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You can filter the viable matches by ages, so the price has no impact on "fewer" desirable candidates for women.
The differences is that paid users have unlimited requests, and the less appealing men need those request to make a match, because of the 80/20 rule https://medium.com/@worstonlin...

Gates is parroting various post-scarcity or Star Trek-based economic theories that if technology can provide everything people want, so they will live for their own happiness and the well-being of society. Star Trek lore says they ended scarcity with "replicator" technology that can make anything people want; Gates is suggesting robotic automation will end scarcity instead, but the effect is the same.

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/...
https://medium.com/@RickWebb/t...

There's literally a book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Trekono...

Spectre works by getting speculatively executed code access kernel mode memory. So they'd need to do protection checks before the speculative code did the access.

https://medium.com/@mattklein1...

1. In the first line, a âoeprobe arrayâ is allocated. This is memory in our process which is used as a side channel to retrieve data from the kernel. How this is done will become apparent soon.
2. Following the allocation, the attacker makes sure that none of the memory in the probe array is cached. There are various ways of accomplishing this, the simplest of which includes CPU-specific instructions to clear a memory location from cache.
3. The attacker then proceeds to read a byte from the kernelâ(TM)s address space. Remember from our previous discussion about virtual memory and page tables that all modern kernels typically map the entire kernel virtual address space into the user process. Operating systems rely on the fact that each page table entry has permission settings, and that user mode programs are not allowed to access kernel memory. Any such access will result in a page fault. That is indeed what will eventually happen at step 3.
4. However, modern processors also perform speculative execution and will execute ahead of the faulting instruction. Thus, steps 3â"5 may execute in the CPUâ(TM)s pipeline before the fault is raised. In this step, the byte of kernel memory (which ranges from 0â"255) is multiplied by the page size of the system, which is typically 4096.
5. In this step, the multiplied byte of kernel memory is then used to read from the probe array into a dummy value. The multiplication of the byte by 4096 is to avoid a CPU feature called the âoeprefetcherâ from reading more data than we want into into the cache.
6. By this step, the CPU has realized its mistake and rolled back to step 3. However, the results of the speculated instructions are still visible in cache. The attacker uses operating system functionality to trap the faulting instruction and continue execution (e.g., handling SIGFAULT).
7. In step 7, the attacker iterates through and sees how long it takes to read each of the 256 possible bytes in the probe array that could have been indexed by the kernel memory. The CPU will have loaded one of the locations into cache and this location will load substantially faster than all the other locations (which need to be read from main memory). This location is the value of the byte in kernel memory.

Using the above technique, and the fact that it is standard practice for modern operating systems to map all of physical memory into the kernel virtual address space, an attacker can read the computerâ(TM)s entire physical memory.

Now, you might be wondering: âoeYou said that page tables have permission bits. How can it be that user mode code was able to speculatively access kernel memory?â The reason is this is a bug in Intel processors. In my opinion, there is no good reason, performance or otherwise, for this to be possible. Recall that all virtual memory access must occur through the TLB. It is easily possible during speculative execution to check that a cached mapping has permissions compatible with the current running privilege level. Intel hardware simply does not do this. Other processor vendors do perform a permission check and block speculative execution. Thus, as far as we know, Meltdown is an Intel only vulnerability.

Edit: It appears that at least one ARM processor is also susceptible to Meltdown as indicated here and here.

Seems like there are two options. One is to do privilege checks before speculative code is executed. Another would be roll back the state of the cache on a protection fault.

The later one appeals actually. In a GP fault handler you could just invalidate the cache line to foil step 7. And you don't need to slow down the common case where speculative

I dunno, I think he's smarter than he looks.

Consider.

Back when people wrote code in Objective C it was easy to have some Objective C for the iOS UI, some Java for the Android UI and a big gob of portable C/C++.

Now if they write the whole app in Swift it will be easier to get it running on iOS. And it seems like there are various projects to get Swift running on Android too.

E.g.

https://medium.com/@ephemer/ho...

