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by ponker 6y ago
And if I was the UK, I’d love to have the smartest, most educated, wealthiest residents immigrate. A win-win if you will.
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by ponker 6y ago
Yep. He even married a McKinsey partner back when that was an admirable career.
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by ponker 6y ago
Gilead has already announced that they won’t enforce the patent for coronavirus treatment. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to make, but the patent is not the issue.
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by ponker 6y ago
You can change your last name to Rockefeller, and some get away with it [1], but usually you'd be exposed because not only would you not have the right clothes, manners, alma maters, accent, etc... but most of all, you wouldn't kn
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by ponker 6y ago
I agree with your gist but let's not pretend that Yann LeCun has been "taken down." He is still tremendously wealthy, respected, influential, etc... it looks like the only change is that he's not on Twitter.
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by ponker 6y ago
Well this is a contrived example. But the fact is that all datasets contain the full biases of the world that created them. So there is no "unbiased" dataset... meaning that powerful AI amplifies the world as it is, rather than a
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by ponker 6y ago
The critic here, Timnit Gebru, is not doing a good job of articulating a well-reasoned argument about why dataset bias is not the only problem with ML. Allow me to attempt to do her job: Machine learning approaches are powerful because they
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by ponker 6y ago
Every YouTube ad you’ve seen has a client who at least wants their ads to look as good as a James Cameron movie.
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by ponker 6y ago
I didn’t say it was inherent in being black, but if you are selling a drowning prevention technology, it’s imperative that it work well for dark-skinned people. As someone with dark skin I can say that the problem of tech products (Automati
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by ponker 6y ago
The team didn't become maintenance people. Basically the architecture astronaut did the first 6 months of 2-3 year projects. And everyone knew that they were geniuses, maybe there was a little grumbling but people got on board.
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by ponker 6y ago
No, basically the group managers assigned the “architecture astronaut” tasks to these brilliant loners. They would figure out the answer and then be assigned to a team to onboard them basically, they’d come into the office for a week or two
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by ponker 6y ago
Mechanisms are not always obvious. 40 Hertz blinking light has been conclusively proven/replicated to reduce amyloid plaques in mice, which may offer a path towards Alzheimer’s treatment. Most people wouldn’t have believed you before t
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by ponker 6y ago
A lot of depression cases are purely chemical in origin. At least 20% of patients are 95% recovered once they find the right medication. Keep in mind that the psychiatric definition of “depression” is quite different from the layperson’s de
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by ponker 6y ago
I've seen my FAANG division manager use brilliant loners quite effectively by requiring them to be remote. They don't join meetings or really check in with anyone but every six months they pop up and say "I re-architected Sys
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by ponker 6y ago
And what we know about drowning rates, which for black children are more than 5x as high as for white children.
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by ponker 6y ago
You are color grading a $200 million movie and want to apply various tweaks to the video and see the effect in real time. With a regular PC you have to render and then view... with something like this you could render in real time at 8k.
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by ponker 6y ago
“I could clone Facebook in a weekend”
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by ponker 6y ago
If you don’t like trackpads... why would you get a trackpad.
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by ponker 6y ago
Spotify?
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by ponker 6y ago
I don't think you need to worry about missing some essential screen area of a Quibi show.
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by ponker 6y ago
Yes, but the eBay flywheel was already in place when she arrived. In a marketplace business it's hard to get started but hard to be disrupted, so while growing the company to $8B revenue demonstrates great managerial skill, it doesn&#x
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by ponker 6y ago
Most companies are destined to fail. If you invest $1.75 billion logically, you invest $1m in 10 companies, then after a year take the best-performing of those and invest another $5m in each, take the next three and invest $1m more to give
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by ponker 6y ago
The motor could easily be that strong, depending on how many pounds loading the desk is rated for. My standing desk is an expensive model but it's rated for 600 pounds.
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by ponker 6y ago
This is plainly not safe. A desk with memory needs to require a continuous button press to keep advancing the desk, so that if the operator or someone gets caught in the desk and can’t push the stop button, it stops as soon as pressure is
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by ponker 6y ago
It's a probabilistic process. 1 virion of any virus can infect a host, but for some viruses that probability will be vanishingly small while in others it will just be regular small.
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by ponker 6y ago
Others included sources, but also, how could masks not be effective? They cover your mouth and the disease is mainly expelled out your mouth. That’s why the government really lost the public when they said “masks don’t do anything” when wha
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by ponker 6y ago
There are places where passion isn’t enough, only performance is what counts. The NBA, Recurse Center, Navy Seals, etc.
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by ponker 6y ago
No, just exclusive of transport. So 50ms in-the-building and another 50ms for SF-NY and another 50ms for SF->Moscow or similar.
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by ponker 6y ago
Windows kicked off an update in the middle of a friend's funeral where there was a slideshow running.
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by ponker 6y ago
Not “no matter what,” but perhaps “running on a multitasking operating system.” With a hardware encoder and 1-frame buffer you could get down to 50ms.

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