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by cjauvin 7y ago
It's funny, I did exactly the same, with my Hangouts Takeout extract, a couple of weeks ago, but didn't go as far, because I kept struggling with stopwords and some ways to filter out uninteresting stuff (my implementation was muc
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by cjauvin 7y ago
Oh thank you for this explanation and warning, I am indeed contemplating using the React version of Ag-Grid (for the experimental rewrite of a relatively complex internal management app, written entirely in ExtJS 4, and I was wondering how
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by cjauvin 7y ago
As all the features were being listed, I scrolled with the exact same hope :-) I have been using Sencha/ExtJS' grid for that purpose, which is very powerful and versatile, and recently I've been contemplating ag-grid, which s
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We Shouldn’t Be Scared by ‘Superintelligent A.I.’(nytimes.com)
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Why do companies with resources still have terrible moderation?(moultano.wordpress.com)
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by cjauvin 7y ago
I would say this is also an opposing argument: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1066568396177842176 i.e. gradient-based learning is the final word on the matter.
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Google AI’s ALBERT claims top spot in multiple NLP performance benchmarks(venturebeat.com)
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If computers are so smart how come they can't read?(wired.com)
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by cjauvin 7y ago
When you delete (or soft-delete) your Facebook account, it seems there is no way to also delete your corresponding Messenger account.. I've tried many times, to no avail.. is it simply possible?
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by cjauvin 7y ago
Also, recent discussion about a very good intro article about Transformers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773992
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by cjauvin 7y ago
For fun, a while ago, I tried my hand at writing a Tetris clone for the C=64's 6502 (it has been quite a challenging exercise): https://github.com/cjauvin/tetris-464
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by cjauvin 7y ago
"This has dramatic implications. For it immediately illuminates venerable puzzles concerning what non-human animals can think or experience, and whether they can reason or act for reasons. It sheds no less light on the question of whet
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The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
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by cjauvin 7y ago
The mix of the old and the new seems to be quite the dominant paradigm these days: I'm mostly working on complex web development projects, and using Emacs to seamlessly navigate the sea of mostly text-based environments (JS, Python, PH
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Letter of Recommendation: Bug Fixes(nytimes.com)
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by cjauvin 7y ago
The context seems relevant to plug my own take at this "problem" (aka. finding an alternative to a full-blown Python ORM), which involves talking to Postgres via only builtin data structures: https://github.com/cja
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by cjauvin 7y ago
Even though of course nothing beats the power of a set of standardized and ubiquitous tools that you can always count on whenever you find yourself on a new machine, I must admit that I'm favorably inclined toward this trend (or what I
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by cjauvin 7y ago
Prime Obsession, by John Derbyshire, is a very entertaining and well written book about this topic, following a similar path (although much slower) among the conceptual building blocks required to understand the hypothesis.
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PyCharm for Anaconda(jetbrains.com)
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by cjauvin 8y ago
I really like this idea, and I think that exposing the underlying SQL schema (especially in literate programming style like that) is the next level in technical transparency.
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by cjauvin 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote, Montreal I'm an independent consultant/data scientist, interested and able to work at many locations in a data pipeline: from the app layer to custom processing algorithms (including machine learning stuff).
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The Brain Is Not a Computer (2016)(aeon.co)
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by cjauvin 8y ago
I'm almost exactly the same situation these days: small project, got to choose my tech stack, so I went with a "conservative" part I have good experience with (backend in Flask) and a more experimental part (for me) that I&#x
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by cjauvin 8y ago
Recently: Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker, and The Elephant in the Brain (by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson), two books which share the quality of being bold and courageous in their claims, which go against huge parts of the "common
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by cjauvin 8y ago
I'd also be very curious to know more about this.
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A couple of years ago I did an experiment to try to mix interactive fiction with a book from the Lone Wolf series (available freely via Project Aon): https://projectaon.org/staff/christian/gamebook.js/
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Greetings, Computer Overlords(cornercases.wordpress.com)
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Word embeddings as the bones a chef would set aside to make a broth(cornercases.wordpress.com)
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Deep Learning: The “Why” Question(blog.piekniewski.info)
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by cjauvin 8y ago
Thanks! What I'd like to know more specifically is if there are some ready-made components already packing a lot of these functionalities without needing too much custom logic, or you need to roll out your own from low-level ones?

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