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by goblin89 3y ago
I think Google has the resources required to detect different languages in Chinese script (different combinations of characters and vocabulary, even specific Unicode characters, etc.) but there is 1) lack of incentives and 2) opposing polit
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by goblin89 3y ago
Let’s not mix cause and effect. There are multiple systems because there’s no standard, and there’s no standard because there’s strong opposing interest. Cantonese-speaking world would strictly benefit from this standardisation, lack of i
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by goblin89 3y ago
Google should rid itself of the notion that “Traditional Chinese” and “Simplified Chinese” are anything but complete misnomers if you’re talking about languages . They are scripts , and scripts don’t have a 1:1 mapping to languages. Imagi
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by goblin89 3y ago
Be on the lookout for misinformation obscuring the fact that Cantonese (a.k.a. Yue), spoken in Hong Kong, is a language . It’s not mutually intelligible with Mandarin (unlike, say, Mandarin spoken in Taiwan, which is more or less Mandarin
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5 years of Chinese spy balloons worldwide plotted from Planet Labs imagery(bbc.com)
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by goblin89 3y ago
One can say “non-capitalist society” yet mean that capitalism is the only thing that there ever is. Capitalism is a way to look at things, and it doesn’t require a modern society—social capital and economics of prestige is a thing since for
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Pillar of Shame in Hong Kong(en.wikipedia.org)
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by goblin89 3y ago
I own one device that I cannot imagine wanting to upgrade or call “obsolete” in foreseeable future: the 2018[0] 256 GB third generation 13-inch iPad Pro. Granted, in my workflow it faces fewer demands than for example a laptop or phone (I d
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by goblin89 3y ago
Ableton on an old machine, Bitwig on a new machine. Got burned with Bitwig minor version update changing my sound, thankfully they keep links to older versions! I guess they know this may be an issue.
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by goblin89 3y ago
As a long time electronic music producer, I make sure once installed my primary software is never updated as a rule[0]. My flow doesn’t make bouncing everything to audio feasible and there is nothing worse than opening a project you have wo
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Berkshire Hathaway sells off TSMC(taiwannews.com.tw)
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by goblin89 3y ago
I tried some new browsers. I liked Vivaldi but it phoned home non stop on first launch. I went with Orion by Kagi. Vertical tabs, containers, support for Firefox (and I think Chrome?) extensions, and no weird requests you do not expect.
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China’s military active near Taiwan despite combat drills finished(reuters.com)
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by goblin89 4y ago
I find the argument against rewriting to be like the DRY principle: an oft-misapplied rule of thumb causing much of the unwarranted complexity in software around us. Truth is, the cost of “just rewrite it” is as large as your unit of softwa
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“The foreign forces you are talking about are Marx and Engels”(twitter.com)
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by goblin89 4y ago
I was not offended. I concede to arguments raised by other repliers regarding my misuse (or at least very unorthodox use) of the term “prior”, but still find an objection based on your analogy ill-founded. Your analogy more or less supports
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by goblin89 4y ago
For the record, I have come to think I misused the term “prior”. If you consider those as viable hypotheses in the first place then sure. In current context there is a binary choice between two already established and well-informed hypothes
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by goblin89 4y ago
Say we are weighing the probability of the lab leak hypothesis being correct. Incoming evidence suggests a lab leak is hurtful to a wider array of institutions and individuals than assumed originally. We use this new evidence, along with pr
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by goblin89 4y ago
I agree if we’re considering the prior probability of lab leak vs. spillover, where priors can be informed by e.g. laboratory biosecurity track record and such. However, what about the prior probability of a good-faith statement in presence
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by goblin89 4y ago
Is it a misapplication of the term “prior likelihood” if it’s used to mean “prior likelihood of a given explanation for a past event turning out to be accurate later ”?
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by goblin89 4y ago
> The existence of people who could be blamed is not an argument towards the crime happened I support neither treating an accidental leak (if it occurred) as a crime, nor blaming any individual for it. That aside, the key is not quite “e
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by goblin89 4y ago
> On the Bayesian level though, what can make sense would be to argue that the fact that so many institutions would be damaged post hoc if a lab leak were to be known, then the weight of evidence against the event which has been provided
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by goblin89 4y ago
Your analogy is harmful to the topic under discussion: its key assumptions (such as comparing the governments of US and China to my family in terms of power and influence) render it inapplicable. > It appears to be reasonable to assign t
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by goblin89 4y ago
It appears reasonable to assign COVID lab leak hypothesis a higher prior, in Bayesian terms, just based on the many institutions/individuals whose image/status would it directly or indirectly damage if found true (NIH, DARPA, the
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Anonymous HK students hide Pillar of Shame miniatures around campus(hongkongfp.com)
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Dismantling the Pillar of Shame (2021)(time.com)
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May 35th(en.wiktionary.org)
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Two Russian gas executives and their families found dead within 24 hours(youtube.com)
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by goblin89 5y ago
Does a wave function collapse if there is no conscious entity to measure that? It is a philosophical question, but philosophy is precisely designed for dealing with what is technically unfalsifiable in hard science—the “far lands” of modeli
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by goblin89 5y ago
With the in-game currency and mandatory Microsoft accounts, unfortunately one can see self-hosted Minecraft Java server development halted as well in foreseeable future. I would not be totally surprised if they have been strategically plac

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