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good thing we don't run our society based on the NAP

> The reason the powers of states in the west were limited to a degree - it was because the person was held as sacred. Most of the old judges deeply understand this. The politicians don't.

This conception is more mythos than reality. You should look at some of the early laws passed in many of these countries if you think we had a tradition of "strong" natural rights that are only being abrogated in our modern era.

It used to be illegal to publish content critical of the government [0], not to mention the fact that the franchise was restricted to those holding property, and definitely not considering ongoing active slavery.

I don't understand your connection to demonization of the poor.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

You really don't see how you're playing into exactly the fallacy they're critiquing?

I would trust a 3rd party on-device service slightly more, given that Google's incentives aren't exactly aligned with making that service high quality.

They pandering to affluent professional-managerial class people, very much not the same as power users - although there is some overlap.

Well then it was a hoax?

> I'm disappointed he isn't releasing the source for these or LibNC.

Arithmetic coding with LM conditioned probability has been done before and it's not a particularly complex idea to implement, I don't think it is critical that the code be released.

> We definitely need non-academic, non-Python machine learning implementations

There are two things here: training and serving/inference. We already have non-Python implementations for the latter and I don't think we're in "definite" need of the former.

> I assume it's not static

Why? It is static.

Huh, interesting! Laravel is much more popular than I would have expected given how few shops I see using it.

Which just brings us back to linear again

You didn't reply to the article directly, you replied to a comment on the article - one that was making the exact point that you are repeating.

No, I'm pretty sure that is the exact opposite of what they are saying.

Maybe work on your reading comprehension?

> think this is mostly because they don't realize which companies are large and which are small or even just hobby projects

Definitely - it is hard for many to grasp how productive a single engineer can be in putting together a project that looks quite polished and professional.

But also, some people are just mean.

And we're not even talking about 400 years, we're often talking about tens of thousands

We successfully use it in production at the company I work for, so this is just (1) not true, (2) an ill-informed opinion.

> Can any fork of Chromium make it on there?

Chromium is a browser.

> Tardigrades can make it, to some extent, for a limited amount of time.

Yeah but likely not for tens of thousands of years in the void between space + cosmic radiation?

> PirvacyWall seems to be using the Bing API like DDG, so I just don't see how they'd be about to outspend DDG so easily.

They probably are private-equity/venture-funded and are a bet on trying to capture some of the market which they can monetize for more than they spent on the auction.

e: well they appear to be a class B corp, so actually perhaps not

Aren't anti-trust laws meant to benefit the consumer?

I fail to see how the remedy proposed by the EU (this bidding/auction method) is benefiting me, the consumer, when the most popular Google alternative is eliminated from the options because they don't monetize as aggressively.

I think you are substantially underestimating the scale of the galaxy and the vastness of space to make a claim like "dna based life probably has a monopoly on water based planets throughout the galaxy"

> the conditions or specific mutation that gave rise to multi-cellular life

Doubtful, given that we've been able to recreate multicellularity evolving in the lab. The initial jump to life, not so much.

You're telling me multiple L4s are getting $254k/yr ($1 mil total) in equity? That's surprising to me, and I thought I had a sense of the market.

> FAANGs

Do we just use FAANGs to mean every West coast software company? Because otherwise it is very typical of non-FAANGs as well.

> Conversely wouldn’t imply the other life’s impending extinction symmetrically?

Yes and?

> Relatively speaking of course

In no world are SWEs "relatively speaking" little people compared to lawyers.

> Many/most of the best developers I’ve ever worked with wouldn’t consider wasting their time on such nonsense

Interview practices aside - I find them to be fun puzzles and know plenty of accomplished CS/math people who do too. I understand the anger at corporate tech practices but let's not malign those who find the questions interesting.

> they’re going to be exceptionally rare.

Disagree - at least in my experience in urban school districts, they were definitely the majority of good teachers.

> Voltage on the other hand means nothing without current

How do you propose you have voltage in a conductive medium (pipe) without current?

To me, it's not a bad analogy (nevermind you that electrons flow the opposite direction of current) - and I am well-versed in physics.

Just gave that a read.

1. It is pretty out of date (ML is a fast moving field) - I doubt Google is using LSTMs for translation in 2020.

> Since the intermediate language only ever sees English as a source or target language, ambiguities like "spring" literally get lost in translation.

2. This article is trying to dumb down what Google is doing - but you're right that this is why ambiguities get lost in translation, due to pre-training on a different language pair.

That said, there isn't literally a process of "translate into english" and then "translate english into german". These models are trained on Russian-German corpora, but because there is little resources for that, they are supplementing with Russian-English and English-German.