nzeribe

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by nzeribe 3y ago
Criticism of the iPhone on it's debut was absolutely vicious.
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by nzeribe 3y ago
This is a feminine communication style - endlessly talking about feelings, down to the last detail. It's inappropriate for men to use this method.
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Dr. William Shockley on Race, IQ, and Eugenics(youtube.com)
1 points by nzeribe 5y ago|2 comments
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by nzeribe 5y ago
Shockley created the transistor, formed the pioneering and archetypal start-up in Shockley Semiconductor, which led to Fairchild and eventually formed Intel. How was is possible for such a brilliant man to hold views on race that were so di
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by nzeribe 5y ago
Why wouldn't you assume intentionality as more likely than not given the disturbing history of race in Silicon Valley? The position you hold out of the gate is unlikely and your assumptions of good-faith are misplaced. William Shockl
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by nzeribe 5y ago
I am not here to "sway" you. Your hand-wavey dismissal is absurd, given the history of race in Silicon Valley. William Shockley was an out-and-out white supremacist. He goes on to form Shockley Semiconductor which begets Fairchild
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by nzeribe 5y ago
But that's not what happened, is it? The algorithm hasn't miscategorised men, it has miscategorised Black men. I'd argue the AI has done its job, with a high degree of accuracy. It found what the programmers were looking fo
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by nzeribe 5y ago
I'm sorry but no. I don't believe this at all. What are the chances of say, you finding a dataset maliciously labelled by racists and how would you uncover that? Would you ask every software engineer how he felt about Black Lives
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by nzeribe 5y ago
I find it baffling and dispiriting that you, as a Black person, believe this is more likely to be an "error" than an act of deliberate racism. It's getting silly, now. A white racist programmer has done this on purpose becaus
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by nzeribe 5y ago
At this point, it's obvious this is deliberate.
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by nzeribe 5y ago
More news at 11.
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by nzeribe 5y ago
Anki is just a slice of Piotr Wozniak's ideas, and the algorithm it uses isn't as good as that implemented in his own software, SuperMemo. And besides: it doesn't do incremental reading, which is lights-out amazing: https:&#
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by nzeribe 5y ago
Apple became the biggest corporation in the world because they worked out how to build humane interfaces into the technologies that shape the future. That you believe Grandma will be just fine nerding around with system internals, or will
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by nzeribe 5y ago
Meanwhile in the real world, my brilliant friend, who cares about privacy, called me in a panic because she couldn't work out how to shift/right-click a video in her browser to download it to her hard drive, and you believe Linux
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by nzeribe 5y ago
"Consumer choice" is not how you stop hostile all-pervasive monopoly machine learning algorithms. The number of times I've heard from smart people: "Don't use Google"; "Don't use Amazon"; "M
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by nzeribe 5y ago
Aliens, 1986: "I have a class-2 rating." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMk-EEyOpE
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by nzeribe 5y ago
Thanks for the links, I appreciate this. I disliked much of the article, even if it was fascinating. Here's why: I can think of no joint venture in contemporary American culture where Black and White people built together as equal part
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by nzeribe 5y ago
I agree. Most people don't know, which makes me sad. Perhaps it's an opportunity for you to discover the secret history of the music. It's a wonderful and interesting journey.
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by nzeribe 5y ago
That's not true. Afropunk was a response to the question you pose. White people stole the rock from Black kids the way Ancient Greece stole the Hippocratic Oath from African culture. It is almost the same. Today, it's almost impos
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by nzeribe 7y ago
Yah, but Eastgate's Tinderbox has been doing this for damned-near 20 years, no? https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/updates/Tinderbox8.html
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by nzeribe 7y ago
iTunes actually hasn't been nice to use since about 2004.
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by nzeribe 7y ago
What are you talking about? Nurses, teachers and public sector workers all critical for the functioning of cities are claiming welfare. Some nurses in the NHS are eating patients' left-over food. The logic of the market is to drive wag
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by nzeribe 7y ago
The TransAtlantic Slave Trade was a state-sponsored enterprise on an international scale. What about that don't you understand?
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by nzeribe 8y ago
I would say that your approach to the book, and possibly your own learning, is misinformed. They talk about it on the course - the Einstellung effect: entrenched pathways inhibiting your way to new approaches. The techniques are practical,
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by nzeribe 8y ago
I've done the course. What you are saying, regarding the techniques being "stuff you pick up in middle school" is patently false. If you don't like the style of course, just say so.
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by nzeribe 9y ago
Ted Nelson's ideas continue to point a road to the future, to a better internet. Sir Tim's Web has been creaking along, almost since it's inception due to it's fragile design. That you don't rank him alongside the o
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by nzeribe 9y ago
Me, too. Ted Nelson is a G.O.A.T.
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by nzeribe 13y ago
All of their early adopters you burned by declaring them leeches and announcing a "new and exciting" 10x price hike? They're developers. NOBODY IS GOING TO WRITE CODE FOR YOUR BUGGY, UNTRUSTWORTHY PLATFORM.
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by nzeribe 13y ago
Apparently they just secured an $11m round of funding, but the investors might as well have burned their money. Their sole differentiator was the promise they couldn't keep: infinite storage. Now they have introduced "new and exc
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by nzeribe 14y ago
That is no bad thing, because programming in Squeak absolutely blows programming in Xcode away.

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