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Persona of a person wanting to study AWS for commercial projects at one of AWS's biggest clients: - Create account. Enter credit card details, but verification SMS never shows up. …

Give me physical opt-out. A "robots.txt"/do-not-track for computer surveillance spiders. Let me wear a necklace or QR code on my shoulder, and any commercial face tracking software…

It is a restate of the conspiratorial claim in my first post. One is justified to say anything one pleases, but it could still be a detraction or pointless speculation: "News flash…

Stating "The US is funding the Hong Kong protests" may very well be found true later on, but right now, it is a conspiracy theory without any evidence, not a matter of probability …

I think this tech is too complex to run on mobile devices in 8 seconds for video transfer from 1 selfie. What I think Zao does is preprocess the videos (manually or highly accurate…

It is very meta to ask this question, and to see the replies to this question, as the trope: "The US meddles in foreign revolutions" is common for (social) media propaganda (bots).…

> What if this is the answer? It would be a copout. Instead of actually tackling AI's problem of common sense, claim that maybe layers of logistic regression and matrix factorizati…

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The author of James Bond, Ian Flemming, worked as a commander for British Naval Intelligence, an officer for the 30 Assault Unit, whose task it was to gather intelligence behind en…

> Why do you believe it's a composite image? Because it is common to reconstruct a signal by taking multiple measurements, instead of a single sample. The field of compressed sensi…

I'm of the understanding that this was not a single image, but a composite image, taking by different satellites, planes, and/or drones. The US could have build test facilities in …

Human brains are optimized for prediction of future events, because this helps with survival (eg: you can predict a winter coming up, so you stock up on food). Randomness is by (so…

> Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001), Breiman > There are two cultures in the use of statistical modeling to reach conclusions from data. One assumes that the data are g…

So you predict if they have a general mild preference for the Democrats, then mine if they once reacted strongly on certain triggers: gun control, weak leadership, immigrants, drug…

It is difficult to provide a counterfactual here (would Obama have won if his campaign hadn't put any effort in digital?), so I am not sure if you are requiring that. For factual a…

> How successful was Obama's digital campaign? From what sources are we deriving that conclusion? I'd agree that it may have been overblown (just like the Russian interference may …

> How would you even collect data about this? You gather the data required to make a good probability prediction for voter preference ((soft) labels for this easier to find than sw…

The opposite of extreme self-citing is self-plagiarism (either out of ignorance, to avoid extreme self-citing on ground-breaking research, or with malicious intent: passing the sam…

You have a set of stocks either correlated with the U.S. economy or China's economy. Amateurs tend to pick uptrending correlated stocks (all stocks trending up in the U.S.). When U…

If you know that 5.6% of the users (automated, or parroting the preacher) of an exchange will use fibonacci retracements, and that 15% of the amateur market will follow the market …

I use the "everything is at least 10x greater on the internet" rule.

You are talking about writing an algorithm that has a 100% accuracy on an NP-hard problem, and taking the impossibility of this to discard an approach that may yield 58% accuracy.

> The purpose of AGI is twofold: first to improve the efficiency of organizations of humans by facilitating communication and access to information, and second, to automate the eco…

I feel the business model of artificial artificial intelligence / fake it until you make it, is a valid business model, unless you obfuscate your progress to investors. If you can …

> Why Not Lossy Compression? > Although humans cannot compress losslessly, they are very good at lossy compression: remembering that which is most important and discarding the rest…