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by moultano 7y ago
Limiting climate change to 2C is such a hail mary at this point that we should look favorably on anything, no matter how imperfect, that moves us in that direction. There are no silver bullets, we need to do everything at once.
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by moultano 7y ago
The feeling of everyone studying the natural world now is one of overwhelming loss, that everything they've devoted their lives to is disappearing before their eyes. There isn't any way to make an honest nature documentary and no
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by moultano 7y ago
Those ratings are used to evaluate the search system, not to change it directly.
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by moultano 7y ago
1. There are not blacklists of "political" query completions, as I explained extensively in this other thread. The policy is to not show "sensitive and disparaging terms associated with names" in autocomplete. This appli
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by moultano 7y ago
Yes, and I definitely understand the argument that Google shouldn't be doing this, but note that we aren't talking about evidence of bias anymore. When someone sees confusing behavior on a political query, the tendency is to assum
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by moultano 7y ago
I don't know all the details of how that system works, I don't work on it, but surely you'd agree that they're both more appropriate suggestions, as both of them have been indicted. I don't get "trump crimes&qu
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by moultano 7y ago
I see: [jared kushner criticism] [jared kushner cries in closet] [jared kushner's father crime] and so forth. Are you sure you aren't seeing your own search history as the suggestion? Another possibility is that you're seeing
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by moultano 7y ago
There are a few situations where Google will remove urls listed here https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2744324 as well as for spam.
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by moultano 7y ago
Isn't it explained by the policy I just linked? "Jared kushner cr" yields [jared kushner credentials] as a suggestion for me.
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by moultano 7y ago
Google does not curate web results, ever. The results for [pelosi drunk] are different certainly, but in what sense are DDG's better? Google has a policy about "sensitive and disparaging terms associated with named individuals&quo
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by moultano 7y ago
Thanks, I'll pass it along.
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by moultano 7y ago
I'd be happy to pass it along to debug if you have a specific query in mind. In the cases of this I've seen in the past, there's been a specific actionable bug that we were able to fix. (Lots of other search engines use each
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by moultano 7y ago
I work at Google on ranking algorithms for Search. I'm aware of everything that controls how web pages are ranked. If I ever encountered a system that was designed to alter the results for political reasons, I would resign.
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by moultano 7y ago
No, they haven't.
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by moultano 7y ago
I found myself reliably beating it just by making the runs of one letter longer than I would naturally if I was just trying to be random.
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by moultano 7y ago
I'd love to see something written up about how quickly this converges, assuming the variables are i.i.d and distributed according to the distribution in the article.
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by moultano 7y ago
>They didn't cause the hurricane. Your moral principle is invalid here. They caused the hole in the oil bed that the oil is gushing out of.
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by moultano 7y ago
That's true, but there's a lot of value in waking people up to the idea that ML works, even if what they're doing has worked for a long time. There are a lot of situations where before people would have assumed their best opt
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by moultano 7y ago
One of the best books I've read in years. If you have any space-geek in you, you won't regret it.
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Climate Stripes for Your Location(showyourstripes.info)
1 points by moultano 7y ago|0 comments
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by moultano 7y ago
> Most people didn't hear about it. Lots of people did. But then they couldn't get an account. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2010-05-20%202...
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Spiders store memories in their webs(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by moultano 7y ago|0 comments
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by moultano 7y ago
>I read a quote recently,"We're not here to stop our kids getting hurt, just to stop them getting maimed or killed". I agree with this wholeheartedly, but unfortunately the most likely thing to kill them are the cars that
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by moultano 7y ago
In an introductory course, we should be teaching people to collect enough data that any reasonable choice of prior or method doesn't matter that much.
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by moultano 7y ago
Thank you, now I realized that I had misunderstood the notation.
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by moultano 7y ago
Does anyone have a reference for solving multi-armed bandit problems with a finite time horizon? I would like something that derives rules or heuristics for how your explore/exploit tradeoff changes as the horizon approaches. This seem
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by moultano 7y ago
The issue with the "american inventors" query is a well known issue in information retrieval called "compound intrusion." The phrase "american inventors" occurs most often in web documents as a substring of &qu
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by moultano 7y ago
The amount of effort that the word's governments are putting into curbing carbon emissions right now rounds to 0. Once we're actually trying on any meaningful scale, then it's worth having debates about whether our politics a
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by moultano 7y ago
Thanks for the report, that looks like a bug. I've passed it along.
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Logs, Tails, Long Tails(moultano.wordpress.com)
1 points by moultano 7y ago|0 comments

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