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Antigravitas posted:The gently caress is that in response to, and why do I get the feeling that Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as 'man' and 'woman'
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growlist 14 days ago [-] I'm a fan of Hayek on this - I believe the market is one of the most incredible things every created by humanity, phenomenally complex and information rich, and it stands to reason that there is no way a group of people can ever hope to come close to the market's capability of communicating information about desires from people to producers. And the best practical evidence we have is that every significant attempt at communism has produced dreadful outcomes, up to and including actual genocide. Communism can only work when every country in the world is Communist, because otherwise people will always want to leave for the Capitalist country where things are better. Draw your own conclusions about where highly visible activists really want to take the world. seems like a charmer
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Xik posted:Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as 'man' and 'woman' "but how am I supposed to clumsily wrap this and middleman-sell it to other companies for Computer Aided Discrimination" 
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lol that guys beef is that he needs an API to validate his identity as a cis guy
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the computer is the absolute Source of Truth Facts Dont Care About Your Feelings
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quote:I work in the blockchain space (the blockchain I work on doesn't use Merkle trees) and I still don't understand why there is so much hype around Merkle trees. My understanding is that they allow you to quickly check if an element is part of a potentially large set? Isn't this 'fast lookup' problem already solved by database indexing? quote:My point stands that if each block ID is computed from:
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Vomik posted:first year all in comp is about 150-160k. where is a 23 year old going to make 300-320k anywhere else in the world easily a 23 year old who has an ivy league degree and good enough connections to get hired as a junior banker these are not exactly "regular joes"
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PCjr sidecar posted:play cravath games, win capitalism prizes i loled
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a 23 year old who has an ivy league degree and good enough connections to get hired as a junior banker its ibanking, management consulting, vc and tech majors (and oil majors) not exactly the most moral bunch, these
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onetimemanytime 31 minutes ago | parent | favorite | on: Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and ... >>Here's just a few of the corporations that exploit prison (slave) labor Apples and mangoes: Would it be better if prisoners didn't work at all or is $1 a day better for them? Is this forced labor? Did these companies set the salaries or did the Government?
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Reinventing things badly is a HNs raison d'être, non?
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thu2111 22 hours ago [-] Haha yeah -4, that's pretty far out. Lots of people who hate tax credits out there! It's really hard to defend libraries though. They're not just an inefficient use of space. They're bad for the environment too, as people have to travel back and forth all the time to swap books, discover the book they want isn't returned yet, etc. They're often badly maintained. Their books get damaged, lost or stolen. Their selection is really, really limited. Buying a book online is a great replacement except for the buying part. For most people books aren't a big part of their expenditure. For people for whom it is it'd be reasonable to effectively give them the money back instead. Especially now the marginal cost of the "book" is near zero, like with software. If the admin systems were good enough you'd never have to think about it: it could be integrated with the booksellers checkout system so the cost is literally zero. Of course that's not how tax credits really work today, but it could be done that way. reply
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I really, really hate that person.
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Antigravitas posted:I really, really hate that person.
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thu2111 9 hours ago [-] Collaboration and production? I think your local libraries are very different to the sorts of libraries I used to use as a child. What you're describing there sounds more like a community centre of some sort. Libraries are traditionally silent for example. You don't collaborate in them or else you get shushed. You definitely don't run 3D printers in them! But I can see that if that's what you associate with modern libraries then replacing them with book purchase credits would seem a poor trade. thu2111 4 hours ago [-] Maybe so. But is it still a library if its primary cited uses isn't reading books? Why not just rename it to what it really is, some sort of community/maker centre?
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Antigravitas posted:I really, really hate that person. He hasn't been to a library since he was a kid, probably 30 years ago or whatever.
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Antigravitas posted:I really, really hate that person.
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Xik posted:He hasn't been to a library since he was a kid, probably 30 years ago or whatever. it's because he's rich, op books are "not a major expenditure," because he doesn't read, and because $20 for a book is like buying a banana, to him`
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it's because he's rich, op Xik posted:He hasn't been to a library since he was a kid, probably 30 years ago or whatever. It’s both
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I have a terminal case of computer touchery and I just got a library card this week because I can borrow books from anywhere in the state and get access to a bunch of academic journals from the comfort of my home. One book I'm picking up Monday is $55 on Amazon. I make good money but I'm not stupid.
