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by zwaps 6y ago
Things could be so simple if politicians had made the law more concrete or if it would be enforced. Because some websites do comply and have a reject all button on the first pop up. I know this us the law, but it should be... you know lite
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by zwaps 6y ago
There is no real reason why not. We frequently do this. Sure, you have to find someone who can read and understand the material and knows what good academic writing looks like, but professional copywriters are usually up to the task. Howeve
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by zwaps 6y ago
I mean, hardly anyone disagrees with the need for clarity. However, when it comes to academic writing, I feel the author doesn't quite capture the complex (heh) reality. First, all academics who get at least some sort of coaching in wr
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by zwaps 6y ago
The models are incomplete. This is the same reason as to why Econophysics, despite all its promise and grandeur, has yet to yield any useful results. Interdependent human beings are a lot more complex entities than particles or flows.
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by zwaps 6y ago
This is also known as the Lucas critique, dating from 1976 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by zwaps 6y ago
Is this written by an AI? I have a really hard time understanding the author.
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by zwaps 6y ago
I mean I'm sorry but since you posted the graphs: For a country that is less than half the population, having essentially the same number of daily cases today is perhaps not such a good thing. According to worldometer, Poland has twice
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by zwaps 6y ago
I generally think more can be done. But your post is simplifying much. Every way into German is literally all of it, except small parts in the North which are sea. Germany is all land border, essentially. Too much to control with any army.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Germany is probably the least comparable country here. It's smack dab in the center of Europe, has a population density of an entirely different magnitude, and is - most importantly - surrounded by some countries that do not take Covid
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by zwaps 6y ago
But it this the TOS you are signing here? No it is not. Does it say there is some sort of opt in to a business conversation, not only now but in the future? No. So, you are giving Facebook the right to sell your private conversations to thi
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by zwaps 6y ago
Here is one from originally 2016 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3033144 Apparently - I did a quick search - conversion rate at facebook is said to be on average up to 9% (in marketing materials) or
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by zwaps 6y ago
Even three years ago, I have seen academic work (presentations) on Facebooks effectiveness of advertising - based on facebooks own data - and the conclusion was pretty dire. The only reason (yes I asked) Facebook continued to allow these st
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by zwaps 6y ago
I absolutely take your points and share your sense that this is unfortunate both for him and, likely, for the industry as a whole. I did not want to imply that he or his contributions are in fact unimportant. Rather, the way he approaches c
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by zwaps 6y ago
That seems reasonable to me. Other figures in the game industry retain their relevance and are known to me, a contemporary. Crawford, instead, is not. His writings are difficult from my perspective. He claims to be a genius in quite a few a
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by zwaps 6y ago
Comparing oneself with Neo Einstein to start with led me to write a rather scathing reply here. A moment of reflection led me to delete it. I think I genuinely lack context. I do not know the author, nor any of his games. I know that in the
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by zwaps 6y ago
There is no non theoretical way to measure demand and supply separately from market data. All prices, for example, already include not only costs, but expectations of demand. You need data that includes so called demand shifters or demand m
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by zwaps 6y ago
There are however many ML systems that do not work, and many more that do not work as intended. Have you seen how many people have been kicked out of insert big corp by some AI decision? That's a problem that comes back to what is we
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by zwaps 6y ago
My worry about AI isn't Skynet and Terminators. It's that Data Scientists don't realize most of their models still simply fit a conditional expectation - and given all their power, it's going to be us, not Amazon or Goog
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by zwaps 6y ago
You go to your local GDPR / privacy office and possibly hire a lawyer I would say. Small claims court seems to be a US thing so that doesn't apply in most areas where GDPR is available anyway. I doubt amazon would just ignore a la
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by zwaps 6y ago
I have had a touch screen phone for.. decades now? I still never managed to learned how to use the keyboard correctly. I guess I have sausage fingers. I was fine with a blackberry / palm and physical buttons. With any (small) touchscre
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by zwaps 6y ago
B12 and vegan supply of omega 3 fat is still a concern, especially for children and infants. For example, if you use plant sources for your fat supply of DHA, you'd have to ingest enough ALA to make most people sick. So supplements are
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by zwaps 6y ago
The variable explorer is much better than the one PyCharm has, for example. Of course, Pycharm has many other tools and a much better interface (Spyders scaling is grgrgrgrgr). But for scientific data work? Spyder is great!
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by zwaps 6y ago
Many people have said this, but it really does reflect the book material. The upside is that we can expect the last season to pick up again.
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by zwaps 6y ago
This does reflect the books. If they manage to continue, it'll... change in tone. Personally, I feel the material for season 4 and 5 was indeed among the weakest in the books. I hope that you will continue to watch, so we get to see ho
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by zwaps 6y ago
If the op is reading: In the description of a short attack, it says in the picture that the demand curve is "infinitely elastic, it moves all the time". This is not what elasticity means here. In fact, the demand shown in the pict
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by zwaps 6y ago
It's not really a contracting issue. It's also not a legal one, because legal enforcement of anything is completely irrelevant for the time scales that matter. The EU is in a position where none of these things can be fixed now. T
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by zwaps 6y ago
The UK is a small country. Their "Britain first" clause, in absolute terms, has little impact. If the EU had done the same with the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine, then the only countries with any vaccination success would have been
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by zwaps 6y ago
Op meant having the same clause for the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine, which was developed and is mostly produced in the EU. If the EU had done that, things would look quite different today. Even for the UK. We can all be glad that the EU wa
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by zwaps 6y ago
Again, why shouldn't the EU have done the same with the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine, developed and funded in the EU? I'll give my answer: Because it would have been a catastrophe for many countries that depend on these vaccines -
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by zwaps 6y ago
The work of James G. March is also very interesting in this regard. In particular, he wrestled with our description of rational decision-making. Instead of seeing bounds to rationality as some defect to be worked&modeled around, his con

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