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What's the intended purpose of this article? Why was it written?

It's always frustrating to read pieces about mathematicians written by people whose attitude is "[I have no chance of ever grasping what ultimately makes this article possible]" and "'[Cartesian geometry?] I can recall sitting in that class,' I said, lying.".

I know writing such things is often supposed to make the article more palatable to a lay audience who probably feels the same way, but honestly all it accomplishes is reinforcing to that audience that mathematics is an esoteric topic for geniuses.

This kind of article, which pretends to be bringing mathematics to the masses, is just another one of the reasons students feel so comfortable incessantly returning to saying "I'm not a math person" instead of being empowered whenever they have some success with math.

This is so frustrating because of course I approve of the apparent motivation behind writing an article like this.
The port/airport is gonna be owned and operated by China, giving the PLA/PLAN/PLAAF an forward operating area. I welcome the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 2.0 -- all hail Great Leader Xi Jinping. Long live Xi Jinping. Long live Xi Jinping thought.

/s
Worry about it after you get results from MVP.
Yes, unfortunately that's the truth.

For example: meetup.com

On an email with a plus in it, they complain with this exact error message: "This isn't a valid email address".

I contacted their support a year ago. They replied that they've passed along my "feedback". Nothing happened since then.

That said, plus aliasing is sort of a standard. And spammers could eliminate anything after the plus, its usage being pretty obvious, so you can't rely on it for tracing spam. Eliminating the aliasing is much trickier to do with sub-domains, as it's not at all clear when aliasing is used or not. And some email services support custom email routing based on your own regular expressions (e.g. GSuite) so you can come up with your own weird scheme.

Plus aliasing is only fine when you don't have control for doing something better, more opaque. Like when you have a work or a @gmail.com address.
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> I've heard them explicitly sell the information of an entire user's friends list to anyone willing to pay.

Source? If this were true and they'd do it for anyone willing to pay, where can I give them money for user's personal data?
Each node or computing device is an endpoint. Endpoint security is the new industry terminology for antivirus/antimalware/etc.
This is performance art, right? Your comments in this thread strain the limits of credulity. Do you actually believe there is an intellectual barrier that will helpfully ensure only the virtuous are capable of doing artificial intelligence research?
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Got Coursera's Functional Programming Principles in Scala certificate.

Have a few samples of Scala, F#, C# code on my github like TF-IDF with Scala, Spark https://github.com/kartavtcev/words

Worked for 3 FinTech/finance projects through last 3 years from investor solutions global firm, to rating agency under NDA (visited UK), and latest US fintech startup job remotely.
I think their incentive to be successful is word-of-mouth advertising. I'd never considered online dating until both my aunt and a couple at work had success with it. I tried their service and also met someone I very nearly married.

Granted, I've never paid for a dating service. But the business model is much like Facebook's: get a bunch of free users to voluntarily give personal data about themselves, then sell that data to power users. There's a good degree of faith that online dating works in general (which is bolstered by successful matches), and some people are willing to pay for an advantage in finding someone (and in being found).
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Loggly very subtly and quietly let us know that their TLS cert "has been updated" and that we should pin a new one in order to avoid disruptions:

> For Syslog and NxLog users: Our TLS certificate has been updated. To avoid disruption, follow instructions here by April 10 to complete the update.

It appears that the current cert expires April 10, 2018, so all rsyslog sources configured to use TLS will be unable to connect.

The replacement cert has an expiration date 2 years from today, hinting that the Loggly team only realized that it was expiring today.

It would have been nice to get more than 24 hours notice, and afaik there was no email notification, just a banner on the website which we first saw today.
Not even that. They only dump the source code over the fence once in a while. Try to find the source code for the latest release of any one of the Telegram mobile clients. Good luck!
Any news about the person who got shot badly during YouTube shooting, last week?
Right, and african americans have had many more generarions to accumulate it compared to irish americans or asian americans, right?
> What are some of the companies with a moral backbone that you support? I'm genuinely interested to see what that business model looks like in the real world.

Out of software companies that survived, Autodesk for example. Most hardware companies - except printer vendors trying to patent/restrict availability of ink cartridges etc.

Really, I think it's important to discriminate between fair and unfair business practices. Lumping everything together as "business is business" is harmful to the society especially in the long run.
Of course. For us, it came down to cost. EU customers make up <1% of our revenue. Implementing this non trivial feature didn’t make sense for us financially. So, we decided to drop all EU customers entirely.
I was always asked for the deposit in cashier's check form, and I had a credit rating over 800 and a steady high paying job. It's a real hassle when you're new to the area and don't have the bank account moved over. Luckily convenience stores will write them for you but they charge for it.
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Profit seeking. Career building. Fame and prominence aren't sinister. Instead they are common human motivation. Common enough to easily group a significant portion of the Grandiosity centered around 'AI'.

