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by routerl 2y ago
From the perspective of wanting to maintain the integrity of the American federal government, it seems like all this DOGE stuff (and the whole Trumpist movement in general) serves the purpose of a red team, in the cybersecurity sense; peopl
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by routerl 2y ago
It seems to be an article about all those "harmless" lies we tell students. The vast majority of people think mathematics is about numbers, when it is actually about relations, and numbers are just some of the entities whose relat
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by routerl 2y ago
OP here, I'm adding a feature that will allow users to save specific words to lists, and export the lists in formats that can be imported to flashcard apps.
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by routerl 2y ago
For anonymous users, I'm using OpenNMT, via Argos. Logged in users get DeepL translations, which correctly translates 气功师.
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by routerl 2y ago
Thank you, and thanks for checking it out! I use Pleco almost every day :)
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by routerl 2y ago
I did! Jieba is the first step in my segmentation pipeline. As far as I can tell, Jieba's default config tends to work better for simplified, but in my case the custom dictionary I feed it has significantly more traditional entries t
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by routerl 2y ago
It supports traditional and simplified, as well as pinyin and bopomofo :) It's already possible to switch instantly between pinyin and bopomofo, and I'm working on letting users switch between simplified/traditional, but this
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by routerl 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words, and the bug report! The (awful and incorrect) translation you've pointed out comes from the segmenter being too greedy, not finding the (non-existent) word in any dictionary, and therefore dispatching the wor
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by routerl 2y ago
'"Tradition" is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back.' This is, by far, my most conservative opinion. Credit to Donald Kingsbury for the quote.
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by routerl 2y ago
Got it, thanks!
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by routerl 2y ago
Could you post the text you used? This kind of thing goes straight into my unit tests. I'm also working on showing all the pronunciations/definitions for a given hanzi, it should be ready later this week.
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by routerl 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I'm using Jieba[0] because it hits a nice balance of fast and accurate. But I'm initializing it with a custom dictionary (~800k entries), and have added several layers of heuristic post-segmentation. For
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by routerl 2y ago
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - Frontend: Typescript, Javascript, NextJS, React, Redux, Swift - Backend: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker Résumé/CV: Via e-mail Email: roberto.loja+hn@gmai
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Show HN: Mandarin Word Segmenter with Translation(mandobot.netlify.app)
48 points by routerl 2y ago|35 comments
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by routerl 2y ago
Seems like a straightforward case of malpractice. The guy had every ability to double check the hallucinated references, but didn't do so; he used AI to replace his own expertise, rather than augment it. I.e. he didn't "use
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by routerl 2y ago
I can't get mad at this, it's so spot-on. "Predictions for 2025 Personal Projects Will start working on a novel semantic search engine for Chinese literature, combining their interest in both Chinese culture and search techno
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by routerl 2y ago
Yes.
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by routerl 2y ago
Imho opinion, and I'm no expert, but this has been working well for me: Segment the texts into chunks that make sense (i.e. into the lengths of text you'll want to find, whether this means chapters, sub-chapters, paragraphs, etc),
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by routerl 2y ago
This write-up makes the erroneous assumption that he's choosing randomly. He himself says, in this same write-up, that he's choosing adversarially. Nice write-up anyway, and yes, Ballmer is wrong.
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by routerl 2y ago
It's not a "Chinese mythical book", it's one of the classical novels of Chinese civilization. Think of it as a cross between Lord of the Rings and The Iliad, but containing extensive references to ancient Chinese tales,
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by routerl 2y ago
Orbital archeology would be an amazing subject for science fiction. Indiana Jones meets Gravity
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by routerl 2y ago
Thanks for your perspective. I've known and lived with several people who have ADHD, and you've expressed exactly the perspective I expected to hear from them. "Games as treatment" are a new frontier of "selling bul
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by routerl 2y ago
AFAIK several cloud services rely on requirements.txt for deployment.
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by routerl 2y ago
Is there something wrong with pipenv[0] that I'm not aware of? It really feels like a full solution, I've been using it for years, and I can't understand why it isn't more widely used. [0] pipenv.pypa.io
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by routerl 2y ago
> Shok Jok. That name could pass for a Mandarin or Cantonese name. These sounds do not exist in Mandarin. This would never be, or sound like, a Mandarin name. And no mention is made of tones, which are critical in Mandarin. The article a
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by routerl 2y ago
Yeah, I said "the equivalent of a pointer" because it was an analogy. I then spent the rest of the post trying to cash-in that analogy. Sorry I wasn't clear enough.
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by routerl 2y ago
I'm sorry, I miss things nowadays, but I don't see where the post states that the message is still available. If it is, that's probably a desync issue, like others have said. Still not particularly mysterious or ontologically
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by routerl 2y ago
Isn't all of this just equivalent to a pointer? "This variable doesn't exist" is a reasonable error message when you're, for example, dereferencing a pointer with a wrong data type: it could be the equivalent of &qu
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by routerl 2y ago
> Never before I had to add `-phrase` so often to eliminate results I didn't want Remember when Google broke boolean search operators because they wanted "Google+" to come up first? They've been making unspeakably bad
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by routerl 2y ago
I stand corrected. Thank you.

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