I.e. Apple have something which is a competitor to writing everything in C# and using Xamarin to target both platforms.

Xamarin has always seemed a bit horrid to me frankly. And doing the 'big gob of portable C/C++ with two sets of UI code is also horrid.

If Apple can build a platform that people use for IOS apps knowing they can run well on Android they've got a pretty compelling platform. And if it turns out not to work very well on Android they've got more iOS exclusive applications.

And unlike his predecessor, Tim Cook actually CAN code:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

And even better, his example in the above article sounds like it was a real-time control application, which has its own special difficulties.

I dunno, I think he's smarter than he looks.

Consider.

Back when people wrote code in Objective C it was easy to have some Objective C for the iOS UI, some Java for the Android UI and a big gob of portable C/C++.

Now if they write the whole app in Swift it will be easier to get it running on iOS. And it seems like there are various projects to get Swift running on Android too.

E.g.

https://medium.com/@ephemer/ho...

I.e. Apple have something which is a competitor to writing everything in C# and using Xamarin to target both platforms.

Xamarin has always seemed a bit horrid to me frankly. And doing the 'big gob of portable C/C++ with two sets of UI code is also horrid.

If Apple can build a platform that people use for IOS apps knowing they can run well on Android they've got a pretty compelling platform. And if it turns out not to work very well on Android they've got more iOS exclusive applications.

Different AC here; you're right, but you left out that it doesn't take general AI to knock out a few million jobs. From the ddg search, we find this top result:

It should be clear at a glance just how dependent the American economy is on truck drivers. According to the American Trucker Association, there are 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the US, and an additional 5.2 million people employed within the truck-driving industry who don’t drive the trucks. That’s 8.7 million trucking-related jobs.

The economy can nohow, noway soak up that many people in the next quarter century it might take for that particular revolution to complete.

You are making a bad joke at the expanse of those folk living there... But the reality is that *inflation adjusted* rent and house price are insane. e.g. https://medium.com/@mccannatro...

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*MdPAr5dt5AH73H1mO_NahQ.jpeg

It is CPI adjusted so reflects indeed an appreciation/gentrification rather than inflation.

Even if you are house owner you can easily understand what this means : imagine your house which had a monthly cost of 600$-700$ (inflation adjusted cost) now has a monthly average cost of 4000$. Would you be able to keep it ? no ? Well that is what is happening to some people, and those with the weakest salaries are pushed further and further away meaning their cost increase both in time cost (travel time) and in transportation cost, or go in worst neighborhood if you can.

Basically I forsee a wall coming to SF bay area, something will have to break.

It's more like Bolshevism, with small groups of the disaffected trying to change cultural norms to suit them despite the fact large numbers of people are really not supporting their arguments. Reminds me of other cultural revolutions, which always devolve into orthodox ideological arguments, reeducation, expulsion of non-conformists, and tons of propaganda.

This article really got me thinking about Democracy and the discontent. While some good comes from entertaining thoughts of mass social change, it's rare.

https://medium.com/incerto/the...

The very first result in Google for "Damore memo" is this:

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/...

The content appears to be the same as your link.

Dude, did you see the "GUI" they are using? You can tell what has happened just by looking at the result.
(Image of the GUI is a bit down in the article.)

The reason this bullshit happened is because the person leading the development didn't have the competence needed to judge the state of the system or he didn't get the funding needed to finish the project.

You can tell just by looking at it that someone programmed the backend and made it work, and to test the system he spent 5 minutes to make a web-page that sent a test-signal.
When the backend worked he demonstrated the system for his boss that didn't listen to all that technical mumbo jumbo and just saw a button click and a correct response and decided that the project was done.
No proper GUI was ever developed.
Over the time new links were added to the test-page just to be able to send other messages but they were just added to the list in no particular order.

This isn't an operator error. In a sharp situation where the operator is stressed there is a high probability that even a competent person would pick the wrong message.
This is purely a development error and since the backend apparently works very well and clearly no-one spent even a day on building a GUI it is clearly a project management or funding issue.

