kthejoker2

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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Like a true Scotsman, allow me to just say that the work David Kelley, Tim Brown, and others did to translate the work product of Ray Loewy, Don Norman, Dieter Rams, Walt Disney, Max Faget, Michael Graves, Saul Bass, and so many other desig
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
This is how it's done in Texas.
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Probably my greatest honor was being called a "buzzsaw" by Alex! He liked to verbally spar, always quick with a joke, a flair for the dramatic - a perfect fit for a TV quiz show host. A small anecdote: We filmed college Jeopardy i
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
6 winners among a sea of .. not .. winners. You put the SCENES in Francine's. You put the DORIS in Maquiladoras. You put the UNDER in underwriting. You put the SOMETHING in Twentysomethings. And the two actual puns: You put the RACY in
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My updated list of cool machine learning books(matpalm.com)
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Yes, it is exactly a candidate key as they describe it - simply another field which uniquely identifies rows in the entity. EDIT: Agree with panda17, they're using it as "candidate keys which were not chosen as primary key."
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Without commenting on this particular technological advance, it did make me think of the early days of the automobile https://amp.detroitnews.com/amp/26312107 My key takeaway is regulation of advanced technology lags w
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
His top 5 performances in my mind * The Man Who Would Be King * The Offense * Last Crusade * The Untouchables * The Wind and the Lion He wasn't as bad of an actor as people say (compared to the greats), but he didn't take a lot of
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
I once helped Mr. Connery print something. I was staying at the Beverly Hills Hilton in 2004 during Oscars week. I was in the business center on the Internet (this was the dark ages before ubiquitous hotel WiFi and personal devices.) Someon
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Software engineers are more like creative staff (being a "creative" accountant is a negative!), one discovers value, the other transmutes it into cashflow, the incentive structure for both shouldn't be the same. See also htt
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
As a thought experiment, I think the best course of action for these freelance pen testers - assuming they incur no actual liabilities for being wrong - is to simply declare everything they test "secure" without putting any actual
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Can someone give me a TLDR? Just kidding - though I will say this type of behavior can sometimes fall somewhere between "Tricks to Sound Smarter at Meetings" and "what gives people feelings of power", so don't misus
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It also includes things which are technically true but lack context, or aren't relevant to the policies or decisions we want. "George Floyd was a drug using criminal" is true, and therefore becomes a talking point in conserva
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Because you interpreted the neutral words of the article as left and right? It doesn't say what political views the crude authoritarian has. You injected that in, and then claim it's the author dog whistling. (By the way, this is
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Wow... that is ... not up to standards at all.
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As far as you know? Or rather: if someone invented real life transportation but it required you to be sedated, what would be different? It's only the conscious/unconscious aspect that's troubling. Imagine all of the yous that
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
It's sad to see such "to hell with it" naivete (and the comments here with broad supporting evidence that data scientists are poor software developers. There are also a lot of DS people wrestling with the deeper challenges at
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
There are no atheists in ops roles?
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
This is a quarter life crisis disguised as a business venture. I'm all about creative expression as therapy, but please don't confuse it with a worldview you wish me to subscribe to.
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Feedback * as an essay ostensibly designed to persuade others that there is a problem and you want to help, it's not particularly well organized in thought or structure. You should look at Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey str
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Amazingly this is not true? For example, Reddit has a much more aggressive take on censoring content, and is still thriving and a huge part of the Internet. When's the last time Pinterest was in the news for espousing hateful views? Ev
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Did you not RTFA? Read the section on Britain First again. Its entire premise is Facebook has created an enormous amount of carveouts and tolerances for hate speech and divisive content to protect revenue and growth.
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
No. Don't even. Which of them is credentialed by the Trump administration? Credibility counts. The Washington Post is filled with award winning journalism, awards given out by organizations with members from all political stripes and p
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Given how much this reads like Machiavelli's The Prince I see it less as satire and more as a Straussian read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#On_reading > Thus, Strauss agrees with the Socrates of the
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Whoops, your biases are showing: a governor, not "a girl." And blow up a bridge and potentially attack law enforcement while they're at it.
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"Just" is an important word in OP The order of a sales pitch should be like this: * here is the problem we wre trying to solve. Is this your problem, mrs. Customer? * here is how our other customers were trying to solve the proble
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
Appropriate terminology aside, deep learning at one point at least clearly represented neutral networks as a "one size fits all" algorithmic data structure because it could (more) easily scale, be distributed, etc. and could produ
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
I mean .. I disagree? It's certainly simple to give "a sense" of how deep learning works - 1) translate real-world states and behaviors into data structures (typically multi-dimensional arrays); 2) use (relatively straightfor
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by kthejoker2 6y ago
The practice they're using today is discriminatory and uses race as a factor (see: "disparate impact.") ... how do you suggest they proceed?
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Using "cultural norms" seems .. odd, those are waaaay more restrictive than pure legalistic viewpoints. I mean, when we're talking about competing cultural norms, now you're including "fire in a theater", &quot

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