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by etiene 4y ago
> Interesting work! Thanks! > is there a way for users to report/flag bad suggestions? For the word hints there isn't a way yet, but this is a great point, I should add it in the future! For the sentence examples, it depends
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Transforming user-generated content into writing hints with spaCy(polygloss.app)
12 points by etiene 4y ago|4 comments
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by etiene 7y ago
There is also another side to that question. If you were a pizza maker and you loved what you did, would you sell your pizza to someone who wishes you and your loved ones die? Maybe that would make you uncomfortable. These situations are us
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by etiene 7y ago
Oh, I understand your question now. From an European perspective, there is hardly any reason to hold our governments standards as having the moral grounds to establish what's the most efficient way to act in ethical issues like this. P
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by etiene 7y ago
Sure, 'should the tax rate be 25%' seems like an unimportant discussion for companies to debate internally. Do you think all political questions carry similar weights of debate importance or that some questions might be different?
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by etiene 8y ago
Lua was made specially for non programmers. I think it is really intuitive and easy. I agree with the comment that perhaps understanding optmisation details is hard. But that's hard in every language.
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by etiene 8y ago
The talk was great! I'm incredibly impressed with the benchmarks. Here is a quick link to Pallene's github repo as well, since it's a bit hidden in the paper: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
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by etiene 8y ago
"I took a sabbatical". If the company has a problem with that they are not a good place to work anyway. Given that, looking for jobs sucks, a couple of rejections can easily make people feel really down. So after some failed attem
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by etiene 9y ago
There's an excellent book about the software community in peripheral areas that talks about Lua's development https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coding-places
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Lua 5.4.0 (work1) now available(lua-users.org)
2 points by etiene 9y ago|0 comments
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by etiene 9y ago
I don't like perl a lot exactly because it's easy to make it hard to read, but I gotta give that CPAN is the best language specific package manager I've ever encountered.
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by etiene 9y ago
My thoughts exactly on the difference on underrated and underused. Lua is quite widespread in the industry in sneaky ways. It just doesn't get the love it deserves.
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by etiene 9y ago
+1 to Lua, it is my favorite interpreted language. I like that the design is extremely clean and consistent, not to mention it is way faster than the alternatives.
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by etiene 9y ago
I have used torch without issues but that was a while ago. It looks like Lua Torch was sort of deprecated in favor of PyTorch
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by etiene 9y ago
It's not my job to convince you of anything. But while I agree with the lack of universal standard, PEP8 is great, I disagree with all the rest. The changes between Lua versions are nothing like the abysmal difference between python
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by etiene 9y ago
As a member of the Lua community I cry every time... But congrats on the hard work! I've been planning to try it out for a while now and the amount of resources and docs is great.
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by etiene 9y ago
seems wonderful! just requested a membership :) I've been part of some online tech communities for women, but I found they were too US-centric and it was difficult for me to obtain value from it, hoping Leap will be different
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by etiene 9y ago
Yea, I was hoping to see it there on the comparison list. I guess it fails some criteria.
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by etiene 9y ago
I don't understand... This doesn't look like a programming language. It looks like a new VM for the Lua language, but with batteries included. There's a difference between "language" and "language implementatio
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by etiene 9y ago
This is true, but the reason is just people already knowing python / python being more popular. Lua is a much simpler language than python or julia though, I'd absolutely still recommend it for data scientists who are new to progr
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by etiene 9y ago
> If you compare LuaJIT with PyPy or Numba, the “much faster” argument will simply not be true Source? AFAIK it does hold true. Last time I benchmarked those, LuaJIT was significantly faster, with PyPy almost being on pair with vanilla L
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by etiene 9y ago
Using the C api instead of the FFI is slower in LuaJIT than Lua and vice-versa. So there are still optimal solutions for each one.
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by etiene 9y ago
> Do you think Roberto Ierusalimschy is confused about that ? No, of course not. I think you are. You are clearly misinterpreting his words. I will repeat, (PUC)Lua is not compiled to machine code, but to an intermediate bytecode form. T
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by etiene 9y ago
Lua is not compiled to machine code. It compiles to an intermediate bytecode, which is then interpreted. So you could say it is a VM. Also bear in mind, LuaJIT is not Lua. It's a different implementation. I guess you misinterpreted my
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by etiene 9y ago
> Are they likely to be expert in all those programming languages? No, but again, I take paper results very seriously. Misleading results are bad for science, period. Here is an example of more rigorous research: https://arxiv
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by etiene 9y ago
Firstly, the paper separates languages into compiled languages and interpreted languages to begin with. So I was expecting it would follow this pattern correctly. Secondly, why would you compare the performance of C and Ruby, for example? R
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by etiene 9y ago
If your intention is not to make a good comparison, then sure. I've seen other papers on language implementation and benchmarks, and researchers were way more careful than this, individually inspecting the algorithms they were using. I
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by etiene 9y ago
This is insane. I've actually been looking to reduce my work hours to about 30, because even 40 seems too much. Having had a couple of burnouts before, I want my life to be more than my job, and I truly believe this would make me bette
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by etiene 9y ago
Oh yes, that is true. But the person making the benchmarks should be aware of that and either look for better matching algorithms or implement them themselves.
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by etiene 9y ago
Because they're "different families" of language implementation. A Just In Time compiler is a compiler. It looks like an interpreter, but it compiles the code to machine code and runs it.

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