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by trendia 8y ago
I'm talking about whatever shows up when I go to reddit.com without an account (which is all of the time)
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by trendia 8y ago
> albeit often a wretched hive of scum and villainy depending on subreddit… I'm more concerned about the opposite effect -- that the default subreddits have become pointless and boring, focusing mostly on "funny" images an
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by trendia 8y ago
With the recent replication crisis in psychology, I would want to see this repeated to see whether it holds up to scrutiny. It just seems "too good to be true", and with a sample size of 29, it could be.
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by trendia 8y ago
Cambridge Analytica did far more with far less.
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by trendia 8y ago
I wonder if they use this data to price insurance -- they would easily know when their drivers are going over the speed limit (or, if such data is not so precise, if their average speed over 10 minutes exceeded the speed limit).
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by trendia 8y ago
* Who makes a fan site and puts at the top "#WatchTheExpanse | WATCH LIVE ON SYFY WEDNESDAYS 9/8c" * Who orders a plane to fly the text # Save the Expanse ? That's at least $400 / hr * Who creates a "fan"
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by trendia 8y ago
This looks like astroturfing.
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by trendia 8y ago
It's in Google play services, which is "separate" from Android, but good luck installing your favorite Android apps without it.
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by trendia 8y ago
How is this related to GDPR or the adtech bubble?
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by trendia 8y ago
One could also say that if someone puts a video of you having sex without consent, then companies like Gawker will ignore you unless you're a billionaire. They published a video of a young lady having sex in a bar bathroom, and despite
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by trendia 8y ago
Is there any way to create a playlist of videos and then resume playback at the same point? For instance, I have about 20 C++ videos I'd like to watch, and each is an hour long. I rarely have a whole hour, but maybe 20 minutes. I hav
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by trendia 8y ago
I'm not even sure that Amazon really benefits from this. I have become super wary to buy things from Amazon even with good reviews, because I am suspicious the reviews are fake.
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by trendia 8y ago
Luckily, their CEO has learned the power of public relations trick to use so many words to say so little: > There is always that change aversion. We believe everybody has a home on Reddit. The challenge is finding that home, particularly
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by trendia 8y ago
Sure, they might be found out when they fail their oral quals, but it would be much easier for everyone if there were a much faster way to find them out, such as a low grade from a school that strictly enforces anti-cheating policies.
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by trendia 8y ago
I disagree. Homework and exams have two purposes: 1. Help the student learn (by applying theory in homework and encouraging internalization for exams), and 2. Verifying that students have learned the material Cheating destroys both of those
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by trendia 8y ago
Google does this to a degree. They sometimes give the same project/goal to multiple groups and pick the winning one. Unfortunately, in the long run this decreases morale because you don't know if the project you are working on wil
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by trendia 8y ago
Maybe the examiner didn't feel like fighting Amazon during the prosecution process so they decided to let some future courts handle it.
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by trendia 8y ago
Once the data has been given to a third party, we can no longer be guaranteed that the third party will delete it. That was one of the main problems with Cambridge Analytica -- they claimed to have deleted data but may not have actually don
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by trendia 9y ago
One day the AI will escape and he won't be able to stop it that time.
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by trendia 9y ago
FAANG is Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet’s Google.
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by trendia 9y ago
Have you tried "Algorithmic Sleep Solution" [0]? This type of intentional sleep restriction worked for me. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15997016
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by trendia 9y ago
According to the linked article, social credit can be moved up or down for many reasons: "examples infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games and posting fake news online." That mean
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by trendia 9y ago
The term "diversity" is being used in very different ways. The article you posted drfines it based on skill and knowledge: > By diversity, we mean differences in how agents build problem representations which allow them to acce
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by trendia 9y ago
So, essentially the transreal numbers treat NaN as a "value"? "The main difference between transreal arithmetic and IEEE floating-point arithmetic is thus that nullity compares equal to nullity, whereas NaN does not compare e
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by trendia 9y ago
A few benefits: 1. For DSP / image processing, 64-bit SIMD allows you to operate on twice as many elements as 32-bit SIMD 2. For normal computing, you get 31 64-bit registers instead of 15 32-bit registers (essentially 4x register memo
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by trendia 9y ago
And NAC to prevent oxidative damage. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2808688/
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by trendia 9y ago
The same is true for lawnmowers, leafblowers, and snowblowers.
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by trendia 9y ago
Two different cars with the same mpg can have wildly different emissions. A fuel tax wouldn't discourage higher emissions, only lower mpg!
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by trendia 9y ago
"I will be resigning effective two weeks from now. Let me know what I can do in the meantime totrain my replacement or otherwise smooth the transition." Done.
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by trendia 9y ago
I can think of an example, though even this is somewhat of astretch: Suppose person A takes 40 hours to write C code to manipulate a large data set. Person B puts the data in a database and is able to write commands, which only take 10 minu

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