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by mcswell 5y ago
I can't get to the article (I've read my two free articles for the month, and I'm a cheapskate), but I have a question. One sort of hybrid system would be of a kind that imposed constraints on the solution that the neural sy
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by mcswell 5y ago
I wonder sometimes how tiny brains work. Take butterflies: they can flit among flowers on a bush or in a small area on the ground; how do they know how to move around so they fly to a nearby flower, then stop and insert their proboscis int
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by mcswell 5y ago
Why is this being posted now? Published over eight months ago, and appeared here before.
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by mcswell 5y ago
Grepping anything that has ANSI color codes would, I would think, be awful. Same for lots of other tools: sed, awk etc. So agreed, piped output should default to no color, and not just for the log file situation.
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by mcswell 5y ago
The timeframe being a few hundred years in our future?
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by mcswell 5y ago
"the enigma never encrypts a letter to itself": I recall that the clue to one day's cypher was a longish document that contained every letter except 'L'. The analyst guessed that it was produced by somebody runnin
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by mcswell 5y ago
Along these lines: a script with over 700 symbols is definitely not an alphabetic script. Possibly syllabic, although most syllabic writing systems have fewer symbols than that. And of course, it may not be a script at all.
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by mcswell 5y ago
Hindutva is a political ideology; Sanskrit and PIE (Proto-Indo-European) were languages, with Sanskrit attested in written form (including an ancient grammar!), but PIE not attested--only reconstructed from the daughter Indo-European langua
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by mcswell 5y ago
That was Sproat et al's point. (Sorry, I can't remember the other authors, I just happen to know Richard Sproat.)
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by mcswell 5y ago
ML over historical languages is no different from ML over currently spoken (and written) languages, with one crucial exception: if the language is still in use, you can get a bigger corpus. About dictionary making: there are several program
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by mcswell 5y ago
Actually, you can get a readout on lexical semantics (the meaning of words) if you have a large enough corpus (much larger than we have for any extinct language). The method uses a vector space of word cooccurrence (look up word2vec). It
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by mcswell 5y ago
The first question is--if I understand what you're proposing--(relatively) easy. The second is much harder, perhaps impossible. The reason the first question is relatively easy is because of syntax (sentence order, but also the order
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by mcswell 5y ago
According to https://spaceflight101.com/spx/spacex-raptor/ , a Raptor engine consumes 194kg/sec of fuel (methane); adding the methane and the LOX (fuel + oxidizer) together, it comes to about 930 kg/sec.
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by mcswell 5y ago
We did nuclear fusion in 1952. Controlled nuclear fusion--and producing more power out than goes in--that's another matter.
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by mcswell 5y ago
I thought they were these Kettles: https://youtu.be/ieKTU94-BgI Good at math, but I'm not sure they could boil any water.
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by mcswell 5y ago
In some versions of object oriented programming, some aspects of objects can be queried from the outside, some cannot--they are invisible states. For protons, they may come with a serial number, but we're not allowed to read it because
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by mcswell 5y ago
I guess that's why they invented slide rules. I could get within 3 significant digits on a slide rule (and compute the exponent in my head), whereas I guess the margin of this envelope is too small to contain the calculation.
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by mcswell 5y ago
Looking at the picture in the article, I'd say the proton wasn't too small, rather the ruler was too big.
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by mcswell 5y ago
I won't say this entirely solves the problem for researchers, but several posts here have pointed out that Duck Duck Go gives superior results in this case. I use DDG routinely, and only rarely do I need to go to Google for a search f
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by mcswell 5y ago
The article is an argument against that argument.
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by mcswell 5y ago
Oops. I guess that shows to go, I don't play computer games...
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by mcswell 5y ago
Citrix (a remote desktop app) breaks that; apparently no mouse scrolls are sent to an app on the remote desktop until you click in the Citrix window.. Thunderbird partially breaks it: I just tried with TBird in the background: scrolling th
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by mcswell 5y ago
Also useful in understanding ancient manuscripts that have been partly eaten by termites, or where part of the rock has deteriorated; or palimpsests. In short, you should become a professor of medieval literature, like the good Dr. Henry J
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by mcswell 5y ago
You can't verb just any noun.
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by mcswell 5y ago
"in many cases the languages we're dealing with have no writing, so I do agree. A better Olympiad would have at least included a aural-only portion of the exam." Why? A previously unwritten spoken language can always be wri
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by mcswell 5y ago
"Linguistics is the study of those patterns across different languages." vs. "Linguistics is the study of languages in a scientific manner." I take the first answer to be a bit different: I don't think the emphasis
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by mcswell 5y ago
"if grammar books have to be "thousands of pages long," then at some point they're no longer listing rules but exceptions to them." I've never seen a grammar book that was thousands of pages long, and I'v
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by mcswell 5y ago
By and large, languages have rules, and exceptions are--well, the exception. Exceptions tend to occur more often in common words (perhaps because children don't learn the exceptions in rare words, unless they're drilled on them--
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by mcswell 5y ago
I do the same. The only drawback is that when I move my mouse to some app's control over near the left-hand side of my left-hand monitor, it's likely to overshoot and bring up the task bar/ start menu. I'd be happy jus
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by mcswell 5y ago
I want to see text INSTEAD of those icons. Icons went out with hieroglyphics, and I'm not sure why they've come back.

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