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by smcin 2y ago
Oh, thought it was some slang or company name
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by smcin 2y ago
What's Oteks? (other than an Estonian textile company or a Macedonian dance group)
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by smcin 2y ago
Best practice (for many reasons) is to separate scraping (and OCR) and store the rawtext or raw HTML/JS, and also the parsed intermediate result (cleaned scraped text or HTML, with all the useless parts/tags removed). This is then
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by smcin 2y ago
Right. Google acquired Kaggle in 2017, and also Appen acquired Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower) in 2019, both of which used to be open-source-friendly places to post datasets for useful comments/analyses/crowdsourced hacking, i
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by smcin 2y ago
That's what I just concluded. I think the OP was oversold on the idea of using AI to do scraping, NLP and summarization, all in one go.
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by smcin 2y ago
> Nothing stopping you from releasing the raw dataset and calling it a success! Right. OP: release it as a Kaggle Dataset ( https://www.kaggle.com/datasets ) and invite people to collaboratively figure out how to autonate
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by smcin 2y ago
Well you can't practice producing unconstrained sentences. Only with their very narrow training-wheels.
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by smcin 2y ago
'verbing a noun' Also there's a stylistic difference between coining something new and necessary e.g. 'mock','patch', vs. creating something faddish and unnecessary e.g. 'an ask'.
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by smcin 2y ago
I thought so too until I checked, but the references I cite above say 'an invite' has also been used since the 17th century, at least for US English.
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by smcin 2y ago
"an invite" is not specifically techspeak because it's widely used outside tech (esp. in US English), unlike "an ask". Dictionaries say "an invite" has been used as a noun for centuries. [0]: https:/
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by smcin 2y ago
I'm surprised this didn't attract a lot of discussion. People who posted GenAI output without checking it was correct: - Ana Navarro-Cardenas, (The View, CNN, X) cites nonexistent hallucinatory(?) Woodrow Wilson pardon of "hi
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by smcin 2y ago
The US FTC also has rules requiring most (but not all) native advertising to have a disclosure (e.g. "ad”, “promoted by [X]”, “sponsored advertising content”, etc. but not terms such as “promoted” or “promoted stories") Here'
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by smcin 2y ago
Then that'd be Apple News Premium, or whatever. But the curve of how many subscribers need to go premium, how much subscription to charge them and how many/few ads do both sides find acceptable has to be discovered by experimenta
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by smcin 2y ago
It's techspeak for 'a request'.
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Sid Meier's Civilization is pretty much the poster child for an outstanding online game that cannot be converted to a (physical) boardgame without either super-heavy mechanics and bookkeeping, or huge simplifications and compromises th
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by smcin 2y ago
('DOE' = US Department of Energy)
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by smcin 2y ago
For medium/heavy-complexity games, it's essential to have a glossary (preferably with pictures), either/both at the start/end of the rulebook or the complete reference. And the glossary should have (clickable) section&#x
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by smcin 2y ago
Agreed. We're not romanticizing the past, it's now a business model that the first version of a boardgame is early-beta-qiality as a market exploration tactic, to see whether and how much $ should invest in fixing it. One example
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by smcin 2y ago
"Term limits" for Kickstarter games...? On the other hand we have the Asmodee Digital business model: release an (initially) broken game somewhat on schedule with tons of bugs (Terraforming Mars) and only start fixing a few of the
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by smcin 2y ago
You don't know for sure the model won't contain non-location data, like I noted the additional blurb vaguely said: "And, as noted, beyond gaming LGMs will have widespread applications, including spatial planning and design,
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by smcin 2y ago
I was wondering about the privacy implications: given a photo, the LGM could decode it to not just positioning, but also time-of-day and season (and maybe even year, or specific unique dates e.g. concerts, group activities). Colors, amount
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by smcin 2y ago
I don't know that it's necessarily that, simply that SMS became very heavily used _and still is_ for basic functionality, essential services, billing, notifications etc. in Europe, Africa, Asia - unlike the US. Compare to e.g. the
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by smcin 2y ago
In the US, North America, you mean. 2G is still alive and kicking, especially in Africa and South Asia: https://streetwave.co/mobile-networks/2g-switch-off-by-count... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by smcin 2y ago
Which state? Was it one of the 2024 battleground states (MI, PA, NC)? And did those political SMSs honor opt-out requests or not?
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by smcin 2y ago
> "But for information-seeking queries, Google tries to give you organic results." No, often it absolutely doesn't, and I posted two epic fails here previously. Worse still, Google organic results no longer understand(&#
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by smcin 2y ago
No it absolutely doesn't "scream spam" at all. You're just seeing it through 2020s eyes where you assume any site claiming to do price comparisons of broad categories of product couldn't possibly be accurate, impart
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Agreed. Lots of people/bodies/academics have measured contract readability; I didn't say the US CFPB was the only arbiter. Lina Khan seems to be one of the bigger contributors to curbing excesses, at least in the domains she&
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by smcin 2y ago
There have been several public-interest reports and scorecardings of the readability/unreadability of the language in various consumer/financial contracts (the grade-level required to understand it x the number of minutes/hou
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Very Sarah Palin
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If you sorted H1B applications by salary and only let in the top XX highest paid, then the allocation would simply skew heavily towards tech in Silicon Valley, TX, WA, MA and finance in NYC, and almost none would be allocated to Kansas, Ala

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