Oh, actually, Mashiki, you got it wrong, there were lawsuits over drinking water too, however it wasn't limited to that.

Sorry Mashiki, but the fact is, the States went to Court to compel the EPA to write the regulations ( Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency under the Bush administration), which meant under the Obama administration, the EPA got the regulations written after some lawsuits (Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency), and then Trump tried to back out simply on his say so, thus the lawsuits against such a rescission, and Courts deciding that:

“EPA’s stay, in other words, is essentially an order delaying the rule’s effective date, and this court has held that such orders are tantamount to amending or revoking a rule.”

which lead to the Trump administration being forced to reverse course on many attempts they made to fail to follow their duties.

Oops, Mashiki, it seems you've been caught without the facts on your side again. I know, I know, you love to lie, but why? It's so easy to expose your frauds.

PS, actually, the Ground Water Rule has a fair bit to do with drinking water. It's part of the Clean Water Rule. And Trump is trying desperately to rescind it too, but he's already being sued for that. Motions were filed in NAM v. DOD.

PPS:

a scam to fleece the yahoos. Unfortunately, that's what the entire conservative movement has become.

I guess that means that the entire progressive movement has become the new moral authoritarians displacing the fundamentalist christians then right?

Glad you don't deny the first, but your second has no relationship to the other, your manner of thinking remains an example of unsound logic. You would need to note that the progressive movement has been in existence for over a century, for example, and has actually been accused of authoritarianism for well over a half-century, or by some accounts a century and a half.

This analysis was posted by Scott Roberson, Chair of Information Systems & Computer Science, U.Hawaii before the screen shots and related information was available. Even with that info, his analysis is relevant and insightful... https://medium.com/@scottrob/h...

don't believe that's the case in 2017. the market is completely different in 2017 vs 2013

Completely different in that yes there is wider distribution now than back 2k13. To say the market is completely different is a bit of streach. This page has some tables with data from September '17. You can clearly see that top 1-2% people have about half the BTC market.

https://medium.com/@BambouClub...

Oddly that is pretty close to the distribution of wealth in general across the world. Maybe this is simply a feature of some other driver in modern finance....Another topic.

At any rate it cannot be said that BTC isn't thinly traded and their are not a handful of people with large enough holdings to manipulate the market. This isn't a BTC specific problem, Soros did it with the Pound in the 90s but... its clearly not a problem BTC has solved either.

It just makes sense to form co-ops so that WE control the means of production https://medium.com/@PrestoViva...

Hey, I know this might be a bit weird, but could you play along with me?

Could I ask you for a couple of quotes out of the memo where he's being sexist?

I'm not saying you're wrong. I personally think he went completely overboard in a couple areas. But the media has demonized him so bad that I'm not sure if you're taking about something he said or something somebody said he said.

Your post is misinformed speculation.

If you want to convince me you're more informed, the way to do it is not to make a comment like that with absolutely no data to back it up. If you look at Damore's comment text, you will see right at the top that he posted it to two internal URLs that are not specific to the anti-discrimination class: the internal document publication URL go/pc-considered-harmful and the internal discussion forum g/pc-harmful-discuss.

This required sufficient internal response that the CEO had to cut short a family vacation in order to handle it. In general, a CEO of that size company does not expect to personally manage damage from an engineering hire unless things are seriously wrong. IMO that alone was sufficient reason for termination.

And entirely separate from discussion of his rights, Damore's a turkey.

Oh, Federalist - the true home of fake news. They even fake the fake news list. Let's list a couple of lies:

1) Federalist says that there was a fake surge in transgender suicides. This is not true, the linked article cites the increased number of suicide hotline calls.
2) They cite the Medium article that says that there are possible signs of fraud: https://medium.com/@jhalderm/w... - it's true. Statistical analysis shows that the resulting configuration is quite unlikely.
3) Multiple government climate change sites got purged: https://gizmodo.com/another-go...