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my partner is wrapping up a degree remotely and the local library is able to proctor his exams, including receiving the exam from the university and then scanning and emailing back the result, for free
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Progressive JPEG posted:my partner is wrapping up a degree remotely and the local library is able to proctor his exams, including receiving the exam from the university and then scanning and emailing back the result, for free
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kragen 3 hours ago [-] Mathematicians are perfectly capable of doing all those self-care things, as monks do in every monastery. (By contrast, non-mathematicians are unable to build anything larger than a small hut without help from mathematicians in the form of geometry.) I don't know of a single mathematician who has ODed on amphetamines, although of course amphetamines have been popular with mathematicians since they were discovered; and I know of only one who voted for Trump (Dan Kleitman), although undoubtedly others exist. The doses of amphetamines conducive to doing mathematics are about two orders of magnitude lower than the lethal doses, so it seems unlikely that someone who takes them to improve concentration rather than for euphoria would OD accidentally, as heroin users frequently do. Funding is only necessary to the extent that it helps keep the torch-wielding villagers away from the gate. To the extent that it subjects mathematical research to political tests, it is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive. If my filter bubble includes Bruno, Socrates, Mozi, Gödel, Turing, and Archimedes, I think its radius is adequate. I think the downvoting of my "tirade" to -2 has shown that non-mathematicians hate and fear mathematicians, think that all those killings of mathematicians I listed were reasonable and justified, and would like to silence any criticism of them. reply
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AFashionableHat posted:I have a terminal case of computer touchery and I just got a library card this week because I can borrow books from anywhere in the state and get access to a bunch of academic journals from the comfort of my home. libraries kick rear end. hoopla, kanopy, overdrive, free lynda subscription - youve already paid for it, might as well use it
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fritz posted:kragen 3 hours ago [-] how can you post about tweaker math nerds and not mention erdos
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AFashionableHat posted:I have a terminal case of computer touchery and I just got a library card this week because I can borrow books from anywhere in the state and get access to a bunch of academic journals from the comfort of my home. Ahh this sounds amazing. Where I live you can only access the academic papers from their network, so I just use sci-hub and my VPN instead
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Nomnom Cookie posted:how can you post about tweaker math nerds and not mention erdos Or Kolmogorov
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fritz posted:kragen 3 hours ago [-] Beep boop BLORT
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fritz posted:kragen 3 hours ago [-]  this is why you never let the nerds interact with the customer
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alexandriao posted:Or Kolmogorov ooooh look at me im andrey im gonna define conditional probability in terms of unconditional probability im such a smarty man *snorts a fat line*
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Sapozhnik posted:Beep boop I'm my thesis is also named BLORT
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spectramax 3 hours ago [-] At the risk of sounding "out of touch with reality" and "retro nostalgic", I strongly believe that a lot of clean, sterile work took place in the 1965-1985 era. From UNIX to SR-71, everything mankind did in the technical space was minimal, purposeful, clean, legible, durable, maintainable, modular and many other adjectives that would compound on the idea of creating a truly better product or service. Marketing took a backseat, science and data mattered and advertisement was truthful. Today's world seems broken, fragile, noisy and unmaintained. May be that humanity needs to unwind, rewind back a couple of decades and try again. If you play the scenario of human evolution multiple times, I am sure a large scale system such as global society would end up in a different state... every time. Reminds me of the story that Kyoto, Japan didn't get ruined because one of the military commanders in charge of the nuclear bomb drop locations, had a soft spot for Kyoto... and instead chose Nagasaki and Hiroshima. [1] If we were to replay human progress, I want us to go back to that era and relive the engineering life. Must have been amazing to work in a technical field in the 70's and 80's. Now we have AI and Quantum and all these loving buzzwords, largely perpetuated by people who have no clue - marketing and PR folks. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/hi... reply
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If only I could go back in time to help develop horrible weapons of mass destruction that were going to be used to kill tens of thousands of civilians. That was truly the pinnacle of engineering.
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gold from the hn comments:quote:madeofpalk 1 hour ago [-] quote:FillardMillmore 1 hour ago [-]
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Achmed Jones posted:ooooh look at me im andrey im gonna define conditional probability in terms of unconditional probability im such a smarty man *snorts a fat line* Look,
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alexandriao posted:gold from the hn comments: every now and then there is a good post on hn
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AFashionableHat posted:I have a terminal case of computer touchery and I just got a library card this week because I can borrow books from anywhere in the state and get access to a bunch of academic journals from the comfort of my home.  my city's library is fantastic. i still spend decent money on books/ebooks, but poo poo i get from the library instead probably saves me a couple hundred dollars a year
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