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1) you could also try to use word embeddings for distance. Afaik they work better than bag of words when few words are present in one observation.

Sorry, I edited it right after posting it. Didn't think somebody could answer that fast :p

That seems like a small update compared to v4. Wouldn't it be better to brand it as a minor version and provide backwards compatibility with deprecation warning where Promises were added?

It's a topic that's difficult to put into words, true. I don't agree that "letting go" or "looking inward" are meaningless. In fact, letting go has a very literal meaning. You're supposed to not think about something on purpose, and when thoughts come, you don't follow them.

Looking inward is basically not focusing on the outside world. You're not supposed to sit and stare at a chair, but focus on something that is "inward", which could be for example your presence or your breathing.

Unclear terminology sometimes comes from either not having a deep enough grasp of the topic at hand. Sometimes on the other hand, the thing you're trying to explain is just hard to put into words.

> This new research finds that these RSL features are flows of granular material and thus, align with the long-standing hypothesis that the surface of Mars lacks flowing water. Small amounts of water could still be involved in their initiation in some fashion, as hydrated minerals have been detected at some RSL locations. The authors conclude that liquid on present-day Mars may be limited to traces of dissolved moisture from the atmosphere and thin films of water.

So, this article says there's no water on the surface of Mars, rather than underneath it.

Though it looks like this suggests that water beneath the surface is unlikely to be there as well?

If you really get the same benefits from listening to music as somebody who does correct mindfulness meditation, then good for you.

It's most likely not true though.

> If you just let me be and let me listen to some music without being disturbed, I'll be perfectly calm and relaxed, no mysticism needed.

Meditation is more than just relaxation. It's about a state of mind. About being in the present moment, letting go, looking inward and reflecting about oneself. I don't think you do any of those things when just relaxing while listening to music.

Also,

> I am perfectly capable of relaxing and unburdening my mind, but it just ain't happening during a normal workday with deadlines and badly defined business processes.

That means you are not perfectly capable of relaxing your mind.

Why nobody mentions ember? I thought it was the third most popular thing behind react and angular?

Unless RAM usage hasn't significantly increased beyond 200mb since alpha, it should run.

For me, the most important thing about this version is the reduced memory usage. Previously the smallest english model took 1GB of RAM, making it troublesome to run it on any cloud instances. If v2 is to take ~200mb instead, that's a huge improvement.

I suppose it was a long time coming. SQLite was very convenient for me while the product was in a very early development stage, with everything changing rapidly.

Same here. Had to switch to dockerized mariadb for local tests, because migrations wouldn't work.

Do you mean only sometimes, as in only when talking about electromagnetic waves? Or something else?

The hardware is cheaper, but most importantly it consumes much less power.

> Removed support for Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) plugins other than Flash. Silverlight, Java, Acrobat and the like are no longer supported.

Good bye, you will be missed (not).

Fast google search provides us with an answer:

> After the operation the brain has much more difficulty sending messages between the hemispheres. Although the corpus callosum is the largest white matter tract connecting the hemispheres, some limited interhemispheric communication is still possible via the anterior commissure and posterior commissure.

I wonder if they have already picked a height for it. Four metres sounds good to me.

So it wasn't a joke after all.

Did previous presidents run similar websites where they'd list the stuff they want to change?

Also, from https://www.greatagain.gov/meet-president-elect.html

> "Donald J. Trump is the very definition of an American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence for real estate, sports and entertainment"

How humble.

Apparently they still haven't been able to translate the treatment to work on humans.

Also, it hasn't yet been proven that the treatment itself is completely safe for the brain.

> There has never been a better time to be a human being, and yet, the media and certain politicians would have you believe that there is disaster after disaster, terrorist plots afoot around every corner, feeding your fear day after day

Could you point me to a quote from the article that tries to make us believe that there is a disaster after disaster?

As far as I know, the article seems to have an objective opinion. It mentions that it's bad, but it's much better than it used to be. Which is basically your point.

Or was your opinion unrelated to the article?

If you read that last wikipedia page about self-immolation that you linked, you'll find out that:

> Jimmy Yu has shown that self-immolation cannot be interpreted based on Buddhist doctrine and beliefs alone but the practice must be understood in the larger context of the Chinese religious landscape. He examines many primary sources from the 16th and 17th century and demonstrates that bodily practices of self-harm, including self-immolation, was ritually performed not only by Buddhists but also by Daoists and literati officials who either exposed their naked body to the sun in a prolonged period of time as a form of self-sacrifice or burned themselves as a method of procuring rain. In other words, self-immolation was a sanctioned part of Chinese culture that was public, scripted, and intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of their various religion affiliations.

Other self-immolations were political protests, and they weren't performed only by buddhists. ( examples here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation#Political_prot... )

Of course, as the wikipedia article says, "Since 2009, at least 120 Tibetans have self-immolated, more than 40 have died". But later on, you we read, "In 2013, the Dalai Lama questioned the effectiveness of self-immolation as a demonstration tactic. He has also expressed that the Tibetans are acting of their own free will and stated that he is powerless to influence them to stop carrying out immolation as a form of protest".

Assuming by God you mean Christian God. Buddhism brings views which you can associate with God, but they're not the idea of a being watching over us.

I think associating this particular mummification practice performed by monks of Shingon sect of buddhism with buddhism itself isn't right. They took some buddhist teachings in 806 and modified them a bit. The founder of Shingon was a student of a Chinese teacher, who was a student of a Hindu teacher. Derogations are bound to happen.

Even still, It takes some insight to comprehend their self-mummification practices. I suppose it weren't just a bunch of pointless suicides.

That said, there aren't such practices in Hinduism or most, as it turns out(?) Buddhist philosophies (such as tibetan buddhism).

> I really wish I could play, it looks like great fun, but there’s no way it’s worth the risk.

Why not just create a separate google account if one's so eager to play?

Also, the documentation is out already: http://docs.cryengine.com/display/SDKDOC1/CRYENGINE+V

I forgot to add "mostly scarcely useful", instead of "scarcely useful". There are some things that make sense, like file system library and async I/O library that you've mentioned (althrough I don't agree on concepts and modules, but that's up to one's preference), but then comes stuff like constexpr, rvalue reference, Deleted and Defaulted Functions, that aren't essential to most programmers, and mostly just clutter the language, because only like, 1% will use them, and the rest will be like "what the hell is this" when looking at that 1%'s code.

> You shouldn't be clamoring for inclusion in the C++ standard, you should be calling for better third-party library support in your tooling!

This. Honestly after C++11 the stuff they're adding is scarcely useful, it mostly just complicates the language itself even more than it currently is. They're trying to change the way you write C++ code without removing support for the old ways. I feel like they should make a new language instead of adding mostly useless things/stuff that barely anybody will use (could be also because barely anybody will know of that feature's existance)

I think they're referring to OO style (a member function) and imperative style (loose functions).

But unifying those makes no sense to me.

Find a specific field your language would be useful to.

I tend to think that having it be a scripting language (eg. one that's ment to be used as, for example, creating quests / scripting events. Like old Gothic [I and II] used to have) justifies creating it (and potentially could be useful, since the main contenders as far as I am aware are AngelScript, LUA and Squirrel - so there's not a plethora of choices to choose from).

Though you could find any other field where the language could be used for.

Perhaps processing data, or maybe analyzing human language. Whatever you can come up with.

Then it kind of makes sense :D