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Criticism of the iPhone on it's debut was absolutely vicious.

This is a feminine communication style - endlessly talking about feelings, down to the last detail. It's inappropriate for men to use this method.

Shockley created the transistor, formed the pioneering and archetypal start-up in Shockley Semiconductor, which led to Fairchild and eventually formed Intel. How was is possible fo…

Why wouldn't you assume intentionality as more likely than not given the disturbing history of race in Silicon Valley? The position you hold out of the gate is unlikely and your as…

I am not here to "sway" you. Your hand-wavey dismissal is absurd, given the history of race in Silicon Valley. William Shockley was an out-and-out white supremacist. He goes on to …

But that's not what happened, is it? The algorithm hasn't miscategorised men, it has miscategorised Black men. I'd argue the AI has done its job, with a high degree of accuracy. It…

I'm sorry but no. I don't believe this at all. What are the chances of say, you finding a dataset maliciously labelled by racists and how would you uncover that? Would you ask ever…

I find it baffling and dispiriting that you, as a Black person, believe this is more likely to be an "error" than an act of deliberate racism. It's getting silly, now. A white raci…

At this point, it's obvious this is deliberate.

More news at 11.

Anki is just a slice of Piotr Wozniak's ideas, and the algorithm it uses isn't as good as that implemented in his own software, SuperMemo. And besides: it doesn't do incremental re…

Apple became the biggest corporation in the world because they worked out how to build humane interfaces into the technologies that shape the future. That you believe Grandma will …

Meanwhile in the real world, my brilliant friend, who cares about privacy, called me in a panic because she couldn't work out how to shift/right-click a video in her browser to dow…

"Consumer choice" is not how you stop hostile all-pervasive monopoly machine learning algorithms. The number of times I've heard from smart people: "Don't use Google"; "Don't use A…

Aliens, 1986: "I have a class-2 rating." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMk-EEyOpE

Thanks for the links, I appreciate this. I disliked much of the article, even if it was fascinating. Here's why: I can think of no joint venture in contemporary American culture wh…

I agree. Most people don't know, which makes me sad. Perhaps it's an opportunity for you to discover the secret history of the music. It's a wonderful and interesting journey.

That's not true. Afropunk was a response to the question you pose. White people stole the rock from Black kids the way Ancient Greece stole the Hippocratic Oath from African cultur…

Yah, but Eastgate's Tinderbox has been doing this for damned-near 20 years, no? https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/updates/Tinderbox8.html

iTunes actually hasn't been nice to use since about 2004.

What are you talking about? Nurses, teachers and public sector workers all critical for the functioning of cities are claiming welfare. Some nurses in the NHS are eating patients' …

The TransAtlantic Slave Trade was a state-sponsored enterprise on an international scale. What about that don't you understand?

I would say that your approach to the book, and possibly your own learning, is misinformed. They talk about it on the course - the Einstellung effect: entrenched pathways inhibitin…