In short, how to tell that a conservative lies? Easy, his lips are moving.

Honestly, I'm a big fan of shounen anime. The stories may be similar, but at least it has character development, with all its flaws. "Thanks to this lack of inner conflict, Rey is a cipher, a bland character with less development than an underwritten shonen anime protagonist."

2) Bitcoin miners are co-locating at hydro plants to get cheap energy.

case China and Russia: https://medium.com/@evawxiao/c...

"China has an enormous surplus of electricity that can be harnessed for mining. In 2016, for instance, overcapacity from hydropower stations in Sichuan and Yunnan amounted to a whopping 45.6 terawatt hours. To put that into perspective, the entire US generated 4,100 terawatt hours of electricity in the same year.* By partnering with these power stations, cryptocurrency miners get access to discounted electricity rates in exchange for a cut of the mining revenue.
Chinese miners aren’t the only ones capitalizing on surplus electricity either. A Russian company co-founded by Putin’s internet advisor is doing the same thing to drive down electricity costs, though Russia only has around 20 gigawatts of excess power to funnel into mining."

case Iceland: https://btcmanager.com/gmo-int...

"Japan-based GMO Internet, an internet and technology conglomerate, has officially kicked off its cryptocurrency mining operation. The company has not disclosed the exact location of the new mine but acknowledged that it is based somewhere in Northern Europe. [...]
The publicly listed firm hinted that as of today, the mine is drawing all its electricity from hydropower and geothermal sources."

As green as it gets.

(Also, energy usage and transaction volume are not correlated. Extrapolating Bitcoin's energy usage into the future is highly questionable to start with)

That's what N N Thaleb calls skin in the game: https://medium.com/incerto/on-... .

as far as I remember (I ditched winamp a long time ago), "double size" mode just magnified the low-resolution art by 2x, so the interface looked like the screenshot here or see the comparison here. The text in that screenshot is barely legible.

Yes, I know they're employed. Yes, I know there's a lack of housing. What I meant is moving costs money, and there's no guarantee they're going to find a job by moving to somewhere else. That's what UBI takes care of. Basic needs. It's better for them to stay where they are without UBI because they at least have a job.

Bezos is an apex predator, who has never even pretended to not be an ignore-what-I-say planet-destroying hypocrite where his business interests were concerned. To some degree, Google really has to fight fire with fire here. I remain a long ways away from tarring Google and Amazon with the same brush.

Check out The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013). Captures the general tone of the organization brilliantly.

Amazon just removed encryption from its tablet devices — March 2016

Robin Handaly, an Amazon spokesperson, pushed back on criticism of the move.

"In the fall when we released Fire OS 5, we removed some enterprise features that we found customers weren't using," Handaly wrote in an email. "All Fire tablets' communication with Amazon's cloud meet our high standards for privacy and security including appropriate use of encryption."

Their customers didn't agree, and in this instance, Amazon was forced to eat crow and restore the feature.

Amazon's customer service backdoor — January 2016

... I contacted both Amazon Retail and AWS expressing my disappointment and asking them to put a note on my account that it is at extremely high risk of being socially engineered, and that I will always be capable of logging in. Amazon Retail said they would put a note, and have a specialist contact me (who never did) while AWS was dismissive of even a risk existing.

Amazon divulged his personal information to J. Random Blackhat twice more, despite this interaction.

Amazon Advertising Executive Fired for Refusing To Lie — November 2014

A former advertising executive for Kindle is suing Amazon for wrongful dismissal. The saga begins in 2012 with the launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet. Amazon was seeking launch partners in order to build traction with their Special Offers edition. Credit card company Discover signed on, as they normally participated with pilot projects at Amazon. Then things got interesting.

A classic Bezos manoeuvre. We know how that ended.

Prince Longshank's "high counsellor" shown the exit

Back when Amazon still mailed out DVDs, Bezos probably had that scene on repeat piped through the entire building.

My files on Google's malfeasance are hardly empty, but by comparison, they tend to lack that special Braveheart touch.

