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I'm not saying "don't advertise at all", but rather "advertise something very different". Does that matter, though? Maybe not.

I wonder if it makes sense for ad platforms to enable a "clear history" option just like our browsers do? That way you can say very clearly "the current model is wrong, please rest…

Interesting idea, but I'm bothered by the idea that social media platforms would be effectively monetizing grief in this solution. This sort of thing, to me, points at the deficien…

The correct response is not to try to advertise targeting the traumatic event, but to pivot and avoid it and related subjects entirely. I doubt people will complain if ads about ba…

Basically the same [1,2]. [1]: https://twitter.com/yoavgo/status/751178795323908096 [2]: https://nlpers.blogspot.com/2016/08/fast-easy-baseline-text-...

If this had occurred in the US (and the mentioned confidential conversation did in fact allege sexual misconduct), DJB would be in trouble: > Within the University of Illinois Syst…

It's also cute because it's from Chris Dy er's group.

Kramdown supports this with markdown="1" as an attribute on html tags: http://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html#html-blocks

I absolutely love this project. I've been making bindings for a C++ library using it recently and have yet to encounter a situation that was too tricky to bind properly. I'm loving…

This idea reminds me of an amazing talk by Guy Steele: https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0 He starts the talk by assuming monosyllabic words as his primitives and builds up the words he n…

It's not super convenient, but one can operate on UTF-8 buffers with ICU via UText (see e.g. http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/utext#TOC-Example:-... ) Not everything is doa…

libstdc++, libc++, and MSVC's STL all implement it as a red-black tree. Even if it's not required to be a red-black tree, it is de facto a red-black tree on every major compiler. M…

Awesome! Text summarization would be a really great thing to have in the toolkit.