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27,567karma·4,366submissions·November 17, 2011
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"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
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> They refuse to run fiscal deficits Germany has a debt brake law (Schuldenbremse) that limits structural net borrowing to 0.35% of the GDP.
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> Being well-informed means going in with the best possible knowledge. The assumption here is that you have access to that knowledge. In many cases, you just don't. You can't address it b…
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All negotiations work in good faith until you encounter Information Asymmetry [0]. Then, it is really a "win-lose" situation. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informati…
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Not all 200 articles in stat.ML are SOTA research.
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> Jio for making the Data rate too cheap > (Less than 1$ for 2-3 GB.) Cheap is not the same as affordable. 1$ in India is equivalent to ~18 US$ [0]. [0] https://data.oecd.org/con…
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> Behold the FAKEery of The New Yorker. ... > First of all, Babri Masjid was an illegal structure (As per SC judgement). Can you point me to the part of the Supreme Court judgment which mentions…
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Internet in Kashmir has been down for the longest period ever in a democracy, 172 days and counting [0]. Several cities in UP, Karnataka also faced Internet shut downs during recent protests [1]. [0] …
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The rule I quoted is a summary of the position and not to be taken as legal framework on decision making. The rules are mulled over in the white paper and it would take some time to digest it before m…
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That's where EU GDPR comes into the frame with informed consent for tracking.
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I can't read the link as its down but here's an article that does a good job of explaining the leaked EU report [0]. > As for facial recognition, the Commission document highlights provis…
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> PLOS ONE’s fee is $1,595. A factor of 3 doesn’t seem inexplainable to me. You need to first explain why PLOS ONE is an appropriate baseline. A world class Open Access journal costs roughly $10 pe…
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> Someone has to find a suitable reviewer, which can be a bit time-consuming task [1], write to reviewers, just do all the coordination. This is done by the Program Chairs of the conference who are…
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Thanks Jeremy for highlighting this issue. A lot of scientific publishers have hijacked "Open Access" to charge high fees for the same publication as before and pocket more money. For exampl…
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> This post makes no sense. ArXiv is a site to which papers are posted. ACM and IEEE are technical societies with a range of publications professionally managed, peer reviewed, and edited I have be…
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23andMe hasn’t yet, created the drug. They’ve a potential candidate that they sold to a Spanish pharmaceutical company. The Spanish company would have to perform clinical trials before distribution.
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Let's not confuse accountability of decision making entity with consequences faced by the accountability. I was referring to the former, not the latter. The former is a case for law, the latter i…
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Yes, that’s true. But human decisions have accountability - algorithms don’t have accountability. If entities who deploy algorithms would be legally required to take accountability for algorithmic dec…
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One needs to form an experimental design with a ability to detect the challenge, understand the properties and come up with an appropriate computational solution to that challenge. This isn’t just for…
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Remember, this move only came about after the FTC fine and is a result of a follow up to the $5Bn settlement. I wonder if this is enough though. Meanwhile, > Before the latest change, Facebook con…