pealco

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by pealco 7mo ago
It reminds me of "web3" marketing. My hackles are immediately raised.
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by pealco 1y ago
Most of my time interacting with this site was spent in developer tools, trying to figure out where the scrolling behavior was coming from. (Couldn't figure it out.) I can't understand why people are still doing this in 2025.
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by pealco 3y ago
Cool, but as described, this wouldn't work on humans. The light sheet microscopy technique that the suped-up MRI data is paired with to create these images requires tissue to be "cleared" (or made transparent) with solvents,
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by pealco 5y ago
I was so confused :) "Is the stand doing computations??"
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by pealco 5y ago
In the video, you keep saying "Turing" (turr-ing), when I think you mean to say "truing" (troo-ing).
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by pealco 5y ago
In my experience, people like this are dilettantes, who actually have a very shallow understanding of these "ideas" that they're so in love with. They confuse _having heard_ of Obscure Subject with _understanding_ Obscure Sub
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by pealco 9y ago
Ted Petrou has written a very detailed critical review of this book. He finds it lacking in certain areas. https://medium.com/dunder-data/python-for-data-analysis-a-cr...
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by pealco 9y ago
This doesn't really address your teacher's claim about having to look words up, though. What you want to look at is the distribution of low frequency words across the book. What do the plots look like when you remove proper nouns,
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by pealco 11y ago
In what space does the clustering occur? I wasn't able to tell from the post.
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by pealco 15y ago
What sorts of things does it improve?
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by pealco 15y ago
> I think Norvig acknowledges the point you are making here, namely that the statistical approach does not explain the cognitive systems behind language. If that is the case, then the argument that Norvig is making is irrelevant to the
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by pealco 15y ago
The "pure" photograph is a myth. Every single aspect of taking a photograph imposes the same kind of artificiality that the author claims Instagram filters impose. From the most basic technical considerations: the aperture and shutter speed
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by pealco 16y ago
The bicycle?
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by pealco 16y ago
I prefer "natural language processing" over "computational linguistics" because NLP/CL has very little to do with the goals of linguistics. Like you mentioned, linguists are after the truth of what actually happens in the mind to make langu
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by pealco 16y ago
I swear by Notational Velocity ( http://notational.net/ ).