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by tasogare 6y ago
The gif excuse doesn’t make sense. If Google was really concerned about that they would also provided a way to block huge gif, in addition to auto-play video.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Have a look at MSR.
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by tasogare 6y ago
It’s time for academics to fight for the right of « scholastic sanctuary » as featured in His Dark Materials.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> I would've hoped that an expert who was lecturing about language and culture would've anticipated the problem, and been more sensitive to it. I’m learning Mandarin Chinese and consequently have use "nei-ge" quite a
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by tasogare 6y ago
Dare to write this comment from your phone on subway line 4 at night, nothern portion?
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by tasogare 6y ago
> tons of homelessness and dodgy people harassing you in the street (trying to sell you drugs or scam you) I agree with that. It’s not because of the social safety net however; or it is in a way, but only because it got combined with oth
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by tasogare 6y ago
Same here, I hate when API is used to denote Web APIs, which are only a subset. > While in one sense an API is a compact between two or more pieces of technology, it’s ultimately a compact between two or more people. Also the author
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by tasogare 6y ago
> the distinction between authentication and authorization Distinction which is totally useless in practice as you certainly won’t have authorization without authentication.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Sometimes it even doesn’t work in the short term: I downloaded this app last month and used it... once.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Maybe this is just a US centric issue? I have an iPhone for years, a lot of people I know too, yet I never saw anyone using iMessage, nor I personally use it. Everyone I know is using either Facebook Messenger, Line, Whatsapp, Telegram or a
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by tasogare 6y ago
The pandemic has stopped. Sure, there are more and more infected people, yet the hospital admissions are stale. It’s really hard to understand why governments that first reacted like there was no problem when the situation emerged and the
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by tasogare 6y ago
Why would it be? Rounding up is not a surhuman effort and if someone gets tricked by that they probably have bigger issues in life.
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by tasogare 6y ago
I don’t understand the argument you are trying to make. Yes, China bans Google and Facebook, and it’s legitimate as they are a sovereign nation. Are you in fact advocating for those two companies to be allowed in China? If I recall correctl
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by tasogare 6y ago
You are speaking of Swiss right? Too bad in France there was a policy of linguistics cleansing which effectively destroyed dialects and non-French languages as fast as in two generations. Of course there are other factors as well, like marr
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by tasogare 6y ago
They also develop the browser that has the sheer majority of users and fund almost exclusively the only real technical competitor. This is really worrying.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Nearly anything universities teach can be learned outside of a university, and usually faster. Seems the writer has a personal bias against universities, because this affirmation is so wrong on many levels. Sure lot of skills can be le
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by tasogare 6y ago
Perfect illustration of GP point: you played for 410 days, yet you only learned the content of what is probably only a few hours of focused learning. I’ve tested Duolinguo for languages I want to learn, for some I already know and a languag
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by tasogare 6y ago
> If you happen to be the target of this hatred and violence, and feel it is an existential threat to your livelihood, you might believe that it is a good thing to make it more difficult for those who are engaging in this behavior to enl
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Several other researchers I know — very good researchers who happen to have been publicly critical of GPT-2 — have not been given access. Wow, this is an incredible nasty move. This is allow telling about the confidence they have in th
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by tasogare 6y ago
> It's like being under a spell. I’ve played two gatcha games in succession and this describes the thing very well. I wasn’t missing a single of play, spend a little money on them, read news and game info everyday. I’m glad I stoppe
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by tasogare 6y ago
How is Mozilla financially autonomous from Google?
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by tasogare 6y ago
> France is very racist Literally the biggest lie I read here for a long time. Yeah France is so racist that 20% of the population is of foreign non-white ancestry, nationality is easy to get (notably got automatic if botn on national so
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by tasogare 6y ago
French here. This is very true. The whole economic incentives are made for big CAC40 companies whose owners/CEO are friends with the lawmakers. The small and medium companies, as individuals, are the most taxed out there. If you own a
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by tasogare 6y ago
Oh yes, I remember that. I don’t miss it at all, save for the annoying behavior of single bar when a search contains dot (e.g. searching for a dotnet namespace). While the single bar is my preference I agree that more choice should be given
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by tasogare 6y ago
Good luck reading anything in latin script with a one-character wide vertical search bar. This would works for Chinese (that’s the traditional writing orientation) but definitely not for most other languages.
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by tasogare 6y ago
> Screens are insanely wide these days This is not relevant for URL or search bars since they need to be displayed horizontally. Separate bars means less vertical screen space, which is still scarce.
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by tasogare 6y ago
Judging someone simply on his race. Simple example: refusing a job to someone because of this criterion. It doesn’t matter if Asian, Black, White or other, if the candidate is dismissed because of race, it’s racism.
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by tasogare 6y ago
The ML papers wouldn't bother me if they included specialists of the targeted domain to address the obvious pitfall. I've analyzed the figures in the blog post and skimmed the paper and both one novelty claim ( (2) A single massiv
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by tasogare 6y ago
Yes, this is exactly my point. NLP is about processing language (which have a century old field dedicated to it) yet the new trend is to totally discard that as a minor details. It's not. It's also fine if people mostly focus on E
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by tasogare 6y ago
> And I think that's a pretty good choice, since there's no reason to arbitrarily exclude languages There is a reason, which is akin to why balanced corpus are used for capturing various aspects of a language: language features

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