Radim

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by Radim 14y ago
Slightly off-topic: I had ramen a few times in Japan, and while truly delicious, it's massively expensive and rather exotic. Why is ramen a synonym for "cheap" in the US (apparently)? Or does it mean just "instant noodles" over there?
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by Radim 14y ago
No need to be so negative. I actually think the S&M character of these stories goes well with their content (Java development and best practices).
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Multithread safe SQLite DB for Python(github.com)
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by Radim 14y ago
Only if they distribute it. What people don't often realize is that GPL (both v2 and v3) has a "trigger" condition, where the GPL reciprocity applies only with physical distribution of the code. As an end-user, it's perfectly fine to modify
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by Radim 15y ago
Agreed. This (non-binding) pledge is a bit like saying "I don't trust myself enough to make that decision on my own in the future". But of course, your future self will in fact have more knowledge and context to make a better-informed decis
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by Radim 15y ago
How did you do that? I stopped receiving money completely around level 80 (no more cash to buy or upgrade!), and very little money since level 50. From then on, it became increasingly difficult. I only got to level 141 (Buckingham Palace).
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by Radim 15y ago
Romanians are a magnificent, proud nation. Disclaimer: I married one :) To a large degree, the bad image comes from a small sub-populace that rejects the western life style, western values and produces a lot of what western laws see as crim
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by Radim 15y ago
Don't try this at home, there are nasty edge cases around Infs/NaNs. Use your math library instead; in Python, that'd be numpy.logaddexp or scipy.misc.logsumexp .
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by Radim 15y ago
how much data did you use for the semantic analysis?
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by Radim 15y ago
I see your point. But on my visit to Sweden (one of the otherwise most beautiful and pleasant countries I've been to), I did find some "threatening Swedish citizens", first hand. I just wanted to point out that painting all your fellow-ci
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by Radim 15y ago
I guess it depends on the application, but since we're discussing web app copycats here -- where do you see this monumental time sink? I'd say l10n and i18n are handled pretty well by pretty much all major web frameworks. Extra work yes, ex
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by Radim 15y ago
But there will always be hordes of new, excitable hackers who fail to appreciate the complexity of finishing real-world tasks (and I'm not talking only intelligent scraping). The "awareness" is ephemeral. Of course, by the time they come ar
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by Radim 15y ago
That could be true in a hardcore numerical computation, assuming you know enough about your architecture and compiler to make use of it. In the context of this article and implementation, the speed difference between + and * is utterly ir
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by Radim 15y ago
The analogy to start-up success is startling. Taken from that perspective -- thank god for re-submissions.
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by Radim 15y ago
If you're interested in more info, here's Ilya Segalovich's talk about the journey of Yandex: http://www.seedcamp.com/resources/the-yandex-story-with-ilya... (Ilya is the co-founder and CTO of Yandex, and a very nice person).
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by Radim 15y ago
Equating EU with Europe is a common fallacy. EU is a political entity (recent), Europe a geographical entity (ancient). There is an overlap of people who live within both, but that's not the case with Russia.
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by Radim 15y ago
Nobody who has worked in academia would claim that scientists are somehow "more pragmatic". Capricious, scheming, vindictive... just like the rest of the population :) Plus the fact that scientists are typically paid by tax payers', in a st
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by Radim 15y ago
I did have a look, but didn't see anything out of ordinary there. Surely the team must be great to be doing so well, and best of luck and kudos to them! But what exactly am I supposed to be seeing on that overview page? Which part trigger
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by Radim 15y ago
I've lived in Thailand, let me fix that sentence for you: I hope you've cleared this with immigration or everybody attending could face paying a bribe.
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by Radim 15y ago
Raw level: numpy More high-level statistical functionality: scipy.stats (built on top of numpy) Even more high-level: scikit.statsmodels (built on top of scipy)
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by Radim 15y ago
I see this exact same post by mr. simonw duplicated below, as "link [dead]". What's up with that?
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by Radim 15y ago
Kimble was also a notorious quake 2 botter (cheater), back in the day. He ruined online quake play for many Germans and was as much of a selfish cunt as this article suggests. A sad reminder that the "online persona" will often say more abo
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by Radim 15y ago
Incidentally, the linked article by Peter Norvig also mentions that adding context is the best way to improve spelling correction . If you think this claim is so controversial, explain yourself, don't just downvote please.
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by Radim 15y ago
I understand this is a mismatch in terminology. In your view, "spelling check" is applied to individual words, to see if they appear in a fixed dictionary (see my other comment about difficulties with choosing this "correct" dictionary in r
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by Radim 15y ago
Ok, fair point -- I blame the misleading title :) I read the point of the article to compare "spell-checking then (80s) and now", whereas others read it more along the lines of "looking up static English words then and now". Your nickname s
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by Radim 15y ago
People want their documents (or queries) free of spelling errors. That is their pain and that is the challenge. The example sentence has misspelled words, hence is within the domain of spell checking. This type of misspelled words are calle
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by Radim 15y ago
It is fair, it is a first step in that direction :-) That corrector has no context though, so it will not correct misspelled words that happen to come out as other words (incl. the " Their coming too sea if its reel. "). This is especially
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by Radim 15y ago
I know it's HN folklore to claim "Trivial! Would do over a weekend!", but please... Doing a half-decent production spell checker is STILL a major feat. Same as "just crawling the web" (further down the discussion). Both require problem unde
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by Radim 15y ago
But paper abstracts are always free (even with paid journals). If you have to scan random papers to find a solution to a problem you cannot name, I fear for your well-being :-)
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by Radim 15y ago
Sure. What I meant (and what I believe paganel meant) is not that most people won't get such questions wrong, statistically. They probably will, and the original research probably shows that conclusively. It's the part of this quiz/post t

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