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by lqet 6y ago
> Something about journeying to the deep ocean seems so much more terrifying than space. What terrifies me most is the stuff that lives down there [0]. [0] https://www.livescience.com/16231-creepy-deep-sea-creatures-...
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by lqet 6y ago
I have seen this pattern multiple times: (1) tell client completely underdefined problem can be solved automatically, (2) tell developer to implement it, (3) developer spends months trying to automate it, (4) days before the deadline the co
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by lqet 6y ago
> What's “schuleth” then? Maybe something do to with schools? It turns out not. This is a form of “shall, should” but in this context it has its old meaning, now lost, of “owe It's still "schulden" (to owe) in German,
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by lqet 6y ago
> However, Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis expounds that language acquisition occurs only during exposure to new language and not while speaking. I think exposure and actively speaking are the wrong categories - your learn a lang
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by lqet 6y ago
I am regularly seeing Steve Jobs described as a genius both in posts and comments on HN. I am always genuinely wondering: what is this based on? From my perspective, Jobs had an amazing talent for motivating people, and for selling both him
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by lqet 6y ago
> quickly create, refresh, and run terminal "shortcuts" for common commands $ alias shortcut='common command' > jump around the filesystem $ r='/long/complicated/dir' $ cd $r
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by lqet 6y ago
> You see how arbitrary your perception of reality really is. This is the thing that worries me, as I had solipsistic tendencies ever since as a child I try to figure out a way to check if everybody perceives color in the same way. It ca
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by lqet 6y ago
> Whereas, when a machine makes that mistake, somebody fixes the bug and it doesn't happen again. Well, that is kind of the problem with AI. How do you fix a "bug" (if you can even call it that) in a model you cannot fully
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by lqet 6y ago
Of course, this is why I wrote "catastrophic" above. I also would not call an email spellchecker a business use case. Regarding spellcheckers per se: I have worked with book publishing companies in the last few years, and I can as
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by lqet 6y ago
> instead of having the work reviewed by a second person, you can have model + person But the argument still applies then - if only one incident occurs where a catastrophic mistake was not spotted by the model failsafe, and if later in
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by lqet 6y ago
Would you say that in the long run, you get nothing out of learning basic algebra in elementary school by memorizing the techniques of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, because you do not learn anything about group theory?
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by lqet 6y ago
> Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
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by lqet 6y ago
I remember reading somewhere that Alexander the Great was so impressed by the (by then already ruinous) Tower of Babel, that he ordered it to be demolished and re-built. He died before the construction was completed, though. Edit: here is a
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by lqet 6y ago
Watch the video until the end. It seems a bit boring even after the landslide has started, but seeing the entire P̶a̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ Indian Ocean linger at the top of that last bit of land, waiting to plunge into the open space, was fascinatin
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by lqet 6y ago
Ranking and NLP aren't easy. If you are asking a slightly related question (for example, "What is the weather in London"), and if you are living at some place where the nearest major town is called London, but is not London i
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by lqet 6y ago
> Opening a WebSocket to netcat dumps out a HTTP request, so it seems unlikely that you'd be able to talk with anything that doesn't talk HTTP and WebSockets. AFAIK this is only partly true, if the web server does not support t
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by lqet 6y ago
In the mountain behind my home is a similar archive, the Barbarastollen. The documents stored there on microfilm in containers contain stuff like the original building plans of the Cologne Cathedral, the Golden bull, the coronation certific
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by lqet 6y ago
So, judging from the discussion on Twitter, there is basically a single guy at Google handling issues like that. > FWIW Tweeting at other Googlers will probably just get them to me – not that I have a problem with that. At the moment the
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by lqet 6y ago
For me, this only works when I start drawing balls. When I start with the tip or the shaft, all I get is wild doodling.
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by lqet 6y ago
patentless patent·less not having or requiring a license of a particular kind and without permission "patentless wireless communications" a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine lea
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by lqet 6y ago
After skimming over the source code, I noticed that the article is transferred to the browser as a JSON containing the article as a string in their own markup language, which is translated to the DOM after the page has loaded. I am seriousl
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by lqet 6y ago
How was your experience with the keyboard? Is it usable?
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Ask HN: Which smartphone to buy as a tool, not a toy
8 points by lqet 6y ago|20 comments
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by lqet 6y ago
Years ago I discovered that there are many poems you don't have to wilfully memorize, but which you "learn" like you learn melodies, very quickly and totally unconscious. For me, this includes for example Poe's "Rav
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by lqet 6y ago
Most of the comments here seem to miss the crucial point: it doesn't matter whether the DMCA really applies here. Github is privately owned. If Microsoft wants to take down this repository (which they host for free), they are most cert
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by lqet 6y ago
+1 for self-hosting. Doing that for nearly 10 years now, by far the most difficult part is setting up a mail server, but after that you can put on your resume that you know how to configure Postfix (which I am quite certain is one of the mo
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by lqet 6y ago
> This is what free gmail means to me. Same goes for youtube I would add (free) Github to that list.
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Climbing Towards Natural Language Understanding(openreview.net)
3 points by lqet 7y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 7y ago
> I keep wondering how many of the psychological problems arise from people having children much much later in their lives than used to be normal This is also something I have been thinking about for a long time now. The human body, inst
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by lqet 7y ago
Could you elaborate on how giving life to a human being and dedicating the next 20 years of your own life (and the major part of your income) on bringing the child up is self-centered and repulsive? How on earth can you derive the parentin

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