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Google Ads SVP Ramaswamy Defends Data Practices at Irish Summit(adexchanger.com)
1 points by mwytock 8y ago|0 comments
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Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by mwytock 9y ago|0 comments
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by mwytock 9y ago
Thanks for summarizing. I suggest you reread #3 and note the use of language like "suggest", "consistent with" and "perceived". Authors use language like this because its really hard to make definitive statemen
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by mwytock 9y ago
Thanks for the play-by-play! I do disagree about winning/losing. I feel I've done a good job representing my views. I fixed the typo in my statement, sorry for the confusion. As I said, the fact that this memo is offensive to many
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by mwytock 9y ago
See citation above. I'm saying its much too strong a claim to go from this paper to the conclusion that women are biologically less inclined to engineering. EDIT: To be consistent with my original statement (see child)
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by mwytock 9y ago
You made a blanket statement about discussing offensive things and I wanted to point out there are some limits, especially at the workplace. In this particular case, I feel that leadership and everyone who disagreed with the memo should hav
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by mwytock 9y ago
Well, saying things that are clearly wrong and offensive to large numbers of people is typically looked down upon amongst educated people and highly discouraged at the workplace. For example, think of other stereotypes about other groups (b
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by mwytock 9y ago
Maybe. I don't think Sundar Pichai or Danielle Brown did though, they just said "this is not OK" and "code of conduct". Perhaps they felt they didn't need to engage with this kind of argument, but that mentalit
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by mwytock 9y ago
I see. Well I'm saying it does not. Obviously we disagree about what the scientific research says.
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by mwytock 9y ago
I'm not sure what the contradiction is here? Also, I wasn't making any claim about my own feelings, the massive response shows that the memo was highly offensive to many people.
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by mwytock 9y ago
You're right, my one sentence is just trying to explain the basic point to people who may not get it. Its not trying to lay out a complete thesis in support. I'm not sure if thats a necessary exercise, especially for the CEO.
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by mwytock 9y ago
I'm not sure what you are arguing, can you be more explicit? You're saying that you agree with the fundamental point of the memo?
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by mwytock 9y ago
A lot of people on "our side" did a bad job of simply refuting the argument presented. Its straightforward to do in one sentence: "While there may be scientific evidence of differences between men and women, using these diffe
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by mwytock 9y ago
I agree that the document blurs the line between preference/aptitude and is not totally clear which is one of the reasons overall it is a mess. Nonetheless, many of the statements in "Personality differences", "Men'
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by mwytock 9y ago
Well said, it's a massive leap to go from biological gender differences to differences in aptitude for engineering. The gross oversimplified claims from the document that attempt to make this leap are textbook stereotypes.
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Fired Google Memo Writer Draws Jeers, Cheers and a Job Offer(nytimes.com)
2 points by mwytock 9y ago|0 comments
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by mwytock 9y ago
Many methods in machine learning and statistics benefit from two types of theory: 1) Optimization theory - which says, if I repeat this iterative method N times I will find a (nearly) globally optimal solution 2) Statistical theory - which
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by mwytock 9y ago
I see, that's interesting. It does seem to be a tough business, but I guess don't see why it's not "naturally competitive" (as the author claims)
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by mwytock 9y ago
What about Southwest, JetBlue or Virgin? Or in Europe, RyanAir and EasyJet? It seems there is at least some competition, United is just not a very good airline.
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by mwytock 10y ago
Wow this guy really needs to take it down a few notches. Yes, PG's articles present a magical fantasy world dominated by the masterful hacker and visionary entrepreneur. They are inspiring and fun to read. And they may have some truth
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by mwytock 10y ago
Theyre writing long term contracts for power production which provide a fixed price for the resource developers and by consequence provide them with a fixed cost. Typically, these types of contracts, providing price certainty, are required
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Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Uber and Lyft Drivers(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mwytock 10y ago|0 comments
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Scant Oversight of Self-Driving Technology(wsj.com)
1 points by mwytock 10y ago|0 comments
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by mwytock 10y ago
The particulars of the interface are really not the point of these exercises
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Airbnb Horror Story Points to Need for Precautions(mobile.nytimes.com)
20 points by mwytock 11y ago|18 comments
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China Restricts Export of Drones, Supercomputers(wsj.com)
31 points by mwytock 11y ago|53 comments
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by mwytock 11y ago
Makes sense. But I think the real question is should you pay $100K to Netapp or $3K/month to Amazon and store your data on S3. At least newer tech companies seem to strongly prefer the latter.
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Artificial-Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand(wsj.com)
224 points by mwytock 11y ago|111 comments
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by mwytock 13y ago
Seriously? If the NSA wanted to own WePay they would have even with your "security best practices". Sorry bud.
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Five most influential statistics papers (2000-2010)(normaldeviate.wordpress.com)
1 points by mwytock 13y ago|0 comments

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