agarsev

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by agarsev 2mo ago
southern europeans have had to deal with the northern cultural view that we're lazy, and modern work culture imported from those countries has virtually ended siesta. well, now it's hot over there too. we can be nice and tell them
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by agarsev 3mo ago
Original title: President vs Parliament: Metsola overrides MEPs in bid to force through child abuse law Content from TFA: > Ambassadors on Friday will consider an “invitation of the President of the European Parliament [to] proceed with
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by agarsev 1y ago
as a researcher in NLP slash computational linguistics, this is what I tend to think :) (maybe a less strong version, though, there are other kinds of thinking and learning). so I'm always surprised when some linguists decry LLMs, and
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by agarsev 1y ago
Interestingly, one advantage SignWriting may have over IPA is that while you cannot easily represent sounds in a visual medium (thus letters are mostly arbitrary) movement and hand depictions in SW are highly iconic. Also, just as you can d
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by agarsev 1y ago
It's a way to write sign languages. Think of like the alphabet, but for hands, movements etc instead of sounds. Now, it may not be obvious that there is a necessity for a writing system for a minority language embedded in a larger co
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by agarsev 1y ago
Since an organism characteristics depend a lot on its evolutionary history, classifying organisms like that helps us make predictions and assumptions based on our knowledge of related organisms, so it's quite beneficial to humans. Also
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by agarsev 1y ago
I use both (neovim instead of vim, i3 as wm) and you got me thinking. I think the point of both is actually not having to use the mouse. But the mouse is not the problem per se, probably is the spatial/visual interaction paradigm. I do
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by agarsev 1y ago
I don't think democracy is about having the "best" government, that'd be technocracy, I guess. Democracy is about sharing the power, and having the most legitimate government based on the principle that everyone's v
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by agarsev 1y ago
> much of the available energy was being used to pump water from low lying river basins into reservoirs – the only practical way to store energy on a large scale. However, this capacity has a limit and, with the reservoirs almost full, i
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by agarsev 1y ago
Nintendo at least has a good history with this, at least in my experience. Both 3ds and WiiU e-stores were closed, but I can still play all my digital games on both. I can even make backup copies of the game on external media and everything
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by agarsev 2y ago
Sign language researcher here! I would recommend you look a bit at the scientific literature on the topic. I know it can be a bit overwhelming and hard to know to separate the actual info from the garbage, so I can try and select for you a
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by agarsev 2y ago
disclaimer: I'm a university professor, though in a european country and not in health-rrlated area The article is excessively negative in tone, and very dramatic and aggressive. I have found many people adjacent to academia, drop outs
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by agarsev 2y ago
Dr. Geoff Lindsey just put out an interesting video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6duEGj04Mg not tldr but provocative thought derived: why insist that "it's" as a possessive is wrong, when i
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by agarsev 2y ago
I studied math, so I can never understand the insistence that the truth of the fourier transform is that it converts from the time domain into the frequency domain. What if you apply the fourier transform twice? Something similar is done in
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by agarsev 3y ago
You can dump the metadata and then restore it, maybe that'll work for you?
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by agarsev 3y ago
I setup authelia specifically for this and it was barely a morning's work, and works beautifully.
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by agarsev 3y ago
I'm reading my thesis next tuesday, and the advances in AI the last couple of years have already made most of it obsolete :/ Anyway I'm excited and looking forward to the code and models to be released, hopefully I can use th
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by agarsev 3y ago
If I understood correctly, to me there seem to be two keys to the proposed method: 1) they use a single, shared embedding space for the two languages, forcing the model to learn "semantics" independently (or rather, interdependent
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by agarsev 3y ago
Well that's what we humans do, isn't it? :) In any case, text seems to stil form a part: > During training, we use monolingual speech-text datasets So there's still a way till machines learn language as humans do, i.e. wit
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by agarsev 3y ago
I still don't get the MITM argument. To me, it feels like there is a lot of heavy lifting beneath the could in "a EU government could MITM any other EU country citizen". Can somebody walk me through an example of how could th
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by agarsev 3y ago
Just adding a perspective (not necessarily mine, I'm still on the fence) supporting this legislation from a tech-literate person in the EU. The digital administration in my country has made my life so much easier. We all have mandatory
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by agarsev 3y ago
This has no OS (at least that you can access). I have one, have written a number of drafts with it, and regret both purchasing it and it not being a better machine. The software is really bad and there is no way to tinker with it, no way to
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by agarsev 3y ago
If I understood correctly, Pilate lived during the empire, a few centuries after the system described in the blog post (middle republic).
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by agarsev 4y ago
The press release contains a few errors and imprecisions. The abstract from the scientific article is more informative: In this paper, we present BodyTrak, an intelligent sensing technology that can estimate full body poses on a wristband.
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by agarsev 4y ago
Mutations also happen in one individual. This gene then enters the pool of the population, and it can spread. The genes from a hybrid individual diffuse into the population when it reproduces. Speciation happens when a population accumulate
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by agarsev 4y ago
In Spain (and according to a sister comment, in Austria too, so maybe it's EU-wide) the price of every MWh is set by the last MWh that enters the market (apparently it works like an auction). The last to be sold is the most expensive,
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by agarsev 4y ago
There are many articles not on sci-hub, especially if they are more or less recent or in niche (and not so niche) topics.
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by agarsev 4y ago
Given that the spying on catalan independentists started under the previous government (right wing, strongly centralist), I wouldn't discard it extended subsequently to the current one (coalition of left wing and extreme left, some of
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by agarsev 5y ago
In biology: morphology of organisms, evolution, ecology. And those deal with systems, so they use a lot of math. But interspersed with the math, you always find natural language descriptions, definitions, explanations, which are necessary f
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by agarsev 5y ago
I think this is a very widespread idea, I used to believe in it too, perhaps due to our background. However, if you work on translating science to computers, you soon find it's not so true. There are some many ideas in science which ar

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