Radim

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by Radim 15y ago
I wish people would stop doing these silly "IANAL" disclaimers in online (anonymous, no less) discussions. Are you really afraid somebody's gonna go off and ruin their life because they based the legality of their business on a HN comment?
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by Radim 15y ago
movie of a crazy serial killer browsing Facebook Serial killer? That's just your assumption, based on video editing. Remember the scene in Men in Black, where Will Smith is asked to shoot cardboard aliens and shoots a little girl in
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by Radim 15y ago
You might also be interested in the previous HN discussions of the same topic, then: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896092 (yes, this "trick" has been making rounds for a decade now; I predict another HN article within 6 months)
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by Radim 15y ago
Evaporation would leave the salt (and most other minerals) behind. I suppose there exist devices for re-capturing the condensed (=drinking) water out of sea water. I don't know why they're not common; my guess is they're just not economical
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by Radim 15y ago
keep your friends close, your enemies closer :-) Seriously though, his experience at Apple seems to have left him somewhat jaded: http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple
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by Radim 15y ago
I've always had a few ideas to explore in the back of my mind, hoping I'd get to them once I retire or "have more time (tm)": * Understand the EE (lowest-level) part of computing. Work on embedded devices. * Getting rid of the nagging feeli
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by Radim 15y ago
his PhD application is pretty unique, too: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~bret/create_humor_gradapp.html
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by Radim 15y ago
I think (granted to a lesser extent) we gotta hand it to RMS Why "to a lesser extent"? I'm honestly curious because from my outsider's perspective (being affiliated with neither Apple nor FSF), RMS is vastly more admirable than CEO
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by Radim 15y ago
No, you interpret it incorrectly. From the article: git has just gone and destroyed the last 5 or 6 hours worht of work. Not happy!
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by Radim 15y ago
Hmm, I think Python was an excellent choice; what other platform would you suggest? IMO being "superbly structured, documented and maintained" is not a magical property acquired by luck, but rather connected to the platform of choice. Btw f
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by Radim 15y ago
Re. "textual fingerprinting" -- this is a well-established field (decades old), especially in forensics. It more commonly goes under the name "authorship attribution". For a taste, see e.g. http://www.ncfta.ca/papers/emailforensics.pdf or
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by Radim 15y ago
let's try without GOTO: while anyone_cares: improve_model() if theory_of_everything_appears or strong_ai_appears: raise Exception("rethink loop")
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by Radim 15y ago
Indeed, God Emperor is by far the best of the Dune series. I've re-read it many times and it never fails to deliver. Goes to show different people like different things? Apparently, I'm more into the psychology and exploration of large-scal
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by Radim 15y ago
I'm surprised noone commented on the "as a percentage of my income" bait. So I'll bite :) It is in no way obvious or written in stone that what matters are "percent of income". For many centuries, per capita tax was the norm. Indeed, you co
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by Radim 15y ago
Exactly. Even in this thread, it is appalling how quickly people reach for the "but look at Google!" argument. Guys, Google is a top paid company in a top paid part of one of the richest countries in the world! Stop throwing aro
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by Radim 15y ago
Link gives me 404 (or is that the point?). But going by the comments, a Bob Newhart therapy is in order: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLMTvxOaeE
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by Radim 15y ago
Stopped reading after the silly break&continue rant. This guy cannot be a good programmer.
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by Radim 15y ago
"All programming is an exercise in caching." - Terje Mathisen
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by Radim 15y ago
I don't like the preachy tone but I like the way you disassembled your own argument in the side note there :-) To avoid misunderstanding, I'm a fan of functional programming too. But the intersection of the MapReduce framework and map&r
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by Radim 15y ago
What lays the groundwork any massive-scale parallel data processing is a lot of good engineering, being aware of the common execution scenarios and relations to the environment (incl. HW). Plus tinkering with little devilish "details". Pret
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by Radim 15y ago
And here I was, thinking Prague has finally appeared on the start-up map :)
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Naked Came the Null Delegate part 6: The Great Destructor(jasonmbaker.com)
1 points by Radim 15y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 15y ago
Fair enough, I see you take the linguist's approach :-) You might try googling for "statistical semantics" though ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_semantics ). More relevant to HN, there are entire businesses successfully using
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by Radim 15y ago
You're right, this is "semantics" of the statistical type. There is no "understanding" involved. Just unsupervised number crunching.
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Semantic analysis of text: demo of gensim over arXiv.org(aura.fi.muni.cz)
10 points by Radim 15y ago|4 comments
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by Radim 15y ago
Duke Nukem Forever has been released. PuTTY has been updated. A memorable year!
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by Radim 16y ago
I guess it depends on what type of queries you expect; if you want to find the same (fixed) substring across a body of (dynamic) texts, the O(n) cost of preprocessing (suffix trees/arrays) is terrible. If, on the other hand, you have a fixe
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by Radim 16y ago
heya binomial, don't let gensim's disclaimer deter you! it's been used by many people, both academically and commercially, and it's fairly mature. having said that, i'm always happy to hear about success and failure stories from users. so