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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Always be skeptical of "impossible" without proof.
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
The opposite extreme happens too, many English/Australians have trouble distinguishing Canadian and American accents (especially North-eastern US). Conversely Americans may have trouble distinguishing New Zealand and Australian accents
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Alphanym is a full-stack solution, and can help anywhere you need to use people's names. For storing names, I'd suggest two very long Unicode string fields. At least 1024 characters or greater (some names actually get that long).
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Strange, know your OS/Browser combo? I've had issues with it before in areas with poor connectivity, since it requires making API calls off to Google (after the page has loaded). The button should start the whole reCAPTCHA flow, b
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
It's hard to have an unusual name anywhere really. Whether it's from unusual characters, or a name that doesn't fit cultural expectations. I wrote Alphanym to help encourage an interface pattern which preserves the natural di
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
I took a sabbatical recently and explored a bunch of interesting areas of NLP, which culminated in https://www.alphanym.com/ If I had infinite free time, I'd just continue exploring the wonders of computational linguis
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
They prefer to paint instead.
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Show HN: Alphanym, the API That Knows Your Name(alphanym.com)
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Another approach is to design the site with SVGs as the priority format. Use flat cartoon like graphics in place of JPG photographs, whenever possible.
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
This does kind of start to adopt a counter-accusative tone, which could be interpreted as negative. Though it would entirely depend on context. The expletive just makes it sound angry overall.
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
I'm also really sad to see him go. I sincerely hope Guido enjoys his well earned time off. I'm extremely grateful for the amazing community he has fostered around his excellent language. Though as an avid Python user (~10 years),
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
The UI is nice, and very clean. It's nice that I don't have to sign up, or do much to try it out. I especially like the randomly? selected stock background photos LOL. The person/name recognition could be a tad more robust th
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/1... and https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0468/ The implementation is based off of PyPy's "compact"
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
The dictionary implementation changes are the biggest speed up I can think of. They touch nearly everything in the language. One of the interesting side-effects of this, is in 3.7+ dictionaries are now ordered by insertion, which I'm s
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Based off of the title alone, I thought this was going to be about currying an n-ary function into multiple unary routines.
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Agreed they are tools designed to fill a niche. This doesn't make them bad, or uneccessary, just specialized. A spanner drive screw isn't worse than a hex drive, it's just designed for a different more specific use case. Real
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Your article eloquently sums up my thoughts on the matter. Data science is like software engineering, but with bugs that tend to have particularly far error localities. You don't get a clean orderly traceback, instead you get vague sym
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Although the Hippocratic oath has no teeth, or real enforcement. Hopefully popularizing a code of ethics, helps move the needle toward a better direction.
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by rectangletangle 8y ago
Incidents like this are starting to make me feel that software engineers should have a code of ethics, similar to the Hippocratic Oath. So technologies aren't abused to marginalize individuals/groups.
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
Animal drunkenness is a well documented phenomena. Many species of monkeys and apes will "recreationally drink," given the opportunity. Interestingly enough, the rate of "alcoholism" among many simians is inline with tha
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
This reminds me of the phenomena where individuals with mild-moderate acquired hearing loss often don't realize they're somewhat impaired, until they take a hearing test. The brain is very adept at piecing together incomplete&#x2F
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
I just woke up, and would have sworn the title read "Python 4 Released."
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
Two centuries is somewhat arbitrary, because there are so many assumptions in the notion of "large scale nuclear conflict" as is. Areas that aren't direct targets of nuclear weaponry will still suffer major setbacks, as suppl
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
The US/Russia/France have already detonated thousands of full power nuclear weapons all across the globe, primarily for testing. Although major cities would be ash, with millions lost in the senseless conflict, life would go on. Y
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
Although we may have far more creature comforts today. Land, housing, and other core assets are as expensive as ever.
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
Interesting, reminds me of the reporter gene technique often used in genetic engineering. Genes that express green fluorescent protein (GFP), or other similar proteins, can be used as a "genetic logging." Basically if the tissue i
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
Especially a country as particularly large and diverse as India. Each state is nearly it's own country from a linguistic, historical, and cultural standpoint. It's almost as overgeneralized as referring to all Africans, or Europ
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
Similar story; dislocated my shoulder, and needed to visit the ER. Came to the same conclusion at the time, that Uber would be the cheaper/easier option. The driver got me safely to the ER, likely faster than an ambulance would have. T
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
Generally heavy cannabis users don't dream as often or vividly as normal. One of the primary symptoms of cannabis withdrawal is extremely vivid dreams. I don't know if there's been any formal studies on this in particular, bu
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by rectangletangle 9y ago
Although not normally considered a prescription drug, Cannabis has marked affects on the REM sleep phase.

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