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by romaniv 11y ago
>An ideological response would discount the arguments, discredit the sources, and proceed merrily along. But that's exactly what happens in the media where most of the people get their information about these studies.
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Maybe the editorial staff assumes the responsibility for all the correctness issues? That would actually makes sense, since they have the final say in what gets published and should do some additional verification. Just a theory. I don&#x27
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>Is there a way to escape the echo chambers? So far I haven't found a reliable way out. Social media and personal blogs definitely aren't it. In fact, they're feeding the badness. Interestingly, I feel that paper edition
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> In the late 20th century, however, there was a sustained assault from within the profession of literary studies on the very idea of common humanity I'm surprised someone at New Statesman admits this. Very often I feel that the v
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Somehow I find this more inspiring than most commercial success stories. Deciding to work on ideas instead of working for a large or small company. I sincerely wish the best to the D Foundation. (I'm an occasional lurker on D mailing
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> I don't know of any other martial art where I don't know any other martial art where so many practitioners claim that their MA is, literally, the best. From Gracie Academy website, which is the first one coming up in Google
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So, with 10K samples it can parse semi-arbitrary data presented in a natural language, semi-arbitrary questions in a natural language and give natural-language answers? Am I missing something? This sound so much more powerful than anything
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Canvas does exactly what I'm talking about, but for my purposes I would prefer something that works outside of a browser.
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I was lucky to have an excellent professor for a similar course in college (it was called Computation Theory). It completely changed the way I think about programming. Specifically, it changed how I think about program state and software bu
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I wish modern computers had some reasonably efficient APIs for doing pixel-level screen buffer stuff in a straightforward way. Without using pixel shaders on polygons and other hacks.
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I don't think it's about bootstrapping to dev. I think it's about allowing people to solve certain problems using programming, but in a different way from what we're used to. It's about visualizing explorative progr
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> Facial recognition software, which American military and intelligence agencies used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan Mighty good it did them there... It's disturbing that no matter how much technology police gets, they always
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So, let's say you do that. Then what?
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The question is how many false positives the systems has and whether it will be used as "probably cause" for stuff. Also, eventually they might connected to body cameras and public security cameras and start tracking everyone. If
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There is also a more recent take on this, a series called Psychopass. In many ways it's more disturbing, because it highlights the most problematic parts of such centralized non-transparent systems. Worth watching.
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Why do ads need to track you anyway? Doesn't it make more sense to customize ads based on the specific page you're looking at? It seems like this is rarely done. At least it doesn't seem that way most of the time.
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One solution could be to move encryption to OS-level libraries in such a way that you could tap into traffic before it's encrypted for debugging.
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I never intended to "demonstrate" what you're demanding. http://www.nbc.com/schedule This is what over-the-air TV program looks like these days. What percentage of its broadcast time consists of quality TV
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All of what you wrote is true. Sometimes decline in mass media is relative. We loose some radio to get some TV. But I think it is sometimes fair to say that we trade something of value for something superficial. Right now, we have unparalle
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I haven't watched TV in more than a decade. Nobody I know watches it. It had been almost entirely superseded by cable channels, which are being superseded by streaming now. I though this is self-evident and does not require an elaborat
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Nostalgia is one thing, but sometimes things just get worse. (Look at television as an example.) You can't just write it off every time when someone notices the decline. Also, centralization is objectively there. Google, Twitter, Faceb
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I don't think it's a nitpick. I think this is a very important point. Is the hypothetical fuel more expensive than food?
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Sure, but we're not speaking about overall system reliability. We're speaking about hardware dying. RAID will prevent data loss, but your actual disks might fail as often as something from vanilla PC.
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I'm not commenting on this particular case, but in general I reject such arguments. This isn't censorship of the type that is illegal or not allowed. Neither is posting something offensive. Have you thought about that? Yes, GitH
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Are there good reasons to believe that "enterprise" hardware is more reliable in practice? Anecdotally, most desktops I used lived much longer than most servers I worked woth. I know a Compaq desktop that worked as a server for
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The cool thing about many of these features is that I can push out some code that I can share with a hyperlink and other people can run it without installing anything other than a browser. What you describe is a hack for lacking isolation
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For example, a lot of the problems that could be easily solved via declarative HTML tags are being solved via low-level JavaScript APIs. Not to mention that the web sets its own expectations. If everyone uses stupid modal popups, your clien
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There is a working business model that does not rely on ads: Kickstarter. The problem with making everything subscription-based is that it changes the dynamic of the website. A lot. An interesting experiment would be to allow people to pay
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How much money does one song really makes through ads per person? I don't think it's anywhere close to $1.50.
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why would they not go low-tech / low effort? Attribution. Mechanical attacks are easier to attribute than something that can be done from across the world over the Internet.

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