andreasvc

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by andreasvc 11y ago
That's quite the low effort response. You could've at least mentioned a point or two that applies to this situation. The list you linked to is not a check list, it only lists ways to shoot ideas down. Although I don't necessa
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by andreasvc 11y ago
"Can it really be true that violent crime was declining between 1973-91? There's no question that this is what the NCVS data tells us, but it sure doesn't match what everyone thought was going on at the time. By the early 90s
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Lots of people consider both to be bad. NK also murders lots of innocents, I honestly fail to see your point.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> I'm not interested in natural language processing with machines and machine learning. I'm confused, why not? "English grammar visualization" is inherently an NLP problem. Both handwritten and statistically learned g
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Don't know if this solves your particular problem, but I liked this LDA visualizer that uses D3: https://github.com/agoldst/dfr-browser
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by andreasvc 11y ago
No not necessarily. If the headline claims something is misunderstood, you set up the expectation that you'll set the record straight. Misunderstood implies that there is some correct point of view, otherwise you'd call it a myste
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> She is currently at 27% for her age. That sounds precise... Is that based on the size of her vocabulary?
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by andreasvc 11y ago
For an article addressing the issue of autism in women being misunderstood, I would have hoped to find a clear description of the actual difference with male autism. Instead we get a few human interest case studies and scientists working on
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by andreasvc 11y ago
No I haven't. I just found it very odd that that was the conclusion drawn from this (even if it's only called a hint), while not saying anything about how bad those psychiatrists were.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> It’s the long list of diagnoses Maya collected before she was 21, from borderline personality disorder to agoraphobia to obsessive-compulsive disorder, that begin to hint at how little we understand autism in women. That doesn't f
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> deem some one being autistic without any actual developmental tests, brain imaging or even in depth psychoanalysis. The latter two have nothing to do with psychiatric or psychological diagnoses. A diagnoses is made on the basis of sym
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> Physics is an empirical science Theoretical physics is also very much a thing. > and should therefore be testable by definition. That sounds nice but the definition of testable is hard to pin down and changes over time.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
What I'm saying is that not only does Python not have superb performance, its performance is actually largely irrelevant. The advantage of Python is in ease of use, capabilities as glue language, readability, etc. So that's why I
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Yes it does mean that and I believe it is unavoidable, because you need to replace the coarse-grained GIL with a fine-grained locking instructions. However, I think the trade off is now worth it, since multi-core CPUs are ubiquitous. Beside
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by andreasvc 11y ago
No need to get snarky, because the % formatting is still in Python 3. It is also my preferred formatting method.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
That's not the proper way. You should rarely need encode/decode if you make sure everything within Python is unicode. You ensure this by being specifying the encoding when getting data from external sources such as files, the netw
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Oh, my mistake. I didn't realize that was what the 75% figure was based on.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
No you cannot. If being a Facebook user is highly correlated with being depressed, the figure could be considerably lower. See Simpson's paradox. If you take a subset of a dataset, you can find the opposite trend or a completely differ
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by andreasvc 11y ago
It doesn't make sense to sort a configuration file, order and context matters. Easier to just use grep '^#' (or even better, ag).
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by andreasvc 11y ago
I think this is a really strange thing to say. Why do you care? Why would some famous hacker need to live up to your expectations? What you're saying comes down to a teenager complaining "why are you still on Facebook and not on &
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by andreasvc 11y ago
zgrep simply decompresses all the data and feeds it into regular grep. If the data is indexed in some way, it is possible to do better by not having to look at all the data exhaustively.
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by andreasvc 11y ago
It's possible to compress and index a file at the same time, gaining both a size and speed advantage over the original. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-index
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> It is one model of the human brain No it isn't. It's loosely inspired, but the goal is to make something that works, not to simulate what we know of the human brain. There's a different field, computational neuroscience,
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by andreasvc 11y ago
Absolutely not. Somebody who claims to have "a couple of doctorates" is definitely a phony. Obtaining a doctorate takes 3-4 years, and it is highly unusual to get more than one. Moreover, you would not forget about which ones you
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by andreasvc 11y ago
That's just one example, construction grammar (not limited to US west coast). The innateness of "universal grammar" can be argued against on evolutionary grounds (how could one universal grammar evolve and end up in the DNA o
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> The notion of innate grammers has been pretty much replaced with evidence that you get much better and more human like performance (and the ability to actually learn the bloody things) out of RNNs and the like. No not really. Barring c
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by andreasvc 11y ago
For one both our auditory and visual senses have limited bandwidth. Reading is done in saccades, so already at the source the information comes in sentence chunks at a time. The opportunity for massive-parallelness is in disambiguating a hu
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by andreasvc 11y ago
No point in asking for a citation on a press release statement, go directly to the paper (which seems to be much more careful in what it claims).
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> How are they distinguishing between grammar that's encoded in the brain due to "nature" vs grammar that's encoded in the brain via "nurture"? They do not. > I think we all knew that the brain has some m
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by andreasvc 11y ago
> "massively parallel" is probably drastically overstating it, though. Think of a single-core processor executing instructions one at a time. Now think of ten billion neurons in your brain out of which a large proportion is ac

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