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by Lxr 6y ago
I’m working on https://www.dragondictionary.com , a Chinese-English dictionary aimed at Chinese learners. I am building it because there’s no good desktop alternative to Pleco at the moment.
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by Lxr 6y ago
The article doesn't explain what is actually going on to produce the second chart, but here is a guess. Assume people have a true ability x , an estimated ability y which is x + some unbiased noise, and a test score z which is a
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by Lxr 6y ago
ML is a shiny object with often no discernible ROI but occasionally very large ROI, and companies are understandably nervous about missing out. Spending a small amount to hedge their bets isn't necessarily irrational.
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Ask HN: Would you pay for a tool to fix UX antipatterns on the web?
4 points by Lxr 6y ago|1 comments
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Mobile phone detection cameras on Australian roads(roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au)
2 points by Lxr 7y ago|0 comments
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by Lxr 7y ago
This seems like a better explanation, because the effect is stronger for things that absorb water than for things where the water sits on top.
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See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood(mobile.abc.net.au)
3 points by Lxr 7y ago|0 comments
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by Lxr 7y ago
Similar to 厉害 in Chinese - it often translates as terrible, but mostly used to mean great.
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by Lxr 7y ago
Don’t miss the supplementary material: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S2352409X193053...
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by Lxr 7y ago
Why use HTML in emails though?
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Marree Man(en.wikipedia.org)
103 points by Lxr 7y ago|27 comments
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by Lxr 7y ago
> it creates low trust Try looking into the camera when you speak rather than the screen.
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by Lxr 7y ago
What is the best way to profit from all this crypto hype, as a rational person who’s convinced all coins will eventually go to zero?
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Australian National University hit by data breach(mobile.abc.net.au)
3 points by Lxr 7y ago|0 comments
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by Lxr 7y ago
This. Router-level blocking will become impossible without intercepting https, and endpoint blocking also gets harder.
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by Lxr 7y ago
Now I really want to know how I save myself before the candle burns through the rope.
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by Lxr 8y ago
As a shameless plug, we are hiring right now (we’re a small remote team) working on this exact problem - neliti.com/careers
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by Lxr 8y ago
Neliti | Full-stack developer | Jakarta | FULL-TIME | REMOTE We are a small team working to change the way academic research is published and make scientific work free of paywalls. We run neliti.com, Indonesia's largest repository of a
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by Lxr 8y ago
What is “true AI” in your opinion?
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by Lxr 8y ago
Everyone using UTC would be chaos. Imagine organising a remote meeting - you’d have to figure out which hours each party would be awake, by googling “waking hours in Germany” for example.
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by Lxr 8y ago
> Think of it as a VERY slow, VERY large TV screen. With red, green, and blue blocks, they could advertise almost anything! I don’t think that works if the blocks are reflecting light rather than emitting it.
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by Lxr 8y ago
Non AMP: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-science-says-to-do...
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by Lxr 8y ago
Abstract syntax tree, a data structure used by compilers to represent code
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by Lxr 8y ago
Wow, apparently the length of your ring finger is correlated with your testosterone levels.
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by Lxr 8y ago
The reverse question is equally interesting - to what extent can we influence the activity of our immune system by controlling stress levels, practicing mindfulness, and the like? I think there is a lot still to be discovered about this.
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by Lxr 8y ago
Related phenomenon in ML: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
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by Lxr 8y ago
How does that solve the no connectivity problem? You’d still need the site (with rendering scripts) cached.
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by Lxr 8y ago
Can you explain this distinction in more detail?
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by Lxr 8y ago
Awesome, suggest you make valid words clear automatically
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by Lxr 8y ago
OneNote is fantastic. Of all the Microsoft things I have installed on my Mac, it’s light years ahead of the rest in terms of stability, usability, speed. It doesn’t get enough recognition!

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