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by bsanr2 5y ago
>How often they are followed is a grey area. It's interesting to note the character of when and when not those guidelines are applied.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
It wasn't intended to be snarky, nor unsubstantive, though I suppose that without the necessary context or self-awareness it could come off as either. I'll admit that I may be in my emotions somewhat. https://news.ycomb
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I do think it's hilarious that the one time Google doesn't drop a relevant search term in the middle of a query is for something like "black haired man." The way it treats terms, you might expect it to drop the "hai
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Sidney Poitier, Oscar-Winning Icon, Dies at 94(vanityfair.com)
1 points by bsanr2 5y ago|1 comments
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I would say that journalism is just as bad, if not worse, because instead of making passing comments, they will present a whole-a*s story without indicating where in Africa the events occurred.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
That's an oversimplification. Pre-existing notions about warrior conduct certainly played a role, but "samurai" were a class (bordering on caste); attitudes descending from bushido were a top-down mandate, enforced by the off
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I can't remember where I initially read it, but it's mentioned on both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_prisoners_of_war_in_W... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_Japa
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by bsanr2 5y ago
You both are dangerously close to accusing him of being inarticulate. I would ask you to rethink your agreement, for your own sake.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Ironically, I specifically remember the introduction of voice search coinciding with a marked drop in search quality. This had also happened earlier with their "instant results" experiment.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I think that the model is, somehow, irreparably broken. Remember that, when it started returning photos of black people in searches for "gorilla", they just stopped using it for "gorilla" searches. My suspicion is that i
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Even straightforward situations are frustrated by what is a broken process. There was an article for a black WWII pilot - the only black pilot from the war to be designated an ace - whose article was under constant attack by a particular us
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by bsanr2 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383977 Declaring mental illness in the face of exposed bigotry is a classic tactic, meant to discredit legitimate and reasoned grievance.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I remember reading this in high school. It's actually from 2005. More recently, a journalist suggested a moratorium on the use of the word "Africa" in reporting; the country, and region of the country, should be used instead.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
They were instructed to avoid capture by any means because they had been indoctrinated by propaganda that indicated horrific treatment by Allied POW personnel. While this was obviously false, it's interesting to note that Japanese know
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I remember being surprised at the abundance of tactile paving in Japan. https://www.simplemost.com/sidewalk-bumps/
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by bsanr2 5y ago
>Imagine FED giving guidance for interest rates decrease then out of the blue dramatically increasing the rates at midnight once the pals of the president position themselves correctly and saying that the public shouldn't have liste
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by bsanr2 5y ago
>Google let Niantic go. Oh, I didn't know that. That's even worse. Niantic is positioning itself to be a competitor to Apple in the global spatial map game. Explains why Go released on Android first, though. Neat. I hope that d
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Tango did, 7 years ago, everything ARKit does today. All they had to do was loss-lead on a showstopper of a phone with one killer app. They basically stripped down Tango to create ARCore, and lost the SLAM space to Apple and Niantic. No one
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by bsanr2 5y ago
You wouldn't happen to spend time as a cartoon canid, would you?
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Can't forget Utena, the proto-Madoka. It IS as cryptic and opaque as Evangelion, while covering similar ground as (but also completely different ground from) PMMM. It also stands in opposition to Madoka in that it seems almost immune t
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I highly recommend you watch the End of Evangelion and Rebuild movies if you get a chance. Ultimately, I think Eva is ambivalent about the value of saving the world, far and away from the ability to do so. By the end of 3.0+1.0, Shinji es
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by bsanr2 5y ago
This exposes part of the reason behind, and bodes poorly for those subject to, the lack of success underrepresented groups have in certain fields. If "tacit knowledge" most expeditiously gained from interacting with experts is the
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by bsanr2 5y ago
>To value cash flowing assets, one can use a number of methodologies such as discounted cash flow, capitalization rate/rental yield and valuation multiples (i.e. EV/EBITDA, EV/EBIT and P/E). These methods are not perf
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Tangentially-related, but it's funny that you should say that, and in as many words. https://youtu.be/hX2aZUav-54
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I like to think that the classiest revenge is just supporting Black Santa Claus. https://youtu.be/OY4Yod55B_c https://youtu.be/Lijydf9hGxs
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by bsanr2 5y ago
>the experience and the patience necessary to fix the system incrementally from within Occasionally, this doesn't exist. Hence, for example, the American Civil War. You're making the mistake of assuming that software engineerin
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by bsanr2 5y ago
True, but I also look at JC's work on Terminator 2. If anyone has experience with directing films about a post-apocalypse filled with unfathomably advanced tech which has it out for contemporary humans, it's him. I also don't
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Timnit Gebru launches independent AI research lab, DAIR(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by bsanr2 5y ago|0 comments
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Grooveshark was better than any other service - including Pandora - at exposing me to music that I wasn't expecting to love but did anyway.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I suppose I'll still hold out hope that he'll come out of retirement one more time after this so that he can adapt Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End

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