The way I read this story the NSA is really not rifling through ordinary people's email. They are specifically looking for a certain string. It is highly unlikely that ordinary people's emails contain this string. A…
I do not think my opinion on this matter is deeply controversial, it is just that opponents of a Snowden pardon wisely keep their mouths shut. I also think that my request for views opposing my current view shows my…
> "High-school diploma"? WTF? Have the courage to say what you mean or cut the cheap shots. As someone with only a high-school diploma myself, I do not like others with only a high-school diploma, who blow the chances…
> So, being competent is a strike against Snowden, but being incompetent is a strike against Greenwald (who presumably doesn't have any training from GCHQ)? I think you laid bare my mental split on this issue and for…
I thought both your "arguments" were petty and slightly offensive. To say basically: 'Just Google my rebuttal' is not worthy of a reply. You could have just skipped my sincere request for reasoning opposite to my own.…
Thank you for posting this great debate video. Although it did not change my opinion on the pardon, I now have a more nuanced view on this matter. I thought all the debaters in this video had good points, but I still…
To pardon Snowden seems like a very popular opinion around here. Can anyone help me change my opinion on this matter? The way I currently see it: - Snowden indiscriminately hovered up so many documents, it was…
Overall, the reporting is biased to critiquing reports on Israel, but the reports themselves are not biased. Wonder how much of that selective reporting is Omidyar vs. the journalists.
> Once we have identified such lopsided data and understood its cause, how do you feed that back into your algorithm to correct for it? This is tackled in the recently popular field of study called 'counterfactual…
There is no strong theoretical foundation for very complex and/or deep models. There are ways to gauge results, but right now, the media is right in that there are risks. The pneumonia project referenced in the article…
The trick to accurate interpretability is to decouple accuracy from explanations. Just like an International Master commentator can explain most of the moves of a Super GM, so can an interpretable simple model explain…
And for the self-driving cars: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html
Yes, I feel strongly that they should be suspended. The damage done by public terrorist propaganda far outweighs the damage of not being able to easily analyze their social graph. Mind you, there are other ways (not…
All lives matter.
"How to not defend your brand". This blog reads like sour grapes, and to me, is on the edge of riling up a community to damage a competitor.
The title is a play on the 2001 paper: "Learning To Learn Using Gradient Descent" by Hochreiter et al. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.5.32...
This is actually a call for research from YC-funded OpenAI: > Spam the Spammers > Investigate the use of language models to remove the profit from spamming. > Spammers generate a huge amount of undesirable traffic and…
Perhaps a more nuanced reason is that you don't know it got lost in some spam filter. Out of sight, out of mind... [1] https://consumerist.com/2012/01/04/how-facebooks-message-spa... [2]…
It's a low effort meme-like post that adds nothing to the article or discussion. Those are frowned upon at HN. It's not impossible to make joke-y replies to posts and receive upvotes, but it takes a lot of practice (or…
Once you start looking for it, it becomes fairly common :) August Kekulé's work on the structure of benzene came to him in a dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9#The_ourobor... Ramanujan credited his…
This is an interesting response, because it reveals a few things: - Linkedin was not aware of the size of the 2012 breach. - Linkedin did not use preventive measures one would usually do after a significant breach (They…
The way I read this story the NSA is really not rifling through ordinary people's email. They are specifically looking for a certain string. It is highly unlikely that ordinary people's emails contain this string. A…
I do not think my opinion on this matter is deeply controversial, it is just that opponents of a Snowden pardon wisely keep their mouths shut. I also think that my request for views opposing my current view shows my…
> "High-school diploma"? WTF? Have the courage to say what you mean or cut the cheap shots. As someone with only a high-school diploma myself, I do not like others with only a high-school diploma, who blow the chances…
> So, being competent is a strike against Snowden, but being incompetent is a strike against Greenwald (who presumably doesn't have any training from GCHQ)? I think you laid bare my mental split on this issue and for…
I thought both your "arguments" were petty and slightly offensive. To say basically: 'Just Google my rebuttal' is not worthy of a reply. You could have just skipped my sincere request for reasoning opposite to my own.…
Thank you for posting this great debate video. Although it did not change my opinion on the pardon, I now have a more nuanced view on this matter. I thought all the debaters in this video had good points, but I still…
To pardon Snowden seems like a very popular opinion around here. Can anyone help me change my opinion on this matter? The way I currently see it: - Snowden indiscriminately hovered up so many documents, it was…
Overall, the reporting is biased to critiquing reports on Israel, but the reports themselves are not biased. Wonder how much of that selective reporting is Omidyar vs. the journalists.
> Once we have identified such lopsided data and understood its cause, how do you feed that back into your algorithm to correct for it? This is tackled in the recently popular field of study called 'counterfactual…
There is no strong theoretical foundation for very complex and/or deep models. There are ways to gauge results, but right now, the media is right in that there are risks. The pneumonia project referenced in the article…
The trick to accurate interpretability is to decouple accuracy from explanations. Just like an International Master commentator can explain most of the moves of a Super GM, so can an interpretable simple model explain…
And for the self-driving cars: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html
Yes, I feel strongly that they should be suspended. The damage done by public terrorist propaganda far outweighs the damage of not being able to easily analyze their social graph. Mind you, there are other ways (not…
All lives matter.
"How to not defend your brand". This blog reads like sour grapes, and to me, is on the edge of riling up a community to damage a competitor.
The title is a play on the 2001 paper: "Learning To Learn Using Gradient Descent" by Hochreiter et al. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.5.32...
This is actually a call for research from YC-funded OpenAI: > Spam the Spammers > Investigate the use of language models to remove the profit from spamming. > Spammers generate a huge amount of undesirable traffic and…
Perhaps a more nuanced reason is that you don't know it got lost in some spam filter. Out of sight, out of mind... [1] https://consumerist.com/2012/01/04/how-facebooks-message-spa... [2]…
It's a low effort meme-like post that adds nothing to the article or discussion. Those are frowned upon at HN. It's not impossible to make joke-y replies to posts and receive upvotes, but it takes a lot of practice (or…
Once you start looking for it, it becomes fairly common :) August Kekulé's work on the structure of benzene came to him in a dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9#The_ourobor... Ramanujan credited his…
This is an interesting response, because it reveals a few things: - Linkedin was not aware of the size of the 2012 breach. - Linkedin did not use preventive measures one would usually do after a significant breach (They…