spaky
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Comment · 10 years ago
The RNN does in fact directly predict emoji. It outputs a vector of length 1624 (the number of emoji) containing the score associated with each emoji given the input text. This vector of probabilities is what can be though of as the point in semantic space.
The issue of multiple meanings is that if you strongly predict an ambiguous emoji (say the prayer emoji) how do you then extrapolate what concept is contained in the sentence (e.g. was the person saying "thanks" or "high five" or "please").
[I'm also a Dango dev]
Comment · 10 years ago
(I am also a dev for Dango)
This is definitely a concern and something we've though about but not yet fully solved. The neural net is trained on real world data which unfortunately includes various types of questionable, racist, sexist, etc content. We already blacklisted emoji combination that are too often triggered in racist ways. However such a system is very difficult to audit completely.
Your example comparing different skin tone modifiers is a good one that we hadn't thought of. I've made a note of it so we can try and improve.
Comment · 11 years ago
Here's a more detailed article on in with some more images.
http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/flip-ship/
Specifically: "keeping the 700 long-ton mass steady and making it perfect for researching wave height, acoustic signals, water temperature and density, and for the collection of meteorological data."
Comment · 12 years ago
Videos are also available here
Comment · 12 years ago
Agreed. For me the issue here seems to be more around their handling of the issue. The new wording of their policy seems more sane/better to me. But they need to address the issue in an open manner ASAP.
Comment · 12 years ago
At our company we use Slack [1] all the time for chatting and keeping in touch. It's basically just an IRC front end. (Slack is co-founded by Stewart Butterfield of Flickr)
For me the big advantage is that it "just works" (web interface + mobile app) for everyone in the company whereas there is overhead to getting IRC setup. We had tried IRC previously and it didn't take. It also doesn't hurt that Slack looks sexy.
I think that IRC has really stuck around because it somehow really captures asynchronous group discussion, but also simultaneously keeps the barrier to participation really low. It makes total sense to me that the IRC community is still so strong.
Comment · 12 years ago
You can also get tab and scrollback support in the regular mac terminal with mouseterm https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/
Comment · 12 years ago
I meant to suggest that between toronto's multiculturalism and Quebec's bilingualism we had a lot of early users who were multilingual. Sorry if that was unclear.
Comment · 12 years ago
Minuum co-founder here:
Please check out our data collection policy at http://minuum.com/data/ . We actually wrote a fair amount of it ourselves to try and reduce the “legalese” aspect. Hopefully, as you suggest, we can work to increase transparence more in the future.
As someone below mention the key reason we introduced network access was to enable language packs.
We also collect some analytics, but it's limited to data which is inherently anonymous. We really want to build an amazing keyboard that people will want to use every day so it’s critical we be able to answer basic questions like “Is the keyboard installed?” and “Was it used today?”. Otherwise we couldn't validate our design decision.
As stated in our data collection policy, if we ever want to collect anonymized typing statistics or other data related to what you type, that would be strictly opt-in and we would be as transparent as possible about it.
And yes, as others mentioned, we only access contact information if you use the import contacts feature in the settings.
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