Radim

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by Radim 5y ago
> Note that public health system is for free. In my country (also EU) the public health system is most definitely not "free". It is paid for by a universal tax called (insidiously and inaccurately) "health insurance&quot
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by Radim 5y ago
Isn't this the same argument as "The government is not allowed to censor free speech – but nothing stops it from colluding with / coercing private companies to do its dirty job" ? It is puzzling that such "bypass o
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by Radim 5y ago
I've built a few vector search engines too, so this was an immediate red flag: "Brute force takes 12 seconds / query on 1 million vectors of 768 dim" . No, a sane brute-force search (via BLAS) that size should be a ~200
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by Radim 5y ago
Yes, but you can buy repeated interactions. What's the actual difference then? IMO it's down to arguing semantics about how "tight" is the causal chain between the cause and effect. Do you perceive the cause ( repeat buy
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by Radim 5y ago
This is true prima facie, as a snapshot of "caring". But prolonged exposition and mutual relationships (even ones kickstarted by selfish, careless objectives such as "Pay me!" or "Go to war for me!") necessaril
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by Radim 5y ago
Yes, I do. But it turns out that their issue is pretty much always only tangentially related to Gensim (or any other open source library / technology). They're solving a business problem . That's what brings them money, with
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by Radim 5y ago
I sometimes get these almost angry emails about Gensim, my open source library. How come I'm not responding faster, merging PRs, fixing issues? For this critical popular project??! Meanwhile, sponsorships are at 13% of the (not terribl
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by Radim 5y ago
The Irish DPC seems truly out of line. Highlights: > noyb is making the complaint under Austrian law — reporting the Irish regulator to the Austrian Office for the Prosecution of Corruption after the DPC sought to use what noyb terms “p
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Facebook’s lead EU privacy supervisor hit with corruption complaint(techcrunch.com)
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by Radim 5y ago
What you do and whether you "run away" or "close business" is up to you. But likewise, what other people do is up to them – how would you impose your choices and preferences onto others? You're able to do that only
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by Radim 5y ago
And what do you propose happens to vaccinated people who occupy ICU beds? Or, for that matter, to other groups of people with an "illness that could have been prevented by a widely and freely available measure" ? A few spring t
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by Radim 5y ago
I have not revealed my preference, one way or another (I'm personally not a fan of fakeness, if you must know; which is precisely the reason why I think about such things and take time to reply on HN). But seeing your visceral response
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by Radim 5y ago
Morality certainly has its merits – after all, it's omnipresent across nearly all human groups (that survived to this day). So it has undoubtedly played a central role in advancing humankind. But please note morality is an evolved coll
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by Radim 5y ago
I'd guess this is Prisoner's Dilemma in practice: If you don't expect repeat interactions with an agent, or expect the agent won't remember / weigh these past interactions strongly, you do what's best for you i
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by Radim 5y ago
> Even worse is that people I've known and respected my entire life, intelligent people … are defending, and even calling for the escalation of these tactics. It's a spectrum. More a question of temperament than intelligence:
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How to Win Snake: The Unkillable Snake AI [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Radim 5y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 5y ago
jacquesm, I have no dog in this fight but it's your attitude that comes across weird here. Just a friendly FYI. timr took the effort to correct you point-for-point. You come back with "Fine! I'll take my ball and go home th
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by Radim 5y ago
In my experience, going down is far tricker (and riskier) than climbing up. Especially when carrying things. So that theory doesn't sound right either.
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by Radim 5y ago
> Outside of light, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), or NPK for short Ehm. Check out this Nature article on the importance of Carbon: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/effe
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by Radim 5y ago
As a dad – heart breaking! > …Once the shock of the A-T diagnosis wore off, we started researching. Within days, we were convinced that Bertrand did not have it. > …In Bertrand's case, the cause of long QT turned out to be ery
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Do They Even Matter? The 3 Largest GDPR Fines to Date(pii-tools.com)
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by Radim 5y ago
Yes! And their support is amazing too. Doing business with Hetzner somehow always feels very different to e.g. Amazon, or the other tech giants. I wonder if it may be related to the general business mentality (Germany vs USA), and not only
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by Radim 5y ago
But what is might here? Historically, "might" correlated near perfectly with "population size". From Sumer onward, the size of your army & slave count determined right-making (in the UN sense). Exceptions due to te
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by Radim 5y ago
Cache + avoid dynamic allocations like the plague. For example, high-perf search algos implement reversible transitions : instead of creating & pushing new states around all the time, modify just one state , in-place. And then apply t
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by Radim 5y ago
FWIW, I found your past comments articulate and well-supported. Please don't take the downvoting herds too much to heart – there was no "fuck up" on your part :-) BTW I upvoted a bunch of your comments right now, but apparent
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by Radim 5y ago
Which one? Global cooling? Or peak oil? 70s were full of boogeymen. Not that other decades were / are much better. The methods shift, the profit stays.
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by Radim 5y ago
"Just call BS! Geez, that was easy. Why are all these HR people so incompetent?" This assumes you are more intelligent than them, and can see through their insincerity during an interview process. But have you considered that th
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by Radim 5y ago
Oh. What meetup, what did I miss?
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The unthinking application of this regex-efficiency check wasted our attention(github.com)
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by Radim 5y ago
Others already noted how shaky your assertion "Reality, in being geometrical, is infinitely informationally dense" is. Instead, let me throw out another extreme (but fun) view in the opposite direction: Finitism [0]. These guys

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