Viewing profile — jackpirate

Coursening is not as elegant as differential privacy. But using coursening is not a "privacy emergency", it is a very-slightly-less-accurate census. And no one knows what the actua…

The name let-go of your programming language is awesome!

I "like" how in their graphic agriculture and cities are both putting water into the lake, and only data centers are removing water from the lake. The prompter should have redone t…

Also, the racoon it circled isn't in the original.

> Edit: Changed this from email because email validation is a can of worms as an example Email honestly seems much more straightforward than dates... Sweden had a Feb 30 in 1712, a…

Why not have a conversation instead of downvoting. What did I say is wrong? Your second paragraph is implying that the half of Americans who voted for Trump are "bad Americans". Th…

What's the origin of XXX? I've seen FIXME/NOTE/TODO all over the place, but never encountered XXX before.

Except those papers are 8ish years old; they actually were among the first 2-3 algs for this task; and they studied the fully general vector space alignment problem. But I agree th…

> We tested all of the methods in the Python Optimal Transport package ( https://pythonot.github.io/ ) and reported the max in most of our tables. Sorry if I'm being obtuse, but I …

I hate to be "reviewer 2", but: I used to work on what your paper calls "unsupervised transport", that is machine translation between two languages without alignment data. You note…

It seems like you have some misconceptions about Strassen's alg: 1. It is a standard example of the divide and conquer approach to algorithm design, not the dynamic programming app…

As a CS prof, I'd love to have this in my office for students to play with. Looks awesome!

That all make senses to me . But it definitely won't make sense to my intro to programming students. They already have enough weird syntax to juggle.

Building off this question, it's not clear to me why Python should have both t-strings and f-strings. The difference between the two seems like a stumbling block to new programmers…

> I've seen a lot of examples that use CSS to show the prompt or line number without it becoming part of copied text, and I'm highly in favor of that. This is unfortunately not com…

I have a minor nit to pick. I actually prefer when tutorials provide the prompts for all code snippets for two reasons: 1. Many tutorials reference many languages. (I frequently wr…

> I can talk about concepts like "atoms" or "bacteria" or "black holes" with anyone, and they'll know what they are - even if their knowledge of those subjects isn't in depth. I'm …

I think you're wrong. Suicide does not have stable reporting rates. It was very stigmatized in the past, and so investigators would notoriously report suicides as "unknown cause of…

They very clearly explain why this matters in the "Why should I care?" section. Partially quoting them: > Harry Potter is an innocent example, but this problem is far more costly w…

The WHO list of essential medicines is not just over-the-counter drugs. It includes things like the chemotherapy drug cisplatin. I happened to need that for testicular cancer ~10 y…

You're wording in this comment (and the twitter/comment video) gives off the same vibes as the google april 1st videos for things like gmail motion ( https://www.youtube.com/playli…

I don't see how that would have helped in this case. This was not a resource at a known location that was supposed to be only available to logged in users. This was a resource that…

There was rather a lot of NATO coordination in the US-led invasions of both Iraq and Afghanistan. None of the military missions in these countries were in response to the Article V…

This is false. Standard sampling algorithms like beamsearch can "backtrack" and are widely used in generative language models. It is true that the runtime of these algorithms is ex…