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by majos 9y ago
Differential privacy is a formal guarantee of an algorithm. Roughly, given algorithm A that takes input database X, we say A is differentially private if m, for any X' differing in at most one row from X, the output distributions of A(
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by majos 9y ago
> Of every childhood hero I had, Fred Rogers is the only one who turned out to be exactly who that child thought he was. Same. I like to think I'm not so wrapped up in the characters of celebrities, but a scandal around Mr. Rogers w
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Huis ten Bosch: Only Miffy can save us now (2011)(spikejapan.wordpress.com)
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What fashion magazine does this?
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> It's the people who are toxic. I half-agree with this. The internet doesn't make a genuinely kind and empathetic person into a troll. But I think it does amplify certain bad little impulses that are latent in pretty much ev
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by majos 9y ago
I sometimes have a similar experience reading HN, where seemingly every question receives an expertly detailed answer, regardless of topic. I have to remind myself that it's a bunch of people, each with their own (probably small) set o
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by majos 9y ago
Unfortunately, that cat's been out of the bag for decades.
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My grandmother found some old family recipes from pre-independence India. I've never made any of them because they're sometimes denominated in units that no longer exist (a "viss" for example), and some of them are even
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by majos 9y ago
I'm not suggesting this is what's happening, but: does anyone know the financial implications of making a (presumably tax-deductible) charitable donation that you later revoke?
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It's hard to tell. One of the Pearsons' (the donors) complaints is that two of the faculty hired by the institute are junior faculty from lower-ranked institutions -- these institutions being Columbia and NYU. Perhaps the Pearsons
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by majos 9y ago
> There is a philosophically problematic presupposition that also figures in widespread surprise at the very idea of violence perpetrated by Buddhists — that there is a straightforward relationship between the beliefs people hold and the
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by majos 9y ago
The evidence against Yelp seems to amount to a (from what I can tell sizeable) population of small business owners who claim that Yelp 1. is extremely aggressive about selling its advertising services (perhaps annoying, but not criminal) an
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by majos 9y ago
Really? I find even Yelp reviews low quality in general, so I use older methods (food forums like Chowhound or eGullet, some bloggers I'm familiar with, sometimes even newspaper critics) to find restaurants. Too many Yelp reviewers tak
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by majos 9y ago
As to your last point, I think metrics have heightened inequality in general. Friend/follower count, number of likes, retweets. It all lets you attach a number to popularity and likeability and makes for a quick and simple hierarchy. L
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This is a cool article. It helps explain what how people approached the web abs search before Google, which I know little about, and in a way explains Google's rise (without ever mentioning it). Seen today, it's remarkable how hum
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I'm in the camp that says the earth's carrying capacity is much higher than anything we're likely to reach. I also believe that fertility rates are strongly tied to development, so that this problem will sort itself out if gl
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by majos 9y ago
Sure! Except when left to our own devices to "look beyond the superficial traits of a person", we usually end up hiring people who remind us ourselves. There is a place for consciously paying attention to race, ethnicity, and gend
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by majos 9y ago
I agree. Unfortunately, lazy fixes at clear and prominent decision points are much easier than removing hurdles in, say, the early childhood education system.
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Do you really think there are young people in the US who could be NBA players but are held back by lack of resources, lack of training, and lack of friends/family members who play basketball? I think that's a key difference betwee
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But you don't have to work with the data you have. Nobody has to create a software start-up they don't believe in. If I'm reading your two points correctly, you don't worry about whether or not you made a bad tool be
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Or as Kanye West put it, "having money's not everything, not having it is".
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I would also agree about full-time teaching faculty vs adjuncts, on reflection. I think I conflated the two in my original post.
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You're right, I know much less about competitiveness at lower-ranked schools. I would expect that the funding situation also changes there? The refrain I have heard is that at lesser-known schools base packages may be better but outsid
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by majos 9y ago
As a PhD student in CS who's seen other people go through the academic job market gauntlet in the last couple of years, this is news to me. My understanding from up close (disclaimer: but, still, secondhand) is that competition among f
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by majos 9y ago
Did she ever explain this preference?
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Serious question, how did you obtain a series of banking jobs after previous employers noticed (fired you for?) your drug use? Do prospective employers overlook these things, or never check references?
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His argument seems to be that advances in AI will mean that software development itself is soon automated away, in which case a CS degree will be useless. Then, he advocates studying philosophy because this future will need "big pictur
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Ours is 1.70 or so. Trader Joe's has a bad record for suddenly ceasing production of stuff I like, so I buy a few dozen bars at a time. There's a noticeable difference between the first bar of a purchase batch and the last a few m
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CS PhDs are different than biology PhDs. They are still low-paid relative to industry, stressful, and competitive. However, multiple postdocs in CS are pretty uncommon, and it is not uncommon for a PhD candidate to get faculty offers with
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Evangelists are perhaps not much of a HN thing, but Graham was a legitimately interesting world figure. Wikipedia describes him as a "close friend" to both LBJ and Nixon, with the latter relationship including Graham's sugges

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