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by tdaltonc 7y ago
I've actually won that lottery before. The process of going through it was looming large in by mind when I came up with this model. As we were packing to go, a friend of means asked if he could join. I had to tell him that there was no
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
Here's a proposal for fixing this. I'll use the national parks as an example. Yosemite is hugely popular and we need to find some just way to limit the number of people going in. There are three ways to visit Yosemite. PATRON tick
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
I can absolutely see why transportation authorities like LADOT want this data. Heck, I can see why the public at large would want this data! There are a lot of ways that data could improve urban management. And nowadays, we have the technol
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California Cities Are Trying to Kill an Important Location Privacy Bill – EFF(eff.org)
4 points by tdaltonc 7y ago|1 comments
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
This means that if you make an app for kids, and you were planing on using ad monetization, your only recourse is to get acquired by an Ad-Tech company (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon included) so that you can run "first-party ads.&qu
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
Wow, so that really reinforce the trend toward monopoly and conglomeration in tech. Make a kids entertainment platform and you must get acquired by google, facebook, Amazon or Apple before you can turn on ads.
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
You can't talk about GitHub in China without talking about 996. Github is the only western 'social network' that is allowed to operate in China with strong encryption. That means it's the only place to talk about politic
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
The use-cases for this are obviously pretty wide. The really galling thing about this is that YouTube(Google(Alphabet)) didn't start offering this 3 years ago.
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KidSwitch: Identifying Kids in Apps and Sites(blog.superawesome.com)
42 points by tdaltonc 7y ago|34 comments
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
After I got mu PhD in the neuroscience of habit formation, I made an app to help people reconfigure their phone to prevent or dismantle exactly this kind of compulsive relationship with their phone. Check it out here: https://you
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
The sun is a great sync signal for diurnal cycles. And something about temp could be used for annual cycles. I would be very interested to know if you cloned a cicada (for example) and put it out in the wild, would it be able to get in sync
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
No. I think the wikiwand site looks nicer so my browser is set to auto redirect. For me, that's just how wikipedia looks now, so I forget that posting those links will look weird and sometime dodgy to other people.
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by tdaltonc 7y ago
In undergrad I made models of oscillator genes. They allow for digital cycle counting. They can also be chained to give base-2 counting systems. For example, cycle of gene A turns on gene B be turns off itself, one cycle of gene B turns on
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
True, if the system was only trained on women wearing make-up, but tested on women not wearing makeup, that would definitely create this kind of bias. That's exactly the kind of thing that a good AI engineer should be looking out for.
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
Check out the academic article.[0] It shows that Microsoft and IBM are way way better. [0] http://www.aies-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/AI...
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
Beyond the very real intersectional problems highlighted . . . The fact that the Amazon gender classifier miss-identifies 7% of white females as male, but 0% of white males as female is very odd. That seems like a JV level bias tuning mista
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
I could not agree more -- The YouTube ranking algo desperately needs reform to better respect human dignity.
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
All of it. We have a common data model for both are habit-building and habit-breaking products. They learn from each other. Sometimes you want to invite a new behavior in to your life, sometimes you want to ask one to leave. We want to enab
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
> I have no doubt that Boundless will have great success, because the demand side of the attention market is very strong. Can I quote you in our investor pitch deck?
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
I want to address your specific concerns, but first a general note: I think that what your conscience recoils from is not the data mining or the ability to change people. In the abstract, those are tremendous sources of human value. I think
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
We're currently working on a similar problem. I think the most important part of predictive design is personalization. The author doesn't explicitly call that out, but I think it leverages one of the big strengths of AI/ML. A
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
You should go back and read that book much more skeptically. That whole book is a PR piece from a VC trying to generate deal flow. Scratch below the surface and there's not much substance to his 3 big arguments. http://www.p
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
This case is different from that. In the Chinese case, they are complying with the legal request of a government. They are required by local law to answer that request. But Apple is not required to distribute an app just because it's l
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
I don't think that the company "exposed" in the article is a bad actor. Seems like a helpful and reasonable thing to do.
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by tdaltonc 8y ago
Your links don't go anywhere.
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Designing for Micro-Moments(smashingmagazine.com)
2 points by tdaltonc 8y ago|0 comments
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Data as Labor; Attention as Consumption(radicalmarkets.com)
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How users can organize a coup at Facebook using a blockchain app(medium.com)
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by tdaltonc 9y ago
I know HN is big on personal responsibility, so here are two tools to help you deal with phone addiction. I made Space http://youjustneedspace.com which help with individual apps. An Android launcher called Siempo http:/&
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by tdaltonc 9y ago
I have (CEO of the company the article is about). We keep a couple of copies in the office.

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