4rgento · HackerTrans

In the future, people will look at these cases and shake their heads in disbelief. I hope the judges do the right thing here.

The publishers seem too attached to their licensing schemes. Speech-to-text and text-to-speech are here to stay and this is not a surprise for anyone. Publishers should catch up.

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7 anni fadiscuss

Well, time to pick up duolingo's Spanish course...

When life gives you lemons…

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7 anni fadiscuss

I really like your comment. As a scientist I'd say that a pragmatic solution (widely used in experimental sciences) is to calibrate your measures.

Want to use a yes/no? Fine (maybe 7 stars give better feedback, maybe not). But what should be the business decision based on the answer? How valuable is a yes? How costly a no?

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8 anni fadiscuss

My guess is that it uses analytical geometry to compute the equations of the drawn items. This also may includes a mapping to some canonical dimension(size) and orientation(rotations).

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Also gmail is the default android app but I'd guess they have consider that.

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8 anni fadiscuss

This may be a case of following the data with disregard to the dynamics.

1. In the beginning there was G Mail and there where two camps(roughly):

  a. Those who made heavy use of e-mail, and where "adapted" to the user interface.

  b. Those who had problems with the UI(replying to all their emails, etc...)

Of those two camps: those in camp `a` where unlikely to switch. That would have interfered with their workflow.

Those in camp `b`, not all switched because people resist change. Change takes energy.

2. Then there was `Inbox`

Now, there is a subset of camp `b` which has adapted its workflow to use Inbox. The most satisfied ones are here complaining :).

They don't want to go back to G mail, but will be forced to.

The questions I would ask, if I were responsible for shutting down Inbox, are:

* How many people were leaving inbox for G mail? * Why?

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8 anni fadiscuss

As stated elsewhere in this thread, social media is about collecting your data. This includes what you like, what you hate, what makes you happy, who you love, who you look up to, etc...

Now, this can be used to set your(not you but the social media user, no need to be an addict) mood and thus your emotions. This is what advertisers use to target ads or design them.

Your "intellect", in the short therm, is heavily dependent on your mood and your emotions. By "intellect", I'm referring to how you interact to the environment. (E.g. a sad person would interact with other people differently than a person that just made a million dollars).

So, if social media has such a handle on your emotions they have a handle on your intellect (its manifestations, which is the only thing other people can perceive ).

I would say "that intellect" is vulnerable. Because it is not serving your best interests. Because it's been manipulated to make you want to buy a new car, for example.

PS: I know this is controversial opinion and a lot of people will hate it. But I do believe this is the case given my current understanding of machine learning capabilities and human cognition.

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8 anni fadiscuss

As stated elsewhere in this thread, social media is about collecting your data. This includes what you like, what you hate, what makes you happy, who you love, who you look up to, etc...

Now, this can be used to set your(not you but the social media user, no need to be an addict) mood and thus your emotions. This is what advertisers use to target ads or design them.

Your "intellect", in the short therm, is heavily dependent on your mood and your emotions. By "intellect", I'm referring to how you interact to the environment. (E.g. a sad person would interact with other people differently than a person that just made a million dollars).

So, if social media has such a handle on your emotions they have a handle on your intellect (its manifestations, which is the only thing other people can perceive ).

I would say "that intellect" is vulnerable. Because it is not serving your best interests. Because it's been manipulated to make you want to buy a new car, for example.

PS: I know this is controversial opinion and a lot of people will hate it. But I do believe this is the case given my current understanding of machine learning capabilities and human cognition.

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8 anni fadiscuss

If the revenue from the money transfers business is 30 billions per year and the cost of electricity is 0.12 U$D per KW/h. Then the cost, in energy terms, of the money transfer business is 250 TW/h in a year. This is a lower bound.[1]

Bitcoin miners are consuming in the order of 73TW/h[0] annually.

Let's consider those quantities equal for the next argument:

Isn't it a good thing that crypto is generating business for the energy sector? If those revenues are invested in more energy research it is favorable to human kind, isn't it?

Why deny the energy sector its business and favor the financial sector?

[0] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption [1] https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-the-international-money-tra...

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8 anni fadiscuss

Just another data point, but for me it's the opposite. I drink mate every morning becasue its effect is softer than that of coffee.

I only drink coffee when I need extra alertness.

Meditation can also increase your hability to be alert without resorting to drinks.

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8 anni fadiscuss

Obligatory mention to `coq` and `Software foundations`(SF).

`coq` is an amazing piece of software. SF makes you start prooving thing right from chapter one. Learn mathematics by doing. After going through the chapters of Logic Foundations I'm able to see the patterns in most mathematicals proof I come by.

Must read book if you want to acquire mathematical superpowers.

Coq tells you when you are wrong, but it doesn't provide you the solution either. So you have to work it up for yourself. The satisfaction of finding a proof and knowing it is right is hard to match( this is known as the video-game-effect). You'll even be able to spot slopy proof in text books.

[0]https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/

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8 anni fadiscuss

I wonder how many different "cultures" do drivers have?

People from different localities drive differently. I hope they use drivers from say, NY, LA, and various small towns to teach the AI.

People that lives in towns with ~ 10k people drive differently that a new yorker on the same town.

EDIT: They might be training with a biased sample

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