walterkrankheit | 5 years ago | on: Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string
Just checked spaCy's NER demo and it seems to be working fine now. :)
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walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Stalin’s Danish Mystery
Is it just me or did he lose the Hamlet thread? It doesn't seem so much a mystery as a purely strategic post-war moment that no really knows about.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Still at Guantánamo
This is beyond tragic. How Guantanamo lasted through the Obama years is beyond me. To close it was his first promise and his first promise broken.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Bubonic Plague Strikes in Mongolia: Why Is It Still a Threat? (2019)
That's a worrying bit of information... Bubonic still around in times of coronavirus.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
WFH already seems pretty normalized to me. But the denormalization of full-time jobs/employees does seem like a real danger in any field at the moment. Unfortunately not all employers are ethical when it comes to that. If you're lucky to find one that is, stick with it.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: A Decade of London in Google Street View
That sent me down memory lane. Sort of. Went to check Berlin and the two addresses I've held since moving here 10 years ago and realized the photos haven't been updated since July 2008. :P
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo
It's true that it's tough to learn a language from scratch with just Duolingo - only language classes truly worked for me. But as a means of review or for giving my friends who would probably never learn the language properly a leg up, it's invaluable. Rosetta Stone used to be a $700 investment and this made it obsolete.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
Is procrastination really the biggest ailment we suffer in today's world? There's an awful lot of concern over it. Although remote working is possibly its biggest contributor when it comes to professional procrastination. I mean, when in an office surrounded by others, sure, you could, but only if everyone else is and that's not likely to be the case.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
Does anyone else have an issue with audiobooks as literature? Like, if I'm not able to control the pace at which I'm paying attention, it's problematic. I can't guarantee I'll pay 100 percent attention to noise that otherwise would almost be background to me. Regardless, the selection here is pretty bad-ass.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
Totally cheesy, but not untrue. Although, I couldn't escape the irony that I was reading it to put off something else.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Incarcerated and Facebook
I find it weird that Facebook even does this. It's like pile-on in a justice system that's supposedly already dished its punishment. What right does FB have to punish someone for something they did outside of FB? And jesus, have some pity. But the fact that you can 'accidentally' be marked as incarcerated is also really strange.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't
I wish this article went a bit deeper. I still don't feel like I have a primary grip on WHY the non-berry items ended up with berry names to begin with. Bananas, okay, late-period adoption, but the rest?
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips
We have similar issues in Berlin with wildly exploited workers... the only thing that keeps it one step above here is that they are all bicycle driven, so fuel costs are not a factor.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
In Berlin they have a voluntary facial recognition zone at one of the train stations. Passengers can opt in and be part of the pilot program or just go through the non-facial recognition entrance. I'm guessing most in privacy-valuing Germany don't go through facial recognition.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]
Did they get off the fucking mailing list?
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Better technology means higher expectations, which creates more work
This does kind of imply that technology is to blame. I get what his piece is trying to say and it wraps it up quite well by the end, these are social (American) norms that must be fought with. But technology isn't the culprit. It's just also not to be expected to ultimately relieve the number of hours we work.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: Away’s former CEO is returning as its co-chief
I've worked with people like the one The Verge paints Korey to be. The fact that she quit and then came back points more to The Verge's reporting to be accurate - this kind of personality can usually never accept the mistakes they've made and just doubles down in the future in an attempt to prove they were right.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law
I'm kind of shocked that logging these results isn't already common practice.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones
I'm surprised this hasn't been done before! The trouble it would have saved me throughout life when stranded somewhere without my own charger, but unable to use another's. Someone mentioned laptop connectors, too. That would also be great, but since I usually travel with intention with my laptop while I passively have my phone on me all the time, the need isn't exactly on the same level.
walterkrankheit | 6 years ago | on: The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)
Right? It's much more about the process than the piece. Would have also read that article, but I thought I was reading another.
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