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by unhammer 3y ago
Predicting Financial Crime https://whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com/static/whitepaper.pdf > We are confident that our model matches or exceeds industry standards for predictive policing tools. ;)
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by unhammer 3y ago
I really hope you check with native Cree speakers before you publish a system like this. Smaller language communities are already being hurt by low-quality generated text. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353006
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by unhammer 3y ago
No-squint outdoor programming
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by unhammer 3y ago
huh, Intel making GIMP plugins https://github.com/intel/openvino-ai-plugins-gimp
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by unhammer 3y ago
Reading about programming makes you good at reading about programming. If you want a "guided project" to learn from instead, I can recommend https://lhbg-book.link/
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by unhammer 3y ago
I wish there was an f-droid for iOS; not for installing from, just as a way of searching for apps (including paid apps) that don't have ads or in-app purchases. There is https://nobsgames.stavros.io/ but it's just
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by unhammer 3y ago
also https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/05/how-to-cook-onions-... (onions take more than 10 minutes to caramelize, but people filter for short cooking time, so the lie propagates)
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by unhammer 3y ago
For magit, I like having it display full screen (deleting other windows), and then on quitting restore to the windows/splits I had before: (setq magit-display-buffer-function 'magit-display-buffer-fullframe-status-topleft-v
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by unhammer 3y ago
Also highly recommended to anyone who wants to nerd out on ecology: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20151002 , which among other things lead to the ban on DDT in agriculture in
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by unhammer 3y ago
Though if we keep extracting fossil fuels at the same rate, while electric cars lead to less demand for them, the price of fossil fuels will go down. Then people (corporations) will buy cheap fossil fuel for other stuff (now cruise tickets
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by unhammer 3y ago
Not that one should have to, but for Firefox you can cd .mozilla/firefox/$profile git init git add extensions git commit -am init echo '*.xpi diff=zip' >>.gitattributes echo '[diff &q
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We can’t afford to be climate doomers(theguardian.com)
3 points by unhammer 3y ago|2 comments
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by unhammer 3y ago
Apropos, https://github.com/two-twelve/fernery a "tool for generating images of ferns and other Iterated Function Systems" was recently posted somewhere
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by unhammer 3y ago
what mic do you use?
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by unhammer 3y ago
Not just conservation, but banning some of the worst pesticides in the 60's
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by unhammer 3y ago
Or even a decade earlier: > Opposition to DDT was focused by the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. It talked about environmental impacts that correlated with the widespread use of DDT in agriculture in the Unit
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by unhammer 3y ago
Still not available in Norway :(
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by unhammer 3y ago
Weird signup captcha, it requires you to open devtools and remove `onpaste="return false;"` from their email field (either that or enter your email manually, typos and all)
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by unhammer 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkjub%C3%B8argar%C3%B0ur
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by unhammer 3y ago
Numbers like that don't even make sense. With lots of morphology, one "word" has lots of forms and derivations. With high frequency, one "word" takes up a huge chunk of any given text. Maybe it would give a better i
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by unhammer 3y ago
Only every time they claim a major mathematical breakthrough using regular expressions.
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by unhammer 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a... but it seems that in the US, even dialects need to be armed to stand their ground. Here in Norway, we just call any regional language difference dialectal
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by unhammer 3y ago
… amberbeeches … Neat, Icelandic uses raf as in "amber" just like ēlektron "amber".
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by unhammer 3y ago
what a strangely fitting typo though :-)
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by unhammer 3y ago
There's some kind of parallel here to the need for including </sarcasm> in internet comments. The lack of shared context makes it harder to assume something that "obviously" everyone knows.
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by unhammer 3y ago
"finish school" as in graduate (at age ~19), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russefeiring
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by unhammer 3y ago
Writing flash cards and doing the exercises takes time. How do you decide/prioritise what you need to remember (in the Age of Search Engines)?
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by unhammer 3y ago
Not yet. If anyone manages to read through all of https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/50140 they might find out if it's planned or not; Mickey's article is shorter =P
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Association of ADHD Diagnosis with Adolescent Quality of Life Life(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
4 points by unhammer 3y ago|1 comments
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by unhammer 3y ago
Wow. For me, Gnus starts in <10s. But I guess it depends a lot on what backends you use (I use dovecot+mbsync for mail, so Gnus doesn't really index anything)

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