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by tfm 10y ago
Short answer would be availability of tagged data, in turn dependent on historical research, which is a laggy history of who's been funding the research. This is changing, thankfully; check out e.g. the European Language Resources Asso
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by tfm 10y ago
The software worked remarkably well in this instance because the system was well constrained, and the students weren't on the lookout for it. If they do start quizzing their new unseen TA (Dr Colin V Olutionalnet) on random trivia it c
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by tfm 10y ago
More human than human is our motto ... Next step will be to replace the prof, and then have the students replaced by surprisingly attentive interrogative expert systems, and the cycle will be complete.
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by tfm 10y ago
Doesn't seem to matter whether the author already knew that she had a knack for talking to strangers without appearing crazy, or held with the "general assumption" and was genuinely surprised when the experiment turned out we
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by tfm 10y ago
It certainly depends a lot on the type of publication (and the nature of the article). The treatment of articles upon which publishers "choose not to proceed" is very important knowledge going in. Perusing the whopayswriters JSON
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by tfm 10y ago
It is a cancellation fee for freelancers - if the publication sees your work and decides not to run it, you get the kill fee and you're free to shop the story to other publications. The fee is specified in the contract, commonly 25% bu
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by tfm 10y ago
Having been on several projects that required such lists, I'm glad that such a repo exists, but be aware that it is just the tip of the iceberg. Stakeholders emerge from the woodwork: such and such on the delivery team had a terrible e
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by tfm 10y ago
Agreed. I love me all the Unicodes, all the time! For typing, for display, for whatever internal app logic, variable names, the names of children etc. The IRI RFC does however specify that for transmission/interchange the IRIs need to
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by tfm 10y ago
RDF on the not-so-cheap? Real-time profiling of the internal Factory code by keeping track of every attribute and running a bunch of exciting INSERT hooks? I have seen this pattern before, it comes when somebody is sick of having to adjust
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by tfm 10y ago
It is good to have clarity on how WHATWG is working. Thankyou! Sounds like an HTML5 style treatment of the problem. I'm not clear though why the effective starting point is the superset of all variants currently implemented by one of
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by tfm 10y ago
That's some pretty useful documentation there. I hope that it at least forms part of a submission to the WHATWG folks.
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by tfm 10y ago
When the robustness principle meets the tragedy of the commons, good people get driven to the brink of madness. There are surely arguments for allowing any old garbage in URLs/URIs/IRIs - hey, it's easy and fun! - but, gee, i
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by tfm 10y ago
Certainly would be a very odd control group! Journal article just specifies 80 children, of which 48 were boys, so that would be an arithmetic problem at the WSJ. Lucky they don't deal with numbers on a regular basis :-/ Correctio
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by tfm 10y ago
What's in a name? That which we call a boat etc etc. "Silly" isn't necessarily a bad thing, although the term does seem to be used pejoratively. As for recent college graduates, they might well take a look at the swift m
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by tfm 10y ago
Another beautiful misdirect from the science correspondents :-) One might reasonably argue that the onus would be on the headline writers there to lend the appropriate gravitas. On the other hand ... there'd still be more publicity for
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by tfm 10y ago
This is the internet, people will always be pissed off. We'll see how long it takes for news sources to stop reporting the journeys of the "RRS David Attenborough nee Boaty McBoatface".
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by tfm 10y ago
I was disappointed that there is no live traffic view available around the Gigafactory [0], but filled with joy to see that its access road is named Electric Avenue. Previous reports seem to indicate that the workers may be at the factory f
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by tfm 10y ago
... not to mention, each of them might feel some small measure of empathy for the other! What if one did this regularly? Would battle-hardened cloners become insensitive to "retirement" of their doppelgangers, or as the last survi
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by tfm 10y ago
I saw the link to 1729 and the rest of the links to the Mathematica wormhole and noted (but resisted) the opportunity to go exploring. As it was it they were largely inline. That's some pretty subtle calls-to-action, marketing folks ca
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by tfm 10y ago
Well, you're defining "us" too broadly. If you redefine it as students vs National Guard then it's not hypocritical at all, just ghastly.
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by tfm 10y ago
It is a difficult line to toe. Obviously if their primary objective is to raise awareness of the (continuing) existence of the boat, BMcBF is a winner, and there are numerous cash-in opportunities such as those you suggest. If done right it
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by tfm 10y ago
It doesn't really seem in this case that the budget overrun is the most controversial bit. The sting in the tail is that it resulted in the duplication of existing bus routes with an infrequent service and a comparable travel time. As
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Why Does the Sun Hurt My Eyes?(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by tfm 11y ago|0 comments
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by tfm 11y ago
Maybe think of it by analogy. Suppose my compression format (dibs, patent pending) is an uncompressed RGB pixel list, stored in a ZIP archive. Let's call that SuperCompress Level 0. I can improve the compression a little by rounding th
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by tfm 11y ago
"Putting an astronomical telescope in space was a natural solution, and it followed directly—and, according to some, very directly—from the spy satellite program." Can anyone expand upon this? I know the NRO has recently donated s
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by tfm 11y ago
And yet anonymity on the interwebs tends to have the same crappening effect on Real Humans. How would a "Turing test compatible" version of the real name policy work?
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by tfm 11y ago
OT but apt to this community - That's what I thought, but after a lifetime of 'correcting' people, I looked up the definition of sarcasm. Turns out that the sarcastic-sounding truths I'd been deploying for decades were i
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by tfm 11y ago
A few hundred years of brilliant minds throwing themselves at it didn't find anything simpler than Wiles' approach, and now that the first proof has been found it seems fairly unlikely that any serious science will get expended sp
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by tfm 11y ago
> A quality, trustworthy third-party network I'm sure that most networks start off with such lofty ideals, maybe they even believe them ... :-o EDIT: To expand a little on the previous thought: you were shocked that the BBC website
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by tfm 11y ago
Aren't all world-facing websites "a public service"? BBC within UK has a special remit because of the funding structure (thanks to the increasingly-inaccurately named "TV" licensing fees), but BBC [Worldwide] is jus

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