No one mentioning Facebook? Them forcing you to use the messenger app to be able to communicate on the mobile is using the same strategy. I have to use a different browser and use desktop mode to see messages. Writing then becomes horrible too. Not using fb messenger at all anymore an complain to people who text me on there.
Readit NewsThis is psychiatry. Psychiatry certainly respects its sister field but takes an independent look at the brain. We could always go back to the wild wild west with no psychologists or psychiatrists.
I mean, does depression even exist, or is it a psychiatric scam?
The concept of a major depressive disorder exists. There are common symptoms and likely causes such as childhood trauma. Can we be certain it is a unanimous mental disorder? No, it might as well be several different disorders we haven't understood yet. But isn't that similar for most mental disorders?
In one model I found online[1], the closest word to "king" was "kings" (0.71) and the second closest was "queen" (0.65).
[1] http://bionlp-www.utu.fi/wv_demo/ (making sure to select the English model)
If we eliminate king from the result list I would assume it's plural is removed as well. Bummer, that would mean the latent space algebra in this example has no effect whatsoever..
What happens if you get the latent space of king, do no algebra and return the outcome with king being excluded? In case it's queen, then the author is correct and these examples are highly misleading. In case it's something like prince, Lord or ruler of the seven kingdoms the latent space algebra would be suitable imho.
Also, if we think about it in terms of decision manifolds, it seems the distance between queen and king is too large for the simple - man + woman to have an effect. Why not scale that substraction, so it leads to a change in predicted class without removing king? But of course finding a justifiable weight would be hard..
derEitel commented on US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014) bbc.com/news/blogs-echoch... · Posted by u/kushti
People always pretend the US government size is small and tiny countries in Scandinavia have giant ones. Yet few countries have the massive number of agencies and law the US does. The size of population certainly plays a role in this but ultimately it affects the average person operating in such a society.
I'm not talking about taxation. I'm talking about the size of the administrative state, ie. the amount of intervention the government engages in in the economy and socially.
Does it still have a "massive number of agencies" compared to the EU and all its member states? I don't think so.
Which organizations other than Wikileaks have a history of successfully pursuing this stuff?
The group's behind the Panama Papers, Cum-Ex Scandals, LuxLeaks etc.
derEitel commented on Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests bbc.com/news/world-europe... · Posted by u/cyphunk
The main issue is that all the programmers want to live in Kreuzberg too...
I'm doing a PhD in Berlin, living in Kreuzberg and I can tell you far from all of the programmers that I know want to live here!
What makes Kreuzberg attractive for startups and a Google campus is that it's central and perfectly connected infrastructurewise. Most other regions like Schöneberg, parts of Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg and maybe Moabit, are all harder to reach from some other regions, even though more start-up employees live there. You can see on the maps of rental e-scooters like Coup how during the day there is a lot of activity towards Kreuzberg whereas after work the district is basically empty of their scooters. Imho kreuzberg is too dirty for most startupers. I guess they don't want to see the heroin junkies of Kotti when they do their grocery shopping.
In general I liked the sentiment of the activists against placing a Campus in Kreuzberg. Nevertheless I didn't like much of their public attitude ("bullets for google") and some arguments seemed superficial ("other Google campuses have increased rents" idk about the causality and factor here). I wouldve liked a Google campus in Schöneberg for example, just as I liked the Google campus in Madrid. In Madrid it offered a nice environment for work, some interesting talks and I didn't feel like it was in an artsy district that suddenly gentrified and turned hip. This could've added something to Berlin, but meddling with the activist scene in Kreuzberg was a poor choice.
I have not read a single economist.com article in the last couple of months but the paywall tells me I've reached my limit. How badly can your paywall be implemented? This is I guess the most disencouraging thing from me getting a paid subscription.
Anyone else having the same issue?
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In history books, you get a sense sometimes that there were eras in which stuff like this sent people into the streets in rages. In which governments were voted out or overthrown, in which meaningful legislative responses were made. Or, you know, riots.
But I look around after reading those books and wonder what makes us so different. It's weird to live in this era. I read a Guardian article like this and look at the staggering sums, this entire "shadow financial system" devoted solely to one notion: I'm going to take as much as I can, in whatever way that I can, regardless of legality, and I'm going to give nothing back because I sincerely don't believe I owe anything back -- oh, and I'm going to keep it all a secret.
And I look around and not only don't see any riots; I sometimes get the feeling that people are actually envious, sometimes even respectful of the ingenuity it takes to manufacture these schemes. It's tough.
The only silver lining I can think of is what all the secrecy says: we're not just doing this in the open because we're still afraid we'll end up like the Romanovs if too many of you get angry. I think that while they're still afraid, there's still some hope.
EDIT: Reading some replies. It's weird to have to say this to such a smart crowd, but I'm not advocating riots as such; I'm advocating a substantive response. Of course riots are "bad" in some sense, but my observation is really about the odd contrast between the huge size of the "stimulus" (theft of wealth, much of it yours, on a staggering scale) and the tiny size of the "response" (newspaper articles and web forum discussions), especially when contrasted with other historical periods. So while I wouldn't "want a riot", seeing one would make me go "well, that makes sense".
[1] German only: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_am_Gleisdreieck