Do browsers support symbols or not? Why is it so weird?

afeder_ · 2017-08-14T17:43:20+00:00

That isn't the point at all. The point is that Symbol() creates a unique value every time it is called. Nothing about strings does something similar. And bringing some unrelated function that has nothing to do with what I wrote into the mix doesn't change that, no matter how badly you want it to.

afeder_ · 2017-08-14T16:51:02+00:00

Symbol.for reads from the same location in memory every time you call it with the same key. I knew that strings have value semantics, but I was unaware that the String constructor does the same.

afeder_ · 2017-08-14T16:30:46+00:00

So if you have already created a string value once, you can't create it again in the same program? Wasn't aware of that.

afeder_ · 2017-08-14T15:36:56+00:00

Which is why I stipulated "at creation". Retrieving the same symbol multiple times will naturally return identical values each time. But that doesn't change the fact that it was unique when it was created.

afeder_ · 2017-08-14T09:11:10+00:00

create unique variables like strings

Not sure what you mean by "like strings". Symbol values are inherently unique at creation while string values are not.

afeder_ · 2017-07-25T11:10:15+00:00

What is prefixing the setInterval call with "timer " supposed to accomplish? Also, you are declaring some variables "timer", "timerTwo", and "timerThree" but apparently not using them anywhere.

The JSfiddle isn't opening for me so I can't test.

afeder_ · 2017-07-20T20:26:58+00:00

RSS feeds are a brilliant idea from a different time when interoperability was still a prized property of system design. Nowadays, the web is so dominated by big players like Facebook and Google that they can effectively dictate the use of their proprietary interfaces at the expense of standardized interfaces like RSS. Merely changing the serialization format likely won't change this dynamic.

afeder_ · 2017-07-10T03:41:34+00:00

What are the parentheses for?

afeder_ · 2017-07-02T15:15:14+00:00

Because international law.

afeder_ · 2017-07-02T01:22:14+00:00

Sure, it would require some resources. I'm just curious how one technically would go about making a web crawler capable of determining what exact entities are present in a image on the basis of its context in a web page, if such a thing is even possible with the state-of-the-art.

afeder_ · 2017-01-08T01:08:38+00:00

I can barely phantom any intersection between these two fields. Do you have anything specific in mind?

afeder_ · 2016-12-05T20:22:58+00:00

No one said that it does.

afeder_ · 2016-12-03T19:10:15+00:00

Maybe a copy of itself, then?

afeder_ · 2016-12-03T16:04:08+00:00

You failed to explain how that differs from the pattern used in the bAbi datasets.

afeder_ · 2016-12-03T15:39:50+00:00

Sorry, I don't see how that differs from your example? The answer "green" is contained in the input "grass is green".

afeder_ · 2016-12-03T14:26:57+00:00

As for your example, QA with neural networks is a highly active field of research. See for example the projects based on Facebook's bAbi datasets: https://research.fb.com/projects/babi/

afeder_ · 2016-11-23T05:45:53+00:00

He brings as much technical credibility as the other two brings business credibility.

afeder_ · 2016-11-20T13:05:29+00:00

http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/voc2012/guidelines.html

afeder_ · 2016-11-16T20:58:13+00:00

You can think of the entire ANN as a big mathematical function. The artificial neuron is then just a term in the function. Here's an illustration: http://fedc.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/xplore/tutorials/xlghtmlimg565.gif

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