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serveboyon Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set

I'm not sure. Results I want are usually on the first page though, almost always highlighted in green. The "*.edu" highlight is particularly useful.

serveboyon Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set

Nifty trick! Is there a limit to the number of site: filters?

Look for an extension that highlights the good results. I find that more valuable than filtering the bad results.

serveboyon Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set

I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt... for filtering Google. Can't live without it. It would be interesting to have a Github repo with some precompiled filters based on certain business domains.

But for me at least, a couple of rules are enough to solve 99% of the problems.

serveboyon Bye Bye Bitcoin Bubble

> As I write this, Bitcoin just past $16,000 in value. I would bet any amount of money that on December 7, 2018, the price of Bitcoin will be below that value.

You don't have to "would bet", you can short it on some exchanges and soon you'll be able to short using futures. Bears should put their money where their mouth is. Bulls sure are doing it.

serveboyon My Younger Brother Can Access My iPhone X: Face ID Is Not Secure

Suggestion : let the user select a confidence level at which FaceID unlocks the phone. This would allow the user to decrease false positives at the cost of false negatives. Not very Apple to expose settings, but in this case it seems like a no Brainerd, much like choosing between 4 or 6 digit pins.

serveboyon How Firefox Got Fast Again

I tried making the switch from Chrome but ran into three issues :

1) Firefox does not import Chrome logins and passwords. Major pain.

2) Firefox freezes when importing Chrome history and bookmarks. I get a "script is taking too long" message. If I force close and reopen, then try to delete the partially imported content, it freezes as well with the same message. Tried deleting profile and restarting restarting to no avail.

3) (more of a nuisance than a real issue) I need to use the same browser on all devices so that everything is in sync. Google Search in Firefox Android looks like a page from the 90s and is missing Search Tools. Maybe Google isn't playing nice?

Did people migrating from Chrome experience issues 1) and 2)? Tried the initial import on Linux and macOS, same issue.

serveboyon Crypto Mining Scripts Explained

This guy wrote a short post on mining income : https://medium.com/@MaxenceCornet/coinhive-review-embeddable...

serveboyon Is it time to stop trusting Google search?

I cannot use Google without the Google Search Filter extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt...

Having the results you are most interested in highlighted and the bad ones removed seriously upgrades the search experience. Would be nice if Google had this functionality built in. I know they had the remove results thing builtin back in the day, but I find highlighting trusted sites even more important.

serveboyon Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions

Alex Gittens also has a nice paper this year showing how Skipgram enables vector additivity. See http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P17-1007

serveboyon Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions

https://github.com/kudkudak/word-embeddings-benchmarks has a pretty nice evaluation of existing embedding methods. Notably missing from this article is GloVe ( https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/) and LexVec ( https://github.com/alexandres/lexvec ) both which tend to outperform word2vec in both intrinsic and extrinsic tasks. Also of interest are methods which perform retrofitting, improving already trained embeddings. Morph fitting (ACL 2017) is a good example. Hashimoto et al (2016) sheds some interesting insight on how embeddings methods are performing metric recovery. Lots of exciting stuff in this area.

serveboyon Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to find them

Pass the "-matrix pmi" flag to factor the PMI matrix as by default it factorizes PPMI.

serveboyon Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to find them

word2vec yields better representations than PMI-SVD. If you want a better explicit PMI matrix factorization, have a look at https://github.com/alexandres/lexvec and the original paper. Explains why SVD performs poorly.

If you are looking for word embedding for production use, checkout fasttext, lexvec, glove, or word2vec. Don't use the approach described in this article.

serveboyon Tensorflow sucks

Quick shout out for DyNet! The API is so simple and intuitive even a two year old (a prodigious one) can use it.

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It certainly gets one thing right : what a fantastic name! Props

serveboyon Show HN: Remind'em gives you the power to set reminders in your friends’ phones

There's an Android app by the same name that does the same thing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.intelco...

Not available on iOS though...

serveboyon Until Google gets its act together, here's a quick way WE can improve search

Added it to a gist @ https://gist.github.com/779253

serveboyon Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results

I use a Chrome extension called Google Search Filter which solves this exact problem - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/eidhkmnbiahhgbgp...

It lets me sync my config accross multiple machines.