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by hobom 4y ago
This is not an accurate reading of the Conclusion section. He just sums up what has been observed and does not mention any causal factors. Earlier, he explicitly says that causal factos will be covered by other posts. While he indeed links
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by hobom 4y ago
Donald Trump never attended an MBA program.
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by hobom 4y ago
That is not true. All food in the supermarket is taxed the same.
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by hobom 4y ago
The just-world fallacy is strongly in play with many comments here. Because those foundations and charities are massively affected by this scandal, there MUST be something they did wrong, right? Surely they should have vetted their donors b
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by hobom 4y ago
Calling Israel an appartheid state, and your specific examples betray a state of mind which applies arbitrary standards to Israel that never get applied to literally ANY other country in the world. Some of your specific examples: "Ille
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by hobom 5y ago
I have always wondered whether inducing exhaustion through exercise and strainous activities throughout the day could help overcome insomnia.
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by hobom 5y ago
Unfortunate consequence of a legacy legal system. Uber drivers are clearly neither quite like employees nor are they entrepreneurs, and the law should come up with a fitting category that ensures they are protected from exploitation but con
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by hobom 5y ago
His science journalist part is also not convincing. Neil deGrasse Tyson far outstrips the popularity of science journalists, because unlike other scientists he is not boring to everyday people
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by hobom 5y ago
I think there was some reddit data hoarder initiative that did that a few months ago.
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by hobom 5y ago
I think your tweet is in bad faith. Whatever the CEO thinks of Amazon warehouse workers' salary and working conditions has no bearing on the quality and outcomes of the lambda school curriculum. This Twitter style argument of "Loo
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by hobom 6y ago
Thank you, this is just what I was looking for. I like reading non fiction, but have found it incredibly hard to determine whether the contents are actually correct, since most reviews are not done by subject matter experts. I am tired of r
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by hobom 6y ago
There have been countless Googlers who came out to support Gebru. Did Google fire all of them? Or maybe Margaret's support was particularly outspoken, but I doubt it.
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by hobom 6y ago
I am kind of jaded, but despite the interesting approach, I predict that this research will not end up being deployed in time to make any difference. The real world pipeline just takes too long.
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by hobom 6y ago
This includes some true things about data collection issues, but I cannot agree with the main thesis that ML algorithms are about power. If anything, they shift power to the patients because now the decisions can be checked and questioned a
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by hobom 6y ago
The AstraZeneca trial was the one to use the meningitis vaccine.
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by hobom 6y ago
Thanks a lot for posting. Are you involved with the project? If so, great work, and I am excited that you made transfer learning work for this task! I am interested if you have given the following suggestions some thought: 1) The number of