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by mjd 2y ago
Leaving Norvig out of it, it seems to me that there is some shame in taking a reasonably straightforward problem like this one, thrashing around with it for months or years without producing an effective solution, and then being unable to s
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by mjd 2y ago
Obviously we should build a system which can reliably detect and correct people looking up and resolve the concern.
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by mjd 2y ago
I feel silly saying this, but I wish the author would use more periods and fewer exclamation marks.
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by mjd 2y ago
This sounds great, except I don't live in those places. Is there a similar product that works in the USA?
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by mjd 2y ago
That's why they pay us the big bucks.
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by mjd 2y ago
My Korean tutor said the same thing about “the”. I said “doesn't it just mean there is only one instance?" and he replied "the police". For the benefit of other folks wanting to follow up the "take off" thing:
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by mjd 2y ago
https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html (Same concept, from 2009)
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by mjd 2y ago
Right? It's baffling.
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by mjd 2y ago
Better luck next time! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41321292
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by mjd 2y ago
I've revised the article to make this clearer. Thanks for pointing out the problem.
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by mjd 2y ago
That is what the former means. It's probabilistic because we assume (or at least hope) everyone is doing as I do, rolling an n-sided die to decide if they will write -10(n-1) instead of writing 10.
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by mjd 2y ago
LEEROY JENKINS!!
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by mjd 2y ago
A great many people have told me “Mark, someday you're going to have to grow up and learn to do things the way everyone else does them.” Those people were wrong.
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by mjd 2y ago
Franklin also said that if you want someone to like you, then you should ask them to do you a small favor because then you'll be indebted to them, and that makes you less threatening. But if you do someone else a favor, they will tend
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by mjd 2y ago
But the price of goods is going to be completely different because of availability, shipping costs, import duties, etc. etc. etc. Franklin's Autobiography has that famous story about his first day in Philadelphia when he tried to buy t
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by mjd 2y ago
I'm glad I could help.
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by mjd 2y ago
I had tried out that Bank of England page, while I was writing the article, but I decided not to mention it. It wasn't clear to me that £10 in London in 1735 would mean the same thing as £10 in Philadelphia, where hard money was probab
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by mjd 2y ago
Possibly relevant to your interests: https://blog.plover.com/2020/12/30/
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by mjd 2y ago
We prefer DARK MOMINUS.
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by mjd 2y ago
Like I'm going to believe some guy who doesn't even know how to spell "almanac"
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by mjd 2y ago
Who is this "Franklin" guy he keeps talking about? Franklin Roosevelt?
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by mjd 2y ago
If you want to make it about rights, how about this: People have the right to do what they want with their own belongings. And in particular, land owners have a right to build what they want on land that they own. In my country the Consti
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by mjd 2y ago
How is that relevant? Unlike Le Guin, the translators of the KJV knew the original languages.
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by mjd 2y ago
> I don't fault her on this I do. She didn't know Chinese. For her to attempt a translation (by mashing up earlier translations) shows contempt for Chinese culture and literature. https://www.jstor.org/stable&#
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by mjd 2y ago
I was asked a while back to do a 4–6 hour take-home project. I would have told them where to stick their 4–6 hour project, except it involved writing a Flask server, and I wanted to learn how to write a Flask server. I wasn't offered
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by mjd 3y ago
Something in the article I don't understand: > Cog lets you use the full power of Python for text generation, without a templating system dumbing down your tools for you. I would have said that Cog is a templating engine. What dis
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by mjd 3y ago
Just FYI, m4 was in the original Unix in 1977, years before the GNU project began. (It was invented by Kernighan and Ritchie.) Thanks for the VS tip.
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by mjd 3y ago
“fuck the sun” https://www.plover.com/swatch.html
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by mjd 3y ago
Thank you for your kind words!
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by mjd 3y ago
Thanks very much for the followup article! I suspected that sksksnrpny was correct, and that the direct forward construction given in the paper they referred to would be simpler than the ad-hoc backtracking search I did. But I needed to w

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