yummyfajitas

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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
You're wildly mischaracterizing what I said. I didn't suggest "people can't handle my truth". I suggested the article we are discussing says there are certain truths that ML systems should not learn. The article exp
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
The example the parent poster described is "doctors are 66% male", which could very well be true.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
The parent's point is that they may not be absorbing stereotypes from humans at all. They may be generating accurate beliefs about the world from text representations of the world.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
See Fig 1 and 2.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
The paper has them: - An AI correctly infers (simply by reading text) that a physicist is male and a nurse is female. - An AI correctly infers the gender of humans with androgyonous names. - An AI infers insects are unpleasant and flowers a
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
The usual definition of bias in ML papers is E[theta_estimator - theta]. That is explicitly a systematically wrong prediction. In any case, the paper suggests that this "bias" or "prejudice" is better described as "
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Do you have any evidence that this effect results in machines making systematically wrong inferences? Near as I can tell, your paper shows that these "biases" result in significantly more accurate predictions. For example, Fig 1 s
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Similarly, flat earthism is an orthodox theory since it was orthodox at one point and is not completely dead.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
I agree that in some historical time, some of Murray's views might be considered orthodox. That doesn't make them orthodox today - nowadays he's subversive.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Charles Murray wasn't discussing human biodiversity at all. His talk was on an entirely different topic. No one argued against him at all. They merely disrupted his talk and then assaulted him and others. The Nazi in question did not e
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
This article is a little odd. It describes conservatives as being worried that professors are "subversive", but it's exactly the opposite - conservatives worry that colleges are enforcing and indoctrinating people in the orth
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Perhaps you'd prefer to be regulated by the whims of a corporation & their pursuit of profit extraction rather than the democratic legitimacy of government, but thankfully, most of us would not. On the contrary, most of us would
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Of course there's a difference. In a taxi you can rip off a firangi or fail to pick up a black passenger at your leisure. With Uber, this will cause your ratings to drop below 4.3, or your acceptance rate/cancellation rate to drop
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
That's a lot of nice sounding platitudes, but it doesn't really tell me anything concrete beyond "TeMPOraL dislikes Uber".
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
How are they a worse taxi mafia? They provide more convenient service with fewer ripoffs and far less racism at lower prices. As a consumer, what exactly should I be angry about?
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
The comment two levels above said that Uber reduces my daily dose of racism to levels far lower than "daily". The comment one level up says that the study your clickbait article cites supports this point.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Yes, a small amount of racism that I don't even notice is far more acceptable than a large amount which inconveniences me daily. Racism isn't like homeopathy, where any quantity at all has the same effect. More is worse, less is b
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Read the study cured by the Atlantic. Uber is vastly less racist than traditional taxis.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Read the actual study cited by that clickbait article. Racism at Uber is vastly smaller than racism via traditional taxis.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
No, they didn't play us. They did exactly what they promised. Thanks to Uber, I don't get racially discriminated against on a daily basis. Before Uber I did. Some folks may hate them because of Susan Fowler, but that doesn'
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Similarly, I feel that a car shouldn't drive too fast. If it does drive too fast then a human running after it might be unable to catch up!
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Apart from the boilerplate enclosing class (4 lines, vs 2 in C), you can write a C-style program without classes in Java. There is literally nothing stopping you and generics are helping you significantly for this.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
It could be. In that case, was Rosa Parks also immoral? If not, why not?
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Could you illustrate what you mean by "bloated syntax"? Everything else you mention (besides native executables) Java also has. From what I can see, Java provides far better concurrency support - more paradigms than simply go rout
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
There is no requirement to use an ide in Java. I've never written Java in anything other than emacs and never had a problem.
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
So if a restaurant served people of both races but gave them all a bill, you'd be similarly opposed? Or if blacks broke the law to draw attention to discrimination in employment or occupational licensing? After all, someone (a corporat
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
If you really want good static typing while being fairly python like, there are other great options. Java or c++ both have decent generics, speed comparable to go, great libraries and years of collective experience using them. I truly hate
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
Medicine is always wonderful if you are a petro-monarchy prince. I'm just a regular guy. Anecdotally, I've been told that a lot of middle Eastern medicine is corrupt and low quality. I ran into a lot of gulf state medical tourists
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
I've only spent about 6 hours in Germany, so I can't speak about Germany. But in many places - the US and UK, for example - it's often quite difficult to get medical work done simply by paying money. For example, in the US ma
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by yummyfajitas 9y ago
If you want to argue that taxi protectionist laws are just, make that argument. "It's the law and you can leave" is, unfortunately, not that argument. Morality is not black and white and two things you consider 'unjust&

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