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by abecode 8y ago
I teach data science at a masters programs (University of St Thomas graduate programs in software in the twin cities) and we have some students who are part of retraining programs. Apparently if a big company lays off a significant chunk o
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by abecode 8y ago
Net positive experience in my case, in the US. Emphasis on net because there were certainly hard times. It took longer than I'd like to admit and I took a year off to work, and a summer offfor just writing. But I highly value the exp
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by abecode 8y ago
I went to a talk recently [1] in which the researcher explained a theory of the origin of life where early cell membranes were based on amyloids. The theory can be described as ocean vent metabolism and amino-acid first (as opposed to tide
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by abecode 8y ago
My wife is a technical designer for jeans and recently started learning web development because we moved and there wasn't much denim industry. She turned out to be good at CSS and I think it's similar to making jeans. From looki
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by abecode 8y ago
seconded: Barista Express is fast and way better than Keurig. Compared to Nespresso, it's cheaper long run and you can use it for hot water (I'm going to try it as pour over b/c the convenient espresso is making me OD on caf
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by abecode 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it went father back. Farsi, another Indo European language has the -en/an ending, for human nouns. Child/Bache -> children/bachegan, brother/boradar -> brethren/boradaran, Daug
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by abecode 9y ago
Actually from some of the interviews with Hawaiians on NPR, it seemed like people didn't know what to do when waiting for an incoming ballistic missile. So it seems like even in the case where there is a real threat, the usefulness of
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by abecode 9y ago
> Society is sick, let's face it, and technology is largely to blame. Maybe birthrate is more reasonable. Anecdotally, my nephew is an only child and he doesn't get to run around a lot (nor does he have a lot of desire to). W
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by abecode 9y ago
RIP. Set theory has always been an interesting topic but Prof. Zadeh stirred up the pot by proposing and strongly advocating fuzzy sets, which have opened up both new theoretical and practical paths for others to explore.
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by abecode 9y ago
I like a definition of creativity described in https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/02/18/a-dent-in-the-universe... , where it's contrasted with imagination. Briefly, creativity is domain specific, like in m
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by abecode 9y ago
Anecdotally, I got better NER results with spaCY than OpenNLP and CoreNLP with their respective default models, and spaCY was easier to install (though I'm biased, being more familiar with Python tooling and documentation style). I wa
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by abecode 9y ago
The Master and Margarita also has a lot of details from biblical history that help making sense of it... I read it when I was taking a class from a Dead Sea Scroll archaeologist about how the bible was written and modern interpretations of
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by abecode 10y ago
Agequake: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2001290.Agequake
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by abecode 10y ago
who are the main creditors of a shipping company like Hanjin?
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by abecode 10y ago
I used ejabberd ( https://www.ejabberd.im/ ) and it was fairly easy to get up and running and make minor tweaks like logging conversations, but I can't say about encryption but it seems to have it from cursory web search
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by abecode 11y ago
How about Riot games, which is based in the US but owned by Tencent, a Chinese company, and played significantly in China?
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by abecode 11y ago
I play devil's advocate with a Cuban friend sometimes: an expensive education is better than a free one because it shows that our culture highly values knowledge, at least in terms of money. When education is free or cheap, it is deva
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by abecode 11y ago
That part of Idaho is interesting to drive through. It's near craters of the moon national park. The Idaho Nuclear Laboratory is pretty big. I remember it being nearly 50 miles along one side of the road with all barbed wire fences.
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by abecode 11y ago
I think it may have gone something like this: "If you let me out, (and don't tell anyone how it came to pass) it will scare enough people into not letting the real AI out" Otherwise, there would be no need to keep the data se
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by abecode 11y ago
agreed: I also learned a lot from nltk too, esp. freqdist/probdist as well as the classifiers in nltk and sklearn
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by abecode 11y ago
would "civil war" count?