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For sure.

You can either have it display from a Google Photos photo album, and get the version of the interface which constantly displays ads to you, or you can switch the interface to "apps only" mode which will only show you one big ad on the home screen. In "apps only" mode, the thing won't display your photos, either as a screensaver or anything else. You still need to be logged into your Google account, of course; as far as I can tell, not displaying photos is just a way of punishing you for trying to reduce the ads you see.

Don't bring monads into this

This would be terrifying if LLMs were actually useful for anything.

I'm not sure that Shakespeare really had a concept of beyond young infatuation like we have today

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you mean that he mostly thought of love as childish infatuation, you can see him exploring quite a variety of other types of love in the sonnets.

See also the Birthday Clown Consortium Price Guide: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-birthday-clown-conso...

My intuition is that in the case of audiobook narrators who adopt different voices for different characters, VALL-E would struggle to identify which character is speaking and thus produce the correct voice for a given portion of, say, text in quotation marks. In some bits of prose it can be difficult for a human reader to determine who is speaking, for that matter, but this is a classic weakness with the current crop of AI tools, and stems from a lack of actual understanding of the text.

Juxt had a recent blog post covering the new Clojure (iteration) function in depth, which is useful for abstracting over sequences that require some state management to access, such as a paginated API.

https://www.juxt.pro/blog/new-clojure-iteration

Charitably, the author doesn't mention Aronofsky also ripping off Pi from Tetsuo: the Iron Man.

One or two examples exist. The venerable MetaFilter is heavily moderated ans charges $5 for a (lifetime) membership, which tends to keep out drive-by commenting.

Yeah, I've long thought a diff tool that works on s-exprs instead of lines would be invaluable for Lisp programming. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to write, either, although getting GitHub etc to use it seems like it would be its own challenge...

That's... kind of a rubbish summary, but I'm not sure what I'd want a ~700-word summary of The Great Gatsby to look like.

Indeed, looks like it's got 989 days remaining. http://stadiacountdown.com/

Wait - it looks like you have to use Fn-Q or Fn-` for ESC?

Any Portland residents want to comment on the state of the Portland tech scene there? The Oregonian article makes it sound slightly dire...

No big new tech company has emerged in Oregon since the 1990s, though, and the old ones are steadily vanishing. The $8 billion sale of Wilsonville-based Flir Systems, announced Monday, leaves just two publicly traded technology companies in Oregon.

Any US citizen can get a USAA checking account, and it's quite usable with a decent Android app and the ability to easily transfer money around from different banks. Some of their other services, like car loans, are only available to members of the military, though.

People will be mortgaging their homes to buy one

As long as they didn't watch the entire movie!

The immutable database Datomic (from Rich Hickey, inventor of Clojure) is all based on datalog, and is fairly popular in the nichey world of Clojure development; there are several other similar datalog-based systems outside of Clojure as well.

Various marketing case study blurbs are here if that's your thing: https://www.datomic.com/nubanks-story.html

Choosing to encode the representation of pi as a base-10 decimal number to get the source data is pretty arbitrary, too.

That's true, although as someone commented in the github thread, SVG diagrams are very much XML, with a namespace and everything.

Yeah, among other things Lisp isn't big on labels and GOTO (but BASIC is).

I agree completely on masks being preferable to this, but I wonder whether it may have some utility anyways, because even if it does not catch many asymptomatic people, if it is widely deployed and it catches _some_ people, those people don't go on to spread the virus, and then if you deploy those measures broadly, you have managed to halt a few potentially exponential sources of spread.

I should hasten to add that I'm not an epidemiologist, so I don't know whether this is true. But my intuition suggests that even if this is just partially effective it might still be worthwhile in the context of national efforts to control the spread, which is a numbers game.

I think this is a crucial distinction between "security theater" and "hygiene theater" -- security risks are not contagious and don't have the same potential for exponential growth that virus transmission does.

Nubank did a presentation on their approach to testing at the Clojure/NYC meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dW4V3stFX0

Thanks!

I sympathize with what you're saying, but any broad survey of an incredibly complex subject like this is necessarily going to need to simplify some aspects of it. I definitely agree with you that the notion of the mind as a physical construct is a fascinating topic, but someone could easily write something just as long as the original article and barely scratch the surface.

Are there concrete ways you feel the article could be improved to address your points? (I'm asking out of genuine interest since you seem to know a lot about the subject.) Alternately, do you have other sources you'd recommend as a preferable introduction to the topic?

As a lay person with limited knowledge of these traditions, I didn't get the sense that the author was using axioms and derivations in a strict mathematical sense, but rather as "these are some foundational bits of epistemology in this tradition which informed further developments," for whatever that's worth.

Instead, it is evidence that there is bipartisan support for educational spending, but with uneven beneficiaries.

I'd see it rather as evidence that most educational spending happens at the state and local level, not the federal level.

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending

...oh, and I hope you know whether your customer is Israeli or Palestinian!

https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/

I'm honestly not trolling with this question, but can you explain what the practical applications of text generation are? From what I've seen of GPT-2, it's a cool toy, but I have never seen it create anything that seems like it would be useful to solve a problem (eg, a human-computer interaction problem).

The only applications I can think of for text generation are malevolent ones: I'm sure it would be great at generating spam sites which can fool Google's PageRank algorithms, and it seems like you could easily use it in an information warfare / astroturf setting where you could generate the illusion of consensus by arming a lot of bots with short, somewhat convincing opinions about a certain topic.

Is there something obvious I'm missing? It seems too imprecise to actually deliver meaningful information to an end-user, so I'm frankly baffled as to what its purpose is.

Yeah, if the personal (or shadow) profile has a phone number, and the same phone number is in the tracked data, removing the personal profile's user ID seems a little beside the point.

Is tail call elimination the same as tail call optimization? I know that schemes use this to keep the stack from blowing up during recursive function calls, and that currently the JVM, and by extension Clojure is not able to handle this.

Yes, the elimination of the tail call is the optimization.

FWIW, Clojure handles this through syntax, so recursive algorithms are generally implemented with loop/recur forms that don't blow up the stack (instead of having a function literally call itself): https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/loop