pacala

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by pacala 9y ago
‘So you’re saying ...’
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by pacala 9y ago
S/bigoted/unfair racial stereotype/ s/white man/another race or gender/
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by pacala 9y ago
There is a special place in Hell for those who made surveillance profitable. The surveillance apparatus of yesterday’s Eastern Europe tyrants was too inefficient and collapsed under its own weight. Leave it to adtech to build economically v
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by pacala 9y ago
Per capita, USA emissions have declined by 21% since 1980 [0]. Is it enough? No! All the items you're suggesting should be tackled. But we can't have an adult conversation only focusing on one element of the equation and literally
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by pacala 9y ago
How do you quantify "skew due to differential enforcement"? The proposal is to posit some value for "skew due to differential enforcement", then massage the results to match the baseless bias.
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by pacala 9y ago
US emissions have plateaued two decades ago [0]. Emissions are growing unchecked elsewhere, a combination of population explosion and rapid industrialization. [0] http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/03/31/ch
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by pacala 9y ago
Sure my phone only lasts 2 hours now, but [I can spend $29 and] it’s fast again! https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power
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by pacala 9y ago
Trying to hammer the world into predicate calculus just doesn't work. Trying to hammer the world into "thought vectors" doesn't work either. Where to?
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by pacala 9y ago
Consider treading more carefully. Your statement, with gender role reversed, caused people to get publicly fired as recent as 2017.
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by pacala 9y ago
Mathematically, if no population is a majority, then the country is 100 percent minority. You might be hang up on the additional narrative attached to the word “minority”. Consider using “underpriviledged ethnic group", as a. not even
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by pacala 9y ago
Exactly. Hardware rental is one way to tackle provisioning. You're still left with all the other tasks required to bootstrap your own datacenter. As you build up the roll-your-own solution, you end up in the same place: hire IT headcou
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by pacala 9y ago
> How do I install GKE on my servers? ;) Great question! All major Cloud providers offer managed Kubernetes services: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/serv
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by pacala 9y ago
Props to Apple for doing the right thing. Sad that it took a manufactured scandal for iOS to provide elementary transparency into the behavior of known-to-degrade battery component. > Early in 2018, we will issue an iOS software update w
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Per kid per year.
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by pacala 9y ago
Because sleep deprivation is a major ailment. Nothing says good life like the neighbor above having a late night party, the heavy traffic starting about five am or the shrieks of the late night ambulances.
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by pacala 9y ago
Sadly, it was a bubble. While media pushes stories about self driving trucks and cars, big compute is sucking the air out of the it job market at an accelerated pace.
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by pacala 9y ago
Ethical. Right. So fighting back against people that actively try to trick you make suboptimal economic decisions and which build the ultimate surveillance state is somehow ethical questionable. How about stop pushing unsolicited content to
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by pacala 9y ago
Is there a motivating example that compares nominal techniques in Isabelle with standard techniques in Coq or Lean over the same simple theorems?
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by pacala 9y ago
If adding one law is not a slippery slope argument, then removing [or not adding] one law is not a slippery slope argument either... Very convenient to support civil penalties against speech that you disagree with. What if some people find
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by pacala 9y ago
Great to hear this not tied to TensorFlow! How would one use a different DL platform, say PyTorch or DyNet?
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by pacala 9y ago
Legal precedent is moving from "you can say whatever you want" into "you can be thrown in jail for speaking the wrong way", where "wrong" is defined by a small unelected bureaucratic entity [for example, Ontari
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by pacala 9y ago
Thanks! Looking up wikipedia, "In mathematics, an injective function or injection or one-to-one function is a function that preserves distinctness". From that definition, "T −λI is not injective" means that there exists
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by pacala 9y ago
> A complex number λ is called an eigenvalue of T if T −λI is not injective. Uhm, what the intuition behind _that_?
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by pacala 9y ago
Thanks for the response. I just googled "canada pronoun hate speech" and felt lucky, that is picked the first response. The situation appears more nuanced. Third link: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions&#
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by pacala 9y ago
The list is ever expanding. See the Canadian pronoun-gate. Under current Canadian law, using the wrong pronoun can get you in jail for "hate speech". http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/16/canada-passes-l
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by pacala 9y ago
Blaze [Google's internal tool], gets it right. Available as open source at https://bazel.build , plus a clone at https://www.pantsbuild.org .
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by pacala 9y ago
Estimating bandwidth costs is fun. From Azure [0], "Within a given region, we can support up to 1.6 Pbps of inter-datacenter bandwidth.". Pretty reasonable to assume this is industry standard capability. Using 0.09 $/GB prici
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by pacala 9y ago
It's 0.09 $/GB, or 11 GB/$. Residential gigabit is available say from Centurylink, for $85/month, or 4TB/$. AWS is about 500 times more expensive.
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by pacala 9y ago
Try moving your data outside AWS. Store data, $0.023 / GB / month. Access your data outside of AWS, $0.090 / GB. It's more expensive to transfer data outside of AWS once than to store it on AWS for a quarter. Not entirel
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by pacala 9y ago
A broader definition of financial security _includes_ home ownership. The other options are homelessness and renting. The first one is silly, the second is just paying the landlord mortgage while being exposed to financial risk over the lon

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