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by 2sk21 6y ago
I agree: apart from "without", search engines don't handle logical quantifications properly (i.e. ∀ and ∃).
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This is far from an easy problem - I have been struggling with this over the past few years. tools like pdftotext only work with the most simply formatted documents. In contrast, the typical PDFs generated in many business organizations is
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Here's one simple suggestion - when creating documents, instead of using PDF or Word, why not use forms like plain text or similar to facilitate text mining. One of the biggest problems with knowledge management right now is dealing wi
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Indeed, I have also been having fun playing around with this. I had no idea that such a service existed until I read this posting - this is what makes HN such a magical resource.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I agree with you on the other points but not about weight. I find that particle board material is much heavier than solid wood of equivalent strength.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
It's hopeless. Whatever is in widespread usage ultimately wins out. For example, the very word "meme" has come to mean just a small subset of what Richard Dawkins intended.
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Both links are excellent !
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Most certainly - IBM will happily support software products from companies with competing products like Oracle and SAP in service agreements.
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Back in the 1980s when I was learning programming on a Unix machine, it took me quite a while to understand the difference between sections 2 and 3 of the man pages.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Surely $10 million should be well within the spending abilities of a fair number of tech people? Many universities now have fairly large computing clusters as well.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Amazing that Dennett and Gould were in a panel together!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
That’s amazing. I learnt programming on a VAX 11/750 so this gave me an acute nostalgia attack
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Malcom Gladwell touched upon this in a recent episode of his podcast http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/44-the-powerball-revo...
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Very nicely articulated. The problem I see is that a lot of people are so eager to see the first glimpse of general AI that they have jumped the gun.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Fascinating! How expensive was it to use Rekognition in your application? Was it a significant expense?
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by 2sk21 6y ago
And there is also this related article that was discussed a lot here on HN last year: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I agree - I have seen a lot of make-work in my previous job at a big company. Every push to production required a couple dozen signoffs and simply collecting those could often represent a couple days of exhausting and meaningless work.
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Indeed, see Gary Marcus' critique from last year: https://thegradient.pub/gpt2-and-the-nature-of-intelligence/
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Good article - Everyone needs to learn the amount of money that they need to become independent. As the author says, it can be as little as a couple of dollars in some situations for some people. Learning about the concept of financial inde
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by 2sk21 6y ago
Indeed, as a startup you do typically have a speed advantage!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
I think malls might be sustainable with just clothing and restaurants (and the Apple Store).
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I used to dread the weekly scrum-of-scrums when I was a squad lead at IBM. Everyone used to recite their lines and yet none of the presented information ever seemed to register in people's minds. I would often get calls right after the
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by 2sk21 6y ago
This is exactly Ben Thompson's point too. In the Dithering podcast he mentioned that brand advertising simply does not work well on Facebook.
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by 2sk21 6y ago
This looks to be great value for the money - even has GPIO pins!
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So how would this model be used for a classification task?
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When I used to coach my daughters' FIRST Lego League team, I think I had more fun than the kids in my team. This new version of the brick and electronics promises to be really interesting.
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This was brilliant touch!
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by 2sk21 6y ago
So this is written in Haskell - very impressive demo of the languages capabilities.
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My first ever electronics project was a radio that used an 1N34 diode in 1974. Worked beautifully and that's what launched my interest in electronics and then computers.
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I'm running out of time - and I just signed up for Dithering which I think is well worth the money :-)

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