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My Bank of America credit card lets me dispute charges online, with a simple series of web forms. Very convenient.

No, he isn' spot on. Printing presses spread ideas and misinformation at a much more human speed than today's Internet based platforms. So, they're a poor analogy for the problem we…

> tensors multiplied by tensors This argument is ignoring the problem. What a neural network cannot do is to explain which invisible "rules" it has learned. For example, when trying to cl…

I really like this way of explaining ML and its limitations in practice. Yes, things are sometimes oversimplified, but that's exactly what you need. I would say it's good not just for manage…

This investment newsletter called "App Economy Insights" displays each company's income statement as a graphical diagram. I've seen such flow diagrams before, in fact I have genera…

I agree. Musk's key talent is sales: * Convincing investors to lend him money. * Convincing talented people to come work on his projects. And he lies convincingly. His methods sometimes do get re…

> I use github copilot every day - its not perfect but good enough to add value to my workflow. Could you please share an example? I saw a description of copilot but couldn't imagine what it m…

> There is no such thing as “scarce workers”. The problem is scarce salaries. Well, yes, and the point is that workers are more scarce at any given salary than they used to be last year, or in the …

> Still, it’s impossible for me to shake the feeling that [Gary Marcus] just likes to hear himself talk and doesn’t want to see progress in AI. He says he wants to see progress in AI. He wants peop…

You might be right that these "multimodal" transformers, by integrating additional data from non-text sources, would be more capable than GPT-3. But I don't think that invalidates Gary …

> Conspiracy-theory-isation exists because people resent being told what they are supposed to believe by an authority they do not trust. I keep hearing this theory, but it just begs the question: h…

Love your analogy! Very visual. Makes sense, too. "Stand clear of the explosion," lol!

A little off-topic, but: Am I the only one who finds the repeated incorrect spelling of "heterogeneous" annoying? The worst part is, the way they spell it, "heterogenous", actually…

Is there a back button? Honest question. I thought iPhones didn't have one. When I pick up my wife's iPhone I always feel a little lost.

Lol, "was" versus "were" usage is a pet peeve of mine. Looks like some time im 2016 they got an English major to fix the headline.

Interesting tech, though I can't help imagining it's solving an auxiliary issue and not the core problem with many call centers, which is that these workers are usually unable to solve the c…

Immigrants come in many categories. I immigrated to the US as a highly educated engineer from a poor Asian country. My country was poor, but not terrible, not a dictatorship, etc. If I had never immig…

In many countries SMS can get expensive, especially for international use, depending on the phone billing policy. In poorer countries people often use free wifi areas for data-based messaging. Hence t…

Essay by Yann LeCun and Jacob Browning. The title as it appears is: "What AI Can Tell Us About Intelligence", but this title is misleading. The authors say that the central disagreement betw…

Side note: I love the HTML format of these IETF RFCs, as in TFA. Over the decades, I was used to seeing the old text format (which I like), but this one is particularly easy on the eye, especially on …

What's with the hate for DMVs? Maybe they're bad in some US states, but in mine (Massachusetts), I really can't imagine a better-run business, private or public, that accomplishes so mu…

> non-productive Speculative investments tend to get punished at the end of the cycle by losing all value, thus punishing those invested in it and restoring order. To be precise, the investors who …

From the article: The company said it plans to provide employers tools to educate employees on bitcoin, which the U.S. Department of Labor last month warned is a risky option for retirement plan parti…

I agree with your point that Netflix UX is terrible. But what do you mean "canceling all of its best shows"? It's not Netflix's fault if the studios pulled their licenses for their…

It's sad that we cannot own titles but are forced to rent them from these streaming services that can't seem to get their shit together. (Not blaming Netflix per se; this is a pox on all the…

I once described it as "like blue cheese, minus the cheese." An American who first tasted vegemite at age 40---and loved it! If you've never tasted it, you owe it to yourself to try it …

Very much this. The enormous arbitrary power that employers wield and have always wielded, is one of the sacred cows of capitalism. Underprivileged people have had to deal with being fired (or never e…