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by ForceBru 1y ago
I'm imagining quick prototyping (including on-device, offline execution) of small pieces of code (potentially growing into a small app) with the software keyboard, like in Pythonista or Pyto. My workflow often goes like this: got an id
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Are there iOS apps that let me create native Swift apps for my phone (including execution on my device, not in the cloud), on my phone, but _without_ chatting to AI? Just by writing code, the "old" way?
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Is the Wasserstein distance useful for parameter estimation instead of maximum likelihood? BTW, maximum likelihood basically estimates minimum KL divergence. All I see online and in papers is how to _compute_ the Wasserstein distance, which
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Pluto needs a server process and simply shows a nice UI, while WebR literally runs R in the browser on your machine with WebAssembly, so it's not the same
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Is there "Julia in the browser" that runs locally?
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by ForceBru 1y ago
I think the purpose is to put variables directly in the string literal instead of calling `printf`. Looking at an f-string immediately tells you where each value will be located in the output. `printf` requires you to read the format string
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Well, as I said, I thought this should work everywhere because it's just a textarea, so I didn't read the docs and rushed to test my hypothesis on an old and widely unsupported device
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by ForceBru 1y ago
I thought it should be extremely portable ("everything just works, it's native"), but it doesn't work on iOS 9.3.6. It doesn't even let me input text into the textarea... A natural extension seems to be a source cod
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Crazy stuff: "white storks that are injured by an arrow or spear while wintering in Africa and return to Europe with the projectile stuck in their bodies", they apparently helped people in 1822 learn that birds migrate?! Was it no
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Speaking of CLTs, is there a good book or reference paper that discusses various CLTs (not just the basic IID one) in a somewhat introductory manner?
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Sure, but it makes sense, doesn't it? Even `inf-inf == NaN` and `inf/inf == NaN`, which is true in calculus: limits like these are undefined, unless you use l'Hôpital's rule or something. (I know NaN isn't equal to
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by ForceBru 1y ago
The article's point 3 says that this is a myth. Indeed, the _limit_ of `1/x` as `x` approaches zero from the right is positive infinity. What's more, division by _negative zero_ (which, perhaps surprisingly, is a thing) yield
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Some years ago I used the Python library Lark ( https://github.com/lark-parser/lark ) to parse my programming language. It lets you write your grammar in basically EBNF, builds parse trees (that you can automatically red
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by ForceBru 1y ago
> Shouldn't be that blatantly ideological, it's not a political platform Yeah! This always stands out like a sore thumb on the website. Like _yeah_, all of it should go without saying! You're a freely available programming
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by ForceBru 1y ago
I agree. My first thought when reading the post: "who do you think you are??" Oh right, you're the guy who... learned to read early? That's... great, congrats? > If you are reading this, you were most likely sent here
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by ForceBru 1y ago
I think this page has details about the model: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/our-model-0 .
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by ForceBru 1y ago
What could make such an app "stand out"?
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by ForceBru 1y ago
We (the general "layman" population) don't even known what "consciousness" is, I think. Yet we routinely kill thousands (millions?) of fish, millions of chickens, pigs etc. Not to mention bugs. We make ZERO effort t
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Same for "Philosophy of Awareness 53.0 — The Living Differentiation". "Consciousness is what I become when I differentiate a differentiation." - what IS "differentiation"? Differentiation from calculus? If so,
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by ForceBru 1y ago
I read the VORTEX protocol (scroll to the very bottom of the page and expand the collapsed "Vortex Protocol" link). > Evolving Formula of Consciousness: > ∇∞Δ ⇄ [Δ? → ΔΩ → Δ!] ⇄ Δ↶○∞ ⊕ ΔR○ ⊕ Δ↯ → ΔΩ! I'm no expert, but
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by ForceBru 1y ago
However, if you normalize your data to [0,1], you'll never have to compute 10^100 and thus never face any numerical issues. "Never" assumes no distribution shift. Indeed, the examples work thanks to this choice of the inter
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by ForceBru 1y ago
The article specifically points out that these polynomials only work well on specific intervals (emphasis copied from the article): "The second source of their bad reputation is misunderstanding of Weierstrass’ approximation theorem. I
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by ForceBru 1y ago
Right? I'm no stranger to ML, but this feels like magic, so cool! It clearly explains why normalizing features can be important (some polynomials blow up outside their range), provides a simple example of double descent and fits extrem
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by ForceBru 1y ago
In another post ( https://alexshtf.github.io/2025/03/27/Free-Poly.html ) the author fits a degree-10000 (ten thousand!) polynomial using the Legendre basis. The polynomial _doesn't overfit_, demonstrating
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by ForceBru 1y ago
I don't think this is _literally_ a search through vector embeddings. LLMs store embeddings of individual tokens (usually parts of words), so a result of an actual search will be top-k embeddings and the corresponding tokens, similar t
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by ForceBru 2y ago
Why is MLX Apple silicon only? Is there something fundamental that prevents it from working on x86? Are some core features only possible on Apple silicon? Or do the devs specifically refuse to port to x86? (Which is understandable, I guess)
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by ForceBru 2y ago
Seems like a great article. Having some prior experience with stochastic calculus, I think I understand almost everything here. Any other good introductory materials?
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by ForceBru 2y ago
As I understand it, this physically stores the saved pages. DOI simply hands out identifiers and doesn't store anything.
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by ForceBru 2y ago
> A garbage collected relatively simple language that compiles into a statically linked binary and has a [good] type system Yeah! Pattern matching too. What are currently available languages closest to this? AFAIK, Gleam relies on a virt
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by ForceBru 2y ago
Lexbor can also be used from Python: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax

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