What easily breaks this down is the depth and breath of the research effort vs. that of the productization and commercialization effort. As for research, the only thing that is required is a computer, power, an internet connection. Again, this breaks down the vast majority of the grandiosity and carves out one's true motivations.

> More importantly, I don't think the safety push is misplaced.
Here's how I saw it some years ago... You can beat your head against the wall and create frankenstein amalgamations of ever evolving puzzle pieces that you will require expensive and highly skilled labor to make sense of with an end product being an overhyped optimization algo with programatic policy/steering/safety mechanisms.. Or you can clearly recognize and admit the possible foundation of it is flawed and start from scratch and work towards What is Intelligence and how to craft it into a computational system the right way. The former gets you millions if not billions of dollars, a career, recognition and a cushy job in the near term but will slowly lock you out from the fundamental stuff in the long term. The later pursuit could possibly result in nothing but if uncovered could change the world including nullifying the need of tons of highly paid labor to do development for it. Everyone in the industry wants to convince their investors the prior approach can iterate to the later but they know in their heats it can't (Shhh! don't tell anyone). So, the question for an individual is how aware and honest are they with themselves and what is their true motivation. You can put on a show and fool lots of people but you ultimately know what games you're playing and what shortfalls will result.

> Well, there is a fundamental assumption that AGI will be born out of the current hot topics in AI research (ML and especially RL).
Quite convenient for those cashing in on the low hanging fruit who would like investors to extend their present success into far off horizons.

> As an aside, I'm not sure what this means.
It means the thinking that weak AI is centered on could cause one to be locked out from perceiving that of AGI. It means : https://www.axios.com/artificial-intelligence-pioneer-says-w...
But everyone is convinced they don't have to and can extend/pretend their way into AGI.
You should probably look into the legacies of Jim Crow laws, redlining policies, sundown towns, and the history of rural property seizures, if you want to find the answer.
Racial bias can be present everywhere without race needing to be a part of every theory or else face the accusation of intellectual negligence.

It's not a persons race that's discriminating... Persons discriminate. Adding a factor for race in an economists model explains nothing. Proper theory needs to explain the motivations behind discrimination. That actual means (IMHO) theories without 'race' (but with broad socio-economic explanations) to explain racial discrimination and segregated outcomes.
So they have to buy an automatic wok on alibaba, and then do the exact same things every other fast-casual restaurant already does?
agreed. metal could be cool. I'd still buy the wood myself (if i buy it at all) but i can imagine metal would make some people really happy even if it was more expensive (witness the apple watch)
Check your local makerspace or fablab.
If your are reasonably confident in the correctness of your design you can use self-service online CNC services like Ponoko and 3dhubs.

Co2 Lasercutting and FDM 3d-printing is generally easier to get access to than CNC though.
We received similar advice from our legal counsel, but got stuck on this implementation detail.
Identity, I want to be sure when I read something by startupflix is really being written by startupflix. And I want that everybody that reads my stuff knows when is the real me posting stuff and not a random pretending is me. This is the most important feature both Facebook and Twitter got right, mainly because they are the source of truth on what gets posted on their platforms.
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Ha! The joke's on himself. Most of his books get better when filmed than when written. He thinks more words equal character development.
As I tried to explain in my comment, if the relevance of adverts depends on tracking me, I'd much rather have irrelevant ads. If the relevance can be done entirely through similarity or link to the content I'm consuming then I am much more ok with it.
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> Twitter is like taking YouTube comments and making them the content.

Much of it, yes. But 1) tailor your Twitter stream to your (professional) interests, 2) ignore any trending news, 3) unfollow people who tweet random stuff or have too much Trump (or any current politics) in their mix and it will provide useful. I follow mostly computational neuroscience / machine learning scientists, and have heard much about recent research, summary articles or conferences first on Twitter. On an evening just two weeks ago I glanced at my list and saw a poster about one of the most intriguing research findings I've yet seen. Without Twitter I would have had to attend the conference or waited for the paper. Science Twitter is active and growing, and as scientists are busy people for many it has become a popular and low-effort announcement platform for new work (much better than university blogs or press releases and such).

