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by carschno 2y ago
> "commute helps clear the mind / switch context", but a simple walk does the same Fully agree. In an ideal world, the commute would _be_ a walk to the office. More realistically: for those who happen to live in an environ
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by carschno 2y ago
I suppose the term language in the context of computing is widely accepted because it shares many properties with human language. Hence the common taxonomy in which both natural (human) languages and formal (programming) languages are diffe
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by carschno 2y ago
What you see there is a product, not the scientific contribution behind it. Consequently, you see marketing material, not a scientific evaluation.
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by carschno 3y ago
While scanning the comments, I observe one recurring argument against the step of legalizing weed: (excessive) use can and will have catastrophic psychological consequences on some of the consumers. I totally agree. It is, however a flawed
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by carschno 3y ago
That is why computational linguistics prefer the term related over similar here. Similarity is notoriously hard to define, for starters in terms of grammatical vs semantically similarity.
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by carschno 3y ago
Sure, euphemisms are an essential component of any kind of propaganda. To some degree, this includes legitimate campaigning in democracies. What the Nazis implemented to a unique extent was the process of (re-)defining words in a specific m
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by carschno 3y ago
If you are interested in that specific aspect, I recommend you to read "LTI" by Victor Klemperer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2%80%93_Lingua_Tertii_Im... > LTI demonstrates changes in the German la
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by carschno 3y ago
And because “science takes too long” (and is expensive, and tedious), people tend to fall back to pseudo-science. There is often no way to derive robust numbers from techniques like A/B testing, for instance because of confounding fact
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by carschno 3y ago
You might have an absolutist view on the meaning of neutrality. Of course, you can argue philosophically that absolute neutrality does not exist in theory. What Wikipedia does achieve in practice, though, is a very successful attempt to pro
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by carschno 3y ago
Obviously, Wikipedia editors are human too. As opposed to most other resources, however, Wikipedia has the primary goal to provide high quality information. The contributors are not perfect, but they come astonishingly close to achieving th
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by carschno 3y ago
Companies offer unlimited vacation because it is an effective way of reducing the amount of vacation that employees take. A fixed number of vacation days should be seen as minimum, not (only) as a maximum. This works because the formal leve
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How to Transform 0/9 into World #14: The Mindset Shift for Chess Mastery(nextlevelchess.blog)
1 points by carschno 3y ago|0 comments
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by carschno 3y ago
I agree, the intermediate format should be plain text that could optionally be converted to any other format. I suppose that Markdown, however, is used as intermediate format here. It is close to plain text while it can preserve simple layo
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by carschno 3y ago
I've seen that before. At least in my context, this happened because the CEO did not see the CTO as anywhere near equal at all. Instead, the CTO was the CEO's "tech guy". And because he was considered the best or most im
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by carschno 3y ago
As a little exercise, I started looking into this. The claim that he grew up in a trailer park is repeated on his English Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_van_der_Vaart ): > He grew up on a trail
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by carschno 3y ago
The scary thing is: worker's rights in Europe, notably including Germany, have been crushed in the last two to three decades. The remainders are just still relatively strong, compared to the rest of the world; including the largest eco
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by carschno 3y ago
Not related to the issue raised in the article, but using a translation tool for individual words is going to give you the wrong answer in many situations by definition. The meaning of a word depends on its context. For translating a single
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The Self-Driving Cars Wearing a Cone of Shame(slate.com)
18 points by carschno 3y ago|0 comments
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Post Growth Entrepreneurship UvA 2023(youtube.com)
2 points by carschno 3y ago|0 comments
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by carschno 3y ago
This lecture about post-growth entrepreneurship at the University of Amsterdam lays out some of the issues: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ApINAX7XEqc&list=PL14vcCXv7XVONA...
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by carschno 3y ago
In the end, however, it hardly matters whether it is 46% or 51% percent. The exact wording by the GP may have been inaccurate, but the numbers support the underlying point: sanitation very far from universally accessible. Also keep in mind
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by carschno 3y ago
> Let's keep in mind that most people don't have access to basic hygiene and food safety. Not to be pedantic, but since another comment questioned that, the numbers for 2020: > 3.6 billion people lacked safely managed servic
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Language Modeling: The First 100 Years(blog.esciencecenter.nl)
1 points by carschno 3y ago|0 comments
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by carschno 3y ago
> What is the real criterion for a machine to be considered intelligent? This is actually the core of the debate. The answer is that there is no real criterion because we do not understand intelligence. Or, put differently, the one-dimen
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by carschno 3y ago
> every problem [in the present] has a constituency The internet as a way of distribution is not exactly new, plenty of legislations on various levels have been dealing with that fact for a while, for instance GDPR. "The people writ
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by carschno 3y ago
Agree. I have an Android tablet that is a few years old, and the bottleneck is already the device's processing power, not the network, when it comes to rendering fancy web pages, for instance. This is clearly visible on both 4G and wi-
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by carschno 3y ago
As mentioned, this is not even that long ago. In a somewhat related perspective, (former) aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss was a leading figure in a plot to start a monarchistic/fascist coup d'état in Germany just last year:
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Overview of Draft Measures on Generative AI in China(chinalawtranslate.com)
5 points by carschno 4y ago|2 comments
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by carschno 4y ago
I think your argument is missing GP's point entirely. The point was that a functioning market economy would evolve so that companies that sell products or services at a self-sustaining price survive, whereas companies that lose money c
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by carschno 4y ago
Whenever I join a new company, I encounter this phrase sooner or later: > This is X, project manager. But we actually call her/him product owner because we do agile.

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