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Is the Digital Advertising Industry a Bubble Waiting to Burst?(farsight.cifs.dk)
2 points by specproc 4y ago|0 comments
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by specproc 4y ago
Meanwhile, in the country of Georgia: New "regional hub" announced this week. https://gbc.ge/en/news/busines-snews/binance-announces-openi... Meeting the totally not sketchy Prime Minister in Novemb
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by specproc 4y ago
Case in point, chess, which is rapidly becoming an e-sport. I play casually, but am a really weak player. My poor understanding of the game isn't at all a barrier to me enjoying Hikaru on Twitch.
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by specproc 4y ago
Yeah, #1 just makes this seem pointless for the time being. The whole point of needing something like this is horizontal scaling. Also not clear from my phone down the pub if inference is needed at each step. That would be slow, no? Even (e
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by specproc 4y ago
In case anyone here has missed, Civ 7 has recently been confirmed to be in the works.
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by specproc 4y ago
As a Brit, I concur.
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by specproc 4y ago
I doubt an LLM will ever be able to write like that.
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by specproc 4y ago
I live outside my home country, and have done for 15 years. I personally dislike "expat", as for me it conjures up an image of a particular sort of person. People can describe themselves however they like though.
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by specproc 4y ago
We've got huge quantities of multilingual news data with social metrics (e.g. newsapi.ai), classification models, research APIs for Twitter. But Nature's running Upworthy and dictionary-based classification? It's almost low-N
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by specproc 4y ago
As someone who's a crap NLP practitioner, everything is just fine and dandy. I've never really had the gear or the skills to put together anything that improves over what I can pull from huggingface. What I do have, and virtually
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by specproc 4y ago
I can remember doing stuff in VB when I must have been 14 or so. Coming to it from QBASIC it felt incredibly powerful and incredibly complicated. I think I managed to cobble together a simple form that informed the user the computer had a &
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by specproc 4y ago
I had it on yesterday and had the most miserable afternoon's coding I can remember for a while. It was a particularly tedious, ugly, and cludgy bit of work that needed doing. Pulling in a data from several very broken sources with horr
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by specproc 4y ago
I think anyone with a passing understanding of the UK could see the answer coming a mile off. This is the inevitable result of the brutal austerity programme pushed through by the Cameron government. It's hard for me to see Brexit outs
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by specproc 4y ago
Sure, purely a time issue for me. I'm not the most skilled in this area, and I've got a load of core stuff I need to keep on top of. I think we're not far off having something equivalent that can be pulled from Huggingface an
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by specproc 4y ago
Nice, that sounds like it's worth exploring. Much appreciated. Again though, it's the zero-effort part that's appealing. I'm on a very small team and getting that to close to the same standard will take time for a ham-fi
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by specproc 4y ago
I don't agree it's cheap. For generation at fairly small scale, sure, but generation is just the party trick. The real power for my use case lies in how much better it seems to do at traditional NLP tasks than an out-of-the-box mo
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by specproc 4y ago
I've been using BWB for my book shopping for a while now. Not quite as speedy or as broad in selection as Amazon, but a much nicer option and it's rare not to find what I want. Well worth giving a go.
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by specproc 4y ago
Interesting, but isn't this what multivariate regression is supposed to be used for? The variable by variable approach lends itself well to a blog post, but I'd rather see someone do a few lines of R on the source data and read th
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by specproc 4y ago
I love In Our Time, a real BBC gem. I've been meaning to pull all the audio for a while and this has inspired me. A fun thing to do would be to pass through Whisper, a great corpus to play with.
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by specproc 4y ago
Although if we're talking AI, Excession.
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by specproc 4y ago
For my part, The Bridge, Complicity, and Use of Weapons.
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by specproc 4y ago
For what it's worth, I've mainly worked for "the coalition to end world hunger". I've got a particularly fun gig at the moment, but generally tuned out of the mission a while ago. I guess my point was that sure, as
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by specproc 4y ago
Long-time non-profit guy here. Totally get where the author is coming from and I'm in a very similar position in terms of where my role relates to my organisation, but I still love my job despite having exactly the same issues. Why? No
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by specproc 4y ago
Kinda wish it was. There's this horrible magical thinking that's common around this stuff, all my semi-technical colleagues are wetting themselves. It's kinda scary how much people trust this stuff.
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by specproc 4y ago
It seems like a perfect example of why LLMs shouldn't be used for coding without serious supervision.
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by specproc 4y ago
It's gold for non-native speakers of any supported language. I'm trying to learn some Spanish, and a fun and easy way to study is to watch films in Spanish with Spanish-language subs. Finding Jurassic Park on piratebay was easy, f
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by specproc 4y ago
My dog gets a good walk up and down the hill near me every day. Who's looking after who?
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by specproc 4y ago
I had a Private Eye subscription last year, but I live outside the UK and by the time it arrived it was a bit stale. Would totally sub again if back home. Fantastic publication. Great journalism that doesn't get bogged down in its own
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by specproc 4y ago
I have indeed, but thank you kindly.
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by specproc 4y ago
Can someone clever do this with David Lynch, please?

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