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> Machine learning often boils down to the art of developing an intuition for where something went wrong (or could work better) when there are many dimensions of things that could go wrong (or work better). I'm not a practitioner, b
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by norswap 10y ago
I have no particular expertise on the topic, but just in case you missed it, there is this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-learn-Natural-Language-Proces... It points to NLTK as the framework of choice, and ha
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- Samir is an idiot. - The people who are scamming Samir are criminals. One does not preclude the other. It's called "preying on the weak" and it's the reason why we have laws and stuff.
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Another question is whether a human could have predicted as well or better. If not, it does not help with the actual difficult case of predicting the outcome of a case that isn't clear-cut for a human.
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Yvain is Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/about/
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Also to be looked forward to, the Graal Javascript implementation ( https://github.com/graalvm ). It says supported, but I don't think they have started marketing it yet. Probably still has ways to go, but if it ends up
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I became an adult the day I started expecting being treated as one. There are many more things that go about adulthood, and I guess the most defining would be to take responsibility for one's own action. I had taken responsibility alre
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At this point, this is neither surprising, not unexpected. There is ample precedent, there are tens of stories like this every days (maybe even counting only those that hit the HN frontpage). To avoid these problems, don't sell on the
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For instance, git has a notion of staging area (the index) where you collect the changes that go into a commit. In gitless, all changes to tracked files are committed. The index goes a long way towards making nice commits that can be unders
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Tup does this. See here: http://gittup.org/tup/ex_a_first_tupfile.html > The trick is that tup instruments all commands that it executes in order to determine what files were actually read from (the inputs) and wr
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I seem to recall that the Sony hack was attributed to North Korean hackers and while many people laughed it off, serious investigations pointed that it was really the case. (Just on top of my head, I'll let you dig for sources.)
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I think git's concepts are simple and worth learning (unlike what the gitless people said). That being said, the command line interface is "meh" at best and full of byzantine options.
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Compressed Hash-Array Mapped Prefix-Tree(github.com)
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I'll take some depression* if I can avoid cancer. I'm much more confident in my ability to beat depression than cancer. (*) Not to be confused with depressive disorder, a clinical condition that Facebook cannot create on its own.
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Pixel phones? http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/google-confirms-octob...
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I don't believe in homeopathy, however I highly doubt it's being used in matters of life and death in any way that has the slightest veneer of respectability. It may exist, I suspect, but only peddled by shady online gurus.
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Snarky commenter comments on the vanity of it all. It's so easy once you get started :)
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Such a linkbait title as nothing to do on HN
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For once, I find myself agreeing with the write-up. They really were parasites (without the quotes) and the others really were hooligans. None of them seemed to understand the spirit of the event. About jet-setters at least, there is little
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Cash here means "money" as opposed to stocks and other financial instruments, which also have an estimated value, but can't be used immediately for most purchases.
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SourceTree has a tabbed interface on Windows, but no on OSX. There's a number of differences between both versions, actually.
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My (admittedly limited) experience with Smalltalk: methods are very simple and readable. On the other hand, units of functionality tend to be split in a huge amount of methods across many classes, and so understanding a feature requires str
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The real question is why not!
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> Also, demos are not really necessary today; if people want to find out about a game, they can look on YouTube or read what many many people have to say about the game on the internet. Just no. And the steam refund if played less than 2
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Typically something like 11:30 - 19:30, but with wild variations. I work in academia so I enjoy a lot of freedom in that respect. It's not rare that I work in the evening, or during weekends, but I am never required to (although when p
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Parade: always ask "what have you tried?" first. Then it's acceptable to just give just a direction (the simplest of which is "try googling for it") and to tell them to come back when they've tried if the probl
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I wonder how the "discriminated union" thing is better than an enum + a structure for each type + a structure with a field for the discriminator (the enum) and an union of all structures. It certainly is much more readable, and id
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I don't actually have a strong opinion on the matter, but keep in mind the OP is advocating killing people to improve the state of the country. In the abstract. It's "kill the narcos", not "if a narco rackets or thr
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I'm susceptible as the next man, but I'm pretty damn sure I will never go around killing drug traffickers or users with the justification of improving my country or something abstract like that. It wouldn't be the same if,
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Gotta love your brand of moral relativism.

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