deanjones

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by deanjones 4y ago
Well, I don't think it's a DCMA issue, but it does very much depend on the licence you have chosen. That's what the licence is for, to allow people to use the code that you have copyright of, and to define what they are &#x2F
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by deanjones 4y ago
Section D.3: "If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post". A lawsuit against Github has no standing for the scenario you sug
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by deanjones 4y ago
Which is what the licence is granting them the right to do.
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by deanjones 4y ago
Section D.3: "If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post". A lawsuit against Github has no standing for the scenario you sug
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by deanjones 4y ago
> Is it a license violation to push someone's FOSS code to github because the author didn't sign up with GH? It depends on the licence. It's very much enforceable that companies who provide content publishing platforms wil
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by deanjones 4y ago
"desperate semantic games" is actually a reasonable description of the legal process :-) I'm not sure I agree that anything expressed in a legal contract using natural language is "unambiguously clear". MS / Gi
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by deanjones 4y ago
There is no such thing as a "content display licence" or "general code licence". There is copyright (literally, the right to make copies) which broadly lies with the author, who can then grant other parties a licence to
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by deanjones 4y ago
It's irrelevant whether it's standard or not. Again, the terms in the code licence (including attribution) do not apply to Github, because that is not the licence under which they are using the code. You grant them a separate lice
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by deanjones 4y ago
"as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time."
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by deanjones 4y ago
"Without attribution" is a condition of the licence that applies to third-parties. It is not a condition of the licence that applies to Github.
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by deanjones 4y ago
This will fail very quickly. The licence that project owners publish with their code on Github applies to third parties who wish to use the code, but does not apply to Github. Authors who publish their code on Github grant Github a licence
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by deanjones 4y ago
Also variables.
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by deanjones 5y ago
I misread the UK figures, the above are for overweight-but-not-obese. The overweight-and-obese split of men/women is 67%/61% (NHS, 2019): https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta... U
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by deanjones 5y ago
Leaving aside all of the possible confounders for the difference in severity of Covid-19 infection in men and women, it's not the case that women on average have more body fat than men. So for a "healthy" man and a "heal
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by deanjones 7y ago
Introspection has long ceased to be a valid methodology in linguistics. Lack of a 1:1 mapping between languages clearly does not imply that you "fundamentally lose information". Just because it takes a language two words to expres
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by deanjones 7y ago
Yes.
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by deanjones 7y ago
> No, I'm saying a much more basic, and widely accepted, undisputed even, thing: if language X has a specific term for a situation, then its speakers have captured that situation and understand it better and can refer to it more re
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by deanjones 7y ago
When discussing linguistic issues, it's best to use linguistic theory and terminology, rather than misleading analogies to software development. What you are propounding is a version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that language structu
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by deanjones 7y ago
From the article: "the unique wisdom of some of these words, that don't have an exact counterpart in the English language". So the claim is precisely that because English doesn't have single-word translations of these Ge
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by deanjones 7y ago
As that great Germanic comedian Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger might have said: "And here are the jokes ..." :-)
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by deanjones 7y ago
Interestingly here, "loanword" is a calque from the German "lehnwort", which reminds me of my favourite language fact: "loanword" is a calque, and "calque" is a loanword.
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by deanjones 7y ago
Alternative title: "One language that has different close compounding rules than another language has different compound nouns than that other language". Auf Deutsch: Verscheidenzusammengesetztesgebotesprachen haben verscheide zus
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by deanjones 8y ago
Well, it's either his writing style, or all the horrible sh*t his company did.
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by deanjones 8y ago
It always confuses me as well (and I have at least some Physics background, having done a year as an undergrad). I think this is because I confuse it with the statistical measure of the entropy of a distribution, where a uniform distributio
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by deanjones 9y ago
You are aware, I assume, that the Winklevoss twins were awarded $65 million for "their" idea?
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by deanjones 9y ago
Yes, it's evidently, demonstrably, the case that ideas have value, because this is enshrined the concept of intellectual property. Even in a world where IP didn't exist, his statement would be wrong, because there will always be p
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by deanjones 11y ago
I don't disagree, but PHP is not the canonical reference for code which cannot be understood, that would be Perl. PHP is the canonical reference for code which can be understood but not interpreted, because you don't know the valu
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by deanjones 12y ago
This story was used by Stephen Pinker in "How the Mind Works" as part of an attempt to reject the validity of Searle's Chinese Room argument against Strong AI. IIRC Pinker's point was that Searle's argument rests on
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by deanjones 12y ago
I'm not an expert in LuaJIT, but it sounds unlikely that the performance characteristics of torch7 are due to the efficiency of Lua bytecode. The speed with which you can train NNs will be dominated by the performance of the linear alg
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by deanjones 12y ago
What specifically do you find not-so-easy about running Theano (or rather, a NN library built on top of Theano) on GPUs?

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