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Why our AI algorithms discriminate against people with disabilities

mygo — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:25:56 +0000

Article URL: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/why-ai-fairness-conversations-must-include-disabled-people/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960992

Points: 2

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New comment by mygo in "My students cheated... a lot"

mygo — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:11:26 +0000

random sampling is an effective method for inferring the same information about the larger population that is being measured in the smaller sample, to a certain degree of confidence based on the sample size and known distribution of what is being measured. These concepts are fundamental to statistics.

New comment by mygo in "Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state"

mygo — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 14:12:07 +0000

> Isnt that just a url shortener with more steps?

URL shorteners came later, and solved the problem of people needing to deal with “more steps” in order to have short memorable urls. Achieving memorable urls in “less steps” is one of the major selling points of url shorteners.

However, url shorteners did not solve short memorable urls — DNS had already solved that. But, as you’ve pointed out, acquiring a domain and setting up DNS records takes more work than simply using a url shortener service.

New comment by mygo in "Georgia to mandate personal finance education"

mygo — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:42:21 +0000

They should cover everything one needs to know to be a fully independent adult, such as:

- personal and family finance

- woodworking (cabinetry, furniture, carpentry)

- nutrition and food preparation

For the course title, they should name it “personal economics”, or perhaps “home economics”

New comment by mygo in "Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state"

mygo — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:06:08 +0000

DNS solved vanity memorable URLs, and continues to do so if someone is not looking for a .com

URL shorteners offering vanity urls solved people not needing to deal with the hassle of purchasing a vanity domain via a registrar, setting up DNS records, and waiting for propagation.

New comment by mygo in "Ask HN: If I want to support a news website, which one I should support?"

mygo — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 07:17:06 +0000

your local news. Like local elections, the stories covered by local journalists are more likely to make an impact in your daily life. And they’d certainly value (and even need) your support more than the NYT would.

New comment by mygo in "Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood"

mygo — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 02:07:20 +0000

> Regardless of what they are working on, if it doesn't exist, the value of it is presently zero.

That’s not true. Do you know how many multi-million-dollar companies have nothing more than an idea on a paper napkin that they managed to sell to investors? You didn’t even bring up the matter of whether they have investors who have placed a valuation on their business. Or even if they have paid into their own business’ equity, which is then of monetary value.

In fact a business’ monetary valuation has nothing to do with whether it has a product. Some high-value businesses have zero products. If we’re speaking valuation, what matters is the value of the assets they have listed under the business, their liabilities, their owner’s equity, etc.

New comment by mygo in "TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app"

mygo — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:45:10 +0000

I'd love to hear your long list of reasons why. This is coming from someone who has heard of Tik Tok but has never used it. I'm a late adopter to social platforms, joining Twitter in 2014 and not really using it until last year.

Show HN: College Medal Count. Built Using Microsoft Playwright and Vue.js

mygo — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:14:38 +0000

Article URL: https://stemlounge.com/tokyo-olympics-college-medal-count/?src=hn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28132238

Points: 1

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We were producing the only all-colleges medal count. Then Olympics IP banned us

mygo — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:03:06 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/LarryWeru/status/1422073726338801671

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28033352

Points: 2

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Millions will be silenced by Clubhouse and real-time voice

mygo — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 19:53:18 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/clubhouse-voice-social-media-people-who-stutter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27868301

Points: 4

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Terror attacks lead to fewer cat adoptions

mygo — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:28:18 +0000

Article URL: https://stemlounge.com/hypervigilance-in-barcelona-city-data-shows-impact-of-terror-infographic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27834923

Points: 1

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New comment by mygo in "Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count"

mygo — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 23:57:22 +0000

> Imagine if someone could white out a section of a book and apply the changes instantaneously to every printed copy of that book in existence.

Considering a fifteen year old YouTube video can resurface and the millions of votes can change the vote-ratio, digital media isn't necessarily the same as a permanent historical record.

Clubhouse, the Shift to Spoken Social Media, & the Voices That Will Be Silenced

mygo — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:05:56 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/clubhouse-voice-social-media-people-who-stutter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639713

Points: 1

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New comment by mygo in "Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?"

mygo — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 03:06:59 +0000

Re: Github Pages

- I've got several sites on gh-pages with custom domains and pay exactly $0

- I don't use Jekyll, I literally just `git push` a static repo

New comment by mygo in "Color-balancing vote margins and vote totals in the US election map"

mygo — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:01:41 +0000

let me know how it turns out! Do you have a link to your fork?

New comment by mygo in "Color-balancing vote margins and vote totals in the US election map"

mygo — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 06:23:30 +0000

agreed. on it =)

New comment by mygo in "Color-balancing vote margins and vote totals in the US election map"

mygo — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 05:42:38 +0000

yep the upper fence for the vertical scale is derived from the vote totals statistics. If the set of vote totals is now in votes per square mile, then there would likely be a different upper fence. Might be worth the number crunching to figure out what that number is.

BTW just to double-check, I'm assuming that in this given fillOpacity formula, that a fillOpacity > 1 just resolves to 1. So like fillOpacity : min(votesPerSquareMile/upperFence, 1).

New comment by mygo in "Color-balancing vote margins and vote totals in the US election map"

mygo — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 03:07:18 +0000

Since electoral college votes are dispersed at a state level, it doesn't matter if those blue votes come from blue counties, so long as they go from a blue state to a red state.

Unless you're talking about the displacement that would be required for every county to be colored blue?

New comment by mygo in "Color-balancing vote margins and vote totals in the US election map"

mygo — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:21:01 +0000

It’s kind of like the exposure on a photograph where there are some extremely bright spots, as bright as the sun. If you set the exposure to not clip those bright spots, you won’t be able to see the rest of the photo. Due to not being able to find a scale that faithfully reproduced the entire dynamic range (without visually equating population mountains to population plains), some clipping had to occur; a compromise. We could clip the few outliers using a standard statistical convention and retain the highs, mids, and lows that make up the rest of the image, or keep the statistical outliers and end up clipping pretty much everything else as a result. I included both renditions.

You’re correct that I didn’t say the overexposed graph is misleading. Neither graph is wrong, they both tell truths.

An article could probably be written about the one you’re inquiring about, that discusses how Los Angeles County, Cook County, and ~eight other counties are unlike any other county in the US in terms of population. Completely in a league of their own. As distant as they are, they may be more alike with each other than the counties surrounding them.

But there is also a lot of information to be gleaned from the photograph with the upper fence that leaves the non-outliers within gamut.