If I go and buy an EOMA68 PC, I get freedom from the Intel ME.
In return I get to run what ever code Allwinner embeds into it's SoC, perhaps on behalf of the Chinese Government [1]. With the blazing speed of a dual-core Cortex A7 CPU! Quite similar in performance to the first Pentium 3's

[1] https://medium.com/@Hoplite/ch...

https://medium.com/@adactio/wh...

Reliable - Load instantly and never show the downasaur, even in uncertain network conditions

Jeremy Keith
A web developer and author living and working in Brighton, England.

Why does that not surprise me? Brighton is basically the hipster capital of the UK.

Likewise, Progressive Web Apps consist of:

1. HTTPS,
2. A service worker, and
3. A Web App Manifest

It seems like cache some html pages. They have an Javascript worker thread, and the thread queries the remote server. If there's no connection to the server you get the cached html page with the old data rather than that irritating T Rex jumping cactuses game that you'd otherwise get in Chrome Mobile.

I suppose it's progress of a sort - Google have finally realised that not everyone has a internet connection all the time. Then again that's rather obvious - even in somewhere like NYC you lose your network connection on the subway between stops so an application which needs a connection all the time to run is unusable. Also it's a lot easier to find developers who can do Javascript and HTML than it is ones who can do Java.

Someone wants to post content on the internet. Someone else doesn't want to host said content because they find it repugnant. There is no solution that doesn't involve disappointing someone.

That's where you're wrong. There doesn't require a balance, rather all that's required is the host to be "treated as a dumb pipe." See how easy that is?

There are people who are quite happy to host that content, until someone with an axe to grind decides that they're going to dox, harass, and threaten that person and their family for allowing them to host it. Just remember that there are plenty of groups out there that are more then happy to try and shut you up for having the wrong view point, plenty more that are willing to lie to try and ruin you. The fact that currently this is the standard go-to tactic of the progressive left, feminists, and so on should be telling you just how much of a chilling effect their actions are having on society. Of course those same people are now getting a taste of the same rules and actions they pushed in the first place, and are being silenced. So suddenly it's a very "real problem" for them.

And before you try the "but the left/feminism/etc really isn't doing that..." yeah you can stop with the bullshit, because they are. Whether it's feminists pulling fire alarms at a MRA meeting, doxing people to get funds pulled from a male domestic abuse shelter, what's happening in the dark and dirty underside of "feminist" culture in tech(like with google, ada initiative, and so on), or what happened at Wilfred Laurier, the left has a very big pro-censorship problem. And a very big problem with identity politics if someone dares to walk off their plantation.

There is no simple, consistent solution. It depends on the nature of the content, and the context in which it exists (the Daily Stormer stuff was immediately after a literal Nazi used his car to murder and injure people in broad daylight, apparently convinced that the war had started).

Well the guy wasn't a literal nazi, he was an ethno-natioanlist which isn't the same thing(remember it's okay to be white). Reminder that the case still hasn't gone to court either. And that whole "free speech" thing still applies to them, unless it falls directly into "fighting words" aka actionable threat. Which wasn't the case. But if you want to roll that way, it would mean that you're a literal fascist, with your statist goose-stepping to stifle speech you don't like.

Certainly when it comes to politics...

Really good read imho, "The Empress Has No Clothes: The Dark Underbelly of Women Who Code and Google Women Techmakers"

https://medium.com/@marlene.ja...

Comcast is in favor of Net Neutrality? Then why have they spent millions to lobby for ending it?

According to the College Board, 40% of the score for the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course - whose higher-than-other-subject-area pass rates were recently celebrated by tech-bankrolled Code.org - is based upon assessment of non-exam "Performance Tasks."

Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) have spent $572 million on attempts to influence the FCC and other government agencies since 2008.

https://medium.com/theyoungtur...
https://represent.us/action/ho...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Or paying people in entertainment to be seen either smoking or at least holding cigarettes, things that can subtly suggest smoking is okay or even 'cool' to do. They already do this in movies (likely with the cooperation of the tobacco companies) so they can do more of it. Traditional TV ads for smoking stopped airing years ago, not because they were forced off but because they're not needed.

