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'You forget you're in a building,' says architect of giant airport waterfall(cbc.ca)
3 points by steve_g 7y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 7y ago
Maybe a dumb question - how does the model which is trained to predict the next words answer questions, as shown in the reading comprehension example? Do you just feed it the question and watch it generate the answer, or is something else
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Training a Computer to Read Mammograms as Well as a Doctor(npr.org)
1 points by steve_g 8y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 8y ago
I'm sorry that you're in pain. If you are considering suicide, please don't do it. Many people want to help you. If you're in the US, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255, 24/7. I
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by steve_g 8y ago
They can be fired for any lawful reason. It would be unlawful to fire employees for striking - with some exceptions. Striking employees can be replaced in order to get the work done, but that doesn't make sense for a one-day walkout.
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by steve_g 8y ago
I'm pretty sure firing employees because they are involved in a "concerted activity" to improve their working conditions violates US law. It would be legal to "replace" them with new employees, but that's not p
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by steve_g 8y ago
I think there can be good faith disagreement even when all the items you mentioned are agreed upon. The basis for the disagreements may be presuppositions, values, and priorities - people may differ here, in good faith. To use a controvers
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by steve_g 8y ago
I wonder what future generations will _despise_ us for. For which behaviors or beliefs will they take down our statues, remove our portraits from display, take our names off memorials, and revile us as evil?
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by steve_g 8y ago
"Just Culture" by Sidney Dekker is a book about balance between fairness/justice and learning how to prevent incidents in the future. He doesn't have a lot of good things to say about the court system. https:/&#x2
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by steve_g 8y ago
The families of the people that were killed want to understand what happened. Delays and silence will make their suffering worse. People are often very forgiving when they know what actually happened. But being shut out of the information
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by steve_g 8y ago
I guess I need to read Dennett's book. He's clearly a smart guy, but the the idea that consciousness is an illusion seems self-refuting. "I assert not-I" "Observations show that observations are not real" How
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by steve_g 8y ago
It seems like Amazon warehouse worker are slaves to robots. Robots have no compassion and show no pity. It would be terrible to be a slave to a robot. The real problem is that the variation of human performance is so large. Variation of
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by steve_g 8y ago
Wheat grown by a farmer for his own consumption, not bought or sold, not carried across state lines, can be regulated by Congress as it affects "commerce ...among the several States." See Wickard v. Filburn.
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by steve_g 9y ago
God or nothing. See Arthur Leff's article: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2814/
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by steve_g 9y ago
Mill responds that the suppression of false ideas is wrong, nevertheless: "If the opinion is right, they [the human race] are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a ben
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The Internet Had Already Lost Its Neutrality(bloomberg.com)
10 points by steve_g 9y ago|1 comments
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Is Constant Corporate Monitoring Killing Morale?(nbcnews.com)
4 points by steve_g 9y ago|1 comments
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by steve_g 9y ago
Actual Title - "Google May be Guilty of Gender Discrimination But Is Definitely Guilty of Bad Data Analysis." It was too long!
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Google Is Definitely Guilty of Bad Data Analysis(medium.com)
7 points by steve_g 9y ago|1 comments
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by steve_g 9y ago
I changed the title to make it a little less click-baity. Hope that's OK.
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How America’s Epic Eclipse Will Impact Our Electric Grid(gizmodo.com)
2 points by steve_g 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: “Cheating” with boolean rules in machine learning pipeline
3 points by steve_g 9y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 9y ago
It is called a "limited hangout." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
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A.I. is trumpeted as the cure for the medical industry, but doctors are skeptica(cnbc.com)
1 points by steve_g 9y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 9y ago
Well, I'd appreciate it if you'd link to the company or at least identify it. I'm really curious about a super-powerful tool with functionality that's difficult to describe.
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by steve_g 10y ago
Unless you're applying to Rockwell, you'll be using, configuring, or talking to ProductionCentre. It's end user software. You'll figure it out. Apply.
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by steve_g 10y ago
I am also a manager of managers. I agree 100% that managers/leadership makes a big difference in performance. But I don't see the difference being systems and metrics. I see it much more as interpersonal relationships, respect,
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by steve_g 10y ago
There's a difference between "getting people to do what they say they will do" and getting people to do whatever is asked of them. Part of the culture described in the article was honest capacity planning. The group didn&#x
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The Experience of Discrimination in Contemporary America(osf.io)
2 points by steve_g 10y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 10y ago
I am stealing your last line for my personal use. Clear communication is the most important skill for almost any business person, but certainly for developers.

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