> knowledge across the whole scene
isn't really correct.
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> knowledge across the whole scene
isn't really correct.
> This repo is attempting to apply Benford's Law to vote count distribution, so that's what actually needs to span multiple orders of magnitude. Precinct distribution is a factor in vote count distribution but it doesn't tell the whole story. I don't see the Milwaukee data in this repo, but take a look at the Chicago data: https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords/blob/main/data/chi... Biden's vote totals are solidly contained within one order of magnitude, the 100-999 range. Trump's vote totals range from single digits into the hundreds, across three orders of magnitude. Jo Jorgensen is mostly in the 0-20 range, across two orders of magnitude.
Then at the end the author says:
> Docker and Electron are the most hyped new technologies of the last five years. Both are not about improving things, figuring out complexity or reducing it.
That's not why these are 'hyped' technologies. These things solve real problems. Electron solves the problem of a cross platform GUI with permissive licensing where there are an abundance of cheaper frontend devs vs QT experts.
Sure, Johnathan Blow said we could just copy programs between computers in 1960s but that's because every computer in the lab was the same back then. But that isn't reality today. Today, if you want to ship some server applications to different business customers you'll find yourself having to maintain N different install scripts for the N different distros your customers have. Or you could simplify and use docker and have a consistent environment for your application.
> They do not need to know, exactly, how X is built, why it was built that way, or how to write an alternative X from scratch.
Why on earth would they? I want them to build Y not build me an X from scratch. But I assume they are competent engineers that can solve novel problems and they would research and build me an X if tasked to it. After all most software engineers got their engineering knowledge from trying to solve problems they were tasked with in their career, not in a classroom.
There is no intelligent discourse in this piece. The author could have looked at why these technologies were created and adopted, maybe have made the argument that their adoption is unwarranted due to X. Supported X with good examples and proof.
Collecting observations aka data.
> deriving the mathematical laws that govern what you see
Fitting a model.
> Your neural network doesn't tell you what features make songs distinct
It literally learns better features that you could ever come up with by hand. This is why CNNs do better in computer vision that hand engineered filters.
> I guarantee you they'd do a better job, and their models would work on a commadore64, with real time training.
LOL if you think that a room full of people can listen to TBs of audio data, decide what mathematical functions when combined together are better descriptors of that data than a DL model learning its features.
You don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about.
Plenty of parallels between the two. People are hurt in the filming of both. It's damaging to the survivors. It feeds into the fetishes of those who would watch such a thing (it's a snuff film). In the case of this film I could argue that potential perpetrators could study the film for their own plans.
Cabs:
* Cars regulated by state.
* Usually cheaper than Uber rides (in my experience always).
* Know the city like the back of their hand.
* Can file a complaint directly with the state or cab company.
* Accountable through a taxi license.
* Won't defraud you with bogus cleaning fees.
Uber:
* Been in two minor car accidents due to driver switching between Waze and GMaps to find the route or just constantly fiddling with their phone.
* Had an Uber driver show up in a car that looked nearly totaled. Passenger side door was nonfunctional due to damage.
* Poorly maintained cars operated around the clock by operators than get virtually no sleep due to an unlivable wage.
* Had a driver travel at high speeds in poor conditions while talking about how they only get a couple of hours a sleep a night and manipulating their phone.
* Many drivers clearly living in their car, undergarments and clothes on front passenger seat.
* Uncomfortably hit on my girlfriend 100% of the time if she is alone.
* Driver complaints often ignored / go into the corporate void.
This is why we don't trust ancedata.
You can already do that today. So why don't we have a superintelligence? I can train a NTM to learn counting and give me the next natural number in a single step. I can't train it to give me the next prime in a single step, why?. Computability and complexity, both conveniently forgotten in the discussion of superintelligence.