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by sqrt17 6y ago
> selfishly lowball the cost of whatever it is they want. if you asked a recording industry person in the CD age if 10$/month flatrate for music (as offered by Spotify, Google, Amazon, Apple) was a fair deal, they'd have said t
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by sqrt17 6y ago
Bug bounties work well for publically accessible systems, e.g. a site's web service. As a result, many of the more visible break-ins occur through phishing or spear-phishing and combine social engineering with malware as well as classi
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by sqrt17 6y ago
You're missing the point here. The point is not to find ways to sell/rent out software (these already exist) but to monetize open source projects in a non-forced, non-compulsory way. So, instead of selling your songs on a CD for a
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by sqrt17 6y ago
every couple decades, there is a new approach that promises to do solve more of the language understanding problems with less of humans actually thinking about and understanding the inner workings of language. Each time we get a phenomenon
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by sqrt17 6y ago
Why is it ridiculous to you that people want and need both shelter and access to a way of sustaining themselves? The comparison between a Porsche (essentially a status symbol that you buy so that people around you see that you have money -
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by sqrt17 6y ago
according to that logic, lawyers, CEOs, line managers and HR should be paid what they were 100 years ago, as they do not directly produce. They're not, it's effectively through competition with other jobs that their pay is determi
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by sqrt17 6y ago
GPT-3 is too large to be useful for practical purposes. Look it up. It's the equivalent of a Formula 1 car or a Saturn V rocket - an impressive feat of technology but of no practical relevance for getting you to work and back. And cert
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by sqrt17 6y ago
Here's a thing: incorrect assumptions that are built into a model are more harmful than a model that assumes too little structure. If you model the vocal tract and the actual exciting things are the transient noises that occur when we
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by sqrt17 6y ago
A "?" email is a result of exactly that - one of the clowns made an unfunny joke and the customer went to the circus owner.
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by sqrt17 6y ago
I wish someone would build that and force you to use it for the next six months. NTMs and similar are very slow at learning, and would (e.g.) not pick up on the fact that you've created a directory until you've interacted with it
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by sqrt17 6y ago
Yes, a linear weighting of factors would be perfectly fine. But we're in 2020. A small two-layer MLP has a negligible impact when compared to the work to (e.g.) output the current git branch at every command prompt.
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by sqrt17 6y ago
It's a WM (Window Manager). It only sets the placement of windows, it does not interfere with the programs themselves (that's what systemd and gnome-session do) nor does it do the fancy part of the painting (that's what a com
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by sqrt17 6y ago
You may be lucky - people from NTT have published a model based on JParaCrawl - a large JP/EN parallel corpus, which can be used together with fairseq http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/icl/lirg/jparacrawl/
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by sqrt17 6y ago
There are many high-performing machine translation toolkits that use PyTorch these days: - OpenNMT-py (OpenNMT, but Python!) - fairseq - JoeyNMT In addition, you can also try - tensor2tensor (Tensorflow) - Sockeye (MXNet / Gluon)
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by sqrt17 6y ago
1) vim is easier on your hands if you're on a high-latency connection (i.e. usable in a terminal) and/or get tired of chording (i.e. having to press Ctrl along with random keys). 2) I've found vim's plugin systems (Patho
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by sqrt17 6y ago
it also has notepad++ at 30.5% - I've seen one or two people who would use notepad++ when nothing else is available, but I don't think many people have it as their primary IDE. Also, if you sum up all the JetBrains products (which
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by sqrt17 6y ago
Fun fact: niche is a French word that doesn't have an accent. So niché is the heavy metal ümlaut version.
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by sqrt17 6y ago
maybe "they were successful in a period that comes quite close to where we are now"? People forget that success is not an immutable attribute - it is the sum total of hard work and decisions that are put in every week, every month
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by sqrt17 6y ago
The insurance policy would be tied to following some (infosec) best practices. In the best of all worlds, insurances would then check on their customers to make sure best practices are followed in the same way that we follow best practices
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by sqrt17 6y ago
"Software Entropy" sounds so much more scientific and general than "avoid stringly typed code" BTW, "stringly typed" has been in use for exactly the behavior to avoid for maybe 10 years now https://w
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by sqrt17 6y ago
Is there a similar tool that you can throw at Electron/NodeJS apps to figure out why Slack and Teams are eating all the CPU and memory again?
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by sqrt17 6y ago
I'm not anywhere retiring yet, but when Python came around the corner, I thought, well it's as well-suited as Perl for larger things (i.e. not one-liners for text processing - those are a reason for keeping Perl around) but with a
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by sqrt17 6y ago
> summarize it succinctly in a blog post as far as I can tell, that part was a failure. There's no content in the blog post.
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by sqrt17 6y ago
There's a whole class of solutions beyond Selenium that automates not just web apps but all apps. It's going under the name of "Robotic Process Automation" and people really like it because they're not dependent on
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by sqrt17 6y ago
A surprisingly large subset of those tech folks can and does improve the UX of their Mail and Chat life using basic scripting on top of a simple but flexible UI. Both Slack and Hey say F U to that and force you to do everything your way. No
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by sqrt17 6y ago
the cure to that is a field where independent people can also contribute to further development of existing work - through making sure that resources used and code are published along with the paper. Of course, this is hard to do with cell
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by sqrt17 6y ago
GOFAI basically consists of inference and reasoning techniques, some of which cease to work well when you scale them up too much (computational complexity) or when there is uncertainty involved. There have been some efforts to scale reasoni
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by sqrt17 6y ago
It certainly worked for them. But results are not typically indicative of risk, so anyone doing X may doom themselves by doing something that doesn't work in their special context.
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by sqrt17 6y ago
You can get it from different vendors and the solicitation behaviour is just detracting and horrible. It's understandable from the standpoint of the widget maker if more interactions mean more money, and it's understandable from t
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by sqrt17 7y ago
Maybe a better way to put it would be "Graph Neural Networks are a Generalization of Transformers". The formulation of "X are Y" indeed suggests that you could just have stuck with Y instead of using the special case X,

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