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by randcraw 6y ago
Same thing happened to BusinessWeek. After being consumed by Bloomberg, it's a shadow of its former self -- predictable, overly cautious, and much less interesting or informative. It feels like it's run by lawyers and investors
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by randcraw 6y ago
I think a major problem in judging the advancement of AI is that its successes are not general purpose -- it works great for narrow tasks and not well for broad tasks that we humans do every day, especially those that require what we call &
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by randcraw 6y ago
For a rather complete view of what deep learning still does not do, I recommend the work of Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. While seeming solely critical, I think they make very good points about the limits inherent in deep learning as we kn
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by randcraw 6y ago
48 is wrong without qualification. A resource-rich country indeed can become both economically powerful and it's people empowered -- look at the US. 48 is true only when two more constraints apply: 1) when the natural resources ar
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by randcraw 6y ago
Assuming autopilot was indeed engaged, this seems to be clear evidence that cameras alone are insufficient to perceive big objects in a car's path OR judge its distance to them. This car traveled in a straight line in near-perfect weat
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by randcraw 6y ago
I think a large part of the problem is that the software industry still doesn't know how to measure someone's value systematically and reliably. Metrics like LOC/day or bug minimization or speed of project delivery differ
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by randcraw 6y ago
This applies only if you reside in Georgia.
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by randcraw 6y ago
Your option 2 might work if the bubbling process is somehow made informed and fair, but option 1 is an invitation to promote charismatic loudmouths. Using pure populism as the means for seeking truth clearly doesn’t work very well, as the r
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by randcraw 6y ago
I really wanted to like JT. But Simon is a poor writer who wanders as much on the page as he did on his bike. An an author he's no comparison with Pirsig who had much more to say than merely, "I went somewhere and saw something.
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by randcraw 6y ago
And the vent pipes leaked anywhere that someone cut the vent to make room in their bathroom — which the articles say was common. In principle, it's helpful to know that sewer fumes might allow covid to spread. But based on those two
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by randcraw 7y ago
"Very few foods in nature contain vitamin D. The flesh of fatty fish (such as salmon, tuna, and mackerel) and fish liver oils are among the best sources [1,11]. Small amounts of vitamin D are found in beef liver, cheese, and egg yolks.
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by randcraw 7y ago
All engineering needs feedback to guide implementation, especially in complex systems. And it's essential in black box systems like biological organisms. This is why the words engineering and medicine intersect mostly in relatively u
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by randcraw 7y ago
No. This study found no evidence of effectiveness as a treatment for COVID-19 in patients who need it. A sample size of 20 is sufficient to satisfy a .05 statistical significance threshold that hydrochloroquine had even the slightest posit
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by randcraw 7y ago
To offer some perspective, in Montgomery County, just north of Philly (a suburban metro county harder hit than most), 10% of positive tests have been admitted to hospital, and 2.6% of positive tests have gone on ventilators. So the subpopul
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by randcraw 7y ago
Yeah, after 35 years in the profession, I've stayed (mostly) entertained by delving into nontraditional problem spaces that require me to learn about new subjects more than programming tools. After my first job of coding w/ datab
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by randcraw 7y ago
If you want classes that are more advanced or that go into greater depth, I recommend those offered by edX or Stanford-online or MIT OpenCourseware. These are full-term for-credit courses with video lectures (MIT, less so) at top schools t
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by randcraw 7y ago
If you want classes that are more advanced or that go into greater depth, I recommend the courses offered by edX or Stanford-online or MIT OpenCourseware. These are full-term for-credit courses with video lectures at top schools that you c
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by randcraw 7y ago
Broken link due to quote marks. Great suggestion otherwise. https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat...
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by randcraw 7y ago
"The other side" criticized Trump for what he said. They did not impugn the potential of chloroquine. This issue is only, "What did the president say and should he have said it". No responsible person should offer un
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by randcraw 7y ago
No. The administration made repeated wild unsubstantiated claims of a "cure" for a pandemic that the press properly pushed back on given the near zero experimental evidence behind the claim. This issue is partisan only if partis
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by randcraw 7y ago
This news story raises several big red flags. This story was reported by Laura Ingraham on Fox News. Her tweet promoting this as a "cure" was immediately withdrawn by Twitter as "misleading". The 40 minute video interv
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by randcraw 7y ago
All touchscreens provide zero tactile feedback or spatial info about its setting. Thus to use any touchscreen, you always must take your eyes off the road to look at it. Thus no matter how logical or attractive or fast the display, scre
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by randcraw 7y ago
If a car uses blue dash lights, that will stop me from buying it instantly and unquestionably. Blue is extremely saturating to my eyes' receptors and uncomfortable to look at in darkness even for a moment. Red is 100x more forgiving.
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by randcraw 7y ago
Yes but they're uselessly complex. I've owned a top-of-the-line Ridgeline with voice control for over a year and I still don't remember any of the sequences of specific commands it recognizes. Any car needs to be connected t
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by randcraw 7y ago
Japan's obesity rate is only 3.6% while the US's is 32%, and Italy's 42%. https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14321?ln=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Italy This suggest
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by randcraw 7y ago
Absolute paywall.
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by randcraw 7y ago
A very high fraction of folks past age 75 have one or more of these diseases. Before concluding that they contribute, the next question should be, how many people in that population at that age have ZERO comorbid diseases? Likely, it'
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by randcraw 7y ago
I emailed the author on that very point, and she said the decision to use "Dr Dyson" was an informed choice made by an editor and was out of her hands.
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by randcraw 7y ago
Probably it's the same exec who decided BMW steering should become numb and lifeless, apparently to remind drivers that BMWs are luxury cars first and fun cars second. And to anticipate the response, no, this wasn't inevitable as
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by randcraw 7y ago
No problem here either, on a 2015 iMac or 2018 MBP. I've used FF daily for 20 years on Mac/Linux and never been motivated to trade my security/privacy for a little speedup. Initially it was FF's ability to block video an

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