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by bpiche 5y ago
What did they say, cyberpunk never died, it just stopped being fiction?
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by bpiche 5y ago
Robert Anton Wilson or PKD might have liked this. I think it's adjacent. Reminds me of the Pi film. Pretty crazy.
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by bpiche 5y ago
Pacman is unparalleled but its bleeding edge approach to updates would cause the same issues here unless you specified a version number when you're installing or something
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by bpiche 5y ago
The cask project supports large binaries and projects whose licenses are a little more poisonous than your standard brew libs. tap as far as I can tell is basically the same as PPA extensions in linux, it lets you install stuff from externa
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by bpiche 5y ago
Why are you using virtualenv instead of `python3 -m venv`? Just wondering.
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by bpiche 5y ago
Or maybe they're just eating each other
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by bpiche 5y ago
The US is going this way, with the normalization of contract work for very technical roles. I think it bled over from software-adjacent roles like graphic design and IT support. Regardless, you're going to see more 6 month 'try be
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by bpiche 5y ago
In principle, you're right, but try telling that to literally any recruiter or hiring manager. What really blows my mind, is how a couple of 6 month contracts on a resume can invalidate a candidate for future 6 month contract work. To
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by bpiche 5y ago
I'm not sure it moves the needle on NLU/classification tasks very much, compared to models with many fewer parameters. But it does seem to make the NLG better, which is what Microsoft seems obsessed with lately.
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by bpiche 5y ago
Wonder how much compute it would cost to train this thing, if you weren't Nvidia..
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by bpiche 5y ago
Why does it have to be hierarchical? Edit: Just to be clear, you have a large unlabeled data set which you want to label and turn into a classifier? And you have considered bootstrapping a semisupervised classifier with topic modeling. I wo
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by bpiche 5y ago
You might need something like salience ranking. And you don't need a heavy modern transformer model to do it. You can get by with yesterday's algorithms. This is LexRank. I think it's interesting because it uses graph-based c
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by bpiche 5y ago
IBM is doing a lot of interesting stuff around discourse and computational narratology. In particular their Debater program is pretty impressive. https://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/project...
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by bpiche 5y ago
Just here to say that I loved Oni very much when I was a kid. So ahead of its time. It lives on as the Office of Naval Intelligence in Halo.
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by bpiche 5y ago
One thing about the non-rts Blizzard games, is they're basically all loot piñatas. Diablo 1/2/3, WoW, even Hearthstone to some extent are basically loot piñatas that prey on addictive behaviors in very much the same way that
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by bpiche 5y ago
Thank you for the well-informed comment. I have to respectfully disagree that self driving cars are pretty much synonymous with general AI. You remind me that DeepMind just recently said that all we need for AGI is reinforcement learning. A
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by bpiche 5y ago
Thank you, this is a very interesting distro.. Wondering how open source it can really be if it's running Windows drivers under the hood?
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by bpiche 5y ago
I realize you have caught the ire of the goderator and maybe offended a well-meaning MSFT dev, but I appreciate your diligence in attacking our kind for implementing bad features, you're not entirely wrong.
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by bpiche 5y ago
DangitBobby, hillposting in a natural gas thread. Amazing. Didn’t notice until after I had read several of your well informed comments. Bwahh!
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by bpiche 5y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation. There is a lot of compassion and positivity in this thread.
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by bpiche 5y ago
The very fact that you made this post and are willing to be vulnerable enough with yourself to ask these questions is a awesome. Keep examining yourself. Nobody is perfect. Just know that people will love you and support you 100% of the way
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by bpiche 5y ago
Vielen Dank, I really only shared that because I wondered if it would resonate with others here. Another BIG thing that made me stop, at least for the foreseeable future: I was having spasms in my neck, basically on my carotid artery, every
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by bpiche 5y ago
Thanks for asking. I smoked or vaped basically every day for the last 15 years. Also I don't know if your username is an intentional pun or not but I appreciate it. A few months ago, I had a come to Jesus moment with alcohol and decide
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by bpiche 5y ago
Hey I just wanted to chime in and say that your story is very inspiring and I really appreciate the vulnerability it took for you to share it with us. Thanks for the book recommendations too. And keep fighting the good fight.
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Quenya is still alive if you want it to be. Maybe less so than Sindarin though.
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by bpiche 5y ago
The incuriousness in this thread is atypical of the board in my opinion. At one point I used to think that language diversity was actually a net bad thing for humanity, because it decreases our ability to communicate and so on. These days l
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by bpiche 5y ago
If another random species of lemur died off and we never sequenced its genome, you might not care. But many scientists would. That arrowhead you discount as useless is another data point to an anthropologist. One man’s trash is unfortunatel
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Yes. Another invaluable data set for comparative and historical linguistics.
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My impression of this comment is that it is overgeneralizing, reductive, and pretty nihilist. That being said I do agree that minority languages, like our lives, are ultimately, in the fate of the great cosmic void, meaningless. But no, min
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I believe they called her a 'coolhunter' in that book. Which I was, at my age, surprised to learn was even a term once. But that sort of guerrilla marketing does seem very effective.

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