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by pelario 6y ago
I cannot agree more and I'm actually surprised that I haven't heard this complaint more often/loudly. Perhaps there is something we are missing ?
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by pelario 7y ago
On the other hand; the fact that such (very rare) cases exist is also revealing that there we are talking about actual large numbers.
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by pelario 7y ago
Shangai was in full lock down when there were less than a hundred confirmed cases. This is far more drastic than what any western country have done. If you are skeptic about China's data (which is a fair objection), you can also look
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by pelario 7y ago
For us, technologists, yes, the distinction between "AI bias", and the bias in the data is clear. The point however, is when it comes to the general public, "AI" is the whole thing, and actually the public has absolutely
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by pelario 7y ago
This sound advice. I cannot emphasize enough how important is the supervisor in the PhD experience, IMO, the most relevant factor. So if this is the treatment you get even before starting... I would also say, yes, look for another place.
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by pelario 7y ago
The key property is that each substring is the begining of a suffix, so if you have your suffixes ordered in lexicographical order, is easy to answer pattern matching queries. Now, you could do the same with prefixes, but then you would nee
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Why education and healthcare cost so much?(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by pelario 7y ago|0 comments
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by pelario 7y ago
An interesting hypothesis is that this is caused by everything else becoming much cheaper (because e.g. automatization), while teaching remains similarly hard as it was 100 years ago. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06&
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by pelario 7y ago
I cannot agree enough. As a casual python user, it is quite common to stumble in some issue, after somme googling land in a doc page, try my solution, and find it does not work. Then googling after the failed solution, noticing that the pre
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by pelario 7y ago
Are you really curious? If yes you could give some sources about what "you heard", otherwise it is not even fake news...
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by pelario 7y ago
Do you know if they do it?
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by pelario 7y ago
> If it were International, the US would face sanctions. Not an expert neither but to my understanding, there is no real "democracy" in the international law scenario, and the US has the capacity to veto any UN resolution. If
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by pelario 7y ago
A "simple" one,: Do they plan to fullfill GDPR requests? Here is a good story of a guy who tried to get all the data the company had on him without anything close to a real answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by pelario 7y ago
Very click-baity. Below the only part that actually relates to the title: The announcement came as we began to board. Last month, I was at Detroit’s Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines s
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by pelario 7y ago
Casinos are highly regulated. If Facebook was under a similar degree of regulations I would be at ease.
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by pelario 7y ago
Isn't what you are describing the de-facto use case of email?
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by pelario 7y ago
"When a reporter recently challenged Liu to answer the middle-school questions about the “meaning” and the “central themes” of his story, he didn’t get a single one right. “I’m a writer,” he told me, with a shrug. “I don’t begin with s
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by pelario 7y ago
Do you have any example of a Physical 1:1 map ? I truly believed that such a thing is (physically) impossible.
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by pelario 7y ago
Impossible not to think in "A scanner Darkly" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqWBCsWRdw4
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by pelario 8y ago
Not OP, but being a researcher in CS is a job that gives me that feeling (not always of course, but often enough)
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by pelario 8y ago
Flame-war detector remind me of the following short story by Scott Alexander https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
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by pelario 8y ago
Relevant Scott Alexander's essay: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...
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by pelario 8y ago
>> (...) whether Submarines Can Swim. > Or planes can fly, right? It's very interesting that there is no problem to describe the action of planes as "flying" (because we humans do not fly), but OTOH it feels very we
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by pelario 8y ago
I've thought the same (and heard the same booking "blunder"), until I visited a city I had visited before, and went for the exact same hotel...
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by pelario 8y ago
Can somebody explain why would anyone consider this a good idea? I'm honestly puzzled.
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by pelario 8y ago
--- Video unavailable This video is restricted. Try signing in with a Google Apps account. --- I am logged in with my google account, but I'm just learning there are two kinds of google accounts... wtf google...
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by pelario 8y ago
This. I have seen and experienced how a radical view of vegetarianism (or veganism) deters people from doing anything about their meat consumption. Specially people who likes meat. After meeting a couple of "relaxed vegetarians",
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by pelario 8y ago
Git seems to be doing fine after Linus left it...
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by pelario 8y ago
I wonder if it is possible to find a legal action...
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by pelario 8y ago
It is at least funny how therapy is not even mentioned in the article...

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