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by blackRust 9y ago
I liked the graphic poster drawn up by Business Insider: http://uk.businessinsider.com/cognitive-biases-that-affect-d... Here's the image directly to avoid potential paywall: https://static4.uk.businessinsid
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by blackRust 9y ago
There's a decent amount of work that's been done already in this area, see [1] and follow up work by the same authors for a good example. While the approach is "cool" there are still many unanswered questions of what exa
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by blackRust 10y ago
And the consensus in the Neuroscience community, from what I understand, is that this is two things (1) a great feat of engineering and (2) a great demonstration of the brain's ability to learn and adapt.
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by blackRust 10y ago
I think you vastly underestimate the creative problem solving skills that even "unskilled" humans are capable of, which is required to cut hair.
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by blackRust 10y ago
Having recently read "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" [1] by the brilliant primatologist Frans de Waal, the whole introductory paragraph reeks of the "humans only" dogma. Even the link to the Wikipedi
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by blackRust 10y ago
There does seem to be an RSS feed: http://distill.pub/rss.xml Although it is not advertised on the website (I did view-source to find it). Should you plug that in to IFTTT, Zapier, or something to that extent, you hopefully
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by blackRust 10y ago
> At places like Verdun [...] 150 shells hit every square meter of the battlefield
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by blackRust 10y ago
Scrive | Stockholm, Sweden | REMOTE GMT±3 | Full-time We have a stable backend written in Haskell, with a dash of Java for manipulating PDFs. The front-end is written in Javascript, mostly using React. We need someone with a strong Haskell
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by blackRust 10y ago
I use Simplenote [1] via Notational Velocity [2] on my Mac, and the Simplenote iOS app otherwise. [1] https://simplenote.com/ [2] http://notational.net/
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Marty the Robot: A customisable walking robot. For kids, makers, and educators(indiegogo.com)
9 points by blackRust 10y ago|0 comments
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by blackRust 11y ago
They don't stand still though. That's not a comparison.
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by blackRust 11y ago
1. The current algorithm might be an unpredictable twenty your old in uniform, but there is accountability for their actions: it is somebody's actions. Who is responsible for the illegal actions of AI? You start to have to untangle rac
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by blackRust 11y ago
This attack has been continuing for over 24h. It looks like a sustained co-ordinated attack. They are possibly monitoring JANET response team tweets to adjust their actions: https://twitter.com/jiscmi/status/673835
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by blackRust 11y ago
George Monbiot is a rare breed: a journalist with great integrity and transparency. As a case in point his "Registries of Interests" lists his annual fees, sources of income from one-off articles, gifts he was given, and just abou
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by blackRust 11y ago
Two things that are very wrong with this: 1. WhatsApp is dependant on cellular infrastructure which you count into your 10k engineers. 2. "Erlang was designed with the aim of improving the development of telephony applications."[1
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by blackRust 12y ago
I would be interested in learning about forms of unionisation via co-operative structures. The perception is that unions can "block" things, that is also their power. Co-operatives distribute ownership, and thus responsibility and
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by blackRust 12y ago
Disclaimer: I have only skim read the article, so this is for my laziness and the benefit of all Apart from the gameplay mechanism with code challenges, how is this better / different to HackerRank for a) "programmers" b) c
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by blackRust 12y ago
> I've realized that code challenges require no investment on the company's part, so I don't want to do one that requires significant investment on my part. Same. I'm happy to do one after we've talked about the
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by blackRust 12y ago
I imagine a purely text-based terminal set up running on a specially crafted host OS/VM that does the text-to-speech would be a fantastic solution. You can browse the web, email, twitter! I'm not sure how CLI browsers handle JS? I
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by blackRust 12y ago
> But if Big Data is watching my actions... Switch the order in which you book the flights. Since we assume separate bookings and sequential booking order this puts lower risk into your first purchase, and also Big Data then has all tran
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by blackRust 12y ago
After $event$, $bad_political_ideology$, who had been on the right side of $event$, got enormous power. This eventually percolated in the education system, and now $country$ is left with a few generations that have been force fed $bad_ideas
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by blackRust 12y ago
The last one is great: Google has also taken down a link to an online dating profile for user Thom109 on Telegraph Dating. Raises questions about online services opt-in/out to be publicly listed/searchable.
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How Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users(theguardian.com)
199 points by blackRust 12y ago|66 comments
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by blackRust 12y ago
What is amazing about the Yes campaign is the odds they were up against: all but one newspaper were against independence, the one for is a weekly paper. We have seen a strong and undeniable media bias. Even though the majority is for No, ~1
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Three (UK) inTouch: GSM over WiFi(three.co.uk)
2 points by blackRust 12y ago|0 comments
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by blackRust 12y ago
The way ML modules works seems to me like a much better deal: with interfaces and implementations. There's a proposal to have something similar done to Haskell. [1] http://plv.mpi-sws.org/backpack/
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by blackRust 12y ago
Looks like it might even be starting to loop around? The Guardian have already scurried an article about it [1]. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/11/twitter-tw...
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6 Reasons why Encryption isn’t working.(guardtime.com)
2 points by blackRust 12y ago|1 comments
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by blackRust 13y ago
Why doesn't Coursera do what corporations that export far more dangerous goods than education do: Have a subsidiary in another country where export restrictions permit you to work with Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan. To not try to counter
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by blackRust 14y ago
And the BBC story that talks about it (sorry if this doesn't work outside the UK): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20114359

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