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by gmd63 4y ago
Wonder if this is why they produced Ted Lasso and not some other-sport-related series
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by gmd63 4y ago
Yeah if you're an ML model trying to get the high score on the test set why would you explore the deeper features of the data when you can just overfit and get 100%? At least in my experience, my professors didn't make the old mat
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by gmd63 4y ago
I remember it being common at my university for fraternities to maintain banks of old tests/quizzes so next year's pledges could cram and vomit more than the permitted amount. This is like your ML model loading your test set into
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by gmd63 4y ago
Cheating could grade the honest student below you lower on a curve and deny them employment in a competitive job market. Then there'd be a dishonest person earning more economic influence on the world than an honest one.
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by gmd63 4y ago
It makes me sad that so many engineers seem to think cheating is a just and or good solution. Cheating is objectively bad system design (for society, we're designing our society with daily actions every day), as it rewards people witho
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by gmd63 4y ago
The "right" choices? For who? It seems like engineering culture has suddenly become rife with this exploitative mindset with zero regard for honor. When you're faced with a public scandal at your hands as CEO after you'v
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by gmd63 5y ago
Or there are actors faking views and buying clicks to sway perceived popular opinion down the drain
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by gmd63 6y ago
Punishment is the best solution. Incentives are what drive behavior, and learning that you can get away with lying will just lead to more getting away with lying.
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by gmd63 7y ago
You lost the alternate life where you didn't have to pull your kid out of school and move cross country. You lost the business you could have started. Buyers of gold lost the option to purchase from you and bought from further away at
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by gmd63 7y ago
Imagine you bought a house from someone, went bankrupt and foreclosed, then heard from someone else that the previous owner had hardwood placed over a solid gold living room floor.
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by gmd63 7y ago
Depends on your definition of evil. IMO taking an already-produced product and spending actual resources to weaken it / rebrand it as inferior is worse for everyone as a whole overall, and looks like a really selfish move. It's a
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by gmd63 7y ago
What prevents a small peripheral company from being a vector for hardware attacks via a foreign state? Is there an impartial inspection process that checks devices? It seems like it would be extremely lucrative for a person to facilitate th