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While Facebook slowly creates oversight board, industry experts formed their own(nbcnews.com)
3 points by saeranv 6y ago|1 comments
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by saeranv 6y ago
Aren't you ignoring the fact that actual authoritarians are using the lack of moderation in FB to spread misinformation and incite populism and take control? This has occurred in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and I would argue currently o
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by saeranv 6y ago
This is a strawman argument. No one cares about other people having and sharing different opinions. However the argument for moderating content on Facebook is centered around misinformation, and incitement of violence. There has now been mu
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by saeranv 6y ago
Balzac apparently drank 50(!) cups of coffee per day.
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by saeranv 6y ago
It's a funny side-effect of the HN "rule" against engaging in politics. We still talk politics, but must mention He Who Must Not Be Named obliquely. ETA: Oh no.. it didn't work. I'm being downvoted :)
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by saeranv 6y ago
The first comment (by mikekchar) in response to this student going through a rough spot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14312416
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by saeranv 6y ago
What are some of the practical applications of complex modeling? I have a hard time wrapping my head around where something like this would be used.
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by saeranv 6y ago
I kind of agree with you. I am still impressed with his commitment to donate his wealth to charity. Facebook may not have started with the best of intentions, or with complete integrity - but that doesn't equal the scale of evil (i.e a
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by saeranv 6y ago
That's an interesting thought. Instant communication seems to pair badly with our inherent bias towards novelty and bigotry. In the past, we had gatekeepers (i.e media) that were educated enough to edit and contextualize communication
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Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs(jamie-wong.com)
1 points by saeranv 6y ago|0 comments
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by saeranv 6y ago
This does seem to be a persistent theme in Stephenson's book. I just remembered that in Anathem, Fraa Jad (the Millenarian monk that accompanies Erasmus) perform a similar sort of mediation with long, deep chanting. I don't have t
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by saeranv 6y ago
This reminds me of the neuro-linguistic virus in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. 'Snow Crash' in the novel refers to a version of the virus encoded in a bitmap image which can cause hackers (who are used to processing informati
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by saeranv 6y ago
There seems to be a lot of comments here that think Scientific American (and the media in general) should strive to be nonpartisan and treat both parties equally. For those that think that way, I would like to know how you think we should h
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by saeranv 6y ago
I'm a hardcore Python user, but am gradually coming around to your point of view. It's frustrating that I can't just use loops to perform array operations, but instead call some very specific Numpy method I have to search for
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by saeranv 6y ago
Even if you're assumption is correct (which I don't agree with), it's not the job of Scientific American or even the media to be concerned about polarization. Scientific American should provide objective information about mat
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by saeranv 6y ago
Why is this being flagged?
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by saeranv 6y ago
You're right. I completely forgot about compact mirrors. They're probably way more accessible then CDs as well.
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by saeranv 6y ago
Haha, I don't have access to a CD either. But assuming it's partially the webcam/video software that's correcting the exposure/contrast to eke out a decent image, other common household items could be used in it&#x2
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by saeranv 6y ago
She's getting a surprisingly high-quality reflection from that CD. I would have thought a CD wouldn't have had enough specularity, or created too much distortion to achieve that kind of quality. The only downside appears to be tha
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by saeranv 6y ago
Very interesting! I remember learning about the Bayer filter in a computational photography class I took. I didn't realize the choice of green was meant to reflect a bias about human perception. It kind of reminds me of luminous flux,
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PyTorch3D for 3D Computer Vision research with PyTorch(github.com)
2 points by saeranv 6y ago|0 comments
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by saeranv 6y ago
I've been fascinated by the mechanisms behind human facial recognition ever since I read Peter Watts 'Blindsight'. Near the end he introduces an idea similar to the Chernoff face[1], plots of multivariate data in the shape of
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by saeranv 6y ago
Hah, yes, wrong thread.
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by saeranv 6y ago
> R blows Python out of the water when it comes to expressing concise and readable linear algebra/stats computation. Done right, base R looks like mathematical pseudo-code. Are you including Numpy as part of Python in this statement
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by saeranv 6y ago
This is ludicrous interpretation. Here's Trump approving Uighur concentration camps during a private meeting with Xi: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53138833
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by saeranv 6y ago
Dust theory is cool, but I really, really wish someone could simplify and explain the world of Egan's Dichronauts to me.
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by saeranv 6y ago
> One issue with this argument that hasn't been brought up yet is Kolmogorov complexity. Must random blobs of dust Z will be algorithmically random, not containing any real structure. This is my issue as well, and something Greg Ega
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by saeranv 6y ago
At least one building science expert (Joseph Lstiburek) reccomends a decentralized approach for HVAC, with tightly sealed individual units: https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/digests/bsd-110-hv... Although
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by saeranv 6y ago
Cool, so that means we all have infinite variations of our email addresses.
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by saeranv 6y ago
My favorite Stephenson book (thus far, I haven't read all of them yet) Anathem (2008) seems to directly capture this assumptions about the power of isolation on mental ability. Anathem describes a society of monks (the avout) that are

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