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by gitremote 1y ago
The second link is a preprint from 2020 and may not have been peer-reviewed.
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by gitremote 1y ago
> I feel like your comment sums up many life lessons. It's also the reason I stopped believing in extreme leftism as I matured. I think as young idealists we think "Surely if we just gave the government a lot more tax money, th
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by gitremote 1y ago
This study shows the opposite: > In their study, Moss-Racusin and her colleagues created a fictitious resume of an applicant for a lab manager position. Two versions of the resume were produced that varied in only one, very significant,
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by gitremote 1y ago
An LLM doesn't have any concept of math or statistics. There is no need to defend using a black box like generative AI in hiring decisions.
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by gitremote 1y ago
> you can with some certainty train an AI model to account for this bias and have it so that it is more fair than humans could ever be. Not really, because AI is trained on the past decisions made by humans. It's best to strip the n
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by gitremote 1y ago
This bias on who is the victim versus aggressor goes back before reddit. It's the stereotype that women are weak and men are strong.
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by gitremote 1y ago
The spinning wheel ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wheel ), which creates yarn from threads, existed longer than cars. I doubt you would argue that boys would have a preference for playing with toy versions th
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by gitremote 1y ago
> Working remotely means there's some higher bar for quickly bugging a colleague, since you have no idea if they're casually reading their emails or if they're in deep focus. You've outed yourself as a young person he
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by gitremote 1y ago
> Working remotely means there's some higher bar for quickly bugging a colleague, since you have no idea if they're casually reading their emails or if they're in deep focus. Odd. Even when working in office, I messaged co
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Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard(theregister.com)
28 points by gitremote 1y ago|6 comments
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by gitremote 1y ago
> This explains the difficulty of training new employees when all your experts are working remotely, as remote work practically eliminates any sort of casual unguided “water-cooler” interaction. In software development remote work, the n
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by gitremote 1y ago
Cars were invented in the early 1900s and the vast majority of human existence was in a world without cars. There cannot be an innate preference for cars, which were a very recent invention.
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by gitremote 1y ago
> With so many graduates looking for a job why don't they bang together and do something. If not for money then just to show off their skills, something to put in the resume. Young people are already doing that, but a lot of what th
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by gitremote 1y ago
No. The paragraph as a whole refers to the "outputs" of vast troves of copyrighted work. Disk size is irrelevant. If you lossy-compress a copyrighted bitmap image to small JPEG image and then sell the JPEG image, it's still c
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by gitremote 1y ago
The judgement was about model inference, not training.
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by gitremote 1y ago
They never said model training is a violation of copyright. The ruling says model training on copyrighted material for analysis and research is NOT copyright infringement, but the commercial use of the resulting model is: "When a mo
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by gitremote 1y ago
"Q: Is it true that under the SAVE Act married women will not be able to register to vote if their married name doesn’t match their birth certificate? A: The proposed SAVE Act instructs states to establish a process for people whose le
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by gitremote 1y ago
Oppose government actions that restrict free speech and free press. Do not assume that free elections are an independent variable that don't depend free speech and a free press.
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by gitremote 1y ago
In April 2025, Trump called for investigations into pollsters who determined that Trump has a low approval rate, calling the pollsters "criminals".[1] If Trump criminalizes publishing data that shows disapproval for his party, th
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by gitremote 1y ago
DEI is not illegal. Some implementations can be illegal (racial quotas), but other implementations are not (setting up a job fair booth in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) instead of only Ivy League universities; not pre
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by gitremote 1y ago
> That said, the previous failing effort also unearthed a ton of unspoken assumptions that I was able to leverage. Without providing those assumptions to the AI, I couldn't have produced the app they wanted. Extracting that informat
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by gitremote 1y ago
"We kill people based on metadata." - Ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden Metadata is data. In a large corporation, metadata can also reveal projects under NDA that only a select few employees are supposed to know about about.
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by gitremote 1y ago
Absolutely. That's why people can be perfectly fluent in a programming language and a high performer at work, but fail an interview algorithms/leetcode problem in that language, as algorithms are math problems that programmers alm
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by gitremote 1y ago
Can you give an example of an Australian actor who plays an American character in a Hollywood movie using their native accent?
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by gitremote 1y ago
Yes, because Australian and British actors often must fake US American accents perfectly to get roles in Hollywood. Margot Robbie, Tom Holland, etc.
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by gitremote 1y ago
Non-Western English speakers might be unaware of the difference between US English and general Western English, due to the dominance of US English in Western English.
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US cyber-defense agency's ex-chief decries cuts as Trump demands perfect loyalty(theregister.com)
15 points by gitremote 1y ago|0 comments
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For anyone who didn't get this reference: 'In fact, there's an old saying about Mussolini that goes something like this: "Mussolini made the trains run on time." In other words, even dictators have their good points
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by gitremote 1y ago
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just as colonialist as the US invasion of Iraq.
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by gitremote 1y ago
The media in liberal democracies reflect the diversity of their people more than state media in a fascist dictatorship that jails dissenters, critics, and oppresses ethnic and/or gender and sexual minorities. Human rights, free speech,

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