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LawnboyMax
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Comment #21501158
It should be Tb/s
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Comment #20540317
Interestingly, Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius mentions "Galileo Galileo" on the cover. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius I wonder if this is at all related to the questi…
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Comment #20048491
Really good overview: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01715
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Comment #19673916
I really enjoyed https://woebot.io/ for a few months. I was really surprised at its depth when I kept on discovering new flows after weeks of interacting with it daily. But that ki…
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Comment #19673842
The hard part is not making (launching) the bot, but maintaining it and making sure it stays usable and useful. A very important piece that is missing from many open-source chatbot…
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Comment #19669332
Here's a talk about this research that Philip Daian gave at Devcon 4: https://slideslive.com/38911605/smart-contract-security-ince... Probably my favourite talk from that conferenc…
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Comment #19599117
There is no incentive for a company to spend their time explaining what you did wrong at an interview if they are already sure they don't want to hire you. And if the reason for no…
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Comment #19588347
Try Intermittent Fasting. I.e. eat only during 8/6/4-hour window every day (I personally prefer 6). I find it much easier to live with the fact that at certain times I am not allow…
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Comment #19476437
I am using the current Python version and tried type hinting. I don't see how it can help much, since types are not enforced;especially when interfacing with not-so-well-tested mod…
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Comment #19475741
Strongly agree with author. I really like Python and at one point thought that it makes sense to write almost any project in it, since it's so versatile and I know it pretty well. …
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Comment #19280044
MIT Technology Review published a piece on one possible CO2 extraction solution just a few days ago. Besides being somewhat expensive, it also needs to occupy substantial physical …
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Comment #19176350
I would say he has enough skills to get an interview at those companies. Solving coding interview questions is a skill that has very loose correlation with any side project/real wo…
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Comment #19172408
Correct, Rasa is text-only. Core purpose of Rasa NLU ( https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa_nlu ) is user text to intent translation (with entity extraction); for Rasa Core it is mapping…
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Comment #19171723
I highly recommend Rasa Core ( https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa_core ) if you are looking for an open-source virtual assistant. Very active and helpful community, and lots of input c…
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Comment #19101501
I wish Eiffel Software changed their dual licensing business model so that more people would consider using the language in production.
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Comment #19082721
Related TED talk How language shapes the way we think by Lera Boroditsky: https://youtu.be/RKK7wGAYP6k Difference in color perception ability is mentioned towards the end.
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Comment #19079637
I believe or has higher precedence than := in this case thus the syntax error. Wrapping := in parentheses, like the other commenter suggested, resolves the issue.
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Comment #19075543
Remember reading this article in 2015 and then trying to do some simple glitching using C. Simply inserting an additional NULL for a specific RGB range will cause all channels writ…
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Comment #19064722
Strongly recommend taking a photography class. Photography skill is a lot more important than the camera. Bought a DLSR camera a while back and enrolled in a weekly photography cla…
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Comment #19010364
I find it relatively easy to stick to doing productive things every single day if I do them the first thing in the morning, before I have breakfast. Later in the day things always …
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Comment #19007844
> Perhaps we’ve all gotten a little hungry for meaning. Participation in organized religion is falling, especially among American millennials. In San Francisco, where I live, I’ve …
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Comment #18984006
I didn't know this for sure, but assumed that agents can see me typing for the sake of better response time. I usually type my questions in a text editor first and then paste it in…
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Comment #18904386
This may be an interesting addition to some home assistant developed using https://www.home-assistant.io/ That is, use Google Home/Alexa/Apple Home for their speech recognition abi…
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Comment #18861777
I heard this "energy boost" point many times and never understood it. I tried waking up at 5 AM for a morning workout for a year (with proper 8-9 hour sleep at night) and I would a…