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811.
by rspeer 10y ago
I've used both. fastText will openly tell you that it's basically Vowpal Wabbit but faster (hence the name), with a way to stick word embeddings in without pre-processing, and with fewer ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
812.
by rspeer 10y ago
Fair enough. That's a useful comparison to know about. But I'm wondering how you get around that with the neural net. In the post, you said there are only a few hundred labeled examples, right? How can a neural net with hundreds o
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by rspeer 10y ago
The baseline I'd like to see this compared to is the not-very-deep-learning "bag of tricks" that's conveniently implemented in fastText [1]. [1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText
814.
by rspeer 10y ago
> If you wrote a PS file three years ago it likely still works today. That's a really low bar. Isn't Windows supposed to have a legendary commitment to backwards compatibility? 3 years of backwards compatibility would be nice f
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by rspeer 10y ago
I've found ConEmu's xterm emulation to be frustratingly buggy if I'm ssh-ing into a Linux machine and running tmux, vim, or really anything with colors or a status bar. mintty [1] works a lot better for me. (mintty is also th
816.
by rspeer 10y ago
And that's what I thought Keybase was until this article. I got myself a Keybase account a while ago; is it reasonable to use it if Zcash is not something I would touch with a ten-foot pole?
817.
by rspeer 10y ago
Perhaps not the hardest, but one where there's tons of room for improvement: the Story Cloze Test [1] is a test involving very simple, five-sentence stories, where you pick the ending that makes sense out of two endings. A literate hum
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by rspeer 10y ago
You are really stretching to find a way to feel superior to people.
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by rspeer 10y ago
That sounds a lot harder than solving the original problem.
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by rspeer 10y ago
ftfy (fixes text for you): https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy Auto-detects Unicode mistakes (particularly mojibake), and if there's enough information left to fix them, it fixes them. Particularly usef
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by rspeer 10y ago
You missed a criterion: All voters' preferences are expressed through a ranking. As an impractical example, if you could get every voter to tell you exactly how many utils a particular candidate is worth to them (maybe through complex
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by rspeer 10y ago
Bloomberg (linked here a lot) insists on loading HUGE high-resolution videos, where someone starts talking loudly immediately. They take forever to load but they give you no UI for "pausing" or just choosing not to load the video
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by rspeer 10y ago
Security involves more than anti-virus. Kaspersky does more than anti-virus. In fact, one could claim by now that anti-virus and security have very little to do with each other, so stop equating them in your retorts.
824.
by rspeer 10y ago
Your property isn't a hotel and you didn't expect it to be one when you bought it.
825.
by rspeer 10y ago
Are you okay with missing messages, or do you only ever communicate with people over an always-on wired connection?
826.
by rspeer 10y ago
Look, I'm a YIMBY but I think that cities need to keep AirBNB under control. Competition won't solve all housing problems, particularly if you throw residential housing and hotels into the same market, as AirBNB does. Cities have
827.
by rspeer 10y ago
Why is IRCv3 still relegating chat history to "IRC bouncers" instead of making it a feature of the protocol? Chat history makes chat more usable, and it makes it usable at all on intermittent connections.
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by rspeer 10y ago
It becomes a problem when you're a student and people expect you to use AWS's free tier for different projects in two different years.
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by rspeer 10y ago
What, like they made a cup out of it already?
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Show HN: Announcing ConceptNet 5.5 and conceptnet.io(blog.conceptnet.io)
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by rspeer 10y ago
> Therefore, isn't it more accurate to say that the resource-cost expended is up-to-the-value-of BtC for each participant? That's the same. Each participant is getting bitcoins. Otherwise they wouldn't be mining. But other
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by rspeer 10y ago
> I'd be willing to bet that the Bitcoin blockchain consumes less energy then the global State apparatus surrounding fiat currencies & gold. No. Not even close, if you're counting per transaction. And you can't sanely
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by rspeer 10y ago
The Terms of Use appear to be very restrictive. Not only does it have the "non-commercial" restriction, limiting its use to throwaway projects that are not expected to succeed, but derivative works are disallowed. > Unless ot
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by rspeer 10y ago
Interesting that I was just about to link to the new version of ConceptNet ( http://conceptnet.io ). Certainly a lot of the same language used to describe it. Different areas of focus. There's room for both in the world but d
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by rspeer 10y ago
I found this table [1] that lists features specific to HTML 5.1 and their status in current versions of browsers. [1] https://w3c.github.io/test-results/html51/implementation-rep...
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by rspeer 10y ago
People don't write articles named "I don't understand gevent" because nobody expects to understand gevent. Armin's complaints are for library writers. You will do much better using an async framework with support fr
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by rspeer 10y ago
By now, people expect libraries to have thorough documentation on the Web, not just an O'Reilly book. The fact that the port of Twisted to Python 3 is slow-going, and far from complete, also gives the suggestion that there are corners
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by rspeer 10y ago
Does any cryptocurrency have banking infrastructure? If you're counting "people who hold on to your money and promise to probably give it back", I'm pretty sure you can find some of those in most countries.
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by rspeer 10y ago
That's your long-term vision for how cryptocurrency goes clean? How would you say Iceland's last foray into finance went? Not sure what you mean by the "etc." in "Iceland etc." -- I don't know of a country
840.
by rspeer 10y ago
Jesus crap, they're using AIML and claiming this is the world's most advanced anything? AIML is an old framework for writing rule-based chatbots. It's a generalization of Eliza.

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