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It is not about money. It is about people with family in China. This is the most common pressure point that turns them. Then they have to recruit other Chinese people abroad. Anywa…

A most favorable reading of your post has you: - dragging in gender by the hairs (as if it is relevant) - trying out the trope that people are denying her title, because she is fem…

Gross double standard. Would you write: > the fact that this man has a doctorate ... No, you would not. We are a long way from equality if the fact that she happens to have a vagin…

Predictive modeling will be nearly automated (except in cases where manual feature engineering helps). Data science will focus more attention on solution finding, data gathering, c…

There is a psychological effect when spending money with credit cards. Spending physical cash hurts one the most, then debit cards, and credit cards cause the least hurt. It is ver…

It was a Cold War battle between Russia and the US. RAND Corporation found in 1973 that the US was falling behind in paranormal research. > (1) Soviet research is much more oriente…

1.) A super-intelligent mind could predict what it would do. Then we can make it tell us. 2.) Here you conflate "intelligence" with biological power structures (energy resources, t…

You do not need 100% accuracy. Easy data mining: "Religious center" is a top-level category. "Religious school" is a type of "School". "Marijuana Dispensary" is a type of "Shop & S…

Denying people their right to gather peacefully at a lawful political rally, simply because you posit them as irredeemably evil, is a hallmark of fascism. And even though I do not …

Yes. Foursquare sells your location data to other companies. These companies then know: Where you live, where you work, how you commute, if you use drugs, if you drink a lot, if yo…

Also scary considering that if Airbnb does not like you, for whatever valid or invalid reason, you are not welcome in either local hosting or hotels worldwide. Given that Airbnb al…

It is not the ML model that is updated with information, but the predictive modeler herself is updated. She now finds parameters that make the model perform well on that specific t…

To use the test set explicitly for evaluation is a deadly sin. When found out, you'd face serious damage to your reputation (Like Baidu did a few years ago). [1] What the decreasin…

The teams specialize.

Current application: Better character - and token completion helps make it easier for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. http://www.inference.org.uk/djw3…

PR is quite similar to a neural network with a single extremely wide layer. Unless you are hashing the polynomials, you will quickly run into an intractible problem, while properly…

It really is lizardpeople-style crazy. It is halfway between a troll and a Russian PSYOP. That language really does it justice.

Hillary Clinton showed 4chan Pepe memes during her campaign. The Vice President is protected by soldiers who wear a Qanon-patch. Pizzagate and Podesta's hacked emails play a large …

We had a policy of "we only want satisfied customers". Being very forthcoming and easy-going with a return policy makes support super easy. When people complained, we pro-actively …

> the ineptitude of ML algorithms. Computer vision can show greater-than-estimated-human-performance, while still failing hilariously unhuman once in a while. People remember the 1…

- what is your runway? - what is my equity (potential)? - is there already a technical platform/process to do my work, or does this need to be build first?