Radim

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by Radim 5y ago
> We've taken a species, the wolf, and made it smarter In what universe is a dog smarter than a wolf? I think you got the correlation between animal domestication and their intelligence backward :)
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by Radim 5y ago
The parallels with how biological life started are tantalizing. Life also "optimized away" its origins after the initial bootstrap, through increasing layers of sophistication. AFAIK research into origins of life is stuck somewher
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by Radim 5y ago
Dramatic post ;) It'd be interesting to see concrete benchmarks of the Lucene implementation, on some public dataset we could try outside of Lucene too. Btw I didn't find the Schulz & Mihov paper that cryptic. You can check it
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by Radim 5y ago
> Problem statement: the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences Another variant is "I have a bunch of words (a dictionary) and one query word, and want to find all words from the
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by Radim 5y ago
The causal connection here being, of course, "someone's watching me at all times, judging". Such heavy self-censorship, wed to brutal paranoia, necessarily leads to an erosion of "self", a loss of personal culpabili
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by Radim 5y ago
> Something as simple as vacinne passports would probably do it. Let me fix it for you: " Something as simple as restricting the freedom of movement of healthy individuals who committed no crime, in violation of Article 13 of the Un
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by Radim 5y ago
Look at the flip side of that coin too: The gap between bombastic marketing (esp. in the VC/startup world, but also self-promo) and reality must be mentally devastating. US has a serious, nationwide medication problem. Honesty has its
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by Radim 5y ago
Yes, we may be all part of the same whole. But there definitely are divisions – you are manifesting them with your own words. QED. Let me try differently. Your premise seems to be that "base reality" (your words) is a single tee
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by Radim 5y ago
But "world", "separate" and "parts" are all language concepts too. I feel the inconsistency in your (circular) argument is not getting through. That divisions are arbitrary and "exist just in our imaginati
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by Radim 5y ago
> You cannot separate a river from the ocean - it's part of the same system. > discrete things - these also just exist in our imagination What leads you to separate "imagination" from "exists"? Isn't imag
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by Radim 5y ago
For Python, there's Bounter, "Efficient Counter that uses a limited (bounded) amount of memory regardless of data size." https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/bounter Apart from HyperLogLog, Bounter imp
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by Radim 5y ago
How does this play with Cython? I'd assume most performance-sensitive projects will have compiled their hotspot modules with Cython. So how does Pyston work alongside Cython?
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by Radim 5y ago
> It is a “i” and not a “j”. **J**ulius Caesar said … Why not "Iulius Caesar", for consistency? :-) In any case, English may not be the right language to bicker about spelling and pronunciation in. It sports one of the most idi
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by Radim 5y ago
Have you considered that in some cases (though probably not Calendso's), that may be on purpose? The VC crowd would have you believe that every product must disrupt the whole world – for the casual visitor, their gradma and their dog
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by Radim 6y ago
As another Czechoslovak (born 1981 under socialism), I was eagerly awaiting inglor_cz 's response the moment I saw this article on HN :-)
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by Radim 6y ago
Since we're trading Dyson anecdotes, here's a similarly awkward one, about how Dyson met Wolfgang Pauli for the first time [0]: > I remember the very first time I met [Pauli] at a conference in Zurich. He was talking with a wh
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by Radim 6y ago
Your assessment, while phrased provocatively, isn't all that controversial (except maybe in some pop-sci worship circles). Feynman shone in popularizing physics, and physicists. Freeman Dyson, one of Feynman's closest friends (and
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by Radim 6y ago
Makes you wonder how life operated near the beginning, before "how to behave sustainably" evolved. Before individual death, before sex, before speciation, before children, maybe even before genes. The world must have seen some wil
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by Radim 6y ago
How would that work, in the analogy? Short the individual researchers? Research projects? Short private funding? Scams like EmDrive (but there are countless others – "save the planet with X") may be amusing, as long as it's o
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by Radim 6y ago
For what it's worth, I reached out to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) after their press release on "Securing Critical Open Source Projects" [0], because my open source project is on their "critical list&quo
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by Radim 6y ago
This whole "DISRUPTION AT 8 O'CLOCK!" economy seems out of whack. Bombastic headlines, vacuous promises… it's been the optimal strategy in business and media for a while, but now infecting the sciences apparently. I wond
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by Radim 6y ago
Thank you for saying this. Most of the time I find my phone days later, behind a couch, out of battery, when I need it for navigation / translation. The phone fulfils almost no other function in my life. Replaced grudgingly every 5-8 y
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by Radim 6y ago
And yet… Did you know about this (serious) proposal to make CPython 5x faster? https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/... Needed funding though.
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Why build a custom NER in 2021?(pii-tools.com)
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by Radim 6y ago
Ali, you may want to add some "About us" page. Sending such sensitive data "into the cloud" is no joke, for any company.
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by Radim 6y ago
Is that a reference to the infamous C64 Summer / Winter Games? Where you had to twiddle your joystick as fast as you can? Fascinating that should carry over into the 21st century hiring process.
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by Radim 6y ago
I see what you did there! By carefully capitalizing Them (the AI) and Their Actions, you're hedging against Roko's basilisk, right? A sort of Pascal's wager?
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by Radim 6y ago
Ah yes, the good old "SV culture disrupts X! Revolution at 8 o'clock!" There's an arms race: * People are evolving memetic resistance to the incessant BS, ads and bombastic headlines. * The SV/startup culture is e
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by Radim 6y ago
This science-bro movement scares me too. "But SCIENCE said so! You're a SCIENCE denier!" It feels like a religion, with its own T-shirts and all. Appeals to authority, intellectual posturing… often from people with little und
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by Radim 6y ago
While the "host" (people who pay, often with minimal decision power over their resources) turns a blind eye, "parasites" (cheaters who profit disproportionately) proliferate. Is that really so surprising? When somebody e

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