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by Phemist 7y ago
You can even have it the other way around. An English colleague of mine tried to be polite and speak in (obviously non-native) Dutch to a Dutch lady in a super market once. The lady got offended by it and said "I _do_ speak English, yo
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Hah, even simple words can be confusing. My English friends seem to end the word `idea` with a, to my ears, clearly audible `r`, but look at me funny when I mention it to them. Whereas my American friends seem to pronounce it in a more str
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by Phemist 7y ago
Cool! Good to know. I don't think None is totally problem free either, as it is easy to confuse with `NaN`. `Nothing` definitely bypasses all the mentioned issues and seems like a better choice.
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Interesting, that we gravitated towards a similar pronunciation due to a conflict in the beforementioned terms. It's unfortunate that proper English pronunciation does not always cross the North Sea :P. There are actually plenty of wor
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A somewhat related thing I've had on my mind: I remember at my Dutch university we would get intro to programming courses in Java. We would often discuss things in Dutch, but found it awkward to talk about `null` (the "pointer&quo
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Ofcourse, I am not advocating for turning the system off. But I would tread more cautiously with something like this if a) it is very easily turned off if perceived as of net negative value in a spur of the moment decision, but difficult to
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It's also bad that these messages are pretty annoying _and_ spammed to the point where people are turning the NL alert messages off. Last week too, there was a big fire in the region I'm from, and we received ~5 messages through t
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It would be interesting to keep track of what the results will be in several search engines across time when you type: 'libcrul'. Will the suggestion be a) you switched the 'r' and 'u' and get libcurl, or b) yo
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Yep, except this time the infrastructure will be in place from the start.
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I think the devil is in the details. The claim `Calibra will not share account information or financial data with Facebook, Inc. or any third party` is followed by `without customer consent.`. From reading through the document you linked, t
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The paper itself concludes that > Furthermore, all three forms of social class were positively associated with actual rank, indicating that those with relatively high social class did objectively better on the flashcard game relative to
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In cognitive psychology, I've worked with a method known as "masked priming" [0], which is relatively well-known in the field to influence reaction times. Reaction time is a complex measure as it includes both "processin
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The Average of average debt per household as a percentage of yearly income in northern EU countries is 100+% [0]. I myself am from NL and in the red for several times my yearly income. Granted, this is mostly due to high mortgages and thus
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by Phemist 8y ago
This is already something well-known in the Dutch housing market though. It is known as "zelfbewoningsplicht" (self-occupation.. duty?, e.g. the contract you signed when buying the house stipulates that you, or your direct family
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Yep, I scraped address, price and size from the house overview pages. I ended up with data from Funda going back ~3 months (so April, May & June) of all the 'gemeentes' in provinces of Utrecht, Zuid-Holland and Noord-Holland.
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Crazy, I did some analysis on large cities in the Randstad in june/july last year. Amsterdam was by far the most expensive, but the most expensive house in price / sq meter was "only" ~9,000 euro / sq meter https:&
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by Phemist 8y ago
This has already gone meta-meta, in that there is a thread in every comment section on a post by Stephen Wolfram that complains about his self-obsession, and also one that complains about the complaints. Basically, there is an HN gentlemen&
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For what it's worth. The conference this talk is held at is given an interesting connotation when read in a combination of English & Dutch. Use in English being Use. And "Nix" can be read in Dutch as a short-hand/hom
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One thing I find consistently underwhelming is how much money is actually being paid for individual ad locations, both digital and especially physical space. Ie, a sizeable city's public space being fully plastered with (nowadays anima
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Shouldn't we be able to find even shorter ones and do some interesting bounds calculation on it, given the recent progress on supercycles?
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> Hacker news gives a very skewed view on the world, as if everyone is up to date with the latest developments in deep learning. In reality, most people in academia are pretty unaware of what's possible, or don't have the techn
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by Phemist 8y ago
If you check the wikipedia page, it seems that Philib Gibbs has contributed to this problem as well: '''A computation by Philip Gibbs produced a shape indistinguishable from that of Gerver's sofa giving a value for the a
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Re the hash value. Are you aware of fuzzy commitment[1]? It is a crypto scheme for protecting and/or deriving encryption keys from data that is subject to noise (such as in biometrics). If you can derive encryption keys, you can also d
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The usual approach to spoofing fingerprints is by somehow acquiring a latent fingerprint from a "genuine" user, creating a mold from this latent fingerprint through e.g. [1], and then applying the mold to the fingerprint sensor. W
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I'm not so keen on the marketing fluff either, but there are definitely needs being met. The cases I'm most familiar with are in psychological research, which consists of having people fill in a lot of questionnaires (asking about
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Interesting news! When I was in uni, I made some money on the side writing custom JS plug-ins for their survey engine. Through a lot of trial-and-error I managed to reverse engineer some useful knowledge about the inner workings of it (this
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Very cool! Takes me back to the days when I first studied Laughlin's short paper on fly eyes [1]. Amazing how we've gone from this early experimental result to something as complex as simulating a full visual system! [1] https:&
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http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ contains a selection of "verses" generated with a markov chain trained on SICP, the King James Bible and some other works. The results are oftentimes hilarious and some of t
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All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks(science.sciencemag.org)
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It seems that compared to the mirror test, this sniff test lacks an action analogous to the "wiping the mark off the face" action or (from the paper) "use the mirror to direct examination of the mark" that tends to happe

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