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by tboyd47 8y ago
If the owners of all these companies are actually afraid of their own managers allocating funds within the companies they have supposedly invested in, then what's the point of investing in anything at all? In that case, the "e
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by tboyd47 8y ago
This is not sales; programmers don't get "raises". The good thing is you can give yourself a raise by applying for a job at another company. If you want more responsibility (i.e. a promotion), then you can sometimes get one
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Are you comfortable delegating?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
People who have money want to see that money grow. You can't get around this. How many companies have you worked for in your 3 years? Maybe you just need a change of environment. The programming field is vast. It's possible to exe
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I'm not making excuses, but what appears to be going on in China is very serious indeed, with possibly one million people being seized and interned in prison camps, breaking contact with loved ones, and never released. The increased st
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Even though you think you're ready, you may still need some down time. Find some way to disconnect completely from your daily responsibilities for a weekend or even a whole week to sleep, eat, and reflect. If down time isn't worki
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by tboyd47 8y ago
No problem. By the way, I added some quick and dirty romanization in the output stage if you're interested. It in no way represents how the words sound, but it does make it easier for the Roman eye to parse. ex. Correct. Input: احتياطي
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I added some basic transliteration in the output formatting stage so people who don't know Arabic script can understand the results. Accepting romanized input would require a little more work, so I'd have to tinker a bit there.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I think the formatting on the output is a bit confusing. The input is jumla جملة (sentence) and the output is J-M-L or ج-م-ل, not the word جمل, which yes, is a word for camel. I think it would be easier to read if I just added dashes betwee
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by tboyd47 8y ago
It really depends on what dialects of Arabic you are looking at and what your goals are. My starting dataset is very small. I study classical Arabic, so I am only looking at fus-ha or MSA (not quite the same but very close), and I only pu
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Wow, really nice app! I love the simple-yet-highly-responsive interface. I'm definitely going to be sharing this around to my translator friends. Just curious, are you a translator?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Thanks, that's awesome! I am a software engineer and long time student of Arabic. You're pretty much on the mark with the capabilities of the model at this point. It can recognize the simple morphemes and long vowels but stumbles
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Oops, I didn't quite understand the question. Yep, inputs are Arabic words represented as Unicode strings, with or without inflection marks (ex. متوسّط), and outputs are a string consisting of 3 or 4 Arabic letters (وسط) or an empty st
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Wow, thanks! A wealth of resources here.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Sure- I pulled the input set from the arabeyes wordlist and used an online service called aratools to get the answer for each.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
It should be possible, because Arabic morphology follows a logical set of rules (mostly). For example, given a word like متوسط, you could match it for the standard conjugations for the 10 standard verb forms, of which it would match for #5
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I tried more than one hidden layer and it didn't seem to improve the accuracy.
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Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology(github.com)
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by tboyd47 8y ago
My resume will already have the relevant experience listed on it. The purpose of the interview is not really to gain new information about me, but to verify the experience I claim to have. It is very difficult to tell if someone is being di
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I don't think hiring is "broken." I think that it's a hard problem where you would require unlimited resources and time to achieve perfection. A short onsite interview where we discuss my previous work experience and you
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I'm 33. Replace your timing belt on time.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
They were starting to adopt a cutthroat culture where managers boast about firing people. I remember the point where I knew I was going to quit was when the VP called all the tech leads in a room and essentially told us, "Good riddance
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Klabnik makes a strong case for WASM here, and one I haven't really seen anywhere else. Now the question is, who will make the first major framework on top of WASM, and for which language?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Well done, sir or madam, you meant it and you said it. Now, can you direct me to the Hacker News subreddit?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Yeah, maybe he's still decoupling himself from the leadership function, but he goes about saying that in kind of a roundabout way.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
> Don’t people trust ether and Ethereum in part because they trust you? In a sense, there’s this Russian tradition of holy men who come along — Dostoyevsky’s Alyosha, Prince Myshkin — like a non-evil Rasputin... > ...I try to make mys
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by tboyd47 8y ago
This is true. They could also be mining a different coin or chain then switching over. All speculation I guess.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Halving is scheduled for 2020. Miners probably have lots of dormant equipment they already purchased and are gradually turning on. They must increase hashpower if they want to maintain the same return, but it's in their best interest n
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Is there a better way than this? Or is this just how it has to be?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Like preparing for any other new challenge. How would you prepare for using a new tech at work? You would read about it, find a mentor, and possibly take classes. So do the same.

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