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pealco

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    Comment #47270000

    It reminds me of "web3" marketing. My hackles are immediately raised.

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    Comment #44302618

    Most of my time interacting with this site was spent in developer tools, trying to figure out where the scrolling behavior was coming from. (Couldn't figure it out.) I can't unders…

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    Comment #35622747

    Cool, but as described, this wouldn't work on humans. The light sheet microscopy technique that the suped-up MRI data is paired with to create these images requires tissue to be "c…

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    Comment #30325871

    I was so confused :) "Is the stand doing computations??"

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    Comment #30325469

    In the video, you keep saying "Turing" (turr-ing), when I think you mean to say "truing" (troo-ing).

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    Comment #29756415

    In my experience, people like this are dilettantes, who actually have a very shallow understanding of these "ideas" that they're so in love with. They confuse _having heard_ of Obs…

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    Comment #15882210

    Ted Petrou has written a very detailed critical review of this book. He finds it lacking in certain areas. https://medium.com/dunder-data/python-for-data-analysis-a-cr...

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    Comment #14673768

    This doesn't really address your teacher's claim about having to look words up, though. What you want to look at is the distribution of low frequency words across the book. What do…

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    Comment #9888090

    In what space does the clustering occur? I wasn't able to tell from the post.

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    Comment #3345144

    What sorts of things does it improve?

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    Comment #2592968

    > I think Norvig acknowledges the point you are making here, namely that the statistical approach does not explain the cognitive systems behind language. If that is the case, then …

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    Comment #2512022

    The "pure" photograph is a myth. Every single aspect of taking a photograph imposes the same kind of artificiality that the author claims Instagram filters impose. From the most ba…

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    Comment #1627761

    The bicycle?

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    Comment #1605180

    I prefer "natural language processing" over "computational linguistics" because NLP/CL has very little to do with the goals of linguistics. Like you mentioned, linguists are after …

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    Comment #1446926

    I swear by Notational Velocity ( http://notational.net/ ).