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by rspeer 10y ago
You really want me to say more? You seem to have missed the point of my reply. You said "all modern publishing uses XML", and in doing so, you were overlooking the biggest counterexample to XML, and the biggest thing in modern pub
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by rspeer 10y ago
I saw that! Except when I saw it, it was mostly broken, perhaps under the DDoS of children putting too many bits into it too fast. When I saw it, you could send a message from one designated terminal to another, but that's just rolling
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by rspeer 10y ago
Is this the same group that was going to call themselves BARF (Bay Area Renters' Federation)? Seems good. This is probably a better name and more generalizable to all the other cities that need it.
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by rspeer 10y ago
> All modern publishing uses XML. Okay, just because you don't like HTML5 doesn't mean you get to deny that it exists .
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by rspeer 10y ago
Any time you put some new distributed computing technique into production, you should do it while listening to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on repeat.
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by rspeer 10y ago
You're spinning an XML fantasy. XML is not good at describing structures or interfaces. It does not have precise semantics. The semantics of XML are so vague that you can't even tell whether whitespace is significant when parsing
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by rspeer 10y ago
Good. People who know cryptography should also know enough about game theory to not participate in a dollar auction. I mean, even with a perfectly honest auctioneer, dollar auctions (where one person wins but more than one person pays) are
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by rspeer 10y ago
What problem do they solve? (Problems that were created by XML in the first place don't count.)
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by rspeer 10y ago
Is converting Wikitext to HTML/RDFa really going to help with this task? I'd say it's actually clearer how to get the data out of the original Wikitext.
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by rspeer 10y ago
They're deprecating "a xlink:href" and adding "a href". Sounds good to me. I never had any idea why it had to be "a xlink:href" except that this was designed when someone thought XML namespaces were a good
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by rspeer 10y ago
I'm far from an expert or even intermediate in Japanese, but I think not. The names of the kana are just their sounds. A sketch in Azumanga Daioh comes to mind, where one girl is talking about the character じ ("ji"), and an
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by rspeer 10y ago
It's upsetting that Ubuntu is so opposed to ensurepip that they won't even let it work in user mode . There is no way to use these Python standard library features without being root and installing separate Ubuntu packages. This
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by rspeer 10y ago
virtualenv has an advantage over venv, which is that people have spent years and years writing instructions for virtualenv, and not for the cases that venv handles slightly differently. For example, with virtualenv you can choose to use a m
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by rspeer 10y ago
It's extremely fortunate for Bitcoin that the government considers it a commodity, not a currency. The fact that creating Bitcoin is called "mining" instead of "minting" probably helped set that frame of reference.
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by rspeer 10y ago
"Yet"? Are you hoping for Bitcoin to be the next Liberty Dollar? I'm not generally a fan of Bitcoin, but I know many people who are, and I wouldn't want them to go to jail.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Unless you're on Ubuntu, where they ship a non-functional version of venv and require you to "sudo apt install" python-venv to get the working version, defeating the entire point of a simple module in the stdlib that lets you
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by rspeer 10y ago
In fact, it only learns relationships that are a linear combination of "similar to X" and "not similar to Y".
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by rspeer 10y ago
I use word2vec a lot, and things like it, and I've always found it overstated to say that it "learns the relationships between things". You say, as many people do, that the operation "king - man + woman = queen" ind
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by rspeer 10y ago
Have you used Bazaar? I wouldn't blame you if you haven't. This is not about the server being slow, it's that Bazaar is really astonishingly inefficient and badly designed. Look at the guy in the replies who says "it&#x2
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by rspeer 10y ago
I have heard the phrase "points west" used when listing the places where a train is going. After listing the next several stops, they say "...and points west" to sum up all the stops the train will make that are too far
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by rspeer 10y ago
> Every time I see a car, one or more people are in it. You've never seen a parking lot?
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by rspeer 10y ago
The F-keys seem to be the part that aren't built like tanks. I had to replace my Kinesis because my Esc key was wearing out from 6 years of using Vim on the keyboard. (Sure, it convinced me to bind Esc somewhere more convenient, but ha
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by rspeer 10y ago
As a follow-up: I tried urxvt and st, despite the unfriendliness of the fact that you configure urxvt by looking up .Xresources incantations and you configure st by actually editing the code and recompiling it. It seems what we have here is
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by rspeer 10y ago
Conceptnet Numberbatch ( https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/conceptnet-numberbatch ) is a pre-trained model that outperforms the results reported in this paper (and of course far outperforms the pre-trained word2vec mode
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by rspeer 10y ago
I have a heuristic that gets evaluated over time on randomly-sampled tweets. (It's the core of the Python "ftfy" package, which fixes Unicode mistakes based on a heuristic for whether text "looks right".) I frequent
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by rspeer 10y ago
You must mean something else besides rxvt, which doesn't support Unicode.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Right now you can basically DoS gnome-terminal on Ubuntu by sending it a screenful of Thai text (or any of many similar scripts where most adjacent letters have ligatures to each other, but Thai is by far the most common). It slows down to
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by rspeer 10y ago
I understand this concern. It's like the old 20 Newsgroups data set for testing classification, where supposedly you're distinguishing the topics of conversation between comp.graphics, sci.electronics, talk.politics.misc, and so o
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by rspeer 10y ago
Not everything is a DataFrame. You would use Arrow because you want a nice API for dates and times in use cases that have nothing to do with Pandas.
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by rspeer 10y ago
This comment appears to be a dog whistle. I hope I'm wrong and there's some reasonable explanation for it.

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