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Maybestring··on Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups
That argument assumes a dividing line between business and influence on lawmaking that doesn't exist.

If Corp A is reaping the profit while the cost is diffused then Corp A is in a far better place to influence future laws than those they are harming.

And by the same guiding principals, Corp A should influence the law to the extent allowable by law, including changes which allow them more legal influence, and remove the influence of others.

Maybestring··on Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups
Presenting yourself as giving honest advice while taking kickbacks from the clinics. It's advertising by pretending to be someone that cares about you. It's just cruel.
Maybestring··on Counting Bees on a Raspberry Pi with a ConvNet
Maybe, but you shouldn't count on it. Perhaps a big bee is supposed to be counted as two small bees, you didn't specify when you trained it.
Maybestring··on Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
That's how SomethingAwful worked as well. While money isn't an equitable solution, and it gives the forum a financial incentive to ban users, I think the idea of forcing users to somehow put some skin in the game is a great idea.
Maybestring··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
Virtual weapons are worse when it comes to proliferation. And they are worse when it comes to identifying attackers. Both of these could make them more likely to be used.

Software which say opened the throttle and disabled the brakes on millions of vehicles simultaneously would be in the ballpark for total destruction in a short time. With self-driving cars, the total destruction can be optimized, hunting down pedestrians and hitting vulnerable infrastructure.

Maybestring··on Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
That's not even a claim.
Maybestring··on Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'
There's an easy fix here. Criminalize looking like a criminal.
Maybestring··on Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions
Anti-facist isn't a nice name. Its a violent one. It's anti-facist like anti-clockwise, or anti-matter. The mirror image of facism.
Maybestring··on Using Flywheel Batteries to Charge Electric Vehicles in Ten Minutes
Something is wrong with those numbers. I suspect it's the 360MW-hr battery. That sounds more like a battery pack for a thousand cars.
Maybestring··on Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless
It's a quirk of English that we copied over our general words for amounts from our language for morality.

We might have chosen mass as an anlogy, and Jeff would weigh $100 billion. A very heavy man.

Maybestring··on All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
Q3-2017 does seem a little late for influencing the 2016 election.
Maybestring··on Münchhausen trilemma
Its obvious that logic isn't a good model for how people form and change opinions. (I just feel that it isn't)

So... what's the state of the art?

Maybestring··on Show HN: Offline Object Detection and Tracking on a Raspberry Pi
You could use tensorflow.js, not self-contained, but it only depends on the browser. And... Is it easy to get openCL working on a Pi? WebGL might be slower, but it ought to just work.
Maybestring··on Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware
Well... I'll concede that 2-instructions that aren't reading or writing memory is a pretty narrow set of operations. But it's also much more generally useful than computing one specific hash function.
Maybestring··on Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware
It's just an arithmetic logic unit for tensors. It's not at all like a crypto miner that implements a single algorithm.
Maybestring··on Excel Adds JavaScript and Power BI Support
Power Query M
Maybestring··on Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck
>I think you're overselling the extent of the difficulty here. People from out of state usually manage to get through New York, pedestrians and all, without getting into an accident.

At this point, "it's easy for a person to do it" is probably better evidence that it's a hard problem in AI.

In this case, I believe it's an inverse learning problem. We observe other agents acting in an environment, deduce their policy, then implement that policy ourselves.

A self-driving car that can reconfigure it's software to mimic the behavior of other cars it observes, sounds difficult to me.

Maybestring··on NASA advisers say SpaceX rocket technology could put lives at risk
Not that it wouldn't increase confidence, but if you don't know what you needed to be worried about, you can't be sure that you really tested it.

Loading and unloading fuel repeatedly doesn't validate that the ground crew will be sober for a 5:00am launch on May 6th.

Validation testing is good for testing a known unknown. Whether it's good for testing an unknown unknown, is unknown.

Maybestring··on Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad
While the page doesn't use js, it is there for you to use.

document.body.innerText += 'hello world/n';

Maybestring··on The rise of the pointless job
This would be such a massive change to the world economy that I'm not sure present day prices for anything are even relevant.
Maybestring··on There's no clear evidence Autopilot saves lives
>to the highly publicized Harry Potter death

I must be living under a rock. What happened? Did Dumbledore die in a Tesla?

Maybestring··on Tesla is hit by $2B patent troll case from Nikola Motors
In the terms in which design patents apply, they don't look alike. The lines are off by several feet.
Maybestring··on The Difficulty of Untraining Drug Dogs How to Smell Marijuana
There may even have been incentives to turn other crimes into drug charges. DEA grants to local law enforcement tied drug convictions.
Maybestring··on Alphabet's Median Pay Nears $200k
For an accurate picture, you can't beat a picture. A graph of the distribution of employees over salaries is easy to understand and information rich.
Maybestring··on Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology renaissance'
>No lions most certainly can't acquire new skills in any meaningful way besides trough evolution.

C. Elegans can learn new behaviors. I'm inclined to think that animals with 0 capacity for learning don't exist.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HYG65ra8Ii4/maxresdefault.jpg

Maybestring··on Translations of the Dao De Jing
In the original text, it's all puns. Characters with multiple meanings are used in short statements that (intentionally) don't disambiguate the meaning.
Maybestring··on Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology renaissance'
Lions aren't that dangerous when they're unconscious. It's when they wake up that they get dangerous.
Maybestring··on The Future of Software Is No Code
As long as you don't rely on concepts that don't generalize to higher dimensions. To the extent that you use concepts that don't generalize in your example, you are using a poor example.
Maybestring··on The Future of Software Is No Code
Then you can only talk about two concepts. I would like to be able to say, intelligence, morality, and obesity are mutually orthogonal.

If your model is 2D, then you are requiring a relationship between at least two of them.

Maybestring··on The Future of Software Is No Code
That's the idea, and these ideas do intersect. Rate your belief in them on a scale of 0..1. if your rating was (0,0) you are at the intersection.
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