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by tqi 3y ago
> Even completely rational prediction markets generally have a structural problem with events with likelihoods close to 1.0 or 0.0. This leads to cases where conspiracy type events have much higher likelihoods than they should, leading p
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> you have no idea what amazon would do with a spatial and/or topographical map of your living space updated almost daily? you cant? damn. you might wanna do some creativity exercises instead of crapping on your keyboard for everyon
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I would actually push back a bit on the importance of local news. I grew up in a midwest college town that had a fairly robust local newspaper, and my recollection of it was that it was a) poorly written and b) mostly focused on local sport
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That's a very good point
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Sports journalism has also never been a paragon of "real journalism." While there are certainly examples of great investigative pieces, much of what is written is dependent on access to and cultivating relationships with the subje
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> As a result journalism — sports or otherwise — is steadily being replaced by a parade of automated gibberish, clickbait, well-funded propaganda, and marketing, and it’s getting increasingly difficult to find anybody with the ethics and
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None of that made any sense.
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What was your original impetus to start structuring your learning - was it because you felt like your improvement was plateauing, or because you had things you were interested in to keep track of?
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How do you measure "benefit", and what does "net" actually mean?
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Should, but in practice I've rarely seen fk contraints used in analytics data warehouses (mostly for etl performance reasons)
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Yeah, I think the risk is that there is a larger surface area for recruiters or hiring managers to do it badly: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/zenni-49ers-glasses-disc...
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"the project does not benefit from the OSS feedback loop" It's not like you can submit PRs to training data that fixes specific issues the way you can submit bug fixes, so I'm skeptical you would see much of a feedback l
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These types of debates always seem to go this way - one person saying one option works way better for them so the other option must be crazy, followed by another person saying the opposite. I'm not an infra guy, but my guess is the rea
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Why is working on art good, but working on entertainment a waste of time?
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It's kinda hard to believe anyone would look at our hyper-polarized political climate and still want to build let alone operate The Platform...
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I can't access the NBER paper so I can't see the methodology - how did they choose which papers to include? I'm always wary of studies that tout the size of their data set. Did they dedupe wire stories? Control for which news
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Their chart actually seems to show both economic and non-economic sentiment trending down at the same time.
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I think this is just a small part of a larger discussion, which is what the role of science communication should be. Is it to inform the public or is it to help change public behavior. It seems pretty clear in retrospect that the CDC had a
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I also still habitually look at the camera (due to said training early in my career), but I think that the important thing is I don't think it is rude when other people don't do it. And in my experience, the vast majority of peopl
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To clarify I didn't mean that all eye-contact is cultural, I meant specifically during video calls. I was told that if I didn't look into the camera during my interview, it would be perceived as rude or unprofessional.
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"Webcams that enable you to look anywhere on your screen." Minor aside, but does anyone actually care about this? Forever ago, I was told to try and look into the camera in order to project eye contact during video calls, but now
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Unless there is a acute public safety concern, I don't see why traffic citations for driverless cars couldn't be handled the same way red light camera violations are in many states: no traffic stop, just mail a citation/fine
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Don't be obtuse. They clearly meant electric service available to an electric car, and every driving related use case.
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Is anyone here actually familiar with the science? If so, I would LOVE to hear more about it. A cursory look through links provided in other threads, it seems like the recommendation is based on the following facts: teenage sleep patterns s
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11pm is a social construct (one that changes twice a year in many states at that), not biological fact.
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It meets people where they already are. I and (everyone I know) have an inbox, I don't have an rss client.
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> Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data... nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. I think privacy activists need a more compelling "
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"I don't know how" is the helpless version of the question that lazy children use to get out of shit they don't want to do. "Is there a audience I should write for / template I should use" is the clarifyin
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https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/news/article/no-refractive... Seems like results may be mixed?
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> Know why you are creating your docs > Know who your target audience is > Know what their pain points are > Improve your docs over time I think the biggest problem I've seen with docs is that we tend to overload docs with

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