empiko

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by empiko 5y ago
People raging over the ternary operation in Python should learn to use: x = {True: 5, False: 4}[condition()] , or if you don't want to evaluate the values: x = {True: lambda: 5, False: lambda: 4}[condition()]()
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by empiko 5y ago
I wanted to use Twitter to follow researchers in my area (machine learning), but despite heavy moderating from my side, I was never able to make it work. Non-relevant posts (this is a movie/game I like! this is happening in my personal
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by empiko 5y ago
I feel like using HuggingFace Transformers is just as easy right now and it will probably have better performance. Of course, GPU machine is needed for training.
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by empiko 5y ago
Not sure how is this related to the SW development, this is just a general set of Google keywords. I might sound like an old fart, but I feel like it is much more helpful to learn your way around the docs as a developer. I regularly see peo
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by empiko 5y ago
This is a really click-baity title (My simple GitHub project went Viral). It should be edited.
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by empiko 5y ago
Something similar can be said of writing survey paper in academia. Nobody wants to go through 150 papers about some godforsaken topic, but the one guy that goes through it is immediately considered to be a top notch expert.
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by empiko 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. There are articles that can be summarized in few paragraphs, but this is a whole article with infographics included that can be summarized with a single graph.
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by empiko 5y ago
Can you imagine the political implications of the world trade being dependent on a river running through Iraq, Syria and Turkey. This is a nice scenario for alternative history folks. Those countries would be occupied since WW1 till now.
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by empiko 6y ago
It is exponentially harder to contain the virus on continent with hundreds of millions of people with dozens of countries than to contain it on islands with one centralized government. It is not only Europe and USA, but also India, South Am
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by empiko 6y ago
You need to actively curate your subreddits to get the best experience. When there is a disparity between your subreddits (in number of posts or their flashiness), few subreddits will flood your whole feed with useless junk. E.g. I have sub
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by empiko 6y ago
I don't find the argument against version control very convincing. They basically say that not forgetting git committing and pushing is too difficult. I don't think that it is actually that bad. They also claim that they do not ne
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by empiko 6y ago
I don't think this is a good analogy. Farming is in fact more difficult than foraging. You need all kinds of technologies to actually make it work (you need to seed, you need to take care of it, you need to harvest, you need to store,
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by empiko 6y ago
This. The problem with the Shakespeare argument is that authors compares code to artistic writing. But code should be compared to technical writing. When you write technical analysis or documentation, you are expected to create easily under
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by empiko 6y ago
Yeah, but they actually do fine-tune their model and compare it to in-batch GPT3 "learning". I called them out on it on Reddit and they claim that they use the same amount of data. I.e. GPT use X examples in the sample and they us
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by empiko 6y ago
They didn't say they are sure of it. They said they believe it :)
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by empiko 6y ago
Yeah, he certainly invests in innovative high-tech industries and I like that a lot. But he also overpromises a lot, e.g. coast-to-coast tesla autopilot (probably not happening anytime soon) or something actually useful with the neurochip (
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by empiko 6y ago
I am curious how much it actually thinks and how much it simply uses text from recommendation engines that got crawled.
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by empiko 6y ago
For sure. Many NLP scientific benchmarks are multilingual today and you need to evaluate on X languages. You are of course not expected to be fluent in all of them. Most of the deep learning based approaches are quite language-universal, i.
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by empiko 6y ago
I think that Mass Effect had pretty good writing in the first game but the later games are pretty bad. Disco Elyseum has great writing, you might check that out.