Advertising inside of something else (such as entertainment products) is quite effective and used for other propaganda too. It's also how the US Government helps keep the US on a constant war footing; a steady dose of pro-war propaganda including people who work with that government to vet Hollywood scripts, recommend changes to elide actions they don't want people talking about (like the time the CIA made a change to "Meet the Parents" where "In the original script Stiller finds CIA torture manuals on a desk, but Brandon changed that to photos of Robert De Niro with various dignitaries."), and generally influence messages conveyed by the corporate media.

Traditional advertisements are what industries like the smoking companies want to frame any punitive choices around because the weak spots of that old form of advertising are well-known and easily worked around or avoided. The grandparent article is really a lot less interesting than its current moderation would indicate.

The world - rightfully - has a love-hate relationship with spreadsheets. It's definitely a more nuanced subject than this article (and most of the comments) suggest. For those interested in a little deeper dive I recently wrote this three-part blog series on the origin and nature of spreadsheets:

• Spreadsheets are programs
• Spreadsheets made the PC market
• Spreadsheets are everywhere

The world - rightfully - has a love-hate relationship with spreadsheets. It's definitely a more nuanced subject than this article (and most of the comments) suggest. For those interested in a little deeper dive I recently wrote this three-part blog series on the origin and nature of spreadsheets:

• Spreadsheets are programs
• Spreadsheets made the PC market
• Spreadsheets are everywhere

The world - rightfully - has a love-hate relationship with spreadsheets. It's definitely a more nuanced subject than this article (and most of the comments) suggest. For those interested in a little deeper dive I recently wrote this three-part blog series on the origin and nature of spreadsheets:

• Spreadsheets are programs
• Spreadsheets made the PC market
• Spreadsheets are everywhere

Most programmers think code can be made secure if they only have better compilers, debuggers, or follow better practices. They are fundamentally mistaken about the nature of the problem.

This article lays out the nature of the error far better than I can. Please read it and then THINK:

https://medium.com/message/eve...

And then consider: âoeIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.ââSâ"âSUpton Sinclair

How do we raise the cost of CO2 naturally? Well, for one it is going to rise as we keep using it up. The price goes down naturally with increased technology and economy of scale.

In other words, you propose doing nothing, except for the one thing (fixing nuclear regulations) that might annoy those anti-nuclear liberals. The problem with this of course is that most fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground, which won't happen naturally.

It's actually worse than that because most articles that explain how "most fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground" haven't even considered clathrates / methane hydrates, a new CO2-emitting fuel source that is now being explored.

So why not the Republican climate change solution?

I agree, nuclear regulations need improvement in the USA, particularly to facilitate GenIVs and Molten Salt Reactors - offering higher safety at lower cost, but hindered by the current regulatory regime.

But solar energy with no subsidies has already become cheaper than coal near the equator. Look up Swanson's law - the Moore's law of solar. It's hard to imagine solar panels ever being useful during cloudy Canadian winters, but solar in the south plus nuclear in the north makes a lot of sense.

In the meantime, islamic countries fear energy, food and water shortage, but they censor reports released to the public about that.

The memo was badly written, poorly cited and badly researched. He misrepresents and misunderstands statistics, biology, gender determinism and psychology. https://medium.com/@tweetingmo...

None of that warranted his firing, but what DID was that he was making himself known as a bad actor in the environment at google. Because they do both peer and manager reviews, he basically painted a big red flag on himself because there was no way to tell if heâ(TM)d be sufficiently objective when reviewing female teammates. Women were already blacklisting him (apparently google employees keep internal blacklists, which Iâ(TM)m not sure is a great idea) and it really just demonstrated a lack of decent judgement. Nobody would be able to promote him, and he generated an outsized amount of strife for a single employee. From a business perspective, he was a humongous operational liability.