I see much more toxicity glancing on any video's YouTube comments than on my Twitter stream.
I don’t see how you arrived at that conclusion. Why is the software not being open source a benefit?
Inter-bank (wire) transfers aren't that hard. You just need to ask your bank to do it. Sometimes you have to come in person to do it, sometimes a faxed signature is all you need. I've always been slightly nervous about how easy it is in fact, since anybody can forge a signature and send a fax.

The big caveat is that the Fed likes to sit on the transfer for a day or two, or sometimes more. Very annoying if you are on a deadline for the money.
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Despite the craziness, it is what's going to happen.
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i would expect most folks to just use each one as a simple toggle. I know that's what i was intending when i pondered getting this.
Thanks - was not aware that he had replied. This concerns me though, because I think that FB has shown us, that any wiggle room they have - they will take it:

"Facebook says that some laws elsewhere in the world conflict with GDPR’s new laws for Europe so they can’t be extended everywhere, and that the interface for some of these tools may vary"

But in all fairness: I am running into this very same issue RE: GDPR in light of some other compliance laws from the EU and US.
There's nothing wrong with browsing for beautiful places. Travel magazines, especially the ones in the back of your airplane seat, do this. However Instagram adds a "keeping up with the Joneses" dimension to it with everyone taking selfies that does make things unhealthy.

Are you traveling somewhere because you're actual curious about the culture and history, or because it'll add good content on your IG?

BrooklynCartoons does a spot on job of critiquing our current "culture":

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bfym2nunhbX/?taken-by=brooklynca...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg_0TIKnvae/?taken-by=brooklynca...
It took quite a bit of digging but I think I've finally figured out what the heck this thing actually is.

* Desktop is a web-based file manager that ties into a bunch of proprietary cloud storage systems

* Dashboard is some sort of cross-network social media reader

* Library is a catalog of public-domain content, for some reason

What any of this has to do with the high-minded visioneering slogans and impenetrable marketing text I have no idea.

Of the three, only Dashboard sounds like it might have any value at all; unfortunately the very first thing it does on signup is:

(if you sign in via facebook) demand access to "your public profile, photos, videos, likes and email address".

(if you sign in via google) demand total access to Google Drive and to "View and manage your YouTube activity, including posting public comments".

(if you try to sign in via email) this appears to be impossible; there's a "forgotten password" link but no apparent way to actually create a new account.

This doesn't sit very well with the whole "respectful of your time, attention and personal data" thing.
Or: Instagram ranked social network most likely to be frequented by people with poor mental health.
You do not get the same guarantee with a credit card that you do with an irrevocable block chain transaction. Checking the source accounts balance (which is public with BTC) you could quickly verify funds and have high certainty the transaction will proceed. This is in effect how credit card transactions work under the hood as well. Finance still heavily relies on night time batch processing.
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Have you seen farm raised chickens and cows?

I would argue that there is nothing natural about that either. The modern farm animal wouldn't survive in the wild. They are bred to grow at insane rates, are fed hormones, and get too heavy to be mobile. Not to mention, what impact this has on the nutritional content and chemical content of our meats, and what impact they are having on us.

If you are concerned about eating naturally, I think you should start allocating time in your day to hunting for wild food. Nothing about the human diet is "natural" anymore.
There are considerably more nations with submarines than there are nuclear powers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submarine_operators

Also these cables are very vulnerable in littoral waters which means that even surface vessels should be able to damage them with either existing arsenal or something they jerryrig.

Push comes to shove even technical diving can be sufficient.
> AGI could exist and could be functional at this very moment. It could be very safely secured. There's nothing to suggest otherwise beyond the limits of one's own understanding.

Wait, is this your argument?

- AGI could be safely secured given current industry standards
- Creators would likely not publish their success
- Therefore AGI currently exists
Not really, because I am not into HFT, so latency is not a problem for me... (I don't have the money, 100s of millions for infrastructure to compete with the big boys)...

Sure, I can do it all by hand, the key here not speed, but automation... I rather be fishing or drinking beer by my pool instead... Trading fees: 5$ fee on $50k/$100k position is frankly irrelevant for example...
Hiding piles of cash in a neighbours shed or by giving all your possessions to family members, then claiming inability to pay is the problem this is trying to solve.
Could you summarize your point more concisely? As written this seems to be a stream of disconnected thoughts that are basically entirely unsubstantiated.
The system in Hamburg (StadtRAD) is an hybrid: you have to bring it to a dock, but if the dock's full, you can just lock the bike standalone near it.

