andreasvc · HackerTrans

Why would we never know? Quoting from the blog post: "The specific reasons given were that [...]" followed by a bullet list. Your guess is unwarranted speculation.

andreasvc

6년 전discuss

Ah, I see. That really doesn't deserve to be called an idiom, it's a clever hack. But it's nice to know about it. It seems less ugly than the walrus operator to me, and it doesn't leak the variable outside of the comprehension.

andreasvc

6년 전discuss

I'm puzzled by this example:

    sums = [s for s in [0] for x in data for s in [s + x]]

Why would you do "for s in" twice? Is that intentional? It would make more sense to me if the variables would have been different. And why would you want to add 0 to numbers?! Curious about a real world use case for this.

andreasvc

6년 전discuss

What are the advantages of Re over Re2?

andreasvc

7년 전discuss

bollu, multiple people have shown that your claim that the paper doesn't match the code is flat out wrong. I think at this point you should issue a retraction of your wildly inappropriate suggestion of academic dishonesty.

andreasvc

7년 전discuss

It is an extremely thin font which makes it unsuitable for screen reading.

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

Why do you think English would be least compressible? Is that based on conjecture or have you investigated this? Why would artificial language be more compressible? That seems completely orthogonal to me (by definition, an artificial language can be designed with whatever properties you choose). Fortran may be more compressible due to its limited set of keywords, but it's my impression that Ithkuil is by design more information dense and thus harder to compress than English.

The most efficient language is the least compressible language only in a narrow and arbitrary sense of efficient. There are many considerations such as what is efficient for the speaker, the hearer, redundancy to noise, efficiency with respect to particular purposes, etc. We can assume that natural languages will generally make a good trade-off across these factors, and searching for the most efficient language in one particular narrow sense is not very useful. Moreover, compression of text focuses only on surface form, completely ignoring the dimension of meaning.

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

Yes, in the context of text classification a bag of words model will refer to that, or combined with some other linear model like linear SVM or naive bayes.

The queen - woman example is when you try to make a model of word semantics, such as with word2vec. In a document classification task the vectors represent documents.

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

You mention a single counterexample, but is it "definitely not true"? I think there is a strong publication bias: papers will report when they improve on the baseline, but that's likely not representative for the common case (e.g., limited data, no pretrained model available, no time for extensive parameter tuning).

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

You're right that it is a representation, but also an instance of the vector space model of language. Coupled with a linear model for prediction it is a strong baseline for text classification problems. See e.g. http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/text_analytics/worki...

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

The article states he's perfectionist. He probably wouldn't be OK with that.

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

Yup, that's a downside. The advantage is that it's much simpler and will also work when you're not on your home network.

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

The simplest approach is to use a hosts file: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

Regarding that idea for a universal integer set, roaring bitmaps implement that.

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

Would love to read more about this. I've read that early programming was thought of like a glorified telephone operator, but that these women had advanced mathematics degrees.

I can't find anything non-biased though, everyone just wants to push the female victim narrative.

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

To clarify, what I meant is that with TCP, I can set up a two-way communication channel, even if I'm behind a NAT/firewall I don't control. As far as I understand, with UDP this is harder (i.e., does not work with all NAT types), because UDP does not establish a connection, and it does not provide a two-way communication channel. However, I am not up to date on NAT traversal techniques, so I might be wrong.

andreasvc

8년 전discuss

No. UDP is connectionless, which makes it harder to use with NAT.

andreasvc

9년 전discuss

> machines like Parsey McParseFace can now accurately parse human universal grammar. unambiguous parsing was a big feature of lojban, so it's lost a major selling point.

Slow down there ... Most linguists (or a substantial minority) do not subscribe to the theoretical idea of universal grammar. Parsey McParseFace is only an incremental improvement in decades of statistical parsing. The problem of natural language understanding remains largely unsolved. Like other deep learning models, it is not hard to come up with adversarial examples that will confuse the parser but not any competent human language user. The parser is only as good as the data it is trained on; this data is expensive to acquire but there is never enough. Additionally there are a myriad other kinds of ambiguity in language beyond the sentence-level syntactic ambiguity which is resolved by a statistical parser such as Parsey McParseFace.

In my opinion Lojban provides a good illustration of just how hard it is to remove ambiguity from human language.

andreasvc

9년 전discuss

For a better, actual example of this problem, see the leopard sofa: http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.ht...

andreasvc

9년 전discuss

Why would one ever prefer a linked list over a dynamic array? I know about the asymptotic performance, but if you take actual memory performance into account (locality, cache, pointers are slow, etc), it seems dynamic arrays should be simpler and perform better.

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