I work in the field. Generally, jobs that include AI development generally require advanced degrees and the vast majority require a PhD with peer reviewed publications in major conferences. You will be fighting an uphill battle if you don’t have an advanced degree in mathematics or computer science. You also need to know calculus, linear algebra and statistics to understand how modern machine learning models work.

In short, while online courses can be perfectly effective, unless they’re through an accredited higher education institution, I don’t think it will help you compete with other applicants who have 8+ years of schooling and published papers.

That being said, Georgia Tech and the City University of New York both offer master’s degrees in data science via remote master’s programs where the courses happen after work hours and are meant to be completed while working full-time.

https://youtu.be/IlD08Rh6xa8?si=FvN687WPkiX0j8A9

I think this scene nails it.

are you?

nah, man. Being able to vote inalienable. You get the vote by existing, not by meeting some arbitrary standard set by the ruling party. Stop blaming the voters and start blaming the party that failed them

Mac address absolutely falls under PII in my jurisdiction. I can’t even use Google docs to take notes at work without violating a dozen laws. Granted this isn’t the US, but it seems like the defaults have been moving towards the EU standards, especially after California vowed to write their own version of GDPR.

yeah. I misread your comment. You’re very right about that and Google has “wifi hotspots” to track users around NYC. https://theintercept.com/2018/09/08/linknyc-free-wifi-kiosks/

however, modern android iOS also have Mac address randomization on by default, so google has that data but I highly doubt random retailers do. Unless you install an app or connect to the network wherein they do the other fingerprinting I mentioned.

While that’s true, modern versions of android/ios require you to enable location permissions for the app in question, so it’s probably not true in general.

This is why you get weird prompts from apps needing to know your location when that’s not really a functionality of the app. If the app can see the network name or Bluetooth hardware address, then it’s considered personally identifiable location information and would be covered under something like GDPR, which is why they eventually implemented these features globally.

Totally understandable. My job is being an AI critic and it’s exceptionally small world.

So, if your phone has ever connected to the work wifi or your laptop to tour home wifi, IP address can be used to de anonymize you. Additionally, stuff like typing characteristics, browser add-ons, and your search history can be used to correlate two “unconnected” accounts. From the point of view of the advertisers, they don’t really need to know that you’re the same person-- that’s totally irrelevant. They just need to know that the person receiving the ad is more likely to buy a product than a random person, so these correlation models are sufficient and they don’t even need to know those two devices belong to one person.

I would also guess that you saw dozens if not hundreds of other ads that did not provoke the same response. So, the eerie feeling of this being too specific is just a statistical bias that ignores the many uninteresting ads you didn’t engage with.

Also, depending on how you took the screenshot, they know that too. Even if you didn’t use the browser, they can probably see that you spent more time than average looking at it, hovering your cursor over it, etc. Now they have more evidence that you have been “engaged” by this content. And, again, they don’t care or need to know that you have two devices, just that the user of either device might buy some Hyde stuff.

Furthermore, most people search for things after hearing about them IRL. It’s totally possible that someone you know googled something similar and Bing knows that you’re associated with that other person. This social graph data can come from any number of social Media Sites or by tracking location or by tracking IP address or when Facebook was pre installed on Android devices a decade ago and mined your contacts without consent or or or…

It’s really not magic, but, yeah, it’s horrifying how predictable people are.

Electric vehicles are peak neoliberalism though. It just outsources the energy production and moves the environmental costs to mines in the congo. The solution is mass transit, not giving tac incentives to people rich enough to own a Tesla.

In that same way, the chips act is there to shield Intel from foreign competitors and allow the USS yombuild up a military supply chain independent of TSMC. It’s super naive to think the Dems passed those to benefit the working poor.

Also, public support for funding Ukraine has been falling and I’m old enough ti remember when the left was categorically against wars. My ass was getting beat by the department of Homeland security while Secretary of State Clinton handed out donuts to Maidan square Nazis.

This comment is not meant to absolve Putin or to say Ukraine’s self defense is immoral–just that the media depictions of good vs evil are far more subtle and nuanced in real life and that Raytheon and Boeing benefit from this conflict more than the Ukrainian civilians who are dying daily. here’s a really good interview with an actual leftist who participated in the 2014 Maidan square actions and discusses the inciting problems of ethno nationalism and neoliberalism in 2014.

Anyone else remember the Senate hearings with Facebook et Al a few years ago that went nowhere? TikTok is clearly not the only company doing this, but is the only one being prosecuted.

This is false.

At most, I see state level requirements like this

And, yeah, poll tests are classic Jim crow tactics.

Here’s an example of what to expect from the red states, especially after the Supreme Court gutted the voting rights act.

Instead of blaming the voters that showed up to vote, please reflect on why 10 million people who voted for Biden simply didn’t vote for Harris and think about how elitist thoughts like “being too stupid to vote” in a democracy are the root of the problem.

Instead of calling voters stupid, try to understand why they feel hopeless under the current regime so that the Dems can re-establish the working class solidarity and big tent coalition that gave Obama a confortable majority. There is not path to 270 that can neglect the very real and tangible concerns of those “idiots”.

it’s a mobile application first, but desktop options are available. Good luck!

Signal is super user friendly. I got my family to switch over years ago and even my mom can manage it. Though, it’s probably a tough sell for a kite flying group more generally. I do think it’s probably a lower barrier than making a new social media account on some fediverse alternative, but hard to explain the advantages to people who don’t care about privacy from Zuck.

I use signal (messenger app) groups, but my hobbies are often tech related, so that community is already there.

I’ve always found the best people at foodnotbombs, which has local chapters in most cities. Start there.

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definitely sounds like tankie shit. glad we’re on the same page.

What? Anarchism is generally anti-statist and socialists sure love to shoot anarchists. By the logic of AES, Anarchists should support Assad and not the YPG since one is “anti-imperialist” and the other exists due to US military support.

Homey, she’s vice president today. If she gave a fuck, we wouldn’t be where we are.

a variety of independent news sources.

Wikipedia is notoriously susceptible to bias when it comes to history and politics and has a noted left center bias (according to researchers at Harvard, not my words).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia

I’m not saying it’s a terrible sources but it definitely should not be the last stop and anything controversial (or the lack thereof) isn’t a meaningful indicator of whether or not something is actually true. Note the numerous examples of historical revisionism in the linked article.