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But how the hate speech GP has faced would be considered hate speech if there were a Chinese person at the receiving end is an hypothetical example of hipocricy. If a Chinese person indeed faced it, that is hate speech in my purview, and so is this person facing hate speech just for being from Israel.
Hate speeches are not justified. Whether someone is from China or from Israel.
Rest assured, not all people think that way.
When an Islamic terrorist group deliverately uses human shields of women and children, and they get killed, the blame falls on that terrorist group. Not on Israel.
And your comment was unrelated, you shouldn't have faced the hate you faced.
Funny how a similar comment aimed at a Chinese person for treatment of Uighurs will be anti-Asian hate speech.
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Bigger companies have much bigger kitty and clout and they can fight back when something unreasonable is being pushed down the throat.
Smaller companies will be completely at the mercy of the governments.
I am guessing that these companies are deliberately waiting for a court case.
Especially where people willfully get arrested to wipe down Hindi marks from metro stations [0] and people who have fasted to death to not have Hindi as the national language [1].
[0]: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kannada-pride-wins-day...
I never switch to another language other than English.
It is highly advisable that companies translate to eight most common Indian languages. Or even the top five [0].
People speaking all major languages of India are huge potential markets for companies. Google offers search in nine Indian languages. Amazon provides customer services in five languages.
For some services, you should not even want to translate to languages other than English. India has one of the largest English speaking populace of the world- 2nd only after the US [1].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of....
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
Only 38% people of India has Hindi as their mother-tongue.
There is strong anti-Hindi-imposition sentiment in many places of India.
Just because someone's geolocation is set to India, don't automatically translate it to Hindi. It irks many.
I am guessing that, too.
It is weird how you can do extremely easy things in a field of application that is novel to the method and get huge amount of praise. I bet they will be called to speak on many archaelogy conferences to talk about it.
I am not jealous at all. And I truly respect the people behind the paper for doing something that no one else is doing. They are at least doing something new. And they deserve praise from people in their fields.
That's an interesting point.
I, too, never reach for a tablet. But I use my tablet a lot to read research papers and books- both fiction and nonfiction.
So, to me, it is never a replacement for a mobile phone. It does something else.
So, if MS or anybody else wants to popularize this form factor, I believe that they would have to convince people of its uses _other than_ as a smartphone, and focus on that.
Are MySQL and SQLite still the most reliable ones around?
They are actually fighting for survival I would say.
Most of the people using R and RStudio are the people who only know R and RStudio.
RStudio's interface feels like it is from the early 90s, and RStudio is impractical and messy to use. Frankly, it is _bad_.
R, as a language does only very few amounts of things well. And when some people's use cases that are limited to that, uses it.
Data Science wave riders dominantly learn Python (IMO, as they should). Think >90%.
There are plenty Data Science Misguiders (influencers) who, just from shallow knowledge, tell gullible learners to learn R OR Python. And still almost everybody chooses the second.
Some people I know who uses R amd RStudio uses them as a simple Dashboard, dataviz app, or those who uses it for other reasons write R using Jupyter, VSCode, or good ol' vim.
R thrives on the backs of lesser skilled developers amd domain experts using R for some reason.
Some argue that the tooling of R projects is better than Python's, but it does so less. A penny is of course more reliable than a train.
No word on frameworks, although they used GradCAMs for Keras/TF. So, I am guessing Keras.
They are using voting. And achieving 98% accuracy in 10 votes. Is the model overfit?
This might be novel in archaelogy, but this is a very very easy task to perform for a DL practitioner. But they took their time to read a lot about ML interpretablity, tSNE, transferable features, etc and they cited them. Wanted to be rigorous.
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When someone uses an app downloaded from the App Store, the compute is provided by the device owned and paid for by the user. Apple does not own it or maintain it anymore.
And the compute is either completely provided by the device or is shared by the app vendor.
Apple does not give anything in this scenario. They only take.
I grew up to love history. And read mythologies like the Mahabharata and always glorified wars. I was like 13-14.
