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by verbify 3y ago
Fair enough, language should strive to be unambiguous. I guess I spent enough time in corporate-world that 'on premise' just means 'on-site'. Perhaps a hyphen would've helped.
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by verbify 3y ago
(As you pointed out), 'on-premise' is used very often (according to google trends as much or more than on-premise). There's an argument to be made that language is about how people use it and not the theoretical rules of gram
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I'm disappointed to hear that ruler and compass constructions didn't engage them. I'm currently working on digitising a Hebrew translation of Euclid's Elements, and I was hoping that the very physical aspect (almost like
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by verbify 3y ago
I buy oat milk, but I assume the kind that lasts a week. UHT is not very popular on these islands.
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I grew up as an ultra orthodox Jew - where people have 5+ kids and there is a lot of focus on religious life and community. There are plenty of extremely bitter people who might love their kids but feel trapped by the lifestyle (they don&#x
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by verbify 3y ago
As the expression goes, 'horses for courses'.
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by verbify 3y ago
People have different requirements. I had a commute that on an ebike took 50 minutes, and on a regular bike took me about 1:15 minutes each way. I couldn't do 2:30hrs of cycling every day, 5 days a week - it wasn't an option both
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by verbify 3y ago
I loved the youtube series that accompanied earlier versions of this book - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9V07EIfIg&list=PLOg0ngHtcq... It can be watched without the book. The coding parts can be skipped. It has som
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by verbify 3y ago
It doesn't necessarily mean that they don't know how to escape special characters, it just might mean that they're employing a defence in depth approach.
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by verbify 3y ago
The Times seems to be pretty strict with their journalists - in the late 1980s, Boris Johnson (he later became Prime Minister) was sacked by the Times because Johnson invented a quote from his godfather, the historian Sir Colin Lucas. I&#x2
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by verbify 3y ago
> Am-I the only one that finds is odd how the British government brags about Alan Turing after what they did to him? I also find this strange. On the one hand I'm tempted to see this from a cynical lens of government propaganda (&#x
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by verbify 3y ago
This person appeared to make hardware manufacturing applications (like CNC machines). In my experience with software like CRM there's a nuance to which domain knowledge is important (but I presume also financial software, and to a less
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by verbify 3y ago
I look at 'most recent commits', but sometimes with smaller pieces of software, no commits for a year or two can mean it's very stable and it does that one thing very well...
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by verbify 3y ago
'How To Read The Bible' by James Kugel (of Harvard University) is great for Judaism and Christianity. It goes through the history of how the text was interpreted - both critically/historically and how religious people interpr
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by verbify 3y ago
Stallman's comments can be verified. However we have no idea what Reid Hoffman saw or did on the island - he had plausible deniability. Therefore Stallman can face social consequences for his actions (without exposing EPFL to a defamat
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by verbify 3y ago
I got "Here is a random string of 32 characters: a8Jk5pYr0Dm9Nc1Vz8Qf2Bt6Hg3Lw4Uo"
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by verbify 3y ago
Moon 'sighting' is much earlier than the Islamic tradition. It's discussed in the Mishna, so it was at least debated in the 2nd century CE: https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Rosh_Hashanah.2?lang=bi The charitab
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by verbify 3y ago
Most of the world is multilingual: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/multilingualism Of course in the US this is not the case, and Twitter is a US based company that creates software used globally.
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by verbify 4y ago
I found your comment hurtful and I'd urge you to delete your comment. Obviously trademarking someone else's program name is very unethical, but I don't think it's indicative of my ethnicity. This is on quite a moving art
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by verbify 4y ago
There's a principle in Jewish law that Dinah D'Malchuta Dinah - the law of the country you're in is considered binding. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_d%27malkhuta_dina Given that the US law co
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by verbify 4y ago
The dataset humans are using does not just include the audio stream but also visual context. E.g. people pointing at things while talking about them.
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by verbify 4y ago
Well, consider that there are a bunch of poems/psalms in the Bible that use the alphabet as an acrostic (called abecedarian poems). E.g. 9 of the Psalms, chapter 31 of Proverbs, the book of Lamentations. Consider that although the Bibl
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by verbify 4y ago
An interesting example is the zayit stone, a 3000 year old abecedary written in the paleo-Hebrew alphabet. One interesting thing is the changes in the order of the letters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayit_Stone
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by verbify 4y ago
That was approximately my cost (in London). £22 per hour, 40 lessons, then an additional £100 for the instructor to take me to the test, wait, and drop me home. Add in the cost of the theory/practical test, and the inflation of the las
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by verbify 4y ago
I hear you. What do you think of the time/expertise/tooling it takes to train these models (and that's it's an iterative process and openai has a significant head start). This strikes me as more than a 'first to the
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by verbify 4y ago
Isn't there a pretty big cost in training these LLMs?
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I really don't understand the problem. If you offer me the latest and greatest pc for £1, there's nothing wrong with me taking you up on the offer even if I think there's a catch. And then when it turns out that the box was e
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by verbify 4y ago
> some portion of inflation is caused by increased labour cost. So by the time the strike demand is fulfilled, the next strike is in theory in the brewing The word 'some' is doing heavy lifting. If they get a 10% rise, and that
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Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds(en.wikipedia.org)
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by verbify 4y ago
Heh, I considered writing that, but decided against it because I figured the western wall would be more familiar to the audience on HN even if it's a few metres out.

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