condercet

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by condercet 3y ago
you might google “computational social justice” or “computational social choice” for some political science grounded in math and computer science
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by condercet 4y ago
I think the recent metaverse push is well compared with a certain search company’s attempt to become a social network.
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by condercet 4y ago
The conclusion of the study you linked seems to paint a slightly more complicated picture: "We found evidence that between-district racial segregation is associated with racial disparities in school district spending, while between-dis
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by condercet 4y ago
It is not fair to place the blame for this epidemic of violence squarely on those suffering from mental health issues. Mental health issues are distributed globally, but the gun violence problem is not. People who suffer from mental health
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by condercet 6y ago
This attitude is terrible and exploitative. Employee's have a duty of fidelity and good faith to their employer, sure - but highly skilled and in-demand engineers should demand better of their employees.
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by condercet 6y ago
It seems like for this to be successful you'd want access to engagement/conversion data to train your model on. Google / Facebook would be positioned to execute on that, others less so.
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by condercet 6y ago
Another 72% here.
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by condercet 6y ago
I had the displeasure of working for a company that had a similar review system, but it was quarterly rather than annual. Total nightmare.
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by condercet 6y ago
so that slideshow I linked was probably written by an intern or something - but here's a serious analysis of the tech dated 1999 from DTSO (australian army) that states: "There are no apparent technological barriers to the success
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by condercet 6y ago
Could you build a passenger version of this and run it up and down the west coast? (or trans-pacific?) Sounds like a "speeder" from Star Wars! NASA (or atleast someone affiliated with NASA) seems to think there's some potenti
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by condercet 6y ago
"CEO of horizontally integrated monopolistic anticompetitive conglomerate denounces competitor as monopolistic"
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by condercet 6y ago
Mozilla has decided to "throw the baby out with the bathwater" as a business strategy.
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Show HN: SilvanArt – custom laser cut maps for home decor(silvanart.com)
3 points by condercet 7y ago|0 comments
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by condercet 7y ago
Social skills are skills that can be improved upon like any other. A good place to start would be seeing if there are improv classes near you.
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by condercet 7y ago
This is rapidly becoming the case in the US as well.
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by condercet 7y ago
There are several more instances of Google promoting their own services above the SERP (and competitors). 1. Shopping. Google got in big trouble with the EU about this recently. 2. Job listings. Google launched a jobs product and promoted i
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by condercet 7y ago
Thanks for being here, and for all the work you put into educational materials. As easy as it is to hate on "coding 4 kids" products, it's a real under-served niche that has the potential to do a lot of good in the world. Des
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by condercet 7y ago
It seems tempting to say that the quality of life in most of Europe is much higher than in the US. There's a decent chance this is a case of "the grass is greener" syndrome, but still. Higher quality food, 4+ weeks of vacatio
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by condercet 7y ago
You are misinformed and pushing an unproductive narrative. From the Center of Disease Control: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html "Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States. From 199
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by condercet 7y ago
Certainly, as a future applicant to grad school, these revelations make me dramatically less likely to consider the Media Lab.
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by condercet 7y ago
Yes, perl6 does a lot of things right. It's a great language and ecosystem that deserves more adoption. But all the things the parent comment listed, particularly branding, are in my mind part of developer ergonomics. And there is room
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by condercet 7y ago
This is a good list. The default user experience for Perl 6 needs to be dramatically improved. Developer ergonomics matter! Yes, when you run 'python' you get cpython, and Java is probably hotspot vm or openjdk or something (but J
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by condercet 7y ago
I'm scared and feel totally powerless. Everyone around me who I've talked to about this either feels the same or thinks its a complete hoax. The whole habitable planet thing was nice while it lasted. But seriously, does anyone hav
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by condercet 7y ago
I imagine a ridesharing / uber-like model will be dominant compared to private ownership and personal piloting. But these things are going to be incredibly annoying and disruptive -- the various drone delivery efforts already seem lou
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by condercet 7y ago
Okay, then let's talk about the protester's novel tactics and use of technology to coordinate a distributed, leaderless protest. That seems like it should be fair game.
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by condercet 7y ago
It should be noted that YCombinator does business in China. They may have incentives to limit criticism of China on this forum. They announced YC China in August 2018, and nothing indicates that it has been shut down since then. While there
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by condercet 7y ago
On the contrary, many of the people I've met who most definitely do not have first world problems -- people living in Africa, Southeast Asia, and other destitute parts of the world -- often seem to lead genuinely happier lives than the
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by condercet 9y ago
Mozilla's integration with Pocket is at direct conflict with their values: "Internet for people, not profit". I expected better of them.
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by condercet 9y ago
Credit to frgtpsswrdlame for surfacing this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15934367
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Contact Hypothesis(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by condercet 9y ago|1 comments

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