joefkelley

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by joefkelley 7y ago
The idea that ad targeting sucks because ad networks have no incentive to improve it is extremely dubious. Google and Facebook have an incentive to use up advertisers' budgets. But they also have an incentive to keep advertisers happy
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by joefkelley 7y ago
I think I'm not understanding if you really answered the question you quoted - what specifically is the concern with having that information extracted? Is it just "it feels creepy"? My point is that they already have the info
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by joefkelley 7y ago
I'm usually much more pro-google than most on HN, but this is quite bad. I understand it enables other features and a technical work-around that also keeps those features is difficult. But this is a disastrous user experience. It remin
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by joefkelley 7y ago
Wait, so you trust them to store the email, and parse it for something like spam detection, but not for some smarter feature? What specifically are you concerned about that is a problem with this and not with them having the email in the fi
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Oh everyone is aware of it. They have been making some changes to the promotion process to try to address it. But it's still a huge issue. I'm not so sure about what the alternative is, though. The promotion process at other place
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Context: In ~July 2018 there was some outcry because Google was "letting third parties read your emails" (e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reportedly-allows-third-... ). Of course, these were all expli
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Sorry, maybe I missed it; where in the announcement did they say it was a subscription?
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by joefkelley 8y ago
I agree that this process sucks. Do you think it's possible to do 1 and 2 without 3? How could a business that remains focused on benefiting free users compete/profit?
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by joefkelley 8y ago
When Google takes the approach you want, they are vilified for "letting third parties access your data" - as in the Gmail "scandal" a few months ago. If you let users do whatever they want, they will often shoot themselv
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by joefkelley 8y ago
I can only speak for Stanford when I was there, but almost every CS graduate took "Computers, Ethics and Public Policy" as it was the best way to satisfy the degree's "Technology in Society" requirement. In talking
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Definitely agree with this. I've been skiing my entire life (age 3 to currently 28) and a spent a great deal of time with an instructor. My girlfriend has also been skiing her entire life, pretty much never with an instructor. Her firs
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Would you consider an ice hockey player's skill in 3-on-3 overtime or shootouts to be a factor in their overall ice hockey skill?
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by joefkelley 8y ago
No idea. I guess technically I omitted: (2,1), (1,2): 36.86989764584401 (3,1), (1,3): 53.13010235415599 So I don't think it's a bug in my code, but that is pretty odd.
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by joefkelley 8y ago
The (7,2), (1,4) solution is surprisingly good. I did a really dumb brute force search and you have to get a decent ways out before you get anything better. Here are pairs of points for which there are no other better pairs with a lower max
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by joefkelley 8y ago
> Facebook offers a service that people wants. A service that is not morally bad, if any connecting people is a positive thing. People also want heroin. That doesn't mean it's actually a positive thing in people's lives. I
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to make a Rule 110 cellular automaton ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110 ), which is turing complete.
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Honestly, that's fair. In my experience Google does a lot toward being trustworthy since it's in their long-term best interest. But at the end of the day I'm just some random guy on HN comments, so you're right to be ske
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by joefkelley 8y ago
No. I mean, maybe high-level aggregate data like "X% of users got emails about shopping" might still be in some spreadsheet somewhere, or in people's brains. But no, I can't think of a way any personalized data would sti
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by joefkelley 8y ago
In the past. We (I worked on gmail ads during this time) stopped doing it about a year ago. https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Are you talking about orange extract? or cayenne pepper? The post is here: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46507 and direct link to paper is here: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public
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by joefkelley 8y ago
I wonder if there is some kind of "steady state" vs "transition" effect that could explain this though. For instance, if you put up a sign that changed the speed limit from 70 to 80 but changed nothing else about the roa
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by joefkelley 8y ago
This is indeed surprising! For those like me who need a bit more detail before this clicks: If you are going X miles, the difference in gas usage between A mpg and B mpg is (X/A)-(X/B) = X(B-A)/(AB). So in all these pairs, th
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Don't forget safelane pos 1 feeding at minute 6 and typing "gg mid no gank"
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by joefkelley 8y ago
I don't think it's that complicated to adapt to... everyone should just be pretty much constantly ferrying out regen and harass more aggressively.
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by joefkelley 8y ago
> I've seen lots of people suggest that OOP+FP fusion is what allows Scala to provide an easy gradual on-ramp to FP for people and projects transitioning from Java, which is Scala’s key value proposition. I feel like I'm at the
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by joefkelley 8y ago
One way this could be calculated is to assign transition probabilities to the edges, and calculate the expected number of steps a random walk takes to reach the end. (wikipedia has the math required: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Quill is really neat and I agree that it's a lot further down the road than most libraries like this. But it all feels a bit too "magical" for me. Seems like you're trading one class of bugs - hand-written SQL mismatchin
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by joefkelley 8y ago
Seems it's five individual agents with no communication, just a reward function that shifts towards team-based rewards: "OpenAI Five does not contain an explicit communication channel between the heroes’ neural networks. Teamwork
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by joefkelley 8y ago
You might be able to trace the execution of the iterative code more easily, but in my experience it is often much less clear why that produces the correct result and how that code was written in the first place. Take a look at the wikip
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by joefkelley 9y ago
It's not clear to me how those two topics are related. If it's about whether Google "knowingly" enabled sex trafficking, then it seems like a pretty simple argument is "sure, we knew about porn, but we didn't k

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