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by aglionby 5y ago
I don't know - with some edge detection I think you could distinguish between the faces of each die, and some heuristics would probably get you the upwards-facing one. Another thing that may be useful is that in each image the only fac
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by aglionby 5y ago
This is great! Especially nice to be able to remove entire fields. Relatedly, here are a couple of tools to ensure that references are complete (e.g. updating arXiv papers to their published versions, mostly for computer science papers): -
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by aglionby 5y ago
Great post, entertainingly written. Back in 2015, Instagram did a blog post on similar challenges they came across implementing emoji hashtags [1]. Spoiler alert: they programmatically constructed a huge regex to detect them. [1] https:&#x
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by aglionby 6y ago
I'm guessing they won't come unless you chase it. Nothing happened to my refund for May flights until I called, after which the money came within a week.
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by aglionby 6y ago
It isn't fair (in the statistical sense) to make a comparison on the basis of rank between an over- and under-represented group. Interesting read here https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-gender-gap-in-chess
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by aglionby 6y ago
2002 was the year of the Nokia 7650, their first phone with a camera - 0.3MP which it displayed on its 176x208 screen. It cost €740 in 2020 money (€550 back then). In 2020 you can buy a second generation iPhone SE for €489, with a 1334x750
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by aglionby 6y ago
> system where I actually refer back to things because I seem to google for the same things over and over again Yep, this often frustratingly turns nothing up for me. Hence, Pinboard :)
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by aglionby 6y ago
I have two use cases. The first is to keep track of interesting articles I find and plausibly want to refer back to in the future. A 3rd party browser extension and mobile app make saving very easy, and then I tag each item with a high-leve
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by aglionby 6y ago
My background is in NLP - I suspect we'll see similar in language processing models as we've seen in vision models. Consider this[1] article ("NLP's ImageNet moment has arrived"), comparing AlexNet in 2012 to the fi
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by aglionby 6y ago
There's some similar work out that analyses the impact on conference paper acceptance of having deanonymised arXiv versions of papers available before review. They look at ICLR papers for the last 2 years. I've not read it in a lo
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by aglionby 6y ago
Home and end are most useful for me when I'm writing or programming, so both of my hands are on the keyboard anyway. I think I actually find these key combos more useful than a dedicated home or end button, as I'd have to move my
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by aglionby 6y ago
Dominos in the UK has similar incentives but put in place less rigidly - any medium/large pizza will run you £18-£20, but there are loads of 40%-50% discount above £x (x >= 35) or 2-4-1 deals. This makes it more difficult to justify
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by aglionby 6y ago
This problem of inferring something's truthfulness based on the number of times it's written down is nicely explored in the paper "Reporting Bias and Knowledge Acquisition". https://openreview.net/pdf?id=
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by aglionby 6y ago
> It's an amazing channel for businesses to reach their customers. Do you have any insight on how consumers find this? I can imagine it's nice to hear (rarely) from a few places that you care about, but taken too far I think I&
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by aglionby 6y ago
Depends on your audience, but I imagine many find the answer boxes on Google search pretty useful. Getting the population of a city without having to click any links is probably good for your perceived value. For this you need some NLP tech
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by aglionby 6y ago
Relatedly, I'm curious about different ways that CS education can be framed. Speaking to teachers, one of the main reasons why many kids (and, crucially, parents) aren't interested in CS is the misconception that you can't be
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by aglionby 6y ago
Isn't taking this as an absolutist view kind of myopic? Sure, people don't pay anything to watch and each person's eyeballs aren't worth that much. But pretty much the entire value of the service is locked up in the crow
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by aglionby 6y ago
I guess it depends on what you're writing about: tech might benefit more from a date than philosophy. I'm sure he's written multiple times about this, but patio11 has a thread you might be referring to here https:/&#x2F
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by aglionby 6y ago
Good example of where this has been used https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/
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by aglionby 6y ago
It's true (at least in my experience) that the paywall is transparently dealt with when connecting from a university network, but most sites make it pretty easy to access their content via your institutional login even if you're n
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by aglionby 6y ago
Don't have any personal experience, but in the UK I think most supermarkets are taking similar steps, at least when it comes to plexiglass shields and limiting capacity in shops. I was surprised at the extent of the distancing measures
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by aglionby 6y ago
I once took a look at traffic coming from my (Android) phone and IIRC the pressure was being sent to some Google server at a regular interval. I wonder if they use it for weather forecasting.
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by aglionby 6y ago
I feel the resemblance to Theme Park World - thanks for reminding me of it!
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by aglionby 6y ago
This sounds fantastic and is something I've broadly thought about for a little while. A little while back someone else linked a concept of what they had done with the idea -- initially a paragraph was visible, and some of the words had
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by aglionby 7y ago
Though both Scratch and Snap are open source, I can't see any documentation for building on top of either of them. If you're interested in building something in this space, Blockly [1] is essentially the same and has some great do
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by aglionby 7y ago
I spent some time extracting abstracts from NLP papers (ACL conferences) and it was mostly straightforward. Using pdfquery to extract PDF -> XML gave each character as an element, and they were mostly ordered sensibly and grouped into pa
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by aglionby 7y ago
The Government Digital Service does all kinds of cool work around accessibility for both users using assistive technology and users who are less technically able. Interesting talk here from 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by aglionby 7y ago
Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942 Really impressed at the speed with which Hugging Face ported this to their transformers library -- Google released the model and source code Oct 21 [1] and it was available
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by aglionby 7y ago
Right, so what is plotted is the deviation from the mean reading in the time range given? Thanks for the links, those are insightful.

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