Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Senior Engineers in Montreal, QC

Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Senior Engineers in Montreal, QC

We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists and analysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch this year. We are looking to hire a Senior Engineer to help us launch and grow our newest game.

Source: mino-games.workable.com

Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Texts

Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Texts

OpenIE (Open Information Extraction) is a tool that filters and normalizes raw text between entities to obtain open-domain relations. Distant supervision, also called weak supervision, is when we wish to extract relations from a text and that an initial KG is available, as a seed, for the triplet extraction task. If we have a lot of texts and a big enough KG (with the same entities as the ones in the texts) we can learn a mapping from raw text to fixed-schema relations of the KG.

Source: blog.heuritech.com

Advanced Tips for Using Anki and Spaced Repetition

Advanced Tips for Using Anki and Spaced Repetition

Here are my tips and tricks for using Anki and SR for language learning, pursing a medical degree, undergraduate degree, or just trying to be the smartest person in the room! Creating flashcards needs to be easy use a tool like Polar so that you can create flashcards, comments, and annotations directly while you’re reading the material. Use a tool like Polar to easily create flashcards and sync them to Anki.

Source: getpolarized.io

What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (2002)

What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (2002)

(The Grey Havens, ROTK) Tolkien describes the differences between the elvish sexes as follows in LACE:

He goes on to explain differences in career preferences between the sexes and concludes with “But all these things, and other matters of labor and play…may at different times be pursued by any among the Noldor, be they neri or nissi.” Sex = Marriage, Even On the Run

Tolkien describes elvish marriage in detail in the LACE essay. Normal Elves And The Ones Tolkien Wrote About

Tolkien in LACE says that elves normally married young, in their early adulthood, which would have been at 50 to 100 years old.

Source: www.ansereg.com

Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam

Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam

As far as I can tell, a regular user can’t delete a promoted Tweet from within Twitter. In this case, we can use the Twitter Card Validator to see that the website sends Twitter to CNN – but the user is redirected elsewhere. There are so many blatantly deceptive adverts on Twitter, that I can only conclude that generating revenue is more important than protecting their users.

Source: shkspr.mobi

What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today

What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today

To support this functionality, pytz constructs objects (Python’s weak abstraction for time zones) that load the definitions from the standard IANA time zone database, tzdb. You can see the assignment of this offset to the time zone in the IANA tzdb here:

The last line above says that the offset for this zone is -4h 56m 02s, called the “local mean time” (LMT), up until 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58, which is the NYC local time of when GMT was standardized by US railways (though not yet officially by the federal government). The same thing it does when you construct a localized in pytz’s preferred, albeit non-standard, way: use the local datetime as an index into the tzdb zone definition.

Source: typesandtimes.net

‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns

‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns

He was the leader of the Marxist student association at the elite Peking University, a communist of conscience who defied the Communist Party of China. [With wider crackdowns on religion, Xi’s China seeks to put stamp on faith]
The story of Peking University’s Marxist club — as told by four members who remain secretly active and spoke on the condition of anonymity for their safety, their supporters, and a trove of writings and videos left by activists anticipating arrest — illustrates the anxious political atmosphere in China, where idealistic students who embrace the party’s own ideology can be suppressed just like any other political threat. Qiu Zhanxuan, the former leader of the Peking University Marxist society, had a political awakening when he arrived at the university, the alma mater for Chinese Communist revolutionaries including Li Dazhao.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

What Can Prewar Germany Teach Us About Social-Media Regulation?

What Can Prewar Germany Teach Us About Social-Media Regulation?

“Our way of taking power and using it would have been inconceivable without the radio and the airplane,” Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels claimed in August 1933. Goebbels was not saying that the Nazis had used both new technologies, the airplane and the radio, to come to power. The history of radio, and in particular how it was regulated in interwar Germany, is more relevant than ever: Five years ago, the question was whether we would regulate social media.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg[a] (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish schoolgirl who, at age 15, began protesting about the need for immediate action to combat climate change outside the Swedish parliament and has since become an outspoken climate activist. Her personal activism began in August 2018, when her recurring and solitary Skolstrejk för klimatet (“School strike for the climate”) protesting outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm began attracting media coverage,[5] even though Sweden has already enacted “the most ambitious climate law in the world” – to be carbon neutral by 2045. [23][24][25] The teen activists at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who organized the March For Our Lives, was also a source of inspiration for Thunberg to begin her school climate strike.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (2011)

Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (2011)

This article was initially posted on Wikipedia in 2008, which explains why it’s written at the 3rd person and looks familiar to articles on binary trees. After many arguments with them, I was told that Wikipedia cannot hold original work, only copies of what can be found somewhere else, and I gave up the fight, realizing that for once I found dumber than me! At least they accepted to let me retrieve the original work so that I can publish it somewhere else (I didn’t even have a copy of it).

Source: wtarreau.blogspot.com