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From the article: "Typst... can, for example, easily split large tables across page breaks, something that LaTeX struggles with even with specialized packages." That would be nice. I remember when I first started working with La
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Less intel. What could possibly go wrong?
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Speaking to the Secret Service agent who found this: "These aren't the SIMs you're looking for."
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Thanks, but I get "unauthorized" with this URL. I tried cutting off everything from the '?' right, but still got the same message.
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Two languages I can think of that have approximately the number of phonemes that some of those sign lists have are Hawai'ian (at least 13 phonemes, depending on how you analyze vowel length and diphthongs) and Central Rotokas (11 phone
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"Can we say 'language representation that is not a transcription of a spoken one'?" Of course: sign languages. But sign languages have even more "phonemes" than spoken languages do, so this doesn't help
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Another skeptical take on Langer's experiment ( https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/06/hotels-and-houseplants-wh... , June 2024): "...this widely-cited and influential work was never published in a peer-review
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"I think this sort of presentation isn't likely to convince linguists." Speaking as a linguist... you're right, it doesn't convince me. Nearly all languages have more sounds (phonemes) than the symbols shown in mo
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An interesting problem, particularly with handwritten documents. And not limited to what they worked on, from their conclusion: "...the number of clustering levels is not limited to two, since document layout tasks are extremely diver
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I am not understanding this: "It can’t directly predict who will develop Alzheimer’s, but it does identify who could be at a higher risk." I get the part that it can't "directly predict", but what does it mean to &
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In many cases--longitudinal studies are an example, but not the only one--that's not feasible. And it's often expensive--who would pay for it?
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"on average, women tend to learn languages easier than men": I'm a linguist (although not an expert on second language learning), and I've never heard that. Citation?
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His story here https://www.jeffwofford.com/wp/?p=2227 probably tells you a lot about him.
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Fiddle, I was ninja'd by seven hours. But yes, great article, although it's light on what he thinks should replace and/or complement neural nets (including, but not limited to LLMs). But given The Guardian's audience,
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You're right, but: there's a one-to-one correspondence between some of these transliteration systems and the Arabic script (at least the Arabic script as used for Arabic, not for Arabic script as used for Urdu, western Punjabi, Pa
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There are many existing transliteration systems for Arabic, among them SATTS (developed to allow for transmission of Arabic text over telegraphs), the Buckwalter system (developed by Tim Buckwalter), Arabic chat alphabets (used in electroni
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Solar would not work when you're out past Uranus or so, and the Sun is just a bright star with barely a visible disk. There's simply not enough sunlight out there, and you won't get enough light from your destination(s) star
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"UNIX pipelines": Yes, this is where I stopped reading. The author claims that > UNIX pipelines routinely compose dozens of programs into complex > workflows, yet they require no type checking at the transport > layer. T
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I stand by my comment; apparently you don't recognize hyperbole when you see it. At any rate, there's absolutely no reason for a command in any programming language to require open and close XML tags: it's a waste of space, a
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People who do live long and well, chose the right parents.
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But Bilbo Baggins! And my cat recently had his one hundred eleventieth birthday, based on one cat year = five human years. (He's now about 23.)
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I read an article somewhere around 1960 that predicted we'd achieve travel at the speed of light in 25 years (I forget the real number, but within the lifetime of many people living then), and exceed the speed of light shortly thereaft
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On what grounds do you contend that it's not a programming language? There are other declarative programming languages, like Prolog, so I fail to see how the fact that it's a "declarative transform" makes it any less of
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I was using it to transform DocBook XML into LaTeX, based on an existing tool that used xslt code to do just that ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/dblatex/ ). We had to modify the existing xslt code to allow for
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Fiction, but interesting nonetheless: the 1992 film "Sneakers", with Robert Redford among others. The MacGuffin is a mathematician who discovers another way to factor large numbers.
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Well said. I once had the displeasure of trying to write some code in XSLT (it had to fit in with existing XSLT code). It had to be the worst programming language I'd ever seen, with the possible exception of assembler. First, who d
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I worry that the pharmaceutical companies won't have the funding to develop vaccines for new variants of existing diseases (like the yearly Covid-19 and flu variants), or even for "new" diseases (e.g. there's a dog vacci
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"Windows Subsystem" is a compound noun. It could serve as a noun phrase in a sentence like "Windows Subsystem is nice" or "I like Windows Subsystem", although without some article or other determiner (like &qu
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I wrote the comment you're referring to, but it wasn't intended as a complete schema, rather as a way of saying two nouns in a compound can be related in most any way. The interpretation is pragmatic and conventional, not syntact
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Reads like it was written by an AI.

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