larsga

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by larsga 8y ago
I don't really see much connection with what OMG have done. Yes, they did do a little work on an Ontology Definition Metamodel, but I wouldn't take that too seriously. I don't think they understood what they were doing. Simil
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by larsga 8y ago
Like everything else John Lanchester writes, very much worth reading.
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New open source language for JSON transformations (Java implementation)(bytes.schibsted.com)
2 points by larsga 8y ago|1 comments
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by larsga 11y ago
The part I missed is that you're doing this at the character level, and not at the word level. If you were doing this at the word level a Markov chain could easily tell an IPA from a porter. But at the character level it suddenly becom
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by larsga 11y ago
Most of the ratings are absurd and self-contradictory, but occasionally you get one that sounds right. I've downloaded the paper, but haven't read it yet. To me the reviews looks pretty much like what you'd get if you built a
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by larsga 11y ago
Kapuscinski has an outstanding piece on both of these projects in his book "Imperium". Basically, the real purpose of these projects was to remove all the private fruit gardens and replace them with state-owned cotton farms. State
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by larsga 11y ago
The dialogue is about energy sources, but that's irrelevant when there are whole lines of economic activity that consume very little energy. A service economy can deliver economic growth while energy consumption falls. This whole dialo
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by larsga 11y ago
This is very unlikely to be a real conversation. A real economist would note that the economy can grow through provision of services that require very little energy relative to the value they add. Consider Google, for example. Sure, they us
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by larsga 11y ago
This is misleading twice over. First, as a3_nm notes, this proof depends on unproven conjectures, and so this isn't proven yet. Secondly, it is possible to do better than the Wagner-Fischer algorithm in certain cases. I figured this
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by larsga 18y ago
Actually, I don't see that you're guaranteed that this would terminate at all. This algorithm could easily work down to a local minimum and then find that there's no route from there to the correct solution.