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.
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…
What are the advantages of Re over Re2?
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…
It is an extremely thin font which makes it unsuitable for screen reading.
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…
The article states he's perfectionist. He probably wouldn't be OK with that.
The simplest approach is to use a hosts file: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Regarding that idea for a universal integer set, roaring bitmaps implement that.
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,…
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…
> 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…
A fact is a statement corresponding with reality, a stereotype is a belief/generalization deemed harmful/undesirable.
Again, from humans and from reality is not different. Whether it is desirable to avoid stereotypes depends on your values.
I think you are making a distinction without a difference. If the word vectors pick up biases from wikipedia text, than for all practical purposes, they are (indirectly) absorbing stereotypes from humans. This is an…
Again, per the article "bias refers generally to prior information, a necessary prerequisite for intelligent action (4)." This includes a citation to a well-known ML text. This seems broader than the statistical…
I think your questions would be answered by reading the article. Particularly: "In AI and machine learning, bias refers generally to prior information, a necessary prerequisite for intelligent action (4). Yet bias can…
Cute title but the post didn't really address either reasonableness or effectiveness, but mostly claimed that the potential has not yet been realized. It's a pet peeve of mine to see these hackneyed joke titles…
Mathematics has this funny habit of throwing around "it is easy to say that ...", or in this case, calling a proof that eluded mathematicians for decades "simple."
He's hugely influential in the field; arguably dominant in a way that is unhealthy for a field. Acolytes will say he's influential because of merit, detractors will say it is because of rhetorical skill, sophistry. I…
You're making a straw man caricature out of the nativism detractors. Current researchers do not claim that first language is taught, that's why the field is called language acquisition regardless of whether one…
There is no consensus about this question. Both sides clearly have an ax to grind. Everett knows the language best, so I'd lend more credence to his judgment. Regardless of the answer, it only means that Chomsky's…
I don't see such a large difference between your wording and mine; "should" implies making some kind of best effort at doing something where possible. But regardless, where we differ is that I think that people are…
Sure but that illustrates my point: applying as much kindness as possible is not what people actually strive for nor would it be a solution. Preventing being taken advantage of takes priority.
Saying we aren't rational is not an argument that philosophy cannot improve our lives. In ancient Greece the latter used to be an important part of philosophy. I think schools such as stoicism and epicureanism have a…
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.
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…
What are the advantages of Re over Re2?
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…
It is an extremely thin font which makes it unsuitable for screen reading.
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…
The article states he's perfectionist. He probably wouldn't be OK with that.
The simplest approach is to use a hosts file: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Regarding that idea for a universal integer set, roaring bitmaps implement that.
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,…
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…
> 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…
A fact is a statement corresponding with reality, a stereotype is a belief/generalization deemed harmful/undesirable.
Again, from humans and from reality is not different. Whether it is desirable to avoid stereotypes depends on your values.
I think you are making a distinction without a difference. If the word vectors pick up biases from wikipedia text, than for all practical purposes, they are (indirectly) absorbing stereotypes from humans. This is an…
Again, per the article "bias refers generally to prior information, a necessary prerequisite for intelligent action (4)." This includes a citation to a well-known ML text. This seems broader than the statistical…
I think your questions would be answered by reading the article. Particularly: "In AI and machine learning, bias refers generally to prior information, a necessary prerequisite for intelligent action (4). Yet bias can…
Cute title but the post didn't really address either reasonableness or effectiveness, but mostly claimed that the potential has not yet been realized. It's a pet peeve of mine to see these hackneyed joke titles…
Mathematics has this funny habit of throwing around "it is easy to say that ...", or in this case, calling a proof that eluded mathematicians for decades "simple."
He's hugely influential in the field; arguably dominant in a way that is unhealthy for a field. Acolytes will say he's influential because of merit, detractors will say it is because of rhetorical skill, sophistry. I…
You're making a straw man caricature out of the nativism detractors. Current researchers do not claim that first language is taught, that's why the field is called language acquisition regardless of whether one…
There is no consensus about this question. Both sides clearly have an ax to grind. Everett knows the language best, so I'd lend more credence to his judgment. Regardless of the answer, it only means that Chomsky's…
I don't see such a large difference between your wording and mine; "should" implies making some kind of best effort at doing something where possible. But regardless, where we differ is that I think that people are…
Sure but that illustrates my point: applying as much kindness as possible is not what people actually strive for nor would it be a solution. Preventing being taken advantage of takes priority.
Saying we aren't rational is not an argument that philosophy cannot improve our lives. In ancient Greece the latter used to be an important part of philosophy. I think schools such as stoicism and epicureanism have a…