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by euske 6y ago
I think what we should focus on, instead of ethics or humanity, is things like transparency, open discussion and clear feedback, etc. We can't really tell what's exactly ethical or human when the situation is changing this quickly
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by euske 6y ago
Exactly this, and it's happening everywhere in the software world. Why bother writing binary search? Linear search is fast enough. Why bother sharing pointers? Copy all the strings. Easy. Data compression? Forget it. Deleting files is
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by euske 6y ago
I found that the notion of token is very English centric. What you really want to do is to convert each sentence to a set of features, be it words, n-grams or prefixes/suffixes, etc. When searching, the way I implemented was to use tho
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by euske 6y ago
I tend to think that most natural languages use the same kitchen sink approach like Lisp, and as a consequence it has a sprawling set of vocabulary. For some peculiar reason, people seem to like it that way. So, naturally speaking, I guess
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by euske 6y ago
Yeah. I don't mean to be disrespectful to the OP, but what's the point of having wallpapers, anyway? Distraction is one thing, but it's also obstructed when you open a large window. I can kind of understand having a screensav
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by euske 6y ago
Can anyone explain what is infrastructure tooling in laypeople (or layprogrammer)'s term?
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by euske 6y ago
To me, what GPT-n really tells is how redundant human text in general is. It doesn't provide a lot of new information (if it does, they are accidental), but more or less wandering around the given topic. It is the redundancy that gives
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by euske 6y ago
I turn off any font/scroll smoothing and animation whenever possible. I use a good bitmap font for coding. It's readable and snappy. No hinting BS. There's no need for animation in Emacs or tmux after all.
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by euske 6y ago
I think that when you look at things at a microscopic-level, everything looks boring and unoriginal. For example, every phenomenon on Earth (and beyond) is just an interaction between atoms. Looks pretty boring. As the OP mentioned, beauty
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by euske 6y ago
I feel that Americans tend to use the term "friend" a lot more casually than, say, the Japanese. In Japan, your boss is never your friend. Neither is your teachers, colleagues, parents or siblings. A "friend" in Japan is
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by euske 6y ago
Government censorship! No, I'm kidding. But I think something akin to mass surveillance will be needed (hopefully not in a way like China). The fundamental principle is that a bigger (more popular, more powerful, etc.) entity needs mor
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by euske 7y ago
I heard that GMap is also getting slow, and so is Chrome (although I don't use them personally). I'm curious how the company's culture has shifted over year. Or maybe it hasn't shifted, and there's always a push f
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by euske 7y ago
I do think that logging is indeed a serious business and should be the subject of more serious study, including the formatting and timing, what to write, how to analyze, etc. Sadly, the article haven't even scratched its surface.
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by euske 7y ago
To believe that time travel is possible is to believe that the universe keeps all the snapshots of every moment in some backup storage. From the economic viewpoint, it is very unwise. I don't think the universe is that dumb.
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by euske 7y ago
As much as I love making this my habit, the biggest obstacle for me is syncing. I want to jot something down in so many different places: not just in front of a PC, but also in a train, car, shower room, restaurant, grocery, and bed. I use
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by euske 7y ago
Care to elaborate what corresponds to the incidental/accidental complexity in CL? I tried to understand these concepts, but it feels very subjective. Whether or not something is accidental looks in the eye's the beholder.
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by euske 7y ago
So it seems that anyone can make up their favorite "architecture" even if it's not well defined. (Is MVC actually well defined?) My favorite was MVPC (Model-View-Player-Controller) as I was mostly developing an app for blind
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by euske 7y ago
There are more realistic threats to elderly people in Japan: poverty and loneliness. They are lethal and getting only worse.
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by euske 7y ago
This isn't new. QD Laser https://www.qdlaser.com/en/ has been making a similar technology for a while. I've tried their glasses at CSUN assistive technology conference in 2014 or something. Their target user
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by euske 7y ago
I think this is a common strategy of big players at any industry. First, they do some dirty thing to gain a competitive edge when the industry is still new and unregulated. Later they develop an alternative way to achieve the same competiti
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by euske 7y ago
"Facial recognition doesn't discriminate people. People discriminate people." This just reminded me of a typical gun control argument (which I don't disagree with). Banning one particular technology might be still worthw
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by euske 7y ago
Now someone has to write an init in Chrome.
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by euske 7y ago
I always thought that self-driving technology is one of the schemes devised by researchers for getting a long-term funding. It has an immense appeal to the public and sounds plausible enough to laypeople. We've seen a bunch of promises
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by euske 7y ago
I've watched for a number of times that a bully became a bully victim, and a bully victim became a bully. So I eventually concluded that they're actually the same kind of people.
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by euske 7y ago
Their grammar lacks the crucial component that is the recursive structure of natural languages, which was originally pointed by Chomsky, et al. Here's how I (Japanese native) would do it: SENTENCE = S 。 S = BUN* verb | BUN* NP be
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by euske 7y ago
Ghosn kind of reminds me of this quote: "Great men are almost always bad men." Personally, I hope this to be a good show to Japanese people. The timing is good too. It is finally dawning on people in Japan that their government mi
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by euske 7y ago
Me too. I also like its label slapped at the bottom of the keyboard, which reads "Made in U.S.A.". Kind of makes me a proud owner even though I'm not American.
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by euske 7y ago
In Japan, the Unix-style keyboard layout has been pretty popular among IT people, as people don't need Caps Lock as much. Personally though, I can't stand for the HHK key touch (too soft for me).
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by euske 7y ago
Shintoism and Buddhism aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, the two religions are fused in a rather unique way in Japan (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbutsu-sh%C5%ABg%C5%8D ). Both religions lost its belie
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by euske 7y ago
Looks like this is written in TexInfo. Is there a HTML version or the texi source available?

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