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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Part of the reason for the 2008 financial crash was loans made to people who would have traditionally been "redlined" (denied credit for legitimate reasons) after a federal push for more inclusive loaning. IIRC this was a big chun
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>"Male spaces"?! Since when are conferences male spaces, they are a freaking professional space and yes expecting men (and women) to act professionally is exactly what we should do. Male spaces are any spaces that are predomina
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
With unprecedented power comes unprecedented responsibility.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>The call shows how Silicon Valley millionaires, who have been coddled by the press and lauded as innovators and disruptors, fundamentally misunderstand the role of journalism the moment it turns a critical eye to their industry. No, I w
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>As a white person I'm not worried about the police pointing guns at me when walking home with my kids in a nice neighborhood 8 unarmed black men died at the hands of police last year. In a country with tens of millions of police in
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Does personal responsibility matter at all anymore? >The police, prosecutors and juries will go after black people more harshly and more often And blacks are more likely to commit the crimes in the first place, and more likely to reoffen
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>I am reasonably sure that I have it slightly easier at conferences as a man because women do not hit on me Can we acknowledge the fact that most men would be ecstatic to be hit on by a woman or two at a conference? Can we acknowledge th
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I trained a useful neural network and prototyped a viable [failed] startup technology something like 4 years ago on a 1080ti with a mid range CPU. It was enough to get me meetings with a couple of the largest companies in the world. Yeah it
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
This is good. I think the commoditization of college had profound negative effects on society. Historic trust in the academic system was abused in order to, at best, sell degrees to people who were unqualified for them, and at worst, to ind
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
If you consider "organism" and "environment" to be separate systems which may exchange energy/entropy, would it be fair to suppose that living organisms dump entropy into their environments to maintain internal orde
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I would argue that what the author said is somewhat true, in that life can be roughly separated from nonlife by the observation that organisms do appear to tend toward less entropy in a universe where everything else seemingly does the oppo
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
People are stuck at home now, unemployed, fearful about the present and future, and if opioids were legalized now I have no doubt that dependence and overdoses would surge . Most people fundamentally don't understand drugs or addictio
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
The worst is the implicit social shame when you tell people you would prefer to use something like signal or telegram to mitigate risk. This shit is on literally every platform, it's inescapable, and at this point necessary to particip
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>Really? I'm pretty sure there are thousands of years of philosophical and religious traditions that teach something along the lines of "looking for happiness in the external world is a bad idea, instead try working on yourself
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I want a plug and play hardware interface that can handle digital and analog io in a hackable package, capable of running cpp (easy to compile for) and if possible python. If there are convenient alternatives to rpi, especially if they&#x27
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I'm not responding to this comment, just pointing out for anyone reading, that this person knows very well that he and his buddies won't be waiting with a "challenge" for anyone who attempts to publicly criticize BLM or
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
What, you think because it's crowdsourced it isn't liable to bias? You think they're going to accept a PR which attempts to remove multiple incidents, for any reason?
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Because the "first order" "data correlation" tools that we use (typical statistical measures like correlation coefficients, means, stddev, etc) are inadequate for capturing the critical correlations in the kind of large,
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
You don't see a difference between an ideological party which interns millions of people by ethnicity (among other glaring issues), and a corporation seeking profits from a video platform?
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
This isn't about some minor annoyance, I'm pointing out something I truly believe holds society back, though not necessarily to some major degree How much literature has disappeared from history because certain languages or vernac
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
This isn't black or white. It's about slowing the inevitable, yes, but it increases the usefulness of text over time. Less of a probability of material, including scientific, being forgotten.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
It's driven primarily by ignorance and it muddies communication, especially over time. We should maintain some degree of pressure against such unnecessary change.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Because it is a dangerous fallacy to presume that all peoples are simply replaceable. When you import people you import culture, and that potentially leads to friction.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
You're underappreciating how much more we are doing with neural networks now. Image recognition, general purpose contextual searching, NLP, accelerated 3D modeling, abstract problem solving (applied derivatives of alphago and other RL)
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I feel like we are all ignoring the fact that literally any perceived disrespect can be blamed on racism, especially if you've been conditioned to look for it, and it's often impractical or impossible to prove otherwise, particula
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Yes, the foundations for ML are somewhat old, but the explosion of progress has put everyone on the edge of a fresh domain for which we are only now developing a theoretical framework. At the very least you must concede that applied machi
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>But it's not science That's just not true. We are probing a novel domain. In fact how else would you expect this to proceed? We've discovered a new phenomenon, which likely requires novel mathematics, yet through this exa
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>They may be useful in the sense of generating commercial value, just like ML is useful to random-walking you to some solution that you couldn't have come up with, but it is not science. There is little insight to be gained from thi
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>What does that tell us? A few things, first the authors are completely ignoring the danger of multiple hypothesis testing and generally piss on any statistical foundations of their "research" This is a really poor take, consid
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
At this point, what are the odds that the Chinese government isn't involved in tiktok?

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