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by bertil 4y ago
I’m wondering if 7065 articles is enough to train the model.
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by bertil 4y ago
Are there online corpora, like Wikipedia, that could be used to train the models? Are those under a permissive enough license to be used for model training? If there are spoken, with enough budget, a library of voices could be recorded. I t
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by bertil 4y ago
The issue here wasn’t that Facebook didn’t have resources for a basic translation tool (able to translate open death threats) but that Burmese had inconsistent encoding. That delayed the translation effort. https://www.localizati
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by bertil 4y ago
Most of the current collection is from manure. Methane is lighter than oxygen and azote, so you should be able to collect some at the highest point of an air-tight roof of a cow shed. Not sure how much that would represent compared to manur
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m assuming that the implication of the title is that Coinbase is using the location data of its active users; data that it obtained through geo-locating user IPs; IPs collected from the necessary exchange of information over TCP/IP.
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by bertil 4y ago
Photo and video files used to have lat-long in the meta-data; they still do, but most image hosts strip it now. Twitter used to give the ability to include the poster’s approximate location with each update.
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by bertil 4y ago
There can be so many applications of this that use `:xxx` for more in-depth explanations, comments, multi-code versions of textbooks, etc. I really hate when trying to debug Python dependency issues when 90% of the solution imagine that I u
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by bertil 4y ago
This is wonderful news! When trying to explain software to people who aren’t familiar with it, I love to use the example of people editing a letter to talk about edit conflicts, and then a mail-merge to explain objects. Lately, some 20-some
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by bertil 4y ago
In the case of CSAM, I think you are conflating not wanting to see, which I appreciate, and wanting, needing really, to know to make decision. Knowing gives agency, the ability ot fight a crime in that case. People who are exposed to it suf
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m really confused why the authors barely mention *agency*: knowing is fine and useful if you _can do_ something about it. Cassandra’s curse was not to know but that she wouldn’t be believed. Every circumstances that I can think of regrett
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m impressed at how many people coalesce to the same suggestions to save space: simple clothes, layers, etc. However, I’m surprised at how casually he mentionned how much he has travelled, by flight almost exclusively. I’m assuming from th
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by bertil 4y ago
French, especially academic writing, can have a lot of subordinate clauses: > I asked the person who was standing there. It has even more oratory precautions: > We can argue that this result, that was seemingly proven wrong by a pre
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by bertil 4y ago
I remember struggling to write essays when I was in highschool. Well, I was fine, but my teachers insisted it was long-winded gibberish. Concerned, my grand’mother told me: “Ask Sonia” I knew she was her friend, and they liked to argue a
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by bertil 4y ago
For what it’s worth: I read your post several times, and the way you split the world in two, dismiss one side by saying they are a minority, and accusing them of derailing the conversation, and the final point on the lack of self-reflectivi
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by bertil 4y ago
I admire your effort to try to parse it, but I don't really think we should, or can: it's not a topic that can be explained in 280 characters, one can only fit so many layers of implicit ironic quotation in a tweet, so… Don’t make
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by bertil 4y ago
Thank you for your support. My response got downvoted to oblivion, so I deleted it. One day, people will be less angry and care more about what happened.
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by bertil 4y ago
Thank you for your support. My response got downvoted to oblivion, so I deleted it. One day, people will be less angry and care more about what happened.
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by bertil 4y ago
You can ask people who left. I wouldn't leak documents because that cause a lot of collateral damage.
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by bertil 4y ago
> angry, love, sad, and wow Those are not reactions to controversial posts. Those are stong reactions to posts that you want to see and you generally agree with. 'lol' has been used either as it was meant (positive reaction to
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by bertil 4y ago
This was not a strawman: nothing is when you talk about Facebook. There’s anything on that website: even the one in a billion thing happen several times a day.
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by bertil 4y ago
Do you think that I want to contribute after I’ve been called names and downvoted for trying to provide an informed experience? Yes, some people will pile up for a minute. As a user that’s what you see, but controversies are not gratuituous
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by bertil 4y ago
But the thing is: outrage and controversy are seen by your friends who are insulted by it.
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by bertil 4y ago
If I call you a child-eating asshole, and every story is either about how much of a goat-fucking moron you are, or gruesome stories with graphic murders, will you want to stay on Hacker News?
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by bertil 4y ago
Happy to explain what really happened with Facebook, but I typically don’t get a lot of positive feedback when I do.
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by bertil 4y ago
Facebook algorithm hasn’t been optimised to maximise time spent on the site since 2014, and controversial topics have a well documented negative effect on both attention and engagement.
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by bertil 4y ago
There’s actually many variation of those Peter and Simon/Sally problems. I’ve seen with two, three and up to four numbers. Often, one of them claim they (finally) know the answer after a certain number of interactions and _then_ the ot
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by bertil 4y ago
It’s generally presented as both of them being experienced mathematicians who have been doing it for a while, that they have access to a notebook and a calculator and recently (I’ve seen those since the 1980s) to a computer.
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m saying that for 95% of journeys currently done with cars, bicycles would be perfectly fine. I mean that both litterally and figuratively. More importantly, both for transport and for digital services, if we don’t switch to bicyles, ther
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by bertil 4y ago
> I wouldn’t say the energy use of non-proof of work chains is millions of times worse than existing traditional finance and web2 solutions. Probably comparable. Then you would not know what you are talking about. > Google might build
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by bertil 5y ago
You are confusing speculative investment and adoption.

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