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sushirainon Show HN: Unbabel API – Human Corrected Machine Translation

I remember reading your NLP papers back in my academic days. Great work. One typo: in the https://www.unbabel.com/pricing/ page "from Portuguese to Portuguese can take some time".

sushirainon Evolution of words frequencies in porn

It counts sub-string frequency, not word frequency. Try "a,b,c".

sushirainon Evolution of words frequencies in porn

1. It doesn't count word frequencies, but sub-string frequencies. Moreover, if a sub-string appears more than once-per-title, then it is counted more than once. I draw this conclusion by submitting "a,b,c". And from their paper [1]:

   our algorithm strips out dashes and catches any 
   occurrence of the query in the title, for example, 
   'blow' catches 'blowing', 'blowjobs'

This explains the results of these queries: "ada,erlang", "tea,beer". As an alternative they could have used a stemmer [2].

2. The "slow,fast" and "love,hardcore" trends illustrate an interesting trend. Perhaps towards women or mainstream viewers.

[1] http://sexualitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PORNSTUDIE...

[2] http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/stemming-an...

sushirainon 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256..

Perhaps this explanation is helpful:

    1 / (10000 - 2) = 1/10000 * 1/(1 - 2/10000)

Notice that the sum of a geometric series is:

    1/(1 - x) = sum_k( x^k )
    1/(1 - 2/10000) = sum_k( (2/10000)^k )

So:

    1/10000 * 1/(1 - 2/10000) = 1/10000 * (1 + 2/10000 + 2^2/10000^2 + 2^3/10000^3 + ...)

sushirainon Ukraine crisis: Parliament abolishes anti-protest law

> The battle ... is one of information.

Bookmarking.

sushirainon Show HN: Random Street View

I was surprised to see that most street-views in the world are rural.

sushirainon Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M

Google ∩ Nest ∩ Boston Dynamics ∩ Ray Kurzweil ∩ Andrew Ng ∩ DeepMind = Domestic Robot?

sushirainon Google outed me

It is NOT true that I can avoid opening a Google Plus/Facebook account, and thus protect my privacy.

Google/Facebook has been striving to integrate the public account with many important services. Google/Facebook are a monopoly/very dominant in email, social networks, navigation, smartphones, etc. Some online services already require a Google/Facebook account. Your social media account determines your credit score[1], or can get/deny you a job position. This is going to get more widespread.

A social media account has become mandatory, and the law should step in to protect our privacy and safety.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230477310...

sushirainon California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffic ticket

You can't use a monitor while driving? The law says it's legal to use a mapping display while driving in California:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm

sushirainon Mother

Gamification is a powerful motivator. People will start jog/brush teeth, similarly to answering questions on stackoverflow. It doesn't work on everybody, but it works.

sushirainon Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?

Regarding the 12 hours division, they do suggest it is from "the number of finger joints on each hand (three in each of the four fingers, excluding the thumb)".

sushirainon Blackphone

No. The problem is not the common user who just follows common hardware and software. The problem is common hardware and software, which put security last.

sushirainon Google to Acquire Nest

Google + Nest + Boston Dynamics + Ray Kurzweil = Domestic Robot?

sushirainon India Manages to Free Itself of Polio

In 2013 polio came through Egypt (probably) to Israel and Syria. Israel had to return to regular OPV when regular sewage tests returned positive, but no case of infection was reported.

sushirainon Homogenization of scientific computing – Python is eating other languages’ lunch

Please add (2013) to the title, since it's not new.

sushirainon The new Photosynth

I wonder what this technology will allow us to do?

sushirainon Python code to solve xkcd 1313 by Peter Norvig

What would be a use for finding a minimal discriminating regex? Perhaps understanding the difference between boys' and girls' names?

sushirainon Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished

A convicted spy (he's charged with espionage) can't get elected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

sushirainon Why Google isn't our Bell Labs

No. They give prizes, maybe fund researchers, but they don't assign people to do fundamental research. Unless you call the youtube-cats and driver-less cars fundamental.

sushirainon Facebook's AI lab

There is an increasing amount of peer pressure though.

sushirainon Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

If smart people are not expected to get incremental results we may lose both incremental progress and ingenious leaps.

sushirainon A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining

After reading chapter two, my conclusion is that this book is also suitable for high-school level. Not many books simplify things so much as this book. The Python implementation even avoids Numpy, which makes it very easy to understand (even though using Numpy is more practical).

sushirainon CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store

A better compromise would have been to just enforce a modal warning message in the play store, such as:

"Warning! This app can brick your device. Google is not responsible for its damages, and you may loose other warranties, too!"

Regarding kids, that would overlook the warning, they still have to download the PC software. So the procedure isn't significantly more simplified than going directly to the website.

sushirainon Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture

A mathematician once told me that he doesn't appreciate research which leads to small improvement of a bound, but only research that leads to a conceptual novelty (like possibility). I guess this story shows that there is room for both.