umilegenio

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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   It was more of a lighthearted joke about the attitude that many have toward JavaScript than an attack on the language itself. I have nothing against JavaScript, although it is not a splendid example of design it certainly works for what was
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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   There is no need to be rude. TypeScript was used as an example of a well-known language that currently is transpiled to JavaScript. I am not saying that TypeScript will surely be compiled to WebAssembly, just that it could. TypeScript is de
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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   The end game is to have a WebAssembly module that you can load just like you now load a JS script. When we get there, there will also be (probably[1]) easy methods to access the DOM from WebAssembly. At the moment the easiest way would prob
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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   You are right only for the average website. If you are building applications delivered through the web, like games and advanced webmail, it can take a few seconds right now. With WebAssembly you could basically create all desktop applicatio
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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   I agree. At the moment you can use WebAssembly, but it is not exactly user friendly. Effectively they have only build tools that can work inside other tools or as a part of an existing toolchain. However, the end game is to be able to load
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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   Thanks for your comment. We are going to look into it.
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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   That's true up to a point. We wrote the article for programmers that had no previous knowledge, so we avoided stuff that is too hard. To such people stuff that is too advanced would look cool, but it would also be impractical to use. H
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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   Thanks. Well, there are interesting things that we had to cut because they were too advanced for an introductory article. We were thinking about making a new article for them in a few months. And Natural Language Generation would be another
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   by umilegenio 9y ago

   The interesting thing about word2vec is that is an unsupervised method that build vectors to represent each word in a way that makes easy to find relationship between them. There is a video by the creator of Gensim on word2vec and frieds:
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    by umilegenio 9y ago

    > - Answering a question by returning a search result from a large body of texts. E.g. "How do I change the background color of a page in Javascript?" > - Answering a question, using a large body of facts. Like search, but n
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    by umilegenio 9y ago

    Thanks for your comment! Now, we have fixed the issue.