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by zwaps 5y ago
Normally, incentive compatibility is a concept from game theory and, more significantly, mechanism design (most known for auction theory). In simple terms, it states that the mechanism that (say) Google offers to the consumer is such that t
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by zwaps 5y ago
Give me tenure and I'm on board.
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by zwaps 5y ago
Well either it uses only Bing for images, or it also censors. Because I sure wasn't able to find the picture on DDG. So either way, as a user of DDG from day one - it's dead to me.
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by zwaps 5y ago
Seems like both of you essentially apply the implicit function theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_function_theorem I always found that theorem very useful, not only for computing implicit derivatives, but a
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by zwaps 5y ago
DHL is German (now).
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by zwaps 5y ago
What you say is true, but I think the point was that the UK has consistently cherry picked rules and developments coming from the EU, while also benefiting from the EU integration. Germany and France differ somewhat in that the EU structura
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by zwaps 5y ago
I am not really disagreeing with you. However, with knives, not any product will even work decently. You need good enough steel to take and then hold an edge. So it can not be super cheap steel with big particles, as you will never manage t
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by zwaps 5y ago
It depends a bit on the definition of the roles, however this is basically what I am arguing against. I think you are right that there are organizational trade-offs, especially in day-to-day operations. However, I would claim that if DE and
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by zwaps 5y ago
One of the points Andrew Ng repeatedly makes, especially recently, is that we do not focus a lot on the data. ML is a field of models, not data. That's fine, it's an academic discipline. However, a data scientist should probably f
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by zwaps 5y ago
First, why would you want empathy to disappear? Second, how do you know who this person was long ago? Perhaps you are misjudging someone, and for what? Third, someone who is not attracted to you deserves to suffer? What a disconcerting worl
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by zwaps 5y ago
Same here for hard mode. Still interesting!
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by zwaps 5y ago
Not quite true. If facebook were to remain usable by EU citizens, it falls under EI jurisdiction. This, too, is part of GDPR and the reason why some US websites simply block EU IP addresses. Of course, they could defy that order as well an
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by zwaps 5y ago
Oh just on case you are unsure what will happen with all this, it’s the following: In the near future, they will start sharing all that juicy data with facebook based on some made up precedent, new technical justification, some claim to pse
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by zwaps 5y ago
I quote from their website ——— Today, WhatsApp does not share your personal information with Facebook to improve your Facebook product experiences or provide you more relevant Facebook ad experiences on Facebook. This is a result of discuss
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by zwaps 5y ago
The privacy policy mildly states that they do not share personal data with facebook for ads right now. But it also says they might do so at any time, at the latest when the EU okays it. So yeah, at the very least it is too vague to be a pro
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by zwaps 5y ago
It is, but not yet in the EU. It literally says : we will share everything with Facebook as soon as the EU allows. Right now we do not. But we might. I mean it’s written there.
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by zwaps 5y ago
Yes, I buy everything above 50 euros straight from the manufacturer. Nowadays, most companies sell directly to consumers, shipping is fast enough and you generally get a genuine, updated and properly stored item. I usually make the followin
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by zwaps 5y ago
All my friends are on whatsapp. Even when some switched to Signal, others simply declined ("I don't need another chat app"). It's a pandemic. I haven't seen my friends in a year. I want to have the option to talk to
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by zwaps 5y ago
The problem with Iphone is in addition that Apple only allows their own browser to exist. I mean yes, you can get another browser, but it is just a skin of safari. You can't switch to another engine. So in this case, less than ideal.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Data from Israel suggests that the vaccine reduces transmissivity by 70 or so per cent. I do not have the link handy, but there is definitely a coupling. It's not 100%, but it seems to be more than we hoped for. At least for covid, the
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by zwaps 6y ago
I get your point, but as someone doing data science and having no idea about JavaScript, this is actually precisely what I need. Like, all the stuff "for my data science", such as making a visualization website etc.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Texture, smell, taste? Why not? This function is a here is a rough function, this function there is smooth. This function yonder is damp, that one is dry. Careful, you are dealing with a sour function! Wait, let me open up my blog
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by zwaps 6y ago
I think another reason this did not happen is that the clubs who participated were not distributed well throughout Europe. This also goes in terms of audience. The ESL claims to be a league of the best, but the ranking it actually conforms
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by zwaps 6y ago
Given the fact that teams like Bayern Munich, who also win the champions league regularly, have zero debt, I am less sympathetic to teams like Real Madrid, Barca or Juventus. It's simply mismanagement. You do not need to buy every prom
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by zwaps 6y ago
On this proposal, incomes of the clubs in the ESL would not have depended on winning. The bonus of winning the league would have been minuscule compared to the profits from merely participating (and this goes only for the founding members).
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by zwaps 6y ago
This must be illegal in many places in Europe, though.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Facebook doesn’t care about GDPR or laws for that matter. It’s still profitable to do this and get slapped with some minor fine and some insincere apology. We have seen it now dozens of times.
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by zwaps 6y ago
The most convincing description of utility is as a representation of ranked choices or preferences. Perhaps it’ll be an interesting exercise to think about two experiments, one asking for valuations of things, and one asking whether one thi
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by zwaps 6y ago
Could you give an example of thoughts, approaches or papers from system dynamics that you consider most significant? Perhaps it is more of a macro thing?
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by zwaps 6y ago
Well it’s hard to say, really. The statement he leads his paper with is clearly wrong if read literally. Others follow that are simply not fully correct or intellectually honest. The overall history includes the works of scholars who have s

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