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by rspeer 10y ago
Cool. I'm going to be trying this out and comparing to ConceptNet Numberbatch [1] (the current state-of-the-art multilingual vectors). I'd like to see how they compare on existing evaluations of word similarity. EDIT: never mind t
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by rspeer 10y ago
Ever played a game with a chat box? I've played one implemented on top of Canvas and it was horrible.
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by rspeer 10y ago
When you say "programming 101" you might not be talking about the MIT courses being discussed here. 6.001 was a course in functional programming, based on the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. 6.01 (the repla
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by rspeer 10y ago
HTML5 Canvas is the least accessible thing to be put on the Web since Flash. If you render text inside a canvas element, you end up with a picture of text. You can't screen-read it, you can't re-flow it, you can't even select
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by rspeer 10y ago
You don't use this pattern while looping. You use it while memoizing results that you don't want to compute again. Here's an example, in the Python package wordfreq [1]. When you look up word frequencies, there's some no
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by rspeer 10y ago
Sad to see this downvoted. There is definitely a case where this applies, which is the case where going over your cache size is an exceptional circumstance that you don't expect to reach very often. In that case, all the bookkeeping fo
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by rspeer 10y ago
> Also, keep in mind that AAAI is a conference, where you are supposed to present promising research that you are still edging out. Finished works are supposed to be presented in journals, where space constraints are typically more relax
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by rspeer 10y ago
> Nonetheless, your paper alone should provide a good enough description of the conditions and methods you used for the paper to be reproducible. Too bad there's an 8-page limit, then.
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by rspeer 10y ago
When I submitted a paper to AAAI, there were dire warnings that the paper would be rejected if I included links to any supplemental materials (such as code or data), because this would compromise blind review. The conference software they w
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by rspeer 10y ago
I think you're making a bit of a weird comparison by comparing English to supposed languages that have mutually unintelligible dialects. Mutually unintelligible ways of speaking should be considered different languages, not dialects. O
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by rspeer 10y ago
Yes, every step of machine learning has potential bias, we know that, that's what this whole discussion is about. Nobody would responsibly claim that they have solved bias. But they should be able to do something about it without their
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by rspeer 10y ago
What do you think of Bolukbasi's approach that's mentioned in the article? In short, you let a system learn the "current state of the world" (as reflected by your corpus), then put it through an algebraic transformation
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by rspeer 10y ago
The machine can learn that someone named "Jamal" is more likely to be associated with the word "perpetrator", particularly in corpora centered on American news. This is likely a true fact about the world: one that result
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by rspeer 10y ago
I would say nearly everyone in astronomy and education is in agreement right now that there are at least 9 planets. The only question is which ones they are. (Mike Brown, the "Pluto killer", is searching for the distant gravitatio
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by rspeer 10y ago
That's a login form. Can you not look at posts on Mastodon without signing up for it? That sounds fatal for adoption.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Not the way you learn to pronounce it in math.
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by rspeer 10y ago
I don't know about you, but to me, packing, label-printing, taping, and shipping a box of trash a couple of times a week, sounds like a less enjoyable chore than going grocery shopping.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Universities have clickbait departments to promote their research. They wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
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"There are three of them" counts as functionality now?
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Parking requirements are used by NIMBYs to prevent building upwards.
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> We have lots of libertarians who suddenly become communists in the sole case of parking. Car advocates strike me as less like communists and more like an occupying force. They have a very strong sense of ownership of things they have n
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by rspeer 10y ago
The fact that Chinese characters hinder literacy is frequently discussed by linguist and Sinologist Victor Mair on Language Log: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=18 Your reaction would be reasonable if someone
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by rspeer 10y ago
From what I've heard, they would plan to deliberately cut off communication, so that the entire world would not listen to two men slowly dying.
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by rspeer 10y ago
I don't think it's much of a footgun, and I don't think it's limited to CPython. In Python 3.6, kwargs are ordered. In all versions of Python, kwargs are a dict. Therefore, in any implementation of Python 3.6, dicts are
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by rspeer 10y ago
Pretty good article, but it starts with an odd inaccuracy: "It gave its users, who are all anonymous..." Reddit users have names. Pseudonyms, often, but that's quite different from being anonymous, like on 4chan. In particula
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by rspeer 10y ago
Sorry for my pessimistic outlook, then! Thanks.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Yeah, part of what let word2vec make such a splash that it became the one word embedding model everyone has heard of, is that the word2vec team released their model. This is a really cool example OpenAI has, but I don't know why I shou
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by rspeer 10y ago
It's a good idea, but it doesn't seem very common so far. This is what my NLP company (Luminoso) does -- we train a domain-general model of word meanings on a lot of data, then do the last step on the probably-small amount of spec
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Flask has supported Python 3 for many years. Some practical improvements in the 3.x line came from the heavy but constructive criticism that Armin Ronacher gave while ensuring that Flask supported Python 3.
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"It seems objectively better for some people to have access to money" is classism in one sentence. And I won't give people a pass because of the thing they co-founded and then forked. I can appreciate Wikipedia and believe th

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