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The Super Duper NLP Forge(notebooks.quantumstat.com)
2 points by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago|0 comments
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
The dmca.mp4 file is a video of performance art in which about eight women in fancy dresses chant while vigorously mimicking male masturbation. I didn't watch to the end, but the activity appears to go on for a full ten minutes, and I
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
For an organization wishing to preserve its specific mission, I wonder if one positive step would be clearly defining the point at which the organization would say "mission accomplished" and pack itself up. Riffing on your example
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Why Beeminder?(maxwelljoslyn.com)
3 points by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago|0 comments
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Thanks for responding. In syntax, the two languages are quite unalike, so I think the relative "easiness" will come down to whether or not the learner was already a programmer. As for "better:" better at what ? better
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
'Wowfunhappy, I strongly suggest you take a look at the Inform 7 programming language: http://inform7.com/ It is powerful, stable, and addresses many of the issues of using an English-like syntax. It comes with an IDE
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Location: Long Beach, California Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies (Skills): Mandarin Chinese; Python 3; translation/writing/editing/proofreading; game design Résumé/CV: www.maxwelljoslyn.com
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Thanks for posting, Jimmygrapes.
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Thank you for explaining this. As an American, I was unaware.
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Response to my own comment because I can't edit it: Scott Alexander has been giving more information in the SSC subreddit, including the comment I've quoted below. Having read what he has to say, I've changed my mind, and don
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Please see my revised position in a comment to 'rachelshu. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611133 That said: I don't understand how I'm repeating a mistake here. "Cancel culture" has become a
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
> I don't think this is a "that one writer" issue. I think the problems with journalism are bigger than this one writer. Simultaneously, I would like to see NYT take a stance against its writers doing what this one did to
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Point taken regarding the Hsu case. Maybe I jumped the gun there. I don't want it to be the norm for any journalistic organ/employee to function/perform the way this one did. There are many ways to accomplish adoption of that
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
I clicked on this expecting it to be Scott Alexander blogging about somebody else getting doxxed. I flipped like a boat when I realized what I was reading. Holy shit! I was just in SSC's Open Thread a few hours ago opening comment pe
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Take heart, nthnclrk. That side of the Web is not dead. There are loads of people out there running wacky personal websites on every subject you can imagine. Mine[1], for instance, holds poetry, Chinese translations, a videogame, and an ope
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Hi, Josh. You have a typo on the "Write For Us" page: "get our of" should be "get out of". A spellcheck against each page in your navigation bar did not turn up any misspellings -- though that wouldn't hav
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
I appreciate the tip. As it happens, my last full-time position was in clinical (computational linguistics) research. I've definitely applied to positions similar to what you've described, but as cold applications, they went nowhe
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
I would love to do this kind of work. Aside from a general passion for writing and editing, I enjoy describing problems, characterizing existing solutions' strengths and weaknesses, writing docs and user instructions, organizing info
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
Wow. (a) I don't know Python as well as I thought I did. (b) I suddenly never want to use it again. All these edge cases! All these behaviors, which I'm sure were added with the noble intention of increasing developer convenience,
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by maxwelljoslyn 6y ago
If yo like this, check out Tom Brown's website in the same vein: https://www.applesearch.org/
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by maxwelljoslyn 7y ago
> The way people respond to restrictions on use creates new forms and modes of use; new platforms emulating old ones makes sense. Thanks, that helps me understand.
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by maxwelljoslyn 7y ago
> once you manage to make several social apps use the same underlying protocol then the app just becomes an interface Thanks, contravariant! This was the key idea I was missing.
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by maxwelljoslyn 7y ago
> ...systems display what they can. Pixelfed, Mastodon and Plume mostly send `Note`s and `Article`s around, which are easy to display in any of their respective interfaces. Other types like `Video`s will usually be displayed as good as p
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by maxwelljoslyn 7y ago
As an IndieWeb participant, I find the ActivityPub-verse confusing. Perhaps one of you can help me understand. At Southern California Linux Expo, I joined a discussion session to learn more about ActivityPub and the Fediverse. What I took a
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Sith Lord Challenge(maxwelljoslyn.com)
1 points by maxwelljoslyn 7y ago|0 comments
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by maxwelljoslyn 7y ago
Location: Long Beach, CA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Yes (USA only) Technologies: Python 3, Flask, HTML/CSS, Bash, Emacs Lisp ... Inform 7 Résumé/CV: www.maxwelljoslyn.com/static/mjoslyn-hackernews-resume.pdf E
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by maxwelljoslyn 7y ago
There's a typo in the first entry of the demo glossary: "acroynms" should be "acronyms". I ran ispell and didn't see any other typos, though ispell is far from perfect.
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by maxwelljoslyn 7y ago
https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com Begin doggerel: Those hackers who explore my digi-self Just might discover words that they enjoy. With poems, games, translations on my shelf There's something here for every girl and bo
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by maxwelljoslyn 9y ago
That metaflop link is not only a great visual example of what makes this tech cool, but is also fun to use. The immediate feedback which shows input-output relations reminds me of fun had while messing with character-creation sliders in gam
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by maxwelljoslyn 9y ago
God, that's backward. I can't believe that your license is not taken away for YEARS if you hit someone.

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