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you might google “computational social justice” or “computational social choice” for some political science grounded in math and computer science

I think the recent metaverse push is well compared with a certain search company’s attempt to become a social network.

The conclusion of the study you linked seems to paint a slightly more complicated picture: "We found evidence that between-district racial segregation is associated with racial dis…

It is not fair to place the blame for this epidemic of violence squarely on those suffering from mental health issues. Mental health issues are distributed globally, but the gun vi…

This attitude is terrible and exploitative. Employee's have a duty of fidelity and good faith to their employer, sure - but highly skilled and in-demand engineers should demand bet…

It seems like for this to be successful you'd want access to engagement/conversion data to train your model on. Google / Facebook would be positioned to execute on that, others les…

Another 72% here.

I had the displeasure of working for a company that had a similar review system, but it was quarterly rather than annual. Total nightmare.

so that slideshow I linked was probably written by an intern or something - but here's a serious analysis of the tech dated 1999 from DTSO (australian army) that states: "There are…

Could you build a passenger version of this and run it up and down the west coast? (or trans-pacific?) Sounds like a "speeder" from Star Wars! NASA (or atleast someone affiliated w…

"CEO of horizontally integrated monopolistic anticompetitive conglomerate denounces competitor as monopolistic"

Mozilla has decided to "throw the baby out with the bathwater" as a business strategy.

Social skills are skills that can be improved upon like any other. A good place to start would be seeing if there are improv classes near you.

This is rapidly becoming the case in the US as well.

There are several more instances of Google promoting their own services above the SERP (and competitors). 1. Shopping. Google got in big trouble with the EU about this recently. 2.…

Thanks for being here, and for all the work you put into educational materials. As easy as it is to hate on "coding 4 kids" products, it's a real under-served niche that has the po…

It seems tempting to say that the quality of life in most of Europe is much higher than in the US. There's a decent chance this is a case of "the grass is greener" syndrome, but st…

You are misinformed and pushing an unproductive narrative. From the Center of Disease Control: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html "Drug overdose deaths continue to increas…

Certainly, as a future applicant to grad school, these revelations make me dramatically less likely to consider the Media Lab.

Yes, perl6 does a lot of things right. It's a great language and ecosystem that deserves more adoption. But all the things the parent comment listed, particularly branding, are in …