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alnitak··on The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing” (2014)
Thank you for bringing some positivity to my day!
alnitak··on Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp
Do it on Github!
alnitak··on Is GraphQL the Next Frontier for Web APIs?
What is your business model here? Is this (subzero) projected to be an open source product supported by paid services and support, or is it entirely a cloud offering a la graphcool, parse or firebase?
alnitak··on Tacotron: A Fully End-to-End Text-To-Speech Synthesis Model
This model sounds so cool. Any idea of a high level software package where you can feed pairs of <text, audio> and build a TTS model as a result?
alnitak··on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
aha makes sense. So basically the worth of his shares went dramatically up.
alnitak··on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
How is Bezos making money? Amazon doesn't seem to generate enough dividends to reach this amount of wealth, or does it?
alnitak··on Gravitational waves eject black hole from galaxy
Imagine you are an Earth-level (0.7 on Kardashev's scale) civilisation on the path of this monster.

In fact, let's just imagine it were to happen in the Milky Way. What happens to us then?

alnitak··on HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system
What could be an appropriate use case for this OS at its current state?
alnitak··on Going native
The pedantic force is strong here.
alnitak··on IBM Building First Universal Quantum Computers for Business and Science
They could be referring to simulations instead of inferring based on existing data sets.
alnitak··on Show HN: Bezie – Virtual MIDI controller for complex automation
Do you have plans to support automating MIDI notes or some sort of notes transformations, or is it out of the scope of this tool?
alnitak··on Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I wrote my own format
À format that is independent of a specific platform or player has its own merits, besides the scratch your itch part.

With a good plugin support an ecosystem to allow interoperability of playlists becomes possible.

alnitak··on Rolling a virtual DOM
Virtual DOMs are typically used to reduce the number of operations needed to update the real DOM.

In order to achieve that, a virtual DOM is typically used to diff the previous and the next state of the DOM (before and after the data changes), and based on this diff calculate the shortest amount of steps to modify the real DOM to represent the new data.

While any DOM that doesn't render its tree can be considered a virtual DOM semantically speaking, the idiomatic usage of it so far is not achieved by this current work. It is only confusing to the reader, who might have seen this term used in other popular projects.

I see this more as a DOM builder, similar to JSX for example.

alnitak··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
Depending on how habitable those planets are, if there was an actual entity modeling the universe for humans as some close minded ideologies tend to think, well we would be living there and not in a little blue island in the middle of desolation. Nice blow.
alnitak··on Ask HN: How to implement an NLP grammar parser for a new natural language?
I specifically want to address north african languages (Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian), commonly known as a dialect of Arabic, using a Latin alphabet, with heavy influences from Latin languages (French, Spanish) and Berber (endemic regional language) as well. My intent is to be able to parse a sentence written in this language, and extract the subject, the action, the object. I would also like to build a semantic model of the language (e.g. word2vec if I am not abusing the field) relating similar words.

I have tried models for Arabic but they fall short because of the borrowings from other languages, but also a different grammar in many cases. Also, on one hand, transliterating the Latin written sentences in North African Arabic into a regular Arabic alphabet is a challenging task (many transliterations are possible for a given word), on the other, North African Arabic (NAA) is not standardized, so words are commonly written phonetically using a loose set of transcription rules, also borrowed from other languages. An example of this last aspect would be 'the pharmacist' which in NAA could be written in any of those forms (combinations of either change are possible): - L'farmassian - Lfarmassian - Lpharmassian - Lpharmacian - l frmsian ..

Thanks for the reference, I will check it out!

alnitak··on Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate
Do you happen to know any accredited university or institution that would do that? Maybe with some examinations?
alnitak··on Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K
The fact that the Masters in CS and presumably this degree both require having a traditional bachelor degree as a prerequisite seriously limits their usefulness and their reach.

Are there any similar tracks that do not have this requirement?

alnitak··on Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
Well, since Atlassian is in the mood of acquiring, I have made an analytics and data processing system that plugs into JIRA to create custom reports in ways that are not possible currently by JIRA.

It also integrates externally to JIRA regardless of whether it's a cloud or on-premise version.

We have been using it internally successfully since a few months, first in my team and then in others in our company.

Would you guys be interested at Atlassian?

alnitak··on ArnoldC – Arnold Schwarzenegger based programming language
Someone should make a text to speech version of this that spits out the original voice
alnitak··on Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar
In arabic "slippery slope" translates to a similar idiom: انزلاق خطير

Which means literally "a dangerous slip".

There are other close idioms but I can't recall any right now.

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