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by ralfd 6y ago
No the real one. If I enter “last World Cup” into a private browser window google shows me the result of the tournament people really care about, which was won by France.
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by ralfd 6y ago
This is the current July issue: https://magazine.parkingtoday.com/issues/ParkingToday2020-07... Even them are touched by the BLM protests and the editorial ask unsurely if parking can be racist?
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by ralfd 6y ago
> he seems to be pretty okay with sexual assault, sex with minors, objectifying women, and so on. This is extremely uncharitable. If you would ask him if he is "pretty okay" with anything of what you accuse him, he would likely
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by ralfd 6y ago
Jacobi was a mathematician and his "Umkehrfunktion" is in english "Inverse function". It also seems the common english translation: https://www.google.com/search?q=invert+always+invert To be fair thou
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by ralfd 6y ago
At least it is witty: Andrej Karpathy @karpathy > By posting GPT generated text we’re polluting the data for its future versions John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack > Was just about to say that... Old printed books will be the equivalent of t
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by ralfd 6y ago
Scary thought. Legalization is presented as the utopian solve-it-all-policy and everyone points to weeds harmlessness. But hard drugs who lead to physical addiction?
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by ralfd 6y ago
With Elon Musk normal shitposting you could away with one well placed message to (temporarily) tank the stock. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239815256797184
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by ralfd 6y ago
Africa. https://www.hoover.org/research/africa-2050-demographic-trut... Specifically graphs like this: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/goldstone_africa_...
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by ralfd 6y ago
> Prof Murray adds: "It will create enormous social change. It makes me worried because I have an eight-year-old daughter and I wonder what the world will be like." Case in point: This implies the professor has only one child.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Funny, did you find that from the „notice the skulls“ reference in a certain subreddit?
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by ralfd 6y ago
This. Take any social media app and there is something toxic, mean, snarky about it. Twitter is optimized for snark and shit storms. Facebook has your crazy uncle sharing fake news. Instagram posts are fake and pretentiousness. Reddit has t
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by ralfd 6y ago
The winner was Microsoft though. Apple was (is?) the mispriced underdog with 5% market share.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Looks cool but I guess the price is at least three times that.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Lightning is symmetric, Micro USB is not. Lightning is smaller than USB-C.
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by ralfd 6y ago
> This is a good example of how the "system" produces racially-biased outcomes without any racist human input in the present day. What is the end goal here though? The most wealthy ethnicities in the US are Asian-Indians, Jewis
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by ralfd 6y ago
If one clicks through, the original Microsoft blog post by Larry Ostermanns is even more intriguing: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman... > I saw a post the other day (I'm n
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by ralfd 6y ago
Throws a Twitter error for me.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Here is Slatestarcodex’s book review: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...
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by ralfd 6y ago
> I can only see this backfiring catastrophically That is the point! Read the title again, these are questions not for falling in love, but to fall _out_ of love.
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by ralfd 6y ago
To be fair, the early Silicon Valley was delightfully dorky: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/10/steve-jobs-appeared-in-...
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by ralfd 6y ago
Not so absurd: Do you prefer that old people can die of Covid-19 (a few are tortured) or that public life is locked down (millions are mildly inconvenienced)?
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by ralfd 6y ago
My understanding is that it was "normal" for Google to have these kind of discussions on internal boards. A remnant of the libertarian message board and usenet culture of the early silicon valley. They only fully cracked down on p
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by ralfd 6y ago
I don't know about any comparative studies, but sexism in medicine (even patients are calling female doctors honey or sweetie) is an ancient problem. https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/03/12/time-confront-se
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by ralfd 6y ago
80% of students of veterinary medicine are women. 75% of students in psychology are women. It is simple math: Any woman who studies to become a teacher, counselor or social worker can not study to become an engineer. Being a programmer is n
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by ralfd 6y ago
> Being blind to the widespread dismissive, discriminatory, and derogatory behavior that routinely drives women from the industry does not inspire confidence. I'm sceptic to this claim because discriminatory and derogatory behavior
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by ralfd 7y ago
Currently there are 1.2 million active infections. Doesn’t this mean every smartphone in the world would need to download 17 MB per day? If more cases would be tested in India or Africa or Sputh America a ten fold increase wouldn’t be unthi
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by ralfd 7y ago
The real analogy is video game consoles.
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by ralfd 7y ago
Curiously, this mistake of "than/then", or similar the grating "would of" instead of would've, I only ever see native speakers do.
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by ralfd 7y ago
We are going in circles. An error rate of 2% (heck! 20%!) would not make a classification unusable, that was what one of the grandfather posts was arguing. https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated Here Goo
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by ralfd 7y ago
> Red heads are less than 2% of the population and yet if you built a classification system that failed to identify them as people that wouldn't be seen as acceptable either. So the solution would be to not identify _anyone_ as peop

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