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>> When any evidence comes out that shows that a specific portion of UG is probably not true, they crow triumphantly about how language is really fundamentally something ineffable and pseudo-mystical, not able to be computed by logic.
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The characterization on that page is not good: virtually no one disagrees with "the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into the brain". The substantive disagreement is whether grammatical categories and relations (or other kno
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My colleagues and I just got a paper accepted at Psych Science on this debate: we looked at the degree of generalization kids show in using determiners/articles ('a','an' or 'the') with nouns, also account
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Business media drivel. I can't seem to find the public answer to "What happens to the share prices of energy companies when oil trades above $100 a barrel and political unrest has recently occurred in the Middle East?," but I
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It could also be culturally transmitted
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If by 'not really grounded in business or technical fact' you mean not how things are typically done now, that's sort of the point. But there are some important precedents: Publix supermarkets for example, a Fortune 100 compa
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...And just distributional knowledge makes it easy to train new models on domain-specific corpora, or new languages. Is it possible to do the same with ConceptNet? I generally find that expert-derived ontologies suffer from bad coverage of
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Would this really be usable in court? It seems super general to me, using a lot of common techniques. Silly question, is it infringement to use any part of the patent?
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Google "word sense induction" or "word sense disambiguation". Intuitively, distributional information of the same sort that is used to derive representations for different word types in W2V or LexVec is useful for distin
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I think this is the prevailing view within linguistics departments (with a few exceptions). Statistical NLP, machine learning, computational anthropology, developmental psychology, etc. are all increasingly reliant on the non-generative
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Generative linguistics is pretty isolated these days... chugging along but using a set of methodologies and premises that are pretty far removed from the rest of academia. Generative linguistics generally had trouble in two key areas 1) fir
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The technical component of the post is really interesting and indeed it's a more general problem, but I had a similar reaction to the framing: spending time figuring out how to reduce revenue on public transportation isn't the rig
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My reaction was similar: before seeing that, I was sympathetic to the idea that short term rentals were a bold new territory requiring a new regulatory framework, like the 'employee' classification in online microtasking. Then I s
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Google's cached versions of SO answers are generally up to date, no? Nice try, lazy developers!
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A note on personal experience as a tech contractor at a federal agency: I worked as a contractor at the US Geological Survey (USGS), in the Department of the Interior each summer between 2006 and 2010. The most useful thing I worked on was
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> Who says government projects and agencies have to be poorly run? I'm not sure how to test this empirically, but it's always seemed to me that these are the inefficiencies that emerge with scale and incredibly broad objective
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Solution to related but different problem: I have too many projects with several notebooks that make window management a pain (two dozen browser tabs in a browser I would like to use for other things). My solution in OS X is to use the anci
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The best qualitative thing I've seen on the state space of drugs is this selection of self portraits: http://bryanlewissaunders.org/drugs/ . Special mentions for meth, lithium, and bath salts. Ooh boy I don't
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Alternative explanation: NLP is lagging behind what we expect because it is a very challenging domain. Explanations of NLP concepts are nontrivial because fairly complex computational tools are required to get anywhere— smoothed n-gram mode
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Similar sentiments here. I get slightly further with ggplot2 but still end up fixing stuff manually in Illustrator which adds significant time. Anyone know 1) a more customizable plotting library or 2) a way to apply manual changes to new i
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Inevitable by-product of a highly networked society? I saw a similar, though somewhat more interpretable, situation at Alamere Falls (1.5 hrs north of SF, south end of Point Reyes): a thousand high school students from all over the Bay Area
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Acela isn't really HSR for most of the route: average speed NY-Boston is ~70 mph (>150 mph is just in southern Rhode Island, IRC). Averages on most TGV and Eurostar lines are at least twice as fast. https://en.wikipedia.o
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ha, that's exactly what I thought. People think US infrastructure is good... then they go to Germany / Japan / France / Switzerland etc. In these countries, 6 lanes of empty highway is an expensive, inefficient eyesore,
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I just got back from 3 weeks travel in Europe, taking HSR from Rotterdam to Paris and Paris to Lausanne, fast commuter (max 170 mph / average 80 mpg but they don't consider that high-speed!) from Lausanne to Zurich and Berlin to A
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(5) story plots that belong to the Emperor
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so it's typically a non-issue— unless you live in Puerto Rico. http://www.globaltrademag.com/global-trade-daily/news/legisl...
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"At Amazon we will be investing an order of magnitude more resources towards this problem. With data and computers to match this. This is significant leverage. Hence the change." The research questions will be in the interest of A
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 (I didn't know about this... interesting case study, thanks!)
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I second this. I find nothing more grounding after a caffeinated day of coding than pulling a beet out of the ground. Good food gardens (esp. permaculture ones) are fascinatingly complex systems that appeal to the engineering mindset, but i
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Even if the result is effectively the same, won't there still be a place for a small number of high-end distilleries that age things naturally? The ridiculous duration is part of the appeal of the product, and something that (some) con

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