karmacondon

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by karmacondon 9y ago
Why not? Zuckerberg is clearly a smart man, and he seems to be as qualified as any one else. Infinitely more qualified than the current occupant of the office. Just because you don't think of him as a politician doesn't mean that
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Does anyone have link to papers about the technology behind Libratus?
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by karmacondon 10y ago
By definition, a whistle blower must reveal evidence of the commission of a crime. The term does not extend to "actions by the government that I disagree with" or "things that violate my personal interpretations of the Consti
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by karmacondon 10y ago
If the two options are retraining vs an overhaul of the economic system, I think retraining is much more likely. No one wants to change careers. I certainly don't. But the economic realities are what they are. It would be nice to chang
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Please, name for me one thing that he has successfully distracted the 24 news cycle away from
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I don't know why we couldn't have voted on this. Whether it's a good idea or not, trying to impose something so broad on a community of hackers is an exercise in masochism. I agree with everyone who has said that we're c
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Many algorithms have parameters that have be tweaked, and dreadful nights are common with any machine learning concept. Deep learning is not "better" than other forms of algorithmic prediction. There's a best tool for every
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by karmacondon 10y ago
OP was running for state office, not the local city council. 31% is quite good
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Practically this almost never works out. The 10% cluster is using a very small dataset and will produce inferior results. If you train a model based on only 10 people, you're prone to overfit that small sample
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Right is right and wrong is wrong. You have to stand up for the right thing even if that means telling other people that they are wrong, or even stupid. You don't have to be smug about it, but that can be a tricky line to walk. Persona
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Insane. No politician is calling for a complete elimination of guns. That idea has never been proposed or discussed seriously in any way. I don't think even the fringe of the anti-gun lobby wants to get rid of all guns. This is probabl
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Github! This should be on github
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I have a similar list of useful concepts. My goal so far this year was to expose myself to those concepts as often as possible. I made an app for my phone that displays the concept of the day on my home screen (right now it's the rheto
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I don't think this is true at all. 10,000 people are just going to have more ideas and better individual ideas than 100 experts. The impact of that much creativity and perspective can be exponential, and it's hard to duplicate. Wh
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Fighting ISIS with an Algorithm, Physicists Try to Predict Attacks(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by karmacondon 10y ago
That was inartfully worded. Respectable journalism organizations don't invade people's privacy in a way that would lose a lawsuit. Woodward and Bernstein were on Nixon's enemies list, but they weren't convicted of a crim
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Thiel is a billionaire, he could destroy many companies out of pure spite. If a startup founder looks at him wrong he could throw millions of dollars at one of their competitors, or pay someone to start a competitor purely for vengence. T
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by karmacondon 10y ago
You're the expert, but I don't see the harm of "maintenance". If Boella was wronged legally, he should be made whole. Whether he uses his own money to make his case doesn't change the correctness of the ruling. Peop
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by karmacondon 10y ago
There will be no ceiling effect because real journalists stay within the bounds of the law. Equating a self proclaimed gossip website with real reporting is disingenuous and insulting to journalists. If the National Enquirer broke the law a
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Thiel was well within his legal rights. "Both sides are wrong" is a common cop out. False equivalency isn't helping
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I recently switched to Google Compute Engine. It's cheaper and so far more reliable than AWS. Might be another option for some people here.
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I don't know what Snowden expected. Was the NSA supposed to cancel its multibillion dollar program because it went against a contractor's interpretation of the Constitution? It seems to me that the system worked. He raised his con
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by karmacondon 10y ago
This happens now, all the time. There isn't a government office of "I need money because my car broke down". Soup kitchens will still give out food and the Salvation Army will still provide shelter. Perhaps even more so, beca
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by karmacondon 10y ago
This is a good idea for a product. I guess it's kind of like a super grep
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by karmacondon 10y ago
This is very true. But you aren't the Secretary of State. I'm sure there are people at a high enough level at wherever you work now that the normal rules don't apply to them. That's the nature of any organization. C-leve
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by karmacondon 10y ago
A rough analogy for this situation would be if a company had an "employees must use blackberries" policy, but the CFO of the company outright refused because he wanted to use his iPhone. Are they going to fire the CFO over that? P
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Is this really a problem? The author doesn't say that anyone from his linkedin network contacted him and asked "Are you a white supremacist?" Most people would see the headline and immediately realize that it was an algorithm
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I would pay for summaries like this.
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I see the value of this as a resource to compare different languages. But for me "Hello world" is about all of the admin/setup work that has be done in order to get the most basic program to run. It's more like install p
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I think the biggest problem with twitter is that people follow too many other people, and the feed becomes overwhelming. It's hard to increase the signal to noise ratio because it's difficult to know in advance who will post inter

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