WilliamDhalgren

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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
A rather similar hardware with a recent version of the same program plays on the KGS server. Seems to be about what would be 10d and is among the top players on the server (was 1., now seems to be 3.). You can see the graph of its playstren
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
sounds plausible, yeah. Looking at wiki on demographics of yugoslavia, croatia, serbia and bosnia is a bit interesting; 81', which appears the peak, has yugoslavian as the ethnicity of 5.4% of yugoslavia total, 7.9% of bosnia and herze
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
A Croat here; I have no idea what you're talking about; Who the hell are Yugoslavians? Where does this ethnicity live? Before the breakup of Yugoslavia, some people identified as yugoslavian, yes - as one might identify as European tod
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I thought the point of the article wasn't that a particular approach to learning has intrinsic limits, but that underdetermination of the pattern to be learned by the available data poses fundamental limits to what any learner could ho
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
> In addition, the content is usually limited to the Four Great Classical Novels because that's the only thing a Chinese layman is familiar with. really? If true, that sounds bloody brilliant; how I wish to play some game based on
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
.. and zizek has used anything from Alien to Hitchcock to illustrate his concepts often enough. Hardly makes either a work of any particular philosophical depth - merely something one may illustrate notions with on a pop-cultural or introdu
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
So this model won't be free software??? Odd, and bummer... Also I'm note sure an error reduction of 20% (1-6.3/7.8) is to be considered small; depends on the particular challenge really. Like, sentiment analysis only starts t
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I know barely enough haskell, passively, to dislike quite a lot of this code (like really, 3 lines on 3 places, just to case on a maybe to throw an error? w/a just calling fromMaybe or even fromJust? and manual instances??) - but, coul
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
We tolerate it because its normal, ie how things work out in nature unless we try to intervene, is simply the naturallistic fallacy. While in fact what happens in nature really doesn't imply anything about anything's desirability,
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
hah, mostly very good points IDK, for one I'm not even sure a major exchange is as deadly as here supposed (much depends on who else joins the party I guess); sure lots of land on some continents at least is badly irradiated, but a maj
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Yeah, though not so much that some kind of legislation should be found that creates a balanced outcome, but that just even broad strokes of some vanilla whistleblower protection legislations are themselves reasonable and balanced, and hence
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Wow. Fine, I'll bite: He is prosecuted for the greatest act of whistleblowing since the pentagon papers. This has enabled improvements in both privacy regulations and accelerated the deployment of strong cryptography across the Interne
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
to be more precise, they can be sold but then need to be labeled. Prob used in animal feedstock, but not attractive to market for human use in that form. I presume animal feed's still a significant market, but unsure if there's si
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
any chance this could help the perception of GMOs in Germany then?
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Truly doing much with little data may simply be impossible; its not a magical black box after all, but just as ideal a learner as possible - but if small data cannot give it confidence to confirm the existence of some subtile pattern, on wh
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
It means an extremely opaque system of checks precisely in an area of the state that is particularly succeptable to abuse. That is a real risk to national security here. Contrary, I can see exactly zero potential for jeopardising national s
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
oh no doubt, what was done to him is atrocious and repugnant. I was only trying out an argument that politically his fate is no longer important, and it is of greater value to focus on what will protect the next Snowden better. It's
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
yeah, its what it does for the next Snowden that's most important here-- but that's why I suggested actual legal reform is necessary. How can a pardon set a precedent? Its an act of an executive, not a court? It would be up to who
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Oh I'm sure they wouldn't. But there is no risk to national security, as whistleblowing protections only apply to uncovering illegal activities, abuse and similar misconduct. But who'd want one's security apparatus to be
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Well, from a political point of view, Snowden is just a guy, and he did what he could do already. Pardoned or shot dead, makes little difference now (well, chilling effect is certainly even worse if the latter happened tomorrow, but its bad
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
can he do that? pardon someone that hasn't been apprehended nor trialed yet?
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Agreed, if civilization does come tumbling down. However, as far as I could read, for it to survive a nuclear exchange is quite possible, even probable. Blasts themselves seem relatively harmless, beyond the hundereds of millions they just
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
but its only relevant in the disaster-recovery situation anyhow; should be quite decent for that use. And otherwise, you have regular Internet access, and its hardly realistic a small hacker community can do anything to replace it.
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
So if not espresso, what kind of coffee do Americans drink, but that's any good? I'm just very used to italian-style espresso in the cafés and turkish at home, as that's the cultural norm around here (croatian adriatic coast;
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I don't know the answer, but there was an antisemitic campaign after the war (eg 52' Night of the Murdered Poets, campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans" etc). Shostakovich Symphony No.13 (Babi Yar) and the poem there
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
What's G+ like these days? Used it a few years ago, only social net I gave a serious try, and was really quite fond of it. Circles were quite a practical way of following topics of interest, w/o having to actually communicate with
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
Why do they need another social network? If it helps youtube users, ofc its a good move. But if its means to an end, to create a social network -- I thought their main motive for having a social net of some kind was to use vote/comment
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I'm apparently out of the loop; could you help me: what scandals? what happened?
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
very good point re blowup. Another thing is that whatever reddit is doing, still doesn't help much to clean up comments on large lightly-moderated subs. Best quality is still a matter of having an army of moderators and tight rules the
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
I like this idea, wonder how it scales! on the simple side of things, you can have something like that youtube snob browser extension, that simply hides stuff like all caps, no punctuation etc. Guess you can add more such hand-crafted featu

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