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by rspeer 9y ago
To also compare: Ruby made big breaking changes similar to Python 3 and called it "Ruby 1.9". It wasn't really a big deal. There was some pain and it became essential to have multiple versions of Ruby installed. But I haven&#
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by rspeer 9y ago
You have to change the code a lot more to port it to an entirely different language.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I've wondered that too. Are they automatically downloaded by a Firefox build script, perhaps?
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by rspeer 9y ago
The factoid about Unicode seems out of place. Those 139 writing systems cover nearly every language that we have evidence of ever being written. If you can find an exception... it'll probably be in the next version of Unicode. Unicode
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by rspeer 9y ago
I don't think anything is different about playing Nintendo games on Twitch. There's a streamer (iateyourpie) who makes a living from mostly playing Mario games, and usually not even being a speedrun WR-holder, just being an entert
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by rspeer 9y ago
This social norm exists.
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by rspeer 9y ago
If I had a kid, I would not want them watching Ren & Stimpy until they were mentally prepared for it. I remember the show being a wonderful subversive work of art. I also remember it being nightmare fuel when I was as old as 11. If a yo
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by rspeer 9y ago
Worse than PyCharm. I miss PyCharm's completion. Not enough to put up with the rest of the PyCharm interface, but I miss it.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'd like autocomplete that I know what it's going to do. The current plugin is inconsistent, with better results when you type more slowly. If I hit "tab" somewhere besides the beginning of a line, I should get autocompl
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by rspeer 9y ago
Whataboutism is a form of propaganda, not of fairness.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Yes. 90% of the ML techniques you learn will be passé in five years. 90% of the algorithms you learn will still matter in five years.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Does this phenomenon have an identified timespan like the capacitor plague? Is it over now? When Android was a new thing, the swollen battery was one of the many things wrong with my G1 phone. Haven't encountered it on any device since
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by rspeer 9y ago
Recently, thousands of users were duped into installing "АdВIосk РIuѕ" in Chrome. Every one of those letters is Unicode normalized. (Hint: it's not just the I's masquerading as l's.)
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by rspeer 9y ago
Dotted and dotless i is a different issue, related to capitalization. Those are still Latin letters. Of course to support most European languages you have to be able to use ASCII and non-ASCII Latin letters together. That's not unique
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by rspeer 9y ago
There was an example where еріс.com (whose domain is in the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet, and I think would be pronounced like "eris dot com") once got a security certificate that would be visually indistinguishable from one for ep
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by rspeer 9y ago
I checked font-rs and it looks like it just solves the small problem of rasterizing glyphs, not the whole stack. I would love a replacement for Pango/Cairo, because they are utter dependency hell, but don't get my hopes up prematu
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by rspeer 9y ago
I think this assessment of what's "typical" may just be based on posturing. For some reason you can't brag about training a relatively shallow neural network (is efficiency not valued in this field?). My counter-assessme
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'll take "Things Nvidia would never do" for $200, Alex.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Hurts grandmas/grandpas who lucked into houses with high property values, who could be rich but don't want to be because they have personal reasons not to move. These are incidentally severely overrepresented among voters, and the
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by rspeer 9y ago
It would seem to me that, even in that case, building new housing increases the housing price in that local area, while not building new housing increases the housing price everywhere . Is there an alternative plan to make housing prices
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by rspeer 9y ago
Those are my notes! That candidate was amazing. Of course I didn't vote for him, but at least he was honest about his plan to lower the rent.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I pretty much only use Facebook to communicate with my family, but I have to wade through so much distraction, especially articles that people have "shared" or pages that people have "liked" or whatever. It's like a
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by rspeer 9y ago
When you say "relative majority", do you mean a plurality (50% or less, so not a majority, but more than any other party), or is this situation more complicated than it seems?
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by rspeer 9y ago
Researchers want you to pirate their paper as often as possible. You can only cite papers you've read, after all. The only royalty check I've ever seen from research I did is for a chapter of a book, and it was less than a dollar.
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by rspeer 9y ago
So, if I understand the context, this means: "You may have heard an alarming rumor that we were letting people take control of their attention and actually communicate with their friends and family. "Rest assured that we are doing
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'm not up on the sources, but a moderately pro-development candidate for Cambridge City Council has often quoted a statistic saying that there are only two ways to bring down house prices: 1. Make the city suck 2. Get the housing vaca
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by rspeer 9y ago
Don't know if you tried it on 16.09 when this was harder, but now you can just strip off the /c/en/ and the rest has exactly the same normalization as word2vec. Even including the weird thing with changing multiple digit
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by rspeer 9y ago
One thing that pre-trained word2vec and GloVe have going for them (and which is incorporated in ConceptNet Numberbatch) is that they're trained on broader corpora, Google News and the Common Crawl respectively. Of course that's wh
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by rspeer 9y ago
Look, let's talk about replacing word2vec because it's old and not that good on its own. Everyone making word vectors, including this article, compares them to word2vec as a baseline because beating word2vec on evaluations is so e
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by rspeer 9y ago
These systems are lining up common phrases that appear in corpora of image captions, with visual patterns that they can be trained to recognize such as color, textures, and shapes. Nothing is "waking up". Your astonishment at what

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