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Nova-Computers vs. Crime Is AI making policing and courts fairer or more biased?(pbs.org)
1 points by zcarter 4y ago|0 comments
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by zcarter 9y ago
One weird trick: sit at the very front of your chair with your thighs pitched down, weight resting on your butt. That will angle your pelvis forward, closer to a standing position. You should find it easier to sit upright with your spine st
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by zcarter 9y ago
For a flavor of the content that is being reminisced, an old favorite: https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcri...
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by zcarter 10y ago
Prominently featured in a recent documentary on manufacturing in Shenzhen. Recommended: http://www.wired.co.uk/video/shenzhen-full-documentary
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Radical Changes Are on the Way for Investment Banks(wsj.com)
1 points by zcarter 10y ago|2 comments
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by zcarter 10y ago
Per Neuroskeptic's due diligence, human effects don't look promising. >>> This is a citation to one of their own papers, from 2012. There’s just one problem – as far as I can see that paper didn’t find the correlation tha
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by zcarter 11y ago
Also available as python/R packages- pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/brewer2mpl/1.4.1 cran: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RColorBrewer/index.h...
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by zcarter 11y ago
I like to explain it with a wager: pick a star from the night's sky. If you pick the star I'm thinking of, I'll give you a dollar. After you've made your selection, I'll give you the opportunity to switch to one oth
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by zcarter 11y ago
Tongue in cheek? Alternatively, you should know about: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas...
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by zcarter 12y ago
If anyone is looking for a starting point to Gardner's vast works, I highly recommend "Aha! Insight."
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by zcarter 12y ago
MS backend dev here. Are you referring to the Mighty Spring position? We are automagically matching new signups to our own open positions to both dogfood our product and give users a sense of how the job match process works when they don&#x
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by zcarter 12y ago
Mighty Spring backend dev here. The short answer is yes, but there are not many remote-only jobs right now (beta and what-have-you). That will hopefully soon change. Candidate affordances let you indicate a willingness to work remotely, and
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by zcarter 12y ago
I think a useful conversation to have is, "how quickly we can replace politicians with robots?" A political discourse addressing the topic would necessarily acknowledge the radical changes most technology enthousiasts expect to ta
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Don't flip the Bozo bit(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by zcarter 12y ago|0 comments
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by zcarter 12y ago
Coming from an investment management background, it has been hilarious to see people espousing all manner of foolish nostrums about tech hiring, showcasing biases that have proper names in the investment community, My favorites are of the &
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by zcarter 12y ago
I would reframe the suggestion as two ideas. 1) "hire for your culture" and 2) conditioning on a cultural expectation of individuals putting up with lots of problems on their own, "make sure new hires can cope." The latt
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by zcarter 13y ago
If I'm going to be automating jobs away, they may as well be jobs that are generally loathed. FD: MS engineer participant
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by zcarter 13y ago
Looks like someone there got a hold of Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint "the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually w
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by zcarter 13y ago
Some relevant points for engineers addressed here: http://blog.mightyspring.com/post/74827679281/battling-outsi... Know who (with)holds information Avoid information asymmetry
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by zcarter 13y ago
An interesting thought experiment that should be informing more of the discussion is to take inevitability for granted. If mass surveillance does exist, the concern becomes equality of access. Information asymmetry is now the problem. Fear
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by zcarter 13y ago
I find Terrence McKenna's argument that consciousness is demonstrably entangled in the material world at a quantum mechanical, atomic level convincing. To summarize, it is known that two similar chemical compounds, differing only in th
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by zcarter 13y ago
Given the asymmetry in the difficulty market participants have with selling (and withdrawal in fiat, in a timely manner) or shorting bitcoin, as compared to the effort involved in buying bitcoin, any news is bullish news. This should hold g
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by zcarter 13y ago
If you suppress prices, you reduce supply. Demand remains high, supply is now artificially low. One unspoken benefit of this history of wage suppression is the dearth of engineering talent today. Rather than high prices signaling an opportu
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by zcarter 13y ago
I always explain this problem with stars: I'm thinking of a star in the night's sky... guess which one. Alright, good guess, but would you consider changing? You can either keep your original guess, or switch to this one other sta
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by zcarter 13y ago
Step one (always): Look at your data. Only then should you choose the statistic(s) you 'care' about.
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by zcarter 13y ago
A story about the benefits of fiber optic cable over investment is often used to dismiss the harm caused by the late nineties internet bubble. What do we have to show for our recent hosting bubble?
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by zcarter 13y ago
Right. I needed to define "problems." Problems at the level of society. If everyone has access to everyone else's behavior on the internet, society would change, yes, but I do not really believe the possibility of 'chang
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by zcarter 13y ago
Right, "Price Stability" is a different thing with real merits.
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by zcarter 13y ago
Most of the problems arise from the existence of asymmetric information. Consider how a blackmailer's power evaporates when the information they possess is made public. I think the simplest and most likely outcome is that all of the co
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by zcarter 13y ago
The 'depreciating currency is a problem' argument is true for the existence of any asset having a higher yield than your widget factory. Why wouldn't you invest in that high yield asset instead of your widget factory? In this

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