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by rspeer 9y ago
I mean, we can snark about recruiters being bad at what they do and not understanding people's qualifications, but this is different. Recruiters being merely bad isn't illegal. Until the point where they ask "hey, before we p
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by rspeer 9y ago
Sounds like banishing it into the abyss. I use StackExchange a lot, and this thread is the first time I've heard it has a "chat system".
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by rspeer 9y ago
I want to hear the epilogue to that story, but disappointingly the story seems to have gone quiet since it was reported. Is Max-Hervé George still making 68% ROI per year at Aviva's expense? Did Aviva weasel out of it? Did they pay him
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by rspeer 9y ago
This shallow article provides nothing to support its nonsense claim that NLP is "almost human-level accurate". There exist tasks that can be solved at the level of human inter-annotator agreement, yes. That's how you know tha
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by rspeer 9y ago
From what I've seen, many of these behaviors appear because the semantics of the language are too low-level for the things that people are doing with it. It's not that compiler writers are maliciously optimizing things into nonsen
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by rspeer 9y ago
And don't overestimate the S-curve, which looks the same when you're in the first half of it.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Musk's view of AI relies on AI being magic, too. He's using the definition of "AI" that exists only in hyped-up promises about the future, and evaporates when applied to present technology. Musk dismisses AI experts who
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by rspeer 9y ago
> Imagine what would happen if the fuzz link an address a few levels up the chain to a drug transaction. How long can bitcoin remain "dirty" and subject to confiscation as proceeds from illegal conduct? I don't really want
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by rspeer 9y ago
I certainly can say the same about money and banks. I am saying it. You want money and banks to run on cryptocurrency, right? Then you need security for it. "Haha, you don't know which computer to steal" is the worst securi
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by rspeer 9y ago
Ah, right. I'm remembering from when I was trying to use git-annex to version the data, which was a problem for multiple reasons, including that their S3 driver didn't use multipart uploads.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Without physical security, someone can walk into the data center next to the hydro plant and take all the equipment they want . They can also install rootkits using their physical access to their computers, so they don't even have to
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by rspeer 9y ago
This is a common knee-jerk response that doesn't make any sense. None of that stops Bitcoin from being wasteful, and most of it is still necessary if Bitcoin is used more. Are you claiming that Bitcoin replaces physical security? How w
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'm very excited. I want to use this to version ConceptNet's raw input and its built data, all of which is public. So I can assume this isn't going to be afraid of gigabytes, right? I've seen services before that want to
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How to make a racist AI without really trying(blog.conceptnet.io)
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by rspeer 9y ago
I think you're agreeing with the parent. He's saying the idea that everything's supposed to be declarative is a step backwards, because indeed sometimes you just want to write some imperative code and make something happen.
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by rspeer 9y ago
> might is right. Get over it. That's a good summary of the UK's response to the UN, but we are allowed to disagree. We are allowed to have moral values that are not enforced at the end of a gun. I'm sad that you don'
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by rspeer 9y ago
I think the OP might have been looking for code that already exists, not just techniques for how to build it. But I have some opinions on these techniques. LDA is not very controllable. It gives you a set number of clusters. Run it again an
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by rspeer 9y ago
What incentive will people have to vote for the fairer outcome in a dispute? If people even know of the existence of a dispute, it's almost certainly because they have some personal stake in the outcome, and they will vote for the outc
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by rspeer 9y ago
If you're delegating decisions to intelligent actors, why not delegate to intelligent actors who make a payment app that's denominated in dollars and includes none of the complexity of Ethereum?
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by rspeer 9y ago
If the reason I'm supposed to be concerned about fiat money is Jim Cramer's website, I feel even better about it now. (Also, they're arguing against QE, not the entire concept of fiat money.)
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by rspeer 9y ago
Yes. Can you answer it? Assume I'm neither a libertarian nor an anarchist.
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by rspeer 9y ago
How do you cryptographically, trustlessly verify that food is healthy?
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by rspeer 9y ago
> How do insurance companies deal with this problem today? The legal system. It can put people in jail for fraud if necessary. Do you really want "smart" "contracts" to have the power to put people in jail? Really?
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by rspeer 9y ago
When you use "crypto" as an abbreviation for "cryptocurrency", you promote confusion about what cryptography is.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Do you see a reason that, as an author, you wouldn't want your article to be pirated as widely as possible? You get no actual benefit from IEEE making money off of your article, right?
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by rspeer 9y ago
Note that as a Mystery Hunt puzzle, the goal of the puzzle isn't just to fill in the grid, it's to find the answer, a secret word or phrase that would be filled into another puzzle (the metapuzzle). The puzzles generally don'
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by rspeer 9y ago
The tiles aren't static raster images, but they're still tiles, made of vector data. You can see them while it's loading. This allows Google to cache the files they serve. And when you pan a Google Map, you're panning a
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by rspeer 9y ago
You're changing your plan here. Maybe you could at least concede that the issue of UB is difficult and is not going to be solved by saying "why don't they just" on HN?
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by rspeer 9y ago
I don't know what you mean about the aspect ratio further from the equator. Mercator is conformal, it preserves angles, so the aspect ratio is 1:1 everywhere that it makes sense to say "aspect ratio". Are you talking about th
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by rspeer 9y ago
You shouldn't want to actually "get rid" of Mercator entirely. Mercator is pretty great for interactive maps on the Web. Conformal angles, north is always up, splits nicely into tiles. As long as Africa and Greenland aren&#x2

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