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by jll29 2y ago
I would suggest to drop "Amateur" from the title in the sense that languages are useful both professionally and privately - you never know in what language your next deal will be signed, your next networking acqaintance bumps into
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by jll29 2y ago
> Their cabin lacks electricity, phone service, and municipal plumbing. Bartlett currently works as a senior consultant for Lineage Technologies, a cyber security group that seeks to protect supply chains.[39] Bartlett is a vegetarian an
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by jll29 2y ago
You could say it like this: "GOOD scientists are very curious." In fact, the best try to remain child-like in attitude, i.e. being able to be in awe about nature, which adults tend to "unlearn".
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by jll29 2y ago
Conscription in Germany is technically there, but was "paused" in 2011. It could be re-activated, or "un-paused" with less red tape than introducing it from scratch. If re-introduced, there would likely be the same proce
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by jll29 2y ago
We may distinguish between USENET the public network that is part of the Internet (considerd "out of date" by many because it is not Web based, and indeed suffering from spam) and the USENET protocol, which you can use to set up y
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by jll29 3y ago
Mostly, from RSS feeds collected over the years. Occasionally, from a Bloomberg terminal that my department is renting.
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by jll29 3y ago
Keep in mind: 1. LLMs use random numbers internally, something that can be controlled via the 'temperature' parameter. temperature=0 means no random behavior (however this is also a broadly known fact that this is not fully correc
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by jll29 3y ago
+1 for grit
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That feeling of awe, if that could be shared with most people on earth - perhaps they wouldn't waste their pity lives fighting each other.
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by jll29 3y ago
The scientific aspects (algorithms, incl. implementations, performance evaluation) of Web crawling (including focused crawling) is covered by conferences like WWW, ACM SIGIR, BCS ECIR, ACM WSDM and ACM CIKM. But you may refer to informal Me
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by jll29 3y ago
Plain text is the most durable medium for knowledge management. Let everyone else commit knowledge suicide by PowerPoint, SharePoint and such.
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by jll29 3y ago
IBM is trying to increase its "AI revenue" through acquisitions, a standard MBA playbook move (although analysts see through this and often ask specifically for "organic" revenue instead to tease that apart from revenue
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by jll29 3y ago
This is a neat idea - however, I think the graphical view of the blog graph trades "coolness" for "utility". Have you thought of a front end that is basically just text/plain HTML (in normal size) + navigation links
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by jll29 3y ago
Moravac (in the linked paper): "In both cases, the evidence for an intelligent mind lies in the machine's performance, not its makeup." Do you agree? I'm much less keen to ascribe "intelligence" to large, pretr
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by jll29 3y ago
There isn't another book like "Gödel, Escher, Bach"; when I ordered it at 16, because I was curious after having seen it mentioned in very different contexts, reading it was a life-changing event. Because this is beyond what
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by jll29 3y ago
In the software engineering literature, there is something known as "second system effect": the second time a system is designed it will be bloated, over-engineered and ultimately fail, because people want to do it all better, too
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by jll29 3y ago
I once led a project to develop a tool that tracks how people use their time in a large corporation. We designed it to be privacy-respecting, so it would log that you are using the Web browser, but not the specific URL, which is of course r
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by jll29 3y ago
> You are simply wrong about that. Ethics are instincts produced by evolution. Like all instincts, they exist because they have survival value That sounds like a rather cheap version of evolution (and - not wanting to offend you, but in
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by jll29 3y ago
Wittgenstein's discussion of what _all_ games have in common (nothing, really) led him to the notion of "family resemblances". Margaret Masterman, who was Wittgenstein's student in Cambridge, may have passed some of that
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by jll29 3y ago
Did you publish any of it? Your work, as painful as it sounds, is very valuable. While some papers do not replicate, more authors than ever release papers, code and models together. Nowadays, conferences such as ECIR (European Conference on
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by jll29 3y ago
This is already better than some humans, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw
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by jll29 3y ago
Great speech, the funnier the more you already know about information theory and cryptography; but the last part with the pocket calculator seems a break of topic, I would have left that out.
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by jll29 3y ago
Rust, as wonderful as it is, may be less suitable for GUI programming since it has no classes/inheritance (which is why Andreas Kling is creating the Jakt language for his SerenityOS project, after coming to the same conclusion after e
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by jll29 3y ago
Thanks for formulating that context so well - you should ask the Vala people to start their Web page with your 4 sentences, as most who visit the page will ask themselves. I also liked the itemwise comparison with Java: https://w
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by jll29 3y ago
The author "found out" that sama = Sam Altman nad pg = Paul Graham, by his surprise. It is well known that Hacker News owner company, Y Combinator had Altman as his CEO before he joined OpenAI.
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by jll29 3y ago
Great idea, this could be valuable for people who write their own assembler. It's the first time I see an instruction set as a relational database, which I would imagine is a very portable way to describe a machine, perhaps it might be
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by jll29 3y ago
The UK's big opportunity was: to be the "best" EU country by having the most reasonable (informal, common-sense based) interpretation of EU rules permissible, and to benefit from intra-EU trade and freedom of movement. This o
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by jll29 3y ago
Ironically, on the one hand, the government views marriage officially as a "contract"; on the other hand, if it is "just a contract" between two consenting adults, then it is considered fraud! It makes little sense. I th
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When I was in school, we went to Spain on a vacation that cut a bit into school days (= after the end of the school vacation). So my mom told the teacher, and it was fine. The teacher said the holiday will be a lifetime memory and great l
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> Citizens/residents have no unique identifier actually that's not true: people in Germany have MANY unique IDs: they have not one but TWO tax identifiers ("Steuernummer" and "Steuer ID"), social security nu

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