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Re:Esperanto is not my favourite Artificial Language (2002)
on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:01AM (#33516321)
I've always wondered if machine learning would help here - we already have language agnostic embeddings (LaBSE, LASER) - now all we need is a way to pronounce them. Perhaps you could learn one by training an autoencoder that is constrained somehow just like the human vocal chords are
Re:Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:19AM (#29778226)
Yeah but one of the BSL2 labs (coronavirus research was being done in BSL2/3 labs, not BSL4) is not. It is a couple of hundred meters down the street https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1D12qtMmmH_qrb5...
Re:No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)
on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:54PM (#29719815)
It does also explain why they are not found all over the Roman empire but mostly in the north (the article mentions England, Germany, and the Netherlands) where it is probably COLD for the average Roman legionnaire
Re:Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, ...
on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:04PM (#29685972)
I often wonder why so much effort is being put into shoehorning everything into a single language. Wouldn't it make much more sense to use a fully differentiable DSL for machine learning / xla, then call it from whatever host language you use? This approach has worked really well for SQL for the past couple of decades.
Re:Corrugated-paper-making machine patent (1918)
on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:46PM (#29678909)
This experiment has been done in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in the 90s. It gained a tonne of publicity but it did not end up getting widely adopted. Most homeless people (understandably) feared getting stigmatized if they were spotted sleeping in one. https://museumrotterdam.nl/collectie/item/71471-1-3
Re:I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind
on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:45PM (#29562204)
I wonder if you can play chess in your mind without being able to visualize the board.
Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi
on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:58PM (#28781658)
"By that definition the USD is a ponzi. No, national currencies too fail to fit the definition, because people do not "invest" in them with the expectation of gain" <-- The 6.6trillion/day forex market begs to differ.
Re:How Fast Do Algorithms Improve? [pdf]
on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:19PM (#28636833)
Roughly O(log n) by the looks of it.
Re:How you can track your personal finances using Python
on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:31PM (#28420960)
I struggled with the accounting concepts until I stumbled on this blogpost from Martin Kleppmann: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu.... After that I finally 'got' the accounting graph, and I don't care too much about the medium or the software anymore (its a google sheet in my case).