The biggest flaw with the Internet is the Echo Chamber effect and Google and Facebooks algorithm's are just feeding that beast.
I want an Internet where I'm exposed to new and different ideas, not wrap me up in a comfort blanket of things I already know.
I agree, and best of all we already have that internet now. The trick is not to rely on algorithms to make suggestions, but to do research yourself and make your own choices. I read up a little about a given musical genre or period and then start listening to it. I use that listening experience to decide where I go next. Rinse & repeat. In this manner I'm not a passive consumer of whatever an algorithm thinks I like. Inevitably I end up exposed to a wide range of stuff and even end up listening to a good deal of material I'm not that into just to explore it. Sometimes I find things I really like in places I don't expect it. I would never have done that with an algorithm because it would have steered me away from content outside my comfort zone.
Not really "knowledge of psychology", more like Marketing 101.
I don't know if "psychology" is the right term, but what is happening is beyond marketing. It's beyond marketing because the user continuously interacts with a product that is giving rewards and being tweaked to retain the user's attention. In this respect it's indeed more like a slot machine than a static product being marketed.
I rarely use the escape and function keys, yes. I've got used to escape being odd now. At first I didn't like that. Function keys I hardly ever use anyway.
I disagree, I really like the keyboard one the MBP. It's true that once every few weeks a key stops working for a few strokes, so that is indeed a minor issue for me. But in general I prefer this keyboard to previous models.
Not really.
Rows with less than 10K drive count should be ignored because they tend to have a higher error margin. This leaves Seagate as highest failure rate with 2.9% for their 4TB drives.
Why "not really"? They list the error margins and the failure rate for WD 6 TB drives remains higher than Seagate 6 TB even taking into account the reported confidence interval. Also, the confidence intervals for about 1,000 drives are very similar to those of about 10,000 drives. You don't need 10k drives to get an accurate estimate.
I'd noticed this happening from time to time on my MBP but hadn't searched to see if the problem was widespread. Typically a key becomes dead for few strikes before coming back to life. Happens once every few weeks.
Zuck is beyond getting the benefit of doubt. If it looks like he's weaseling out of a question, he's weaseling out of a question.
Not really. There was nothing stopping the obvious follow-up question: "Do you mine data from recorded audio uploaded to Facebook". That question was not asked.
It's a not a social experiment and sample size of 27 is reasonable for something like this. These experiments are hard to organise and expensive to conduct. What is a "big" or "small" sample depends on what you're trying to measure, what you're seeking to demonstrate, and the sort of generalisations you want to make. You can't just say n=27 is too small to produce great insights. That makes no sense.
What's the point? You (the person being "backed up") is still dead. There might someday be a copy of you, but you, the you alive right now, the one reading this, is dead. You won't wake up in the future. You won't come back. You will be dead.
Are you so sure? Say I measured/scanned your composition at the atomic level, then killed you and subsequently 3D printed an exact replica. To all intents and purposes you are still alive and nothing has changed for you. It'll be like waking up. Of course it would get very weird when I print the second copy.
I don't understand making objects smart suddenly makes their useful lives shorter than a gerbil's.
Because it makes it makes planned obsolescence easier. People are often willing to buy again every few years in order to get something incrementally better. Also, the appliances in question are often small and easy to get rid of.
People in the state of mind or enough pain, to want to kill themselves, should be allowed to do so - it's their life. Also given the state of over-population in some countries, suicide should even be encouraged and assisted. Don't act offended or point your finger at me - you are thinking it too.
No, we're not thinking of it because it will make no difference to the population trajectory. 16 million people died in world war 1 and shortly after over 50 million died in world war 2. Those numbers don't even register on the population curve There are only about 50,000 suicides per year. That's a rounding error on the scale of world population.
I didn't know about that. Interesting. I'm about to move a bunch of servers which together comprise of over a PB of storage. I'll look into running that test on the other end.
The only time I tried HGST was when I bought half a dozen of them for a trial. One failed out of the box and another lasted a week. Clearly I got unlucky, but it didn't encourage me to repeat the experience. I generally buy WD because the failure rate is acceptable and there is a good return policy which is easy to use.
Whilst I find it somewhat interesting that music is more egocentric now than before, the declining quality of pop music is of no concern to me at all. I don't even need to listen to anything new. As the article states, it's now possible to listen to whatever you like on the internet and there's more excellent music already recorded than I will ever have a chance to hear. So I don't really understand why people complain that modern pop music is crap. If it's crap then just don't listen to it.
