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The happy go lucky Down's people, however, are just what you see of them in media. That's a tiny fraction of the entire population with Down's, which consists of a range of horrible and crippling mental and physical disabilities, in addition to increased risk for diseases like early onset Alzheimers.

Giving a child a life like that feels cruel and heartless to me.

It's another silly fad toy object that you spin in your hand. A very successfully marketed one, that is.
Re:Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations on Sunday September 04, 2016 @05:15PM (#12426747)
That's curious, because in my opinion YouTube recommendations haven't been any good since 2009. Instead of getting interesting, strange and niche content, I'm bombarded with videos that have >100k views, feature clickbait titles and thumbnails and are generally incredibly low effort content.

Methods that work better for a population as a whole might not work better for a large subset of that population, and might even cause users to stop using features entirely. The lack of transparency in recommendation algorithms combined with the homogenizing effect of distributing low-quality content this way is something I find somewhat depressing.

Bizarre, what 10 year old drinks coffee?