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Do you have a source where we can read more? Everything I'm finding is an article gushing about how humane Norway's prisons are. I keep finding headlines like "Twice as many suicides in Norwegian prisons" from The Norway Post, but their site won't actually load for me, and the Google cache on those results looks like it's probably their homepage.

I wasn't able to find a lot, but I did find this: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/globalassets/publikationer/for...

That claims that the suicide rate per 100k in norway is 127. According to this:

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=194

The US had around 20 in the same timeframe. Apparently local jails are worse, at around 40-50:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/04/why-jails-have...

So what I've found so far seems to back you up: We're looking at Norway being something like an order of magnitude worse when it comes to prisons. But I'd like to find better data.
> When in 2001 resident work-weeks were reduced to 80 hours, for example, it was hoped that we might be less likely to kill ourselves.

> When Your Doctor Is on a 30-Hour Shift
>Simpson paradox is relevant to changes over time or resampling, not simple rate comparisons

Not true. It absolutely works with simple rate comparisons.
IIRC, when the DOS/Windows shell needs to resolve "program" to either "program.com" or "program.exe", the .com file takes precedence - ISTR this being abused by malware once upon a time.
But you've just proven cocktailpeanuts point that its about the ability to use the knowledge, not simply recall it.
To me, Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington sound like joke parody names for clueless rich overprivileged frat boy brogrammers, from an episode of Silicon Valley or The Simpsons.
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That seems like something for a law firm to judge though, rather than a layman trying to model the psychology of a particular judge. It could be that you try to appease the judge, and you find it renders inferior value.
I just installed GNU Smalltalk to try it.
My favorite regional slang term is "jawn" (Philly region). It's a general-purpose noun (more general-purpose than "thing" because you can use it for any entity at all, even a person).
> That's a logical fallacy (Simpson's Paradox). It could be the case that when you condition on each neighborhood, the per capita murder rate is lower than Britain's, but the overall per capita murder rate is higher.

One, phrase your statement properly. You intended to compare neighborhood to corresponding neighborhood between the two countries. Not "Britain's".

Two, as others have mentioned. You have no basis for invoking Simpson's Paradox.

> Explain how Simpson's Paradox works here. Explain how it can be mathematically possible for each state/city/etc to have a lower murder per capita than the national murder per capita. Use concrete numbers as examples.

Three, how does your example satisfy my comment?

Four, I know Simpson's Paradox. I also know the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something.
Touche, I was uncharitable towards the OP.
If you're not concerned with it being sexist, why the focus on men and women? Would you be equally concerned if men and women were paid in aggregate the same, but the subclass of each that negotiated worse was paid less?

I just find it dishonest to frame the question as about men and women, as you did just now, if your concern is that people who negotiate a worse first salary are paid less. You're at best co-opting an unrelated issue.

I would say that in answer to your question, it's not fair, just as it wasn't when it happened to two men, but I'm not sure it's something we should change.

I'm also going to say that you should stop framing it as a gender equality issue when it's not -- it's a capitalism implementation issue.
Against a human, the games look fairly straight forward.

From what they've released against itself, the games look like a different game. Especially at times, Game 2 in the current crop for example.
Cayley is cool! A 20% project from Google iirc
If consenting adults were the users, I'd agree with you.

But, in my town, this Yik Yak was used by high school, and some older middle school, students to trashtalk each other, both in particular and in general.

In my view it would be a good thing if parents of teens stopped footing the bill for the addictive devices that deliver services like Yik Yak and Instagram for that matter. For one thing, they'd save a bundle. For another, we as a community would have less cybersafety to worry about.

Good riddance to yik yak and the fratboy w##kers that created it.
This isn't a simple SQL statement when you factor in equity compensation.
Your comments strongly advocated for the "limits" being that no company could ever be compelled to compile or produce information for an audit at its own expense. Have you now recognized the error in your earlier position, since you seem to be trying to walk it back?
You seem to know a hell of a lot about me and my particular problems from one, simple message. Tell me, oh great and powerful wizard, how does one acquire such awesome powers of wild-ass, baseless extrapolation?
> Airlines should band together and form working group to redevelop the old system in modern open source tech.

It's surprising how quickly one can suggest a solution based on... what exactly?

Imagine a doctor prescribing "this new fantastic medicine" based on "patient is sick" description. While personally I'm all for open source this is not a silver bullet and should be carefully considered.

Joel had an interesting blog post [0] back then about Netscape rewriting their software.

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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From my experiences with friends who worked or work at Google, you could fit in just as well by being a mediocre programmer or graphic designer who really enjoyed kool-aid.

