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There are healthy recommender systems, like Spotify. YouTube is a _disastrously_ unhealthy recommender system, and they've let it go completely out of control.

That's not very much.

Well, it's not true. Bitcoin has increased the demand for coal power in China. Bitcoin miners flocked to New York State for cheap natural gas power. Green energy is not necessarily…

The person you're replying to is clearly aware of search ranking algorithms. You should try looking into the HITS algorithm they mentioned for some additional context.

Most of the projects you're thinking of probably never even generated high-resolution images. Until recently, the actual output layer for most of these systems would be something l…

Yes. The arrest was for harassment and doxxing, not for misgendering. paganel, when you say "Sorry for the Daily Mail link" it sounds like you know you're citing a source that will…

This is a revisionist and false narrative, and I believe it may be inspired by the "just world fallacy": you may be inclined to believe the world couldn't actually be unfair to wom…

No, they weren't doing "tedious data entry", they were writing the entire program . And I'd say it would be less boring than programming in 2019, which is easier and pre-existing l…

I've certainly encountered this issue. When I release ConceptNet, I would like to follow SemVer, but it kind of has to be in a way that the second component of the version is the m…

okay what And if I had gotten to choose the newspaper, I would have chosen one that is more friendly and more representative of the local community than the glorified blog operated…

And it took me 3 months, $180, and being ordered to publish a notice in the local newspaper who was really uninterested in following through and then charged me another $170 for it…

This comment sounds like Erlich Bachman on Silicon Valley .

This cheap food tastes really great when you put expensive food on top of it!

Huh. I don't have much of a problem going in to a bank branch, given that there's one every half mile. A quick in-person meeting is fine compared to the shitstorm of unusable menus…

Can confirm. I actually went and specifically informed a couple of ad-targeting networks that I'm a woman, in the cases where they allow that, around when I was updating many other…

Honolulu is a city, not an island. It is more than enough information to select a rectangle roughly 40km on a side.

Python bytecode is a pre-processed form of instructions to a Python interpreter, such as getting the function with a specified name out of a Python library and calling it with cert…

You can't move between Mastodon instances and keep your followers.

So only programmers can be "intelligent, polite" users, in your view? Of course you have to "do it for" the user. That's why you are the programmer and they are the user. If you're…

UTF-7 is "fun" because encoding libraries tend to support it, but since nobody cares about it, edge cases in the implementation may go undiscovered for a while. Back on Python 2.7.…

A couple reasons I'm aware of: - Han unification. Chinese and Japanese characters that have the same etymology but are written differently are sometimes assigned to the same codepo…

The pushing of this message by Wikileaks and the Kremlin was quite a feat of propaganda, and you can tell the propaganda was well done because they made its believers believe that …

I'm glad that this is a good example of a translation, and not a trick. I still think that if a blog post author says "this is a translation of my post", the author should host it …

If the author is reading this: When someone provides you a pro-bono translation, by all means credit them, but do not let them host it on their own site. Frequently, they are sipho…

That's the part about "Definers" at the end of the article. They make sure not to say his name. Their claim is -- and this is ridiculous -- their PR team thought people needed to k…