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by k8si 4y ago
Not for people who are homeless or don't have an ID for whatever reason, and need access to social services.
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by k8si 4y ago
Again, vegans almost always have to read the ingredients/labels, on every processed food product they plan to consume. The little 'vegan' icon on the back is new and not consistently used. Choosing a plant based lifestyle is
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by k8si 4y ago
I imagine this was probably user error on your part. The vegan cheese is usually on the other end of the grocery store from the real cheese, and also usually says 'vegan' prominently, and also there are only like 2-3 brands that m
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by k8si 4y ago
There's no competition between linguistics and ML/NLP, they have completely different goals as fields. I meant that my linguistics background helps me understand & solve problems: studying linguistic field work has helped me d
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by k8si 4y ago
Language models as a solution to what problems? Yes, you can easily use AutoModel.from_pretrained('bert-base-uncased') to convert some text into a vector of floats. What then? What are the properties of downstream (aka actually us
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by k8si 4y ago
I read in a 'how to improve executive functioning' book that it can be helpful to have one unified TODO list. So that's what I do. I don't think I should make myself a JIRA ticket for 'buy peanut butter and milk&#x2
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by k8si 4y ago
You can turn off the part where it logs into the cloud and insert your own logging backend fairly easily. Also if your research/biz needs are satisfied by sklearn, then why not just use sklearn? But for a lot of NLP systems, BERT is ac
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by k8si 4y ago
Yep - "Huggingface Enterprise" just like there's "Github Enterprise" seems like a straightforward way to make money, at least to me? Does Microsoft make good money from Github Enterprise?
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by k8si 4y ago
It's expensive to hire NLP labor right now, and has been for awhile. Seems like one strategy could be: HF provides a cheaper & more scalable alternative to having to hire an in-house NLP team. Basically NLP becomes synonymous with
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by k8si 4y ago
There's a huge difference between understanding tools/libraries/frameworks/programming languages/APIs etc vs understanding how to build a system on top of any of these things that scales well, is maintainable, is ea
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by k8si 4y ago
I don't see how Elon Musk being at the helm would improve stock price long term. Yes, making Twitter into a libertarian wasteland would lead to a lot of user growth short term -- the Parler people might come back, along with the bot ac
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by k8si 4y ago
Followers != people who take the time to engage with his polls/other content
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by k8si 5y ago
Most of my co-workers who have kids will not go back to our office unless our company enforces a vaccine mandate. So anecdotally, I can say that at least some workers at some companies are also putting pressure on to implement vaccine manda
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by k8si 5y ago
It seems like the vax every 6 months is a worst-ish case scenario (worst case being, some mutation is like 100% vax resistant, no one can figure it out, and a lot more people die). Well, one is also supposed to get a dental cleaning every 6
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by k8si 5y ago
Sure, but in my office and a lot of the others I have worked in, either a) no one was ever too hot, but many people were too cold or b) the HVAC was old/terrible s.t. that everyone was either way too hot or way too cold. My dream is fo
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by k8si 5y ago
1) Heating pad on my hands while I'm typing? 2) Have you tried typing with fingerless gloves? 3) Not allowed to have space heaters in our office per "the guy who comes around and yells at you for things periodically" 4) This
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by k8si 5y ago
Based on this thread, men are generally much less content with their office temperature than women
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by k8si 5y ago
I've never been to a tech company where this was the dress code but obviously I haven't been to all of the tech companies
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by k8si 5y ago
How do I wear more clothes on my hands, when my job is 100% typing?
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by k8si 5y ago
Introvert's nightmare. Also, who can study in a common area with all the noise?
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by k8si 5y ago
Oh that sounds so great. I walk out the door to class, realize I forgot a pen, then get to take a 15 minute walk all the around the building just to get back up to my room. Wonderful
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by k8si 6y ago
Not all students are from countries with great internet access. If you're a Chinese student, you might not have access to many apps professors might assume you'd have access to. The living situation you go back to might not be con
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by k8si 7y ago
Omfg can we stop making these things bigger PLEASE Like, who cares?? * What I mean is, text gen models are big enough. We need controllable text generation; like, so it can talk about a specific THING sensibly. Rather than spew statisticall
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by k8si 9y ago
In any case, public chain cryptocurrencies are not the solution/upgrade you are looking for.
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by k8si 9y ago
Funny to look back at this now: https://nyti.ms/2vtd04V NYT on 24 August 2017: "The Flatiron School in New York may have discovered one path. Founded in 2012, Flatiron has a single campus in downtown Manhattan and its
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by k8si 10y ago
Wait but haven't there been posts on this very site where studies showed that daydreams & wandering minds help creativity as well? e.g. Something in this article must have been linked and upvoted here at some point: http:/&#x
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by k8si 12y ago
Here are some stats and crappy bar charts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1504Sy29t1uUw_B8zTbeLIPCH...
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by k8si 12y ago
Development is very much ongoing and that's really interesting/nice-to-hear feedback :)
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by k8si 12y ago
Shameless plug: if you're interested in MALLET you might also be interested in FACTORIE: http://factorie.cs.umass.edu/
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by k8si 12y ago
Recurring payments: Amazon Prime, Spotify, NearlyFreeSpeech and A Small Orange for hosting, planning to cancel Audible and Wolfram-Alpha because I never use them Paid for once: Threes, Clear, Convert (for all of my unit conversion needs) I

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