throwaway556179

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by throwaway556179 6y ago
Do you get mad, if you look into a mirror? There is no correct, unbiased way to rank images (or anything). There may be a "homogenizer" which reshuffles the ranking based on image features but you would have to introduce an artifi
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by throwaway556179 6y ago
Reading the essay it felt very ressentiment-driven, that is, while some phenomena were described with wit, they lacked a somewhat sympathetic grounding - it all screamed: I just do not like it. For one, a strong society is one that allows b
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by throwaway556179 6y ago
It concerns the generic "information asymmetry" - we want your relations, dreams, illnesses, loves, pulse, voice, basically anything we can get - but let silence be the only thing you will know about us.
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by throwaway556179 6y ago
Sometimes, I wish someone would hack into the FB C-Levels homes and live-stream their lives to the world - like everything they say and do, just to make the world a bit more open, connected and transparent.
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by throwaway556179 6y ago
The first use case mentions: "effortless selfies" -- call me stuck in the past, is that what I need high tech for?
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by throwaway556179 6y ago
I recently saw an FB "data engineer" talking about "experiment review sessions", where the - presumably engagement related - results of interface changes are discussed (he also expressed hope that all companies work that
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by throwaway556179 6y ago
We had something like 24G of RAM, but we have 500GB RAM machines as well (we own the hardware) and the job would have been even more of a breeze there.
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by throwaway556179 6y ago
We recently ran a large clustering job over billions of records (and a few TBs of data on spinning disks) on a single machine with minimal command line tooling in a few hours. Not really optimized yet. People forget how fast modern hardware