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by itissid 9y ago
I think there are two broad camps of thinking processes, one that fits people into stereotypes and does system 1 type of thinking. This camp believes in built in traits always lead to certain biases. They perpetuate those biases as well.
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by itissid 9y ago
I wonder if one takes away someone's internet is he/she to consider themselves "poor"? I would certainly think so of myself.
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by itissid 9y ago
If self driving cars go mainstream, people's attitude and thinking of the car as only a transport vehicle may change. Even in congested traffic one may view it as a secondary home where they can work and eat breakfast in and not care a
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by itissid 9y ago
What works clearing house https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ seems like a step in the right direction. If there are more such efforts to summarize research(especially to address the problem of reproducibility in Social
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by itissid 9y ago
Isn't this just treating the symptoms to some extent? Sure there is a gender bias in hiring and salaries for women. But isn't the big elephant in the room the socio-economic and behavior bias created at a young age at homes and sc
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by itissid 9y ago
his model for contrastive divergent learning pre 2000 iirc was what really set the base for his breakthrough in the mid 2000. I think it took him sometime to make the jump from contrastive divergence learning to RBMs that learnt good priors
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by itissid 9y ago
I wonder if we as humans at some future point would evolve to understand and consume only sane and specialized content based on lessons of Facebook? History and behavioral psychology tells us people don't learn from the past just becau
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by itissid 9y ago
I think one of the big ideas that is being tested out there is getting rid of the adversarial economics of insurance in general. The whole industry is basically optimizing towards paying out as little while maximizing what they can get. Suc
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by itissid 9y ago
It is amazing how long the USSR lasted as long as it did. I think in the end all communist regimes fell because of the failures of central planning(even though it bore gems like Linear Programming and Ukraine's then booming agriculture
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by itissid 9y ago
It is hard though Car owner ship is < 2% in india[1] And Cars is probably the second most expensive asset after a home (assuming stock and bonds are not really owned by that many people). [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/
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by itissid 9y ago
Some things I did: - Started learning a new language(along with my wife) - Yoga classes and meditation - Carpentry or home improvement projects - Learning to keep things in their place and keep my room tidy - Letting go at the end of a dist
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by itissid 9y ago
There is a safety net here, if for example you get homeless after working or are disabled. There is no such thing in India. Sure you can have an employee contributed benefits plan(if you are lucky to have one of those employers). If you bec
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by itissid 9y ago
How does one go figuring out income levels? India has such a poor tax base just 2%[1] of people pay taxes. > If nearly 300m Indians count as “middle class”, as HSBC has proclaimed, some of them make around $3 a day. Then, I would be curi
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by itissid 9y ago
Isn't behavior economics making headway into the rethinking about economics?
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by itissid 9y ago
I always thought that immigrants always get the sharper end of the stick and I wondered when has immigration ever been easy without these kind of issues. But this is truly appalling. Two things I know to be true: 1. The current gene pool th
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by itissid 9y ago
I use umatrix chrome extension to block FB and twitter to the max and almost every ad server. That keeps FB and twitter and a bunch of other nonsense out.
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by itissid 9y ago
didn't Dropbox also recently blog about this?
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by itissid 9y ago
Get the feeling that this has been done before. I just can't remember where. I would really like to see this used to tell people where street parking is available in areas where there is alternate side cleaning. A LOT of people spend ~
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by itissid 9y ago
I used to take apart electronics in my house all the time, watching my dad and learning how to repair TV,toasters, VCRs etc. I was too young to remember how much damage or good I caused. These days I cannot concentrate on a lot of things, b
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by itissid 9y ago
And I do like that the pharmacy is next to the docs office.
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by itissid 9y ago
My wife and I excelled in engineering drawing in school. But she still has great difficulty in keeping up with me in carpentry and trying to visualize how joints come together. I might have some hindsight and confirmation bias of course. An
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by itissid 9y ago
the only thing I want to ask is weather these apps will last about 30 years+. When the support for a note taking app dies it causes a lot of head aches. Remember google notebook?
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by itissid 9y ago
I always wonder if odd(and perhaps pointless) interview Q like this have been contorted from the original(much useful) problem like pollard's rho or it just happened to reduce to more useful ones. Digging deeper into such questions yie
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by itissid 9y ago
Read the article. Noob Q. Surely not ALL the browser tabs are vulnerable to the getting recorded? In other words only the tabs that are connected to websites that contain these recording JS scripts are vunerable, correct?
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by itissid 9y ago
Once you have remote code execution with privilege escalation on box Z, no amount of encryption can save at least box Z
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by itissid 9y ago
There is an industry in japan where people can get fake married[1]. Its very popular among women. Its a sad outcome of a country that penalizes marriage. I remember when a Goldman advisor told Japanese govt to make baby and child care easie
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by itissid 9y ago
I think one more thing that needs to be understood is how can one dynamically establish identity. I have never built a cryptographic system, but I thought maybe the following could be better: Lets say Alice is a person wanting to establish
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by itissid 9y ago
Its sad that the FAA has rules that don't allow any commercial use of a drone in populated suburbs. With real time insurance starting to take off. These rules ought to be revisited, at least for light weight drones < 5 pounds.
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by itissid 9y ago
The economics of self driving cars make any such assumptions sort of up in the air. Maybe self driving car fleets will be so numerous, they will optimize via carpooling in busy urban pockets. Maybe people will stop driving there own self dr
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by itissid 9y ago
Umm, probably, but NVMe is still connected via PCIe. The whole point of this deal is the EMIB connecting RAM and GPU. And its hard, EMIB connections is mostly to do with power dissipation and throughput. I am probably out of my depth guessi

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