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by aglionby 7y ago
Interesting graphs, but it's a little confusing that all but one of them use difference of the metric (i.e. relative values) instead of absolute values -- what and when are the differences relative to?
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by aglionby 7y ago
Some work has been done in this direction! https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12616
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by aglionby 7y ago
Selling the 'We' trademark to your own company is damning. It's difficult to feel like you need a deeper understanding of Neumann after that. Maybe even more so is WeWork entering into lease agreements with properties he ha
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by aglionby 7y ago
I recently paid under £10 for an 8 mile 55 minute pool across London. There's no way that's sustainable, but whoever's subsidising them makes my life much easier.
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by aglionby 7y ago
SVD has been used for dimensionality reduction of co-occurrence matrices for ages [1], but the resulting word embeddings aren't as performant as those of word2vec/etc. The same is probably true of using PCA. Word2vec's popula
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by aglionby 7y ago
I completely agree -- it's exploitative and relies on parental intervention for those kids who don't know any better. As others have mentioned, these could be an educational opportunity, but I don't think the experiences desc
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by aglionby 7y ago
It's also possible to initialise a word embedding matrix with vectors trained with word2vec (or any other type of pre-trained embeddings: fastText, GLoVe being common) to get a perf boost. Of course, you have to ensure the embedding ma
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by aglionby 7y ago
> Basically, every word can be numerically described with up to 300 properties, some properties being more important I'd give a bit more of a nuanced view here -- we can choose any number of properties (dimensions) to represent word
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by aglionby 7y ago
At least in the UK I'm pretty sure that lying on your CV is fraud by false representation [1]. CIFAS (UK fraud prevention service) produced a suitably scary leaflet [2] to try to discourage recent grads from doing this. [1] http:&#x2F
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by aglionby 7y ago
> Beer doesn't even have distinct recognised regions Does this matter as much for beer as it does for wine? Given that, as far as I understand brewing, most of the flavour comes from the hops used, with some also from the type of ye
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by aglionby 7y ago
> wait 3 days for a repair My 2015 MBP is affected by the battery recall and they want 2-3 weeks to send it off to a repair centre to have the battery replaced. No chance to have it done in-store owing to safety concerns (which I'
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by aglionby 7y ago
Yep, the icons were hosted on S3, which was unavailable https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/
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by aglionby 7y ago
This article reminded me of a long-form article I read on here (below) about a maritime disaster that was similarly well written. Not surprised that it turns out to have been written by Langewiesche as well. https://news.ycombina
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by aglionby 7y ago
It's not completely fair of me to compare civil jets to combat ones, but in any case I'd argue that ejection seats are perhaps more useful for the other scenarios combat planes find themselves in.
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by aglionby 7y ago
The author tells a familiar story of how we got here, but I think misses nuance on what the problem is. It's not the fact that software is used: it works fine normally, but the failure modes were insufficiently considered. > An airc
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Met detective 'predicts' fatal stabbing areas in London(bbc.co.uk)
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by aglionby 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying about DL in NLP is completely true. To train e.g. a language model from scratch you'll need a load of data, but building on top of pre-trained models (e.g. BERT, ELMo), or even just using pre-t
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by aglionby 8y ago
I'd recommend following a course to get an idea of what's involved. The Stanford course[1,2] goes deep into the neural network side of things; although lots of state of the art systems use these, I'd suggest that starting by
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by aglionby 8y ago
I was also curious about this. There are high levels of disparity in all three of those places. Hong Kong has both some of the most expensive property in the world and people living in cage homes.
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by aglionby 8y ago
I had a great experience with Lufthansa recently. Wasn't using their app, but received very punctual emails with delay and gate information, to the extent that the gate change email came at pretty much the same time as the announcement
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by aglionby 8y ago
Would that be an issue? The character limit is clearly a pain point for some users (graph here[1] of average tweet lengths -- many people abandon their tweets if they hit the limit), so why not alleviate it? Especially given that it doesn&#
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by aglionby 8y ago
As others have said, emoji are just unicode. What's interesting is that the some aren't just a single unicode character. For example, where skin tone is available for some emoji (e.g. Santa) it is represented as the generic emoji,
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by aglionby 8y ago
It wasn't necessary when I registered a .uk domain ~3 years ago; you could just set your email etc to be private with Nominet (the UK registry).
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by aglionby 8y ago
> Google is kind of saying they can tentatively pass the Turing Test with phones This is quite a bold claim, and one I'm not sure they're making. Their promo material suggests that it's limited to quite well-defined domain
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by aglionby 9y ago
Replacing 'wsj.com' with 'fullwsj.com' works for any WSJ article. Redirects via Facebook. https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/how-north-koreas-hackers-be...
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by aglionby 9y ago
Turns out it's illegal in the UK to buy email dumps and send everyone newsletters/marketing emails -- you need explicit consent (i.e. opt-in) or a pre-existing relationship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priva
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by aglionby 9y ago
The comments by the board members on pages 256-259 discuss this as well. The second statement is interesting in particular as it talks about the differences in crew hierarchy between aviation and maritime.
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by aglionby 9y ago
There is: bridge resource management. It actually grew out of CRM. Section 2.7 of the NTSB report (linked elsewhere in this thread) gives an overview of it and discusses how it played a role in this incident. It's an interesting read a
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by aglionby 9y ago
This seems unlikely given that the captain was looking for a new position as captain on one of his company's new LNG ships. You may find section 1.8.1 of the NTSB report[0] interesting; it goes into more detail about the crew than the
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by aglionby 9y ago
Twitter's API permission levels are really coarse grained [0]. I assume it needs write access in order to change the timeline, but some more detail from the author would be nice. [0] https://developer.twitter.com/en&#x2

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