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Thomas Pynchon integrated this story into Gravity's Rainbow. There are some amazing passages imagining the fortunes of Byron, a sentient bulb who is determined to escape his own mortality --- the planned obsolescence of Phoebus: "
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Thank you for this very helpful information, and I have just one more question: "Often the w2v embedding layer will be the first layer of a network, through which a document of word representations will be passed. The output of the emb
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Interesting. I had heard specifically that word vectors weren't a game-changer for document classification, because the averaging method didn't work well. But the difference between word2vec and FastText must be important. I think
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If the word embedding is, say, 400 dimensions, are you averaging the vectors of all the words in the document to get a document vector?
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This is essentially the reason that differentiable methods alone don't work that well for NLP. Language is a discrete arbitrary symbol system, so small changes may have large effects at many levels. ("Dog bites man" is not li
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Your own comment history is pretty negative and not particularly warm.
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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more c
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>typical for most data science teams I would bet that the mean size of dataset people are dealing with is a lot bigger than the median size.
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Societies that willingly forego privacy in order to allow things like social credit scores will have a large competitive advantage. The effect on social interaction and interaction with the state will be similar to the effect that tripadvis
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Is it really surprising that we have a first person subjective experience? We know that we are incredibly complex things, constantly integrating and acting on very complicated external stimuli. Such a system should have references to its ow
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I got the Kobo Aura One which is 7.8 inch. Kobo has nice integration with the Pocket bookmarking app. Does anyone else have the Kobo Aura One and have opinions on it? I'm happy enough with it so far but not sure if it was quite value f
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>Venky's Took me a few seconds to remember where I knew that name from. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39872280 https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/feb/1
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The amount of exertion that a brisk walk gives you will vary hugely from person to person. This is a very important point in the article: >The Active 10 group were also told that their aim was not to amble but to get their pace up so tha
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It is not true to say that we have "no idea" how the brain works.
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>Now, if your NLP application doesn't rely on this data, sure, throw it away. But if you're looking at Twitter and throwing away any mentions, you're not really processing natural language, are you? The data is natural lan
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If there is money to be made, it means that some companies or products were not priced correctly. This means that someone is getting overpaid and someone underpaid relative to their value. Traders find the fairest price for a product, just
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To make a convincing parody, you need to be able to write as well as the voice you are trying to mock.
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Their spirit is entombed in the stone. It lies upon the land with the same weight and the same ubiquity. For whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the primal mud with scarcely a cry. But who builds in stone see
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In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone ri
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I didn't mean to suggest that Chalmers is ignorant of Dennett and Hofstadter, just of computational neuroscience. I don't necessarily think that Dennett and Hofstadters arguments rely on computational neuroscience, but the two com
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Ooh I hadn't seen this before. First impression: gimmicky and just playing with language (as in so much of modern philosophy), but I prefer it to Nagel or Searle or Chalmers, at least its fucking consistent: >Emily sees a red apple
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I don't work directly in this field but I have read a lot of the literature. First of all, here is my opinion, as I have written it in comments on similar articles here: --- "I don't see any advance in this debate since thing
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>Unless we have a reason to believe that false negatives are strongly correlated with the axis on which "the bar" is placed (and I don't think we do; false negatives are generally going to come from asking an out-of-left-f
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This assumes that talent and hiring is considered as a thresholded binary model, where you are either "good enough" or "not good enough" to work for the company, and the difference between two people who are "good e
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Word2Vec is not deep learning. I think the neural network it uses has a single hidden layer. It's much simpler than deep-learning approaches and all the neural network is doing is dimensionality reduction in a way that can be done with
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I think that kindness is a gift just like cleverness. You can work to become more educated, work to be more rational, more evidence-minded in your judgements, but you will still be behind someone who works the same amount but has a natural
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You might be thinking of "Boycott", who was an English land agent in Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
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Specifically the equivalent Heap's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaps%27_law
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I work in NLP and I would really disagree that NLTK is still an essential player. Some academic courses still teach in it, but I think it's around five years since it has been the best option. I would definitely recommend gensim, but a
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I don't see at all. You're just putting the word 'conscious' in italics. What I said was not only about language, language the reason we have words like 'conscious' and 'experience'. Why do we have th

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