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by d_burfoot 10y ago
In my mind there are two very distinct patterns: - Xed Y = a Y that has been Xed, where X is a verb - Xed Y = a Y that is equipped with an X, where X is a noun. For the latter pattern, consider examples such as "red-lipped woman",
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> Why is NLP Hard? ... Language is highly ambiguous - it relies on subtle cues and contexts to convey meaning. This is true, but it is only part of the answer. Another part of the answer is what I call the Long Tail of Grammar. It turns
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That's true for west coast cities, but not for east coast cities like Boston and New York, which experience terrible temperature extremes. How much water do we need? I wouldn't try to affect large regions, just specific urban area
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I think this kind of technology has enormous potential to improve human life. Bad weather is a huge, chronic problem that makes almost everyones' life substantially worse. Just the other day my aunt broke her wrist after slipping on a
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>wouldn't be truly appreciated as part of a formal, scientific method... until... [later] thinkers really formalized it. They didn't formalize empiricism or the scientific method. They couldn't have because they didn'
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Political philosopher and social critic, in the spirit of Taleb and Moldbug. Our civilization desperately needs independent thinkers of this type. The problem is that the people who get paid to do this for a living are all hopelessly comp
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> the right thing ... will likely take a long time and you’ll face a lot of criticism. Is this true, empirically, for the most successful companies? Of the "Frightful 5" (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft), only Mi
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> You can do whatever you want This is very dangerous advice to give a young person. But the author should have done a better job at interpreting the message. If your father tells you that you can do whatever you want, do you conclude th
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Yes, and even if you ignore philanthropy, the tech industry generates enormous amounts of tax revenue, which is supposed to be spent by the government to help improve the lives of "everyday people and indigent people". A question
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I can't understand why people keep saying "AI has been democratized", when all the big research is being done by highly credentialed Phd scientists working for rich American tech companies.
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Disclaimers: I cannot see the future. These are just my opinions. I really appreciate the work and money that SamA, Elon, and others have put into the OpenAI project. The Universe work in particular might help encourage young people, many o
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> you might end up doing "normal science" Note that Kuhn doesn't think that normal science is bad in general. Normal science - incremental, systematic research within a scientific community with clear, well-defined rules a
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Fred Jelinek famously quipped: "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the system goes up." Here are two hypotheses that could explain this observation: 1) Linguistic knowledge and theory is not useful for NLP work; inst
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This paper is a good illustration of what I see as a critical shortcoming of modern NLP work: it is all about math and algorithms, there is nothing about actual language. The paper has lots of information about: neural network architectures
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Gads, what a terrible background for an interview.
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Is Sam consciously mirroring Mark's body language and style of dress, or is that just a weird coincidence?
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Hey, I write Java for a living and my build script is just a Python program that marshals a javac call.
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If you are a hacker who is interested in linguistics, you might want to check out the work we are doing at my startup Ozora Research ( http://ozoraresearch.com ). Our goal is to build high-quality, sophisticated NLP solutions for