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Comment Re: Less "Worked-Hard" (Score 1) 221

i imagine there is the same "opportunity" for europeans to participate in the free labor market as illegal immigrants have in the US.

specifically: paid peanuts with no benefits for hard menial labor. if you want to work without "da gummint" interfering, there are always options. i could use a new shirt anyway, and that's five cents that can go to an asian child.

Comment Re:Widely adopted, but how good is it? (Score 1) 28

nah, Elo is a compromise between predictive power and transparency/intuitiveness and it is mostly for maintaining a rating of players over time, rather than "predicting who will win" any given match.

ML can trivially beat Elo at one-shot prediction of chess games even using nothing but past match data. I have trained such a system, as have many others; it is not difficult, but it would really suck for a scored rating system.

apart from a few corner cases which most orgs account for one way or another, your change in Elo after a match is intuitive. an accurate ML system would give you a different score whenever any of the ML inputs changes; why have a "score" at all, if your "rating" changes depending on whom you're playing against?

Comment Re:Who is waiting to switch? (Score 1) 63

Mac OS has been getting less and less reliable since about the same time they stopped calling it Mac OS X.

bullshit. some apps have gotten buggier and resource-hungry because they're mashing the mobile and desktop environments together, and yes, that sucks, but the OS itself (and the other apps) are fine.

also, like, you (as in you, drinkypoo) have been bitching about Mac OS X for as long as there's been Mac OS X, so this new talking point really just feels hollow.

haven't heard about time machine fuckups, do you have a link to anything other than the obligatory "mAKe sUre tHE cAbLe iS PLuggeD IN" page every company has?

Comment in the future... (Score 2) 41

So, uh, we imprison children for their youngest years and teach them to write, all so they can vomit some shit that will be graded by a computer anyway because we're afraid to just sort people by IQ in the first fucking place, and then forget most of it because we don't really have much use for literacy beyond obedience anyway.

Why not just, like, stop doing it entirely instead of cutting corners?

Comment Re: Stealing his ideas? How old is he anyway? (Score 3, Interesting) 185

It is not exactly a secret that Philip K. Dick was psychotically paranoid and addicted to stimulants. He reported a lot of people to the authorities for various things, occasionally even true, though this didn't accomplish much but adding to his own file lol.

For another case, a great Polish science fiction writer named Stanislaw Lem was a great admirer of his work and even published an article titled "Philip K. Dick: Visionary among the Charlatans." Philip Dick reported him to the FBI as a communist spy trying to infiltrate American science fiction.

Comment Re:Wall Street Journal ignoring the facts yet agai (Score 2) 78

Economic efficiency is TRUTH and that's better than facts.

We honor the heroes who gave their lives and their passengers' lives, to test the cost cutting measures valiantly proposed by Boeing in these troubled times! There is no need to devalue their heroism with your so-called "facts" and "analysis", you ghoul.

Comment Re:How much is a 'free speech' Chinese bot farm wo (Score 1) 54

Just because the "discussion board about Texas (or anywhere) on an online service" doesn't have the same demographic distribution as Texas (or anywhere), doesn't mean much.

It would just be beyond idiotic to expect that in the first place, nor is it a reasonable standard. The great tradition of American journalism (rip lol) aside, newspapers have never represented a statistically-identical slice of their audience, ever. I don't even see why it's desirable for anyone apart from certain advertisers i guess.

Comment Re: And this is why (Score 1) 229

Has it ever occurred to you that corporations are just better than us, and thus deserve to drive out or enslave their inferior predecessors?

A person, to a corporation, is like a twitching disembodied finger to a hand or a neuron to a brain. What can a finger do with the freedom to disobey the rest of the nervous system? That is correctly recognized as dyskinesia, but somehow we have an "inalienable right" to personal irresponsibility which is the same thing.

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