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by aisofteng 8y ago
>Is it possible to have production-quality search using just postgresql? It depends on your search use case. If you are doing fairly simple searches such as trying to find, say, usernames, you can certainly have production grade search u
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by aisofteng 8y ago
After reading the links you gave, I’d like to clarify that I meant that edge cases that can cause data loss are not common enough, in my experience, for one to be forced to treat ElasticSearch as an unreliable data store. Anecdotally, I’ve
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by aisofteng 8y ago
These are standard information retrieval algorithms that have been known and used for decades.
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by aisofteng 8y ago
As someone who has used ElasticSearch in production for years, as far as I know this is simply not true.
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by aisofteng 8y ago
Solr and Elasticsearch are not relational database systems and have none of the optimizations for relational data that Postgres does. They are built on top of Lucene and target document retrieval via an inverted index [1] rather than dealin
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by aisofteng 8y ago
“The whole wolpertinger thing” is a metaphor and a literary device. This isn’t a technical manual. I don’t know why you found this hard to read. The writing is clear and understandable. The dismissiveness of your comment and the fact that i
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by aisofteng 8y ago
Any engineer that thinks metaphysics is “b.s.” is uneducated in the schools of thought that made engineering of any sort possible in the first place.
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by aisofteng 8y ago
>I found myself more willing to consider that the concrete and immediate expression of some piece of program logic might serve better than trying to pull out a more generic version of the same logic that might never be re-used in practic
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by aisofteng 8y ago
Elasticsearch won’t do that out of the box either. How would you solve this in the general case without causing false positives?
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by aisofteng 8y ago
SQLite with Raft. Nice project.
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by aisofteng 8y ago
No, it doesn’t. A trait that is not deleterious to reproduction will not be naturally selected against.
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by aisofteng 8y ago
Would Tini help? https://github.com/krallin/tini/blob/master/README.md
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by aisofteng 8y ago
I had courses in each of those topics as part of my undergraduate math degree. There’s no reason an AI degree couldn’t include those as standard curriculum for undergraduates.
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by aisofteng 9y ago
For more on what's different after the octonions, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%27s_theorem_(composi... It isn't explicitly stated there, but the statement I recall from algebraic topology is t
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by aisofteng 9y ago
>Teaching essentially involves opening each image, converting it into a base64 string, and submitting it to the /classificationbox/teach API endpoint in a request that resembles this. Why base64?
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by aisofteng 9y ago
No, IBM has not done that. IBM Global Business Services and IBM Global Technical are their own business units.
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by aisofteng 9y ago
I generally understand the title of senior engineer at an organization as indicating that the so titled person can be relied on to solve the majority of engineering needs of that organization - essentially, a senior engineer is the person y
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by aisofteng 9y ago
>Another problem of word vectors is that any word might actually have multiple senses, while vectors are just point estimates. If we wanted to be correct, we needed first to find the right sense for each word in a phrase and only then as
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by aisofteng 9y ago
>FastText [0] in particular is quite impressive. It is essentially a variant of Word2Vec that also supports n-grams, To clarify: fasttext does not support n-grams of words, but instead considers n-grams of characters within words.
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by aisofteng 9y ago
OpenWhisk is what runs IBM Cloud Functions: https://console.bluemix.net/openwhisk/
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by aisofteng 9y ago
That's wage discrimination and is illegal.
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by aisofteng 9y ago
Neither of you has said explicitly what you mean by "better" and likely have different measures in mind when saying it here.
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by aisofteng 9y ago
>Linear programming (also called linear optimization) is an applied field of mathematics often used in operations research and planning. It attempts to find an optimal solution to a planning problem when a set of business constraints exi
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by aisofteng 9y ago
The point is that to produce content requires investment and/or valuable skill. You've clearly never had a livelihood that depends on knowledge, experience, or skills that took you years to develop and then has someone copy it and
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by aisofteng 9y ago
>There is definitely a learning curve to state machines, In my view, the concept of a finite state machine is a simple one with essentially no learning curve. It is a straightforward concept. I would never hire anyone that described expe
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by aisofteng 9y ago
It's disappointing that this needs to be spelled out. It really should be common sense, minimal competency.
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by aisofteng 9y ago
A tangential comment, but - what excellent styles of both writing and exposition!
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by aisofteng 9y ago
In particular, PageRank can't be used for corpora whose documents do not link to each other explicitly somehow - which, outside of hypermedia, is nowhere.
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by aisofteng 9y ago
I found it quite straightforward. There isn't any "jumping around".
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by aisofteng 9y ago
Essentially blogspam. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797 is the original source.

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