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by zamfi 6y ago
> I am curious how something like this would have been handled 50, 100, 200 years ago. The idea that the press should be politically neutral is a pretty new one -- historically there were highly partisan newspapers, alongside "impar
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by zamfi 6y ago
These are deep neural net papers, specifically in NLP. Explanation: why the model (the deep neural net, that is) is doing what it's doing. Attention: a particular technique used in certain deep net models, invented a few years ago, tha
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by zamfi 6y ago
> Investors seem to not like that idea Because too many businesses fail for the model to work without multi-billion-dollar home runs, I think? > but customers would love that idea Sounds like an opportunity. :) There are many domains
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by zamfi 6y ago
I think the parent poster is referring to https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232397v... (Can't find the HN discussion link at the moment, unfortunately -- it didn't point to that partic
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by zamfi 6y ago
Not only that, but a large fraction of the English-speaking northern hemisphere does not receive enough sunlight in winter months for the skin to produce Vitamin D.
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by zamfi 6y ago
Come on, friend — the very first accepted response there is: > I would say that generally, the burden of proof falls on whomever is making a claim, regardless of the positive or negative nature of that claim. If your intent was to convin
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by zamfi 6y ago
> I have actually met medical doctors who believed in homeopathy. My point isn't that they wouldn't exist if things were taught properly. What...is your point then?
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by zamfi 6y ago
Self-evident that the market can't provide enough jobs for everyone? The labor market in nearly every country -- certainly every wealthy one -- is highly regulated, so it's hard to know how one could even have experience with this
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by zamfi 6y ago
Sorry, did indeed get you confused with the parent poster! > It's a principle that the person who presents a positive case is the one who needs to come up with the evidence Great, a nice positive claim — where’s your evidence for it
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by zamfi 6y ago
How it’s phrased is irrelevant to who bears the burden of proof. You are the one making the claim, therefore the burden of proof is on you to back up your claim, no? This is true regardless of how extraordinary the claim is. I find your cla
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by zamfi 6y ago
> The fundamental problem is a lack of jobs, because there is no market mechanism by which the private sector will create sufficient jobs to hire everybody who wants work. This is an extraordinary claim, and requires extraordinary eviden
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by zamfi 6y ago
Not so: https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-apple-exec-native-windows-...
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by zamfi 6y ago
> I blame the education system This is a popular venue for blame, but perhaps you haven’t yet met the highly respected scientists claiming that masks don’t work against covid, that AIDS wasn’t real, or that vitamin C cures everything —-
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by zamfi 6y ago
:D
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by zamfi 6y ago
In much of Europe and east Asia, yes! Germany and Japan in particular were bombed basically to 0...
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by zamfi 6y ago
I share your frustration, but no one in this chain above rewrote history. Everyone agrees that the US response to covid was abjectly terrible. The response should have been to suddenly and dramatically develop a capacity for producing mas
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by zamfi 6y ago
> This feels transient to an extent no? At some point your building is tall enough and your unit as small as people are willing to accept. Yes, there is an endgame here -- and also, truth be told, construction costs per unit start to go
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by zamfi 6y ago
> 1. Americans view property as an investment while also wanting it to be affordable. These are mutually exclusive. If you want something to be a good investment you want it to become less affordable over time. This comes up a lot, but i
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by zamfi 6y ago
One suggestion: for your primary email address, use an alias (college alumni account, personal dns, etc.) that forwards to your provider of choice (gmail, outlook, whoever) so that when this kind of thing happens you can just update your fo
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by zamfi 6y ago
Am I missing something here too? Redmond seems to have only inter-city busses.
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by zamfi 6y ago
Am I missing something? Iowa City seems to have only busses, and they run hourly. Perhaps I'm wrong? If I'm not wrong, then we have vastly different definitions of "great public transit" -- I would not be happy there wit
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by zamfi 6y ago
I'm not the original poster, but I was shocked by how many of the otherwise super smart friends I had in college were taught common falsehoods in high school. For example: the idea that your veins look blue through your skin because th
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by zamfi 6y ago
Could you give a few examples of small rural towns where people can afford cars but instead the town has great public transit? Genuinely curious!
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by zamfi 6y ago
Yay, a pedantic-off! You're right that a hidden door has no affordance, according to Norman (though others have claimed "hidden" affordances). However, I'm referring to the author's statements like these: > There
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by zamfi 6y ago
Not to get all Don Norman on the author here, but he really means “signifier” almost everywhere he uses “affordance” — he’s talking about the visibility of these sliders’ use, not what they actually allow (or, “afford”).
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by zamfi 6y ago
This is not less illegal, it turns out.
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by zamfi 6y ago
Perhaps stupid question, but did you wear sunblock?
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by zamfi 6y ago
> you have to substract a 10db echo to recover a 1db voice You would think so, but subtracting the (speaker-generated, i.e., known-signal!) sound from 1cm away is trivial. The hard part is subtracting the echoes off your walls, laptop, d
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by zamfi 6y ago
> But the argument that Boeing isn't responsible at the end of the day for software they outsource is... a really dumb argument. 100% agree.
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by zamfi 6y ago
I think the “apologists” on Reddit are trying to defend Boeing by shifting blame away from the company and to whoever they claim actually wrote the software.

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