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by zwaps 6y ago
It's amazing how we were worried whether big modern companies would show any real resistance towards states engaging in cultural suppression, racism, censorship and genocide. In fact, they jump at the opportunity to help with it!
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by zwaps 6y ago
It actually depends on the elasticity of demand and the (marginal) cost curves how the surplus is distributed. What is true is that in a perfectly competitive market, there is no deadweight loss. The blog post, however, is wrong.
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by zwaps 6y ago
A system where women are forced or pressured to marry undesirable men benefits welfare in general? Otherwise, we need to deal with the very real suffering of lonely people.
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by zwaps 6y ago
I concede that this is a problem, but one that is not limited to companionship AIs and one that, if it is to be solved, will have to be solved in a larger setting that includes the other areas where it is pertinent
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by zwaps 6y ago
But what is the solution? I deeply reject the incel rhethoric (not by you but generally) that society must somehow nudge or influence the choices of women such that unattractive men also can find partnership, a demand that is most often pre
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by zwaps 6y ago
It's not about compassion and companionship in a broader sense of society. It's about romantic partnership. And the harsh reality is that some people will be alone. Especially in China, I think it is really fair to say that for ec
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by zwaps 6y ago
German language summary here: https://www.scinexx.de/news/medizin/corona-mikrothrombosen-a...
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High proportion of children with SARS-CoV-2 may have thrombotic microangiopathy(ashpublications.org)
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by zwaps 6y ago
For what it is worth, I have the Sennheiser Momentum Bluetooth headset. I am an audio weirdo who used a lot of professional headphones over the years, and I like the Sennheiser sound. Too often have I been disappointed by "premium bran
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by zwaps 6y ago
On the other hand, imprisoning refugees on an island strikes me as less hobbitlike https://time.com/5504331/denmark-migrants-lindholm-island/
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by zwaps 6y ago
Any sort of statistical or econometric estimator is typically published as an R package. So for example, I recently saw a paper with a quite complex estimator based on dynamic panels and network (or spacial) interdependence that could ident
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by zwaps 6y ago
I use Python whenever I can, but R has loads and loads of statistical libraries that Pyrhon doesn’t. It is not even close.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Very cool, however now I found out I am apparently someone who looks unusual compared to the average person. In particular, I have naturally blond (very blond) hair, blue-green eyes, but a black beard. This seems to confuse the AI. None of
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by zwaps 6y ago
It's worth reiterating that leadership and management are (at least in academic circles concerned with such things) rather distinct concepts. Management concerns the organization of people, tasks, information, incentives and all such t
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by zwaps 6y ago
As a user forced to use many apps and websites with a terrible user experience, I conclude that you can certainly have well-communicated loading times without me hating the product. However, I will always avoid - if I can - using a product
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by zwaps 6y ago
I think I am immune to the appeal of grindy computer games. I never gotten why people replay for achievements or stats, and I get bored by online games that focus on leveling. Even multiplayer based on competition and community are not real
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Game Theory on Networks(ingomarquart.github.io)
1 points by zwaps 6y ago|0 comments
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by zwaps 6y ago
It's ridiculous but I agree. Even if facebook blurs the data, we all know full well that it internally uses the full data and all faces or personal details it captures. Facebook has demonstrated time and time again that it is an organi
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by zwaps 6y ago
This is partly related to FPGA implementation instead of GPUs. Interestingly, GPUs (unoptimized 32bit implementation as per the authors) outperform FPGA's in this white paper for dense networks. Sparse networks were not tested on GPU.
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by zwaps 6y ago
As a student I owned the cheapest OKI laser printer. Once it broke so I called them. On the same day, they sent an actual engineer to my apartment to fix it. Maybe they thought I was a business or something. No, just a guy in a rented room.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Do I understand you correctly that you mean: "Learn automatically without further human input?" Because in statistics, causal inference is certainly possible without RCTs.
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by zwaps 6y ago
What you are describing seems to be essentially the process of science: Develop, step by step, the causal mechanisms at play until you solve the problem. It should not be underestimated that our collective knowledge of causal inference with
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by zwaps 6y ago
DAGs are not the only valid approach to causality, nor do they subsume other approaches (I have previously commented on this during the Gelman&Pearl debates). As you suggest, the treatment effect and econometrics literature currently is
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by zwaps 6y ago
The majority of the books listed in the first link in these comments are about whether and when we can determine causality given observational data - data where the system is perturbed, just not by us (and not as we would ideally like).
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by zwaps 6y ago
As a bit of an aside, it's interesting that the CS (Haskell, mainly) descriptions of a Monad are much more complicated than the math. Knowing a little bit of maths, but not much category theory, the wiki entry for Monads(Category Theor
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by zwaps 6y ago
I loved to develop websites in Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Man, those were good programs. This was during Macromedia times, though. I don't know how it changed with Adobe. Obviously, nowadays web development is more complex than just th
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by zwaps 6y ago
It’s literally against the law though.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Yes. The majority of tracking and ads businesses are illegal or doing illegal things, at least here in the EU. GDPR exists, and so do national privacy laws. While this example is especially vile, let us not forget that vileness is the modus
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by zwaps 6y ago
The NSA is not really a good standard to go by though.
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by zwaps 6y ago
What if I have kids but am a much better coder than you?

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