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Are you saying that the cost of doing this is low because of advertisers' experience? Or are you saying that it's ok because we already have a slightly less intrusive version of this in place?


> no one is skeptical of classification any more than the people doing the rating.

And perhaps the people being rated.


What happens where these kinds of models are the reason for suicidal thoughts or criminality?


So you're saying we're used to it, now.


But doctors getting massive amounts of training is exactly the kind of problem computer science seeks to solve with a machine learning approach. There aren't enough doctors around to monitor every patient, so machine learning takes over. Now doctors can exactly focus on a score, and say, hey we didn't even see this.


Well, there's language types, if you get into Comparative Programming Languages. There's imperative languages, query languages, object oriented languages, and mixes thereof. Maybe we could call them programming accents.


Imagine what that would do to dispel listing a key word list of languages ever touched, if we could just say, I know how to work with loops and functions, or I can compose systems of objects, or I know that a database can store, retrieve, and manipulate data. No more "I know C, C++, C++11, Javascript 5, Javascript 6, Python 2.7, Python 3.5!" If you're that dependent on people not looking up the syntax when they need to, you're either hacking into a computer at the site of the computer, or have no idea what the job entails.


As a bilingual speaker: For someone ostensibly trying to fight stereotypes around bilingualism, this article sure covers all the stereotypes without doing much to dispel them. But I guess an article stating: Listen up, my kid speaks two languages! wouldn't have met word count. They're individuals who have two language tools at their disposal instead of just one.


It should read "...Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to indulge the directive..." indulge, not obey.


Yup, that's the job!


We haven't moved much from MVC apps, have we?


Nothing wrong with MVC.


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