yakult

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by yakult 9y ago
1) Ubiquitous self-driving vehicles + facial recognition + cellphone gps tracking = plausibly deniable targetted killings on a massive scale. In 2030 when the AI watching you on all the security cams decide your behaviour pattern skew two s
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by yakult 9y ago
Do apps still have access to location history data? If so this is a nothingburger.
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by yakult 9y ago
Once you've added it, it's google's forever and you've only got their word that they've 'deleted' it. I bet it's still available with a warrant.
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by yakult 9y ago
Because sometimes there is, and when you know you can control or at least predict the process. Sometimes this makes you mad dosh.
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by yakult 9y ago
It is, of course, a joke. He's doing a reductio ad absurdem at the end of a tightly argued post about information theory. It's the advantage of doing a blog post rather than a paper, I suppose.
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by yakult 9y ago
So what's the right algorithm to use instead of md5 if I just want a fast checksum that's widely supported?
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by yakult 9y ago
Needs a way to get the ball back up again, at a different point depending on where it came out. That way you can do recursion.
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by yakult 9y ago
If DNN is just a crappy approximation of some kind of Bayesian inference, then where are the better approximations that beat it on all the metrics we care about? And if that magical thing does exist, why aren't people using it to beat
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by yakult 9y ago
This doesn't answer the question.
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by yakult 9y ago
>There are a lot of problems for which you effectively have limitless data. >For example, optimizing the shape of an aerofoil, wing, wind turbine, ship, pump, etc. The "real" data is the result of computationally costly flui
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by yakult 9y ago
“Often, science is messy and things don’t turn out neatly,” Dasgupta says. But in this study, “it was very gratifying how clean the results were.” This is an unfortunate choice of words in the age of p-hacking and publication bias.
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by yakult 9y ago
>all three government agencies dropped their investigations because they were unable to determine what the lyrics of the song were, even after listening to the records at speeds ranging from 15 rpm to 75 rpm.
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by yakult 9y ago
That works sort-of when the majority of the population is relatively well-off, though still inefficient. Not so well now with the immigration crisis and change in demographics. The choice to sacrifice wages for more time with your kids is
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by yakult 9y ago
When you stir, you're stirring in a pattern, probably a circular one. Plus you're probably not paying too much attention to the shape of the pile, so it's gradient-free. It's pattern search. Except it's only appr
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by yakult 9y ago
>Other than that, the sacrifice is minimal. This is the difference. If you were making, say, a quarter what you're currently making, perhaps the sacrifice would be huge.
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by yakult 9y ago
This is the crux: my point is that 1.5x the bacon is often still worth 2x the labour. Seriously, despite all the moaning about materialism and consumerism, the economy as a whole has suffered from a severe lack of bacon ever since the firs
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by yakult 9y ago
Economically productive as in 1. the economy is bigger and produces more goods. 2. much of those goods are distributed to the two-worker families. 3. a few bored minimum wage workers can look after a very large number of kids. The quality o
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by yakult 9y ago
>we're chasing the same things with more dollars. you're missing the part where more demand creates more supply. Sure, sometimes the market is distorted due to zoning, like in SF, and also land is finite, but generally speaking
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by yakult 9y ago
As with almost all optimization problems, applying twice the resources (in this case, work hours) won't bring you back twice the (net) bacon, due to diminishing returns. However, I think on net it is still more economically productive,
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by yakult 9y ago
See other discussion in this thread.
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by yakult 9y ago
>Groove also uses it to front-and-center feature artist information and album art of the currently playing song or some album you are looking at it. Front-and-center is not the way I would describe it. They're squashed to the left,
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by yakult 9y ago
This is a bad idea. Not only is it useless and take up a lot of space, it now moves as I interact with the page, further distracts me from the content that I'm interested in. Especially egregious on mobile if it pops back up again wh
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by yakult 9y ago
Many of the apps shown have a humongous banner element that does nothing and take up nearly a third of the screen space. This might be unintentional and not part of the design language, but the fact that it wasn't caught before press
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by yakult 9y ago
According to my GP, selection for doctors include psychiatric profiling designed to select for the most compassionate. While I can see why the hospitals would want this - compassionate doctors are good PR -this seems to be a case of misali
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by yakult 9y ago
when the extremely unlikely happens, always keep in mind that somebody may be fucking with you.
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by yakult 9y ago
The main problem about this is that the author is basing his arguments on a show. A show written by writers who might even read the same pop-psych. Then he goes to reason from this show, into real-life. It's arguing from fictional e
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by yakult 9y ago
>I think your comments are coming off as sassy hence the downvotes, but I don't mind. Eh. No biggie. >My argument is more that I believe large injections of money were the original cause of a lot of the problems we have, adding m
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by yakult 9y ago
Let's look at this from another perspective: do you see an improvement to any of these large complex problems if we remove money from it? Do you see ways to marginally improve things with marginally more money? Just so you know, my a
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by yakult 9y ago
No, a business investment visa is an invitation to come over and set up a minimum viable, likely-not-profitable 'business' for the duration it takes to satisfy requirements. The government gets peanuts out of it, the 'invest
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by yakult 9y ago
Do you seriously think those problems can't be fixed with money? Increasing housing supply costs money. Upgrading the education system costs money. UBI and other social services for people replaced by automation costs money. Invest

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