Readit Newscaio1982 commented on Show HN: Stackdraft – create and present 3D cloud architecture diagrams stackdraft.io... · Posted by u/mkarnicki
Nice graphics, I really liked it is "multi-provider" :-)
This seems to be the outcome of the whole thing in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709068
caio1982 commented on Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology github.com/tb0yd/rootfind... · Posted by u/tboyd47
Congrats for such nice non-English project! It is always lovely to see computer linguistics hitting the front page :-)
caio1982 commented on Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology github.com/tb0yd/rootfind... · Posted by u/tboyd47
I like where this is going. But I'm still a bit skeptical at the use of neural networks in this use case
How big is the problem space? There's a limited set of roots and morphologies...
Would a more rules based approach work (more accurately)?
From my experience any rules based approach in linguistics may solve the problem at first but it won't scale for too long (it has been tried before, most of old NLP was very rules based I would say) due to many intricacies of languages, corner cases and non-obvious exceptions. It could work — and it fact it does — for simple scenarios, but these are not very real world ones IMHO. I believe a neural model of such cases, over time, will yield better results. I am very skeptical these days about doing computer linguistics without considering some level of AI (so to speak).
caio1982 commented on The fightback against the Bitcoin energy guzzlers has begun wired.co.uk/article/bitco... · Posted by u/edwinksl
I'm sure air conditioners in US banks or public offices consume more energy than Bitcoin mining worldwide. They never turn off computers at night, insurance companies require to leave lights on at night, each office has a few TVs with chomecast showing pictures of nature (irony ha!) all day and night long... but it's BTC mining they're fighting with.
Your logic seems okay-ish... but do you have all these numbers/stats?
caio1982 commented on A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation blog.datawrapper.de/color... · Posted by u/fanf2
I have so many to-dos, compress pictures, add javascript to add features, and now color...
Oh, and the actual product, that too.
To me color knowledge is akin to other cultural backgrounds one (who works in any slightly artistic environment such as UI/UX) must have a priori, not a posteriori of the work. It doesn't add up to your TODO list, that's what I am saying.
PS: image optimization should be done automatically IMHO