pixelgeek

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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I believe he is trying to say that most multi-market hedge funds (systemic hedge funds) are a fraud because the models that get generated typically only work in the market that the data modelling was done for.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
What is it about the scientific method and changing your advice based on new evidence is so difficult for some people to understand? > The same dipshits who now think you should wear a mask while outside by yourself insisted that they we
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I wandered through the rest of the blog. What an amazing asshat. He should be on display somewhere. His rant about US health issues[1] is breathtaking. What sort of person begins a description of autism like this? > Autism. I’m not sure
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I really like the Goldberg machine analogy. Consider it stolen
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
The vast majority of people posting to YouTube make nothing from it. It might be unethical if they were marketing it solely as a way to avoid ads but there are a wealth of benefits to using it. YouTube in a browser on iOS is a nightmare to
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Maybe put a sticker on the conference table that distracts them?
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
But that is not a vision issue. That is providing people with incorrect information.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I don't think that the word 'train' should be used for these systems. We feed then reams of data and effectively cull the ones that don't work but the critical problem is that we judge the effectiveness of an ML system
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
> For example, consider the case of pasting a sticker on a speed limit sign that causes Teslas to swerve off the road. If your vision system can be caused to swerve off a road by a sticker then maybe it shouldn't be used?
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Maybe this is a good example of why ML systems shouldn't be used? Ultimately we don't know how the networks that get created actually make decisions so doesn't that make protecting them from attacks like this impossible?
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I was actually commenting more on the fact that they announced only a few weeks ago that they were delaying until 2022. And I actually don't see how e2e and their business model sync in any possible way. They make their money off of kn
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Facebook has a lot of very smart engineers and I am certain that once they put some effort behind it that they will be able to delay this until 2030 or even further.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
> I don't think that the Nigerian scammers are necessarily unsophisticated. Their scam emails intentionally contain enough red flags that any reasonably intelligent person will recognize the scam and not reply. It is actually delibe
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
What sort of ghoul compares a programming issue with something like the conflict in Vietnam? When he started writing about 15 million people dying you think that would have made him stop and rethink the metaphor.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I have these knee-jerk reactions that I get from reading the mainstream news and reacting to its attempts to dumb down writing and overgeneralise issues like this.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
This site helps me realise just how little I know about things and that I should try to keep my comments to myself more often :-) This is a good lesson to learn. Sadly I need to be reminded of it far too often
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
No, its run by machine learning systems. Not AI I feel like those people correcting everyone about crypto
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
This was my impression. I think the singularity term was used to try to convey that as well
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Do you still think that the Wordpress UI is a good publishing tool? I think it has become too complicated for the average user. The taxonomy also seems to have been pushed into the background
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
So angry. So wrong about many things. There are a few issues on which they are correct but the main issue from their perspective seems to be people getting crap websites from a designer and then coming to the author to try to fix it. I have
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All the time. It would frighten you
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
I would argue otherwise. I stopped using Wordpress for my personal blogs because they radically changed the writing tools and unless you self-host you are stuck with them. It isn't fun to write on a Wordpress blog any more. They are al
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Well I will certainly trust any article that immediately resorts to commenting on the spelling of protestors. > “Some have pointed out,” she wrote, that “this change in the law will allow some duplicitous or badly motivated males to ‘cha
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Bogus how? Sources? > Nowhere in this article can you conclude that APPLE specifically opposes this bill BECAUSE of the climate change clauses in it. That is a lot of caps. Apple gives money to group A. Group A opposes a bill that contai
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
> Unless you work and sell your labor "at-cost", you are also "profit-seeking". Well the last time I checked I didn't turn a blind eye to my work helping to start a promote a genocide in Burma so I really don&#x2
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
So I wasn't the only one who got a huge ESR vibe from that article.
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Is your dentist a corporation that is lead by a board of directors and has a series of shareholders that help define how it operates? If not then the comparison is not really valid. > The problem is the lack of ethics of Facebook and Big
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
Apple, and Cook in particular, is a member of groups that are actively working to stop the proposed environmental laws in the US. So yes indeed, deflection https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/01/
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Decades? Anyone remember the Robber Barons? It is an inherent problem with the system.
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by pixelgeek 5y ago
> The core problem is that any large organization is guaranteed to be psychopathic. Well any large organization is, to a certain point, very successful and you can't get to that position with morals. Doing the ethical thing is very

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