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by rspeer 9y ago
It doesn't help that many developers are introduced to the basics of Unicode by a popular Joel on Software article from 2003, which recommended the use of wchar_t. [1] It was a very important article for 2003, but it should be honorabl
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by rspeer 9y ago
I recognize a piece of background that the article is leaving unstated. A decade ago, the mathematical group E_8 was the subject of a unified theory of physics by an outsider, Antony Lisi, who called it "An Exceptionally Simple Theory
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by rspeer 9y ago
The "contract" was evaluated according to the rules that supposedly made it a contract, not hacked. Getting a bad deal in a contract is not getting hacked. There will be more bad deals in the future because Solidity is badly desig
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by rspeer 9y ago
> The project itself made mistakes early on by not sufficiently warning people of the risks of the DAO, which gave justification for the do-over. This is the weakest justification I've heard out of all of them. How do you get a &quo
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by rspeer 9y ago
Because that's yet a third set of numbers referring to the versions, adding to the confusion, especially because it sounds kind of like the series of numbers it definitely isn't. When you speak it, nobody can hear the apostrophe.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Yeah, I had a 2008 Mac Pro that was still a damn good machine when I stopped using it in 2012, because I had upgraded its RAM and its hard disk.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I don't think you'll see anyone arguing that 3.0.1 was a good version of Python, but we are talking about 3.6 here.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Indeed. If Kurzweil and Schmidhuber want to predict the future by extrapolating a curve, they should try the one for the amount of AGI technology we have, which so far is a flat line at zero.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I don't see how Prolog would suffice as a database.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Does "distributed" mean it can run efficiently on multiple computers, or that it requires multiple computers to run efficiently? I've seen too many graph databases that say "oh no, you need a cluster" when prese
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by rspeer 9y ago
I use JSON-LD for the ConceptNet API at http://conceptnet.io . I'm not sure if anyone cares that it's JSON-LD as opposed to any other decent JSON API, to be honest. But here's an oblique benefit. I used to be aske
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by rspeer 9y ago
I assume the "University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute" means Nick Bostrom. I read his book by now. It is not the unimpeachable revelation that everyone makes it out to be. His view of the future is built on several wea
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by rspeer 9y ago
I suggest her book "Weapons of Math Destruction" in particular.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I have no idea why 80,000 Hours is taken seriously. What real experience do they have in public policy?
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by rspeer 9y ago
They're so worried about AGI, which doesn't exist, that they won't spend any time on the non-existential risks of non-general AI. Listen to Cathy O'Neil for a more reasonable and actionable perspective on how we need to
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by rspeer 9y ago
Definitely clickbaity, as the title is intentionally misleading. (Read it as "The literary device named 'nonsense' is something that Shakespeare was genius at".) This is definitely a case where HN should change the title
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by rspeer 9y ago
Its own, I guess? ConceptNet is really not so much about having an upper ontology, it's about relations between natural language words and phrases. Its set of relations is effectively a superset of WordNet's.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I'd be interested to hear about what you're doing with it. In my company Luminoso's work, it's important in building domain-specific models that can be used for topic detection, search, and classification. Beyond that, I
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by rspeer 9y ago
I used to keep it in SQLite (much easier to distribute than PostgreSQL). It worked a lot better than many other options I tried. However, rebuilding the database from updated data would take more than a day, and some queries were too slow.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Should I just try using the tools at https://datproject.org/ ? It sounds like Dat is a ways off from being something I could use as an authoritative source of data, but I could include it as one way to get the ConceptNet da
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by rspeer 9y ago
Nah. One piece of rendering I particularly care about is interactive SVG performance, and -- while, as another thread says, we can't expect smooth 60 FPS experiences from current desktop browsers -- the difference between Chrome and Fi
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by rspeer 9y ago
Yep, ConceptNet Numberbatch is my work too, and it's been the most effective way to show that knowledge graphs matter -- that there is more to know about word relationships than you can get from distributional semantics ("word2vec
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by rspeer 9y ago
I occasionally run Firefox (out of nostalgia, idealism, or the need to test a site), and the fact that it is so slow is absolutely what stops me from switching back to it.
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by rspeer 9y ago
As someone who creates open, medium-sized, reusable datasets, is Dat something I should try? Is it too early? The linked page is very much about technical details of the implementation and not about how one would typically use it. I maintai
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by rspeer 9y ago
HN isn't Reddit, dude.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I love the details in that article. "For example, Savva et al was listed as an “exact replication” of Bem, but it was performed in 2004 – seven years before Bem’s original study took place. I know Bem believes in precognition, but that
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by rspeer 9y ago
Well, yeah, perhaps the craziest thing about XML is that it has namespaces built into its syntax with no realistic model of how or why you would be mashing up different sources of XML tags. Namespaces are about the semantics of what str
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by rspeer 9y ago
Well, there's JSON-LD (JSON Linked Data) already. It's for making interoperable APIs, so there is a good motivation for namespaces. But the namespaces are much less intrusive than XML namespaces. Ordinary API consumers don't
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by rspeer 9y ago
The web design used to be terribly unusable, with interface elements constantly feeling like they were trying to trick you. They managed to re-do it and improve it a lot. It's a good sign. At one BWV per week, this project is going to
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by rspeer 9y ago
Should this web page have been served as `text/hacker-news-comment-thread+html`?

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