i_made_a_booboo

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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
That's brutal.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Mike and Tyson. Mike Tyson.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
The education system isn't flawed. It's working as intended. You just don't see what its design goals actually are, or you disagree with what they should be. I would argue if you aren't able to see why the education syst
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
TL;DR - there are other things to optimize for than the maximum amount of money possible. It might not even be a sensible goal. An extremely common theme heard from people with a lot of money is to get your money working for you. Another ex
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Debugging Mental Models(debug.coach)
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
It's not about 'imposing' a 1:1 mapping. It's about assuming a mapping exists at all for every case. It doesn't. While it does for the vast, vast majority of cases every language pair will have a non zero percentage
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
This presumes you can translate all strings straightforwardly. You can't. There are times where I've been given a string and had to have an in-depth 30 minute discussion to understand enough of the surrounding context to be able t
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
I'm saying the current techniques will only take us so far and they break down in hilarious ways when they reach these edge cases. My point is to reach true parity with human capabilities machine translation needs to reach the point wh
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
That is the only end game I would consider to be a full implementation of machine translation on par with human capabilities. In cases where there is no direct equivalent or even an appropriate localization we usually resort to giving a lon
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
The last mile isn't solvable. Some languages contain concepts, set phrases, vocabulary and pop-culture references entirely unique to that language. There isn't a translation in every single case. Machines however will always try t
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Machine translation has made some pretty impressive progress over the last decade. Unfortunately no methods will ever cover the very last mile as languages don't have perfect 1 to 1 mappings. Though it is amusing watching the machines
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
It's not just the traffic lights in Japan, it's the traffic lights all around the world, if you're a Japanese person. My wife and I always refer to it as blue when speaking Japanese and we live in my home country. It's j
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Plus it's heavy as hell so having to move it far is big driver of this too.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Interestingly, I think it was in the book The Elephant In The Brain, it remarks that sometimes people are depressed because they stop looking at the world through the normal veneer of self-deception and start seeing it for what it is and th
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Bingo.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Human nature is remarkably constant.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
>In an unregulated market, there are no bad actors, only inefficient ones. The history of planet earth is full of bad actors in all kinds of markets, regulated or not. The animal kingdom is full of examples of deception. Seeking personal
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Then you wind up with a union cartel. I would bet good money on that.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
What if you can't afford to?
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
What if you were born in Puntland, Somalia and you were shit out "luck".
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Forcing your employees to stay at work until the boss leaves at 11pm is treating them like humans? Japans work culture is completely toxic and dysfunctional. I have one rule that I stick to these days: "Never work in, with or for Japan
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
bingo
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
>it's a circle of it's own hell True and true.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
>since that's clearly not fair behavior/right, what do we do about it? Is there something that can be "done about it"? Well someone will probably build an app for it because that's just how people in tech like to
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
I've had equal misery both typed and untyped on large, old, legacy stuff. Maybe programming just sucks.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Because if you have 10,000 customers paying $50 that's much nicer than having 100,000 customers paying you $5.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
This genuinely made me chuckle. So damn accurate.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Nailed it.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Ergo human beings are inherently garbage.
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by i_made_a_booboo 8y ago
Colemak is where it's at because cut/copy/paste and the punctuation is all still in the same place as QWERTY but on Dvorak that's all fucked which makes it an impractical nightmare. I still use qwerty on my keyboard but

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