neuralk

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by neuralk 13y ago
I'm not sure how much you can really blame Facebook or Google here. My understanding is that a corporation is legally compelled to comply with a National Security Letter if it receives one, which is far from voluntary collusion. Maybe
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by neuralk 13y ago
>Churchill was distinctly batshit That's simply balderdash. Churchill was not only a brilliant politician, but an extremely witty and accomplished writer, thinker, and artist. He even received the Nobel prize ... for literature[1].
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by neuralk 13y ago
Brilliant, hilarious, and either scarily accurate or perfect satire: Ask HN: I might be a spook Show HN: I'm tired of seeing Mark Cuban: If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker Google+ is now available as an al
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by neuralk 13y ago
They have also increasingly had more of a Green agenda, which (although I am sympathetic with) is troubling because it jeopardizes their credibility. Specifically, I have seen them rate worse quality products higher than others merely for b
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by neuralk 13y ago
Data science sure sounds sexier...ish. The irony of people who use the "damned lies and statistics" quote snidely is that the "statistics" part is not referring to the field Statistics but the plural version of the noun
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by neuralk 13y ago
With respect to that Twain/Disraeli quote, my friend who is a professor of statistics tells me that he cannot go to a party and say what he does for a living without someone repeating it smirkingly.
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by neuralk 13y ago
When you say "playable by humans," what do you mean? If you mean "physically capable of being played by a human" then I'd say that a large majority of popular music right now is unplayable by humans, simply due to t
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by neuralk 13y ago
No, the police are doing the policing, and the private companies are supplying the technology. There is nothing in the article for you to believe otherwise (that the tech companies are doing the policing or any other scenario).
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by neuralk 13y ago
The "right" decision depends on more information. For example, hitting on 20 is the right decision if you are betting no money or money that isn't your own.
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by neuralk 13y ago
True, but I believe the argument still stands for other ML algorithms, such as support vector machines. There is no way to query directly why the SVM maps an instance to a label.