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by lgessler 4y ago
What's the point of "safety" if it's not needed anymore, as it seems not to be under nogil? If that's right, then modulo regressions/bugs possibly introduced by nogil, the choice is really just between worse or
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by lgessler 4y ago
I think GP's point is that immutable objects (which Clojure uses "by default") can be easily used in concurrent settings. Immutable objects can be shared without concern between threads, whereas mutable objects may need to be
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by lgessler 4y ago
I'm bear on web3 but you can't seriously say that with a straight face. The average person doesn't, won't, and in a way can't use a password manager, and measures like 2FA which mitigate weak password security still
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by lgessler 4y ago
Again, I don't think German is exceptional in this regard: we have English "catbird" (so called for its call), "bush baby" (for a small primate which is not a baby), "lady finger" (a regional name for okra
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by lgessler 5y ago
It's ironic because English is just as compound friendly. Take a German compound like Sprachwissenschaft ("language-science", i.e. linguistics). Now consider an English compound like "Earth science". The only differ
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by lgessler 5y ago
That's certainly the intuition most people would have about this, but it's still interesting to see it borne out when in principle there could have been other, surprising signals that cats respond to in order to right themselves.
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by lgessler 5y ago
How do CRDTs work with denormalized data, or more generally, data where some fields have invariants that must be maintained between them? Let's say we have an object with an array of strings and a count of that array: { &
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by lgessler 5y ago
https//lgessler.com Nothing fancy, just an academic website with a short bio and some pubs. Source is in org-mode, which I compile to HTML and host via github pages.
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by lgessler 5y ago
That's a reason not to use Oracle--GP's asking for a reason to use Oracle.
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by lgessler 5y ago
This is referred to as the varṇamālā: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Letters Here's a good explanation from Richard Salomon (2003), "Writing Systems of the Indo-Aryan Languages". Note the start
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by lgessler 5y ago
Cool project! Something to consider: "Transformer"[1] is already used to refer to a popular element of state of the art deep neural networks, especially ones that are used on natural language, i.e. text. That might make this name
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by lgessler 5y ago
PyTorch has become the de facto standard for research (meaning cutting edge models often have their sole implementation in PyTorch), and TF has had a much more unstable and uh, baroque API. It should be mentioned that while some of that API
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by lgessler 5y ago
It makes more sense when you consider that this seems to be intended as an alternative to (Jupyter, etc.) notebooks, which are a major way of communicating methods in the data science segment of the Python community. Notebooks are linear se
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by lgessler 5y ago
Are you talking about the languages themselves, or the languages plus their ecosystems (of libraries, design idioms, etc.)? Because if you're just talking about the PL itself, I'd really disagree
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by lgessler 5y ago
I'm not a DB expert, but aren't most queries bottlenecked by disk bandwidth? If so, addtl queries might hurt more than help.
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by lgessler 5y ago
2x4TB WD reds[1] in RAID1 on an old (ca. 2008) desktop I turned into a low-spec Linux box. These days I just keep it powered off most of the time, so I don't even really pay for electricity. Unfortunately even though I'm using red
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by lgessler 5y ago
Old Blizzard is dead and has been for almost a decade--the name's the same but their job now is not to make great games that push the envelope in game design but rather to manage cash-printing franchises. It's hard not to think th
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by lgessler 5y ago
"simple" -- I wish we'd retire this word. We're all in the desert, and there is not yet an oasis.
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by lgessler 5y ago
Programming in Haskell. Jokes aside, do you really not understand what GP means? "Real-world constraints" are the things like having to make money or having to do something with only 2 other programmers to help you. Nobody's
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by lgessler 5y ago
NLTK might not be the best example of this--it was originally written for pedagogical purposes[1]. One that was sorely needed, too, as in 2006 it was very difficult for a student in an intro to NLP class to easily track down and use existin
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by lgessler 5y ago
Why do you feel as though you ought to read it? Best to think of PM like any other academic text, I reckon: primarily in conversation with contemporary issues/works, brimming with presuppositions of shared knowledge because of this, an
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It’s time to stop demonizing “invasive” species(vox.com)
3 points by lgessler 5y ago|0 comments
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by lgessler 5y ago
The core language itself and stdlibs, sure, it'd take just several dozen hours to pick it up. That goes for any high-level, C-family programming language around today, really. Can you do that and be nearly as productive in PHP (or any
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by lgessler 5y ago
Dev communities are actually primarily for writing ad hoc documentation. From that perspective, the answer to which platform one ought to use for them is very clear.
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by lgessler 5y ago
by "everything" I think GP is referring to the JS ecosystem
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by lgessler 5y ago
Interesting that the HMM chapter has been moved to the appendix in the 3ed. A consequence of how deep neural nets (CRFs in particular) have supplanted them for most use cases.
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The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax (1989) [pdf](lel.ed.ac.uk)
3 points by lgessler 5y ago|0 comments
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by lgessler 5y ago
As a counterpoint from a linguist, everyone who's intrigued by this or the (nearly a century old!) "Eskimos have 100 words for snow" trope should read Geoff Pullum's "The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax"[0]: &quot
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by lgessler 5y ago
Zipf's law has been found to be very robust empirically, so you can also assume the same holds (top 100 account for 50% of volume) for Inuit languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
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by lgessler 5y ago
Link to the interop lib for Clojure you're referring to for people who don't know it: https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj Really a remarkable feat of engineering. Here's its author giving a talk:

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