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by arnsholt 10y ago
Monographs aren't really a thing in NLP, beyond theses. There are a couple of reference books most people lean on, though: * Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Manning and Schütze * Speech and Language Process
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by arnsholt 10y ago
Yeah, I ran into a very weird problem with the .INTERMEDIATE declaration recently that turned out to be due to 3.81 being buggy.
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by arnsholt 10y ago
Perl 6 dispatches on multiple arguments based on runtime types, so it's full multiple dispatch.
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by arnsholt 11y ago
Since I happen to have the answer to both of those: `daw` and `diw` deletes a whole word (unlike `dw` which only deletes forward). They differ in what they do with whitespace; `aw` also trims trailing whitespace (or leading whitespace if th
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by arnsholt 11y ago
NQP is actually bootstrapped, so it's written in NQP. NQP in turn has different backends targetting different virtual machines. The backend used by almost everyone is the MoarVM backend (a VM made specifically for the Perl 6 object mod
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DeepMind Challenges for StarCraft(gamasutra.com)
247 points by arnsholt 11y ago|133 comments
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by arnsholt 11y ago
Yes, you can get 97-98%, but only when evaluating on data from the same corpus as you trained on. If you evaluate on data from a different corpus, you immediately get a pretty big drop in performance. Thus one person in the field I've
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by arnsholt 11y ago
I think another use-case for non-layout version is generated code. If you happen to generate Haskell code, it's easier to keep the syntax correct with the explicit notation rather than the implicit whitespace version.
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by arnsholt 11y ago
Trivially easy for a human, maybe. In most cases it's pretty straightforward, but there are a few notoriously tricky language pairs that any automated solution is going to have trouble with. Most notably Norwegian and Danish (and Swedi
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by arnsholt 11y ago
Probably because Python doesn't distinguish characters and strings. When you index into a string, you get a string back (that happens to be length one, of course), which means that a string is a list of strings. Thus, exploding string
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by arnsholt 11y ago
Terrorism is not the sole property of Muslims. There is terrorism motivated by religion, including Islamic terrorism, but also Christian (the Ku Klux Klan, people blowing up abortion clinics in the US), Hindu (Indian Hindutva nationalists k
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by arnsholt 11y ago
The reason TeX can be so unapproachable is the fact that it's a very different language from pretty much any other programming language you've ever used. It's not a Turing machine, and it's not lambda calculus. It's
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by arnsholt 11y ago
It can be quite significant. Authors' letters to their editors and the like often turn out to be important sources to later literary scholarship. Now, this might be somewhat less of an issue for the most modern authors, now that so muc
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It seems that some medical professionals think they're super-human. A statistic I've seen cited was that the same number of mistakes were made during the first eight hours of a shift as during the one hour following those first ei
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by arnsholt 11y ago
You could call it a continuation, I guess, but continuations don't generally persist between separate invocations of your programming. The image is a file that can be passed around and when you open/execute (or whatever you want t
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How the Witcher 3’s economy was saved by polynomial least squares(arstechnica.co.uk)
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by arnsholt 11y ago
That's not allowed because parsing that kind of nesting requires a context sensitive parser, which is much more expensive computationally than context free parsers.
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by arnsholt 11y ago
Not to mention out-of-domain performance. I'm not familiar with computer vision, but in NLP taggers are hovering around human-level performance, and parsers are quickly approaching that level. But if you take a state-of-the-art system
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by arnsholt 11y ago
As I understand it, NorgesGruppen (and the rest of the grocery cartel) are the largest part of the problem. They are very effective at keeping smaller actors out of the market, as evidenced by the whole Hval sjokolade thing a few months bac
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by arnsholt 12y ago
That's probably never going to happen (for any Markdown-based project). As you probably know, TeX is a full programming language (albeit an odd one), which means that to compile (La)TeX to Markdown, Markdown needs to support all the fe
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by arnsholt 12y ago
This should reduce pauses, I think. However, it's important to note that latency (short pauses) and raw throughput are antagonistic criteria for GCs. A concurrent GC means that you can collect garbage while other code is running, but t
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by arnsholt 12y ago
I think it's very similar to kendo, the Japanese equivalent of fencing (sort of). Since kendo dates back to the 1800s or so, the sword is a bamboo stick, but like in HEMA points are awarded based on a couple of criteria: the strike has
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by arnsholt 12y ago
Latin is not magical. While your idea is old enough to be mostly quaint and charming, the fact of the matter is that it's completely unrealistic. Not only that; it's already been tried, although using Sanskrit, not Latin. You&#x27
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by arnsholt 12y ago
TeX is weird. Really weird, if one expects it to work like a modern programming language. The crux of it is that it's a macro-expansion language, which means that you pretty much need to do the kind of stream-processing approach TeX us
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And backtracking is so useful when doing parsing in general. For an NLP class I did we made a shift-reduce parser with dotted items for an assignment, and my liberally commented Prolog source weighs in a 33 lines of code. My friend's L
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by arnsholt 12y ago
It's pretty easy (to the extent that implementing custom parsing logic is ever easy) to add custom parsing bits to a Perl 6 grammar. The grammar is just a special class with the rules as methods, so rules with non-standard parsing logi
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by arnsholt 12y ago
To say that PhD studies in Sweden (and the rest of the Nordics) are free is a bit of a mdisnomer though. PhD students in the Nordics are bona fide paid employees, and the salary is a perfectly de3cent public sector wage (that is, more than
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by arnsholt 12y ago
At least in Norway, it's not quite that there's no notion of trespass. But it only applies to (from memory) within 100 metres of cultivated land and houses and such. So you can trespass, just not in the forests and mountains. The
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by arnsholt 12y ago
I can't find it right now, but there's a pretty interesting thread from the GCC mailing lists where RMS states explicitly that parts of GCC are very tightly coupled, by design, precisely to make it hard to reuse the code-generatio
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This is essentially what killed the bid here in Norway, those outrageous demands. The interesting thing is that these were the IOC's demands before negotiations . So they obviously didn't expect all of this to actually happen, an

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