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by imh 11y ago
I'd almost typed that same sentence in my original comment, but then I reconsidered. It turns out it's not reactionary laws I'm worried about, but the people being hurt. Even worse than over regulation is a marketplace of car
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by imh 11y ago
In light of all the IoT bugs we've been hearing about, it's really nice to hear that they are being super cautious about development here. I hope they keep the same level of caution (or increase it) as they get close to market. My
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by imh 11y ago
If you ever want to buy a house around here, the difference between 100k and up is still significant, regardless of how it relates to the rest of the country.
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by imh 11y ago
I wish I'd seen something like this when I first started using ubuntu. As with most things linux, it's very sensible if you know what to look for (which is the hard part).
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by imh 11y ago
What an evil and misleading testimonial. They're trying to imply that he got a job at google because of the nanodegree, while you find out after the clickthrough that he simultaneously got a CS degree from UCLA.
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by imh 11y ago
Maybe your experience is different from mine then. My device was inaccurate enough to be useless. Further there doesn't seem to be any allegation that people are expecting it to have a medical or diagnostic level of reliability. That s
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by imh 11y ago
It shouldn't matter. It says it can read your heart rate. That's what it advertises as. It should be able to do so. I'm curious if there are legal precedents on how accurate a thing must be to advertise as a being a measureme
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by imh 11y ago
At least among the engineers and data scientists here, are any of us really surprised? Smart devices, especially ones that learn, can certainly do better on average, but complexity adds edge cases and those worst cases can really matter. Si
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by imh 11y ago
Sometimes this seems to make it worse. I've observed I tend to get most frustrated when the movie is plausible throughout until an implausible climax. I understand that this is where the friction between plot and science will be strong
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by imh 11y ago
48 lines is totally relevant. If I'm coming into the article and thinking, "Oh god, C++? This is going to be a mess," then seeing that it's only 48 lines is a great hook.
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by imh 11y ago
Isn't that exactly the point? If the competitive landscape (the industry) is such that enough of the firms are incentivized to make these bad decisions, then why not blame the industry?
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by imh 11y ago
It's not just about bias. Even if we know there is predictive value, there's a notion of whether it's fair to include it. Regardless of what it correlates with, it seems unfair to make someone more/less likely to get a l
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by imh 11y ago
More than that, if you use statistical evidence you open the door to things like "poor people are more likely to commit X crime, and you are poor, so you are more likely to have committed the crime." While it's valid inferenc
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by imh 11y ago
I like the idea, but in practice, we'd all likely see our rates changing inscrutably as the insurance companies change their models.
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by imh 11y ago
How do you think about pure mathematics research then? Or fundamental physics? Or art/literature/history's place in publicly funded universities? There's so much more to all of this than pushing forward in industry.
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by imh 11y ago
Derp. I meant to say I never had the DVD service. I only ever had streaming! That screwed the entire meaning of my response and it's too late to edit! oops :-\
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by imh 11y ago
> In his introduction to the “Second Book,” which was finally published officially in 2003, Weinberg wrote, “Germany and the rest of the world have not yet come close to coming to terms with Hitler as a person, as leader of a great natio
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by imh 11y ago
No, I never had streaming. Maybe it's my shifting preferences, but I remember being able to say "I'll just wait for it to come out on netflix" for the majority of things I was interested in. Not everything, but still mor
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by imh 11y ago
You sure used to be able to go there for specific movies. I understand why it's not the case anymore, but I miss what it was.
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by imh 11y ago
Just because it's already competitive doesn't mean the best people are competing. If you're really good at math, you can end up with a full 10x difference on disposable income being a teacher versus other available careers. T
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by imh 11y ago
I can't understand why we don't just pay teachers more. Is it even controversial?
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by imh 11y ago
I think a big goal was not just the HUD, but having augmented reality. You can't do AR without a camera. But I'm with you. A HUD simple HUD product would alleviate much of the backlash.
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by imh 11y ago
I think it's kinda simple. If I told you I was watching you right now, it would be creepy. People don't like being watched when they can't control it. Some people don't like being watched at all. It's a pretty norma
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by imh 11y ago
His comment on being edited made me think of something that is a bit of a tangent. I like the way he writes on his blog. He has personality. I wonder if more lay people would read tech writing if more of the personality of the writers came
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by imh 11y ago
Some people don't get insurance because the high deductibles mean they probably won't get any benefit. I think an even scarier effect is that I personally don't go to the doctor unless I really, really need to because of thos
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by imh 11y ago
I hate to write crappy comments, but my general reaction to this can be summed up with ":-(" There are terrible changes in the government that feel inevitable. Whenever these changes are beaten/voted down, we all celebrate th
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by imh 11y ago
I'm convinced that an excel sort of lay-person's computing platform is where probabilistic programming will really take off. This seems really cool!
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by imh 11y ago
Do we really have such poor social skills that candor and niceness are at odds? Really? I get that it can be a difficult goal to achieve both, but goddammit we're all adults here. We should all have developed those skills! Just because
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by imh 11y ago
I haven't heard that description of dropout and I love it. It's going to be my go to description now.
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by imh 11y ago
>For many people, when the choice is between giving up the right to go to court or the chance to get a job, it is not a choice at all. This is the worst part. There's really no choice for 'the little guy' on whether or not

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