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by etbebl 2y ago
I think the best way is to seek out the advice of people familiar with what you're trying to do and learn from their past mistakes/take their thoughts on what is a good it bad idea very seriously. My main problem was that I was br
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by etbebl 2y ago
There's something like this as well in academia or at least science: because only successful studies get published (the file drawer problem), it's easy for someone who's read a lot of papers but not gotten their hands dirty y
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by etbebl 3y ago
Anyone else keep seeing articles about Mamba and thinking it's about Python/Conda? It's annoying when the new cool thing picks the same name as something else you like that deserves attention.
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by etbebl 3y ago
> x = 4 > y = 7 > >are independent statements and the code will be no different if I replace those two statements with > > y = 7 > x = 4 Not always, e.g. in a multi threaded situation where x and y are share
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by etbebl 3y ago
I believe Microsoft reused the Copilot brand that it acquired from GitHub for its AI assistant which is embedded in Windows, Bing, and apparently now Office. GitHub Copilot also still exists but is a different product.
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by etbebl 4y ago
Uh, how about in the primary language(s) used in the market where the detergent is sold? The other text on the bottle is already localized.
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by etbebl 5y ago
> You just learn not to worry about it I don't know why but a lot of people my age do worry about it and get very uncomfortable guessing at a pronunciation of a new word. Doubly so for names. I guess it's an insecurity thing?
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by etbebl 5y ago
Yeah, I'm a native speaker and I still pronounce "awry" as "AH-ree" in my head sometimes. I think I saw it in print a lot before I heard it.
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by etbebl 5y ago
American young person here: I do the glottal stop thing with "button" but a flapped r with "butter." I think it has to do with the "n" - I would also do the glottal stop for "bitten" but not for &quot
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by etbebl 6y ago
*based. Also @ericvsmith please correct me if I'm wrong - don't remember where I read that.
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by etbebl 6y ago
FYI if you haven't heard of it, attrs ( https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/ ) is a package very similar to dataclasses that does support aromatically adding __slots__. I believe dataclasses was bases on it.
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by etbebl 6y ago
Yup, SoundHound existed, and before that, Midomi.
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by etbebl 6y ago
No, I'm fairly sure that was not their intent. It says at the bottom of the readme: NOTE: The sources and build scripts may be added after Unicode Version 14.0.0 has been released (2021), and as time and resources permit. So this repo
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by etbebl 6y ago
Anti-intellectual? I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously as a statement about science. It's just a bit of fun.
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by etbebl 6y ago
This must be the disconnect. As an Android user, it wouldn't occur to me that the "default" messaging app (usually something barebones and ugly) would influence how I send my messages. I just use whatever app I want, SMS or n
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by etbebl 7y ago
What, do you think that's too low? Sounds pretty normal for this type of study. Of course, that does mean the results don't necessarily generalize to the whole population, which is why you do eventually need much larger sample siz
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by etbebl 7y ago
As I understand it, if it's overfitting, testing on a second random sample gathered in the same way as the training set should degrade performance. That's not the case here. (Though maybe the term as used in industry is less stric
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by etbebl 7y ago
For me it more lays plain the inherent contradictions of (this version of) free will than directly disproves it. What would it mean if the conscious decision to do something came before any neural activity reflecting that? (Dualism!)
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by etbebl 7y ago
"Plasticity" basically means "learning" at a low level, so it's not really an explanation for why learning can be addicting.
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by etbebl 7y ago
I see a lot of criticism here saying things like "DNNs have nothing to to with brains, they weren't designed to work like brains, and any resemblance is surely just an artifact of training them to do brain-like things." The f
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by etbebl 7y ago
You're talking about the output of a deep network predicting the solution to a problem it was trained on. They're talking about something completely different: the properties of the whole network (opening up the "black box&qu
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by etbebl 7y ago
The objective function is the entire function the network is training toward, i.e. in a classification task it's the correct mapping of images to labels. The idea here is that real brains also optimize their weights to compute certain
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by etbebl 7y ago
> <category-of-material>-ware is plural. period. Actually it's an uncountable noun. You use a singular verb form - "the software is" not "the software are." But you can't pluralize it or use an indefin
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by etbebl 7y ago
To be fair it is pretty confusing how Python and JS have two features that look very similar on the surface (dictionaries and objects) but actually work very differently. As someone who uses both languages infrequently, it trips me up.
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by etbebl 7y ago
MATLAB of all languages does this! Although as usual it's quirky about performance: the foo(bar) syntax (which used to be the only syntax) is faster.
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by etbebl 7y ago
Interesting. I would say the copy needs some work; I had a hard time understanding the problem being solved. From the about page: > We created technology capable to answer trickiest questions, like what is the most curious travel itinera
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by etbebl 7y ago
Typically you can associate a password to an OAuth account through a password reset flow, if you know which email the account you linked has provided (for Google it would be your Gmail I assume).
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by etbebl 7y ago
My understanding is that in git-land, "porcelain" and "plumbing" usually refer to a specific dichotomy of high-level vs. low-level git commands, rather than further abstractions over the commands such as a GUI.
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by etbebl 7y ago
Lately I've also been seeing just the dollar amounts as "quick" options, without the percentage. Relying on people not being able to do quick math, I suppose.
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by etbebl 7y ago
Instead of summarizing the terms, it could be like nutrition facts warnings. Cross certain lines in the actual terms and you're required to put "See full terms for what your personal data can be used for" or something. If the

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