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by sqrt17 12y ago
Azul are just making sure that there's some enterprise-viable alternative to getting screwed by Oracle. As in, Oracle installing adware with their Windows installer is currently damaging to Java as a brand, and making Oracle Java be le
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Which begs the question, why would you deliberately build a cliff into the vesting process? Why not say, 20000$/yr (or whatever arbitrary amount) at then-current valuation? As for institutional investment, this would create incentives
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by sqrt17 12y ago
People at UWash (Ritter et al.) have Twitter tools with a tagset closer to PTB tagset (they still have special tags for @mentions and #hashtags)
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Maybe Professor Kosbie has read all those papers ... the TwitterNLP tools were published between 2011 and 2013.
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by sqrt17 12y ago
My point was, it would be SkyNet, but on one hand fed with the desires of the Intelligence tools industry (need more data on everything) and on the other hand with a front of humans that will act on its behalf with the best of intentions.
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by sqrt17 12y ago
It's harder for airlines to start small the way Google did. You have to offer a certain number of flights to achieve minimum visibility, and people cannot try out your offer whenever they're flying, if only because they're ta
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by sqrt17 12y ago
at some point, government analysts will construct a platform that gets lots of data (including both public and private data) shoveled in and produces actionable insights. For those who aren't current, "actionable" means, in t
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by sqrt17 12y ago
I would find something like over(max, scan(0, max(+, 0)) slightly more readable, even if that still gives me a higher-order-headache. Because, y'know, it's confusing to have symbol salad with a weird mixture of infix and postfix o
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Rust seems to do worse on the string-y tasks (fannkuch, k-nucleotides, regex-dna). A lot if you look at single-thread performance. Does it handle strings differently from C++? (From what I understood, Rust gives you similar control over mem
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Not the OP, but from the numbers you get a view on what playing a "free to play" game to the end will cost you (600USD). Which is about as jaw-dropping as what people spend on WoW and other pay-to-play games to get to the end game
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Japan and China have had some kind of computing machinery since the 1980s at least, as well as digital typesetting, so you cannot say "They never had typewriters, that's why their encoding is so messed up". Hangeul has very s
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The statement "it's wrong to harass people for entertainment" is much less ideological to the extent that (i) you do not immediately jump to conclusions such as "you must be a pro-peace rather than a pro-lulz person then
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by sqrt17 12y ago
I didn't read the paper in its entirety, but is the argument something like competition introduces a superlinear factor in the time/pay equation superlinear factors on average hurt women more than men since the latter are more lik
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The point of the article linked is exactly that: separate out the misogyny from the trolling. Expose how the trolls (or that particular troll) use any kind of story that they can construct, be it misogyny, misandry, censorship, whatever peo
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by sqrt17 12y ago
BSD init is certainly not the pinnacle of init systems. rc.d-based SysV init isn't either. upstart also has its warts. For some people, BSD init works just fine and they're happy with it and they abhor the additional complexity. W
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by sqrt17 12y ago
IMO, you misunderstand some of it: "communities are full of bullies who won't hesitate to call you or your mother names" - I think this is best put as "doing controversial things will attract trolls and haters". &qu
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by sqrt17 12y ago
This is pretty much it: Linus Thorvald telling people to go screw themselves is an argument of "I am widely recognized to have the loudest voice because of many useful contributions, now accept my opinion or go away". This carries
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Did you test on newspaper text? 3% error rate looks like it, but the caveat would be that (i) you want to tag other texts, and (ii) a license for the Penn Treebank (i.e. the standard training set for English newspaper text) sets you back by
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by sqrt17 12y ago
As an NLP researcher, I see lots of NLP papers on top of AAAI. I think that the high citation count is due to (i) people in NLP actually bothering to tell others why their approach is interesting (ii) other people being interested in the sa
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by sqrt17 12y ago
the top 1% of larger corporations (i.e. VP level and CxO level) is more selective (i.e. not composed of normal people like you and me) than governments. For both country governments and the governments of corporations, having some amount of
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by sqrt17 12y ago
To people in Europe (no idea if grandparent belongs to these), mailing around checks is just a ludicruous idea. You whip out your strong-authentication-of-the-day device, do the magic bellydance (i.e., enter some numbers into that device, o
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Well, from a purely market point of view, why would a market actor choose possibility A (get the movie for free) over possibility B (pay for the movie)? Or why would they choose B (pay for the movie) rather than C (not care about the movie
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by sqrt17 12y ago
according to Google TOS, you cannot, and Google will ban you as soon as the traffic from your host(s) will look more like monkeys on typewriters than actual people looking for search results. Will it have legal consequences? Most likely no.
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by sqrt17 12y ago
IBM's Watson is about the level of research that Google or Microsoft do in their regular research labs - i.e., it definitely has a longer-term scope, and it's reasonable to expect that investments in this area will pay off in the
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by sqrt17 12y ago
data and co-data are kind of like the -X and +X modalities in Prolog programs. Most of the time, it doesn't matter which one you use, but sometimes you need to write it backwards. Seeing the paper at http://www.jucs.org&#x2F
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by sqrt17 12y ago
It's simply more general. And it's really easy to write macros that do interesting things. So, incf, which is CL's +=, could be defined as (defmacro (incf lexpr val) `(setf ,lexpr (+ ,lexpr val)) which would evaluate "
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Did someone just reinvent setf? Honestly, I've always missed defsetf or a similar construct in languages without macros. Python's __setitem__ and __setattr__ are already nicer than C++'s pretense of using references, but setf
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Normally, causation has a couple confounders for correlation, such as - inverse causation - common cause - random correlations The first two should be relatively stable and reproducible, and we could then proceed to find out about causation
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Reddit banned the subreddit because some of the nude images were images of underaged celebrities. underage = banned, also on reddit
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by sqrt17 12y ago
To use LLVM to achieve the same thing would be to find a way to bootstrap SBCL through LLVM, which would, again, be very cool.

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