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by nerd_light 5y ago
I think that your consideration is a good one, but I think it comes down to numbers. Will a no-additional-cost-per-ride pass increase the "unnecessary" load on the system so much that they need to start using additional transit ve
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by nerd_light 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed response! And nice to hear how much you've managed to keep humans involved in the process. I used to work on a content review automation system for a big company, so it's always fun to hear about how others
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by nerd_light 5y ago
I think they meant (and I am interested in hearing about) appealing a "block" decision that was made by your automation. If I'm a real human and trying to post a "good" post, but the model classifies it as bad and a
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by nerd_light 5y ago
Respectfully: no, the authors did not. The method used can be found in the published paper, which is linked from the submitted article. edit: clarify a pronoun
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by nerd_light 5y ago
The article links to the paper, which answers your question in appendix B (at least for the purposes of this study). https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29053/w290... First names: "We
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by nerd_light 5y ago
Apple purchased Siri from a startup of the same name. The startup founder chose the name because he liked it, having first heard of it because it was the name of a former coworker. So, while perhaps less usual, it was chosen with the knowle
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by nerd_light 5y ago
May I ask why you think that? (Sincere question, not meant to be snarky). Even assuming electric car assembly is simpler than an ICE powered car, there are still a lot of large, heavy, and expensive components. And that's setting aside
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by nerd_light 5y ago
"Sample: 52% of the company's IMs were being sent between 6pm and midnight." Sounded unbelievable to me! As it turns out, it's not true. The author links to another of his articles that links to the Harvard Business Revi
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by nerd_light 6y ago
I've been helping teach high school CS classes for years, and even just being able to use some free accounts with students to share code and workspaces has been flawlessly simple. I've always (even pre-pandemic) been a remote inst
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by nerd_light 6y ago
What considerations do you put into how to handle versioning? I'm thinking mostly of the "decider" logic. For example, in SWF + Flow land, I maintain different versions just by keeping the old implementation and using version
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by nerd_light 7y ago
Ah, I think we're both right here, just on slightly different things. You're correct, trolley with diesel backup isn't new and is in fairly wide usage around the world. To the original comment: "retaining the ability to
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by nerd_light 7y ago
Like most thing, its an "it depends" situation. The tech exists, but isn't in wide usage. There's a higher upfront infra cost to pay back, and while short distance reroutes can be accommodated, you do set the general rou