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by fvdessen 9y ago
The issue is that the undesired language constructs one would like to remove are not universal. What is an improvement for one user group will be a regression for another & vice versa.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Personally I am rather uncomfortable with the idea of 'correcting' the learning process to have the machine output what we think it should instead of what it objectively learns from the dataset. It is trading a bias against an ide
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by fvdessen 9y ago
It also works for performance, reliability, UX quality, etc. What GDPR does is forcing business to make privacy their core concern. Since time & budgets are inherently limited, this will come at the expense of something else.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
In my experience, the main draw of repair cafes is not actually repairing things, but the social experience. The fact that things are repaired in the open, with drinks & snacks available creates a small community setting that is attract
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Why should power and freedom be distributed equally rather than proportional to competence and virtue ?
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I'm confused about the setTimeout example; the code as presented is creating an infinite loop, so it does not surprising that the object used in the loop is not garbage collected. But I would expect references inside a timer to be coll
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Reputation ? (and other network effects that comes with having a large audience)
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by fvdessen 9y ago
>The goal of democracy is not good governance, it is civil peace. It is neither. Democratic elections is a process that gives power to the politician whose plan / personality / promises appeals to the most people. In other word
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by fvdessen 9y ago
We don't have to guess, according to this source, 98% of marine litter comes from outside Europe & US [1]. [1] https://www.marinelitterthefacts.com/sources
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Last time I was in countryside Morocco, the waste management program consisted in dumping all your trash in the street and let the wind take care of it. There was indeed lots of plastic litter flying around. Looks like banning plastic bags
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by fvdessen 9y ago
The plastic that ends up in the ocean comes from places & countries that have no waste management at all besides dumping garbage directly in rivers and the ocean. I doubt that's the case for Taiwan.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
What is the rationale ? Are disposable plastic bags really that much worse than reusable / paper bags ? From what I understand plastic waste is usually burned for electricity or heat in industrial processes, and it's not that much
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by fvdessen 9y ago
The USA consumes only 1.8% of the world's total palm oil production. The EU 10%. The Nutella consumption effect on orangutans is completely anecdotic. Not everything bad that happens on this planet is the responsability of the western
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I know of a microfinance company that hires former convicts to reclaim payments and receives government subsidies for it as part of a social reinsertion program.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
It would have been interesting to know which are those two features that predict recidivism so well.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
The COMPAS system seems to have the same or better performance than the others methods they compared it to (including humans), so it seems to work pretty well. I find it weird that an algorithm doing better or same than humans is called &#x
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Interestingly, in the paper the human assessments shows the exact same biases.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Most medical interventions are not about immediately life threatening situations.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
It's the same thing in Europe. On a passenger/km basis, and without subsidies, budget air transport costs ten times less than train (look at company expenses and how much people they transport). It is also much safer. It is coun
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Could it be that the cultural problem is the low social status of IT Work ?
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by fvdessen 9y ago
> At the end of the day, women say they feel that they feel isolated by an industry that is overwhelmingly male. I would like to offer another point of view; A lot of the males who ended up in that industry are, to be blunt, social rejec
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by fvdessen 9y ago
How is not being included different from exclusion ?
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by fvdessen 9y ago
> The measurable advantage men have in the tech community What is that advantage and how is it measured ?
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by fvdessen 9y ago
And if people want to do drugs all day ? In Belgium there's no time limit to unemployment benefits and the government doesn't really check if you're looking for work. The result is a lot of people who have spent decades unemp
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by fvdessen 9y ago
"By clothing color, etc. " I wonder what's in the etc. Age, sex, skin color, religion, tattoos, walking pace, gait, facial recognition ?
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Singapour has put cameras everywhere and has a very low crime rate as a consequence. While I don't want to live in such a society the model certainly seems to work.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
That is indeed a weird way to measure and report. Without the associated userspace/kernel usage ratio those numbers are meaningless.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Do they ? If your usage is 50% userspace, 50% kernel, then having each slice slow by 10% does not result in a 20% slowdown.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
IIRC it was a successful business at some point ...
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I've found it works best with artisanal sharpened pencils http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com

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