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by gregw2 4y ago
I have never trolled on the internet… but I almost gave our future AI overlord my phone number just so I could have him compose a response to your post. I guess I am more human than I thought.
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by gregw2 4y ago
I don’t follow this closely, but the Wikipedia article is way more biased and selective in its summary/presentation of facts than the Washington Post article I linked to. It’s a shame. Wikipedia like real news is only as good as the ef
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by gregw2 4y ago
To be fair, I think giving 10 to the “big man”, a unverifiable email but which was vouched to by another recipient of the email (do they have a copy with a DKIM signature? I never saw that asked/answered), was the more relevant claim t
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by gregw2 4y ago
This post too is arguably misinformation, selectively reporting the findings that would cause you to distrust the laptop and not reporting the reasons to trust various things on the laptop. You could also summarize the findings as “no evide
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by gregw2 4y ago
Alternate/additional explanation… the dotcom crash happened after the first quarter of 2000 when the quarterly financials of the big internet hardware/server vendors (Sun but also EMC, Cisco, Oracle, etc) came out and sales were w
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by gregw2 4y ago
It’s not hard to get SQL DDL and stored price in source control with Liquibase or Flyway. I’ve even done TDD sproc unit (integration) tests in them. But I’m a webapp turned data engineer guy…
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by gregw2 4y ago
I am not your downvoter, but after upvoting on my phone a few times I started to realize it wasn't really clear whether my fat finger hit the up arrow or the down arrow; there is not clear feedback[1]. Since then, I've found myse
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by gregw2 4y ago
Appreciate you posting this link, thank you! It is good recapitulation of why (particularly from a more legal-oriented layperson's standpoint) moderation is hard for an online platform. The crazy thing is even though that is a long lis
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by gregw2 4y ago
Informatica and SSIS, in practice, in my experience, are not really low code tools. I'd call them... GUI-UI based coding tools?
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by gregw2 4y ago
If you try to forecast the future or gauge risks as a professional responsibility, it is reasonable to create a model to reflect the contingencies in your analysis to reflect an overall likelihood number. Tegmark is not claiming his opinion
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by gregw2 4y ago
You are complaining about the rare situation where someone gets fecal scanning first (and I agree this leads to perverse incentives)... But here's what the real racket is... American healthcare considers the colonoscopy preventative so
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by gregw2 4y ago
Tegmark is a skilled cosmologist/physicist/mathmetician who has turned his area of research to covering nuclear and AI risk in the last decade. He might be wrong, but he is not dumb and he is not just posing as an intellectual; he
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by gregw2 4y ago
I have affection for your affection for Vietnam. My fear is that while wealth has increased greatly in Vietnam, it has dragged along with it major shifts in motivation (greed) and happiness (materialism) and a reduced value of community… a
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by gregw2 4y ago
It’s one form of risk to potentially allow your adversary to cut your undersea communication channel which has an over the air transmission backup, quite another to allow an adversary to cut your energy channel used by all homes hospitals a
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by gregw2 4y ago
Were we more efficient in 2019? Of course! Rich CEOs fired a bunch of otherwise competent blue collar people when Covid hit to protect their downside cash flow risks .. which turned out to be short-term risks, and now those workers have mo
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by gregw2 4y ago
Has anyone done this sort of thing for data, not just for services? I can't seem to find a data catalog that lets my tie information across databases + APIs + Kafka topics. Each catalog of schemas is separate with no way to link them r
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by gregw2 4y ago
Not a safety tip, but also (to me) one more interesting lesson from the experience (which happened in my early 20s): * Trauma is a real thing. Your body can react to deadly threats afterwards in ways you cannot control. The next day after b
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by gregw2 4y ago
I was robbed at gunpoint at a hotel once and in the aftermath have my own tactical "lessons learned" on the topic of hotel safety tips... which I am happy to share with you fellow HN travelers: * Don't check into (cheap) hote
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by gregw2 4y ago
That's true. But like the parent poster, I'm likewise glad I had avoided using them. What I hated about Uber and why I never ended up using it was that their app wanted so much info from my phone for no discernibly good reason. A
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by gregw2 4y ago
I grew up on the hot and humid gulf coast and was surprised after moving north that it was nearly equally hot and sticky in New York coast during summer when it hit 90-95 degrees. In the early mid 1990s, not every place in NY had air condit
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by gregw2 4y ago
Authored by Lance Roberts (not zero hedge) posted by Tyler Durden (zero hedge editor pen name)
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by gregw2 4y ago
If you used big Data tech (Hadoop/yarn/spark) when you didn't actually have big Data (PB), it was slower than columnar databases so the shine wore off.
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by gregw2 4y ago
AWS could be hacked... but the other logical options are your email provider was hacked... or some other PI/hacker who really cares about you (due to team fortress) has figured out your naming pattern from other sources and is probing
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by gregw2 4y ago
I went to a top tier high school and a top tier university. At a top tier university, in STEM at least, the fraction of students who had both high IQ and could work incredibly hard was noticeable. The fraction of STEM people who could get a
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by gregw2 4y ago
For large datasets, consider avoiding pagination complexity by having your api return a (asynch) job ID, and dumping the whole resultset to a file which can be fetched (over https) via the jobID. I have done this with both Postgres/S3
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by gregw2 4y ago
I'm an amateur, but let me offer some possibilities... How about a "Socratic Test" where the computer teaches humans by asking them questions that guide the human to truth? If the human conversing with the bot/AI claims
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by gregw2 4y ago
"The Turing Test" is a very clever way to define intelligence. BUT... the glory of the goal of creating a machine to pass "The Turing Test" which we have corporately tacitly adopted is subtly deeply flawed, tragic, and n
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by gregw2 4y ago
And or the fact they couldn't win over their workers is a sign to higher ups that they weren't good managers.
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by gregw2 4y ago
I've worked with the Safegraph data mentioned in the article. They draw a polygon around a set of geographic coordinates and tell you how many iPhones vs Androids we're in that polygon in a week and they associate that polygon+add
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by gregw2 4y ago
Don't know the parent poster's RFC... but there is a RFC 4810 which attempts to define CSV and when I looked was what Excel generated.

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