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Too many comments focused on whether Google was justified in firing her/the appropriateness of the email and not enough on the impact/veracity allegations.

Much more interesting questions that might get revealed a bit:

Does Google treat minorities appropriately? Is Google covering up ai ethics research? Does Google care about AI ethics/bias?

The anger is a distraction. The allegations are most important.

"Google silences minorities/women/AI researchers" is way more interesting/important than "Google/AI researcher did/didn't misbehave."

Too many people expecting too perfect of behavior from someone apparently put it a shitty situation by much more powerful forces.

Based on the contents of the email things were already beyond repair

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

I mean if you are a bias/ethics researcher and your bosses ignore/limit your work then there are reasons to complain/whistleblow.

Slandered, how? https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1331757629996109824?s... seems to be the complaint. This seems plausible given her work to push towards less biased data/algorithms got squashed and she resigned.

Once you factor in selection it probably does.

I'd say obfuscation is creating a level of indirection just to look modular. Moving things complex dependent side effects into separate functions just hides what is going on instead of clarifying it.

  void MajorFunction( void ) {
        MinorFunction1();
        MinorFunction2();
        MinorFunction3();
  }

This can often be better inlined because then the complexity is obvious.

Facebook provides a service that people use. Improving the likelihood of finding accurate information may increase people's likelihood of using it. Taking down groups decreases that likelihood. Which is more important isn't always clear

Planned from 2010? Give me a break. https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2010...

And nobody has contradicted the story? C'mon.

Biden is a studderer and that can cause merged and slurred words.

Blatant in annotation false or outrageous claims by Trump? Trump claiming victory when votes aren't counted is something to be careful about reporting.

Hydrogen is very cheap to store. Renewable electricity is free once the panels/turbines are built. There will be long periods with zero price energy and other times with limited energy. Making hydrogen to use for the energy into the dark/unwindy weeks may make more sense than more excess solar/wind.

I've never really seen a good explanation of why REST is a meaningful concept. Why REST? Why these requirements? What do you mean stateless? What is bad about deviating?

Have you moved on from Cadence to this? What differences are there? Looks interesting.

This is similar to AWS step functions which kinda descended from more general/powerful AWS Simple Workflow.

Ooh interesting, I'd be interested in that code/work. I'm somewhat familiar with Tornado codes but haven't looked in years

Reed Solomon might run into issues with it's n^2 runtime if you make too many pieces. Fountain codes or other codes though could do the job.

Yeah I skimmed through and was like "there is no content here"

Note that as much as 30 percent of car pollution is not from the fuel and would remain.

Yes you can! Apply an All or Nothing Transform before RS encoding so that you need all of the original data to decrypt. Then you can only decrypt if you have k of n pieces. You save by a factor of k in piece size over SSS.

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2011.pdf

You could also look at http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2011.pdf

You can combine the reconstruction properties of Reed Solomon (you need k of n pieces) with the All or Nothing Transform. Encrypting data so that you need all of the data to decrypt.

Then you can essentially do Shamir secret sharing witout storage overhead. A 1 MB file split so you need 5 pieces would have 200 KB pieces instead of 1mb pieces. This is at a cost of exchanging information theoretic security for computational security.