monfrere

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by monfrere 8y ago
How is Bing a pile of garbage? It takes some effort to come up with a search for which it or ddg are markedly worse than google. FWIW I still use google.
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by monfrere 8y ago
That's how the BBC does their headlines. Anytime something is in quotes, prepend the headline with "Someone says:". For whatever reason they won't write headlines longer than 6 or 7 words.
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Break up Google(apps.bostonglobe.com)
41 points by monfrere 8y ago|10 comments
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by monfrere 8y ago
I think it doesn't work well for questions with simple answers; it's meant for more open-ended questions. I got much better responses for some random questions I just thought up: "What will AI enable in the future?" &quo
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by monfrere 8y ago
But spoken Chinese is quite different from written Chinese, which allows for more economy. Often a single character will be used in writing where a two-character word would be used in speech. And people's names usually can't be de
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Semantic experiences: Experiments in understanding language(research.google.com)
1 points by monfrere 8y ago|0 comments
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by monfrere 8y ago
FWIW, I am American, and I would absolutely object if Google were building weapons for the Chinese military. I would stop using Microsoft products if it turned out they supplied weapons for the Russian takeover of Crimea. I would delete my
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by monfrere 8y ago
Your discussion of "legality" here is U.S.-centric. Google has offices in Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Turkey, U.A.E., India, and China, to name a few. How would you feel if Google worked on military technology for those count
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by monfrere 8y ago
Not everyone thinks that the U.S. drone program has much to do with keeping free nations safe and prosperous.
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by monfrere 9y ago
How senior are you? I would first spend some time hunting for innovative teams within Google to transfer to. There are plenty of boring jobs at Google but also plenty of ambitious small teams working on startup-like projects. Even cute expe
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by monfrere 9y ago
I'm surprised Uber is funding general AI research given their reported financial situation.
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by monfrere 9y ago
> I have this theory that they've noticed that the platform is being used less and less, and is why we're getting so much ads mixed with our friends' posts. They're milking the cow before it dies. Um, no. Facebook rem
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Map of Bay Area memespace (2013/17)(juliagalef.com)
1 points by monfrere 9y ago|0 comments
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by monfrere 9y ago
This should not be downvoted. One sees the source before the colon more often than after the colon, but it is common to see the source after the colon in some publications. I see several instances (e.g., "Corporate lobbying helped dera
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by monfrere 9y ago
I believe what she wrote, and I believe you do too, which is why we both keep quoting her. I disagree that either of my imagined scenarios are inconsistent with what she wrote. But thanks anyway for trying to answer my questions.
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by monfrere 9y ago
With complete sincerity and honesty, I think either sequence of events I described could match what Yeoh wrote. If I said to someone, "You really gotta go, sorry", I might well describe that later to a friend using the words Yeoh
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by monfrere 9y ago
I have experienced similarly persistent (or arguably even more persistent) unwanted sexual advances from other men, but I certainly didn't feel "assaulted". As a socially clueless gay man, I was hoping someone could help eluc
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by monfrere 9y ago
Oh, right, subfield of the complex numbers. Now sigma is supposed to be an automorphism on that subfield. Which means sigma does take scalar values as arguments, contrary to what stablemap said...
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by monfrere 9y ago
OK, thanks. Your answer has allowed me to follow the paper a little further, though I think your answer may be inconsistent with the other two answers I got. Also I haven't been able to show myself that if the x_i are the roots of an i
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by monfrere 9y ago
> σ acts on rational functions like f and g This is what I was missing. But the paper also says σ is an automorphism of Q(x_1, ... x_n). Which is weird, since I thought Q(x_1, ... x_n) was a subfield of the reals (not a field of rational
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by monfrere 9y ago
> Your sigma is a bijection on rational functions of a, b, not on the evaluations of those functions at particular values of a and b. I see, this is the key point I was missing. But now I am confused as to whether Q(x_1, x_2) is supposed
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by monfrere 9y ago
Can anyone help me understand what is happening at the bottom of page 23 (page 3 of the PDF)? It says any permutation sigma of x_1, ..., x_n can be extended to a bijection of Q(x_1, ..., x_n) defined by sigma f(x_1, ..., x_n) = f(sigm
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by monfrere 10y ago
Troubling. Thanks for sharing. I wonder how the percent of innocents killed by drone strikes compares to the number for non-drone combat.
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by monfrere 10y ago
Is typing speed really the bottleneck when programming? For me, it's definitely either the speed of thought or the time it takes to look up names, interfaces, etc.
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by monfrere 10y ago
First, I would point out that bombings, drone strikes etc. have definitely been the target of criticism from sectors of the left. Although I would agree that the outrage has not reached this scale. I can think of several reasons. I don&#x
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by monfrere 10y ago
I think you may misunderstand what the right to be forgotten usually refers to. It's not about a user's "data" such as emails or online comments; it's usually about news articles that mention a person. Surely you wo
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by monfrere 10y ago
> The Times did the exact opposite and had a political campaign proofread stories before publication. This is false, or misleading at best, if you're referring to the Mark Leibovich profile of Clinton. He sent an off-the-record tran
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by monfrere 10y ago
I read the leaked emails referred to in these articles, and I don't see much that is troubling about NYT's behavior. This is just how journalism works: the reporter has to request/negotiate access to the source. The PR folks
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by monfrere 10y ago
You might look into api.ai.
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by monfrere 10y ago
I took this class a couple of years ago. It's outdated and overrated imho, with nowhere enough mathematical rigor to be useful. For example, the discussion of support vector machines (and classification in general if I recall correctly

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