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cygaril··on Notes on AI Bias
From a machine learning point of view, one can just add the constraint that the probability of being in the "yes" bucket is that same for both male and female candidates. Doing this will give a worse fit than an unconstrained optimization, but it is fairer.

More sophisticated approaches are possible.

cygaril··on The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research
Hanabi is easier - fewer hidden states, purely cooperative, and can be played with only two players.

(I'm aware that uncontested bridge bidding is a thing, but it's still harder than 2p Hanabi)

cygaril··on Ending our Medium integration
The "must include" is a hyperlink. Click it and you'll get results that do include that word.
cygaril··on Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name
Buying content.
cygaril··on Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson
Algorithms are named after al-Khwarizmi, and "algebra" comes from the Arabic name of his book, but logarithm was coined from Greek.
cygaril··on Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
USD transactions don't have to flow through the US, either nominally or in actuality.

This is obviously true in the case of cash transactions which consist of the physical transfer of small green pieces of paper in places outside the US.

It is also true of bank transactions, for example the vast Eurodollar market which has been in existence since the 1950s. If a non-US bank offers USD-denominated accounts and transfers funds from one of those accounts to another, this can and does happen entirely outside US jurisdiction.

cygaril··on Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling
Every two weeks, roughly.
cygaril··on Swift for TensorFlow
It's using Swift to create a TensorFlow (or XLA) graph which can be evaluated on a TPU. From that point of view, the name makes sense.
cygaril··on Deep image prior 'learns' on just one image
Women are real people too.
cygaril··on Colliding neutron stars falsify some theories of gravity
I think you mean the O(r^3) Schwartzchild radius will eventually overtake the radius r?
cygaril··on New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior
London has online live bus information, but not live tracking. It's still very useful though.

https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/490013766E/trafalgar-square-char...

cygaril··on HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015)
I believe GP's claim is factually accurate. The USA has the 4th highest homicide rate in the OECD, after Mexico, Turkey, and Estonia [1]. Roughly 2/3 of US homicides are using firearms [2]. After reducing the US homicide rate by a factor of 3, the US would still be 13th (out of 34) on the OECD list, between Portugal and France.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/oecd-homicide-rates-chart-201... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_S...

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