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by woodman 10y ago
You seem to be aware, at least on a subconscious level, of the larger point - as you've demonstrated by including additional evidence. The larger point being that the absence of phone records can, at best, disconfirm. There are far t
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by woodman 10y ago
The logic isn't even close: Odometers increment on driven cars. The odometer did not increment. The car was driven. Unsatisfied. People having sex are together. People who are together don't text each other. During a certain
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by woodman 10y ago
Demonstrate prior art? There are a lot of ways to do that without releasing production code.
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by woodman 10y ago
No problem. HN actively discourages this sort of discussion, for a lot of good reasons, but I can't really help myself. Because I can't help myself I'll take your "differing assumptions" and say that I see it like
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by woodman 10y ago
btdigg has a better interface (more sort options, higher information to pixel/(number of clicks) ratio, exposes quality votes). engiy returns more results and the interface seems to be more entertainment media focused.
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by woodman 10y ago
> I think your characterization of liberal and conservative is inaccurate. That can go without saying - did you really think that I was trying to comprehensively describe such complexity in less than a dozen sentences? I think your chara
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by woodman 10y ago
> In this article, they seemed to be targeting one person. That is an interesting interpretation, because the same article left me with the impression that they recorded everybody within earshot of the bugs for 10 months.
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...if you want to support a political candidate... That is the false choice, also commonly found in the form "the lesser of two evils" or "the most electable". > That's the only way to torture this analogy i
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by woodman 10y ago
That is a fair point, but a simple rephrasing sidesteps that and still maintains the thrust of the argument: a justice that readily defers to 4A is more likely to be appointed by an unprincipled flip-flopper than a consistent strong state a
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by woodman 10y ago
I was pointing more to the fact that angle of incidence needs to be carefully figured into the placement of both the emitter and receiver - for every window. Better laser mics won't change laser physics or the logistical challenges.
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by woodman 10y ago
Conservatives have a pretty obvious hole in their logic, where they both want to legislate morality and reduce the state's ability to enforce such legislation. The modern liberal on the other hand is much more single minded in the exp
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by woodman 10y ago
> The only thing keeping laser microphones... The legality has nothing to do with it, as it has been demonstrated over and over that law enforcement will employ methods that can charitably be described as "legally questionable"
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by woodman 10y ago
Unless the crashes are caused by things cosmic rays, they're very likely influenced by the internal state of the aircraft and therefor not independent events. If that car showing up causes the world to reset - then you won't like
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by woodman 10y ago
Negative net migration is a thing. Texas has been at the top of domestic migration numbers for a while now, and the north east has been suffering negative figures. The north east would have to be pulling a lot of international migration i
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by woodman 10y ago
The problem could have been headed off if one of two things happened on the USMC end: consideration given to the fact that the Army doesn't use the M1 the way the Corps does, or if armor played a bigger part in combined arms exercises.
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by woodman 10y ago
Grunt phones were a thing long before GWOT, it isn't even a case of reinvention - an old timer noticed the missing phones and corrected the problem. I don't know if the capability was intentionally dropped and then reversed, but
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by woodman 10y ago
Making garage space more valuable. Not much further to go before the care and maintenance of a sedan chair becomes economically viable.
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...all the time when they shouldn't... Yup, so maybe some harm reduction (returning money) and negative reinforcement (hassle of returning) can help incentivize an improvement in the quality of parking enforcement service. Indivi
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by woodman 10y ago
> I'm honestly not convinced that's a reasonable expectation. It seems reasonable to me - not being allowed to keep money that isn't yours and that you shouldn't have taken (even by mistake), consider the incentives -
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by woodman 10y ago
A method for overcoming cognitive bias is a technology, in the same way that spoken language is a technology. See formal logic. But if we were somehow, as a species, constrained to doing one thing at a time on the tech tree - then yes, we
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by woodman 10y ago
> The United States of America have a sexual harassment policy. If you are talking about the EEOC, then you are only talking about sexual harassment in a workplace with 15 or more employees. Also, it is a concern for the company, not th
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by woodman 10y ago
I might be missing the obvious here, but why did she confide in you if she didn't want something done? Unless you two are drinking buddies and she was just unburdening herself, you have to assume that she is asking for your help - and
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by woodman 10y ago
Putting a lot of weight on the "like" part of that statement, I agree - but likely for very different reasons. I look forward to the continued trend of balkanization in political and moral thought, because the lauding of compromi
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by woodman 10y ago
Such scoring already occurs, the most obvious example I can think of is the security clearance process. It can be argued that such a filtering is necessary in order to keep those no good commies out, but consider the sort of self protectin
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...because of their use of insecure third party services... The OS is partially to blame for that. I've got all my external services separately jailed in FreeBSD, with firewalls tuned to each service. Unless they come packing a
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by woodman 10y ago
> Confidence is simply how much confidence you have that the predicted class is correct. If you mean correct among the number of output nodes, then we are talking about the same thing. If you mean correct among all the possibilities to
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by woodman 10y ago
It sounds like you are describing accuracy, whereas confidence is closer to a measure of precision. You can have class outputs with low confidence (relative to 1) but still have a highly accurate NN - so long as the correct output has a hi
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...decision and the confidence will be wildly wrong... Isn't "confidence" measuring the internal state of the net, the probability based on classes known to the net? In that case the answer can be wrong, but "confi
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by woodman 10y ago
The lie would have to be comprehensive enough to justify conducting interviews in the neighborhood and everything that leads up to it, so even with the best of intentions (stop laughing) - it is very easy to unintentionally fabricate a lot
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by woodman 10y ago
It is a "enemy of my friend is my enemy" sort of thing, the minimization of a shortcoming. OOP stumbles on text (because of object methods) in a way that no other programming paradigm does. So obviously that means that text is s

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