pacala

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by pacala 6y ago
We are already drowning in misinformation. We have no clue how deadly this disease is, and yet we are using what appears to be [gross?] overestimations to drive public policy to the tune of trillions of dollars printed with a flick of a pen
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by pacala 6y ago
The OP is, for lack of better words, so academic. He wants an apology? OK, the study has flaws X, Y and Z. How about propose and conduct a better study? ASAP? Throw darts on a map if you have to. There are millions of people kicked out of a
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by pacala 6y ago
We should rather repeat that kind of study in every state, every week. Improve as we go.
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by pacala 6y ago
South Korea is a huge outlier.
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by pacala 6y ago
Biology doesn't care about individuals. It cares about populations. The main mechanism is exponential growth, capable of quickly filling carrying capacity boundaries of arbitrary size. Individual death is a small setback, as another br
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by pacala 6y ago
> should we abjure smartphone-powered contact tracing? YES Since the Google Maps 'Allow 24/7 location tracing? Yes/Maybe Later' popping up once every other week, it is pretty clear that at least Google is willing to p
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by pacala 7y ago
This is futile. The cat is out of the bag. There is no technological counter to AI + ubiquitous sensor networks. There are AI systems out there that can identify you by gait. Possibly already in your phone, ostensibly to help detect if the
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by pacala 7y ago
I've been recently wondering why something like Javascript/Typescript could not grow into the role. * Ubiquitous. * Not owned by a single corporation. * Fairly performant runtime characteristics, with multiple implementations. * O
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by pacala 7y ago
They are monitoring human movement, at scale. This is dangerous. * video feeds + machine learning system for monitoring warehouse workers. * video feeds + machine learning system for monitoring shoppers. * video for monitoring entire neighb
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by pacala 7y ago
That's a good point. To complete: Just tell CDC to tell employers to have employees sign a waver.
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by pacala 7y ago
u/pacala's law: The competency of a government organization is inversely proportional with the size of the governed body. At 7B and counting, WHO is a sad joke.
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by pacala 7y ago
Liability. Tell people that makeshift masks offer coronavirus protection, and hear the class action lawyers sharpening their quills from a hundred miles. Even if the masks, deployed at scale, help reduce the R factor.
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by pacala 7y ago
> 3) using machine learning-powered video software to monitor social distancing Ughhh... Never let a good crisis go to waste. How about we ban machine learning systems to monitor people's movement at scale?
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by pacala 7y ago
Feeling cranky today, lockdown and everything. This is an elementary interpreter, clumsily implemented because of all the object oriented cruft.
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by pacala 7y ago
> test extensively You can't manage what you can't measure. To this date, I have seen no reliable data on how fast the disease spreads, or how dangerous it actually is. Testing only 'people with shortness of breath and hig
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by pacala 7y ago
all: "there is none in the array that is false".
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by pacala 7y ago
You are setting a false dichotomy. Most people that care about privacy are angry at _both_ ISP stalkers _and_ BigTech stalkers. That being said, BigTech has developed significant stronger capabilities for aggregating and exploiting the data
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by pacala 7y ago
Using a very rough ballpark estimate, it costs $1 / month to run a twitter bot using readily available technology, see, for example, https://jarvee.com/get-now pricing list. To think that for $50k / month anyone i
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by pacala 7y ago
Not sure if "completely false" is appropriate. There was some Russian activity. The scale of which appears somewhat underwhelming: > Through our supplemental analysis, we have identified 13,512 additional accounts, for a total
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by pacala 7y ago
Application #1: Personalized real world interactions, aka 24/7 tracking of real world behavior, putting online tracking to shame. Motion detection is one of those technologies where malicious use outweighs positive use by such a large
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by pacala 7y ago
I'm not even sure who are the "mission-focused bureaucrats" and who are the "administration loyalists" in that thread. But for the love of God, can we please stop politicizing this issue? Can we please have a morato
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by pacala 7y ago
That's precisely the point. GMail gave Google user accounts, which made the cost largely immaterial. The 24/7 global corporate surveillance network has it's roots in Sun and its "The Network is the Computer", as ear
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by pacala 7y ago
GMail solved a thorny problem: convince users to browse the web while logged in, preferably with their real life identity. To then collect and aggregate an extensive personalized dossier of their online activity without any fear of legal re
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by pacala 7y ago
If I read the claims correctly, it takes an unlabeled dataset + a classifier model + a handful of heuristic labeling functions, which may be both partial and inaccurate, and trains the model to be a good classifier for the dataset, without
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by pacala 7y ago
This is not "all the current trees in Barcelona", as the parks have no trees. I am fun at parties as well.
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by pacala 7y ago
There is much more content than people. To the extent that a platform engages in policing thought, people will always be a much cheaper enforcement target than content.
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by pacala 7y ago
A repl for a sane language...
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by pacala 7y ago
You are correct, thanks.
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by pacala 7y ago
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/251561/translation-...
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by pacala 7y ago
CA 1970: 20M CA 2020: 40M

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