No snark, but if you sincerely believe that, then there can't be a Libertarian Utopia because the libertarians are outnumbered by scoundrels 1mil to 3. Why would you take a path destined for failure?
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Society's bigotry is going to flood that bad boy so quick you might as well name it Gobbels.
I love ML. I want children to be safe. This is not the place for ML or AI or Quantum or any tech.
What needs to exist is better resources for those children, that mother grading the tests, the teachers of those children, and social services that are meant to support them. If you want to make a difference about this, look there.
Don't go building a automaton King Solomon who decides why this kid should be taken from these parents because speaking Spanish was worth -0.1 on some goddamn weight trained on data generated from a racist society.
This isn't a "spooky" correlation a cool algorithm can detect, it's a serious, layered social problem.
It certainly could be a problem if the prompt was too narrow, or time constraints, or some other factor.
Do you think the correlation by itself indicates something negative/inefficient I'm missing?
But even with these examples, the path of appeal and rectification of mistakes is much easier with all humans involved. I fear soon people will side with the machine out of ignorance or to be justified in an incorrect stance.
The idea that we could be so poorly taught by broken automated systems, that we become incapable of detecting the system is broken seems like a possibility with AI that is much less likely in pure human systems of education (though not impossible).
Not a reflection of physical reality like sensor data or even accounting information, but the method of communication explicitly invented for production and consumption by humans.
Of course feedback from humans is more valuable than feedback computers, it would be irrational/miraculous if anything was better at giving feedback than a human.
It is a shame it isn't self evident to instructors how poor of a solution this is, and how much better the results are when using critique by peers and instructors -- the classic way of doing things.
There is a compelling case for immigration for that sake alone.
I do not know if it will be sustainable, but I doubt it will be static.
How do you fix it though? A large funding program? If the state or private industry were the backer, how do you prevent manipulation? The only viable models (that spring to my mind) are Spanish-Anarchist type stuff of generally funded unions of technical workers, but that doesn't feel likely.
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Don't laugh now, wait until you see it in real life."
Does that factor in to your thinking?
Documentation, tutorial, working example on github, and sdk in <teams_favorite_lang> were all worth points.
Ban K-Nearest-Neighbor?
I've wondered what my reaction would have been if I had started with something like SICP or HTDP, and wondered if it would've saved me some headache. It's interesting that your real world experiences reflect that it might not have been as enlightening as I wondered.
Edit: "might NOT have been as enlightening..."
Thanks for the reply :)
It's sort of saddening to me that the average CS student exposed to this stuff doesn't experience the sublime when S-expressions suddenly click, or whatever.
I'm sorry, when was everyone equally franchised? Between Jim Crow, Women's Sufferage, and Civil Rights you've got what? The mid 60s to mid 80s as the heyday of American Democracy? Having Nixon smack in the middle of that doesn't really help the arguement.
If we define democracy as universal suffrage and equal vote weight, democracy has been more of an aspiration and less of a reality since the beginning of time. If you don't define democracy that way, then we're talking past eachother.
On one hand to reject it, you would be intolerant of hundreds of years of tradition.
On the other hand, to permit it is to accept the idea that men are incapable of controlling not sexually assualting a woman and that women ought to be blamed for their own victimization. This is clearly intolerant of women being full members of society.
Either way, permitting or banning the burka is intolerant.
Then you arrive at that whole legal concept of reasonable discrimination, because property laws discriminate against thieves. But what is reasonable here?
I'm fond of the idea of only tolerating tolerance, but how do you deal with these edge cases? If you rigidly adhere to that tolerance-uber-allis belief, how long until you end up jailing people for following ancient but intolerant traditions? How long until you end up with Chinese style muslim re-education camps? This isn't a troll, this is actually one of my own philosophical conundrums. I believe in a vacuum that people would be happier not following those ancient intolerant schemas, but I don't see that as the situation in the present day.
Bootcamps do not teach things like pointers, type-theory, or big-O notation. I'm not sure what they do teach, I'm self-taught and via MIT Open Courseware + other net resources, have learned a lot about those, but I have no idea how that compares to either bootcamps or modern CS courses. Not all of my colleagues know about pointers or type-theory, but the senior ones do.
I don't know if my experience is unusual though.
edit: nicer formatting.
I discovered BEAM while looking into a way to run concurrent, distributed Golang/gRPC services in a supervisor-worker set up. I've continued tinkering with OTP ever since.
Edit: added quoted portion.
It just happens to be employed by other frameworks that make it easier to make that mistake.
I'm not familiar with akka, but I do see BEAM (the Erlang VM utilized by Elixir as well) as an alternative to docker swarm/kubernetes.
It requires stack homogeny of BEAM languages, but you can run distributed, concurrent, parallelized code with live debugging tools and "hot code reloading". I feel like the author's point is that docker and friends enable tools not meant for distributed/concurrent/parallel to be deployed in such a way. I could be mistaken and would be curious what you think of that argument.
I'm inclined to agree with the point in as much as docker can permit forcing a square peg into a round hole. On the other hand, being able to develop on *nix and deploy to weird editions of windows 10 had made me deeply appreciate docker.
More or less. Unions are viewed as anti-corporate (rather than an balancing factor), anti-job, and anti-right wing by the Republican party. Even someone who believes in unions in the US would see unions as political.
Some of this comes from machine poltics of the early 1900s, but that being a real factor in American democracy has passed from living memory for the most part. It is much more rooted in the corporate supremacy of the 1980s with strikebreaking and what not.
The keywords here. Even though every dev on my team knows postgres equally or better than mysql, management chose mysql.
I'm one of the equally camp, and don't possess a strong personal preference, but I was surprised that it was the favorite of the devs and not trusted by the business.