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by ninjin 13y ago
Or here - https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/donations If you, like me, want to use a credit card but live somewhere where PayPal blocks donations (Japan in my case).
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by ninjin 13y ago
The article is just a true gem on how not to do damage control. > The drone is owned by local videographer Warren Abrams who said video footage clearly showed the drone drop just behind the woman. > He said the nature of her injuries
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by ninjin 13y ago
A noble effort and looks like a decent game. As-of-yet though, I think "Papers, Please" is possibly the best take on a dystopian game. The oppression in that game isn't just some puzzle mechanic but the whole monotonous proce
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Stanford Scientists Put Free Text-Analysis Tool on the Web(engineering.stanford.edu)
215 points by ninjin 13y ago|31 comments
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by ninjin 13y ago
Since PayPal won't accept donations from where I live (Japan), here is an alternative way of donating through the Calgary Computer Shop: https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order Having just donated I would like to
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by ninjin 13y ago
What makes the situation even worse is that the PRC and Japanese governments are playing into each others hands. The ongoing conflict is a welcome distraction from the fact that both countries have an enormous need for domestic structural r
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by ninjin 13y ago
> I find the C backlash to the excesses of C++ fascinating. I whole-heartedly agree. Something that blew my mind back in undergraduate school was tree.h by Niels Provos, [1] which is a complete key/value-type agnostic Red-black Tree
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by ninjin 13y ago
Well, one attack that I can come up with immediately is to just create a new wallet, transfer the bitcoins from the flagged wallet, then cash out from the new wallet. Your obvious retort would then be "Aha! But how about we just track
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by ninjin 13y ago
I agree that the article is sensational and what really confuses me is that when I read the article and their press release (found below) they are far more humble and down to earth (I really like the writing and the work in general). My per
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by ninjin 13y ago
> I wonder if the code they release will include some version of the data from the mechnical turk project. I don't know if the "raw" data from MTurk is included in the data set. But at least the finalised data has been rel
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by ninjin 13y ago
Well, if anyone wants a very practical lesson on bias I can highly recommend: http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia_proven_right http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia_proven_wrong I sometimes wond
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by ninjin 13y ago
From what I remember, it is rumoured that Terry Jones asked Douglas Adams for permission to be naked when writing the book.
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by ninjin 13y ago
I will be the first one to admit it, I do occasionally play games as a means to relaxation and I bought StarCraft 2 yesterday. Long story short, playing against other human players on ladder is among the most stressful things I have experie
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by ninjin 13y ago
> "... it's a shame he'll likely need to get tenure before finishing it." Judging by his homepage [1] he is at least on the tenure track. Unless the notion of an Assistant Professor is different over in the states. I
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by ninjin 13y ago
> "...just because something doesn't exist as a documented and 'peer-reviewed' ... piece of categorized research doesn't mean it isn't there, and in many cases important philosophical perspectives from alter
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by ninjin 13y ago
Parsing is one of the most competitive areas of research in NLP and yes, you are correct, doing it well is very difficult. State-of-the-art performance on newswire data is around 95% if you score local structure. miket has already replied w
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by ninjin 13y ago
Also, they have a demo that supplies you with a sentence that you can check and correct in order to teach the model [1]. It was actually easy and nice enough to keep me there for quite some time giving me a few nods/laughs and forcing
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Deeply Moving: Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis(nlp.stanford.edu)
173 points by ninjin 13y ago|45 comments
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by ninjin 13y ago
> "...both tests were done with other researchers (in 2010, with "a team of 35 researchers from the Indian Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS) as well as other organizations") in the largest hospita
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by ninjin 13y ago
> They stopped a few years ago (2006) when the PC media found out that africans and arabs were way, way over-represented in all crime categories. I would love to see a reference verifying the causality that you are implying when it comes
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by ninjin 13y ago
This is the headline that I am getting, "Britain Detains the Partner of a Reporter Tied to Leaks", and I can't say that I can see any "suggestive" wording. Edit: Since the parent was deleted (sigh), it essentially c
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by ninjin 13y ago
I am not sure how often Greenwald himself and the likes of the Wikileaks team travel. But if this is the first time any of them is grabbed and have data taken from them under this given law. Then I think the most interesting question will b
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by ninjin 13y ago
It is similar, but at least according to what Mikolov wrote as a response to reviewer comments regarding LDA/LSA/tf-idf [1], LDA does not preserve linguistic regularities such as king - man + woman ~ queen. I asked for additional
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by ninjin 13y ago
Given the eight years of the Bush administration Europe was as desperate for change as the American left and I think this accounts for most of the initial excitement about him. In hindsight this may seem foolish, but looking back I can reme
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by ninjin 13y ago
Sure, this would block the incoming/outgoing signal. But last time I checked you can still hear your surroundings when inside a Faraday cage/bag. So unless you plan on permanently storing that phone in a bag I can't see how t
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by ninjin 13y ago
As someone that has numerical code at the bottom of my research applications, Numba looks really exciting to me. Shaving off a constant factor means more experiments etc. But one of the nice things about NumPy is that it allows you to make
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by ninjin 13y ago
Indeed, it is also worth mentioning that it is only free during the beta. Something which was not obvious from the download page.
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by ninjin 13y ago
Swedish non-tabloid article with more details: http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/fangelse-for-svartholm-war...
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by ninjin 13y ago
"The true Bulgarians, the educated working Bulgarians are different.", yes, much like the true Scotsmen. Seriously though, does anyone know of a more objective analysis of what is happening in Bulgaria?
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by ninjin 13y ago
> I know that English is a requirement of Swedish universities Sure, to enter you need to meet certain requirements. But according to at least policy (if not law) all lectures for at least the bachelor level must be available in Swedish

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