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  1. It's good to be the king. on Insider Trader Arrested After He Googled 'Insider Trading,' Authorities Allege · · Score: 0

    Was it a member of Congress? Oh wait... they are expressly exempt from being penalized for insider trading and enjoy a rate of return on their investments of twice the average. It would be a crime if it weren't law written by the same people.

  2. Re:Did anyone think it would be otherwise? on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Race is culture. Period. The current science on genetic race shows that unless you are Sub-Saharan West African, you are descended from a group of people that left East Africa something like 80k years ago and settled Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa in waves including neanderthals. The small amount of genetic variance we share means that peoples from North America, South America, Europe, and all of Asia are all the same "race" including the original dark-skinned Europeans with blue eyes. People in neighboring tribes of Sub-Saharan Africa which all "look the same" have more genetic diversity than any other person you know in the civilized world. So when you talk about "race" what you are talking about are the social institutions that govern the way we think about people that don't look like us. And that's culture.

  3. Re:The problem is that the AI gets things wrong on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    AI/ML doesn't always answer questions like a sports score. It gives a predictive value about a particular system configuration. It's the same as your doctor performing an illness diagnosis. Do you actually think your doctor knows what you have? He has a lot of clues and some medical training... but they do make mistakes from time to time (hint: more than guns). So if a doctor would have given you an 80% chance but the computer gives you 65%, I guess that means the computer is wrong. But then you are also assuming the doctor is always perfectly correct. That's fine, but false.

  4. Re:The problem is that the AI gets things wrong on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    All of the AI/Machine Learning methods suffer from the same potential biases. Several researches in the field have brought this up. Basically the way AI/ML work is that we ask a question and feed a machine data that we think will answer the question. It's absolutely subjectively biased because the people choosing the data, the data model, the machine learning model, and the outcomes have all pre-selected what they want to see. When you start running these algorithms against real-world data, the ones beyond simple feature recognition fail abysmally. And this includes algorithms that weren't pre-selected for features like race. The data set and algorithm have the bias embedded because society has these notions embedded and thus produces information reflecting that.

  5. Re:The planet will survive on Era of 'Biological Annihilation' Is Underway, Scientists Warn (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We haven't been doing GMOs in the same way or at the same rate. The results are different depending on which method of "GMO" you use. Personally I can't seen why people want to eat chemicals from a tube when a cow is easy to make and tastes great.

  6. Re: You can't have that and javascript on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    HTML has a grammar and can be parsed using standard techniques applied to other "languages". It is tokenized and structured. By any definition it is a language. A DTD specifies a type of HTML document which is more akin to an encoding. The document is encoded in HTML conforming to a specification designated by the DTD document which is itself an XML-encoded document.

  7. Re:JS can be wrapped behind attributes on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the new features in HTML5 (like templating) require JS. I guess you could bake template processing into the client but per the spec you need JS to clone and use templates. What about "data-" attributes? You don't "need" JS, but you they were put in with the idea that you would use JS to access them. I don't think a declarative language like HTML can provide the interface we want. Like it or not, JS or some programmatic language will be available. Otherwise you'll just be wrapping C/C++ in keywords which is practically the same thing.

  8. Re:The JavaScript on most sites.. on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Fraction? When everyone is reinventing GUIs, ToolKits, and Widgets again? The advantage of the browser is that it gives a unified "desktop" to every device (even if modern HTML/CSS is painful). The browser is the standard "client". It just needs to be rebooted to act like one rather than being an ad platform.

  9. The US has a long-standing tradition of allowing political dissent. You only get thrown in the gulag if you smoke pot or don't pay your fair share under duress. Yes, freedom all over the world. Especially in the middle east where I never voted to spend a single dollar of money. Russia sucks. But America does too.

  10. Re:Quantum "teleportation" is badly misnamed on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The information is transferred at the time of entanglement and is carried with each party as a perfectly correlated unit. To say information is not transferred with entanglement is simply wrong. Otherwise there would be nothing to measure. It's true that measurements of entangled particles do not result in further communication implicitly but information about the entangled state is transferred into the measuring device. And that comes from a causal relationship at an event in the past which didn't travel faster than light.

  11. Re:Good example of why to avoid the GPL. on Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    My software is released under this license: "This software is information. It is subject only to local laws of physics." Basically just obey the laws of physics. Like a good lump of matter.