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by akprasad 4y ago
> If you don't like it, you are free to host your code on your own servers. From the article: > “Dude, it’s cool. I took SFC’s advice and moved my code off GitHub.” So did I. Guess what? It doesn’t matter. By claiming that AI t
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by akprasad 4y ago
Indeed. This excerpt from that paragraph is a good thesis for the essay as a whole: > The point is not to never use frameworks, but to isolate them. To call them from a single place. One that we own. That we are responsible for and that
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My paraphrase: There should be no lambda keyword in Python because the lambda keyword implies idiomatic support for lambda calculus, which Python does not have. (I infer that the author supports renaming the keyword to something like i
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Related, from earlier today: "MD5 Collision with CRC32 Preimage" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32956235
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by akprasad 4y ago
Also posted here a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32901249
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I empathize, though it's a difficult problem: > I can’t explain that attraction in terms of anything else that’s familiar to you. For example, if we said the magnets attract like rubber bands, I would be cheating you. Because they’r
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But, after all, who knows, and who can say Whence it all came, and how creation happened? the gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen? Whence all creation had its origin, the creator,
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by akprasad 4y ago
Yes, there are quite a few tip-offs that this is satire. Some examples: > The rules are absolute and reliable in all situations, except exceptions. > Learning Finnish builds confidence. If you can learn Finnish, then you can learn an
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by akprasad 4y ago
I've been experimenting with Render (render.com) and like it so far.
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I was just replying to ipnon's comment in the abstract here -- it wasn't specifically about Parsnip, and I don't mean it as a subtweet or anything like that.
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Oh, I completely agree on the problem , and I think any technological solution to that problem will require NLP (perhaps tautologically so). But to my mind, the open questions are (a) what does that mean specifically? and (b) is a tool lik
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> One problem that comes up [...] I agree that many language learners end up in the intermediate plateau, so there's a clear problem. But, how do you know that Parsnip is a solution these people want? > [...] by finding and track
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> mostly language learners, teachers, and tech people, but finding people, perhaps unsurprisingly, have a lot of trouble seeing past the curse of knowledge. Respectfully, how do you know that you're making something people want?
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I found it useful to focus less on reducing time on computers etc. and more on increasing time on the things I really cared about. To use a food analogy: when a person has a great and satisfying meal, they have much less appetite to bin
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by akprasad 4y ago
> Wasn't there a old Twilight Zone episode about that eventuality? Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last Adapted from this short story: https://gutenberg.org/files/32633
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Congratulations on shipping. Looks great! From my limited experience in this space: any two users typically have very different needs and want to see very different features (mobile? desktop app? themes? integrations? offline?) before they
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Wonderful project! I'm working on something similar for a different language. How closely do you work with Distributed Proofreaders? [1] [1]: https://www.pgdp.net/c/
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You seem to take the author's language here as describing early Buddhism, but I think she is describing the observed history of Asian Buddhism, presumably East and Southeast Asian Buddhism. I think this is a clearer reading given tha
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> even non-European ones like Mayan or Chinese A sad tangent: most of the Mayan literature specifically was deliberately destroyed during the Spanish conquest [1]. > Our knowledge of ancient Maya thought must represent only a tiny fra
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Congratulations on shipping! Stray thoughts: - From "Play" to the actual game is 6 clicks. I'd much prefer 2 or fewer. - Might be even more fun or game-like to work with text on the sentence level. Certainly much faster for a
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Do you have a resource you recommend instead?
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I work at Evergrow [1] on climate fintech for regulated carbon markets. If meaning in your career is an issue you're wrestling with, I empathize. I know how difficult it can be to do work that you no longer find meaningful. Many of my
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Evergrow | Quants, senior SWEs, and commodities experts | San Francisco | Full-Time | ONSITE | evergrow.com Come work on climate fintech at gigaton scale! At Evergrow, we seek to build and sustain a carbon-neutral world. We plan to do so b
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Evergrow | Quants, senior SWEs, and commodities experts | San Francisco | Full-Time | ONSITE | evergrow.com Come work on climate fintech at gigaton scale! Evergrow's goal is to support the permanent avoidance or removal of 1 billion to
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by akprasad 5y ago
Are you referring to Falun Gong [1]? I couldn't find the documentary you have in mind, but I did find this one [2] from 2014. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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Respectfully, I disagree that the UI is awful. It's minimal and plain, yes; but it's also fast, lightweight, and information-dense. The UI conveys that this is a site for power users, at least in comparison with the average web wa
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Vote with your wallet, not your ad blocker (2015)(typographyforlawyers.com)
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Refugees help power machine learning advances at Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon(restofworld.org)
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What Makes Documentation Bad?(arunkprasad.com)
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by akprasad 5y ago
As someone who writes, I can relate to a lot of this, but there are aspects that aren't true to my experience. > If you make an effort, you can read your writing as if you were a complete stranger Somewhat. Through effort I can take

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