andreasvc

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by andreasvc 10y ago
You're making a straw man caricature out of the nativism detractors. Current researchers do not claim that first language is taught, that's why the field is called language acquisition regardless of whether one subscribes to nativ
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by andreasvc 10y ago
The article does end with three references to books.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
There is no consensus about this question. Both sides clearly have an ax to grind. Everett knows the language best, so I'd lend more credence to his judgment. Regardless of the answer, it only means that Chomsky's theory that ever
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by andreasvc 10y ago
I don't see such a large difference between your wording and mine; "should" implies making some kind of best effort at doing something where possible. But regardless, where we differ is that I think that people are generally
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Sure but that illustrates my point: applying as much kindness as possible is not what people actually strive for nor would it be a solution. Preventing being taken advantage of takes priority.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Saying we aren't rational is not an argument that philosophy cannot improve our lives. In ancient Greece the latter used to be an important part of philosophy. I think schools such as stoicism and epicureanism have a lot to offer.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Sounds great, but in practice people will take advantage of you; e.g., if you walk alone in the street at night in a big city and a stranger asks to use your mobile phone, you'd have to be particularly naive to say yes.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
> What I'm saying is that if one wants to have the overwhelmingly warm service Americans expect in restaurants, we need to keep tipping. Except you do not give any argument for why that is the case, but just hand wavingly claim it.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
It's terrible terminology because "being in a circle" with someone suggests symmetry and reciprocity that isn't there. They mean "X has followed you", which is clear and to the point.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
But it's also a common name, so not really a reason for a double take.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
It sounds like a powerful weapon, actually.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
What are the scientific goals of such a mission? The article only talks about the regulatory hurdles.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Reference counting and the C API are properties of the CPython implementation, not Python the language. Other Python implementations do NOT use reference counting and don't offer the C API, but do make guarantees about atomic operation
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by andreasvc 10y ago
It seems to me that the option of going with a tracing garbage collector is preferable. Removing the GIL will require a lot of changes anyway, and it may be better to go all they way so as to preserve performance. It would affect the C API
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by andreasvc 10y ago
No they cannot do it for free otherwise. Research takes a lot of time, and if you're not getting money to do it you can't keep doing it (need to pay rent, food, etc). Perhaps you meant to say that the people in research would like
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by andreasvc 10y ago
I know, no analogy is perfect. I am saying that getting mugged or having your keystrokes sent somewhere is inherently bad as default and should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
You also get told before you are mugged; telling you about it has absolutely no bearing on whether the action that follows is acceptable. Even if they tell you about it, it's still a bad idea. There's plenty of legalese that peopl
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by andreasvc 10y ago
A bit is a binary digit, with a value of 0 or 1. Popcount counts the number of 1-bits; and, as said, population count actually is the canonical name. You can apply __builtin_popcount in a loop if you want to count bits in multiple words. Th
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by andreasvc 10y ago
It seems to me that if everyone followed the kind of pragmatism that this post argues for, nothing new would ever be adopted.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Well, which do you say is better?
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by andreasvc 10y ago
It is impossible by bending. It's probably still possible (not to say practical) by crafting a coin with a hidden compartment of a heavier metal.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
IMHO the distinction between URL and URI is similar to the debate on SI prefixes for bytes, or whether we should insist on calling Linux GNU/Linux; i.e., most people just don't care enough so these things will never gain currency.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
I just learned of this case. I would say he didn't have his domain name taken away, but voluntarily gave it up when he chose to settle (for an X-box...). I've always found it a disappointing aspect of lawsuits that they end up in
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by andreasvc 10y ago
> You can't determine that by semantics Actually, "animacy" is a fundamental feature in semantics. It's part of your mental lexicon that a cat is animate and a rug isn't, and you would simply infer from that whic
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by andreasvc 10y ago
That's basically Chomsky's argument with the "colorless green ideas" sentence. If you put words together to form a sentence never seen before, supposedly a statistical model cannot help you. The thing is, a paper later s
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by andreasvc 10y ago
> I doubt anyone reading "Alice drove down the street in her car" actually parsed the grammatical structure of that sentence, either explicitly or implicitly. You do need to analyze a sentence to understand it. Think of a class
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Actually it's not very appropriate for studying bible text. In Biblical Studies you would prefer not to have any errors at all, and since you work with a limited corpus you can afford to annotate by hand. People have in fact done this
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by andreasvc 10y ago
Please don't. If you're going to bother the man, ask a more interesting question. He's made his position on this abundantly clear in the Chomsky-Norvig debate.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
> Or you can blame "GPL", because it obviously was created after CDDL... It's the other way around.
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by andreasvc 10y ago
I know, it's fascinating. But it doesn't detract from my point.

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