Although, last time I mentioned it here someone said they've had problems with the position detection, such that they kept being charged despite leaving it near a dock.
Bruh, where is your TLS cert?
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Start a local Electronic Frontier Alliance group and work in your local community to build additional support for issues you care about.

https://www.eff.org/fight
Do we need to keep reminding people that even if you never created an account, you have a facebook user associated with your real life identity.
Bottled water from the store has about 435x less dissolved solids in it compared to our tap water. I’ll take the unsafe bottled water thanks.
Endpoints are the machines (desktops, servers, &c) in organizations which have Carbon Black installed. Their client continuously monitors for process executions, network connections, file changes, registry changes, and samples unique files on the machine, and depending on configuration, can upload these contents both within the enterprise and share them with their cloud platform. That's what is meant by "our technology uniquely collects complete, "unfiltered" endpoint data by continuously recording endpoint activity and centrally storing the collected data for advanced analytics".
Agreed but it is such lines that bring in the $$$ in the valley. At some point, humanity has to cut the fluff and games and get to the fundamentals so we can all rise much higher heights of our collective intelligence. It's very hard to do so when you're constantly bombarded with crafty agenda based language on a day-to-day basis.

> there is absolutely no indication whatsoever that OpenAI would credibly reach this (vague, underspecified) goal before any of the other serious contenders. Nor would competitors have any requirement to include OpenAI if and when they were getting close.
This is the clear reality. So why do certain human beings pretend otherwise? Why does this pretentious game garner the most funding?Why do human beings spend so much time manipulating and hyping things into over-stated valuations when it ultimately results in wasted resources, time, and potential for the collective?
I actually did find bikes like that in the wild. Luckily there were usually a group of bikes there. I'd imagine it's probably against their TOS to lock their bikes.
A major characteristics that you need to decide upon is how searchable/disposable are you expecting the conversations to be. Coarsely you have forums, mailing lists, and chat options. My own open source projects are split between the different mediums. Chat via something like IRC on freenode (+ matrix if you want extra features) is easy to setup and great for casual discussion or very bursty conversation (time-zone permitting). Mailing lists make for decent multi-day and searchable conversation, but they can pose signal-vs-noise issues (freelist would be a good option). There are various options for forums (e.g. discourse) and they work well for longer lived, but marginally more disposable conversations compared to mailing lists.

As long as you can pick something that the community is interested in using any option should be reasonably viable.
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> It was my mistake, and I’m sorry.

read in the voice of the South Park version of Tony Hayward.
If the concern is that business owners can no longer cut costs by being lax with people's data... isn't that the whole point of the GDPR? That we've collectively decided that letting people cut those costs is having too many negative concequences too often and that we need to stop?
Yep, no email signup and Google Analytics. Funky.
Anecdotally, Seattle had a docked bike-share a few years a go that shut down a short while later because no one used it, and recently launched a dockless bikeshare that I've been using a lot. From a customer perspective, it's a night-and-day difference in usability.
I did the exact same thing. Those electric scooters are also a lot more fun than sitting in someone's Prius. Especially as the weather here in DC warms up, I can see myself shelling out the $2 fee for a bike/scooter way more often than I'd be willing to spend $8-10 for a Lyft.
> There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions

But those ways didn't help Donald Trump get elected.
Definitely too many phds for stable academic vacancies. Employable lifescience specialists are still very employable in industry though.
Thinking about it, I wonder if plug-in hybrids will become common first.
I think it can be used as much to generate welfare as destruction when it goes right, but the cases where it goes wrong are both plentiful and heavily biased towards destruction.
> but it seems like you never know where to pick them up.

That's a major design failure on their part then. Seattle's dockless bikes all have GPS trackers so you can see them on a map on the phone app.
As they say, a few days in the laboratory might save a few hours in the library!

Alternately, a few days of doing might save a few hours of thinking. :-)
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I have actually lost count of the number of times I've made something new and my wife says "this is good, where did you find it?" and I'll say "Oh, I saw it on serious eats and thought that it looked fun".

In point of fact, this exact thing happened last night after I made chicken piccata for the first time.
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Interesting - that statement kind of puts you both in danger.
I've set up a homeserver for more than a year now. The only real use is being my always running SyncThing instance.
to be fair, I am use midnight commander these days ;)
> Well, it could be because they've had 6+ months to figure out what to do about one, and just a few weeks for the other.

Because, as we all know, Facebook only really starts trying to figure out how to solve a problem once it becomes a scandal.
No offense intended, but I don't think you and I are actually agreeing on anything. I can't really take your comments in this thread seriously.