The cackling villain style of racism is mostly dying with Lee Atwater's generation. The human systems they installed perpetuate it with such subtlety that people can train an algorithm nearly 100% on white faces and not even realize it or think about why those are the most available faces to them. And when they realize it, it's so hard to fix.
This is why the academic definition of racism focuses on systems and the ways people unwittingly perpetuate it rather than trying to assign individual blame. That definition clashes with the definition most people think of where there's someone doing it on purpose.
I could never do math in my head like this (with reasonable speed and accuracy), so I didn't lose anything.
I put an estimated cost by each item on the grocery list, total it at the bottom, and note whether the real prices are higher or lower than the estimate as I get things. It's never happened, but I can at least know if the register total is at odds with expectations.
Laser is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Fresnel lens doesn't amplify light it focuses it. It is not stimulated, it is just passive component.
This is true, but I don't think many people think of laser as anything other than "dangerous light." That's how I used it. Colloquial meanings can be frustrating when they clash with the technical meaning, but trying to fight them is typically futile.
> This is true, but I don't think many people think of laser as anything other than "dangerous light."
"Many people" have taken first year physics, or at least read a wikipedia article, and understand that the defining feature of a laser is its coherence.
But, sure. It's 2020. We live in a post-factual society, words have no meaning and it's impossible to know anything. Why resist?
Latter seasons of Highlander tell me they were mostly for people to test their rivals out before a final confrontation in another part of the city in the final act.
Recommendation systems are built on k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithms. Subjective measure of quality is not a factor. A computer can see that two people like the same thing, but also that those two people like similar things each is not aware of, and bridge that awareness gap. It works the same whether the set of options is Star Wars (original), Star Wars (prequels), and/or Star Wars (sequels).
The state of the Patreon page is what it looks like when someone has an ordinary patron account. In this case, it probably means the account was reverted from a creator account to a patron account.
I wasn't entirely sure about the mere R5 4500U in the laptop I bought recently, but it tears through everything I throw at it. The only thing that stopped me from getting one of the higher-end R7s was that all the laptops with it and a screen with full sRGB coverage were persistently sold out, but I don't feel like what I got falls short with any of the tasks I put it to.
Whatever dark forces AMD aligned itself with for the latest chips was worth it.
This is why the academic definition of racism focuses on systems and the ways people unwittingly perpetuate it rather than trying to assign individual blame. That definition clashes with the definition most people think of where there's someone doing it on purpose.