cowanon22

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by cowanon22 5y ago
This isn't "statistical whataboutery", it is basic ethical reporting. The French media got it mostly right; The US media got it mostly wrong. We must have a zero tolerance policy for abuse, but bad reporting and bad extrapo
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I'm referring to the US media - they covered it very differently from the French media.
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by cowanon22 5y ago
Should we also shut down schools, scouting programs, day cares, adoption, camping, etc? All of these have had almost exactly the same size and scope of scandal.
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I don't disagree with you - the church has major problems some of which still need correction. But there is a clear media bias in the US - compare the American articles to a much more details one in French (Google Translate works well
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I'm not doubting major abuse occurred, and the church needs major reforms. But we should hold the numbers up to the same standard that we hold all other numbers to. There should be a detailed description of the sampling and data, a de
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by cowanon22 5y ago
First off, I'm not doubting that abuse occurred and it is terrible for the victims involved. What sampling method did they use to arrive at this estimate? What is the error range and 95/99% confidence intervals? I haven't b
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by cowanon22 5y ago
We don't know yet if there is anything special about human intelligence, or what the limitations of general intelligence might be. Are animal and plants a slower form of the same intelligence, or is there something qualitatively diffe
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by cowanon22 5y ago
The truth is that artificial intelligence and machine learning today are still aspirational titles - the current tech simple does not learn or reason in any way that is similar to human or even biological reasoning. Data mining and probabil
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by cowanon22 5y ago
In my experience the most useful part of DDD is to have a common vocabulary for your projects - developers and end users should have some common terminology. For complex business domains it is good to have a glossary, and for your code to
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by cowanon22 5y ago
This is yet another paper where the title exaggerates the importance of the conclusion. I found a copy of the original paper - there are several risks to the model that the authors mentioned: - They only mutated conditionals to test coverag
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by cowanon22 5y ago
Unfortunately the marketing has gotten ahead of the actual engineering - the features can be useful but it does take an adjustment period to learn its limitations. I have Toyota Safety Sense 2.5 on a 2021 Camry: Pre Collision system: pretty
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I'm not expert is any of this, but what worries me is that political pressures, conflicts of interest, profit motives, rushed timelines, experts who have misled to get a reaction, and many studies with either short terms or small sampl
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by cowanon22 5y ago
"No Silver Bullet" is similar to "Moore's law" - an observation rather than an absolute rule. In both cases, the authors were only projecting into the future 10 years. It is just measurement, not pessimism or optim
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by cowanon22 5y ago
> Tor has done more harm than good for human rights Sad but true - it seems like every technology that is made to promote free speech, anonymity, or non-centralization ultimately leads to bad actors using it and more authoritarian laws b
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by cowanon22 5y ago
> So, maybe age-ism is a thing, but I'd also argue a lot of age-ism can be reduced to "I never even tried keeping up and hyper-specialized myself into a dying corner even when the signs became clear I'm becoming outdated,
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I agree with a lot of the points, however at most large companies solution architect is a significantly higher paygrade than developer. (I don't agree with this, but it is the case at every large place I've worked [non-FAANG Fortu
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by cowanon22 5y ago
This is why I now use tools like SonarQube (commercial static code analyzer) to drive most code quality reviews. SonarQube also gives justifications for all of it's recommendations, so it serves as a training tool as well. The only I
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by cowanon22 5y ago
Lol, spoken like a true corporate slave. Sad thing is anyone who works in McKinsey has more than enough talent to succeed without sacrificing their personal life. I guess the saying is true, McKinsey is filled will people who used to be
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by cowanon22 5y ago
The paper does not specify message passing or reflection, both of which are essential to OOP. I think OOP lost its way as soon as C++ reinterpreted it in terms of only encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. According to Alan Kay (on
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by cowanon22 5y ago
Lol, I've been using Windows for a long time and had no idea these shortcuts exist - I will probably use them all the time going forwards.
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by cowanon22 5y ago
It seems unlikely that your co-workers have low IQ, but it does go to show that doing well on algorithms and toy puzzles doesn't necessarily lead to an interesting job. It seems odd that you would be assigned to a team that didn&#x27
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by cowanon22 5y ago
With Spring this is actually true - there are better alternatives for Java, and there is too much magic under the covers. I use plain servlets, jsp and a handful of libraries for common operations, and it is so much easier to debug when so
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by cowanon22 5y ago
Every quality job I've had consisted of 6-8 different interviews. However, all of those jobs also send me a schedule and list of job titles of who I will be interviewing with, and conducted all of them on the same day. At this point
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I'm fine with having 6-8 interview - every
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by cowanon22 5y ago
I've found that these situations are actually quite useful from my side as a prospective employee. If the interviewers are treating this as a "gotcha" interview and it turns into a test instead of a discussion, then that&#x2
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by cowanon22 5y ago
Yes, most martial arts are more of cultural dance and ceremony than an actual effective fighting techniques. MMA/UFC has done more to advance the state of the art than a 1000 years of dojos ever did. From a cultural standpoint it&#x2
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by cowanon22 5y ago
Personally I think we should stop using the words intelligence or learning to refer to any of these algorithms. It's really just data mining, matrix optimization, and utility functions. There's really no properties of learning o
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by cowanon22 5y ago
The report is short (8 pages) and is really just there to motivate the creation of a unified procedure for detailed collection of sightings; interestingly there appear to be 18 relatively recent incidents that cannot easily be explained and
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by cowanon22 5y ago
> Like any other industry, 90% of medical “experts” are totally incompetent. I would guess it's even worse, maybe 1-5% of doctors truly understand the underlying physiology and will holistically look at all of the information. Most
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by cowanon22 5y ago
The AI field has a history of over confidence; just look up Marvin Minsky's predications in the 1950's and 1960's. This had been repeated throughout AI history - a new approach is found, it has some promising initial results

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