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by somebodyother 11y ago
Ah, I love this stuff. Tim Roughgarten's work on selfish routing was my bible through an undergrad research project, it's succinct and packed with excellent proofs. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/selfish-routi
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Also, it implies a couple of engineers could slip through arbitrary code to be executed under selective conditions. That's terrifying.
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Aside from some veiled (but still unacceptable) misogyny, I don't see anything objectionable in the default subs. The ratio of homophobic, racist, and antisemitic remarks seems in the ballpark of any southern high school. Is this somet
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by somebodyother 11y ago
> almost certainly they will reach the max number of complainants and end up only paying each person the minimum. it's like some kind of crazy realized game theory problem.
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Oh man, this is really impressive. I'm usually incredulous of applied NLP but this seems to have fantastic possibilities so close to implementation, it just needs a hip little web app wrapper. I hear gradients are in.
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Also true for pretty much every other term I've seen mainstream journalists 'learn'... hack, app, cloud, algorithm...
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by somebodyother 11y ago
We've spent generations filling our every waking moment with more forced broadcast stimuli, I don't blame 'millennials' for wanting to put up a minimum filter and default to their own bubble of controlled media. Why shou
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by somebodyother 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Actually, you can look find cases of this already. Complete neighborhood-wide monitoring of every car down to the license plate, and every individual's basic outline are captured by surveillance planes. https://www.aclu.org&
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by somebodyother 11y ago
This. Nobody who could conceivably make an account is just waiting to hear about this hot new thing called microblogging.
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Also, sometimes you're trying to get somewhere very reasonable in Manhattan, but you can't hail a cab because of your, say, skin color. Uber solved that.
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by somebodyother 11y ago
I see my spouse as the no-contest first-place winner in my list of important people in the world. The math doesn't work out for this to be mutual in more than two people.
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by somebodyother 11y ago
How does this benefit me after the initial MVP build? Most of my time in conversation with Designers is spent guiding them back to the same set of reusable components, reminding them we already have a way of doing X, and should be as consis
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by somebodyother 11y ago
As someone who has run coops, been a member of coops, and generally been exposed to real living based on the highest ideals of marxism, it sucks for bringing about change. The union cab companies mentioned in the article didn't bring a
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Waiting on the game-theoretical sequel which allows me to plot my optimal art career based on networking the gallery world.
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Wow, this made me realize journalists can really write about anything without being concerned about spreading harmful, false information. I don't get the feeling the author has gained a more responsible approach to writing, just freshe
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by somebodyother 11y ago
I actually thought it was playful, a funny wink at apple.
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by somebodyother 11y ago
Exactly, it's not like they were scoring William Shakespeare versus every other (possibly unknown) playwright alive at the time, nor do they have the training data they'd need for it.
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by somebodyother 12y ago
The Bay Area engineer is likely there to work for a company that obsoletes one or two of those unskilled laborers. I think the really scary part will be 10 years from now when everything's automated
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by somebodyother 12y ago
They store it in New Jersey, for NYC, if you were wondering. http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2014/07/amazon_warehouse_...