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Embedding „meaning“ in vector spaces goes back to 1950s structuralist linguistics and early information retrieval research, there is a nice overview in the draft for the 3rd edition of speech and language processing https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/5.pdf

Munich/Bavaria were not ruled by the Habsburgs, unless you want to count the whole Holy Roman Empire.

Depends on how many people know about it and might interprete it as some kind of association. I would be sceptical to use 88 as a designation, at least in Germany. See 4 or 13 for numbers avoided in other cultures (for non-political reasons).

Why should organic products not contain gluten?

Baroni published on using a word-word-link (e.g., object-of) tensor instead of the more common word-word matrices: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00016

One argument for SVD is the low reliability (as in results fluctuate with repeated experiments) of word2vec embeddings, which hampers (qualitative) interpretation of the resulting embedding spaces, see: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C/C16/C16-1262.pdf

Polls show over 40% in the US to believe in creationism http://www.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-h...

Also religion is not only concerned with what happened, yet often very active in prescribing what has to happen: abortion, divorce, homosexuality,...

The alternative of competing nation states lead to two world wars. Even a less than perfect EU seems far preferable to a third one.

A colleague of mine is quite happy using caret for streamlined feature selection http://topepo.github.io/caret/index.html

So why is no African government / company stepping in to produce antivenoms, if the technology is supposed to be 80 years old and rather basic?

Similar punishments are prescribed by the Old Testament, so not specific to Islam. Luckily religion was replaced as a moral and especially legal guideline in "the West" thanks to the Enlightenment and the French revolution.

Am I missing something? I regularly write static methods and test them with JUnit.

Our ability to change our environment is limited and was even more limited in the past.

• Look at infectious diseases killing those without inborne resistance and you see humans evolving just fine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease

• Also changing your environment, e.g. by starting to herd animals can jumpstart evolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence

I didn't get the hype about their soup, yet can recommend the whale steak.

I wonder if they use some kind of (neural) language model for their translations. Using only a dictionary (as in the text) would be about 60 years behind the state of the art...

With no ill intent: I'm a bit skeptical about software quality / test coverage after finding a bug in the linear algebra implementation - I would not use it for production right now.

I thought it was more fear because control...

It's from 2014 and the launch was supposed to happen 'later this year'.

What do you mean by "pure"? Lack of loanwoards? Lack of any linguistic changes (e.g., sound, meaning) for existing words? Lack of any innovation, i.e. no new words for new concepts/objects? You could try to find some of these things in languages spoken by rather isolated groups. Yet I don't think one should call such a language "pure", implying some kind or (moral) superiority.

You forgot your irony tags...

Wanting to force someone to advertise your product and charge him for it sounds so backwards, especially from a right-wing company. I'm happy this terrible excuse for a publisher couldn't get through with it. Will be interesting to see the Bild headlines about it, at the moment they are still busy rallying against unions (e.g. by printing the phone numbers of union leaders).

In recent Groovy versions you can have type checking or even static compilation by annotating your code.

It could be, if the effect is strong enough.

Sounds implausible, given the number of European pharma companies...

Is a single point difference significant?

This would probably depend on the offered payment, prestige and entertainment (in the sense of mental/interpersonal reward).

Traveling with the speed of light seems nice enough, yet I don't understand how the results would help with any kind of teleportation.

Sarcasm?

I'm sorry, it was a presentation of an IBM researcher during the BioASQ workshop. Perhaps you can find the slides/a summary on the BioASQ.org website.