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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I agree. That's fair. I've thought about this before - I worked at a bank a couple of years ago, and our CCO (Chief Credit Officer in this instance) wanted to implement a rule, in our credit decisioning models, to decline pe
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by samhw 5y ago
> A 21 year old woman on a dating site has to be picky. She's getting constant messages from men anywhere from 18 years old to 100 years old. Putting the rest aside for a moment, I never till recently knew how true this was. I'
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by samhw 5y ago
> Note that even if it was backed by data, it would still be wrong. Is it? This is the big question, as far as I can see. If my country has green people and blue people, and green people are overwhelmingly more likely to commit fraud, is
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by samhw 5y ago
Honestly, as someone most of whose life is spent writing algorithms, when I hear any non-technical person say the word "algorithm" that's my cue to tune out. "Algorithms" seems to have a meaning that's approxim
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by samhw 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. Anyone who survives and escapes that - including several of my close friends - is a fucking strong person. If I have to read one more comment disparaging addicts and then whining about how sOcIaL MeDiA Is a dAnGeRo
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by samhw 5y ago
Is it? Irrespective of what I think of the post, I can't see any context in which posting it to a large forum full of strangers wouldn't count as 'promoting it'.
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by samhw 5y ago
Oh wow, thanks for adding that detail. I didn’t know about practically any of that. That’s a fascinating side of things: I thought there must have been a slight lacuna in my understanding, that not all the educated classes could have em
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by samhw 5y ago
Thanks for adding that detail! Also for being the one person who replied ITT with a non ’apocryphal’ etymology. I was getting ready to dig into another “public schools are called public because you can see them from the road!” pseudohistory
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by samhw 5y ago
Nope. Like I said a moment ago[0], it really did just mean ‘free as in speech’, like not-quite-free public transport suggests. Your explanation is certainly very neat and plausible - all the makings of a folk etymology - but it happens not
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by samhw 5y ago
No, it’s really as simple as in my own reply: the American meaning is exactly what the term conveyed when ‘public schools’ began, centuries before today’s ‘state schools’ existed anywhere . It was a school that was open, in principle, to
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, sure. When they started[0], the aristocracy were educated by private tutors, and these schools actually were for the poor (ok, fine: for 'poor', read 'slightly less than royalty'). That context has obviously chan
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by samhw 5y ago
Notoriously in England, public schools are charities. My school made god knows how much by offering a few bursaries and thereby counting itself as a charity. My best friend's school, old Slough Comp, is possibly one of the greatest for
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by samhw 5y ago
My reading of their comments is that they are trying to say that social media and news media can be characterised as having recommendation systems too, not just song and movie platforms (I don't know who exactly they're arguing ag
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by samhw 5y ago
I work on these systems, and if anything my only complaint about the field is the propensity to solve every optimisation problem with ML. I have seen people solve textbook-grade linear, and even differentiable, optimisation problems. And th
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by samhw 5y ago
What? They have absolutely tremendous data, the envy of any data scientist on the planet. I don't understand how you could possibly describe their user data as garbage in any conceivable way. Even search result click-and-query data
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by samhw 5y ago
Also, 'millions of cores' is a ludicrously shitty, zero-clue answer. It's like asking how Eminem makes music, and saying 'millions of pills'. Like, yes, that's an input, but you're missing the entire meth
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by samhw 5y ago
So are you just making the punctuation up as you go, or what?
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by samhw 5y ago
What I don't understand about their response is: why not make it configurable? Admittedly this is my philosophy for almost every product I work on - "make it maximally configurable, but make the defaults maximally sane" – b
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by samhw 5y ago
> Wow, this is something that has been a floater-in-mind for decades Have you literally never come across the "you're not Google!!!" trope before now, during the whole ~decade leading up to this very day? Gosh I envy you.
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by samhw 5y ago
I mean, this post from a year ago makes it sound not that non-standard : https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/my... What you're describing sounds like you mean something on the
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by samhw 5y ago
> your counter-argument that somehow it's less influential because you haven't heard of/used some projects directly holds no ground Oh come on, they are indisputably right that Microsoft, Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, hell, even
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by samhw 5y ago
> FAANG was created by the TV personality Jim Cramer to talk about high growth tech stocks. At the time Netflix was doubling every year. It was based purely on finance. That, and FAAG had less of a ring to it. Edit: Dammit, the GP made
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by samhw 5y ago
Nice! And I’m not a web engineer so I’m not really au fait with Puppeteer - but fingers crossed it’s useful to you. (I simply hadn’t heard of Puppet at all , so Puppeteer seemingly came into my head first.)
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by samhw 5y ago
Yup, in answer to the guy above: this is correct. Thanks for clarifying for me! (Some day HN will figure out notifications and I’ll be able to reply to comments myself within 24 hours...)
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm not sure I can parse this question successfully... But, in case this happens to answer your question, it was Puppeteer I had in mind (like I mentioned in the edit).
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by samhw 5y ago
Thanks for the no-bullshit explanation - much appreciated! That letter makes me think approximately the same thing I think to myself when someone tells me their sister got married: like, "hmm, I'm not really sure why you're
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, fair enough. I suppose I should offer an explicit disclaimer: my descriptions of both companies aren't necessarily 100% accurate, haha.
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by samhw 5y ago
> there is something about this letter It's the self-importance of a company which I only just realised isn't just a GitHub repo somehow thinking they need to write a letter longer than Kurt Cobain's suicide note to tell
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by samhw 5y ago
> do not gamify karma-whoring Christ, I'm not really on the 'complain about social media' train, but this resonates with me so much. The way people pose and mug for upvotes on Reddit - or mortifiedly delete their comments
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by samhw 5y ago
> stringing someone along as a side b***ch Side blotch? Side bleach?

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