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thwee

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    Comment #12900800

    Are you saying that the cost of doing this is low because of advertisers' experience? Or are you saying that it's ok because we already have a slightly less intrusive version of th…

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    Comment #12900789

    > no one is skeptical of classification any more than the people doing the rating. And perhaps the people being rated.

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    Comment #12900739

    What happens where these kinds of models are the reason for suicidal thoughts or criminality?

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    Comment #12900717

    So you're saying we're used to it, now.

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    Comment #12900711

    But doctors getting massive amounts of training is exactly the kind of problem computer science seeks to solve with a machine learning approach. There aren't enough doctors around …

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    Comment #12716231

    Imagine what that would do to dispel listing a key word list of languages ever touched, if we could just say, I know how to work with loops and functions, or I can compose systems …

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    Comment #12716224

    Well, there's language types, if you get into Comparative Programming Languages. There's imperative languages, query languages, object oriented languages, and mixes thereof. Maybe …

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    Comment #12716221

    As a bilingual speaker: For someone ostensibly trying to fight stereotypes around bilingualism, this article sure covers all the stereotypes without doing much to dispel them. But …

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    Comment #12638743

    It should read "...Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to indulge the directive..." indulge, not obey.

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    Comment #12616236

    Yup, that's the job!

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    Comment #12595622

    We haven't moved much from MVC apps, have we?

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    Comment #12558938

    It's an attempt to justify recklessness. If you know exactly what your machine is going to do, you are responsible for what your machine does. This is why you can have web services…

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    Comment #12558879

    Giving software human rights shields authors from responsibility for the actions of their creations. If I wrote a machine to harass people, I would want my AI to have human rights …