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by jknz 10y ago
Another referendum is unlikely, but the next elections might have the same role. What if the next elected prime minister is elected on the promise of staying in the EU?
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by jknz 10y ago
Say the candidate is honest, wants 120k and writes down 120k. Say the company honestly wants candidate ufo 130k or less. Company plays is dishonest card and writes down 110k. Then the candidate leaves and there is no hire. If company had be
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by jknz 10y ago
What follows is an honest salary determination process, where no party has incentive to lie. It is also very fast. The rules are as follows. (Can't remember where I read about this.) The company and the candidate write on a piece of pa
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by jknz 11y ago
As soon as a name is not present in the database, the approach based on machine learning is useful. It is very likely that the name absent from the db will have features that reveal its gender. So 1) try db lookup, if absent 2) use a classi
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by jknz 11y ago
One could argue that Word embeddings are also dimensionality-reduction techniques: Words live in an infinite dimensional space, and the embeddings is a finite-dimensional projection of this infinte dimensional space.
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by jknz 11y ago
From my understanding, they ran word2vec [1] on their email dataset. Anyone can run word2vec on any dataset with a single desktop machine. What I don't get is why word2vec is not mentioned? Edit: the mentioned algorithm is t-SNE -- whi
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by jknz 11y ago
The next person that will beat alphaGo may not be a top go player. In particular, I'm wondering if a computer scientist with access to the alphaGo source code and all the weights of the network could trick alphaGo in order to win games
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by jknz 11y ago
Might be a subtle job offer for nginx engineers.
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by jknz 12y ago
The WYSIWYG editor is really nice. I'm wondering if it is home-made or if it comes from a library?
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by jknz 12y ago
What if I just want to see the blurred text?
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by jknz 12y ago
You force me to register to see the blurred text. Ok let's take some time to create a temporary email address because, well, your product looks refreshing. I put down the email address (the one I just spent time creating!) and a passwo
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by jknz 12y ago
The president of the UOIF [1], the collective of all the French muslim organizations, is invited to speak at 8pm on France 2 (the national TV channel). Source: https://twitter.com/UOIF/status/552891285900894209 [1
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by jknz 12y ago
People are going in the streets to support the newspaper in France and other European cities, a map is available here: http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/carte-interactive-tous... A noticeable fact is how mainstream
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by jknz 12y ago
For some context, the wikipedia page is still updated every few minutes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting
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by jknz 12y ago
Say I'm a medical student and during an operation I notice unusual numbers on the screen. I don't even know what the numbers mean (hey I'm a student!) but they look freaking unusual. Should I tell Dr. God about these numbers
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by jknz 12y ago
> If you see a mistake is being made and can back up your opinion, you are treated with respect. Are you treated with misrepect if you feel a mistake is being made, but you can't back it up ? I believe students and young doctors sho
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by jknz 12y ago
Apache Tika exists for years and seems to have the same goal: http://tika.apache.org/ I'm wondering why the authors wrote something from scratch ? edit: this is answered by one author in the 2nd disqus comments of the
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A vertical trackpad to keep your arms relaxed(kickstarter.com)
2 points by jknz 13y ago|0 comments
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by jknz 13y ago
"Fixed Funding This campaign will only receive funds if at least $32,000,000 is raised by its deadline. Funding duration: July 22, 2013 - August 21, 2013 (11:59pm PT)."
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by jknz 13y ago
A terrific feature would be to have the same in gist, embeddable everywhere. Want to show a place or some directions on your website/blog/... ? Just create a gist with geojson format and embed it on your blog, as programming blogs