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by unishark 6y ago
I'd say there's just outright negativity bias in society nowadays when it comes to technology. Even if ads were the biggest use of AI today, a glass-half-full view would be that other markets will benefit from the AI development d
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The author wasn't really talking of academia on its own but rather how well academics transition to industry. It does seem the author's description fits recent phd's better than experienced academics for the two points you re
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You don't know. The point was even if you did get there it could still be an overfit model you don't want, since it's based on a training data set, not the true statistics of the distribution the samples come from.
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I'm not clear why you are blaming SGD. Maybe I missed the point. In principle SDG might well find the global optimal. The problem is this optimal is achieved only for training data. It could certainly perform worse on the test set. May
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As for the tradeoff between security and freedom with the guy in the third-world country, absolutely. This is key. To make this point you implicitly agree that the ultimate metric is freedom, however. Crime is just a proxy variables that ma
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I haven't posed a definition, just questioned yours. For example, as for healthcare not being the only "want", that is indeed my point. Yes one might twist a definition to make freedom about the ability to freely spend the we
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Mine was a meta-zinger, apparently. Though I have no idea what you are trying to say with that multi-fragment quote So if I read between the lines it seems your ideal is some kind of "freedom from want" ...but only when it comes t
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> Not OP, but I would guess the simplest formula is to total up (Heath care - gun violence). i.e. the more likely you are to have health care for whatever happens to you, and the less likely you are to get shot, the better. What in the w
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That sounds like a legal thing. I'd guess some countries will require payroll tax withholding, company registration, etc for longer stays, also possibly depending on whether google has offices there, if you are a dual citizen, or whate
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Or, rather than hinging your relationship on the current extraordinary pandemic situation, just leave it unresolved and avoid working from home as much as possible. Presumably it will get easy to avoid again.
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I've been to Japan and it's a wonderful place with many benefits. Very low crime, polite people, etc. The language is the only real problem. The US, though, is vastly more heterogeneous . There are aspects that are far worse and
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The incentives for market-based research aren't wrong, but they do have a limit. Investors aren't going to spend ten billion dollars on research to find a cure they expect to make only one billion dollars profit from. They aren&#x
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Well their moat was a government bailout. A decade or so ago they were losing billions, meaning thousands per car, given that they sell a few million cars.
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One glaring issue I see, is the 12 years part. And I don't mean in the simple banging-head-against-wall versus know-when-to-quit sense. Even if the sunk cost was zero, once decades start passing, even the slowest and most bureaucrati
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Yes I didn't get this either. My guess is he meant software contracting or something related, making software to order rather than making their own products. And presumably he could've switched to a SaaS business model without lea
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I used to joke that I make more money selling cars than GM does. Also consider all the secondary effects as hopeless companies pay for B2B services from other companies in the chain. I think the value of ads and tracking is vastly inflated
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Indeed the precise wording itself is basically boilerplate that one sees all the time with startups. Though such language and sections aren't solely about cynical "legal CYA", but valuable warnings to investors. I would not w
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Slaves were called thralls in Scandinavia.
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I suspect arguments like this are even less comfort to people who have rented apartments their entire lives and aren't sitting on a million dollars of property.
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To avoid taxes they need to relinquish ownership of the land. At which point, how does them having lots of stuff and good times on their island affect the rest of us?
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Apparently has been missing throughout the court cases for the last year. It was a default judgement. Kind of annoying trying to dig up that info the internet; there's a million websites out there all in line to clog up search engines
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You assume the labor supply always growing. Eventually world population is supposed to peak and start shrinking. Then accepting more immigrants won't be an option anymore. What happens when most of a population are elderly and unable t
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You could replace multiple minimally-skilled workers with one skilled engineer monitoring multiple robots. This is how manufacturing is going. Robots don't need to be completely autonomous.
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I think the problem was the "unintentional" part, which seems to be contradictory.
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Was it smoking or second-hand smoke he was disputing? These are two very different issues.
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I don't know that they were advocating it so much as pointing out the parent poster's agenda runs into this very problem you refer to.
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Are you talking about the introduction of backdoors or just exploiting vulnerabilities that are there? Because the latter sounds analogous to the creation of a tank bomb which might theoretically used against your tanks also. The parent po
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They aren't accusations just match scores. The scores are pretty meaningless unless there's a really good match. Obviously one shouldn't use that alone to determine guilt. Charges are decided by professors and committees, not
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It was a long and meandering article that seemed to be fishing around for every possibly related controversy it could find (and it worked, look at all the people talking about the article). But Google's blog post weren't just abou
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But one of the main reasons a floor on price is desired is to allow farmers to survive financially and therefore keep the country in control of its own food production.

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