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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I think the fallacy is when factors not captured or tracked by data are treated as non-existing or consequential. In Vietnam, they tried to quantify how pacified each village was as measurement of success. It did not work. This isn't s
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Are the signs not delimited by day of week, time and month where you are? E.g. 7:30-18:30 Mon - Fri Sep - Jun Where I live, police can and will ticket you for speeding during those times. Regardless of if there's students around or if
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
There are plenty of ML models that are trained unsupervised on text. What you would do next with your dead-language BERT, I don't know. But you could definitely make one.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
The stats aren't going to juke themselves!
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Supposedly this has already happened! Although in the alleged case, it was an existing employee masquerading as a candidate: https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvicecanada/comments/kr924n/e...
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
There's some interesting images of the evolution of what ads looked like in Google's search results over time. Starting with distinct background colours and slowly fading to looking more and more identical to organic results with
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
That sounds wonderfully pleasant! Thank you for the kind reply.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
And a farmer as you said before. Would you say the overlap between those two spheres of your life is significant, or no?
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
As a farmer, what breaking news do you come to HN for? I keep hearing vague murmurs from past colleagues about how agtech is the next big thing so I'm genuinely curious.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
No, I'm saying C is not enough on its own.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I learned C and have worked with C++ professionally in the past and that knowledge doesn't help at all with understanding what Python is doing internally. Sure, CPython is written in C, but that fact doesn't tell you anything abou
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I hate Spotify's recommendation algorithm for podcasts, if you can even call it that. Why does it think I want to listen to Joe Rogan and Jordan f-ing Peterson. Or any of the podcasts about drugs. I've never listened to any podcas
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Product search on websites for traditional brick and mortar stores is the worst for this. I guess they weren't born with the challenge of "if customers can't find the product they want, you will die" that online-only bus
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I was looking for a specific person recently and searched: <name of person> Canada I guess they were pretty obscure so Google in all their wisdom displayed the results for Canada, with the entire name struck through. Fantastic. Defaul
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
If infrastructure was all locally funded, wouldn't there be even worse disparities between rich and poor states? From the federal government's point of view, you'd want to invest in weaker areas and bring them up to the same
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
>2. I didn’t want family and friends to have to sign up to follow my trip. That's exactly what they want though. Their real user growth has slowed down and they're trying to juke the numbers by coercing the hold outs to sign up
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Knowing how frequently products like Ensure are used in elderly care, I'd rather savour good food now, for as long as possible.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I've been stuck with a older, underpowered dev machine but in compromise I've also been given a VM in the cloud to work with. It has way more horse power for way less cost than any comparable laptop. At this point it feels like th
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
From what I understand, I'm using it in the neoliberal sense.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Is the RCMP a customer of note? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-clearview-ai-1.6060228
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
They may not be compelled to continue working for Thedacare but removing their alternatives when they still have bills to pay is certainly coercive.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
The same argument can be made for machine translation. For an algorithm to be able to successfully translate an entirely new idiom, expression or metaphor, it has to be aware of the real world and context it came from. Until there is some l
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
All of this is true. Its also weird to me that the evaluation of a boolean expression can return return a value that is neither True nor False (yes I know the value evaluates to true, that's why the trick works). Which is why I just do
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
You can hide the if statements with `bar = bar or Bar() `
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Ask HN: How do you celebrate feature releases as a remote only company?
17 points by monkeybutton 5y ago|10 comments
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
>Build: failing
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Vancouver, Montréal and Halifax but no Ottawa, Toronto or Deep/Chalk River. Bizarre! The only connection I can make is that Vancouver, Montréal and Halifax are navigable by ocean going ships and the others are not?
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
So MAANG. Add in Oracle at the end and you've got yourself a MAANGO!
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Never had one catch fired but definitely overdone it before and had it forever smell vaguely like burnt popcorn.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I would have thought the behavioural data they collect would set them apart from regular job boards. Instead of just matching on keywords, you know what users are working with on a day to day basis and can show them ads relevant to their sk

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