jweese

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by jweese 12y ago
Sadly, this monad can't stop you from doing dangerous stuff in the first place, like iterating over the output of ls: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
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by jweese 12y ago
School: Chicago; year: 1939; achievement: eliminated program. We do take it as a point of pride. We also had the first Heisman winner ever.
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Transcript of Supreme Court argument in Aereo case [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
9 points by jweese 12y ago|0 comments
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by jweese 12y ago
That's why you want newtype Kilogram = Kilogram Double which has no runtime overhead but does enforce the fact the Kilogram is a distinct type.
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by jweese 12y ago
perl -pe ""
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by jweese 13y ago
Yup: http://meatfighter.com/superman3/part1/
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Court to rule on patent rights(scotusblog.com)
2 points by jweese 13y ago|0 comments
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by jweese 13y ago
I didn't know either. Per "man ab": > ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
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by jweese 13y ago
st.nyc - Santa's homepage.
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by jweese 13y ago
I believe they just have a patent on these particular cDNA types, namely cDNA created from BRCA1 or BRCA2, and not on the well-known lab techniques for creating them.
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by jweese 13y ago
Justice Scalia's concurrence, reproduced here in full: "I join the judgment of the Court, and all of its opinion except Part I–A and some portions of the rest of the opinion going into fine details of molecular biology. I am unab
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by jweese 13y ago
> The channel is the analog to the Unix shell’s | character. This sentence was italicized, and rightfully so. I've written a few small Go programs, but I haven't run into a problem where I thought, "A channel is definitely the right sol
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by jweese 13y ago
What's yellow, normed, and complete? A bananach space!
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by jweese 13y ago
Yes. For example, consider interlingual machine translation. Most systems today (like Google) use statistical MT that learns patterns from millions of examples. In interlingua, by contrast, you analyze the input sentence to form a language-
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by jweese 13y ago
Except in passive constructions, but maybe that's an easy case to detect.
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by jweese 13y ago
Nice writeup. A few comments: So you're just identifying NPs and VPs in a sentence? So lets say I run your program, and I get NPs "Instagram" and "Facebook", and the VP "acquired." The question is, who did what to whom? Did Facebook acquire
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by jweese 13y ago
Everyone's talking about auth to limit spam, but I think a more interesting approach is to let people click to flag spam, then train up a little naive Bayes classifier.
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by jweese 13y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I am from the US. The Judge's order includes the following footnote: "Even if their refusal was based on the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, the Court still may draw adverse inferences against th
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by jweese 13y ago
> A browser plugin to enable/disable Now tracking seems like it could be handy, however. I've gotten into the habit of using incognito mode for most searches, and only staying logged in for things I think I'll want Now-based information
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by jweese 13y ago
Things I use every day: weather; baseball and football scores for teams I like; approximate time to home and traffic conditions from wherever I am Things I use when the appropriate email arrives in my inbox: current flight schedules (plus a
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by jweese 13y ago
My experience is the same. I work in NLP, and I've found that at least everything administered by ACL (probably our largest professional organization) is pretty much always available.