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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 …

I'm puzzled by this example: sums = [s for s in [0] for x in data for s in [s + x]] Why would you do "for s in" twice? Is that intentional? It would make more sense to me if the va…

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 inappr…

It is an extremely thin font which makes it unsuitable for screen reading.

Why do you think English would be least compressible? Is that based on conjecture or have you investigated this? Why would artificial language be more compressible? That seems comp…

Yes, in the context of text classification a bag of words model will refer to that, or combined with some other linear model like linear SVM or naive bayes. The queen - woman examp…

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 l…

You're right that it is a representation, but also an instance of the vector space model of language. Coupled with a linear model for prediction it is a strong baseline for text cl…

The article states he's perfectionist. He probably wouldn't be OK with that.

Yup, that's a downside. The advantage is that it's much simpler and will also work when you're not on your home network.

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 ca…

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…

No. UDP is connectionless, which makes it harder to use with NAT.

> 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 …

For a better, actual example of this problem, see the leopard sofa: http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.ht...

Why would one ever prefer a linked list over a dynamic array? I know about the asymptotic performance, but if you take actual memory performance into account (locality, cache, poin…

My own, https://github.com/andreasvc/vim-256noir

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 …

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 see…