mooneater

Killer article here by Karen Hao, hard hitting ending.

Wonder what fb thought they were getting into here with MTR!

like graphviz does

And here I was thinking probabilistic graphical models were finally getting the spotlight :)

> accepted her resignation immediately

In saying "resignation", CNN is presenting the management framing -- as many people have pointed out, she was fired.

Bloomberg states both sides of that: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/google-ai...

As does The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/7/22158501/timnit-gebru-tea...

Qbert would be stoked

I want to know how republicans that take it feel.

Which book should you read? https://www.bradyneal.com/which-causal-inference-book

Does anyone think that the social advances of the recent centuries would have ever happened, if there was no death? If we had the same society with the same people with the same prejudices?

Womens rights. Democracy. Anti-racism. Religious tolerance. Gay rights. Environmentalism.

All of these would have never happened if had managed to kill "the dragon".

Death is not just suffering, its a critical part of the cycle of renewal. Author is nuts imo.

Death is the one great equalizer between billionaires and the poor. Remove that and we would get Eternal Robber-barons, which would be the new dragons.

Is the diagram a joke? That's total ERD spaghetti.

Lets see an open social graph, Mark

I'm surprised by a lot of the suggestions (learn C?). I mean sure, everything is interesting, but what is the goal here.

There are many paths, I suspect you could use more exploration to know which ones appeal to you.

From my pov: - general backend people are a dime a dozen, deep front end expertise is harder to find. if you already have front end skills, adding deeper design/UX skills to that would take you to another level completely - on the backend, python unlocks a giant data / ML ecosystem, plus django

Because good fake video is now possible for the first time, good video was nearly impossible to fake. Because people believe certain leaders who are willing to use false evidence. Because the populace is not prepared to be that discerning.

You never know who is going to buy who, data leaks and hacks are rampant. Over time this adds up.

So its safest to assume any digital data anywhere will eventually be in the hands of any significant actor who really wants it. Its just a matter of how long it takes to get there.

Its not all mortgages though.

What do you tell the property owner who paid off mortgage, and uses the rent as primary income? Should the govt pay these people? I suppose they could get the banks to loan the money interest free...

I dont have access yet.

But we want something more subtlety: "Will it rain in San Francisco on July 5 2025?" -> "I cant know". "Will the sun rise in San Francisco on July 5 2025?" -> "Yes, of course" And "Will Obama give a speech in 2125?" -> "Not unless life extension tech takes off"

Awesome! Could you share a bit about business model?

Love postgres. But for fdw don't you have to spell out the schema? That makes it hard for quickly accessing arbitrary data. Would be nice if it would deduce the schema.

If you step back from modern fullstack web development, it is stunning how much accidental complexity is needed to accomplish anything at all.

Randy Pausch was of CMU not MIT as stated in the article

The farmers with 2000 acres are not the ones I'm most worried about

Im sorry for your loss, and I can relate to wishing to share things with my Mom, she was a great listener.

I try to explain that to my sons when they ignore their Mom, that one day she won't be there, but its very hard for teens to imagine.

Glad to hear you were close. Smoking is very hard to quit, it was not your fault.

Thank you for your kindness, friendly stranger ^_^

You are right that she would forgive. Yet we can make it harder to forgive ourselves.

I will try to stay conscious of this. Thank you for your kind comment.

Thank you, you are very kind.

Im doing pretty well and have supportive friends and family.

Are you a counsellor or generally like helping people through issues? I've always felt like I wanted to do that, though I'm not sure I have the right skills.

I was 22, that was the last mothers day my mother was alive for. Of course I didn't know at the time, but I didn't call. Im 44 now and its one of my biggest regrets.

Dont be like me. Call her.

In this case, that's great news

We as a society are in need of a long-term, detailed collective memory of evidence of credibility.

But that is only useful if credibility is highly valued.

Neither are true of our society today. People both forget what someone said yesterday, or if they remember then they decide it didn't matter that much they were wrong.

Waste