Viewing profile — alboy

>If Immigram has a customer base primarily composed of people who support Russia's war against Ukraine I don't see anything mentioned in the article that would make one think it ha…

>Why did you only quote the one? Because it is the part that is the most misleading about this statistic.

The USDA defines[1] food insecurity to include the following: >Food Insecurity >Low food security (old label=Food insecurity without hunger): reports of reduced quality, variety, o…

Itty-bitty Cog.

>I believe the more common proposal is to resolve the contradiction the other way: remove taxes on corporations, as the individuals comprising the corporations generally already pa…

Unspecified behavior[1] is used in programming language standards for a very similar reason: to provide the freedom to interpret in the, uh, spirit of the code, rather than the let…

I take it the processing model was trained on a dataset of Magritte’s paintings?

>Even if you limit it to the most egregious cases that just shifts the problem. What's egregious and what isn't? It implicitly shifts the undertone of everything that isn't fact-ch…

You market to your customer, the purchase of their product will be approved by a C-suite Yama, not the mortals stuck in Samsara.

It depends on how much control the host system has over the output (can consciously drown out the signal). Suppose you just show YES and NO in big flashing letters while asking you…

Maybe you could even do supervised by force-feeding known stimuli a la Clockwork Orange.

Not mentioned there that >France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, due to a long-standing policy based on energy security. Government policy is to reduce th…

>you end up in situations where it's suddenly justifiable to let developers use technologies unsuited for the situation because they're "fun" and "interesting" to use and keeping t…

>Any large HashTable in Java starts to yield the problem of duplicate keys, it's just a weird situation, like you can 99.999% trust something ... but can't ever fully trust it so t…

>but they might become say 50% more likely to die in a motorcycle crash Or launch a startup.

This thread is clearly about comparing the probabilities of getting into FAANG vs getting into the Olympics. The situation with varying relative competitiveness of the local "scene…

>If you're looking at NCAA athletes, lots of those sports are not represented in the Olympics. Not really, just football and lacrosse. On the other hand, there're many Olympic even…

The whole Olympic roster for the US is ~500 people. There's half a million people who are current NCAA athletes, that's an order of magnitude off right there, even after excluding …

This seems way off. The number of engineers working at FAANG is in the hundreds of thousands, an athlete that is 100000th best in the world is basically a hobbyist rando.