Google's big enough to implement that policy, and it'll shut up the whiney marketing departments that complain that they don't want their vegan mean substitute ad played during a hunting video (or whatever).
If they keep kowtowing to advertisers, the entire platform could fall apart, or at least expose itself to serious competition.
I don't understand. Google makes its money by serving up targeting advertisements. How is that "kowtowing"? It's their business model.
I use Spotify for classical, but I'm also looking into Idagio. Idagio has a much nicer interface for classical music, since you can search by composer, conductor, etc. It links multiple movements together into a single piece, etc. However, it lacks a lot of the large labels and there is no free version.
It is a difficult battle. The publishers see revenues drop as globally libraries start to scale down on purchasing expensive journals. On the other hand, having no access to an article because the libraries don't have them any more locally hurts research. One of the outcomes of this battle is that scientists in the western world will have less access to information.
Not a problem. Who goes to the library? It's all available on-line. Increasingly research papers are free to all via PubMed. Either because the journal they're published in is open access or because the funding body (e.g. the Wellcome Trust) mandates that all articles produced from research it funds must be open access regardless of where they are published (an extra fee is paid). For example, this randomly chosen paper is published in Nature Neuroscience (which isn't open access) but can be read by anyone. If none of that works, you generally have good odds of finding a full paper via Google just by searching for the title plus "PDF". If even that doesn't work, you can e-mail the author and they will send you the PDF.
Eventually entropy will destroy the universe. Even if you've survived normal human mortality, the end of the Earth, and the end of the Sun (etc, etc, etc)... ultimately absolutely nothing you've ever achieved will have any significance whatsoever.
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The biggest flaw with the Internet is the Echo Chamber effect and Google and Facebooks algorithm's are just feeding that beast. I want an Internet where I'm exposed to new and different ideas, not wrap me up in a comfort blanket of things I already know.
I agree, and best of all we already have that internet now. The trick is not to rely on algorithms to make suggestions, but to do research yourself and make your own choices. I read up a little about a given musical genre or period and then start listening to it. I use that listening experience to decide where I go next. Rinse & repeat. In this manner I'm not a passive consumer of whatever an algorithm thinks I like. Inevitably I end up exposed to a wide range of stuff and even end up listening to a good deal of material I'm not that into just to explore it. Sometimes I find things I really like in places I don't expect it. I would never have done that with an algorithm because it would have steered me away from content outside my comfort zone.
Not really "knowledge of psychology", more like Marketing 101.
I don't know if "psychology" is the right term, but what is happening is beyond marketing. It's beyond marketing because the user continuously interacts with a product that is giving rewards and being tweaked to retain the user's attention. In this respect it's indeed more like a slot machine than a static product being marketed.
I rarely use the escape and function keys, yes. I've got used to escape being odd now. At first I didn't like that. Function keys I hardly ever use anyway.
I disagree, I really like the keyboard one the MBP. It's true that once every few weeks a key stops working for a few strokes, so that is indeed a minor issue for me. But in general I prefer this keyboard to previous models.
Not really. Rows with less than 10K drive count should be ignored because they tend to have a higher error margin. This leaves Seagate as highest failure rate with 2.9% for their 4TB drives.
Why "not really"? They list the error margins and the failure rate for WD 6 TB drives remains higher than Seagate 6 TB even taking into account the reported confidence interval. Also, the confidence intervals for about 1,000 drives are very similar to those of about 10,000 drives. You don't need 10k drives to get an accurate estimate.
Well guess what - confused females may not want it but will be utterly disappointed if you do not try.
"Confused females"? And the rest of the sentence... This is why things aren't working the way you'd like.
I'd noticed this happening from time to time on my MBP but hadn't searched to see if the problem was widespread. Typically a key becomes dead for few strikes before coming back to life. Happens once every few weeks.
Are you sure?
Zuck is beyond getting the benefit of doubt. If it looks like he's weaseling out of a question, he's weaseling out of a question.
Not really. There was nothing stopping the obvious follow-up question: "Do you mine data from recorded audio uploaded to Facebook". That question was not asked.
It's a not a social experiment and sample size of 27 is reasonable for something like this. These experiments are hard to organise and expensive to conduct. What is a "big" or "small" sample depends on what you're trying to measure, what you're seeking to demonstrate, and the sort of generalisations you want to make. You can't just say n=27 is too small to produce great insights. That makes no sense.
