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cowabungabruceon Combating Misinformation

Gotta starve the beast somehow. Then worry about the other minnows.

cowabungabruceon Combating Misinformation

They can remove the entire newsfeed and remove the ability for users to share links?

Oh wait, nevermind, this is "Combating Misinformation WHILE STAYING a multibillion rev business who makes money from users' attention"

cowabungabruceon BerkShares

Grew up in Pittsfield. Went to South Berkshire schools. Also never heard of them.

But I still have a Berkshire Bank card in my wallet!

cowabungabruceon Simple example of machine learning in TensorFlow

Squaring gets you guaranteed positive numbers. Remember, we are adding all the errors together to optimize the model: If we get

sum_errors_A = 4 + -3 + -1

sum_errors_B = 1 + 1 + 1

B is obviously the better model, but it has a higher error than A when comparing. If we squared all the terms and then added, B would be the stronger model.

cowabungabruceon My Year in San Francisco’s $2M Secret Society Startup

This is Jeff Hull's follow up to the Jejune Institute, which I was lucky to have participated in and you can see a documentary on it called "The Institute".