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   by rspeer 9y ago

   Whataboutism will convert nobody to your side. Cryptocurrency is a bad thing. Unrelatedly, other bad things exist.
2. 302.▲
   by rspeer 9y ago

   I'm pretty sure you do have to subscribe to the e-mails. You may not have to stay subscribed, but that's true in a sense for most junk mail.
3. 303.▲
   by rspeer 9y ago

   I saw a tweet about what it looks like (in some piece of software that at least manages to render something): https://twitter.com/BagusAlexandria/status/95347388267712921... The fact that the embellished t's
4. 304.▲
   by rspeer 9y ago

   Only if you sign up for Local Guides. I did out of curiosity after I answered a few questions, and sincerely regretted it. The notifications and junk e-mail were never-ending until I blocked them all. And my time is not worth that little.
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   by rspeer 9y ago

   Okay, I have at least a guess about the type of thing that's going on, after seeing what it did to Firefox (which it at least didn't crash). Various GUI elements such as title bars, tooltips, and thumbnails of links to Web pages,
6. 306.▲
   by rspeer 9y ago

   The pattern of bytes above 0x7F isn't anything to do with x86 architecture. It's UTF-8, the most common way to encode Unicode in bytes. You'll have more success understanding what it's doing if you decode it from UTF-8 f
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   by rspeer 9y ago

   Similarly (and also featured in a Hofstadter book), there's the short story "The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution" by Christopher Cherniak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddle_of_the_Universe_
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   by rspeer 9y ago

   The best open corpus project I know of is OPUS: http://opus.nlpl.eu/ They say they welcome contributions; I don't know if they just mean new sources of text, or if this includes code for filtering or fixing their exist
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   by rspeer 9y ago

   Anyone got any information on how the text rendering bug actually works (not just hand-waving it away as "oh it's UTF-8")? I can see that the file alternates between segments of: - Repetitions of the glyph "t̴́̍̒",
10. 310.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    I can't imagine any blog being important enough to put e-mail in my main inbox.
11. 311.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    You're imagining that people who make NLP corpora actually vet the text going into them? I dream of a world where people can be convinced to care that much. I'm not even talking about the scenario you suggest of filtering for prop
12. 312.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    I never even knew that was there!
13. 313.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    Is this sarcasm, or are you referring to Algolia?
14. 314.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    My view of all these cryptocurrencies is that the math and CS they're originally based on is pretty cool, and they do provide a proof of concept of a rather difficult distributed consensus task. But all the speculation right now cares
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    You're just listing names of coins that have been pumped recently. IOTA isn't even real cryptography.
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    Each de-mangling step decreases a "cost" metric on the text, based on its length plus the number of unusual combinations of characters. It never really decides that text is "okay", but when there's no step it can ta
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    That's the spec but this is also the spec: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt It's true that protocols such as HTTP only use ASCII URIs on the wire. If you are implementing an HTTP client yourself, you will
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    No, no. That is the recovered text. Originally, the text had one non-ASCII character, an upside-down exclamation point. A series of unfortunate (but typical) things happened to that character, turning it into 9 characters of nonsense, the
19. 319.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    But if Chromium ran ftfy on all text, then you wouldn't be able to read the examples on the page, or in your post :( (In general, I will claim that the only false positives you're likely to encounter using ftfy are test cases for
20. 320.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    In fact, ftfy already figures that text out! Here are the recovery steps that the website outputs: import ftfy.bad_codecs # enables sloppy- codecs s = '!¡!HONDA POW' s = s.encode('sloppy-windows-1252&#x
21. 321.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    If your definition of "URLs" includes "IRIs" (a term nobody really uses but which encompasses the idea that you can use Unicode in URLs), then this isn't a good assumption to make. I would rather pass around a link
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    Yeah, I know the saying. My observation here is that the number of text encodings is generally decreasing, due to the fact that UTF-8 is obviously good. I want wacky encodings to die. But this is just a class of encodings that have existe
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    Interesting. Here's the output of ftfy.explain_unicode on that text: U+0031 1 [Nd] DIGIT ONE U+0020 [Zs] SPACE U+002E . [Po] FULL STOP U+0020 [Zs] SPACE U+6559 教 [Lo] CJK UNIF
24. 324.▲
    by rspeer 9y ago

    I'm happy to see this Web implementation of ftfy! I especially appreciate how it converts ftfy's fixing steps into example Python code. Here's an interesting follow-up question for HN: one of the things that makes ftfy work i
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    It's a little strange for you to be criticizing ftfy as an encoding guesser, given that ftfy is not an encoding guesser. Are you thinking of chardet? > In an ideal world, you would know what encoding bytes are in and could therefore
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    I wrote the original library. Your statement is true, but in many cases, not useful. As quoted from the documentation [1]: > Of course you're better off if your input is decoded properly and has no glitches. But you often don't
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    I was replying to 0x0's claim, not making a broad statement about npm's policies. 0x0 claimed the code uploaded as duplexer3 was "undesirable code" and implied that it was a "malicious actor". It was completely
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    Are you saying that displaying a Bible quote, modified to refer to the fact that duplexer3 is gone, is "malicious"? I believe this was one of the cases of a community member stepping up to publish a package quickly so that malicio
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    I don't see that implication at all. Nobody is claiming that the definition of "differentiable programming" should be identical to the definition of "neural net". The claim is, if you want to assign a name to the th
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    by rspeer 9y ago

    Is a single SGD layer a neural net? Is an image filter or an audio filter a neural net? Is matrix multiplication a neural net? This would strain the intended definition even farther than it's already been strained. But all of those are