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I once had the honor to attend a lecture by a prosecutor of the ICC. Out of all lawyers/attorneys/prosecutors/judges that I met in my life, that one was the one that I would judge to bet he most idealistic and justice motivat
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Nice write-up. A few more details/background that are harder to find: "BM25" stands for "Best Matching 25", "best matching" becaue it is a formula for ranking and term weighting (the matching refers to the
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BiasScanner: Detect 27 Types of Media Bias & Propaganda Using AI(biasscanner.org)
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BiasScanner is a new machine learning model (based on a fine-tuned LLM) and associated Firefox plug-in that analyzes the news you are reading and can warn you from propaganda and other types of media bias. Paste in a news story and click &q
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I don't know if it was better or worse back then, but in any case we can now support to identify manipulative/propagandist attempts (media bias/propaganda trying to influence us) using machine learning: https://bia
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Unique IDs that are not really unique are the beginning of all evil, and there is a special place in hell for those that "recycle" GUIDs instead of generating new ones. Having ambiguous names can likewise lead to disaster, as seen
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This reads well and might have been called "when plain text meets bitmapped graphics output devices". There's a fair amount of Internationalization (I18N) knowledge required in the process, some of which is mentioned in passi
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Generally, if you google a person's name as follows: "Jonathan S. Rosenfeld" +DBLP you will get their computer science publication list. From that, you can gather that the two main papers that form the core of Rosenfel
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Thanks for that inside scoop, even if it's a bit dated; I wonder if they read this discussion, perhaps. An important feature request would be a view where only peer-reviewed publications (specifically, not ArXiv and other pre-print arc
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by jll29 2y ago
SICP is the best book to read as one's first book when studying computer science. After many years of hobbyist programming (and consuming 'structured programming' books as well as languages from Pascal to Common LISP) we used
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I'd be interested in a Lenovo X1 Nano based on ARM. The existing Nano is already less than one kilogram (between 700 and 800 grams), so small, thin and light. With additional battery life due to a low-energy CPU, this could be a great
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Interesting. I had a similar experience: once the debugging instrumentation with #ifdef macros was switched off, the code that worked before suddenly crashed. In my situation it had to do with the stack, because my debugging macros used s
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by jll29 2y ago
Good paper on estimating a user's literacy from low-level system signals. I had a project a few years ago where we used a similar software setup to measure focus/concentration versus distraction (measuring switching programs/
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This library is nicely concise, and the code is mostly readable (although there are some non-obvious tricks that could be better documented). The Makefile could need some work: json_test.cpp:360:23: warning: missing terminating '&q
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It's usually easier for a technical "tech lead" to pick up project management than for a project manager to pick up "tech lead" (deep technical) skills, but exceptions exist. The tech lead should have better busines
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I tried: 'one or more "a"s followed by 0 or more "bb"s' which resulted in: a+bb* But it should have been a+(bb)* instead.
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Reading this obituary, I wonder whether the "Only" in the book title is at all merited if he was so social, collaborative and helpful? - It sounds like he was full of acts of love of others.
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Great piece of technical writing. I hope when Jack is in Oxford he'll also visit Cambridge to give a guest talk in the late Ross Anderson's former group.
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Quote from Wikipedia: "The Claude E. Shannon Award was established in his honor; he was also its first recipient, in 1973." That must be a bit awkward to receive a prize named after yourself. - Turing never won the Turing Award. -
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I was thinking along similar lines, bit it becomes a theoretical question when you cannot test/evaluate/interact with subjects anymore. Also, I'm wondering whether a difference of 1 IQ point is even noticeable, and if not, wh
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I'm still reading it, but apparently he stopped talking to his own mother forever after she refused to give him a cookie intended for guests.
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"hallucination" here is a technical term for language model output that make no sense to the user. They are the direct result of the way current neural language models work, namely based on a training regime where random words are
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by jll29 2y ago
As a non-US citizen, I find it shocking that such a high number of US citizens need to live on food stamps, so I checked the numbers. Indeed, it's 41.2 million out of a total of 334.9 million U.S.-Americans, or 12.3 % or more than one
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That's hillarious. Any chance you remember what you said to the Chinese hairdresser versus what you should have said to protect fellow HNers from such a mishap? 像往常一樣短請把鬍子刮乾淨我想要比較短的禿得像個嬰兒的屁股 ?
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Not to mention the ugly/unusable rendering of mathematical formulate in ebooks on my Kindle, which is gatherig dust. Layouting is an art and a craft, and the fact that it's automated by people who lack the specialized knowledge, o
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I expected perhaps a reference to Brian W. Kernighan's excellent critique of Pascal from a systems programming perspective: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html I love Pascal's clarity, and enjoyed
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I was going to say: that's a thesis result sorted - check.
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It's legitimate to create alternatives to anything, and to re-think what has been done already. One thing that would be on my personal wish list for any Wikipedia alternative is ease of machine processing: the MediaWiki format/mar
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Are people really no longer interested in what happens locally? I would pay for local news, even about places that I no longer live, but used to live and still have a passing interest in. But perhaps I would want to receive it as XML feed.
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> But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who can't write at all will disappear. This observation of Paul Graham may generalize beyond writing: modern technology appears to turn populations into bi-moda

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