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by lkozma 15y ago
I agree with your point (moreso than with the article itself), and I would add that growing up as a member of a "traditional" ethnic minority in a country also gives you extra perspectives (even besides the automatic learning of two languag
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by lkozma 15y ago
There might also be an effect of continuous education hiding unemployment or rather, to put it bluntly, some people who would otherwise be unemployed, hiding in the education system. Many of those with high school diploma who are not unempl
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by lkozma 15y ago
Can someone objectively describe Wolfram's main scientific accomplishments?
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by lkozma 15y ago
Yes, that was the one I was thinking about. Apparently I write like Cory Doctorow :) Added link.
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Web app ideas(lkozma.net)
92 points by lkozma 15y ago|18 comments
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by lkozma 15y ago
Still a long way until they match the perks of more traditional industries: http://economicsnewspaper.com/policy/spain/the-insurer-munic...
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by lkozma 15y ago
" Don’t just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Wh
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by lkozma 15y ago
Nice :) But still, there is a bit difference with or without the umlauts on the o's: there's gombóc (=dumpling), probably from gomb (=button, knot) plus diminutive, and gömböc, from gömb (=sphere) with diminutive. "Kis gömböc" is the "meatb
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by lkozma 15y ago
Sorry for your loss. It's interesting that it is a worldview adopted by many Christian groups, since for example, the book of Job from the bible is basically on this topic: to simplify, Job becomes sick, friends come and say everything happ
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by lkozma 15y ago
On a related note, I received a (regular, handwritten) mail from Donald Knuth today, in reply to an email in which I reported some (what I thought were) small errors in TAOCP (which turned out not to be errors afterall - so no reward check
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by lkozma 15y ago
Sure, but there are shades :) ADD: also, some people would go like: "OK, this is probably nothing new. Why was it in someone's interest to report this news now and whose interest was it."
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by lkozma 15y ago
Not sure, but whenever it is in the news that something in fast food or in cola is found to be harmful or addictive or whatever, the reaction of most people is never outrage but more like "no kidding, what did you expect" :)
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by lkozma 15y ago
The story is not as improbable as it sounds at first. To be clear, he was not a coal miner, but an electrician in a coal mine. He said he started work at 6am, but ended at 1pm. This is not too bad actually. In communist Romania, miners were
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by lkozma 15y ago
I'm just guessing here but in this case it could be that the abuse doesn't mean extra traffic but people using it to generate text to fill pages with, in effect tricking the search engine.
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by lkozma 15y ago
I agree that learning to produce and interpret varied utterances is a worthy goal, but the fact is that (far as it still is today) lowly statistical methods have gotten us closer to this goal than the other, chomskian approach. It could be
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by lkozma 15y ago
I think Norvig acknowledges the point you are making here, namely that the statistical approach does not explain the cognitive systems behind language. However (if I understand correctly) he implies that those systems might be too complex t
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Show HN: inequalities cheat sheet(lkozma.net)
1 points by lkozma 15y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 15y ago
Here's a detailed write-up of some of the advantages and disadvantages of Forth and the philosophy that surrounds it: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi...
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by lkozma 15y ago
I'd like to: - learn the 4 balls mills mess juggling pattern (almost there) - become fluent in German (still quite far)
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Timelapse video of a summer and a winter day in Finland(youtube.com)
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by lkozma 15y ago
Exactly. That comment is like the usual "too much time on his hands" insult: http://boingboing.net/2002/02/03/too-much-time-on-his.html
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by lkozma 15y ago
Yeah, I meant it just from a linguistic point of view. The original question was about "different approaches and concepts" and this clearly applies to human languages as well. Some use gender for some purpose, some don't, some express poses
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by lkozma 15y ago
Nice list and interesting point. I haven't heard of Boroditsky before. To your list I would add Finnish or Hungarian for some hard-core agglutinative features. I don't speak Turkish, so I cannot tell to what extent it behaves similarly in t
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by lkozma 15y ago
A similar question could be asked for human languages.
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by lkozma 15y ago
To be fair, many things that exist today would have been considered AI back then. Part of the problem with AI, as John Neumann observed it already is that if you can formulate precisely enough what you want, you are already on the way to so
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by lkozma 15y ago
Yes, my mistake, I saw the "According to Pinker..." paragraph first. AFAIK they are siblings otherwise.
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by lkozma 15y ago
The article mentions Pinker, but doesn't say anything about his main argument in this question: evolutionary biology suggests that in most abilities there should be higher variance among men than among women (even if the average is equal).
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by lkozma 15y ago
He had a more practical "algorithm" as well: "You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new resul
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by lkozma 15y ago
Similar advice by Paul Halmos on reading maths: "Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical sp
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Ask PG: Which are the oldest, still active user accounts on HN?
1 points by lkozma 16y ago|4 comments

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