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by lgessler 10y ago
The broader point here is that something most people in the developed world do not realize at first is that a writing system is not an important part of how many (I'd wager most) people use their language. In other words, the spoken la
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by lgessler 10y ago
Nearly half of languages of the world continue to have no writing system: https://www.ethnologue.com/enterprise-faq/how-many-languages...
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My point is that what qualifies as incompetence is extremely subjective. Saying "this person's work is incompetent", I think, usually amounts to nothing more than "this person made mistakes in their work that turn out to
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by lgessler 10y ago
Where is the line to be drawn? Should the line remain there for everyone even if people vary in endowment in natural ability, opportunity for experience, and access to education?
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by lgessler 10y ago
As others point out, this translation was done more recently, though I have experienced your general point: that the writing of a skilled author can endure a few centuries longer than that of their contemporaries. The Journal of John Woolm
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by lgessler 10y ago
It's regrettable that he ends with praise for Strunk and White. There probably is such a thing as "good writing", but The Elements of Style does little to direct us to it. Its advice is largely specious. See what Pullum has
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by lgessler 10y ago
Is anyone investigating how well these numbers fit a Zipf distribution?
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by lgessler 10y ago
One of my favorite snippets: >You know what's good for you, and you know what's right. But it doesn't matter - the wickedness of the temptation is too much. >The JS world is brimming with shiny component baubles: D3, Go
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by lgessler 10y ago
Heh, of course the Madisonian would figure it out :)
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by lgessler 10y ago
MUMPS. Despite its strong resemblance to compiler IR and lack of a type system, it is the standard DB in Health IT in America.
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by lgessler 10y ago
For outlining, my initial reaction is to reach for two things: 1. Kalman filters to track an object in motion within a frame [1] 2. Edge detection on the subframe you got from (1) [2] Both appear to be available out of the box in OpenCV[3][
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by lgessler 10y ago
There's a really straightforward approach to turning video into feature vectors which you can readily plug into any old ML algorithm. You can turn every decoded frame (which is essentially a PNG, right?) into a (Width*Height)x1 vector,
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by lgessler 10y ago
(Sorry, this is mildly off-topic.) Not sure if this fits your usecase, but you should check out codesearch if you haven't already: https://github.com/google/codesearch (Russ Cox's excellent writeup is here:
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by lgessler 10y ago
> but working together with people who have less of this trait always ends/ended in a tragedy. If by that you mean you were then unable to collaborate with them, perhaps you have less of this than you imagined?
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by lgessler 10y ago
TL;DR: Going to an elite school 1. denies you the opportunity to empathize with anyone beyond a narrow spectrum of socioeconomics and culture 2. anoints you with a sense of self-worth and entitlement that is, if earned at all, only founded
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by lgessler 10y ago
I think what they meant was that the specific answer made the question uninteresting.
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by lgessler 10y ago
I don't think that's a good counterargument--there are hundreds and probably thousands of data points in those regions. Using a simplistic metaphor, what are the odds that when all the cultures in the world rolled the dice to deci
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by lgessler 10y ago
Isn't the answer to this the same as the answer to Jung's hypothesis? > “Myths are first and foremost psychic phenomena that reveal the nature of the soul,” Jung argued. But the dissemination of Cosmic Hunt stories around the w
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by lgessler 10y ago
This isn't true--the study considered 4,000 languages from all the world's major language families: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/09/06/1605782113.abst...
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by lgessler 10y ago
I'm not sure if you realize the great differences in generality between this study and previous studies in sound-meaning associations. First, this study drew from ~4,000 languages representing all the world's major language famili
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by lgessler 10y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I had an old hackathon project that seemed cool but didn't really have a good application (essentially, end-to-end encrypted Socket.IO implemented on top of Keybase filesystem: https://github.com&#x2
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by lgessler 10y ago
The thing is, though, would those be allowed by style guides at the enterprise companies where C# is most common? The C# style guide of a former employer of mine (an enterprise C# user) forbids both of these snippets because of the unbraced
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by lgessler 10y ago
When I read their comment I thought of how much annotation of static types you have to do that compilers in other languages are smart enough to figure out on their own. Consider the following snippet in C#: public static IList<Ephr
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by lgessler 10y ago
Dave Evans at the University of Virginia taught a class on that in Spring 2014: http://rust-class.org/ Rust has changed a lot since then, but you might take a look there.
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by lgessler 10y ago
Sorry, completely glossed over it. Looks like we agree on this :)
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The premise you're assuming only holds if socioeconomics is constant. Imagine being the child of two software engineers living in a house in the suburbs with your own room and computer. Now imagine being the child of a single mother wh
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by lgessler 10y ago
Could you explain why you think "privilege" is a buzzword? If it had been peppered into the article haphazardly that would be another matter, but I felt that the author used it to help emphasize how different circumstances are bet
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by lgessler 10y ago
It might be interesting to consider bodies some countries have created to regulate language use. In particular, in some some cases (as far as I'm aware), they do their best to purge the language of foreign loanwords. See French's
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by lgessler 11y ago
cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563244
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by lgessler 11y ago
FWIW, this is Meteor's justification in /usr/local/bin/meteor: # This is the script that we install somewhere in your $PATH (as "meteor") # when you run # $ curl https://install.m

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