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by cltby 2y ago
I would think you should admire her for taking a strong moral stand at the expense of the business. She added a number of grievance-oriented features to reduce "bigotry", "xenophobia", etc; thereby making the product les
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by cltby 3y ago
Criminality is congenital. Social interventions will not fix the kid. Neither for that matter will prison, but at least it will protect the rest of us from his increasingly violent depredations.
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by cltby 3y ago
> (and unless you are a crook, there is not) What sort of shenanigans do you think profitable automated traders are engaged in?
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by cltby 3y ago
High frequency trading (measuring latency, inferring event ordering, etc). Since most crypto derivatives trading takes place at ap-northeast-1, it feels like AWS is orienting this release towards financial markets customers.
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by cltby 3y ago
Because we should have strong priors disfavoring regulation, and this is a stalking horse for yet more internet regulation.
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by cltby 3y ago
Sorry, is your criticism that IQ proponents conflate point estimates with unknown population parameters? Is that what other IQ critics see as the core of the disagreement in this debate?
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by cltby 3y ago
> otherwise identical cohorts. You could do this stratification/matching for any IQ study. What's special about lead-IQ?
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by cltby 3y ago
But these controls could be done for any IQ-related study. Is IQ-skepticism based on the belief that IQ researchers generally don't use controls? That lead-IQ researchers alone do this?
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by cltby 3y ago
Question for any IQ skeptics here (e.g. "it just measures your ability to take tests" or "it just tells you how rich your parents are"): what's your response to studies like this? Is there anything that can be said
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by cltby 3y ago
Good comment. I concede if it's really ~$20/month it's a rounding error and an obvious policy win.
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by cltby 3y ago
There's wide, wide middle ground between celibacy and the debauched status quo.
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by cltby 3y ago
Rather depressing that we're subsidizing wanton sexual indulgence to the tune of $30k/year/person.
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by cltby 3y ago
Assuming: * average 1% asset management fee (modal number if you poke around) * 0% investment carry (hedge funds get away with charging this, but most asset managers don't) * 9% effective tax rate (revenues disproportionately go to hig
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by cltby 3y ago
> The United States seeks fair consideration and back pay for asylees and refugees who were deterred or denied employment at SpaceX due to the alleged discrimination. Does anybody know how such penalties are calculated? In "role-bas
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by cltby 3y ago
Because models are trained and validated on real data. Given a training set of crimes and corresponding surveillance footage, arrestee info is a (not noisy) label for “who is the guy in the movie.”
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by cltby 3y ago
With a moment's thought, even the most emotive amongst us should see that the mugshots will be part of the training set--the photographed individuals are, after all, the class of true positives.
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by cltby 3y ago
This doesn't rescue their claim. If the suggested class imbalance really exists in the training/test sets, the model will preferentially identify whites as criminals.
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by cltby 3y ago
Are black faces overrepresented or underrepresented? According to AI researchers, we're faced with Schrodinger's Mugshot--there's simultaneously too many and too few!
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by cltby 3y ago
> "We believe this results from factors that include the lack of Black faces in the algorithms' training data sets..." the researchers wrote in an op-ed for Scientific American. > The research also demonstrated that Bla
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by cltby 3y ago
If illegal aliens count for apportionment, why shouldn't prisoners?
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by cltby 4y ago
Agreed. Just want to preempt any arguments about incarceration “wasting their potential.”
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by cltby 4y ago
Yes, I would happily reconsider in this case.
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by cltby 5y ago
The transparency push would effectively veto race and gender teachings--the bet being that any teacher pushing leftist doctrines would be buried under parent complaints. Needless to say, this has been a very successful bet thus far! The ide
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by cltby 5y ago
HN is comprised of tech workers, who dramatically skew younger and vaccinated. These are people for whom covid is very much just the sniffles.
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by cltby 5y ago
It seems to me rather more selfish and myopic to shut down all of society over one's personal fear of the sniffles.
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by cltby 5y ago
> Check the actual stats 60 % of Republicans have received at least one dose [1], but only 51 % of blacks have done the same [2]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/17/counties-vot... [2
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by cltby 5y ago
For those who don't know, Dan Gelbart also has a wonderful series on prototyping. [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGA1wWSdWaTXNhz_YkoP...
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by cltby 5y ago
> But assuming it isn't, there aren't many better places to go. Washington state is a good alternative. It has all of California’s grievance politics and collectivism but with none of the tax burden.
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by cltby 5y ago
> There is no scenario in which any citizen with a gun in any country defeats their government Imagine writing this not one month after the Taliban wins its war against the US.
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by cltby 5y ago
Even more unpopular opinion: genetics is destiny, so we'll never find a systematic effect of teachers on student learning.

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