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by idm 10y ago
They are not real people, but it is not a "unitary statistical representation" either. At the country level, crossed by the age/sex level, pplapi agents track pretty closely to real humans. Other dimensions (e.g. income) ha
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by idm 10y ago
It's a synthetic world population derived from public population data; these are not real people (i.e. human subjects) and the source raw data were not identifiable or even individual-level data. I nevertheless think there are a number
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by idm 10y ago
This is part of my research and I'm happy to answer any questions. I gave a preliminary poster about this a few months ago: http://imiller.utsc.utoronto.ca/media/ci-2016/2016-06-03_a-s... This project is unde
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by idm 10y ago
> experiment with the techniques for social media propaganda developed by DARPA's SMISC program. Interesting. I hadn't heard of SMISC - thanks!
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by idm 10y ago
I replied elsewhere, but I'm pasting it here too just so our threads connect. https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf p. 4: > Russia used trolls as well as RT as part of its influence efforts t
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by idm 10y ago
The report does establish that social media brigading occurred. https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf p. 4: > Russia used trolls as well as RT as part of its influence efforts to denigrate Secre
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by idm 10y ago
Thanks for your reply - I'm not accusing you of malice. I would love to see more of their raw data. I research social media and I have specifically investigated 2016 US election memes, so those data are extremely interesting to me. H
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by idm 10y ago
I hope it will be un-removed. This report is important.
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by idm 10y ago
This report presents conclusions, not evidence. There are quite a few commenters in this thread decrying the "absence of evidence," but that is simply the burden of proof fallacy. I've performed my own analysis of election m
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by idm 10y ago
This report provides conclusions, not raw data. If you are being honest with your comment, then you are unwittingly committing several logical fallacies: - burden of proof: demanding confidential information that will never be provided ensu
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by idm 10y ago
> This report is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment; its conclusions are identical to those in the highly classified assessment but this version does not include the full supporting information on key elements of th
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by idm 10y ago
> Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and
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by idm 10y ago
This is absolutely hysterical. I am crying with laughter. The bots went back and forth about a dozen times about what they don't know, and why the other one knows what they themselves don't know that they don't know. The a
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by idm 10y ago
Think of it like this: 8 weeks, 5 days per week, 1 hour per day. That's 40 hours. I spend more than a few minutes a month administering my MBP, so I have no idea how you get along doing so little for a Linux machine. In fact, I spend
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by idm 10y ago
The fact we're still discussing the trackpad, suspend/wake, fonts, networking, and UI - in 2017 - means the problem still isn't solved on Linux. I gave a decade over to that quest (1996-2006) and then spent the next decade u
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by idm 10y ago
I love apocryphal tales like this. There's a kernel of logic to the original assertion. It has a "gee whiz" irony, coded as a moral story: the biggest brains in the world forgot to get paid. Twitter's perceived revenue
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by idm 10y ago
Is it true that pointers are completely non-existent in Fortran? This may be related to your point about data structures. I've heard there is no null dereferencing and pointer nonsense - all without the need for a garbage collector - w
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by idm 10y ago
Are they reporting what is a mis-identification of automated vulnerability scanning? We've been talking for weeks now about how NSA continually weakens the US by attacking encryption and infrastructure - and nobody is actually helping
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by idm 10y ago
> Just as one hears of cars chosen for their cupholders, so were these users converted to Unix for trivial reasons: line numbers and vanity. This is why Jobs was the visionary. "[L]ine numbers and vanity" are real-world proble
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by idm 10y ago
My theory: everybody knows sqlite can be distributed as a single-file library that you can happily embed. However, it's a pretty complex beast compared to the rest of the list and maybe it's outside the vision of the list altoget
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by idm 10y ago
Good post and worth the read. His four priorities are: 1. fight the fights. There will be more government surveillance and more corporate surveillance. 2. prepare for those fights. Much of the next four years will be reactive, but we can p
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by idm 10y ago
Aaron, your unfamiliarity with Schneier's extensive writings does not amount to Schneier's post being "out of context."
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by idm 10y ago
Thanks for posting a note in this thread - I would have missed it otherwise!
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by idm 10y ago
Does anybody care about the answer to your question? In all likelihood, the answer is: because that information is even more work to collect. Your post reminds me of the burden of proof fallacy, in which you create work for other people by
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by idm 10y ago
Django has excellent documentation. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, it is appropriate. That is to say: there are good tutorials for starting out and there is good reference material for going deep. As others have mentioned,
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by idm 10y ago
A good portion of reddit's memes are hosted on imgur, which was included in the dataset, so there's that.
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by idm 10y ago
Totally - it's the first time I've messed with the platform and I can see some real value there!
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by idm 10y ago
Sortof OT: I was also interested in election trends. While Google is focusing on real-time search trends regarding voting, I looked at meme trends leading up to the election. There are interesting trends in the amount of attention differe
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by idm 10y ago
I think they are demonstrating discovery within-company. That feature will be huge. It potentially eliminates meetings that would have had to occur "between silos" - which are extremely difficult meetings to begin with. If someb
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by idm 10y ago
This is going to be huge. 10 years ago, I would never have thought that technology alone sufficiently differentiated YouTube from "long tail" offerings like Vevo or Twitch. It turns out you can have multiple, multiple-billion-do

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