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by rvense 5y ago
> Yes, it's hard to figure out cow just from a big corpus; though you might learn enough about 'cow' to form meaningful sentences and answer questions. That's what GPT-3 is doing after all, and language models are sti
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by rvense 5y ago
This is not a cryptographic problem. The relationship between ciphertext and plaintext is nothing at all like the relationship between a text and its meaning or translation.
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by rvense 5y ago
GPT-3 does not understand language like you and I do with reference to the world. It has no senses, so it is not possible for it to do so. It is also to my knowledge not able to translate anything, so even if we were able to make it "l
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by rvense 5y ago
This is true, but you're forgetting that the sign (ie. pairing of an expression and its meaning) is arbitrary. There's no particular reason that the sound 'cow' (or the squiggles c-o-w when we write) refers to cows, and
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by rvense 5y ago
But the meaning is not in the text (text-as-artifact, the ink on the page), it is strictly in the mind of the reader, accessed by reference to the speaker's experience with the language in question. If you don't have something to
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by rvense 5y ago
You will maybe be able to "figure it out" if you know English. The use of maths to compare languages hinges on the frequencies being comparable, which is as much a trait of the script used as it is of the language itself.
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by rvense 5y ago
> It is trivial to decode English (or any other alphabetical language) gone through a substitution cypher. As far as I know, it's only trivial if the substitution is symbol to symbol. If you mess with the letter frequencies, it beco
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by rvense 5y ago
I don't understand how you could say that it ever would. If you don't have anything at all (a related language, partial translations, accompanying illustrations, anything) to compare to, what can you do? You're trying to extr
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by rvense 5y ago
In addition to being a programmer, I have a degree in linguistics and I can read a handful of scripts, and honestly, I don't understand how this "algorithm" could possibly work. When you have two languages written in differen
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by rvense 5y ago
It's not about deep contemplation, it's about having the necessary information. If I write down a sentence in a language you don't speak, and make it impossible for you to ever get any information at all about the language it
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by rvense 5y ago
This is not a cryptographic problem.
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by rvense 5y ago
> Welcome to linguistics! I've been trying to run away from bad computational linguistics for ten years after making a wrong turn in college. Wish I'd stuck to CxG! Sometimes I actually think people post these kinds of articles
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by rvense 5y ago
"Insights"? When you break an encryption scheme, you get a readable text in a language you understand. The thing is, the written word as an artifact does not itself contain its meaning. To go from writing to meaning is what's
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by rvense 5y ago
This article is horrible. We have no idea what's on those seals. If it's even a script, it might be personal names. The inscriptions are all very short. We have no idea how the script is structured, if it's syllabic or what.
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by rvense 5y ago
Gibson's Sprawl trilogy: No matter how much technology progresses, poor people are still poor, and/because everything is owned by corporations (including governments).
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by rvense 5y ago
I grew up, to a large extent, on various message boards in the 00's, and I remember when many of us got blogs and it was great. But this was the major change with Facebook, and that's really what made it mainstream to put your tho
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by rvense 5y ago
> However now if I make a plain html website nobody will see it because google will not rank it above all the SEO blog spam and portal results (e.g. Reddit, Quora) I don't mean to be obtuse, I hate Googlebook more than most, but...
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by rvense 5y ago
I use offlineimap with bower[0], it works well. [0] https://github.com/wangp/bower
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by rvense 5y ago
Danish governmental IT has more than its fair share of scandals.
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by rvense 5y ago
> Large, influential emitters like China and India will not play ball. This is not true. We are all in the same frying pan and I don't know why people keep insisting that the others don't understand it. Of course they do. They
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by rvense 5y ago
This is a legal problem, not a technical one.
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by rvense 5y ago
Why is it you think a CDBC can't be set up, legally, to require subpoenas?
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by rvense 5y ago
Exactly. CBDC is not a response to cryptocurrencies. It is a (belated) response to the fact that the way cashless economies have evolved has basically privatized money-as-infrastructure. The privacy implications of CDBC are a real problem,
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by rvense 5y ago
Interesting to know it can be done. We're probably not at a place where we can consider it, but it would be nice to plan for. Can you tell me more about your Angular -> React shim?
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by rvense 5y ago
Mostly I have various stylistic misgivings with Angular. I feel like I spend a lot of time on ceremony and piles of RxJS that would've just been simple function calls in React, which is what I did before. There are some things related
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by rvense 5y ago
Does anyone know how to get off Angular?
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by rvense 5y ago
It's... still one country, though. And while I understand that Americans are very preoccupied with the difference between California and New Jersey, please understand that it's not that important (or obvious) to the rest of us.
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by rvense 5y ago
Rosetta was a PowerPC CPU emulator that allowed running any kind of PowerPC OS X application on Intel Macs. Carbon was a set of largely OS 9 compatible APIs that allowed an easy transition for apps that could be recompiled. Classic was a vi
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Why should the rent cover your mortgage?
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by rvense 5y ago
All my homies hate Skrillex! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLlVVKRwk0

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