Being spectrum absolves him of none of this. We all know spectrum people, and I know plenty that are capable of learning rules to keep them out of trouble because theyâ(TM)re aware theyâ(TM)re not good at understanding social signals. Itâ(TM)s not a problem that heâ(TM)s spectrum, itâ(TM)s a problem that he generally has bad judgement.

Well functioning teams are critical to making good progress and he was clearly an impediment to that, no matter whether you agree with his memo or not.

...He's a snowflake. Trolling aside, apparently Damore was "wronged" our society, but let's not forget that women and minorities are ALSO wronged by our society, and in my opinion THIS problem is much larger scale/urgent/severe... BTW I tend to agree with his girlfriend "She maintains Damore was, for the most part, naive and wrong..." His mild autism should make him very cautious before opening up in a public setting. We need more simple tools like "The Rock Test" https://medium.com/@annevictor... to help people like him and "nerdy-nerds" participate fully in our society without offending/hurting others. Anyway good to see that the guy is not necessarily set on his views and apparently is listening...

LOL if you don't think Google is left and SJW, you're so far inside your own bubble that anyone to the right of Mao Zedong looks like a nazi to you.

"Googleâ(TM)s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety," he wrote in his TL;DR section of the memo. "This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed. The lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology."

The response? Threats of violence. "Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldnâ(TM)t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them. You have just created a textbook hostile workplace environment."

Problem solved!

Except that the climate models have, overall, worked remarkably well.

Here is the first and best-referenced of the global climate models, dated from 1967, and a comparison of the model against the data for the following fifty years: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-first-climate-model-turns-50-and-predicted-global-warming-almost-perfectly-3c0854932a4a.

The model fit the data remarkably well over a time span of fifty years.

No, the reason PoS isn't popular is because it's provably insecure.

Contrary to a PoW-chain absent a +51% cartel, it’s mathematically proven that it is impossible to determine the “true” transaction history in a PoS blockchain without an additional source of trust. If a source of trust is always needed, a potential pandora’s box of attack and centralization scenarios is opened. This is a seed of truth behind the joke that Ethereum plans to use “proof of Vitalik”.

(follow the links for the actual paper)

https://medium.com/@tuurdemees...

I've read his memo.

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/...

or

https://www.documentcloud.org/...

And he seems very sensible here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Basically he's alleging that Google's system of quotas discriminates against whites and men and in favour of non whites and women. And they fired him.

Now imagine if a black woman had made the same argument - i.e. that the company had discriminated against black women. Not only would she not be fired - she'd mostly likely be promoted. If she did get fired she'd sue and win millions. All the people who accused Damore of writing an 'anti diversity screed' would support her.

And Damore isn't anti diversity. His memo explicitly says

The harm of Google's biases

I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more. However,
to achieve a more equal gender and race representation, Google has created several
discriminatory practices:

* Programs, mentoring, and classes only for people with a certain gender or race5
* A high priority queue and special treatment for "diversity" candidates
* Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for âoediversityâ candidates by
decreasing the false negative rate
* Reconsidering any set of people if it's not "diverse" enough, but not showing that same
scrutiny in the reverse direction (clear confirmation bias)
* Setting org level OKRs for increased representation which can incentivize illegal
discrimination

It's typical of the media that they've accused him of saying something he explicitly was not saying to smear him and defend his employer. And it's typical that, if he'd have been a different race or gender that same media would have rushed to defend him and attack his employer.

The phrase 'this sort of thing is why Trump won' is overused, but this sort of thing is why Trump won. Trump is gaffe prone but most of those gaffes are him trying to confront the PC establishment. And it's clear there's a lot of resentment at that establishment, enough to make people overlook Trump's other character flaws.

Then again his opponent was hardly free of character flaws either. If you have two awful people standing, one you mostly agree with and one you mostly disagree with, it's not ignoring the awfulness to pick the one you mostly agree with.

alphago human masters new moves

Long list of results... here's a typical one.

