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by mlazos 9y ago
I’m always amazed how often the “surprise” that digital technology is in fact not unbiased and robotic in nature keeps getting written about. Algorithms that optimize for click through rate for ads and search relevancy will inevitably be a
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by mlazos 9y ago
This article almost seems satirical. Given I can only speak for the hackathons I’ve been to; a couple in college and others at two of the big 5, I still feel like nothing about them is forced and people just work on whatever they feel like
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by mlazos 9y ago
This just seems true by definition. If you have a learning algorithm that has generalized well, then adding noise to its input shouldn’t result in a large degradation in accuracy.
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by mlazos 9y ago
The title of this post is misleading, they eventually supplied a software patch that fixed the clock drift. The Israelis proposed rebooting as a stopgap until the bug could be fixed.
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by mlazos 9y ago
Has there been a resolution as to who was generating the fraudulent comments on the FCC proposal? I believe they’re real I’ve just been wondering why someone/some organization would do that, unless it was some conspiracy by the ISPs, b
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by mlazos 9y ago
I work at Microsoft, and I know around promo time in addition to people on your team, managers ask for feedback from people not on your team that you’ve interacted with as well so that can be used in conjunction with whatever projects work
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by mlazos 9y ago
I disagree with this article for the most part, it doesn’t make sense to say that just because some group projects are not optimal implies all project based learning is bad. I think doing projects individually is hugely important both from
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by mlazos 9y ago
This is such a joke. The fact that he can waste our government’s money and time on bs like this is infuriating. He’s just a wealthy person who has nothing to do with his time other than yell at people to get off his lawn. I’m just glad the
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by mlazos 9y ago
I had the exact same experience. I was an inch away from not reading the end, then the stabbing happened, then the murder happened... then everyone was dead.. Insane. It escalated quickly.
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by mlazos 9y ago
Yeah this makes it seem even weirder that Disney is obsessing over the codes, it isn’t like RedBox is price gouging and making a huge profit off of their work. It isn’t even their main line of revenue.
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by mlazos 9y ago
So how does RedBox actually sell the code for such a discount and make profit? Is it because when they buy the physical copy they essentially get two copies? (One physical and one digital) and then they rent the physical one and make profit
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by mlazos 9y ago
Yeah this is exactly what I was thinking as well. I feel like there are enough successful startups that there would probably be better candidates. I know HW is hard but it seems weird they picked him when their sell-off for $40 million bare
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by mlazos 9y ago
For me, I really like the “programmable semi-colon” metaphor, where essentially a monad glues together computations and has additional context/actions carried along between the glued computations. If you’re looking for external resourc
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by mlazos 9y ago
> The dude is a walking billboard for the 7 deadly sins. Not sure how much clearer it can be. Sorry I substituted the word virtues for sins. I gave a cursory glance to a google search for 7 deadly sins and found [1] which led me to [2] [
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by mlazos 9y ago
Clearly he isn’t talking about murder, he is talking about the seven Christian virtues, and yes Trump pretty much embodies the opposite of all them. I feel like you’re conflating “taking something at face value” with ignoring context.
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by mlazos 9y ago
Yeah I want to add that at a lot of universities there isn’t much financial aid for international students. As a result only the richest families can afford to send their children here.
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by mlazos 9y ago
For the record, I practiced math the most, writing second and literature last and scored exactly in that order. I also tracked my progress before and after practice and I got dramatically better. I really don’t think the SAT measures anythi
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by mlazos 9y ago
I feel like the problems you're describing are more workplace specific and not specific to the method of CR itself. For example, > They started humble and ended afraid to do anything except simplest tasks. It's the job of the t
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by mlazos 9y ago
I don’t agree with this at all. It’s up to the participants to argue their points and see who has more valid designs. I became a much much better programmer by learning from senior devs who review my code.
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by mlazos 9y ago
At least for me the reason I’m fine with my phone is that it’s a metered connection. If it was sending that much data to the mothership you’d probably hit the ceiling on your data plan really quickly. Since my home connection doesn’t have s
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by mlazos 9y ago
I always enjoy reading the opinions of people who aren’t in tech. It always reminds me how little the world really understands the devices and programs they run every single day and how much of a bubble I live in. At the point where he said
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by mlazos 9y ago
This just brought me to tears. That's inspiring as hell.
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by mlazos 9y ago
For the above conclusion (ie that it's plausible the election was affected) It doesn't matter exactly who did, especially when you can tell their motives by simply looking at some of the ads. I did a cursory glance at a google sea
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by mlazos 9y ago
Just because a quantity is hard to measure doesn’t mean it’s zero. Zuck admitted that hundreds of millions of people saw ads purchased by Russian operatives. To say that has zero effect on all of them just because we can’t precisely measure
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There is a huge difference between these two scenarios. LOL has a very clear objective function and feedback. Code quality is a metric that is hard to make precise, even humans have trouble with it.
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The one issue I have with the article is that the author doesn’t mention specifics about designing streets to lower the speed. Is the implied suggestion to make roads terribly curved so it’s really hard to drive fast? That seems to have it’
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by mlazos 9y ago
This is great, and if anyone is looking for additional examples in a library that is a bit different from the others check out Racket’s reactive programming library. docs.racket-lang.org/frtime This was how I was introduced to reactive
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I don’t see your logic here. Slaves worked for free and were a huge part of the economy. Wages are not the only part of the equation.
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by mlazos 9y ago
Does it make sense that managing your own hardware and data center is extraordinarily expensive? Why do you think public cloud providers are so popular? I don’t buy your scalability argument either. Netflix has about 100m users and moved fr
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by mlazos 9y ago
I agree with this for the most part, but I also really like the freedom/creativity that comes from having no idea how to solve a problem or whether there is even an optimal way of solving it. Some of my favorite solutions have come fro

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