Radim

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by Radim 9y ago
Well now you have to prefix b"" instead for bytestrings. The argument works both ways -- there's no magical improvement that happened in Python 3 (except that nice storage optimization in 3.3 that I mentioned above). It'
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by Radim 9y ago
Did you actually read the thread you're replying to, or are you on auto-pilot?
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by Radim 9y ago
You do realize unicode has been "built into Python" pretty much since the beginning (Python 2.0, 17 years ago), right? The main difference is that unicode has a more efficient internal storage since Python 3.3+ (a neat technical d
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by Radim 9y ago
"Converted" as in "brutally beaten into submission"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Persia That beautiful region, Persia, never really recovered from the Arab conquest. Although it
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Sharing FacetsDive: Google's open source tool for data scientists(rare-technologies.com)
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by Radim 9y ago
We've had our dev servers (heavy R&D work in machine learning) with Hetzner for 4 years now, never a glitch. Super nice, responsive support too. I've had their Head of Product, Arno Pirner, engage in a long email exchange when
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by Radim 9y ago
Does this argument have a name? "If I didn't do [SOME HORRIBLE THING X], someone else would, so I might as well do it myself?" When googling, I only found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy&#x
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by Radim 9y ago
Your point being? It makes absolutely no difference whether the "you cost, me profit" corporation was Intel, Nvidia, Acme Inc or all above.
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by Radim 9y ago
Indeed, because nothing is ever free. The cost is simply paid by someone else. Listen, I understand why that ideology is appealing, particularly if you haven't seen it play out before. How many "successful" open source projec
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by Radim 9y ago
"I have run across this before, when companies have told me that they hate the GPL because they are not keen on spending a lot of time, energy, and money modifying some piece of code, only to be required to give it to their competitor
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by Radim 9y ago
This struck me as bizarre as well. You're thanking someone because you relicensed your hard work so they can use it for free (BSD) and you complied? All for the stated reason that they don't have to relicense their work to other p
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by Radim 9y ago
TL;DR: "…the good teams all had high ‘‘average social sensitivity’’ — a fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues. One of the easiest wa
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by Radim 9y ago
Upvoted your comment, but I worry this trend will only get stronger if we endorse and reinforce such behaviour. Why provide eyeballs, via the HackerNews front page? The OP is truly disgusting clickbait and crossed the line for me. I flagged
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by Radim 9y ago
This a hundred times! People learn surprisingly quickly, when it's their money on the line. "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan
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by Radim 9y ago
I know and agree! But that's completely orthogonal to my point. The new Catalan government (or any other government) may find itself presented with the same question, in the future. The writing is on the wall, in this all-or-nothing,
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by Radim 9y ago
Sure, but the question is, which population ? A referendum conventionally happens country wide, surveying a % of the whole population. Not in a self-selected population subset. Otherwise there's this icky question of what subset, what
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by Radim 9y ago
"Annual" and "a month" are mutually exclusive, so (at least) one in that sentence must be in error.
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by Radim 9y ago
Just the other day, I participated in a discussion about how "language identification" is a solved problem -- in fact, hasn't it been solved for a decade? As anyone who's had to use langid in practice will testify, it&#x
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by Radim 9y ago
Hi there, thanks for the constructive comments! They actually are completely different classes internally. The ‘bounter’ function is just a convenience wrapper (factory). For power users, the internal classes offer more control and paramete
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Bounter: A Python counter that uses limited memory regardless of data size(github.com)
156 points by Radim 9y ago|17 comments
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Bounter: super fast and memory-bounded count estimation in Python(github.com)
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by Radim 9y ago
Weird how they anthropomorphized and capitalized "her Final Form" there. Creepy!
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by Radim 9y ago
Chris Moody usually delivers great blog posts; this big-worded rehash of an ancient 2014 technique (see https://rare-technologies.com/making-sense-of-word2vec/ for a more comprehensive eval of SVD vs word2vec vs gloVe
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by Radim 9y ago
Article explaining this relationship between matrix factorizations (SVD) and word2vec [2014]: https://rare-technologies.com/making-sense-of-word2vec/ (also contains benchmark experiments with concrete numbers and Githu
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by Radim 9y ago
Except it is still using MCTS (heavily).
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by Radim 9y ago
A similar thing happened after the Bronze age collapse -- another "dark age". As we gradually find out, not so dark after all, but rather full of vibrant ideas and structural changes. As the old structures collapse, a new order in
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by Radim 9y ago
I can't speak for Russia and "*stans", but this is patently untrue for the Czech Republic (where I come from). Obviously it may depend on the particular institution -- with new, for-profit, private universities (milking rich
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by Radim 9y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic (it's hard to tell on the internet), but just in case: All the things you list have either been already implemented in the EU, or their implementation is being actively discussed. The gr
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by Radim 9y ago
OK, but isn't that what I said? Where is the "contrary"?
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by Radim 9y ago
You're right of course. In the end, politics is all about power. With vindictiveness a big part of it -- a more powerful and venerable strategy than mere economic rationality. Where power originates with people, manipulating the genera

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