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by mwexler 5y ago
Well put. SAP is the big survivor from that mindset. And perhaps the best example of why we won't see another. :-)
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by mwexler 5y ago
I think you are missing the big twist. It's not just tables as 1st class citizens, but allowing logic to be driven by the tables. Instead of config files, you update the table. Changes to the processing flow? Update the table, incl
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by mwexler 5y ago
When you reply to emails, does google let you put your custom domain address as the sender so folks don't see the underlying gmail address?
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by mwexler 5y ago
Fair point but the article does mention that the model trains on reported crimes, and also suggests that Black homes tend to report crimes that White homes may not. So the training data has a bias, which is reflected in predictions. Also,
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Crime Prediction SW Promised to Be Free of Biases. It Perpetuates Them(themarkup.org)
3 points by mwexler 5y ago|2 comments
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Most Frequently Used Emoji of 2021(home.unicode.org)
2 points by mwexler 5y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 5y ago
Foolproof til you restructure your select and forget to change the numbers. SQL: ya just can't win sometimes.
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by mwexler 5y ago
WHERE folks HAVING difficulty with this concept? Sorry, couldn't resist. But seriously, this concept doesn't seem to require as much attention as this post gives it.
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by mwexler 5y ago
This storage of code and data in the same oddball data structure and the "walled ecosystem" reminds me of forth. Forth had great access to its hardware, but it's "screens" and file structures were all unique to it.
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by mwexler 5y ago
That was year one-ish. Within a very short period, Roku expanded well beyond that, as it was the only small box and soon stick with an OS, vs. Chromecast, Intel WiDi/Miracast, and other tech that tried to become a remote display, and
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by mwexler 5y ago
You don't mention the current disputes with YouTube and Amazon. If we look at top streaming players Roku has had a dispute with, they've almost collected the whole set! And do consumers benefit from access to 300 "screen s
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by mwexler 5y ago
So, roku started out as a democratic middleman offering access to multiple streaming players. But it's devolved into another turf war, where it now continually threatens it's purchasers with loss of access, today Youtube, tommorr
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by mwexler 5y ago
Still the primary email client among all of my family. From the novices to the pros, Thunderbird just seems to work for them all. Big fan.
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by mwexler 5y ago
Much better worded than my post above. Yup to this.
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by mwexler 5y ago
Well, sort of. Fugue overall is a scaling engine like ray. The specific link to yet another SQL access layer to a dataset doesnt really have an analog on ray, but has some nice features. I love these SQL layers but they can obfuscate how t
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by mwexler 5y ago
Like the 800/400 before it, and the Amiga, this generation of computers had such great tech hidden under such layers of junk. Hidden gems all over the place in these systems. Well worth some effort to learn how they delivered such po
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by mwexler 5y ago
Have we really evolved to the state that laptop portability is an extra feature and not part of the design criteria for the modern laptop? That the sleep capability of laptops, present in various forms since the 90s, should no longer be us
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by mwexler 5y ago
Economists talk of the public good, ethicists and privacy folks talk of a right to privacy of a citizen (in some countries, at least)... but has anyone had an actual "experience improvement" from all this blocking? Do you see les
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by mwexler 5y ago
Props for the best readme I've seen on GH in a long, long time.
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Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”(cell.com)
69 points by mwexler 5y ago|203 comments
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Amazon and Google patch major bug in their DNS-as-a-Service platforms(therecord.media)
3 points by mwexler 5y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 5y ago
Does "sign in with X" not lock you into X's ecosystem? That is, if I lose my Apple account or my Google account due to their judgement of my actions, have I lost access to the services I authed via those accounts? That is,
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by mwexler 5y ago
I think the original author was referring to the wave of popularity a few years ago when Mongo / redis / cassandra/ etc were getting tons of press, "SQL is dead" was the going phrase, and document pre-joins and inte
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by mwexler 5y ago
BTW, their followup piece at https://www.holistics.io/blog/olap-is-not-olap-cube/ is a nicer drill down into some of these issues. Also a good read.
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by mwexler 5y ago
"We model data according to rigorous frameworks like Kimball or Inmon because we must regularly construct OLAP cubes for our analyses." Actually, no. We model our data this way so it can be used for business decisions. It doesn&#
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by mwexler 5y ago
There's a lot that WordPerfect got right in document management, esp. for large files, as well as innovations in formatting capabilities and sophistication. Sure, it's not latex, but it nicely captured the space between "des
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by mwexler 5y ago
That logic sounds great to other small customers. It holds little water for the larger enterprise evaluation, in my experience.
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Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”(cell.com)
1 points by mwexler 5y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 6y ago
TLS refers to Transport Layer Security. Its what came after SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), is the protocol under the secure web connection (https) and involves a session key that can be used to track, basically. Just stripping the acronyms f
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by mwexler 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand. In the year 2000, we let any domain get access to it's cookie. In this proposal, an entity can let domains it controls have access to a shared cookie, all others are still blocked. But fair point: if

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