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by sriku 6y ago
Concur - after scrolling through the whole thing, I realised I still didn't get what this thing was about.
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by sriku 6y ago
Wow! Seems to be around for a while as well. Regret not finding it earlier.
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by sriku 6y ago
You raise an interesting hypothesis - that all interactions between science and policy making is subject to Goodhart's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law ). In as much as science deals with things
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by sriku 6y ago
> But what about when scientists collaborate with the policy-makers to shape public perception about how to inform and educate people? That isn't a problem with science. It is politics .. as @AnthonyMouse noted.
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by sriku 6y ago
There is some danger in publicly adopting a "science has become religion" position. Just as "trust the science" can be used as a rhetorical weapon, "science has become another religion" can be too .. and usuall
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by sriku 6y ago
It's awesome to see this whole comment section be about Julia! As a community, evebtually we'll realize that we dot have the bandwidth to keep inventing the same thing over and over just so a new technique can be used efficiently.
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by sriku 6y ago
Wondering how these micro benchmarks would fare on FreeBSD. (Will post here if I end up doing it over the weekend)
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by sriku 6y ago
> "While unable to prove causality..." Nutrition science (imo) is doomed if researchers don't take establishment of causal connections seriously. If they declare that they haven't causally connected drinking black cof
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by sriku 6y ago
Some of my colleagues and I were joking recently that the "AWS well architected" framework should've been named "AWS well paid" framework. It's like it's no longer legit to run a small site serving a small
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HasGeek: A primer on the Non-personal data framework proposed for India(hasgeek.com)
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by sriku 6y ago
Based on the title, I was half expecting a treatment of religious texts as fiction and why we fight over them.
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by sriku 6y ago
This seems to offer a criterion to decide the value of a business - if your business ceases to be one by publishing all your source code free to use, then you should look at other business models? Is ElasticSearch (the company) then just a
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by sriku 6y ago
One of the complaints about remote work at my company that I keep hearing (and also feel myself) is that our staff miss having "random" conversations. I quote random, because it isn't about the literal randomness, but kind of
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by sriku 6y ago
Related - recent Apache Arrow support in Julia announcement - https://julialang.org/blog/2021/01/arrow/
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by sriku 6y ago
Reminded me of this "ad" for google that google never made - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ysH2Glw5w (folks from India might appreciate more, but it is in English so should be accessible)
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by sriku 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what was that sentence? (Or a translation of it)
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by sriku 6y ago
Can you recommend some texts that would be good reads towards understanding this subject better?
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by sriku 6y ago
... and we'll have no idea who's getting access to our recorded location, and what other information about the driving systems is being transmitted where else.
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by sriku 6y ago
The comparison seems fair .. in the sense that property tax serves to cover the cost to society of the property existing, just as "IP tax" would be to cover the cost to society of protecting the "IP". Looks like such a
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by sriku 6y ago
Again .. wow! Buy a pen at a store and it comes with a usage agreement that you may not write anything against <insert-party-name> using the pen! Not surprising that they removed the term as it would be overreach or something.
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by sriku 6y ago
Isn't it the case that the use of IP generates wealth which is taxed anyway? So wouldn't that amount to a kind of double taxation?
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by sriku 6y ago
> """ It’s not just DRM. Take “Goldman Sans,” a free font released by the finance giant and global supervillain Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sans is a copyrighted work, and it comes with a copyright license that you “agree” to
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by sriku 6y ago
It lists "forced enrollment" as an example of "forced action" which is tangential action required tobe completed. For me, a recpatcha step asking me to classify traffix lights or cars is one as well.
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by sriku 6y ago
I won't call this particularly malicious .. but even Chrome is in this game - it asks to "hold cmd-Q" on macOS to quit chrome .. whereas every other app close when you type cmd-Q. My respect scales are tilting way away from
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by sriku 6y ago
Nope. The presence of the burger icon still affords discoverability even if a little less convenient. I can still see it and go "oh here is an icon and let me see what comes up if I tap it". In the GPay case, you see nothing and s
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by sriku 6y ago
@ddragon described it rather well. Some significant examples include JuMP ( https://jump.dev ) for mathematical optimization and how FluxML (Julia's "Keras"), Zygote (whole program automatic differentiation) and ODE
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by sriku 6y ago
One could argue that removing the UPI QR code from the app would be the truly malicious act .. and at least they're keeping it in. If they could do that, they would. NPCI regulations require these payment services to interoperate v
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by sriku 6y ago
Dark patterns are everywhere and I'm afraid not enough people are raising a ruckus about them. For example, the "Google Pay" app in India, which works via the UPI system, shows its own "scanner code" in the app as o
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by sriku 6y ago
Julia shines with this style, especially since the way modules compose works much better with multiple dispatch that crosses module boundaries. Sometimes a few surprises crop up, but by and large it's such a pleasure to work with.
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I find it hard to believe that a study can conclusively establish these relatively subtle effects when it took many decades to causally connect tobacco smoking to cancer.

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