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by rspeer 7y ago
There are healthy recommender systems, like Spotify. YouTube is a _disastrously_ unhealthy recommender system, and they've let it go completely out of control.
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by rspeer 8y ago
That's not very much.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Well, it's not true. Bitcoin has increased the demand for coal power in China. Bitcoin miners flocked to New York State for cheap natural gas power. Green energy is not necessarily the cheapest form of energy. If it were, it wouldn&#x2
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by rspeer 8y ago
The person you're replying to is clearly aware of search ranking algorithms. You should try looking into the HITS algorithm they mentioned for some additional context.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Most of the projects you're thinking of probably never even generated high-resolution images. Until recently, the actual output layer for most of these systems would be something like a 256x256 array of pixels.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Yes. The arrest was for harassment and doxxing, not for misgendering. paganel, when you say "Sorry for the Daily Mail link" it sounds like you know you're citing a source that will be extremely untrustworthy on this topic,
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by rspeer 8y ago
This is a revisionist and false narrative, and I believe it may be inspired by the "just world fallacy": you may be inclined to believe the world couldn't actually be unfair to women, so you search for another reason why thei
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by rspeer 8y ago
No, they weren't doing "tedious data entry", they were writing the entire program . And I'd say it would be less boring than programming in 2019, which is easier and pre-existing libraries solve most of it for us. You a
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by rspeer 8y ago
I've certainly encountered this issue. When I release ConceptNet, I would like to follow SemVer, but it kind of has to be in a way that the second component of the version is the major version, because there are bigger things that happ
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by rspeer 8y ago
okay what And if I had gotten to choose the newspaper, I would have chosen one that is more friendly and more representative of the local community than the glorified blog operated out of another state that I was ordered to use
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by rspeer 8y ago
And it took me 3 months, $180, and being ordered to publish a notice in the local newspaper who was really uninterested in following through and then charged me another $170 for it. It's different everywhere and it's usually not e
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by rspeer 8y ago
This comment sounds like Erlich Bachman on Silicon Valley .
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by rspeer 8y ago
This cheap food tastes really great when you put expensive food on top of it!
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by rspeer 8y ago
Huh. I don't have much of a problem going in to a bank branch, given that there's one every half mile. A quick in-person meeting is fine compared to the shitstorm of unusable menus and nearly unintelligible communication that is c
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by rspeer 8y ago
Can confirm. I actually went and specifically informed a couple of ad-targeting networks that I'm a woman, in the cases where they allow that, around when I was updating many other people and institutions. That helped on some fronts. S
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by rspeer 8y ago
Honolulu is a city, not an island. It is more than enough information to select a rectangle roughly 40km on a side.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Python bytecode is a pre-processed form of instructions to a Python interpreter, such as getting the function with a specified name out of a Python library and calling it with certain Python objects as arguments. The point here is to run Py
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by rspeer 8y ago
You can't move between Mastodon instances and keep your followers.
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by rspeer 8y ago
So only programmers can be "intelligent, polite" users, in your view? Of course you have to "do it for" the user. That's why you are the programmer and they are the user. If you're making something half-finishe
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by rspeer 8y ago
UTF-7 is "fun" because encoding libraries tend to support it, but since nobody cares about it, edge cases in the implementation may go undiscovered for a while. Back on Python 2.7.5, the UTF-7 decoder didn't do range checking
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by rspeer 8y ago
A couple reasons I'm aware of: - Han unification. Chinese and Japanese characters that have the same etymology but are written differently are sometimes assigned to the same codepoint, and it's up to the font to distinguish. And a
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by rspeer 8y ago
I'm glad that this is a good example of a translation, and not a trick. I still think that if a blog post author says "this is a translation of my post", the author should host it as a sibling page on their own server. That a
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by rspeer 8y ago
If the author is reading this: When someone provides you a pro-bono translation, by all means credit them, but do not let them host it on their own site. Frequently, they are siphoning your PageRank. They will eventually replace the trans
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by rspeer 8y ago
That's the part about "Definers" at the end of the article. They make sure not to say his name. Their claim is -- and this is ridiculous -- their PR team thought people needed to know that a campaign criticizing Facebook was
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by rspeer 8y ago
Glad you could get caught up.
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by rspeer 8y ago
The social context of computing is not a computable function of its inputs. Fortunately, decisions can be made by humans who understand social context. Not everything has to be reduced to a machine-learning classifier.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I can't really imagine setting up a date with someone on the social network used by my parents and theirs.
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by rspeer 8y ago
With those excluded, what you have left is going to be 99.9% gambling. Fills a demand, sure. But I would assume that every one of these contracts is more shady and less fun than online poker.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Because there is no plausible existing technology by which it would. And it's a similar promise to a lot of other over-promising AI technologies that don't work, like "fake news detectors".
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by rspeer 8y ago
I got an out-of-spec USB-C cable three weeks ago. While driving a long distance, I noticed that I had failed to bring any way to charge my phone in the car, so I bought a USB-A to USB-C cable at a rest stop convenience store. It served its

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