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  1. The problem is that male romance novelists use a female-sounding name...

    Oh yeah, you're right. Pseudonyms are CLEARLY the biggest factor here...

  2. (quickly) Name 10 male romance novel authors

    Can't do it? Huh, seems to be based on some kind of "availability heuristic"

  3. Only an idiot... on Cable Industry Finally Fights Cord Cutting With Fewer Ads (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    ...would refuse to see the obvious solution: lower prices, no ads and "a la carte" channel by channel choices.

    BINGO! You may have your business back now!

  4. The Human Being on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    (From Community) Obviously

  5. Re:Avoid the USA for the time being. on Lauri Love Ruling 'Sets Precedent' For Trying Hacking Suspects in UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Why does a rich continent of 500 million people depend on a distant nation of 300 million to defend it against much poorer and weaker threats on its borders?

    Uh, they DON'T. Full stop.

    America's role as the world's policemen are coming to an end.

    GOOD! Go the fuck home and leave the rest of the world alone for once. FFS.

  6. Re:Why would he be extradited in the first place? on Lauri Love Ruling 'Sets Precedent' For Trying Hacking Suspects in UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The US Court system is the fairest one one the world.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    LOL - wait, you WERE *joking*, right? RIGHT?

    You realize that the US incarcerates more people PER CAPITA, than ANY *OTHER* country - on the whole planet.

    The only way you can reconcile that fact with your statement is if you accept that USians are at least - at *LEAST* - twice as criminal as any other population/culture in the world.

  7. Huh? on The World's First Graphical AI Interface (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, this is total bullshit:

    Machine learning and artificial intelligence are so difficult to understand, only a few very smart computer scientists know how to build them.

  8. So... on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ... the Spanish are off the hook for genocide then?

  9. Re:Stupid French... on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL

  10. Stupid French... on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they don't even have a word for "entrepreneur"

  11. Because USians are stupid and have been gutting their public education for decades to become stupider?

  12. Welcome to the new millennium!

    Just wait *another* two decades and "tap" cards will totally blow your minds!

  13. For starters, two-thirds of it is typically stuff tracked in from outdoors.

    I live in Canada. Like all civilized cultures, we take our shoes off indoors.

  14. Most dust is skin flakes and mite poop, and therefore has DEFINITELY been part of a structure at some point.

  15. Re:Visa and Mastercard needs to be broken up on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ...I know it seems that way, but it's actually quite legal.

    You're either an idiot, or Canadian.

    Refusing to accept legal tender for an agreed purchase is 100% illegal in the US. If you sell someone a coffee and all they have is pennies - well, you gotta count 'em. You can refuse the transaction outright in the first place, but not after it has been agreed upon and not because you just don't want to count pennies.

    Now, if you're Canadian, the laws are different: transaction debts can only be settled with a "mutually agreed upon" medium of payment, so merchants are free to say "cash only" or "credit only" or "barter only" if they so choose.

  16. Re: At least you can examine an algorithm on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    ...in under 24 hours the internet turned her into a raging Nazi...

    This is just GIGO though. The internet is like 90% garbage content and trolling assholes - WTF did they expect using that as training data?!?!?!

  17. Re:At least you can examine an algorithm on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    If someone tells you they know how a neural network makes its decisions, they are lying to you.

    Nope, you have been misinformed, even I can tell you that!

    Neural networks make their decisions by using gradient descent to segment an N-dimensional hyperspace with N-1 dimensional hyperplanes.

    Researchers who know how ANNs work have known this for a long time, and can extract more "human readable" explanations from that understanding - it's just that there's never been an impetus to do so before. There is now, so we see researchers actually providing said info now. For example:

    NVidia's ANN for self-driving cars

  18. Re:More idiocy on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Disagree

    If someone feeds me a "chocolate" chip cookie made with dog shit; it's the *recipe* that *I* want held accountable!!!

  19. Re:At least you can examine an algorithm on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    ...even the designers of these AIs can't tell you what they're really doing under the hood...

    What a garbage myth. It's simply untrue.

    The designers know what the AIs are doing, it's just never been a priority to make such explanations easily accessible. It is now, and so they're doing it; you're badly misinformed if you think the designers of these systems are clueless.

  20. Re: And how many were false positives? on Facial Recognition Algorithms -- Plus 1.8 Billion Photos -- Leads to 567 Arrests in China (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    ... can't go to work and lose your job and because you were in jail...

    Uh, this is illegal, so no.

  21. ...not YET, anyway

  22. Re: Simple solution for Google & Facebook on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy to read some journalism, if only the journalists could actually produce some...

  23. Re: Simple solution for Google & Facebook on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    ^DING! Ding! Ding!

    We have a winnah!

  24. Re:What what? on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    ^THIS EXACTLY

    Wish I had mod pts for this...

    What kind of idiot is totally ignorant of the ginormous boost to tech that resulted from the space race???

    Going to space does VERY MUCH "build industries" - hell it even *creates* whole new ones!!!

  25. Re:Asimovian on What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did you READ Asimov's robot books?

    It doesn't really seem like you have, because while the "3 Laws" were presented as a workable solution "in world" - *EVERY* robot story Asimov wrote was about how the "3 Laws" were insufficient and unworkable and the spectacular ways such things FAILED.