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by grog454 5y ago
> but my opinion is that junior engineers aren't properly tuned for what is and isn't a good engineer and if they are, they shouldn't be a junior engineer. Presumably they aren't instructed to evaluate for that, but i
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by grog454 5y ago
Was harassment by exploiting this ever a big problem? Seems like you could call someone and if they pick up, you now control their phone line... indefinitely?
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by grog454 5y ago
Interesting that even in the addendum at the end of the article (which I only skimmed) there is no mention of the most glaring oversight of the author. From his own screenshot: "[...] Wells Fargo will not contact you by phone or text t
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by grog454 5y ago
> If the model is trained on data from Colorado, it will underdiagnose Lyme disease in patients from New England (high false negative rate). The only way I know to overcome this problem is to create even larger data sets, but this just i
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by grog454 5y ago
> I have medical issues with no meaningful diagnosis, despite seeing many doctors. This isn't directly related to your point, but why is this even the norm? Why are you going from human to human seeking answers to some arcane myster
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by grog454 5y ago
I think you are right that there is a natural and understandable psychological resistance to a data-based evaluation system. I understand that the doctor may realize something about the patient that will lower his/her chances of succes
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by grog454 5y ago
Are you aware of any attempts to use machine learning in medical analysis and outcome prediction? I feel like this is one of the few applications where it could shine. I have no formal training in data science, but everything I've read
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by grog454 5y ago
I'm skeptical. I concede it's probably a hard problem but there is an entire field dedicated to hard statistical problems called data science. What is the point of having detailed patient histories and data if it can't be use
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by grog454 5y ago
Is it really too "hard" to perform rigorous statical analysis? Why can't you factor in patient genetics + background + circumstances to come up with some expected chance of success for each procedure (in fact, isn't that
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by grog454 5y ago
Seems like a good system to me. If a doctor expects a lower than average success rate for performing some specific operation, he should let some other doctor do it anyway.
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by grog454 5y ago
> counting back links Do the algorithms weight links based on visibility or relevance? A link at the top of a sorted content site HN should probably be worth more than one at the bottom, and one buried in invisible metadata somewhere sh
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by grog454 5y ago
> You try figuring out a highly performant ray casting engine without the internet. Not that it detracts from what he accomplished in any way, Carmack's alternative to the internet seems to have been books and research papers. From
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by grog454 5y ago
> For Google, though, the "pull factor" is because you literally cannot sell directly to users through the Play Store. Couldn't you replace "Google" and "Play Store" with "Spotify"? You can &q
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by grog454 5y ago
What is the difference between a "hard working ethic" and "work[ing] to the bone"?
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by grog454 5y ago
You absolutely should try harder to not have an at-fault auto accident for your and other people's sake. I'd also recommend having massive dying trees cut down near your house. I've used a 2% cash back credit card for the las
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by grog454 5y ago
I'm really arguing for discourse, not one side or the other. I've used charge backs multiple times. But after thinking about it a while I realized that I've probably paid more in this hidden premium than I've recovered
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by grog454 5y ago
> So your alternative of the fraud insurance we currently have is to just end fraud? I left that little blurb about reducing fraud at the end of that post because I was trying to anticipate the (shallow) counter-argument: "what&#x27
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by grog454 5y ago
> If someone steals my credit card, I have my credit card company to give me some level of protection. They can block transactions if they think it's stolen, and if I report it as stolen I can claw back money from fraudulent purchas
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by grog454 5y ago
> If you want to deride me by calling into question my motives, you can do that too for whatever reason YOU want to, but that's on you You are free to act under whatever impetus you want and while I did call in to question your moti
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by grog454 5y ago
> Not kidding - How do we know you are not the hacker ? We don't. But we can assume that they aren't for the purpose of discussion. It seems more likely that a victim would post the OP's post than a perpetrator. Google als
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by grog454 5y ago
Honest question: what impact did you see when you switched from not blocking China + Russia to blocking them? What type of attacks are you seeing primarily? Failed login attempts / brute force attempts seem like the cost of doing busin
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by grog454 5y ago
>the best in the school, in terms of awards and recognition. Not Einstein, mind you I thought the conventional wisdom was that Einstein wasn't academically accomplished until his great works were published. A lot of your story remin
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by grog454 5y ago
It might be worth defining your point in more detail. Here's the spectrum as I see it with examples, from most invasive to least. I'm curious where you (and others) draw the line. - TV / streaming ads that fully disrupt your
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by grog454 5y ago
>Are all public corporations the adversaries of citizens though? In a way, yes. Public corporations generally seek profit maximization. Rational consumers seek value maximization. More profit for seller = less value for consumer. Less pr
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by grog454 5y ago
I feel like when you choose a motto/mantra like "Don't be evil" you're locked in to it because of the obvious implication of removing it.
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by grog454 5y ago
What system do you envision for bringing awareness of your product to new customers? Or do you just mean traditional advertisement and not marketing in general (ex: paid or incentivized product reviews). From the advertiser's perspecti
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by grog454 5y ago
>If you give people who violate policy detailed information about what they did wrong and how you know then it is much easier for them to figure out how to abuse the system without getting caught. I don't really buy this. The most e
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by grog454 5y ago
It's unfortunate that this post is being downvoted and considered a "personal attack" (debatable) as it seems to be one of if not the only comment suggesting the most likely explanation: a Google employee trying to maximize e
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by grog454 5y ago
Is there a good reason for these regulations in the U.S.? I've seen illegally modified brake light flashing under heavy braking and appreciated it. It catches my attention extremely well (which is the point). Maybe the concern is that
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by grog454 5y ago
I've always thought of probability, teleologically, as an approximation of deterministic processes that are too complicated to calculate explicitly. Under very carefully controlled circumstances, even a die becomes deterministic and fe

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