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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
"Amazon representatives were invited to attend an employment committee hearing on "Working Conditions in Amazon Warehouses" on Jan. 23, but did not show up, claiming that the notice of about a month had been too short."
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
It boils down to - Labor relations (unions in Arizona pushed back agains Taiwanese workers build the factory) - Local partners (Denso/Sony and Toyota investing in Japanese project, TSMC on its own in the US) - Subsidies (Japan delivere
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
Anecdotal evidence from France and UK doesn't agree with "isn't generally true outside of the US". When a diverse group of people is involved it's way more likely to use WhatsApp (or Signal to a lesser extent) outsi
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
It's not a great piece from FT. It argues that "the root of maths chauvinism is a childlike craving for certainties, or at least probabilities, amid the flux of adult experience", which I kind of agree with. Certainty is inde
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
Very interesting examples. For Nash, Von Neumann contributions to the field were orders of magnitude more important. For Kahneman and Tversky let's not forget that the foundations are quite shaky to quote [0] [0] https://rep
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
She wrote a paper on blind auditions, this gained a lot of media attention, but as a lot of her work it was quite exaggerated see e.g [0] [0] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/05/11/did-blind-...
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
At first I was surprised the economist would talk about the networking stack, but this is about social networking. The introverts bit makes much more sense. Regarding the article it says "because they bring you new information, more in
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
There's been a lot of community backlash in Pokemon Go (#HearUsNiantic Niantic movement)and the game director response to it was that the company has “no plans to directly address any of [it]” [0] The fan base is very loyal to the Poke
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
It's all WebKit on iOS and iPadOS
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
It's just The Times, not "The Times of London" The Times != The New York Times
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
Looks really good! Maybe add in the title that it's MacOS only for now. There's options for local and cloud-based AI - which is nice. I'd be cool to see what's the compute cost of requests!
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
Is it true though? Doesn't seem to be the case for healthcare outcomes [0], vacation time [1], labor rights, parental leave, etc. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33369633/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
Well, it's a great example as Dr. Earl Haas patented the first tampons in the early 30s and nobody cared. He then sold the patent to a business woman that made it successful. So effectively a man invented it but failed to market it and
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
"Funding/Support: This study was partly funded by the CCSA as a subcontract for a Health Canada grant to develop guidance for Canadians on alcohol and health." BUT "Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Stockwell reported
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by subtypefiddler 3y ago
> "Of course adding poison to your body is unhealthy and will affect mortality." This is in contradiction with the basic principle of toxicology: "dosis sola facit venenum". A "systematic review and meta-analysis
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by subtypefiddler 4y ago
In the case of municipal broadband it mostly comes from communities that suffer form poor/no investment from the big players and is the only recourse for decent internet. It usually is faster and cheaper than existing solutions. There&
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The urban ideal is a 19th-century city with 21st-century enhancements(ft.com)
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
> study that isn't peer reviewed Terrier, C., 2020. Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement. Economics of Education Review, 77, p.101981. "Economics of Education Review is a quarterly peer-review
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
It's also important to note that they work despite being wide, you can see that with the efficiency of pruning, and ideas such as the lottery ticket hypothesis that state that "successful" sub-networks within the wide netwo
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
Whilst I agree with the general sentiment, in this particular instance it has to do with the depth of network that could be trained efficiently thanks to hardware advances. LeNet was 7 layers deep, Dan's 9, VGG's 13, GoogleNet&#x2
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
The dichotomy between Greenwald's complaints (censorship of his article despite contractual guarantees, Reality Winner cover-up, what editors forced Lee Fang to do, lack of reporting of Assange hearing, and "lack of editorial stan
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
Full disclosure, European here and in our team everyone is found of Linux so not representative of your average MLEngineer. We actually had more issues with nvidia drivers messing up newcomers' machines during updates than with setting
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
It's not just CUDA vs ROCm, ROCm has come a long way and is pretty compelling right now. What they lack is the proper hardware acceleration (e.g tensor cores).
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
Links to avoid verizon's obnoxious "policy-wall": - https://outline.com/XZYvKa - https://web.archive.org/web/20201026181132/https://techcrunc... (seems to successfully loa
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
When reading the source https://my.visme.co/view/01070kx3-unconventional-ventures-no ... the divide goes: Gender | % Companies (#) | % Funding All men | 85 (1473) | 88.81 All women| 6.35 (110) | 2.21 Mixed
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
The article reads "On top of the female-founded startups finding it difficult to raise any money at all, the 6% of startups that did, only received 1.3% of the funding.". I understand it as 6% of female-founded startups managed to
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by subtypefiddler 6y ago
The article doesn't give the proportion of mixed and all-female teams, just of all male teams. To quote you "make an effort".