The terms "Googley" and "Googler" quickly became the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard to me thanks to these people.
You're right. I'm an idiot. Glad I got that sorted out, though.
There is no systematic discrimination.
You ignored my post entirely. The fact that it took the most elite ML lab in the world to engineer this solution using proprietary hardware never seen before that's orders of magnitudes faster at evaluating than what's available to the rest of us is a testament to how hard it is to beat Go. For a long time it was believed to be impossible.

I am not comparing translation or machine vision to AlphaGo, I am merely pointing out that it comes with a broad set of challenges that you aren't even aware of and is a lot harder thank you think.

AlphaGo can beat the next best go playing bot purely using its neural net ensemble without using MCTS, for example. That's a pleasantly surprising result never before seen, to think that it can beat another bot without doing a single tree search during play and evaluation is also a testament to how impressive it is.
That was my impression when I saw them speak at the Atlanta Tech Village.....granted that place tends to attract those types but....
I agree it's not 2/3rds, but it's a significant amount.

"249,900 state prisoners (19%) were sentenced to at least 1 year for property offenses. Sixteen percent of state prisoners were serving sentences for drug-related offenses"

Note that a fair amount of "property offenses" are really drug offenses. You steal things to feed your habit.

And..."Nearly half of federal prisoners incarcerated on September 30, 2015 had been sentenced for drug offenses, the most recent date for which federal offense data were available"
You are speaking about an abstraction which has no interpretation in the law. A transaction does not have to fulfill some existential purpose.

It also happens to be false. The reason people gamble is to win money. They believe that they are lucky.
Is it enough punishment to you that someone spend time deprived of liberty? How much vengeance do you require? "An eye for an eye" and nothing less?
You're threatening to harass someone, to make a point?

And you're doing it, apparently using your real name?

That strikes me as crazy. Just sayin'.
Did you make a post about the new go ide?
Only because you lack information.
"Many people think" is not data.
Why don't the people (like you) that exist in different businesses (don't tell me you think there are 0) hire the underpaid women, either for a small raise, or a complete gap-eliminating raise? Surely you don't think you're a lone voice supporting wage equality.. just look at this thread.

They'd either be doing a purely altruistic social good righting the injustice of sexist wage discrimination and/or making more money. That both avenues exist, implying enormous incentives, the discriminatory gap should disappear. Why isn't this happening? When Bezos said "Your margin is my opportunity"? Did he secretly imply an asterisk to that statement carving out the unspoken rule that he and his competitors certainly would not compete for the underpaid women labor?

You use the example of racial discrimination. So, is Silicon Valley filled to the brim with sexist hiring managers?

Are there no whistle blowers courageous enough to out their bosses that refused to pay equal rates when confronted with the discrepancies? The tech industry is one of the most progressive... are you telling me these progressive minded people are standing idly by at best or actively carrying out this travesty at worst?
I'd love to be proven wrong but that hypothetical general AI is at least decades away in my humble opinion. It's not going to happen without many more students and researchers in the machine learning/AI field. Now would be a great time to join and make contributions.
Just make them pay in advance. Apple's in-app-purchase system is pretty airtight.
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This!! And as I recall, if we replace -W with -G (for 'go') and hit Enter, it would immediately reboot. Then, there also used to be a flag (boolean) that could be used to effect either a warm or a cold boot. Nostalgic. :-)
This is run of the mill legal strategy, of course. It looks terrible, however. Which surely is not lost on Google. Which then makes it seem even more like they have something to hide. I hope there is nothing to it. If there is, I hope they can gracefully embrace the mistake and make it whole. As the backlash against Uber has shown, the rising tide of social consciousness will not look kindly on Google otherwise.
In response to the very last lines of the article:

"Three different looks? What’s going on with Google Maps’ design?"

A/B testing perhaps?
This article is sensationalizing a very inflammatory issue. For example, the article claims the arrests are "at the behest" of one group, but the citation used doesn't say that. The arrests seem to be at the behest of the law enforcement enforcing the laws as passed by the government.

There are serious issues of free speech and incitement involved, but this article is not the way to address them.
Are there any other applications of this technique than debuggers?

Speculative execution maybe?
You can undo a part of a 10 year sentence by releasing an innocent person earlier. And you can offer monetary compensation. None of this is possible with a death sentence.
I'm not sure if the question relates to motion control of robots, human-robot collaboration safety or something else entirely.

If the question is about motion control of robots, our cycle time of 10-20 ms is probably too long as motion control usually requires < 1 ms.

