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by dontreact 4y ago
In a very real sense a lot of people had no choice but to stay in company towns. There are certainly similarities between a company town and Facebook, but choosing not to use it is not a matter of survival for anyone. I agree that Facebook,
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by dontreact 4y ago
It’s certainly not true that Facebook has a monopoly on communication (here we are communicating without Facebook involved) I do have some agreement that when a platform gets very large, it makes sense to have some regulation around the cen
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by dontreact 4y ago
I also disagree with government level censorship. At least in the American right, there is some political pressure and discourse around pushing free speech as a principle from the government level (where I agree with it) down into the platf
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by dontreact 4y ago
I was responding to the parent comment and tried to make clear that I too am against government mandated censorship. I’m talking about platform level censorship because I thought it would be interesting to the discussion to clarify these tw
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by dontreact 4y ago
I agree that government-level banning of hate speech is problematic for the reasons you describe. However, as a member of a minority group who grew up being the butt of many racist jokes, I would like to have the freedom to participate in a
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by dontreact 4y ago
Seems like he left and got into Crypto? https://www.linkedin.com/in/doronichev/
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by dontreact 4y ago
It seems a bare minimum is releasing enough data that the public can assess whether it is better on average. Right now, Tesla releases data that show that when autopilot is engaged, it is safer on average. However, this data is not adjusted
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by dontreact 4y ago
That's how long it takes to get a ruling, but how long will it take them to enforce it?
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by dontreact 4y ago
Why do you think this is a good thing?
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by dontreact 4y ago
Wow, I get the same messages about golfing with Kevin and Mike! (My name is also neither of those)
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by dontreact 4y ago
Seems like there is a wide gap between a single company organizing a union for their employers and a monopoly on the labor supply. I would be more convinced by your point if this wasn't one of the first tech unions (according to headli
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by dontreact 4y ago
Ok really dumb question but: how do you plug in a normal plug into a battery like this? I'm nervous about doing it wrong and then frying my musical equipment. The nice thing about the Anker is not having to worry about this. My friends
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by dontreact 4y ago
So is this the competitor to Fast, which also had a big round of layoffs recently? (edit: ah yes I remember now it was a complete shutdown) My current understanding is that both of these businesses were premised on the end of Amazon’s one-c
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by dontreact 4y ago
Makes sense for who? If all competition becomes winner takes all, then most humans become losers.
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by dontreact 4y ago
My sense is that in general, and especially in software, the world is becoming more of a winner take all place. This is not a good thing.
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by dontreact 4y ago
And history repeatedly shows that even if you get a dictator of the first kind, it’s an unstable equilibrium of a system that eventually leads to a dictator of the second kind.
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by dontreact 4y ago
Lots of good points here about how opening up the algorithm itself won't illuminate much and is technically extremely difficult without potentially devaluing the company since you would also have to open the data system behind the algo
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by dontreact 4y ago
* CRUD: Faiss indexes are static, if you want vector search over data that users can edit freely, it's not easy to use FAISS for this * Non-vector filtering: Often you need to do a search based on some structured query + rank the resul
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by dontreact 4y ago
This is by far the best explanation. The other responses in this thread are either very incomplete, or incorrect.
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by dontreact 4y ago
Just a fun technical note: CLIP would be possible with any language and vision encoder. It turns out that transformers were the most efficient encoder choices available at the time but most likely the approach would have given interesting r
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by dontreact 4y ago
I’m curious on the HN community opinion on whether Cruise is ahead of Waymo in SF, or if Waymo is just more careful and has spent less time training models specific to SF, but will expand to a fully public program sooner
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by dontreact 4y ago
I agree with all of this, but ML will evolve a lot over the next 30 years of your career. Being able to read the papers as the field evolves is useful, and many of the papers (especially the ones that shift the field) will assume knowledge
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by dontreact 4y ago
I disagree with this. Being able to read and understand the math in the paper of the algorithm you are implementing is useful, and calculus is common in ML papers. You may have some short term success without understanding the algorithms at
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by dontreact 4y ago
AI in medical imaging has been very limited and ineffective thus far. A) I think it's too early to make a call here. The first big paper for AI in medical imaging with modern methods came out in 2016, and we are just now getting large
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by dontreact 4y ago
Yes it's not trivial to balance these things and this is why there have been randomized control trials that look at long term end points where both the costs of false negatives and false positives come into play. It's also why bre
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by dontreact 4y ago
For starters, false positives are an inherent part of medical diagnosis. Interpretation and diagnosis is probabilistic based on ROC curves balancing different sensitivities and specificities balanced with disease prevalence as well as the s
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by dontreact 4y ago
Yes, and this is how the standard of care treats things. You never proceed from positive mammo screen to treatment. You always first do some other steps like ultrasound or biopsy.
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by dontreact 4y ago
Nice follow up! Yes, NLST was actually a real randomized control trial for lung cancer screening, done before it was known whether or not it was helpful. The trial eventually stopped once they had enough outcome based evidence. The statisti
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by dontreact 4y ago
You can still try to estimate this using something called QALYs which are life years adjusted for quality of life. A breast cancer scare, is certainly harmful, but it's important to remember that it is going to be a short episode as it
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by dontreact 4y ago
Yeah I just linked that study because it was looking at QALY which is an aggregate metric so it should in some sense take into account the effects of overdiagnosis even if overdiagnosis is not explicitly handled. Here is another study looki

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