Reddit Shuts Down AI Expert and Author Edward Frankel's AMA1 points·by ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·0 comments
ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·discussPublic Health. Obesity is the most pressing, and cheapest to fix problem in the United States (stop paying for food for fat people.)
ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·discussThe problem is that, in Barack Obama's America, schools can't test potential teaching candidates to see if they're qualified. That would be racist.See: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/nyregion/questions-of-bias...And http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/nyregion/judge-rules-secon...
ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·discussI blame "Java".Back in my day, CS 101 was Assembly Language programming on the IBM 360. Then LISP. And a _lot_ of math.
ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·discussEllen Pao is the butt of jokes here in Silicon Valley. She is poison. They need to get rid of her. I hope she never works in this Valley again.(Now, Reddit (which I like) probably will never be a viable business for unrelated reasons.)
ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·discussThis is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.It takes a very concise notation and makes it orders of magnitude more verbose. And all of the structure of the music is lost.
ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·discussI had a lot of fun on reddit (I was a verified "shitlord" on FatPeopleHate), but it never was monetizable. It's not a business and will never be, no matter how many users they get.
ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·discussSo what? I certainly don't mind if my Government spies on _other_ countries. It's just spying on its own citizens that's an issue.
ScootyPuff2000·11 lat temu·discussThis is a terrible paper. It barely made a point, and is riddled with distracting misspellings and grammatical errors.