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571.
by zby 8y ago
I kind of agree - but still worry - because of two things. First technology changes the economy of spying. At some point quantity becomes quality. Second it can be now done with near perfect deniability.
572.
by zby 8y ago
Discovered not invented.
573.
by zby 8y ago
There is a speculation that that was the purpose of Turkey investigating this in such a way: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2018/10/18/the-secr...
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Stolen crypto stats(thenextweb.com)
2 points by zby 8y ago|0 comments
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by zby 8y ago
Well - that shows that it really was a mistake to promote these loans and build the whole higher education around them.
576.
by zby 8y ago
But there was a link posted in the comments to a great John Cleese talk.
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by zby 8y ago
That sounds like DeBono PO method: http://www.debonogroup.com/podisruption.php
578.
by zby 8y ago
I agree - it starts with criminals - because it is an obvious target, but once the capabilities are built then they are used in whatever way the government likes.
579.
by zby 8y ago
Interesting point - maybe they don't need home surveillance in these investigations that often? The case mentioned in the article as the first one was a white collar crime: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewst
580.
by zby 8y ago
I am surprised that it is only 300 times - but this is probably because these devices are now bought by wealthy people who don't commit too many crimes or felonies.
581.
by zby 8y ago
""" The Bayesian-frequentist argument, unlike most philosophical disputes, has immediate practical consequences. Consider that after a 7-year trial on human subjects, a research team announces that drug A has proved bet-
582.
by zby 8y ago
Wonderfull! If only he added dates of release. Some of them are maybe truly timeless - but still.
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by zby 8y ago
Yeah - it does not look impressive when we have read about the possible backdoors inside processors: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hi... But on the other hand maybe they were just testi
584.
by zby 8y ago
15 years ago I thought that we are soon going to use our communication tools in an informed manner - what needs synchronicity will be done on IMs, what is more conversational, but not synchronous, will stay email, things that are more conte
585.
by zby 8y ago
I have the feeling that it has something to do with the fact that being too cooperative makes live easy for the non cooperators. There must be many equilibria and some cultures stay at some middle level, they don't aim at the most prod
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by zby 8y ago
How much is 'that much'? The effect is probably small but what is more important it is not about a moved centre of (a Gaussian) distribution - but rather about a higher threshold usually used for women to pass. This is of course v
587.
by zby 8y ago
So there were a few incompetent males, no incompetent females - but you believe that it is just a statistical fluke. It might be - but it is still evidence for the bias, just very weak. I noted it because it seemed that you used it as an ar
588.
by zby 8y ago
So everyone you haver worked with have always been exceedingly competent and smart?
589.
by zby 8y ago
I don't know - is it? What is the difference between bias and inferring information from skewed data?
590.
by zby 8y ago
"The non-male engineers I've worked with have always been exceedingly competent, smart, and their differing perspectives invaluable" - that is really an (anecdotal) evidence that there is a bias indeed. If the recruiting was
591.
by zby 8y ago
"they could be unbiased while still amassing a data set that skewed heavily male" - this sounds like a self contradiction
592.
by zby 8y ago
Bullshit Jobs!
593.
by zby 8y ago
Maybe you are not a high value target?
594.
by zby 8y ago
As I understand it it is in a big part crowsourced. It is easy for an agency to hide their leaks in that crowsourced stream.
595.
by zby 8y ago
I don't play games - so maybe I have no idea - but why people try to compete solo with big companies?
596.
by zby 8y ago
Facebook was not an original idea either.
597.
by zby 8y ago
It would be interesting to extend this to refactoring in programming :)
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Tidying One’s Room(thezvi.wordpress.com)
61 points by zby 8y ago|16 comments
599.
by zby 8y ago
There is the filter bubble paradox - the stuff that we need to learn is what we have never encountered before, but the ML filters can only learn from our past opinions.
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by zby 8y ago
I was just thinking about using stats in startups. For sure you need to know your runway (and burn rate) - but then for SaaS (and similar business with recurring revenues) the first useful statistics is churn . Customers quiting is the

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