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by laretluval 10y ago
I conjecture that the entirety of architectural design theory is just an attempt to create a formal system such that the styles preferred by people that architects don't like are "bad", and the styles preferred by people that
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Interestingly "gioza" and "gyoza" as factors come out with opposite signs. I guess that provides a heuristic confidence interval for the weights.
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Why would a researcher funded by government grants be more independent than a researcher at a think tank funded by a corporation?
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> It is only with the advent of "civilization", i.e. agriculture, that we find great power differentials, including the power of men over women. And it is only with the advent of "civilization"/agriculture that w
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by laretluval 10y ago
The movie doesn't say it's a wormhole. The gate could be an entirely psychological experience, for all we know.
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I think duaneb meant Linear A.
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And now you're hearing them from another member of the same team in the Cold War.
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> Which structural representations assumed by (say) GB theory are not implementable in a machine? Most of the individual constraints proposed in the myriad papers on GB and Minimalism are probably implementable by machine. But no one in
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by laretluval 10y ago
Not just not entirely correct, it turns out to be entirely false, with each person who repeats the myth making up a new number each time.
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by laretluval 10y ago
The effects of color terms on Himba color perception are vastly exaggerated in the media. The actual papers found very small and subtle effects, not dramatic differences. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18237
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The idea that "our world [is] parsed and circumscribed as it is by the limits of our vocabulary" is nuts. Just because there's not a one-to-one correspondence between a word in a language and a word in another, does not mean
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by laretluval 10y ago
They say their results from Wikipedia data were influenced by XML tags, so programming languages might look a lot like their Wikipedia data. For reasons like this, I don't trust their empirical results at all.
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by laretluval 10y ago
Looks like this is the core argument for why Pokemon Go is a tragedy: """Even Google couldn’t make Ingress work without reskinning it as Pokémon. And while Pokémon is popular and basically harmless, the alternating reality it
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by laretluval 10y ago
I agree with your criticism in general, but the lack of outsider-friendly explanation here seems justified because something like a parse tree matcher is more of a tool that's useful inside the NLP research community than for end users
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Similar software for matching parse trees: Tregex: http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tregex.shtml tgrep2: http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/Tgrep2/
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I'm delighted by how little code this is!
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This paper is an order of magnitude more interesting than the topic article. Thanks!
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by laretluval 10y ago
Hm, that didn't work for me either! A random gmail worked.
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by laretluval 10y ago
I tried like 30 different mailinator e-mail address as a way of getting through to this article without giving my real e-mail address. Kudos to the Washington Post tech team!
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by laretluval 10y ago
Seems that exactly one of the changes brought about by pornography is that young people decreasingly see sex that way.
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Is rule of law in traffic important for self-driving cars? If self-driving cars are based on neural networks rather than on rule-based systems, do we have any kind of intuition about under what kinds of traffic circumstances they will do we
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by laretluval 10y ago
This is commonly misunderstood. The Confucian Rectification of Names is not about altering the names we use to better conform with reality, but rather about altering reality to better conform to the names we use. A very different approach t
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by laretluval 10y ago
What's with all the weird restrictions on using Signal? Why do I have to register via an Android account? Why not a simple messaging app that just lets me message anyone else with the app with no bullshit? Signal has done an excellent
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by laretluval 11y ago
How does it compare to Windows RG? http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/
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It's not just a choice. Many are in this situation because they tried your strategy and did not succeed.
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20system Full Definition of solar system : the sun together with the group of celestial bodies that are held by its attraction and revolve around it; also : a similar s
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by laretluval 11y ago
I am one of the people who love the idea of f.lux. I use it and it makes my eyes feel a lot better and makes me feel sleepy at the right times. But the app itself is terribly broken, at least on El Capitan. Whenever I switch modes, the scr
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by laretluval 11y ago
The next time someone argues handwavily that pure functional programming makes code "easy to reason about," consider the fact that implementing a data structure as simple as a double-ended queue in that paradigm was PhD level work