torvaney

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by torvaney 3y ago
Conserved enough to do word translation: https://engineering.fb.com/2018/08/31/ai-research/unsupervis...
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Connecting the Dots Between Soccer and the Night Sky [video](youtube.com)
2 points by torvaney 4y ago|0 comments
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by torvaney 5y ago
Absolutely. This will be an even bigger issue for people texting in a second or third language (which I understand is quite common among countries and communities where feature phone use is high). As I understand it, one of the big advantag
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by torvaney 5y ago
Yes, it's interesting that the T9 seems to have made a slight improvement on my "naive" alphabetical layout. You might even be able to brute-force a solution where the alphabetical constraint is imposed.
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by torvaney 5y ago
I tend to blog more often on my soccer blog ( https://www.statsandsnakeoil.com ), which has RSS set up. Naturally, that's a bit more niche. I'll look into RSS for this site if I start adding more new posts and projects.
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by torvaney 5y ago
Hello! OP, here. I agree that the task is training for this specific subset of English writing, which isn't ideal. For this task, I was primarily interested in whether the task would work at all. My assumption is that given we can opti
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Optimising the T9 Keyboard(torvaney.github.io)
44 points by torvaney 5y ago|17 comments
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by torvaney 5y ago
Maciej Cegłowski has an excellent post that goes into a bit more depth on this story of how the cure for scurvy was found, unwittingly lost, and refound: https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
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by torvaney 6y ago
In a similar vein, there's also babashka for these "bash+" use-cases: https://github.com/babashka/babashka
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by torvaney 6y ago
If you're interested in collecting small-scale/simple event-data, I put something together for my own use here: https://torvaney.github.io/projects/tracker.html
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How to pick a random number from 1-10(torvaney.github.io)
362 points by torvaney 7y ago|173 comments
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by torvaney 7y ago
Neat! I happened to finish a similar project in Clojure just this week: https://github.com/Torvaney/flow-solver Although I used a much lazier strategy for doing the solving (reduction to SAT).