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Ray Toal

@rtoal

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 Los Angeles, CA USA
cs.lmu.edu/~ray
Joined March 2010
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First Languages AI Reality | Mila

First Languages AI Reality | Mila

The FLAIR initiative aims to develop a method for the rapid creation of customized ASR models for Indigenous languages.

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Good year for pomegranates
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Not bad for July 18! @MammothMountain in California is having an amazing winter season. Still skiing here in the Northern Hemisphere :)
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#Java hello world programs are indeed getting much shorter with unnamed classes and instance main methods in preview, but even Java 17 can't compete with the verbosity of PEARL (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEARL_…)
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Wow justine.lol/lambda/
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Hello #PLT Twitter! I read the following snippet from a @rasuschma's **awesome** "Tackling TypeScript." But I'm not sure "many" is correct here. Outside of Java and C#, for which other languages with static types is this true? Would love to know! TIA
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yeah i agree with this! i've seen people say that programming languages don't matter anymore due to generative models, but i'd say programming languages matter *more* since generative models allow you to choose them purely on their formal properties rather than social factors
Simon Willison (@simonw) profile pictureSimon Willison
@simonw13 Apr 2023
"What happens when time to learn a new technology is no longer a constraint for building something new?" I've been thinking about that a lot. I'm no longer nearly as resistant to building something in languages I have little existing knowledge of, which is absolutely fascinating
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"EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset ... Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one" gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs…
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#ChatGPT does #JavaScript very well
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Hot computer science take: The "=" that is often used in Big-O notation is about as silly as JavaScript's "=="
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Teaching #ChatGPT about the language K
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Caution required indeed
Dr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎 (@shuchig) profile pictureDr. Shuchi Grover 🇮🇳🇺🇸🌎@shuchig25 Jan 2023
People expect real world facts & #chatGPT generates fiction- kinda the opp of #GoogleSearch. Not only did the issue in the tweet below bear out for #CSEdResearchInK12 but when asked abt authorship of my paper w/ ~2400 citations, this is what it generated. #FactsInFictionOut 1/
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Kinda cool that #chatGPT made the required “battle” an actual collaboration here
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Abstract is seeking a Lead Data Engineer! Apply here: abstract.us/careers/lead-dat…
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The US has won four FIFA World Cups (1991, 1999, 2015, and 2019) and we never got a National Holiday! @JoeBiden get ready for 2023 and maybe follow the lead of our friends in Argentina :) Executive order perhaps?
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I think most programmers today agree "temp", "dummy", and "flag" should never be used as variable names. I'm thinking we can add "data", "object", "value", "result", and "current" to the list. These names carry no meaning about the role of the variable in the application domain
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chimichurri >>>> churros Popular or unpopular opinion?
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