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by jll29 2y ago
The brain tells the finger what to do (press 'r' to reply to email). But the brain does not walk down and presses the 'r' key itself, that would make the finger redundant, and it would be a distraction for the brain. The
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by jll29 2y ago
Apart from the learning experience, there is still value in a small-sized, fast TUI text editor for Linux. However, my two suggestions would be: - add Unicode support (it's the 21st century, so ∑, ®, etc. should finally work); this is
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by jll29 2y ago
> The company I work for has an "individual contributor" career track for this reason. I once worked for a large information company that had a split between technical career paths (individual contributors to architects) and ma
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by jll29 2y ago
I like your prototype, and people are already giving fantastic hints to make this even better; information about the geographic location of the offer would be my priority (EU). This is particularly useful from an environmental point of view
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...and MIPS/Watt!
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Automatic document summarization is very hard without knowing what purpose the summary serves. For what/whom is the package intended? Evaluating the quality of summaries is also very difficult. How would you evaluate whether a bioRxi
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> what it means for an explanation to be "good" Chomsky coined the technical term "explanatory adequacy" for that, which is used/recognized among linguists and psychologists.
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This is a bit like saying program counters don't exist because a program's control flow can be changed by interrupts.
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Britain also has "dwelling designations" like "3FL" (third floor left) commonly used to describe unnumbered flats (which may well have numbers or not). I suspect this way of referring to flats is unofficial, but it is co
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by jll29 2y ago
To call Quanta "tabloid", even in part, is an unjustified insult for a magazine that aspires, and mostly accomplishes, to bring cutting-edge research to a larger audience (perhaps not "the masses", but still). Personally
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by jll29 2y ago
Web Page Blocked! You have tried to access a web page which belongs to a category that is blocked. :-(
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The blog post does not address why the Semantic Web failed: 1. Trust: How should one know that any data available marked up according to Sematic Web principles can be trusted? This is an even more pressing question when the data is free. Si
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by jll29 2y ago
> Vector similarity of artists could be an interesting angle. Any song has many facets: melody, key, rhythm, dynamicity, voice of the artist, lyrics. I can see how a music browser of the future (rather than an automatic recommender) woul
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by jll29 2y ago
Some counter-examples: - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - C Interfaces and Implementations - Design Patterns - Compilers: Principles, Practice and Tools Each of these should make you go "a-ha!", in its own way.
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I find it interesting that a self-proclaimed Apple fan finds the Galaxy Tab superior to the iPad. However, this argumentation is not always coherent - for example, equating a lack of foldable devices with a lack of innovation is not an anal
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Two points: - coauthorship should be discussed with/decided by all coauthors - a footnote that explains who contributed how much and what could have taken out much of the heat (it could even have explained that the authors could not re
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by jll29 2y ago
A friend of mine (also a computer science professor) said ChatGPT should not be available to the general public to avoid the proliferation of abuse. It seems it has already begun. I hope the judge will be asked to take training where he wil
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by jll29 2y ago
You could ask a set of potential customers what it would be worth to them. You could calculate the cost savings that your tool provides to their buyers, and charge a little less than that (e.g. 20%). You could look for similiar tools than y
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by jll29 2y ago
This is a good post; as far as Ladybird is concerned while they may have started things as fun, they seem to have taken a turn towards seriousness recently.
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I wonder what convinced Andreas Kling to abandon his own language Jakt [1] in favour of Swift. In the long run, it would be good to have high-level languages other than Java that have garbage collection (at least optionally) and classes, an
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by jll29 2y ago
I was hoping for some statistics about avg. (mean, mode) chapter length, and changes over time, given that this post comes from Penguin, who have plenty of data at their fingertips. Still, an interesting blog post.
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> Here’s the full answer, along with how they triage the problem – for instance by assigning the same flight number to more than one flight a day (although that means they need for it to be flights that would never both be in the air at
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by jll29 2y ago
I want my Blackberry back badly, and this project is giving me hope. The case it a bit too big, there are still battery issues, and of course a 5G card + microphone + loudspeaker need to be added. But perhaps the day will come that I can ro
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I appreciate people who dare to experiment with their life style. The boat idea would perhaps too lonely for most people, but it would be nice to see folks experiment with re-inventing communes/new types of forming communities. There i
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> - a better Siri (but many companies in this space is demotivating) Don't be discouraged, there is so much room for improvement, and we had a better system than Siri (regarding general ability to answer open domain questions) back
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by jll29 2y ago
Good topic. Trust isn't properly understood yet. Look at Sir Berners-Lee: smart guy, but he put "trust" as a component box in his vision of the so-called Semantic Web as if it was an API that you could just call. Trust is of
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Just two ideas from the portfolio: - I'm working on LLM-based detection of media bias for English and German (later perhaps other languages), which is more detailed (27 bias sub-types), fine-grained (sentence level instead of document-
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Difficult: most C programs I know would convert to one single large "unsafe" block... One might argue that re-writing from scratch is the safer option; and a re-write is also an opportunity to do things differently (read: improve
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This sounds amazing, and it's great that tooling is so strong of some "new kids on the block" (Zig, Rust), even better than C. With hindsight, it is strange that the C community, with all the people and money behind it (and w
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While the design of it violates the separation of concern principle (keep data and code separate), I have to say this is most impressive, thanks for writing and sharing it. I have always been reluctant to accept any boilerplate code (esp. s

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