establishment has an undeniable (and rather open) liberal bias? Ignoring bias, do you believe that every given situation that some group may identify as a problem is guaran
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by fromthestart 7y ago
People are rabidly dismissive of the project veritas expose, but articles with quotes like this repeteadly show pervasive bias among Google staff which aligns exactly with the accusations and candid management recordings within the video [1
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Because Google is not a publisher, and selectively choosing how to present information according to the predominant internal politics is unethical without a disclaimer, which currently does not exist, given Google's status as the defac
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Well here's an interesting thought. Let's say you train a generative network on illegal imagery. Is the combination of network and weights illegal to posses? What about images it generates?
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>What is new is the hype around deep learning that took off after 2012, and because Google and Facebook decided to champion it. Have you seen what neural nets are now capable of? Speech synthesis/transcription, voice synthesis, imag
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Whenever possible I use the burner app if I need to provide a number to sign up for a service that I'm not particularly worried about losing access to, that sends a confirmation code on login. Especially when its something I only need
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Project veritas leaked a candid, hidden camera chat with Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, where, essentially, she and an engineer shamelessly describe using ML to manipulate search results to better align them with
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>Your reply says that you meant to say that Climate Science "cannot be experimental". This, it turns out, is also not true. There are cases where nature runs the experiment for us. >For instance, the large methane leak recen
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I didn't see it defined on the page, so I'm wondering, do zero click searches count frustrated users giving up because the first two pages are entirely full of SEO optimized commercial websites when searches are made for informati
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>terraforming" as a feel-good substitute for unplanned global climate change), Not true, please don't put words in my mouth. I use the term terraforming to emphasize the magnitude of the claim. We are fundamentally changing the
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>I still find the fact that Exxon internal researchers knew about the incoming crisis since 1982. I'll keep posting about it untill this hysteria dies, though I fear that given social pressures regarding anything representing "
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I wonder if this is a tractable reinforcement learning problem. The objective is somewhat clearly defined-minimize spatial deviation over time from the input path.
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>Who on Earth is thinking that it is a good idea to take an EBS snapshot and make it public? Maybe they're trying to reproduce functionality of docker? It would actually be extremely useful for research involving modeling/AI be
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I have read them. These was the theoretical work of a handful of geoscientists working from the computational limitations of 70s-80s technology, and substantially limited data compared to what has been made available in the decades since. T
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by fromthestart 7y ago
And the head of the Manhattan Project had concerns that the nuclear tests could ignite the atmosphere. Science is far more than theoretical speculation. Grand claims require development of supporting theory and evidence. Even the consensus
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>It's not ridiculous. I was taught about the carbon cycle, greenhouse gasses, and climate change in a United States public high school in 1993. 26 years ago. Climate is a complex, chaotic system. Again, there was no certainty regard
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>Exxon and other energy companies knew as long ago as 30 years that carbon emissions were becoming perilous to the planet. This is ridiculous. No one knew about climate change 30 years ago. A small number of scientists were aware of th
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by fromthestart 7y ago
The source you linked discussed reproducibility of modeling and analysis of historic data. It makes no mention of the problems responsible for the experimental replication crisis that I'm describing in other fields - it wouldn't
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>You've failed to establish how the existence of gender studies departments means we can dismiss the findings of the physical sciences I am not advocating for dismissal, I am merely suggesting that social and political pressure for

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