If on the other hand the question is about human-robot collaboration safety, the product is likely unsuitable as this requires specially certified appliances.

If it's none of these two, it would be necessary to know more specifically what the setup is (fieldbus used, number of axes, etc) to come up with a realistic figure.
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> AI systems will surpass me within 2-4 years

Oh lord. 4 years ago was 2013. Was there such a jump from 2013 to today that makes you or anyone claim that within just 24 months machines will actually program better than developers, when there isn't as much as a proof of concept of that yet? Bar a major and unexpected breakthrough you can sleep assuredly that no machine will take your job just yet.
Hmm I would disagree that you its a problem that Scala requires explicit partial method application.
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As an American, I don't want people punished if they hurt or wrong me. I want them rehabilitated so they don't go and hurt me or someone else in the future.

The action is done, hurting the perpetrator in return won't restore me, I just don't want it to happen again.
Even when we credit individuals, and rightly so, as we do, for example with Einstein, ideas don't spring ex nihilo into existence. Rather, as I like to think of it, they grow and emerge out of a certain intellectual environment. There is a reason Pythagoras didn't discover the Theory of Relativity.

My point was simply that asking "who invented (discovered, created) X" is almost always the wrong question. We have a strong tendency to assign credit (and especially blame)to a person because that is what we are wired to do. One thing science has showed us is that the world isn't that simple.
At level 7 you lost. They got you off the phone. I usually allocate a half a day to these types of efforts. Hopefully I am not overly critical, but it appears you have spent much more time complaining about the MS support process than just biting the bullet and spending the whole day on the phone.
Well, firstly AI outdoing us in software development is going to take a while, probably >10 years.

Secondly you're looking mostly at the negatives but not positives of AI advancing. Some of those:

We will likely use AI to enhance ourselves rather than just have it take over.

Such merging may lead to the end of death. At the moment sure you can develop away then age and die - the AI thing may be jollier.

Robots at some stage will be able to do the work so you should be able to have a hedonistic gluttony fest it that's your thing.
People said the same thing about Go. That it was far too difficult and that a pro-level AI was 10+ years away.

What happened was new mathematical tools and new hardware were developed, and suddenly it was all too possible.

It's clear that with our current tools, general AI is out of reach, and new tools must first be developed. But because nobody has any idea what those new tools are, it could happen overnight or over 100 years.
How do people feel about a Zuckerberg presidency? As president, is Zuckerberg going to "fight the hate" in America? Is Bloomberg asking Zuckerberg to outline such an agenda?

> During a daylong brainstorming session, the group came up with a meme that subtly mocks people who blame minorities for the mundane frustrations of daily life, such as packed subway cars.

It seems that Bloomberg approves of hate speech in the form of mockery when it is directed at "people who blame minorities". It sounds like Bloomberg wants Zuckerberg to channel hate speech, not stamp it out.

What do you think? Is Zuckerberg going to take action against Baldauf for launching a hate campaign?

I doubt it.

Mockery is clearly a form of hatred, and Bloomberg wants Zuckerberg to permit this form of hatred while claiming to advocate a policy of retaliation against hate speech.

This is very misleading.

> Their mission was to come up with a social media campaign that might make Germans less susceptible to the wave of fake news and right-wing propaganda scapegoating Europe’s growing population of immigrants and refugees.

It appears that this is little more than an attempt to subvert German nationalism and German ethnic identity.

> you can hate people as long as you hate people I hate

Is it any wonder that two - Bloomberg and Zuckerberg - find common cause in directing hatred toward ethnic Germans?

Can you think of any reason why this might be?

Well I can: the holocaust. I think these two want to create a culture of hatred directed at ethnic Germans, all while claiming to be against hatred in principle.

What do you think? Is this kind of misrepresentation acceptable? Or do you find it as repugnant as I do?
Economist also got article on that: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21721648...
These comparisons are pointless. Would you like to compare loc as well? How about man hours spent?

The only comparison that is important is how well the two projects work. I have no idea how well plotnine works yet (but I intend to find out). I do know that ggplot works OK - and seeing as it leverages matplotlib if there is anything that isn't implemented I can finish the plot off manually.

