eindiran

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by eindiran 6y ago
This should have a [pdf] tag in the title.
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In case you haven't seen it (like I hadn't), this ad is a parody of the 1984 Apple Macintosh ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
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I've always found it fascinating that both speaker identification and speech recognition use MFCCs (which I discovered when talking with someone who had worked on speaker identification for their PhD): * In the case of speaker identifi
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by eindiran 6y ago
Thank you!
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> Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky". A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold ch
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Do you have a link to the story and/or article you mentioned?
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In the case you are talking about, the Great Filter is that technology advancing to Star Trek levels that allow colonizing star systems is unlikely or impossible (ie step 9 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filt
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by eindiran 6y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/should 1. (auxiliary) Be obliged to; have an obligation to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate or that the speaker has some s
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by eindiran 6y ago
There is also the GLUE benchmark, which includes ambiguity handling but also includes other NLU tasks: https://gluebenchmark.com/
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That is an interesting example because it looks like semantic ambiguity rather than syntactic ambiguity. But actually it is about structure as you commented -- something like this: [S [DP [D The [N company]]] [VP [AuxP [Aux couldn't] [
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by eindiran 6y ago
He had some interesting appearances on Penn and Teller's show 'Fool Us': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFIJyWKs1k
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by eindiran 6y ago
Anecdotally, I applied to only 2 UCs: Berkeley and UCSD. Several of my friends that applied to (and some of whom who attended) Berkeley and UCLA also applied to UCSD, UCSC, or UCSB.
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There were a few recent threads that provide some additional context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23913340
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This was discussed last week in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23979744
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The Wikipedia page is quite informative, particularly the section on their authenticity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers
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The Beale Treasure Ciphers(simonsingh.net)
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> Deephorizon - Deepwater Horizon, Oil-painting on Ocean Canvas, 2008 That's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. The "paintings" in the series are just the number of liters dumped in the spill: > 34_MILLIO
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by eindiran 6y ago
Many fields of research aren't even eligible for a Nobel at all. In particular, none of the formal sciences are: mathematics, statistics, computer science, linguistics, etc. Many fields have their own prizes: the Fields Medal, the Turi
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Beyond just the perverse incentives for university administrations discussed in the article, this would be quite disappointing. The constant push towards specialization has led to most undergraduate programs losing any liberal arts rounding
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The additional information contained in the diacritics is essentially useless to English speakers: they certainly aren't going to get the tones right and the dipthong "ướ" has no equivalent sound in English. Vietnamese speake
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There are surviving garum recipes from the Geoponica - see page 329 here: https://archive.org/details/Geoponica02
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It does seem like it may be a case of culinary convergent evolution: I'd wager that anything involving fermentation/brewing/pickling/salt preservation is likely to be discovered multiple times by its nature.
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Are you referring to the missing diacritical marks? (nước mắm) "Nuoc mam" is much less ambiguous than using "fish sauce", so using the translation seems like a lot of precision is lost. Plus, "nuoc mam" is the
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This video covers how you can make garum using a modernized version of a surviving recipe from the Geoponica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7Bb0Qg-oE
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The original paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6 I disagree with their approach and conclusion ("Deforestation will continue accelerating at the same rate forever! Technology will con
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If you have a CS background and are looking to dig in to category theory a bit more, I would recommend checking out Benjamin Pierce's Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists . It's a nice, concise introduction to the topic
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This is one of my favorite stories. There is some good info on the superpermutations problem (which is now known as the Haruhi problem when looking for the lower bound of 14) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superper
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I'd never heard of these before: http://nyis.info/invasive_species/water-chestnut/ The other common name ("water caltrop") is illuminating.
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There was an article several years ago in Vice which mentioned him: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nndz9z/life-is-a-cosmic-g...
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I think the example of the students of the Princeton professor is very similar to this subtype: > I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess

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