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aisofteng··on Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi
Just note that doing that is probably a fireable offense.
aisofteng··on MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark
This sort of sentence is exactly the point of the article. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge
aisofteng··on Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles
The difference is that you’ve already decided that the latte is worth $4 to you.
aisofteng··on Why use learning when you can fit?
In machine learning, a learned model should be able to generalize to unseen data. Curve fitting does not have that characteristic.
aisofteng··on Cooking as a Service
To add to the anecdata, in my group of friends, most of the people who cook are male, whether for pleasure or for sustenance.

Through my entire dating life, I have found it rare for a woman to know how to cook, let along enjoy it, like I do. It’s been a big sticking point for me.

aisofteng··on Thoughts on macOS Package Managers
Is this viable without tinkering on macOS?
aisofteng··on Thoughts on macOS Package Managers
As someone who switched to MacOS for work a few years ago for a new job out of a desire to not have the fudge with Linux for getting work done at work, I thought MacPorts was obsolete based on what I found online about installing packages and so on.
aisofteng··on Deck-build – A powerful and tiny bash framework to build custom Docker images
Looks to be the type of thing where people didn’t want to learn a new technology so someone wrote a “framework” to make it “easier” for them.
aisofteng··on The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity
In a standard curriculum this should all be covered by 10th grade.
aisofteng··on Structure of recent philosophy (2017)
>While the most prolific authors can not always be understood to have shaped the field in a deep fashion, they anchor the clusters in more recent debates, and give me an opportunity to mention more women in the graphic.

What a strange non-sequitur.

The clusters look strange to me as well - I don’t see any expected names aside from Plato and Aristotle for classics.

The choice of embedding a first-person narrative into the poster is also quite strange.

aisofteng··on Pathfinding for Tower Defense
A* is very simple.
aisofteng··on Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
>They consist of dozens of unorganized PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets with bureaucratic titles like “Western Balkans Hate Orgs and Figures” and “Credible Violence: Implementation standards.”

>In Pakistan, moderators were told to watch some parties and their supporters for prohibited speech.

>In another email, moderators were told to hunt down and remove rumors wrongly accusing an Israeli soldier of killing a Palestinian medic.

These are very similar to the information collected by and activities engaged in by a state intelligence organization.

aisofteng··on 35th Chaos Communication Congress Live Streams
>let everyone know

What would that accomplish?

aisofteng··on 35th Chaos Communication Congress Live Streams
Why would you feel “invasive attending as an English native”?
aisofteng··on Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (2016)
I don’t understand the point of this list. It’s just a list of concepts on various degrees of commonality. What’s the motivation of making a list like this? What’s the benefit?
aisofteng··on Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
“almost unlimited” doesn’t mean anything.
aisofteng··on The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit
The short, stilting sentences make this article read like a fifth grade book report.
aisofteng··on 50 CVEs in 50 Days: Fuzzing Adobe Reader
What a strange bar graph, where each column is color coded to a year rather than just putting the years on the x axis.
aisofteng··on Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’
Look at youth unemployment rates in Europe: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemploymen...

>20% youth unemployment in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain. I don’t see how a country could recover from that.

aisofteng··on Show HN: Not Depressing News
Natural language is not well described at all with analogies to first order logic. Centuries of thought on the philosophy of language have well established this.
aisofteng··on Elastic files for an IPO
Note that 3 and 4 were skipped; ES 2 was followed by ES 6.
aisofteng··on Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer
Unless your have required attendance, this phenomenon means you haven’t made it clear beforehand what audience your presentation is intended for.
aisofteng··on Amazon is paying to tweet nice things about warehouse working conditions
Using keywords isn’t accurate enough; you’d use a classifier for this.
aisofteng··on Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed
And nobody releases production code to a cloud environment without performance testing of significant changes.
aisofteng··on PyPy.js: Python in the web browser
The print will slow everything down as well.
aisofteng··on Bill Gates Noticed a Economy Trend No One Is Paying Attention To
Bosch as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH
aisofteng··on A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists
The reference is to the bias-variance tradeoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias–variance_tradeoff
aisofteng··on The False Tale of Amazon's Industry-Conquering Juggernaut
In 2017, IBM cloud revenue surpassed Amazon’s: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2017/07/28/ibm-beats-...
aisofteng··on A Taste of Linear Logic (1993) [pdf]
I’m having difficulty following your comments about adversarial choice as related to the axiom of choice. What you’re saying doesn’t sound well-defined (in the mathematical sense).
aisofteng··on Setting Up a Fast, Comprehensive Search Routine with PostgreSQL
>Is it possible to have production-quality search using just postgresql?

It depends on your search use case. If you are doing fairly simple searches such as trying to find, say, usernames, you can certainly have production grade search using Postgres.

However, if you have to handle searches that are not as targeted, Postgres will not be enough. One example is searching with synonyms - if you want a record containing "automobile" to match queries containing the term "car", ElasticSearch will serve you better.

Postgres is a relational data store and ElasticSearch is an information retrieval system; each focuses on their intended use case. The fact that Postgres supplies some elementary search capabilities does not mean that Postgres can well serve a bona fide information retrieval user case.

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