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Towards Transparent Machine Learning(arxiv.org)
2 points by nwah1 7y ago|0 comments
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by nwah1 7y ago
Are you including the combined local, state, and federal subsidies for roadways? Are you considering the implicit subsidies to automobile infrastructure such as "free" curbside parking, and the ones that are offloaded onto the pri
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But are "Asians" who live in the US a representative sample? Or might there be some distinguishing characteristics of immigrant families, compared to those in their home countries? Also, Singapore has two main ethnic and socioecon
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Even if they were, which seems unlikely, the question of economic viability would come into play.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Every domain you visit is sent to a DNS provider of some sort. By default, that would be whatever your ISP has defined. But it is completely configurable if you care. So the choice isn't between Firefox sending your data somewhere and
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by nwah1 7y ago
Once genetic editing becomes more fully developed, the approach of selecting only modal genetic variants is another not-so-risky approach because it would be relying on existing selection criteria and simply removing the mutations. Like a g
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by nwah1 7y ago
The general trend with regard to the most popular javascript and css libraries is that their features have eventually made it into web standards. We've known that cache can fingerprint forever. This change won't be that bad if it
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by nwah1 7y ago
There are various types of network effects that happen as a result of larger populations. Greater use of specialization and comparative advantage. Economies of scale. Agglomeration. All of these tendencies allow for niche fields like quantu
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Towards Transparent Machine Learning (TML)(youtube.com)
3 points by nwah1 7y ago|0 comments
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Not true. We've had sufficient technology for a long time. We've been sending robots to Mars for decades. We just haven't made it an objective to terraform Mars. We've even been quite cautious about avoiding even the pos
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by nwah1 7y ago
The better processor is appreciated, but I would prefer that it had 5G and Gorilla Glass 6
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Electric winning in 1910s would have been worse. Batteries were made of lead acid, and electricity was generated from coal plants located inside of cities, without even any scrubbers. Coal burning releases heavy metals. Pollution deaths wou
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by nwah1 7y ago
Unless Dennis Ritchie or Ken Thompson placed a "trusting trust" attack in the original C compiler, since virtually all modern code was compiled by something that was once compiled by it. (Ken Thompson coined the term and knows how
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by nwah1 7y ago
Just looked up that a new Honda Civic weighs approximately 3000 pounds. A Toyota Camry weighs between 3200 and 3500 pounds. A Tesla Model 3 weighs around 4000 pounds. A significant difference, to be sure, but not dramatic. And battery techn
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by nwah1 7y ago
Accidents are a small percent of overall mortality, and the likelihood of accidents has been decreasing over time, and can be decreased further with lifestyle choices that reduce such risks. Warfare can and will kill many, but the rich are
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That is far from the only downside. Economic stratification would be a major one.
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by nwah1 7y ago
I was employed once at an insurance brokerage that had to automate insurance quotes from carriers that did not provide any sort of API. So we used a type of page automation with a headless browser, and manually wrote the code to automate en
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by nwah1 7y ago
>Collapse is a property of every civilization we’ve studied How would you define "civilization?" Because sure, every civilization has an expiration date, but for current computing technology to be lost requires a worldwide civi
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by nwah1 7y ago
And this isn't the first ARM Windows laptop with x86 emulation. It is just the first Surface-branded one.
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There's different levels of concern for a public API and an internal interface. If you control all publishers and subscribers, then you don't need to worry quite as much about sanity checking inputs or making every possible workab
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by nwah1 7y ago
Some people have photosensitivity. Particularly people with light-colored pigment in their irises.
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Plastic is a broad category. Each polymer has very different properties. Some are very strong and stable, and pose no known health risks. Others are brittle and apparently leach microplastics or nanoplastics.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Also helps when you need to burn some very large ants.
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by nwah1 7y ago
You must be thinking of FiveThirtyEight.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Constipation is a tricky one, since you don't normally think of it. Although that is probably more of a problem for toddlers.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Good work! I will take a look
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Supply and demand isn't a magic incantation that makes a particular process valid. Slave markets have supply and demand, too. If the fundamental property rights under consideration themselves are unjust, then efficiency arguments are m
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by nwah1 7y ago
No it isn't. This would ensure that identity theft is a permanent and irreversible thing.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Alternatively, it could just consolidate the industry even more than it already is.
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by nwah1 7y ago
Agree with that, also, but there's no reason why their processes couldn't be just as streamlined.

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