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Epenthesis
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Epenthesis
11y ago
The question then: Is there sufficient first-mover advantage that a far-minded company setting up a datacenter there now could reap the benefits when there is money to be made?
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11y ago
The 20th most successful technologist is probably a billionaire. The 20th most successful professional athlete isn't.
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11y ago
"Backdoor" Roth. See: http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Backdoor_Roth_IRA
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11y ago
I live in SF and make 140 k$/yr in pretax income. On a per month basis: * 11.67 k$ in pretax earning * 7.85 k$ in posttax earning * 4.85 k$ in savings * In order, maxing out Roth IRA, then Roth 401k, then non-tax-advanta
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12y ago
Wait, "ত + ্ + = ৎ" is nothing like "\ + / + \ + / = W". The Bengali script is (mostly) an abugida. Ie, consonants have an inherent vowel (/ɔ/ in the case of Bengali), which can be overriden with
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12y ago
That's called a heavy NP shift[1]. Since "A meeting with Kevin" is "heavy" (which is a fuzzy line, but one which native speakers know intuitively), the phrasal preposition gets "shifted" closer to the verb
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12y ago
I don't think you're disagreeing with the post. The author isn't arguing that "set up" isn't a verb, but that it's a phrasal verb, which should be written as two words. This isn't a prescriptivist a
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12y ago
True, but that doesn't really negate the hypothesis. What are those rules? Are they the same as the ones generated by a neural network? Or are they qualitatively different? (Diagnostic experiment: Is there a significant subset of "
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12y ago
Hypothesis: Because the solution to "hard AI" isn't actually "general". Ie, what humans view as "intelligence" isn't actually an emergent property of the right set of rules. Rather, it's a massiv
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16y ago
Is it really necessary for me to create an account before trying it? This is really a more general point, but why do more sites not use StackOverflow's system, wherein you can use the site provisionally, with your identity being tracked by
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16y ago
That's still O(n). Say you're looking for that string in a string of length n. You're search time will be n/16+c, which is O(n).