Radim

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by Radim 5y ago
> a concerted, top-down effort to manipulate and coerce [others] into going along with things [I want]. How is that outside of evolution? Your definition of "organic" seems suspect.
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by Radim 5y ago
The lessons you learn on your own stick the best, don't they? I remember a similar "heureka" moment when I derived a line-drawing algorithm that respected "subpixel" starting and ending points. That is, don't a
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by Radim 5y ago
Even some of my Ukrainian friends (we have a huge UA diaspora here in Prague) share the same sentiment. They were heavily pro-Russian to start with. Strongly against the corrupted Ukrainian government & oligarchs, remembering the Odessa
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by Radim 5y ago
That may have been a wise person! "What if Google takes us down" (rather than goes down itself) is a valid business risk to at least consider. Google & co are doing their best to remove themselves from a rational person&#x27
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Fast Sampling from a Discrete Distribution(keithschwarz.com)
1 points by Radim 5y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 5y ago
My experience is the opposite: character ngram models work "OK" on academic tasks and clean corpora. Not so much when unleashed on real data. By "real", I mean texts in a mix of multiple languages (super common on the we
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by Radim 5y ago
> ethics in science You forgot about politics. From the same article: > Sanders took this information to General Douglas MacArthur, who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers responsible for rebuilding Japan during the Alli
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by Radim 5y ago
That article's discussion on HN (6 years ago!) was also quite interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12383012
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by Radim 5y ago
There's C++ code included – great! But no actual timings :( I'd be curious to see a deeper discussion of practical run-times, in actual seconds, relative to other popular sorting algorithms. Especially if driven by a real task wit
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by Radim 5y ago
Yes, but there is still hope. Not in the current academia (IMO rotten beyond repair) but in human nature. Because have you noticed how when something "real" hits the science shelves, any honest research grounded in reality and c
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by Radim 5y ago
Your assertion is contradicted by the article itself, which explains this point clearly. I.e., you're wrong. Isn't it curious how often people with the most strongly voiced opinions ( "bullshit post" ) are bullshitters t
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Linear O(N) sorting with Radix Sort (2000)(codercorner.com)
80 points by Radim 5y ago|26 comments
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by Radim 5y ago
Pierre Terdiman's "Radix sort revisited" for O(N) sorting (linear worst case!), from the same era: http://www.codercorner.com/RadixSortRevisited.htm > In every decent programmer’s toolbox lies a stran
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Political preferences of 98% voters breached, €65,000 GDPR fine(noyb.eu)
4 points by Radim 5y ago|1 comments
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by Radim 5y ago
Here Mr. Peckford discusses his motivation for the lawsuit, as well as its ramifications for the Canadian parliamentary process, in long form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhFuMDLBDM
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Last living signer of Canadian constitutional charter sues gvt over Covid bans(jccf.ca)
25 points by Radim 5y ago|13 comments
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by Radim 5y ago
The noyb guys are simply amazing. They've also recently challenged Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (!!) for its bribery/corruption [0] in dealing with Facebook's privacy shenanigans [1]. Noyb is tiny but really walks the
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Faster CPython (2021) [pdf](github.com)
247 points by Radim 5y ago|228 comments
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by Radim 5y ago
> By "way over the top" I meant that your analogy was excessive and distracting. Nope, it wasn't. See my sibling response to random314 . Just because others cried wolf before, doesn't mean you shouldn't cry wolf
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by Radim 5y ago
What can I say. It's your site, your rules. But I disagree strongly with your "way over the top" Daniel – that's just rude. Mine was an on-topic factual response, substantiated with relevant links, articulated in a perfe
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by Radim 5y ago
But I haven't stated my preference, one way or another :-) The "bottom" judgement in "race to the bottom" was quoted from the OP. For what it's worth, I personally contribute or have contributed to open source
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by Radim 5y ago
Do you contest the timeline I posted? Or the sources about Nazi propaganda methods? Please do so directly and concretely. If you post in good faith, I'll be happy to engage. Your glib one-liner adds nothing, throw0101a. It's just
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by Radim 5y ago
It's pretty short-sighted, too. I was born and lived under one rule of tyranny (communist Czechoslovakia), and the legal & judicial professions suffered tremendously there. In fact, they were among the first to go, replaced by some
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by Radim 5y ago
Right, you cut to the heart of things. There is a licensing "race to the bottom" happening. Which makes sense from the demand side (of course people want free). But where does the supply side come from? Why does the floor keep con
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by Radim 5y ago
Seconded on NOYB. These guys are amazing! They punch way above their weight in protecting citizens and suing bad actors [0] (actual lawyers) Did you know NOYB stands for "none-of-your-business"? [0] https://techcrunch.c
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by Radim 5y ago
Yes, that'd be me, too. But how I use Facebook doesn't change my fascination with how others handle (what I'd consider) outright abuse by Instagram. Your implied "sucks to not be able to use it" must be strong indee
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by Radim 5y ago
I assure you life goes one whether you are on instagram or not. In fact, many report the quality of their life improved upon leaving (even in this very HN thread). Regarding top-down regulation: not nearly as effective as aligning incenti
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by Radim 5y ago
And yet you keep coming back? Fascinating. Of course I don't know your motivation, but your description sounds like some variant of the Stockholm Syndrome – an extreme form of domestication, an unwholesome dependency. Are these social
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by Radim 5y ago
Because people need money to pay bills. And it's a sad fact that companies who do shady shit tend to have more money. Simply because they outcompete companies who don't, all else being equal. Tugging against this evolutionary pres
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by Radim 5y ago
Sounds about right. I like how you tested "query multiple vectors at once". Super useful when documents can be batched, for increased throughput. If I'm reading your benchmark correctly, Faiss brute-force can do a batch query

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