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Comment Re:It would have gone better (Score 2) 136

Much better!

Here's what they should have done:

IPv4
Cut off mainland China and Brazil and reallocate their blocks
Reallocate any other blocks larger than a /16
Stop trying to do "Internet of Things" shit without putting them behind some common gateway that needs just a single IP/port for outside access and has at least a snowball's chance in hell of being updated / secured / locked down

Comment Re:Streamed Games in General (Score 1) 44

startups like Onlive never did anything to explain how they intended to solve them.

Obviously, Google learned from that mistake. Instead, they hand-waved the pesky problem of physics away with magic fairy-dust technology that promised negative latency.

I remember seeing incessant CISCO ads about how they're making the world a magical, better place. They prominently featured a school in the US teleconferencing with a school in China, in real time, with no lag, with the midday sun shining in both locations.

Comment Re:Antifa - exactly (Score 1) 103

and CD Projekt Red has just been ignoring the twitter mobs

CDPR just virtue signaled and delayed an event for Cyberpunk 2077 (or whatever the year is).

None of these companies care. They just want the PR and a small chance of their corporate offices downtown being excepted from the looting and arson.
It's all George Soros. Cut him off and the looting stops.

Comment Re:Speaking of language that induces bias.... (Score 1) 150

"We argue that such work should examine the relationships between language and social hierarchies; we call on researchers and practitioners conducting such work to articulate their conceptualizations of 'bias' in order to enable conversations about what kinds of system behaviors are harmful, in what ways, to whom, and why; and we recommend deeper engagements between technologists and communities affected by NLP systems."

Remove "We argue that" - it's completely unnecessary and just makes the sentence longer.

"such work should examine the relationships between language and social hierarchies;" - don't put a fucking semicolon in there and then run on with a separate idea. Use a period.

"we call on researchers and practitioners conducting such work to articulate their conceptualizations of 'bias' in order to enable conversations about what kinds of system behaviors are harmful, in what ways, to whom, and why;" - this is near meaningless drivel, followed by another abused semicolon.

"and we recommend deeper engagements between technologists and communities affected by NLP systems." - this is vague and nebulous babble again.

Here's what they should have written:
Such work should examine the relationships between language and social hierarchies. Researchers and users should be mindful of potential bias when designing and using such systems, and they should engage with the groups their systems will be applied to in order to identify potential issues of bias.

They'd still be wrong - the math just fits a model to the data and maps it to the definitions you gave it. But that's what they should have written.

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