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by smeeth 6y ago
I have yet to find a situation where using a native datetime format made more sense than using a unix timestamp in integer fields.
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by smeeth 6y ago
Everyone is missing the bad business forest for the privacy abuse trees. Palantir is a consulting company that has somehow convinced the world they exist in the same universe as standard high-margin tech companies, like Away luggage. The on
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by smeeth 6y ago
I seem to be guilty of America-centrism again, my apologies. I should clarify that my point has less to do with hormones specifically and more about how this comment section is applying a double standard of healthiness to meat alternatives
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by smeeth 6y ago
Reading the handwringing over health in the comments it's pretty obvious some people have absolutely no idea what they're actually eating when they consume meat products. Oh no! Processed seed oils! Give me a fucking break, we pum
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by smeeth 6y ago
I think this conversation would benefit from moving away from analogy and back into the factual realm. The crime of conspiracy has two requirements. 1) That two people make an agreement to commit a crime and 2) that at least one person take
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by smeeth 6y ago
There is a legalistic difference between asking someone to give you information if they already have the information (legal? I think?) and before they have the information (definitely illegal). If the source doesn't have the informatio
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by smeeth 6y ago
The fact that you have to say “perhaps... perhaps... perhaps...” when you describe your authoritarian fantasy is all anyone needs to know. One does not need to similarly caveat North Korean or Chinese authoritarianism, you can see the gulag
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by smeeth 6y ago
Is refinancing not a thing in Europe?
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by smeeth 6y ago
You seem to be operating under the assumption that all young employees want to work from home. I'm a young person who can't wait to go back to the office, and I know I'm not the only one. WFH is a much better setup for people
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by smeeth 6y ago
Some (including myself) would argue that a repeal of section 230 would go a long way towards solving some of these issues. A large part of the problem is that social media companies algorithmically serve content to serve their purposes, but
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by smeeth 6y ago
My experience is that interviews like these are for supporting role data science jobs. E.g. company x has a product (tech or not), they have some data, and they want to hire someone to make that data useful in improving their product or sel
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by smeeth 6y ago
Yeah, that was a conscious choice of mine. I adhere to a narrower definition of what a subsidy is than you do: a benefit conferred by government to promote a specific behavior. In the case of SNAP I think you've confused secondary&#x2F
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by smeeth 6y ago
>The government already heavily subsidises child-rearing. Ah yes, the lofty government subsidy of x < $600 on average per family that has enough taxable income to receive the CDCTC (x < $100 all families with children)[0]. The cost
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by smeeth 6y ago
It sounds like you should pursue a PhD ;) Yeah, I agree with you - those are important questions I wish we had better answers to. I'm early into a research career though not in these fields and I'm starting to observe that knowing
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by smeeth 6y ago
I apologize if my comment came across as pedantic, I certainly wasn't trying to be. The way research in the humanities and social sciences are conducted are fundamentally different, which is why I think the lexical distinction is impor
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by smeeth 6y ago
You said the "humanities", but the examples of research you'd like were from the "social sciences". The humanities deals with fields like comparative literature, poetry, history, Russian language studies, etc. I am
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by smeeth 6y ago
That’s a good point and thanks for the reference. I added “as most understand it” to caveat cases like this one, where there exists a non-falsifiable theory about how cognition works under which the GPT algorithm and “understanding” would
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by smeeth 6y ago
Sort of, my point was that human/superhuman intelligence is widely understood by the public to work differently than a markov chain.
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by smeeth 6y ago
Why must we keep having this argument? If you do research in the field you know full well that GPT/any other transformer or Bert model is generating text by regurgitating approximate conditional probabilities of words given all the tex
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by smeeth 6y ago
You only mentioned the DOE national labs in passing-I encourage you to give them more thought. I’m currently a researcher at one of them, and if you land in the right group/application area it can be truly meaningful work. If you’re in
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by smeeth 6y ago
>give the people’s elected representatives a chance to weigh in Is POTUS not an elected representative? Congress can overrule the president if they want to, there's nothing stopping them. Also, who said the goal was "fighting a
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by smeeth 6y ago
No-one argues that the US has an unregulated free market and no-one respectable argues that it should. Keeping spyware-collected data of private citizens out of the hands of antagonistic authoritarian regimes seems like an appropriate use o
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by smeeth 6y ago
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin." - John Von Neumann
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by smeeth 6y ago
This article is a bit of a Frankenstein monster. There are too many possible target audiences for ML blogs and it seems like this post made an attempt to please everybody. This isn't a condemnation of the author, its just an impossible
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by smeeth 6y ago
A little Its a little disheartening that current Lithium-Ion battery storage is at ~$350/kWh and is only projected to hit ~$150/kWh in 2050 [0]. [0] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73222.pdf
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by smeeth 6y ago
Not OP but I’d be curious to hear why you think it isn’t. As best I can tell the distinguishing characteristic between people who believe in the existence of white/male privilege and those who do not is political affiliation.
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by smeeth 6y ago
All sides agree there is an issue around fair implementations of ML algos in the real world. There are two ways this can happen: 1) The model uses biased data when it could have used unbiased data. 2) The model uses biased data when no unb
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by smeeth 6y ago
There are some case studies from a government review of the program here [0] if you are interested. Your skepticism is warranted, especially since the government doesn't make programs like this as accessible as they should to people wh
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by smeeth 6y ago
Interesting question. I think this would probably be protected against by the fifth amendment, would it not?
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by smeeth 6y ago
Don't they already do that? Mics at long range, informants wearing wires, bugs in peoples houses, etc. Its not like whispering is a legally protected class of talking.

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