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Can't agree more on 5. I've repeatedly found that any really tricky programming problem is (eventually) solved by iterative refinement of the data structures (and the APIs they exp…

Congratulations! You have nothing to apologize for.

Thank you for clarifying!

ouch.

I see how it’s easy to agree with this article since everyone has experienced being annoyed by excessive noise, but I do question whether or not the jury is really out on excessive…

I would guess this already happens all the time (soldiers being told to do terrible tactical moves due to lack of information)

Thanks for your perspective and insights. I'll take a more charitable view on this topic in the future. :)

I find the “super computer slime” stories that pop up every once and a while (including in academic contexts, occasionally), pretty annoying. Usually they have fun examples of prob…

> My best guess is that the embedding represents the meaning of the natural language string it was generated from, such that strings with "similar" embeddings have similar meaning.…

Ok that passage from Blood Meridian is obviously great, but posting it out of context like this makes my skin crawl! It's almost a spoiler. Without knowing the preceding events, an…

Messenger already has opt-in end to end encryption and it's the default on WhatsApp.

Google "Netflix Kids".

Thanks for the information!

Yes. I felt I was swimming against the currents and wanted this opinion to exist in separate space from the rest of the opinions I express on this site.

@ggrrhh_ta It's not showing me the 'reply' button on your comment. That seems like fair criticism. It's not my area of expertise. I'm just here to post the source document because …

Did you have a look at the slide deck? I don't design survey's for a living, but the questions seem carefully chosen (often included as a footnote on slides with graphs).

You're right and Facebook should be taking action to reduce the negative effects their products are having on teens. I have no idea if any of the recommendations at the end of the …

That's a fair question! Is there a better way to independently measure the mental health effect of a single variable on a person's life than just asking them?

I encourage people to have a look at the leaked document that is being referenced here. https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/teen-mental-hea... p24. Teens are about twice a…

> To be clear, I don't believe Facebook is solely to blame here. What we're seeing is an amplification of human behavior and tribalism that predates the existence of social media. …

> And if some of the allegations and concerns are correct, the current trajectory companies like Facebook are taking us on are poised to cause far worse. We've already seen Faceboo…