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by dibstern 8y ago
I couldn’t disagree more. (1) Learning Java before you learn a procedural language, to me, makes no sense, and turns a programmer’s formative foundation of programming into an object-only one. (2) The difficulty in getting over the ‘hump’ (
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by dibstern 8y ago
Dude wtf, we need this data to help treat patients and save lives.
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by dibstern 8y ago
Hahaha my god dude. First, he said it seems to indicate, not prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Second, you think it’s more likely that they filter every single request specifically for Zuckerberg, but do all of the other filtering later on
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by dibstern 8y ago
I hear that MongoDB is just deleting complete databases automatically, so you don’t even have to press a button!
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by dibstern 8y ago
I couldn’t agree more - I’ve made most progress in MOOCs whenever there is a set of relatively small but valuable, achievable goals. And I’m pretty sure the MOOCs I ran out of time for required big chunks of work.
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by dibstern 8y ago
I am highly skeptical of the research that shows low attendance causes poor grades. I attended 2/24 lectures for one subject, and I got the highest grade for the year, out of both semesters. And I have friends who don’t attend lectures
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by dibstern 8y ago
I don’t understand people on here complaining about the Senate demanding that the leaders of a business answer for its actions. Sending your lawyer or an underling is (1) a show of disrespect, (2) it shows you’re not taking responsibility f
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by dibstern 8y ago
Not showing up here was the opposite of keeping a low profile though.
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by dibstern 8y ago
Completely disagree. I don’t know how you could say that. Business leaders have to answer for their companies actions, and senate hearings is one way we have of them doing that. And as wybiral said, it was a Senate Intelligence Committee he
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by dibstern 8y ago
Great article! Loved it. Not sure if the author is posting this, but if you are, one small thing - it’s burying the ‘lede’, not ‘lead’. Thought you’d want to know :)
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by dibstern 8y ago
The problem is total exclusion, not targeting for sub-groups by campaign. If they wanted to target sub-groups by campaign, they could offer a service to advertise differently to different subgroups. But that’s not at all what’s happening -
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by dibstern 8y ago
The issue is not focusing on demographics, it’s excluding demographics. The law states you cannot exclude certain demographics. Facebook is allowing that. Nothing is preventing an atheist from reading a Christian magazine, or some non-expec
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by dibstern 8y ago
I think they mean they found, in the bone marrow, an abundance of the missing T-cells (missing from the brain?)
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by dibstern 8y ago
It’s called dysgraphia, brother. Join the club!
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by dibstern 8y ago
You’re just arguing from Kant’s authority here. In my view (and in the views of many others, including many renowned philosophers and many important legal systems) Kant’s views are deeply flawed (anyone can argue from some authority). But t
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by dibstern 8y ago
I don’t think throwing more computational power at the problem is the right answer to all ML problems.
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by dibstern 8y ago
While I appreciate the sentiment, I thi k the fact that we can learn from fewer examples demonstrates that the learning process isn’t as efficient as ours, therefore it isn’t yet optimal. It seems like a goal should be for learning to be as
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by dibstern 8y ago
People were defending Theranos on HN... surely must have been an investor or an insider. Surely no one else would be so daft.
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by dibstern 8y ago
Spark is notoriously bad for privacy. This is a really poor recommendation given the article.
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by dibstern 8y ago
Forced membership of a union!? Seriously!? How awful. I’d rather quit than have it forced on me. If I was at the New Yorker I’d almost certainly join, but only if I could do so willingly. Ugh.
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by dibstern 8y ago
Totals are interesting. It tells you about things like the US’s power in international trade, reminds is how big the US market is, why people focus on it, etc. It doesn’t mean GDP per capita isn’t interesting either, but they’re different l
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by dibstern 8y ago
I disagree. You can realise your ignorance without having to immediately correct every instance of it. And you can enjoy the slow uncovering of new information and points of view, building each into your worldview bit by bit. This is part o
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by dibstern 8y ago
The article could easily make the false presumption that wi-fi isn’t used to transmit the data. You seem awfully keen to dismiss this.
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by dibstern 8y ago
US numbers only :(
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by dibstern 8y ago
Can you give indicators of how good you are? Just to help people understand what ‘good’ and sill getting 1M+ actually means
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by dibstern 8y ago
Bias is certainly possible, but you need proof of racism before you proclaim it
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by dibstern 8y ago
If the multiple sub populations exist, that’ll be reflected in the data, as long as your dataset is good enough.
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by dibstern 8y ago
The solution for identity is easy. Just don’t rely on unverified name association data for names. I don’t get why it’s so hard to avoid that. Just don’t do it. There are plenty of ways to train models without using that kind of data, both i
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by dibstern 8y ago
I’m pretty sure by ‘math-impaired’ he meant that he didn’t do the math, not that he tried and failed. His use of the word ‘rhetoric’ implies the author knew he was pulling them from his arse and was using those numbers to make an argument.
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by dibstern 8y ago
All of h3h3's videos are silly. That's his style of comedy. You can't see that a video shaped entirely by left-wing identity politics that blames all men for the crimes of a few, that ignores practical realities contributing

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