It's hardly even a mechanism. This is all pretty hand-wavy stuff in reality.
What's the point? You (the person being "backed up") is still dead. There might someday be a copy of you, but you, the you alive right now, the one reading this, is dead. You won't wake up in the future. You won't come back. You will be dead.
Are you so sure? Say I measured/scanned your composition at the atomic level, then killed you and subsequently 3D printed an exact replica. To all intents and purposes you are still alive and nothing has changed for you. It'll be like waking up. Of course it would get very weird when I print the second copy.
I don't understand making objects smart suddenly makes their useful lives shorter than a gerbil's.
Because it makes it makes planned obsolescence easier. People are often willing to buy again every few years in order to get something incrementally better. Also, the appliances in question are often small and easy to get rid of.
It's already gone.
People in the state of mind or enough pain, to want to kill themselves, should be allowed to do so - it's their life. Also given the state of over-population in some countries, suicide should even be encouraged and assisted. Don't act offended or point your finger at me - you are thinking it too.
No, we're not thinking of it because it will make no difference to the population trajectory. 16 million people died in world war 1 and shortly after over 50 million died in world war 2. Those numbers don't even register on the population curve There are only about 50,000 suicides per year. That's a rounding error on the scale of world population.
I didn't know about that. Interesting. I'm about to move a bunch of servers which together comprise of over a PB of storage. I'll look into running that test on the other end.
No obvious damage, which was odd. Otherwise I'd have returned the whole box and started again.
The only time I tried HGST was when I bought half a dozen of them for a trial. One failed out of the box and another lasted a week. Clearly I got unlucky, but it didn't encourage me to repeat the experience. I generally buy WD because the failure rate is acceptable and there is a good return policy which is easy to use.
Using fewer chords isn't new. Such a move also happened after the Baroque era, in the so-called "Classical" era. This is the the music of Mozart and Haydn. It's much more simple and uncluttered than what came before.
Whilst I find it somewhat interesting that music is more egocentric now than before, the declining quality of pop music is of no concern to me at all. I don't even need to listen to anything new. As the article states, it's now possible to listen to whatever you like on the internet and there's more excellent music already recorded than I will ever have a chance to hear. So I don't really understand why people complain that modern pop music is crap. If it's crap then just don't listen to it.
Google's big enough to implement that policy, and it'll shut up the whiney marketing departments that complain that they don't want their vegan mean substitute ad played during a hunting video (or whatever).
If they keep kowtowing to advertisers, the entire platform could fall apart, or at least expose itself to serious competition.
I don't understand. Google makes its money by serving up targeting advertisements. How is that "kowtowing"? It's their business model.
If it's DNA uses something other than AGCT or AGCU, then it's almost guaranteed it's non-terrestrial/alien.
Or if doesn't use DNA, or if the *entire* genome is different to anything we've ever seen before, etc.
BBC Radio 3 is amazing in this regard. Not only the music but also a huge quantity of interesting educational material up on line.
I use Spotify for classical, but I'm also looking into Idagio. Idagio has a much nicer interface for classical music, since you can search by composer, conductor, etc. It links multiple movements together into a single piece, etc. However, it lacks a lot of the large labels and there is no free version.
It is a difficult battle. The publishers see revenues drop as globally libraries start to scale down on purchasing expensive journals. On the other hand, having no access to an article because the libraries don't have them any more locally hurts research. One of the outcomes of this battle is that scientists in the western world will have less access to information.
Not a problem. Who goes to the library? It's all available on-line. Increasingly research papers are free to all via PubMed. Either because the journal they're published in is open access or because the funding body (e.g. the Wellcome Trust) mandates that all articles produced from research it funds must be open access regardless of where they are published (an extra fee is paid). For example, this randomly chosen paper is published in Nature Neuroscience (which isn't open access) but can be read by anyone. If none of that works, you generally have good odds of finding a full paper via Google just by searching for the title plus "PDF". If even that doesn't work, you can e-mail the author and they will send you the PDF.
Eventually entropy will destroy the universe. Even if you've survived normal human mortality, the end of the Earth, and the end of the Sun (etc, etc, etc)... ultimately absolutely nothing you've ever achieved will have any significance whatsoever.
Can entropy be reversed?