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by tw000001 6y ago
>These days the ACLU is incredibly politically biased I was going to post the same in anticipation of the partisan downvotes that you're receiving. Without going into specifics, this sums it up nicely: >It’s not that the left sho
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by tw000001 6y ago
>Fast Company [2] writes about this as well: "The ACLU in both tests used an 80% match confidence threshold, which is Amazon’s default setting, but Amazon says it encourages law enforcement to use a 99% threshold for spotting a matc
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by tw000001 6y ago
Has anyone actually found any evidence of damage in the field? I did a cursory search but didn't find anything, though the wiki looks pretty corporatized (sanitized). OTOH people do like to claim damage from police more often than ho
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by tw000001 6y ago
>Actually you can prove it and it has been proven. Genetics have a minor say in who a person is, and racial factor is equivalent to statistical error That's not true and you won't be able to produce a rigorous source, and it&#x
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by tw000001 6y ago
The first 12 years of your life are spent in the care of (ideally) parents who love you unconditionally and genuinely want you to succeed. Under psychedelic therapy, you are at the mercy of your therapist. I'm not necessarily saying th
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by tw000001 6y ago
>This is because leaders on the left and right have refused to respond to new data, and are working with the same plans set in March. As the article somewhat loosely implies, the problem is that all new data becomes suspect when all of o
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by tw000001 6y ago
Yes, and most of them know next to nothing about the drugs they take beyond what their doctors have told them. I've watched this blind faith harm people dear to me on multiple occasions. These are the same institutions that failed acro
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by tw000001 6y ago
I don't think these drugs should be scheduled but here's a perspective that you're less likely to find online: I would never put myself in a position to be indoctrinated by the modern ideologically slanted American psychologi
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by tw000001 6y ago
>>However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission This post is pretty double speaky because these doctors can't quite come out and say stay home because the virus is stil
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by tw000001 6y ago
I won't deny that there are corruption and accountability problems among US police forces, but I also can't help but feel like many people, especially now, don't appreciate the fact that American police deal with people who a
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by tw000001 6y ago
> conflation of humanities and social sciences. You've missed the entire point. A sort of conflation is the problem - not by the author, but by people in and around soft sciences and humanities throwing a bit of statistical jazz
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by tw000001 6y ago
I haven't had a FB account in about 10 years. I can't stop them from harvesting anyone else's data. Or controlling what they see.
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by tw000001 6y ago
FAANG are different a kind of monopoly - an unprecedented one for which no legislation exists. They have a monopoly on data , as brokers they control not only what companies may purchase for commercial services, but through curation of sea
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by tw000001 6y ago
Dehumanizing someone for holding right of center views and then using that unilateral label as justification for targeting them is nothing like domestic violence. People have started throwing around the labels "racist", "whit
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by tw000001 6y ago
>For this study, which was done online, participants had to decide how much of a 10-point endowment to give to other people. The points had monetary value to the participants; giving cost them something. Totally contrived study which com
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by tw000001 6y ago
That's most likely a training data issue. The whole thing works on statistical priors: if I have feature a at location x, there's a 90% I should have feature b at location y. So if the majority of pictures of beards in my dataset
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by tw000001 6y ago
>The president has made it clear that despite voting by mail himself multiple times, he does not support wide expansion of the practice. If we take off our hate-goggles here, this really isn't the gotchya that journalists want you t
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by tw000001 6y ago
>bizarre because it's so stupid. Normally, police don't beat journalists because they're conscious that if you force the media to side with the protesters, it's pretty much all downhill from thereon in. Once the media
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by tw000001 6y ago
> https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1241367239... "...have a real chance of if being a game changer" There is absolutely nothing incorrect about this post. And what's worse, while
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by tw000001 6y ago
Which papers? There are thousands of papers being published. There are a couple potential reasons. Powerful GPUs accelerate research and iteration. Some state of the art problems have hit the limits of current theory and make up the deficit
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by tw000001 6y ago
Trump's behavior does not justify the media attempting to tell me what to think by misrepresenting nearly everything with deliberate spin. This isn't about white knighting, this is about holding the media accountable for it's
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by tw000001 6y ago
>more likely because it’s out of patent there’s a lot of money interested in exploring other things as a treatment HCQ was not even remotely controversial until Trump tweeted about it. Our institutions have lost their collective minds wi
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by tw000001 6y ago
>You only need one or 2-3 competiting Neuronal Networks for cancer detection and if you look how expensive it is to train that stuff, not many can actually do it anyway. This is just wrong. You can train a cancer discriminator on a low e
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by tw000001 6y ago
>. AI has been heavily hyped, but is having a lot of real world failures and is becoming associated with a bunch of fraud AI, specifically deep learning is far more than self driving cars. The industry is in its infancy and we are buil
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by tw000001 6y ago
I can't help but notice these patterns all over society and especially in tech. FAANG, Uber, Microsoft, TV, internet, dark patterns everywhere.
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by tw000001 6y ago
There are literal videos of cops kneeling with protestors in shows of solidarity. Peacefully talking. In LA they're sitting right now. I cannot believe how far people will go seeing what they want to see.
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by tw000001 6y ago
I've been monitoring some 20 streams for 3 days straight and in almost every case the protests begin with hours of protestors within inches of police' faces screaming, belittling and dehumanizing the cops, with frequent disparagin
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by tw000001 6y ago
Given IO errors and degradation of storage media, how long can one realistically preserve digital data? Is it possible with multiple disks and an extant error correction algorithm to prevent data corruption indefinitely, assuming some maxim
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by tw000001 6y ago
>Also very different in that most of 4chan is right-wing or far-right nowadays, largely due to /pol/. Most of the site's posters are supportive of the police in this instance, and sees the response and civil unrest as &quo
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by tw000001 6y ago
When you're an activist, everyone else looks like an activist too. This is one of the problems with journalists who take sides: activist journalists see everything as a struggle and are incapable of even recognizing trolling.

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