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by ggggtez 6y ago
>it has to boil down to just letting people in regardless of merit. Not when you have 30,000 applicants all with near perfect SAT scores. No one said that you have to ignore merits in order to promote diversity. It's not like white
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> in order to counteract your personal perception I just follow the data. The data says that people unconsciously prefer people who are similar to themselves. I mostly couldn't care less how Yale decides to do their admission proces
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I know that discourse is at an all time low, but you could try reading past the 6th word in my post. In other words: Try generating a speech about "Apollo 11 disaster" without previously existing text corpus about any space disast
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by ggggtez 6y ago
An AI can't fake a speech about a subject they never spoke about... yet. Though, to be honest, I think it wouldn't be hard. 1) Collect a corpus of speeches. 2) Use style-synthesis techniques, just like in the art-style synthesis d
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I was kind of expecting that this was going to demo some step forward, but this has all the same tells has the last several high profile deepfake demos. > Voice is clipped > Chin > head bobbing
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Ahem... PC.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>They have to be sideloaded and you have to enable a scary checkbox to do so And windows has a scary sounding checkbox when you download an .exe from the internet. So what? In the old days, it never warned you, and people were CONSTANTLY
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>in order to make merit-based admissions You made a mistake already. These decisions are not purely merit based. Meritocracy isn't real. It never was. What you are seeing is looking at race on purpose . Because racism is a real t
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Why not both? Give more money to public schools, and support affirmative action until those network effects start occurring naturally.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
That's a nice thing to say, but it's utterly unrealistic when 29,000 students apply to Yale every year. So you need a system to decide who gets in and who doesn't. Just like a job interview, you don't just hire people at
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> A federal judge in 2019 cleared Harvard of discriminating against Asian American applicants
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>proven Nothing was proven. This is just an allegation right now. Wait until the court date. And then the SCOTUS overruling the decision, because like you said: discrimination is required for affirmative action. And universities like Yal
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by ggggtez 6y ago
To be fair, privilege isn't only based on skin color. Only you can decide if your colleague was out of line in that instance, of course. Consider that most people here on HN have some level of privilege simply by being in the tech fiel
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>Harvard The OP said Yale. I know they are both Ivy league schools but you can't just lump them together when you are accusing one of wrongdoing.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>The Supreme Court has ruled colleges and universities may consider race in admissions decisions but has said that must be done in a narrowly tailored way to promote diversity Sounds like SCOTUS will agree with Yale on this one.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I think the bigger problem is that the experiment wouldn't be well formed (the "value" of each image would vary between study participants). I don't think we should throw out wholesale that sexuality is a big driver of h
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The same thing came up in the Linked In scraping case. The courts have defended website scraping. Even if Google scraped it on purpose in order to steal traffic, it would likely be legal.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I think it's just the opposite: Uber is trying to change the platform so they no longer fit the definition of "Employee". Three changes are so that the driver more closely models a taxi service which is a self employment. In
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The internet should be a public utility. Google should not. This would be insanity. The article even mentions how the government regulates e.g. movie ratings... Only that's a lie. The MPAA is not a governmental body. It's voluntar
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This guy is clueless. He's mad that Google has a partnership with some food ordering app that takes a cut. If that 3-5% cut he's complaining about was pure waste, then why does Google partner with anyone at all? They could take th
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by ggggtez 6y ago
" Do your homework" doesn't imply a loop either. Nor does "This could take a while " It should not be a shock that the english language doesn't naturally have a single word that can express both a condition&#
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by ggggtez 6y ago
While we're being pedantic, "do" is a terrible keyword. I mean, everything in an imperitive program is a request to "do" something. And "do ... while(x)" is a terrible construct because it hides the loop c
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by ggggtez 6y ago
And data security will come exactly: never. Because security is never the most important thing. A company that runs with this mentality will always be reactive, and never prepared for threats.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
No don't you see! If you get sued for misusing your customer's data, that means you have customers! So getting sued is actually a good thing! Make your money and burn down the building on your way out!
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Your fake example is more convoluted (and less profitable) than just using ads, fake news, and viral marketing to sway opinions. And don't forget that Google has a vested interest in identifying fake searches, so any large scale attack
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I'd like to point out that you are data-illiterate here. Here is an alternate explanation: Very few people search for 19th century political philosphies on Google, compared to the number of people who search for "hangover". T
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It's the subtitle. And the subtitle is more informative.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This method is not a safe solution. There are many flaws: For example, if person 3 and person 5 collaborate, they can find out the salary of person 4.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This argument doesn't seem consistent with the idea that college should not be just a path for job readiness. If the purpose of a philosophy degree is to create philosophers, then we rightly should be subsidizing the education of those
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It's evident that it wasn't an exploit. It was just a stolen password of an employee.

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