It was written in the newspapers that war was bad, my History teacher taught us so, and my father always told me so. But I never bought those. To my early teenager tiny-brain, war was something glorious where you fought for your country/clan. And killing other people effectively was fabulous!
This all came to change when I played Call of Duty (1). It is set in WW2. There were so many deaths! And those deaths were so horrific! I had a sort of an epiphany that each corpse (and there were a lot) lying in there is somebody's brother, son, lover, and so on. And they were dead. Quotes about war was flashed across screen after each "mission".
There was a church scene and so many people died there. The condition was so horrific. I realized for the first time in my life that war so horrific and always a bad thing.
Very few transformations in very few persons' lives are dramatic. But this was exactly as I write. Call of Duty (1) taught me to hate wars. I grew up to be a person to whom wars are a very bad thing.
Especially for the people who have to fight.
I loved to play Call of Duty but decided that wars are cool only in games. Not in real life.
The first Emperor Chandragupta was guided by a scholar called Chanakya. He wrote one of earliest book on Polity in the world. He was Machiavellian (he predates Machiavelli) and always promoted realpolitik. The book is called Artha Shastra and you can read it in English.
One of the curious things I found is that sex work was legalized and regulated by state. Sex workers paid taxes to the state. This is something some Europeans and Americans debate to this day.
Chandragupta's grandson, Ashoka is one of the Great Emperors of the world. He was the earliest ruler of a welfare state. He put an end to discriminatory penal practices favoring Brahmins, the priest class. He made shelters and planted trees. And declared he cared about each and every subject of his Empire. He send envoys to different countries of SE Asia to spread Buddhism, and he took up monkhood in the last stage of his life and died.
Indians forgot about his legacy and the whole Empire. It is through his pillars spread across ahuge landmass, that the scholarly Orientalist William Jones came to know about this Empires.
Indians were thought to have always divided into very small kingdoms before the Mughal, but this proved on the contrary. And the British, at least a few of them began to have a respect for the Indians.
But Apple should not take cut on every purchases made through the app. It makes no sense.
AWS does not take a "cut" on every Netflix subscription bought. They just charge for the storage and traffic. This is how App Store should function.
Only because they just wanted the money for themselves.
And I agree that people should dream. But they should base it on certain things, for example-
0. Nature of the field. If you are 10,000th best Engineer in the world or the 20,000th best Math teacher, you will have 0 problems financially.
1. Past success and ability in your dream field
etc.
The Japanese concept of Ikigai also comes to mind in this context.
I love the dreamers and see myself as same, and I want people to be aware of these knowledges before taking the leap and becoming and remaining a dreamer.
He debunked the "passion hypothesis" and gave practical advices along with the stories of several successful people from real life.
He is vehemently against "follow your passion" advice. He said in his book that if Steve Jobs focused on what he was passionate about, he would be a Zen monk in some monastery, and not a tech billionaire.
I picked up his book because he is a CS PhD and Asst. Professor, and not another 'buy-my-book-because-I-am-successful-in-selling-this-book' guy.
This is a short book and I highly recommend it.
[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-ca...
It has one purpose only- reading books and papers. I have installed apps like Lithium for reading EPUB, Ebookdroid for reading paper PDFs, Adobe Reader for reading fiction PDFs, a blue light filter that supports scheduling, a lightweight, handy file manager (Xplore), and a very lightweight browser. I have disabled and/or uninstalled all apps that came with the device.
I have very happily dumped my Kindle and will never go back to it. I have been using this device for nearly two years. I love it and it is one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I read in three languages. Kindles suck at rendering languages other than English efficiently. Whenever a file has mathematical equations and figures, Kindle messes them up and renders out of place ugly equations. Kindle has no color. Difficult to read books with pictures.
Android tablet has eliminated all these problems. Only downside is its battery life. I charge it once in 3-5 days as I only read documents in it- no video or games, or even browser.
After this device retires, I will buy another cheap Android tablet for my reading purposes, and will never go back back to Kindles.
The files will be in .mobi and .azw3 format.
I only know about Bill Hilton in YouTube. Are there anybody better?
What would be JustinGuitar.com but for piano?
And there are other nice tricks.