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"Machine learning" used to be a safe haven. You could flee there to escape the Terminators and brain-on-a-chip graphics. Business PR deliberately killed that. They wanted their ML …

> how elite state-owned venture capital will work Perhaps something like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/commitment-to-small-busin... htt…

This seems contradictory: > AI can't predict social outcomes > In most cases, manual scoring rules are just as accurate So manual scoring rules don't work either for predicting soc…

The US economy (to which RenTech contributes with profits made on foreign markets) is a national security interest. Working to be very rich and then donating a large chunk of money…

We all know of market manipulation, like the story of the high school kid spamming stocks to Yahoo message boards [1], but what of competitor, - industry - or country manipulation?…

Strange that I think that a sarcastic reply that goes a bit further in moral punishment would be indistinguishable from a real reply these days. Mercer was practically forced to re…

So, assuming nothing against the law, how would they do it legitly? I am guessing: - Treat the markets as a complex dynamical system and use the tools from statistical physics such…

The one who ordered the drone strike is responsible (but hardly held responsible). Easy to draw the parallel with ordering the deployment of anti-personel landmines: the one who or…

Television incentivizes forgetable reality TV, the radio incentivizes meaningless poppy music, social media incentivizes bickering about the controversies of today. But, nowadays, …

In the Netherlands there is the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre). They also scan the internet: It continuously monitors all (potentially) suspect sources on the internet. When…

> I'm sorry but I really think you're letting yourself be taken in by some extraordinarily shoddy science and by the pseudo-scientific claims of people who are either engaging in m…

You seem to be under the assumption that rebalancing is always bad or ignorant. That techniques, such as SMOTE, are only used to produce better-looking results and pull the wool ov…

No. This is what the Wikipedia page says for measuring sexual response in pedosexuals: > In one study, 21% of the subjects were excluded for various reasons, including "the subject…

Thanks! That article has a lot of critique and I also like that the author collected the responses from one of the authors. But, to me, most of the critiques seem uninformed (not m…

Many statistical assumptions are regurarly broken, for pragmatic reasons (it just works better), or because the world is not static (and so the IID assumption is broken). There is …

Rebalancing an imbalanced dataset is common in industry and academicia. You use that when you focus on accuracy, to make claims like: We were 54% accurate on classifying sexuality …

No the sources are from CIA and FBI agents trained in interrogation and spotting lies (and wanting to sell their books, like researchers want their research read). One of the agent…

There has been no peer-reviewed paper calling in question the gaydar paper. There has been a master student who tried to replicate the study with his own crawled dataset, and got b…

No. (and I feel there is no justification for downvoting requested sources).

Rehabilitation in society: most people do not want convicted pedosexuals who show no signs of betterment to be around children, just like most people do not want murderers released…