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA â" In Game Two, the Google machine made a move that no human ever would. And it was beautiful. As the world looked on, the move so perfectly demonstrated the enormously powerful and rather mysterious talents of modern artificial intelligence.

But in Game Four, the human made a move that no machine would ever expect. And it was beautiful too. Indeed, it was just as beautiful as the move from the Google machineâ"no less and no more. It showed that although machines are now capable of moments of genius, humans have hardly lost the ability to generate their own transcendent moments. And it seems that in the years to come, as we humans work with these machines, our genius will only grow in tandem with our creations.

Although machines are now capable of moments of genius, humans have hardly lost the ability to generate their own.

This week saw the end of the historic match between Lee Sedol, one of the world's best Go players, and AlphaGo, an artificially intelligent system designed by a team of researchers at DeepMind, a London AI lab now owned by Google. The machine claimed victory in the best-of-five series, winning four games and losing only one. It marked the first time a machine had beaten the very best at this ancient and enormously complex gameâ"a feat that, until recently, experts didn't expect would happen for another ten years.
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alphago methodology

typical good result
https://www.dcine.com/2016/01/...

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Interesting article on the new "alphago zero" which absolutely kicked alphago's ass.

https://medium.com/intuitionma...

Beat the previous version of AlphaGo (Final score: 100â"0).
Learn to perform this task from scratch, without learning from previous human knowledge (i.e. recorded game play).
World champion level Go playing in just 3 days of training.
Do so with an order of magnitude less neural networks ( 4 TPUs vs 48 TPUs).
Do this with less training data (3.9 million games vs 30 millions games). ...
Humans learn languages through metaphors and stories. The human strategies discovered in Go are referred to with names so as to be recognizable by a player. It could be possible that the human language of Go is inefficient in that it is unable to express more complex compound concepts. What AlphaGo Zero seems to be able to do is perform its moves in a way that satisfies multiple objectives at the same time. So humans and perhaps earlier versions of AlphaGo were constrained to a relatively linear way of thinking, while AlphaGo Zero was not encumbered with an inefficient language of strategy. It is also interesting that one may consider this a system that actually doesnâ(TM)t use the implicit bias that may reside in a language. David Silver, of DeepMind, has an even more bold claim:

Itâ(TM)s more powerful than previous approaches because by not using human data, or human expertise in any fashion, weâ(TM)ve removed the constraints of human knowledge and it is able to create knowledge itself.

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You can also watch alpha go analysis on youtube. It's pretty dry but you typically get commentary by a go expert on the moves made.

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The biggest limitation on A.I. is human. We don't have the right theories yet. We don't know how to formulate some problems for machine learning. In those areas where we do, machines rapidly exceed human capabilities.

btw, to me "brute

Read the document, and make up your mind on the facts of the case, not second hand opinion.

Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber, James Darmore.

Opinion - any rule that is based on "the eye of the beholder" rather than a clear standard is at risk of inconsistent, unfair, and unjust application.

The court documents so far show crimes from people affiliated with Trump that mostly pre-date their association with the Trump campaign. That's an absolutely enormous difference from what you are describing, though it still calls into question what caliber of leader would have hired (under a monetary agreement or otherwise) all these conspicuous fuck-ups in the first place.

The Disturbing Timeline of George Papadopoulos' Russian Contacts On Behalf of Trump Campaign

Papadopoulos falsely tells the FBI that he met the "Russian Professor" before joining the Trump team.

There is certainly evidence for that. See https://medium.com/dfrlab/electionwatch-russia-and-referendums-in-catalonia-192743efcd76.

Is how they arrived at the list of categories that it caters for. You'd think it would make sense to support terms that people commonly search for (which might explain "bras", but "Floppy disks"?)

The F-35 was designed badly because the Marines wanted VTOL (because they have small dicks and get annoyed at having to play bottom to the Navy to get shit done) and they can't be arsed to have a plane of their own constructed. The traitors ought to be hanged.