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Softmax forever, or why I like softmax

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181 points jxmorris12 | 5 comments | 16 Feb 25 07:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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roger_ ◴[20 Feb 25 13:02 UTC] No.43114156[source]▶
An aside: please use proper capitalization. With this article I found myself backtracking thinking I’d missed a word, which was very annoying. Not sure what the authors intention was with that decision but please reconsider.
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1. PhilippGille ◴[20 Feb 25 14:13 UTC] No.43114856[source]▶
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/death-of-cap...
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2. bowsamic ◴[20 Feb 25 15:39 UTC] No.43116008[source]▶
Well I will fight this trend to the death. Thankfully I don't like to surround myself with philistines
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3. meowface ◴[20 Feb 25 18:37 UTC] No.43118362[source]▶
The war is already over.

I 100% agree lowercase in longform essays is ridiculous, but I think for everything aside from essays, articles, papers, long emails, and some percentage of multi-paragraph site comments, lowercase is absolutely going to be the default online in 20 years.

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4. marssaxman ◴[20 Feb 25 19:34 UTC] No.43119096{3}[source]▶
So "everything that matters will continue to be written normally, but throwaway chatter will be written casually, where the specific features connoting casualness are a matter of ever-changing fashion"? Thinking back on '90s-era IRC chats, I suppose it was ever thus.
5. bowsamic ◴[20 Feb 25 19:58 UTC] No.43119373{3}[source]▶
> for everything aside from essays, articles, papers, long emails, and some percentage of multi-paragraph site comment

That’s already the only stuff worth reading and always has been. No loss then