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by nmfisher 6y ago
I'm not surprised that industry prefers W2V over Transformers, given how heavy-duty the latter can be at inference time. It's been a few years since I looked at it, but IIRC fastText is basically just w2v with subwords, so it&#x27
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by nmfisher 6y ago
If you're really concerned, you can always also compile F# to Mono assemblies (though in my experience it does lag .NET CLR in functionality, so you'll probably need to use an F# version a few minor releases earlier than the offic
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I've lived in Beijing (sub-zero winters) and currently live in Singapore (30 degrees/80%+ humidity year-round). I would much prefer to face a cold winter than hot and humid year-round. The weather is the main reason I'll even
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Last time I checked, ads were literally something like 99% of Google revenue.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
No (at least, not the version I read a few years ago). But transformers are a specific neural network architecture, so I’d still recommend the book for the fundamentals around backpropagation, activation & loss functions, etc. Once you’
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by nmfisher 6y ago
First time I've heard of lbry.tv - just curious, what's the main attraction for you?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I'm not defending recent tech valuations (which I agree are ludicrous), but it's worth remembering that technological superiority != commercial value. It doesn't matter how good you are at building a technically complex produ
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Funnily enough, at the bottom is the following: > Dialup.com has been parked since 1994!
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> Many of these works were shown in London at the Edward Totah Gallery in March 1992 (view installation) and later that year at the Exeter Hotel in Adelaide, Australia. Small world! The Exeter was my local pub all throughout university.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> OpenAI seems to be doing quite well. How so? OpenAI is nowhere near turning a profit, it’s a research lab masquerading as a business. It’s alive only due to massive injections of capital from investors (and when they weren’t prepared t
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Price anchoring is a pretty well researched/understood phenomenon though - as in, whoever comes up with the first number sets the tone for what's "acceptable". Someone who negotiates down from that number feels like they
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I’d be surprised if many sets are premixed, but many are preplanned (as in, the DJ knows which songs he/she will play, in what order, and how many bars out/in to start the fade). Of course, that’s still pretty boring to watch, whi
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by nmfisher 6y ago
The problem is we actually conflate two related, but not identical, concepts when we talk about "bias". The first is statistical bias - feeding algorithms training data that is somehow unrepresentative of the "real world&quot
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by nmfisher 6y ago
That’s a really insightful comment, and also the reason why I think my code quality improved considerably after learning Clojure and F#. I discovered that immutability in functional programming made it far easier to reason about state - som
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I don't think Carmack has ever been "hired" for a job since he was a teenager. So you're right, he's talking about "this makes you desirable in my eyes", not "practical employability through the lens
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by nmfisher 6y ago
The saving grace is that it's (relatively) easy to avoid Apple's ecosystem if you don't like the way they do business (like me). Google/Facebook is much more difficult.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
First time I've ever come across this project, so bear with me. Is it really necessary to use the word "breach" in a big yellow banner at the top? The word "breach" is usually associated with some kind of security
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Because no one eats a bowl of lard?
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by nmfisher 6y ago
It used to be rock-solid, too, but recently it's becoming quite buggy (at least on Windows). I don't know exactly when/which version, but some time in the last 12-18 months.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Do you have a source for that? It’s something I’ve always believed, but have never seen actually rigorously researched. I’ve long suspected the “adult language learning difficulty” is simply due to having less time as you get older (not to
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by nmfisher 6y ago
That could be because Mandarin grammar is actually relatively simple, the difficulty is in “naturally” expanding your vocabulary (since characters take an order of magnitude longer to learn). It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of it feels lik
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by nmfisher 6y ago
This was definitely one of the most iconic moments in any video game I've played, I don't think anyone who's been through the game will forget that song/mission combo.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I have zero familiarity with practice in the USA, so someone else is probably better placed to comment. That being said, I suspect the absence of "loser-pays-costs" does make things worse in the USA. This mitigates most of the pot
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by nmfisher 6y ago
As a former lawyer, one thing that really gets me worked up is how absurdly expensive it is to hire a lawyer (and for litigation in particular). A company should never need to shut down because it can’t afford to defend itself. If this happ
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by nmfisher 6y ago
This reminds me of a lecture I saw a while back from Robert Sapolsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY1x8k79bZE&ab_channel=Chris... TLDR[0]: dopamine is released during anticipation of reward, not when the reward is
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by nmfisher 6y ago
Eh, to be honest I don’t mind the broadcasting. I’ve watched/listened to a few people for 10-20 minutes at a time. I know that’s not much in the grand scheme of things, but I’ve never been even the slightest bit interested in watching
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by nmfisher 6y ago
I absolutely loved Mythic Quest, but if it didn’t grab you after the first episode, then it’s just not your cup of tea.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> My friend was a very good student, but got a no-so-subtle message from the school official running the process that they wouldn't be considered without a bribe. Based on my experience in China, this sounds 100% correct.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
If the users didn't like, they'd log off. Facebook optimizes to avoid that scenario. I know you don't like it, but this very clearly is content that people want to consume.
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by nmfisher 6y ago
> I wouldn't consider Georgetown (Penang, Malaysia) as a dense urban environment. I can't say I'm familiar with Georgetown (unfortunately due to COVID, I haven't been able to travel through Malaysia just yet). Interes

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