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The confusion comes from the fact that we attach the same label "3" to two different sets in the case of bottles, so we end up saying "one out of three plus one out of three". It s…

Many real world business processes assume a certain knowledge of the world and the relationships between entities, and not just a limited set of data points about the task at hand. Such kind of knowle…

> Treat people as individuals, not as representatives of some kind of meaningless tribe I dont't think that's how we make our day to day decisions. I usually treat people as individuals…

I agree with you that it is generally wrong, i.e. that other factors should come first. But what if the data suggests it? For example if is known that if you lend to someone from race X, there is 80…

> Depending upon your priorities, your ethical views will inevitably be incompatible with those of some other people in a manner no amount of reasoning will resolve. Believers in a strong central s…

What if it turns out there is reason people discriminate using those features (for example that people of race X tend to fail repaying their loans), and the classifier just learned that reason from th…

Well said. Let me plug Wittgenstein here: “For a large class of cases–though not for all–in which we employ the word “meaning” it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.…

So how did they manage to get rid of those hidden costs? Or is the new S3 compatible API more expensive?

> Booting people off of platforms merely reinforces their pre-existing beliefs, and further radicalizes them. > Let the truth fight for itself. We tend to think of humans as very rational beings…

HN is for "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". The discussions around political content, when they are reasonable and civil, can be quite interesting.

Could someone elaborate on "Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points" ?

Unfortunately, The Selfish Gene leaves it an open question of how the brain developed its capacity to represent and model the world, which is the very notion of intelligence. From the book: > The e…

Evolution. How does large scale randomness result in such complicated and intelligent systems, while after decades of research and all the computing power we have today, we still struggle to model and…

I'm also looking for recommendations of back braces if anyone here is using one.

Original title was "Amazon Threatens to Suspend French Deliveries After Court Order", and Bloomberg just changed it. You could have assumed good faith.

I wish there was a book (or even video lectures) that goes more in depth, but with the same style as that video.

The first who tweeted about this seems to be a french mathematician named Martin Andler : https://twitter.com/MartinAndler/status/1249021279660683265 . Also this tweet by the…

I have found this blog post[1] quite informative regarding Python projects packaging. It describes well how all the tools (pyenv, poetry, black, flake8, isort, pre-commit, pytest, coverage, tox) fit t…

Maybe to prevent a rush on surgical masks so that they are kept for health workers who need them the most?

> poorly defined, highly volatile, potentially short lifespan This. This is the reality of software development, especially in a startup. You have to quickly adapt your code to the <not well def…

It feels so satisfying to be able to finally name these colors.

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> Yes :- ) Do you mean 1) for yourself only, or 2) for all site visitors (so those replies would be collapsed by default, for everyone) ? Rather for myself, but as an account setting so that I don&…