EDIT it seems that plotnine also leverages matplotlib and produces nicer plots for some common cases :).
That's roughly the theme of a blog post I once wrote.
The problem with drugs in the USA is how big a problem that it is. The prescription drugs have a lot to do with it and there needs to be some proper acknowledgement as to what has happened. Before then it was Oliver North and co that were behind the 'crack epidemic'. I think treatment should be more what the Norwegians would do in their drug clinics, so we do the best we can to get those with the 'addiction disease' able to stay on the rails. We just can't have these people doing crimes that are of such a cost to society, causing narcissistic harm to children they have for these kids to find themselves in drugs leading to the same cycle of crime. Therefore there does have to be time for drug crime - big stick punishment - but in the current situation there needs to be some treatment of people who have been wrongly led up the path of addiction. This needs to be done Norwegian style too, with compassion.

We also need to think about when it is okay and when it is not okay to experiment with drugs. There is a difference between trying everything going at raves/parties/whatever as a student when it really does not matter if you drop out, the university still gets your money and they grumble but that is it, you are a statistic. Nobody is ever going to read that thesis anyway, what is the harm in advancing socially even if that involves being far from sober?

But if you are not a student then someone is being responsible for you or you are responsible for someone else and it is not fair to be a single parent paying for drugs by selling drugs, just to friends in a scene. That constitutes child abuse, there is harm in having a single parent battling horrible drug inflicted injuries and deep dysphoria being the 'role model'. Do you put that person in prison with their child in care? Who decides that? Are they just a low level street dealer, to be let off? So their customers can cheat/lie/steal whatever it takes to pay their bills?

Or the sales director who comes a cropper due to addiction getting the better of him or her. Perhaps major sales opportunities were lost and perhaps the wife didn't see much of him, maybe a lot went on but not the stealing or violence that goes with the life of a street junkie. People change jobs all the time, it is no biggie, nobody is indispensable. So why the lengthy prison sentence if there has been no harm outside of company (and bedtime) under-performance?

Maybe the drug could be anything from sugar to crack with that not mattering, it being the aspect of societal harm that matters when it comes to time in the cells.

Now if we could make those cells nice places to be so people could start their lives over, out of the environment that has all the triggers that enforce their addiction. This isn't working in the 'rehab' we have today as there is no power to get people to stay the course.
> I'd love to be proven wrong but that hypothetical general AI is at least decades away in my humble opinion.

I hope so. General AI is the source of dreams and nightmares, and I think it will take us decades just to adequately prepare for it from a safety & management perspective.

> Now would be a great time to join and make contributions.

Sincere question : short of embarking on a PhD, is AI research something the average dev (even a very, very enthusiastic one) can reasonably hope to contribute to?
Memory still matters when it matters. For example, when learning a new language. In general, good real-time performance is going to require practice and memorization. It's the trivial stuff you rarely need that's less valued.

There are some other things that I think are less valued these days:

- Informed speculation counts for less when you could do a search instead. Maybe a good thing?

- Cleverness counts less when there are memes everywhere. Jokes are ever more cheap and disposable.

On the other hand, good judgement of what you find still counts.
Point three seems to be assuming that the Efficient Market Hypothesis is true, but it is called a hypothesis precisely because it has not been proven to be true.
My favorite .COM-file still:

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(yes, you can just copy-paste it into a .COM-file and it will execute and just show a text - unless you've got a correctly working virus scanner)

This is a Virus Scanner test signature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file), so the fact alone that you can read this comment might be meaningful ;)
If you were to place New York City on Mars, you could have its population density be any value you want simply by expanding its political borders.

When comparing countries, it's the distribution that matters. If I have 50 people spread throughout my house, or 50 people shoved into a single room in my house, my house will have the same population density, but in the latter case I'll have 50 pretty irritable people. The same is true for a country. Take Canada: It's population density is quite low, but that doesn't paint a very accurate picture of living conditions, since the vast majority of the population lives within a much smaller region along the US border.

In any case, I agree with the sibling that population density is not the statistic the GP is using in support of his position. He is using prisoner per capita, which is 3x higher for Brazil than Norway and surely has at least some effect on the ability of Brazil to treat its prisoners in the same way.
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There are indeed many definitions of work. I'm using "something produced or accomplished by effort, exertion, or exercise of skill", https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work.

But then again, managers are very skilled at power games, and the ultimate sign of power is taking credit for what your subordinates produced.
The author wrote: "In America some prisoners are released after long sentences with little more than clothes and a bus fare."

Rubbish. In the county where I live, Essex in MA, inmates are given the clothes they were wearing when arrested and a ride to the courthouse where they were convicted, and turned loose. Pity the guy arrested in May who gets out in January. They shoplift at the local Marshalls on their way home. I wonder why?
replace a long established (expensive) team on a complex app who know all the bear-traps with an offshore team of rent-a-coders with a 6 month average turnover rate but at half the price - wcgw
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