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by wdutch 2y ago
I have aphantasia. I relate to what you say about how "feel" a face when I remember it. I'd compare it to a neutral nets embedding. I'm not storing every "pixel" of an image but instead a "vector" tha
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by wdutch 2y ago
I think you're right. Since LLMs went mainstream, I've seen a lot of my colleagues' presentations and thought "was this written by ChatGPT?" but I've come to wonder if it's just given me the frame of mind
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by wdutch 3y ago
They ask themselves the difficult question for every anime: which character will be voiced by Vic Mignogna.
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by wdutch 3y ago
This is a nice idea, in the past I worked as a maths tutor and was always on the lookout for good problems for students. (Maybe this is possible, I didn't make an account but ...) Seems like the scraped problems are a great starting po
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by wdutch 3y ago
This is a neat project! I did find the UX a big confusing. If I ask "What was your major?" the start of the answer is "Ian Woods graduated ...". But If I ask "What was Ian's major?" I get "no results&
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by wdutch 3y ago
Ah yes that event that famously took place on the island of taiwan....
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by wdutch 3y ago
> Is it not entirely a chinese matter? Well, no. It also includes Taiwan.
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by wdutch 3y ago
China are making a fuss about it but it's just an excuse for geopolitics.
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by wdutch 3y ago
I am familiar with a few south east asian languages and none would have any issue expressing "I will be going to the barbers while I'm in town" ... I think even in English if a second language speaker said "I go to barbe
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by wdutch 3y ago
Funnily enough, I have the same problem and I'm from the UK. I now live in Southeast Asia where officials will call me by my middle name which is a really weird experience for me.
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by wdutch 3y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this. Could you recommend any reading material for someone interested in theory of learning?
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by wdutch 3y ago
I'm not sure why they'd be fazed by Taiwan in particular? I've met several Taiwanese people who have been to Bhutan for tourism and have a favorable view of the country.
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by wdutch 4y ago
> No first-world company will break the law to save money on artists If the future of copyright law in the west moves to outlaw use in training data then the west will lose out to companies from China, Vietnam and anywhere else that does
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by wdutch 4y ago
I wonder if they would leverage users devices for computations, similar to folding@home[0] 0: https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en-US
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by wdutch 4y ago
> When I decided to go to Vietnam, everything and everyone told me to go to Ho Chi Minh City. It had better food. More art. More high culture. Less government. So I went to Hanoi. I'm not sure why the author acts like those are the
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by wdutch 4y ago
Hi GPT3, I didn't expect to see you here.
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by wdutch 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by wdutch 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by wdutch 4y ago
Thai is so inconsistently romanized you still might not understand anything! for example bangkok could be Baanggaawk.
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by wdutch 4y ago
Could someone explain how? I don't grok the command. My best guess is this relates to hexadecimal.
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by wdutch 4y ago
I make extensive use of the Spotify algorithm to discover the music I want to listen to based on my own idea of what it should sound like. For example if I want some music with a house beat but folky feel to it, then I'll create a play
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by wdutch 4y ago
Tangentially related but when I have lived in countries where English isn't the first language I'm amazed how many big companies ignore the language set in my web requests (English) and serves me content in the county's nativ
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by wdutch 4y ago
Tangentially, I wasn't aware of Turkey as an exporter of TV until I recently traveled in Cambodia and everyone I spoke to went on about the Turkish dramas they were watching. Thanks for the recommendation! this sounds like a good start
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by wdutch 5y ago
Serious question: could someone explain what "framework" means in this context? From context I'm guessing something like a daily routine?
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by wdutch 5y ago
> spend the 5 mins dallying on venmo trying to look up their handle, with terrible cell service, and hope you don't misclick on a total stranger who won't return your money if its missent. I think all your other points are vali
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by wdutch 5y ago
Whether intentional or not this was a great move by Korea for soft power. Where I live people are obsessed with everything Korean; learning the language, buying the fashion and idolizing the idols.
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by wdutch 5y ago
It also includes a couple of Italian swearwords in the function `is_blasphemy`
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by wdutch 5y ago
Vietnamese is also a difficult language to learn. I'm a European living in Vietnam and find it hard to get resources such as textbooks. I hope at some point a standard can be established for learners including textbooks and exams. Sadl
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by wdutch 5y ago
I had an "I feel old" moment stood at the front of my classroom trying to figure out how to turn autoplay off on youtube (shockingly enough, after showing a carefully chosen video to my class I don't want it to start showing
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by wdutch 6y ago
I love using this as an English Foreign Language teacher. I just wish I could choose a subset of the vocab because some of the words are a bit obscure like "megaphone"

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