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by mdeck_ 2y ago
Sounds like a classic case of F.A.F.O.
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by mdeck_ 4y ago
The argument in this piece is a classic example of slippery slope-ism. The question of fair use, or of balancing between copyright maximalism and copyright minimalism, is a so-called line-drawing problem (given a spectrum of cases, deciding
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by mdeck_ 4y ago
I’m not sure how it could possibly be useful to anyone to hear that they shouldn’t be in the place where a nuclear explosion occurs.
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Beware That Nocebo Strapped to Your Wrist(bloomberg.com)
4 points by mdeck_ 4y ago|2 comments
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by mdeck_ 4y ago
> Between late 1978 and early 1981, drivers in the U.S. saw the price at the pump nearly double from 63 cents to $1.31 a gallon. Not sure how that change would amount to NEARLY doubling...
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by mdeck_ 4y ago
Next perhaps they can get Wolf Blitzer to stop shouting literally every sentence that comes out of his mouth as if it is all “BREAKING NEWS.”
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by mdeck_ 4y ago
> I think if you have the luxury of assuming every token is a dictionary word, you can do much better by simply encoding each word as its index in the dictionary. Then you have to store the dictionary.
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How a Minnesota Station Found Old Footage of a Young “Prince”(nytimes.com)
2 points by mdeck_ 4y ago|0 comments
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by mdeck_ 4y ago
The ultimate significance of the patents contained within the portfolio (how they will empower business plans, why they may be quite valuable) will not necessarily be apparent from simply looking at the technology described. And a potential
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Comparing ALL software developers to builders or veterinarians isn’t fair. Veterinarians are continually holding animals’ lives in their hands. Builders almost invariably build things that can fall on their head and kill them—so a license i
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Sounds like a modified/more complex version of the well-known RICE framework. https://www.intercom.com/blog/rice-simple-prioritization-for...
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Admittedly it seems less common, but... there certainly are some Smeds in Sweden (and the rest of Scandinavia). The names are not ALL sons/sens and geographic features... https://forebears.io/surnames/smed
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
> It sounds like you would need to be exceptionally careful that your meta-process didn't "find" some signal in pure noise (via re-using test sets and so on). It sounds like you’re actually talking about ordinary levels of
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
This seems to be precisely what the article says. > The attempt to use computers to assist in racial classification tasks has helped sharpen the issues because computers can't deal with fuzzy concepts. If you try to define an ethnic
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
The plural of “memento mori” is “memento mori.”
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Possibly attributable to the definition of “(going) dutch” as “splitting the bill”? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dutch
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Planning to do sentiment analysis in the future on your own writing that you’re also planning to do in the future seems like using a cannon to kill a mosquito—way overA-powered and unlikely to yield nuanced results anyhow. Why not just add
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
What does the legal system (common law vs continental) have to do with the parent comment?
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
No honor among thieves? Color me shocked.
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Um, a (1985) might be useful here.
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
The title here needs a (2017)
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Needs a (2015) in the title.
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Here I was expecting a deep analysis and explanation of why the engineering and businesses at play behind Captchas leads to such depressing images... instead I simply found a litany of the ways in which the images are depressing. Not quite
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Some better footage: https://twitter.com/dexcash/status/1419080071621619715?s=21 https://twitter.com/arnejrgen/status/1419248599624568832?s=2...
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Blue LEDs and black lights show this effect very clearly. This is e.g. described much more succinctly in the top comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3c1qsg/why_do_b... > 2 reaso
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Ok, but hardly shocking, given the zillions of dollars and person-hours spent on cancer research and related public health initiatives... Perhaps the most interesting tidbits here are regarding the increases in mortality from particular c
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Sure, the technology/design of these sails may be novel, but it feels a bit silly to be in awe of a new way to use sails to propel boats currently driven entirely by internal combustion engines. What will we think of next—a new way to
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
> The guy is a good writer and storyteller but he seemingly prioritizes good writing and story over telling the most honest story. That isn't an unusual trait among pop-non-fiction writers. It’s not fair at all to cast Malcolm Gladw
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
That was the impetus for my sharing this story :)
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
There’s a “listen” button at the top of the page. It may take a second for the Javascript that loads it to run after the rest of the page loads.

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