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by pacala 7y ago
Exactly right. Every individual will be a subject of the silent red flag machine, and not even the machine's owners will be able to tell why. No redemption in sight, unless, of course, you have the money to buy an indulgence.
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by pacala 7y ago
They are betting that when competition comes, they'll be subject to the same ~greed~ fiduciary duty forces. The market only has room for a handful of megacorps. They'll all highly likely to implement skewed algorithms to promote t
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by pacala 7y ago
The entire adtech industry, which happens to dominates both tech and the economy, is a giant privacy violation machine. Looks like everyone is happy to cash in a fat check, fatter as you move up the totem pole. Après nous le déluge.
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by pacala 7y ago
> most interactions should not be Internet scale Metcalfe law's shadow: the risks in a network are proportional to the square number of people connected to the network.
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by pacala 7y ago
'you can write purely functionally in Python'. I wish https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent were more mainstream in the Python community and get some syntax love.
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by pacala 7y ago
Full quote: The population of the nine-county region grew by over 600,000 people since 2010 — a nearly 8.5% increase — outpacing the growth rate in any other part of California, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday. 600k p
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by pacala 7y ago
True! Another part of Kubernetes success is the fact that it's core architecture is sound, scalable for both workloads and features.
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by pacala 7y ago
I wonder how much of that attitude was caused by an overstretched team with no effective scaling mechanism in place. No, "open source" does not automatically mean "scalable team". Part of Kubernetes success is its abilit
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by pacala 7y ago
The number of readers of forum comment decays exponentially over time. Is anyone reading years old forum comments looking for insights?
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by pacala 7y ago
FWIW, reddit doesn't require to confirm an email, though it employs a plethora of dark patterns to make you believe you have to.
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by pacala 7y ago
Reddit doesn't allow you to delete your account either. You can only "deactivate" it, to delete posts you have to do it manually. Since the Internet has the attention span of a gnat, I can find no plausible justification to n
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by pacala 7y ago
> Our work so far has primarily been on general feedforward NNs. Our investigations have not yet involved much on specialized networks such as convolutionalNNs (CNNs) for image classification, recurrent NNs (RNNs) for text processing,and
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by pacala 7y ago
"While neural nets are good at organizing a world governed by simple rules, they are not proven good at interacting with other intelligent agents." This is an interesting point, for example squeezing information through a narrow c
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by pacala 7y ago
"Neural net that's really good at identifying objects, processing symbols and making decisions." * Neural nets play Chess or Go better than us. They will soon play Mathematics better than us. * They turn keywords in photo-rea
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by pacala 7y ago
The situation in China is dire. USA is not far behind. Does your neighbor have a Ring camera? Well, that watches the whole street and it is connected to a massive corporate data processing pipeline that is used for persistent tracking of ad
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by pacala 7y ago
Appreciate the courage. Can't speak for Jordan Peterson, but there are some of us that don't have a lot of time for or interest in browsing reddit in general and political subreddits in particular. We very rarely see a Pepe meme.
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by pacala 7y ago
This is a very divisive topic, for which we have strong cultural taboos and entrenched polarisation. I have yet to see shared explorations in search for the truth, where points from both sides of the debate are treated as coming from a plac
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by pacala 7y ago
The goal is to perform action selection. No matter how many metrics you come up with, you have to aggregate them into a single score to rank the set of possible actions. The fact that producing such a score is preposterous is merely an indi
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by pacala 7y ago
One of the most insidious effects of internet news in general and social media in particular is that we latch to information bubbles where people spread material painting "the other" in the worst possible view. It is entirely poss
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by pacala 7y ago
Interesting is neither true, nor good.
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by pacala 7y ago
Go for it!
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by pacala 7y ago
Patriotism is not believing your county is best. Patriotism is believing it's worthwhile to strive to make your country better.
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by pacala 7y ago
Thank you. The business model is likely faulty reasoning by my part: Observe that in current world the most effective business model is advertisement, out-competing alternatives, then incorrectly concluding it is the best in all possible wo
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by pacala 7y ago
Year old experience: minikube requires root if you want to run directly on the host, without a VM layer. Every couple of months it goes into a borked state, which is nigh impossible to debug and sometimes hard to recreate from scratch, poss
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by pacala 7y ago
Slightly better. The text promises "allow it to morph into 3D shapes", whereas the gifs only show fairly trivial 2D morphing. What one would imagine is "take a sheet of paper and turn it into a 3D flower", but what we ge
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by pacala 7y ago
There is something to be said about the certitude of the cynical nihilist. There is no such thing as beauty, or good, or truth. Anything goes, who am I to tell anyone anything about values? They might become a better person for it, the horr
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by pacala 7y ago
Assuming B, the intersection of set I = {people that entered the country illegally} and D = {people who made an asylum claim that was denied} consists of people that broke the law by entering the US illegally. Using fake documents / fa
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by pacala 7y ago
That allows the alien to apply for asylum, but does not say anything about whether their act of entering the US was or not breaking the law. We could entertain either or both of: A. Entering the US is not breaking any laws, no matter the ma
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by pacala 7y ago
75% or more of asylum claims from central americans are ultimately denied. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/03/world/us-asylum-denial-rates-...
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by pacala 7y ago
"Get off Google" or "Get off the Internet"? Where by "Internet" I mean "running 3rd party code talking back to a server over a global network". One way is going back to the original WWW design of hype

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