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asdfaefasdf··on Birth Order Effects Exist and Are Strong
1/3 of respondents are still in school. 2/3 of respondents have been reading the blog for >1 year. 94% consider the blog "favorable"

Pretty skewed results.

asdfaefasdf··on Birth Order Effects Exist and Are Strong
His writing indicates he believes his readers are "more intelligent", and he believes that first borns are "more intelligent". So yeah, if you were a second born, who was more intelligent, you'd dismiss his blog as BS, and would not be counted among the survey respondents.
asdfaefasdf··on Psychedelic stickers that interfere with AI image recognition
This sticker only works against this classifier. If you start changing the algorithm, you'd need to change the attack to match.

If you think you can write a better image classifier by first segmenting the image before using ML, then I encourage you to get your own computer vision paper published and see how that works for you.

asdfaefasdf··on Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV?
That's actually about 2x the population of the US with HIV. Relatively speaking, it's not that rare comparatively.
asdfaefasdf··on Max Howell's take on getting rejected by Google
TL;DR >I wasn’t very clear what a binary tree was
asdfaefasdf··on How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online
That's foolish. The lead up time to become an expert at deep learning: Probably 6 years minimum.

No one hires people to do deep learning with 0 years experience.

Very few people with the skills you assume by default (basically anyone with programming skills) would be convinced to leave their cooshy jobs, but plenty of people with no skills or prospects would.

asdfaefasdf··on Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off
I have literally no idea how you could have reached the idea that you would be an indentured servant/bill collector. Is this some sort of post-truth propaganda?
asdfaefasdf··on A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages
>just read a newspaper from Guyana

I just glanced as 5 online papers, and one scanned tabloid-style paper.

I still have no idea what you are talking about. What am I supposed to be detecting in the writing here?

edit: I guess I found one or two slight different ways of expressing things, like starting a sentence with "Said he:", but, really it's fairly minor.

asdfaefasdf··on My Google job was tedious and pointless
I'm genuinely amazed that some people can have such strong feelings about something so trivial as what color a bikeshed is.
asdfaefasdf··on Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart
I think "falls apart" is overreaching. If the claim was that 21 states were targeted by russian hackers, and only two states repudiate that, that's less than a 10% error rate.

Keep in mind that state governments want to make sure they aren't deemed incompetent. But anyone who knows anything about "the cyber" knows that there are tons of legacy systems at both the state and federal level which are wide open to possible attacks.

The suggestion that an adversary could "scan" the networks is totally within the realm of plausability. This is the first step of a cyber attack, and while an individual state may be able to conclude that they weren't successfully attacked, it doesn't mean they weren't targeted to begin with.