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amcoastal··on Google keyword warrants give U.S. government data on search users
Domesticated and undomesticated both sound terrible, does your paranoia not allow for an in between state?
amcoastal··on So you want to go to grad school (in the academic humanities)?
I like doing research, it's fun and always changing and it's cool developing new techniques. Publishing and prestige are sort of like the "have-tos" of research, to me. Kind of like doing coding sprints and JIRA tickets are have-tos for developers.
amcoastal··on Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
Imagine typing this comment and being proud of yourself for saying a good thing.
amcoastal··on Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement
You're the first person to tell me accreditation or clearances are a negative, but maybe we apply for different jobs. I'm going to continue to believe the opposite until you show some evidence.
amcoastal··on Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
You're right my browser is too slow! Webpages only load nearly instantly, I'm sure bringing back all the ads will make everything even better!
amcoastal··on Canadian military saw pandemic as opportunity to test propaganda techniques
In the US the treatments are absolutely limited by bed availability. And towing around a statistic like "less people are being treated" is the entire point the not shill world is trying to make. Do you know why less people are being treated? Because the beds are full of people with COVID and hospitalized COVID patients take longer to treat than most other hospital stays. So the beds are being filled and not emptied at regular rates leading to less people being treated. Maybe it's extremely different in the UK but here in the US people with your attitude are a huge problem.
amcoastal··on Physics-Based Deep Learning Book
The common terminology is Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
amcoastal··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
Obviously the law isn't consistent. Doesn't mean we should race to the bottom though, expanding everyone's bodily autonomy should be a goal.
amcoastal··on Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
Yeah but they always think they have a gun, or so they say. It's not always having a gun pointed at you, it's the threat that it could happen. Very real to American police that keep them on edge, where in other countries that risk is lower so there is less sensitivity to a suspect moving there arm near a pocket or behind their back if they are far away from the officer (which makes it naturally harder to see what they are going for). Not saying it's a good thing, it's just a large contributing factor.
amcoastal··on Beyond All Reason: Open-source RTS reimagining Total Annihilation
There was another post about an open source RTS game, you're commenting on an 18 hour post.
amcoastal··on Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South
70% of the countries GDP were in counties Biden won. 90% of counties that voted for Trumps population shrunk since 2010.
amcoastal··on Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm
Lmfao, sure, if you take Facebooks arguments at face value even though they are obviously wrong. But hey, who cares if the argument is true if its a launching point for a moronic personal grievance to be aired.
amcoastal··on Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
So who is responsible for this decision? Is it Tim Cook?
amcoastal··on Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
Its really a great system we have here --- get insanely wealthy off the backs of Americans who pay tons more for basic services and then when it's time to pay back run off and keep your change. No wonder America is doing so well.
amcoastal··on Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19
In most countries they are probably dead.
amcoastal··on Restaurant workers quit at record rate
Its hilarious that you don't read the article to realize the comment is wrong. Surprise, confirmation bias strikes again.
amcoastal··on Restaurant workers quit at record rate
Yeah they probably have two income that get pretty close to 130k, or they get government subsidies and credits to make up the difference. Raising kids is extremely expensive but also subsidized heavily, and those are probably not accounted for in the "required salary" from this tool.
amcoastal··on Reservoirs are drying up in the Western U.S.
Yeah. Not a lot of sympathy, there's plenty of water to go around, stop trying to grow corn in a desert.
amcoastal··on NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
Lots of parallels here as well between research/academia and consulting -- the senior PI is the name on the proposals to get funded but everyone knows the work is done by grad students at exploitative wages to keep research cheap.
amcoastal··on The economics of dollar stores
Definitely! Dollar tree is the place to get things like dishes and cleaning supplies. You get the same bottle for $1 that is 1.88 at Walmart or whatever. I'll only buy things that the dollar store I KNOW are cheaper though, sometimes you'll think you're getting a deal and then the same product at Walmart is 90 cents.
amcoastal··on North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
They could've not considered his testimony, but instead they called it illegal under threat of being charged for a crime for giving his opinion.
amcoastal··on Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll
Not sure why this is being downvoted. If someone has a point against this opinion, I'm interested to hear it.
amcoastal··on As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
While your points are good your last paragraph projects a lot of weaknesses onto your readers. Do you believe you're the first person to come up with these points and realize them? Or perhaps that someone could have taken an opposite approach of yours -- moving from very religious to non-religious and can see the same behaviors? And then you continue to assume the only way forward is to perpetrate that behavior.

All while claiming other people don't have the cognitive tools you do. I'm amazed this comment didn't get downvoted.

amcoastal··on What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
Maybe where you live. There's a 0% chance human driving will be banned in America until we are all well passed driving age.
amcoastal··on NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
And how's thats working out so far?
amcoastal··on A study in North Carolina of dying trees
The carbon from a dead tree doesn't just go back into the atmosphere. Most of it stays in the soil.
amcoastal··on NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)
This seems like an old school and specific way of describing a much larger goal using NNs and auto encoders. To take data and reduce its dimensionality, while getting a (near) perfect reconstruction of the original input from the latent space data. Reducing (haha pun) this broad effort to just "data compression" leaves a lot of nuance and use out of sight.
amcoastal··on AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
Am I the only person who experiences longer load time on amp pages? I literally have to click the little paperclip at the top of an amp page to go to the regular one to load in like 50% of the time. Is it because I use Firefox or something?
amcoastal··on Good data scientist, bad data scientist
99% of companies? Definitely not. The skills needed to do DS in business or healthcare are not very correlated with doing DS for the physical sciences. Which is the whole point of this comment thread, sure you can understand DL, but you also have to have an understanding of the field to know what type of DL to use. For example, in my role, I came with knowledge of machine learning but had to learn complex fluid physics to be able to know what type of DL techniques to apply or develop.
amcoastal··on Apple tries to get Epic to admit there's porn on its store
Imagine how high apples stock price will go when they're forced to allow porn on the app store. They're missing out on so much potential revenue right now.
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