skeptic_69

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by skeptic_69 8y ago
2-parts. features a ton of interviews with high level executives including the facebook "head of growth" and alex stamos who was the security chief. I thought stamos came out of the interview seeming pretty forthright and direct (
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
I think the green-washing comment is definitely on-point. co-opt the opposition and there is no opposition.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
everything old is new again
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
I agree.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
Are you referring to master switch or attention merchants? been meaning to read both.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
I don't know if THIS article was directed by Facebook related PR but the times reporting says there is other PR basically identical to this. So I think we can decisively label your conjecture as "credible"
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
:/ yeah.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
not just jaron lanier! there are multiple thinkers who are fellow travelrs. Cal newport, Tristan harris, Nicholas Carr...
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
LOL. indeed.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
how would hear about this story unless you are personally friends with alex stamos or zuckerberg or sandenberg? I am all for skepticism but blanket rejection of responsible journalism seems like an over-reaction. the reporting of the new yo
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
yep.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
I rendered my disapproval of Facebook by deleting it. That is the only action they care about.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
too little too late but better than nothing.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
1.mmmmmmmmm ok I am willing to accept you meant the quadratic loss instead of 0-1 error. that seems reasonable. 2. this is paper is centered in a research thrust that IS focused on generalization. see my below comment. I don't know who
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
have you heard of something called ERM? uniform convergence? The typical way of showing generalization in ML is to show that if we have some low or zero error solution on the test data-set, for a large enough dataset, with high probability,
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
1. people overfit the baby datasets to zero training loss (MNIST) all the time. maybe you meant a "hard" dataset. 2. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. This paper is trying to argue a bit about why neural network
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
> Well, maybe because it's all done by a priest-caste cartel, shielded from reality in ivory towers, and then presented to the public in a similar way religion once was forced on peasants (taxes included). Academia is the modern pri
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
do you put your work in the arxiv?
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
There is a serious and well documented basis in neutral american and european media-going back decades. It reminds me of how so many smart people make decisions based on an anecdotal basis, including American media like NYT. I implore peopl
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
I don't understand why you would publish this in nature instead of FOCs/STOC
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
there is a basis to at least some of these claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
Seals do a lot of direct action. Someone more qualified should explain how much direct action they do. I think a lot.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
i think become a seal/green beret is pretty challenging !
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
only tangentially related but I have always thought that Executive Outcomes is such an ominous and great name..
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
obviously learning things effectively makes you a better researcher. I am talking about the value to the academic culture of the department.
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
ehhhhhhh I am not so sure the main limiting factor in going on to grad school is access to quality undergraduate education. a diligent student at the top public school in every state is probably qualified to go do research in graduate schoo
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
I think if you want to be a leader in AI research you want to attract and nurture the best graduate students and researchers. I don't really know how much doing good research has to do with good online education. I am sure online educa
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by skeptic_69 8y ago
CMU does have a department of machine learning fyi. which is probably what the other guy was referring to since to most people ML = AI and AI = ML