jjcon

68 ms·

811.
by jjcon 6y ago
> The idea that Trump and his supporters haven't been heard is laughable A bit of a tangent but - I know what you mean by this and I generally agree but I think their concern is not about the amount of media attention they have gott
812.
by jjcon 6y ago
This really shouldn’t be called Googles union since there isn’t anything exclusive about it - 15 employees could start another ‘union’ tomorrow to put pressure on google for opposite political issues
813.
by jjcon 6y ago
> I think machine learning people are just using fancy excel formulas. I mean... you can do it in excel it is just a lot... slower - you can do like anything in excel https://youtu.be/s105jek4WUI
814.
by jjcon 6y ago
> Free speech doesn't apply to non-government resources Of course it does! That’s like saying ethics don’t apply to corporations. If you meant the first amendment you would be correct but free speech is a long standing liberal ideal
815.
by jjcon 6y ago
You didn’t read before posting did you? They make the case that Amazon is because they provide hosting for Parlers larger competitors.
816.
by jjcon 6y ago
They have orders of magnitude more video data than they can use for training that is already public
817.
by jjcon 6y ago
> posits that at the very least you should not discount the importance of the long tail. thats not a debunking
818.
by jjcon 6y ago
> I wish there would be a societal awakening in Europe and people would boycott American services. I understand the point but you have to admit it is a little funny you are expressing this point in english while on an american website. I
819.
by jjcon 6y ago
It has to be balanced and accurate. You can be 100% accurate and be incredibly misleading by omission or overemphasis. https://accountablejournalism.org/ethics-codes/guidelines-on...
820.
by jjcon 6y ago
You can be 100% accurate and be incredibly misleading by omission or overemphasis, that is what ‘balance’ is for and refers to. https://accountablejournalism.org/ethics-codes/guidelines-on...
821.
by jjcon 6y ago
I’m confused - that article is from 2006 - how can it be used to debunk a 2017 study?
822.
by jjcon 6y ago
> when the crowd-based articles are substantially revised. You literally just had to keep reading to find the cases where they do show bias
823.
by jjcon 6y ago
Which is exactly my point
824.
by jjcon 6y ago
> as CEO of a major non profit internet company opposing one of the biggest human rights issues of our time. Obama, the president of the united states opposed same sex marriage at the time of the donations, as did most americans. I hardl
825.
by jjcon 6y ago
One random example I ran across recently of note to HN crowd - the creator of Javscript and Brave, Founder of Mozilla Brendan Eich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich Under known for it says, “Known for JavaScr
826.
by jjcon 6y ago
> AI algorithms _need_ bias to work. This is the bias-variance trade off: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias–variance_tradeoff To be clear, statistical bias is in fact distinct from the colloquial term ‘bias’ most
827.
by jjcon 6y ago
T-Mobile was doing stuff like this before the fcc adopted their current policy so I imagine stuff like that is here to stay regardless of net neutrality rules
828.
by jjcon 6y ago
> make sure your data contains as many demographics as possible (not just race) from your actual patient population By this you mean researchers should mirror their patient population as closely as possible (be it socioeconomic, gender,
829.
by jjcon 6y ago
Non clickbait headline: Medicine has some data collection biases (if your aim is to represent US demographics). Long existing non-ML methods suffer due to this data collection bias but again for some reason the author seems to put AI in a s
830.
by jjcon 6y ago
I don’t know why exactly but I genuinely love this image - thank you for sharing. It makes me nostalgic for a time I never even experienced
831.
by jjcon 6y ago
When people think vaccine they think, ‘only effective if taken beforehand’. Is that the case for mRNA vaccines?
832.
by jjcon 6y ago
I’ve never seen exactly what they are talking about but what they may be getting at is actually information compartmentalization - group A can know fact A and group B can know fact B but neither group can know AB. Some higher up official ca
833.
by jjcon 6y ago
If you are receiving a classified briefing you cannot be on a machine that has internet access - the briefing would be in a secured area with no personal devices and the only machines in that area are airgapped (and they are airgapped forev
834.
by jjcon 6y ago
I don’t think you understand how difficult it would be to get classified information on your unclassified laptop and there isn’t a chance in hell you could do it by accident
835.
by jjcon 6y ago
> such as emails and personal files of congress members and staffers All of which is not of national security concern and most of which is already subject to public access via foia
836.
by jjcon 6y ago
I’m pretty fricken sure they would have worked around not having that specific punch card tech - it’s like saying 9/11 wouldn’t have happened if Linux didn’t exist because the taliban used Linux systems
837.
by jjcon 6y ago
I dunno - the us has a president doing everything he can to stay in power and has been blocked at every turn... that would not end the same way in most places
838.
by jjcon 6y ago
Interesting that they include mamba install instructions before conda. Is mamba taking off with the recent (and upcoming) license changes that anaconda made? I’m not familiar with mamba though I’ve had my eyes open for an alternative to ana
839.
by jjcon 6y ago
Signal has a terrible terrible ux - most people don’t care as much as the HN-er when it comes to security - they want a chat app that just works and is feature rich
840.
by jjcon 6y ago
Europe didn’t sign anything - the trade deal will probably die in parliament

More ›