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froskur | 3 years ago | on: No Language Left Behind

Low resource in this context means that there are few resources available to train a neural network with, not that there are few speakers. Although many low resource languages have relatively few speakers, there are also ones with tens of millions of speakers.

The reason for emphasis is in my opinion twofold: 1) Allowing these people to use the fancy language technology in their own language is good in and of itself. 2) Training neural networks on fewer resources is more difficult than using more resources and therefore a fun and interesting challenge.

froskur | 5 years ago | on: ØMQ – The Guide (2011)

> I couldn't make it integrate with my main event loop

You can get a file descriptor from ZMQ to use with your own event loop (depending on your event loop of course). I have done this successfully in the past with an epoll (iirc) based event loop.

The documentation is at [1], the ZMQ_FD option. You do have to read the instructions very carefully though.

[1] http://api.zeromq.org/master:zmq-getsockopt

froskur | 6 years ago | on: DRM Broke Its Promise

Re no 2. I believe the Calibre plugin DeDRM does what you want. It's been a while since I used it, but iirc you will need to have a Kindle registered with the Amazon account you used to buy the book for it to work.

froskur | 6 years ago | on: GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely

The backend engineer position lists ruby experience as a Strict Requirement. The linked explanation makes sense when trying for fast growth. However, the text is about 3 years old now so my question is: Do you expect this policy to change in the near future?

froskur | 11 years ago | on: The new Google Contacts

> There are futher sorting issues: Ö should go after O, not Z.

I'd just like to point out that this is not true in the two alphabets that I'm familiar with that use Ö, Icelandic and Swedish. For both of these, Ö is the last character of the alphabet. I don't know how it is for other languages which use Ö but at least for these two the sorting is correct.