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by lgessler 9y ago
Epic (the EMR vendor) has all employees in an office of at most two people, with one per office being the goal.
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by lgessler 9y ago
You are noting that the logical atomism in the Tractatus reminds us of a large software system, which it does. The problem is that logical atomism isn't actually tenable, as many (not least W himself) have pointed out. But you'v
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by lgessler 9y ago
I think your tone is inappropriate given the seriousness of the matter at hand. Please try to be more charitable in trying to understand why someone might have claimed something like that.
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by lgessler 9y ago
A lot of this language's unreadability is due to how it was originally interpreted instead of compiled because of the cost of memory at the time of its invention: > Since memory was tight originally, the language design for MUMPS va
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by lgessler 9y ago
Let me do away with the word "strawman"--perhaps I have misused the word here. My point is that noobermin suggests that there are only two "bundles of rights" that we may give to organisms: those that we have traditional
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by lgessler 9y ago
This is quite a strawman. While there are some people in the world who do what you describe (but for different reasons)[1], doing away with the binary (and highly suspect) barrier of "rationality" that that has been invoked at lea
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by lgessler 9y ago
I am sure that your prolonged exposure to these farm animals has given you valuable insights into the nature of these animals. But I think you'd agree that informal observation has serious epistemological shortcomings. (I presume from
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by lgessler 9y ago
Do you feel the same way about pork or beef?
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by lgessler 9y ago
In short, State Department money. Namely: http://clscholarship.org/ https://startalk.umd.edu/public/about
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by lgessler 9y ago
Ayurvedic medicine is far from infallible. Take this for instance, a selection from a reasonably popular Ayurvedic text ( https://www.amazon.in/Bhojan-Chikitsa-1-Ganesh-Narayan-Chauh... ) that is aimed at a general audience a
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by lgessler 9y ago
See also: http://rust-class.org/ (Note though that this uses Rust as it was in 2014.)
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by lgessler 9y ago
Note that the 3rd edition isn't entirely finished yet. A full table of planned chapters is here: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3
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by lgessler 9y ago
I think they're imagining situations where an attacker could gain user-level access to a machine that normally wouldn't be accessible to them at all, e.g. a web server with a weak SSH login.
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by lgessler 9y ago
For a summary of modern understanding of the connection between language and thought, see the SEP's section on Whorfianism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/linguistics/#Who
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by lgessler 9y ago
This claim is analogous to one like "Bill Nye is not a race car driver, so we should take his account of how centrifugal force acts on a race car on a bank with a grain of salt." It's true that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has
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Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate (2011) [pdf](complex-systems.com)
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by lgessler 9y ago
A friend of mine is a female PhD candidate in astrophysics, a predominantly male field. She entered graduate school expecting sexism and harassment, and unfortunately that expectation has in large part been borne out. However, one reason wh
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Linguistics 575: Ethics in NLP(faculty.washington.edu)
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by lgessler 9y ago
I'm not sure about that. As I understand it, W's argument against private language is essentially that there is no way for a single person to be sure that they are following rules and that those rules are consistent over time. It
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by lgessler 9y ago
Note that the "take the first codepoint" approach doesn't work for all languages. Take Hindi for example. This is a name: प्रेरणा 'preraṇa' The convention for initials in Hindi is such that this would
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by lgessler 9y ago
With much sensitivity to the physical and emotional turmoil the author must be experiencing right now, I disagree with his advice: > Stop just assuming you have a full lifetime to do whatever it is you dream of doing. Rare and catastroph
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by lgessler 9y ago
> I hear German is very grammatical, and that Hungarian is ... erm odd ? Just want to point out that "grammatical" probably isn't the word you want here. Every language is grammatical by definition in the sense that there
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by lgessler 9y ago
> It's hard to believe a person of high IQ is not going to be well-read and/or well educated. What of high IQ individuals who are born into low- or middle-class families, who didn't have their parents read them 19th centur
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by lgessler 9y ago
Re: the Wordsum test, I can't believe it is seriously used to assess IQ. If we assume that all participants know all of the words used, then maybe it would have some merit. But so many of the words used are either archaic, little-use
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by lgessler 9y ago
I feel compelled to mention Spacemacs in response to some of the comments here. In terms of configuration required for reasonable productivity, Spacemacs is macOS, and a plain Emacs install is Arch Linux. Spacemacs gives you sensible config
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by lgessler 9y ago
The idea reminds me of Dori-Mic and the Universal Machine: http://www.dori-mic.org/
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by lgessler 10y ago
Is there a source you could cite or are you assuming?
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by lgessler 10y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, but what would you say if it turned out that after much effort the engineering team was unable to make performance equal across all skin tones?
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by lgessler 10y ago
I don't know if MS has earned the benefit of my doubt, but it's conceivable that the software could have implemented platform-specific behavior or optimizations that ended up slowing things down for some reason.
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by lgessler 10y ago
Is Earley's algorithm fruitfully used for any particular natural language and task?

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