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by rspeer 10y ago
"Barely sufficient to stop people from switching to Slack" seems to be Atlassian's target. Atlassian abandoned HipChat's bug tracker, and put up a fresh JIRA that they discourage you from using at several steps. That&#x2
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by rspeer 10y ago
Who's got that massive amount of data nowadays? Everybody who wants it. I recommend http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/ as a starting point to find lots of sources of quality, multilingual data. And if all you want is sheer qua
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by rspeer 10y ago
Yes. ConceptNet [1] and distributional word embeddings go really well together, and can compare word meanings better than either one alone. Here's the preprint of the AAAI 2017 paper [2]. [1] http://www.conceptnet.io/
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by rspeer 10y ago
That's not the impression I got from the article. He was just paraphrasing the little girl, saying "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse", which coincidentally sounds like "Alexa, order me a dollhouse".
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by rspeer 10y ago
I've never seen a visualization of a graph at the scale of Wikipedia that conveys anything useful in the visualization. You just get a big hairball.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Wait, doesn't that claim by Arkady Bolotin state the converse: that P != NP implies the lack of macroscopic quantum behavior?
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by rspeer 10y ago
HN puts a convenient, though subtle, "web" link on the comment page that bypasses the paywall by Googling the title.
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by rspeer 10y ago
You don't have to do any managing to make capital gains, and I'm not convinced that it makes that much of a difference whether the person with the capital is personally making the decisions.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Among the advantages of basic income would be making it feasible for both parents to choose to invest time in a child instead of money.
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by rspeer 10y ago
It's fine to argue the economics, but you started from a false premise. Basic income is not a tool for forcing people to work. Our modern society has the contradiction that many people are expected to work for money, with poverty or de
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by rspeer 10y ago
Cool. That actually seems like a good idea, unlike the "leap seconds are just time zones, what's the problem" one. Now you're just left with the practical problem of changing the representation of timestamps. (It's
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by rspeer 10y ago
Right now, converting a count of seconds (slightly fictitious UTC seconds, that is) since the epoch to a human-readable time is simple modular arithmetic. Any beginner in a programming language can do it. If this conversion required knowing
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by rspeer 10y ago
TAI has no leap seconds, but years, as currently defined, do. And yes, I'm advocating for changing that definition, and making UTC a constant offset from TAI that works the same as TAI for the foreseeable future.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Think through your proposal to track all times in TAI and then convert them for display. What TAI time do you pick to represent the time that will be displayed as "00:00:00 on January 1, 2020"? Are you going to be okay with it cha
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by rspeer 10y ago
That doesn't seem simpler at all. - UTC timestamps can unambiguously refer to times years in the future; TAI timestamps cannot, because it is unknown how many seconds will be in each year. - Converting UTC timestamps to human-readable
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by rspeer 10y ago
But financial systems don't care if the position of the sun in the sky is a couple of seconds off from where a model says it should be. Astronomers would care about that, but they already don't use UTC.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Leap seconds are a change to the number of UTC epoch seconds.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Leap seconds aren't just an issue of formatting times. Leap seconds actually involve turning the UTC count of seconds back by a second. You'd have to switch the "seconds since epoch" count to TAI, and that would cause ne
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by rspeer 10y ago
Let me make several similar statements: "Hopefully machine learning techniques give us some sort of building blocks for a general intelligence." "Hopefully knowledge graphs give us some sort of building blocks for a general i
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by rspeer 10y ago
It is indeed true that a Möbius strip should have one side. The best use of the mathematical idea of a Möbius strip does not involve a piece of paper you look at from one direction or the other, and see different notes; instead, you shoul
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by rspeer 10y ago
I've heard of this being done because many people are sharing the same 2FA login.
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by rspeer 10y ago
You made that page? Interesting. I'd like you to explain. I believe that the Crab Canon is in no way analogous to a Möbius strip, and the topology is in fact quite different. When you go around a Möbius strip once, you end up in the sa
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by rspeer 10y ago
You: Hey NIMBYs, pay up. NIMBYs: No. You: There should be a law. NIMBYs: Well, no elected official will pass such a law. If they do, we won't re-elect them. You: I'll find enough YIMBYs to elect someone who will make you pay up. N
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by rspeer 10y ago
Here's a Spotify playlist I've had around for that purpose: https://open.spotify.com/user/rspeer/playlist/3q3TsI67o6rUfS... There's room for interpretation in the list -- for example, I get to
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by rspeer 10y ago
If it's a mix of UTF-8 and a single-byte encoding, you can guess, because UTF-8 is nice enough to be obvious when you guessed wrong. The command-line version of ftfy [1] can handle a distinct encoding for each line with a near-zero rat
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by rspeer 10y ago
As much as I want Python 3 to replace Python 2, you can't recommend 2to3 while saying "Enough with the bullshit". 2to3 is abandonware that never worked. Now you can use python-future instead, a third-party solution, but the 2
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by rspeer 10y ago
JavaScript timestamps are POSIX timestamps times 1000, and POSIX timestamps have to be corrected for leap seconds at the OS level, not in the application. The advantage of this is that 1483228800000 is definitely the start of 2017 (and in g
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by rspeer 10y ago
> If the way you measure time takes leap seconds into account, you have no way of saying "exactly X Système international seconds from now". Note that this is the case for anyone using POSIX time, which inherently assumes that
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by rspeer 10y ago
I mixed up "zoo" and "park", but you are still in a really bad place when you suggest that the same ethics apply to animals and people. The death of a wild animal is natural. The death of a person, when it's prevent
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by rspeer 10y ago
Sure, there are also papers about theorem proving and stuff. I can't fault the GOFAI (Good Old-Fashioned AI) part of what MIRI does. I do believe we need more of that kind of research and it will let us understand current AI better. Bu

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