sandius

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   by sandius 10y ago

   NLP is a huge topic, and the choice of materials pretty much depends on what you'd like to focus on. In my experience nothing beats a good textbook, especially if you do the exercises. The classic NLP textbook is * Jurafsky, Martin: &q
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   by sandius 10y ago

   I haven't seen that much written about this either. My only explanation is that it isn't generally seen as a problem worth solving, for two definition of "worth": either it's too difficult or even impossible; a solu
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   by sandius 10y ago

   I think it would be a good start. Notice that the value of the heap counter would at all times by the upper bound on the memory usage. In other words, we may always assume that there’s unreclaimed garbage memory that we’re still counting in
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   by sandius 10y ago

   Thanks! Yes, indeed: there is LuaJ and Kahlua, but neither is able to do Lua 5.3 (they both support 5.2). I actually started by trying to update LuaJ to 5.3, but in the end I found myself disagreeing with some of the fundamental design choi
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   Show HN: Rembulan, an implementation of Lua 5.3 for the JVM(github.com)

   6 points by sandius 10y ago|6 comments
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   by sandius 11y ago

   I quite like how the page pays homage to the visual style of the Apollo Program documentation (e.g. http://history.nasa.gov/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-flightmanual.pd... ).