Radim

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by Radim 8y ago
A browser app to automatically filter that crap (ala AdBlock) would be awesome! To answer your rhetorical question: the usual path. Road to hell paved with good intentions, top-down imposition, do-gooders run amok, etc.
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Of interest: we built an AI tool to detect (and optionally redact) personal and sensitive data, including health data: https://pii-tools.com . As amelius mentions in a sibling thread, collecting realistic data for training and
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Can't speak for OP, but such accuracy numbers often hide a 20/20 hindsight bias. After having built and run a rule-based system for a while, you always get tremendous subject matter expertise, a feel for what works. Any rewrite of
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Fractured market for sure, but also cultural differences (mentality). What's standard bread&butter hustling in US is considered cringe-worthy BS in Europe. While the music plays, there's no way business conservatism and sticki
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Absolutely. Determining query intent is an ancient, well researched and still active domain. And Google publishes their results regularly (kudos to them). My point was more that encoding the relevant signals into a single general-purpose se
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"Search" is too broad to ever be solved. That's like "solving entropy". Google focused on a specific subset — you enter a few keywords or a phrase, and the machine returns the top ~10 links to pre-existing (indexed)
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More than performance, the primary concern these days is where the data lives and how it moves: Do we need to copy it to a different storage for processing? Change our company processes around how and where we store data? How many moving pi
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This is spot on. There are "highly scalable environments" which are flexible and generic, and then there are local focused tools, by their nature optimized in a way generic frameworks can never be. Think ancient tools like grep ve
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Seconded. I put a recurring event called "Articulation" into my calendar, 30 mins each evening. Sticking to jotting down my thoughts for the day, having to explicitly organize and summarize them (work, personal, whatever), has bee
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Going a little deeper and not contesting your conclusion, I'd like to point out "middle ground" is more a result of survivorship bias than a general maxim. There are an infinity of choices we make daily that are completely bi
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I agree with that. What I am contesting is that what you and OP describe is such a bad thing wholesale. Holmes should definitely be punished, and the engineering/dreaming trade-off corrected. No question about that, it seems she was ou
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> If someone like Holmes can become a billionaire by peddling nothing except lies and hope, what’s the real value of the software and tech industries if you take away the hype and money machines that surround them? "Real value&quo
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Listen, my claim is simple: submerged data centres will give rise to richer, more complex ecosystems around them (due to the extra energy, heat convection, increased entropy etc), in a surprisingly short timeframe. Because that's what
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Where is this confusion coming from? Are you suggesting there won't be colder water around the data centre? Or just nitpicking for the sake of it? It looks like my original comment hit some HN ideological hot spot (unintentionally), bu
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Local pockets of increased heat have not been observed to nurture life? Thermals mentioned by OP are just one obvious example. I agree making use of subtle energy gradients is not trivial, but life is pretty good at it nevertheless. Even in
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You're correct of course, but same difference here. The extra energy will kickstart processes that nurture life. I was actually pondering whether to expand on "energy", "water", "carbon" and "life&quo
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> nature will adapt just fine to both heat and cold Not with the same ease! That's the point — it is a one-way street. "Having easy access to energy" or "not having easy access to energy" are NOT equivalent state
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In addition, the heat represents extra energy. Warmth and water (and carbon) are the very fabric of life. Nature will adapt to utilize this free energy source before you could say "thank you". My prediction is we'll be amazed
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A big factor in producing a good analysis is the feedback modality -- chat transcripts are different from emails, which are different from web forms or operator notes. We've had several "customer feedback / intent / supp
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by Radim 8y ago
If you're into fast cardinality estimation (HyperLogLog) and item counting (Count-min sketch, Bloom filters, hash tables), check out Bounter: https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/bounter/ (Pythonic interface
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Don't despair! Each new generation starts hopeful, and goes through its own hype-bust cycles. It is human to dream, and businesses have evolved to sell hope accordingly. An eye for simplicity and a good set of BS detectors are not easy
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> “That other monkey has status that should be my status!” – nobody ever went broke peddling that. Well said. Who needs facts when you can fling shit at the opposing group? It feels our older biological subsystems don't know what
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Before "Who owns and controls the personal data we collect?" , there has to be "What personal data do we keep, in actual reality?" That is, personal data discovery. Emails, archives, cloud storages… it can be hard to
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Online publishing is a different concept than open access. Elsevier has had a very strong online publishing platform for quite a while now (including SRU interfaces for federated article search, which we integrated too). If you were involve
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Makes your blood boil, doesn't it? The injustice just in this thread makes me gnash my teeth :-) > It was my futile and meaningless attempt at retribution, of course. :) Don't say that! Each journey starts with a single step,
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Sure. My point was not only did Elsevier see the "tsunami" coming, they also prepared for it profusely. Using a combination of legislation, regulation, lobbying and technology. Obviously any company can fail. I'm just offerin
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Clearly an emotional topic. The fact remains, GDPR is a well-meaning but fuzzy law, with implications that cannot be foreseen at this point in time. To remove some of the uncertainty and automate some of the compliance steps, we built a
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Mechanical Turk is great for "open", public research. We used to use them a lot for machine learning tasks (data cleanup, model comparisons, label annotations), along with similar services like CrowdFlower / Figure Eight. We
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I worked in the scientific publishing industry. Not directly for Elsevier, but we had dealings with them too. Many people here view Elsevier as this evil nebulous entity. Leaving "evil" aside, like every large business, Elsevier i
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Yes, that's what I was getting at. Your note on "more well defined problems" is spot on. Chasing single percent improvements and SOTA is indeed the name of the game there. But defining the problem in the first place, figuring

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