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by joefkelley 9y ago
This is no longer the case. No email data is used for any ad targeting. But yeah, similarly useful technology exists. I don't know if it's in use at all in order to fight abuse like this. Source: https://blog.google&#x2
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by joefkelley 9y ago
My understanding is that you can't legally have any sort of explicit quota or scoring system, but that you can sort-of factor in race, ethnicity, or gender to meet diversity goals. Is this correct? And isn't it kind of inconsisten
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Hard to say, since we don't know what such perfect play would look like. But I expect it would look quite boring, yes. It's important to state, though, that calling an engine's play "romantic" is not a value judgeme
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by joefkelley 9y ago
From what I've read scattered across a few different chess discussion places, the consensus seems to be that a) yes, 1 GB is pretty small b) it would matter, but c) probably not enough to change the end result. I guess we will have to
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Menial labor robots will come whether YC funds them or not, so they better work on UBI to prepare for that.
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by joefkelley 9y ago
The difference is this is an entirely new paradigm of chess engine. So it's not just Stockfish getting an edge over Houdini that year or whatever. There is plenty of "they didn't give stockfish enough memory, the hardware isn
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by joefkelley 9y ago
I hope they change the TCEC hardware specs to include GPU so this might be able to happen.
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Data frames do work well. You are correct that it is mainly an abstraction on top of the existing spark RDD representation. The language is Scala, though a slightly strange string/macro-based sql-ish API. Perhaps you can tell from that
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Do you have a source for 2? I'd like to read more about it.
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by joefkelley 9y ago
So this all hinges on a deleted story being removed from search results too quickly? Google crawls some sites (especially high-traffic news sites like Forbes) more frequently than others. And why should a deleted article still show up in se
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by joefkelley 9y ago
My opinion of this changed after reading this comment by the developer: https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/6ubuix/twitter_annou... Sounds like they are intending it as a research effort and hope to
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by joefkelley 9y ago
I used to work at a big data consulting company and dealt with hadoop clusters at a bunch of different companies. What you described was absolutely the norm. The entire cluster closed to the outside world, except for one gateway machine tha
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by joefkelley 9y ago
This will be HUGE for competitive Dota, even if they never take it further. In much the same ways top chess players have learned from engines, I have to think top Dota players will practice against and study the hell out of this bot if Open
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Yeah this title makes it sound like they're afraid of consequences from Google. But it's actually because of being afraid of external attention, given the consistency of leaks on this whole thing.
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by joefkelley 9y ago
It makes much more sense to postpone this until some of the media and public furor dies down. Regardless of which side you are on, it's not worth the risk of discussing it openly right now.
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Yeah I've definitely seen Arteezy on PA hit neutrals until he gets a few non-crits in a row, then go gank.
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Yeah this is a bit worrying. But since it was leaked, this actually doesn't seem so bad. What incentive would the CIA have to lie internally?
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by joefkelley 9y ago
The point about requirements to physically store data in a country seems especially silly. Instead of "if you operate in our country, you have to store that data in our country", why wouldn't it be "if you operate in our
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Yeah a more accurate title in these cases is often something like "assumptions of theoretical law don't quite apply in this case or can be otherwise worked around in practice" but that doesn't get clicks. Another good se
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by joefkelley 9y ago
I think the serif width / serif height axes are switched
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by joefkelley 9y ago
This is hilariously close to an actual scene from The Simpsons: https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E20/289238.jpg?b64lines=IEFNIEk...
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by joefkelley 9y ago
To be fair, you need both. Going after pharma companies / doctors reduces the supply and cuts down on new addictions. Decriminalizing and destigmatizing helps existing addictions.
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by joefkelley 9y ago
It would require a significantly different approach, but good progress is being made in that area as well. Top computers now beat humans at heads-up no limit hold 'em poker, for example: https://www.scientificamerican.com&#x
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by joefkelley 9y ago
4chan has moderation. Of course they draw the line in a very different place, but they definitely do moderate.
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by joefkelley 9y ago
Strange, I don't see anything in that menu. Haven't been able to figure out how to do it, maybe there's some sort of rolling update happening?
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by joefkelley 9y ago
For context, Here's Alphabet's quarterly financial results released yesterday: https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2017/Q1_alphabet_earn... Revenue is up 24% year over year. Beat analyst exp
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by joefkelley 10y ago
I don't think anybody is taking it extremely seriously. For Google, it's PR. For individuals working on it, it's fun, interesting, and accessible.
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by joefkelley 10y ago
I'm in Mountain View too. I agree it's pretty frustrating that this is supposedly the tech center of the universe, and our home internet is lousy. Five minutes from Google HQ and no Google Fiber for the forseeable future now. FWIW
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by joefkelley 10y ago
This is exactly it. You want a directed tree for learning, whereas wikipedia is an undirected graph. Mathematics suffers the most since its tree is unusually deep, not wide.
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by joefkelley 10y ago
Anonymity, especially with healthcare, is usually treated as a spectrum, with a (somewhat arbitrary) cutoff. For instance, let's say you want to study how much a variety of lifestyle factors influence some rare disease. Is the fact tha

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