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by JBorrow 2y ago
Astronomical seeing severely limits the efficacy of even multi-million dollar telescopes. The size of the pixels in this image is ~0.2 arcseconds, which is far below typical seeing limits even in excellent conditions.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
I’m not so sure. For me a reliable way to find a “good” dentist is to find one that’s attached to a (big) medical school or university. Of course this is easier to do in cities than in rural areas though. I’d always take a waiting list and,
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by JBorrow 2y ago
Thankfully there are a few amazing Diamond/Platinum open access journals popping up (that are often ‘arXiv overlay’, meaning they simply provide peer review services to arXiv-hosted papers). These journals are free to publish and free
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by JBorrow 2y ago
Calling PostgreSQL a 'legacy C codebase' is funny.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
I don't think the only utility of a depth model is to provide synthetic blurring of backgrounds. There are many things you'd like to use them for, including feeding into object detection pipelines.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
They use a distributed data management tool called RUCIO: https://rucio.cern.ch to distribute data on the grid.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
At some level this is an almost uniquely American problem; see similar statistics here from Great Britain: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua... , Australia: https://en.wikipedi
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by JBorrow 2y ago
Models like AlphaFold are very different beasts. There's definitely a place for tools that suggest verifiable, specific, products. Overarching models like 'The AI Scientist' that try to do 'end-to-end' science, espe
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by JBorrow 2y ago
As someone 'in academia', I worry that tools like this fundamentally discard significant fractions of both the scientific process and why the process is structured that way. The reason that we do research is not simply so that we
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by JBorrow 2y ago
> Over time, as both Spawn and the underlying models improve, it will be able to build more complex software.[^Citation needed] It seems to me that with the transformer model world we now live in, utilities like these are excellent at ge
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by JBorrow 2y ago
I would be interested to hear what fraction of this script and README were generated by large language models. At first glance, the code contains a number of repetitive anti-patterns that 'feel like' they are Copilot-isms (e.g. la
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by JBorrow 2y ago
Buses are only slow and inconsistent because of cars.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
This release coincides with the SciPy 2024 conference and a number of other things. I would suggest reading the article to learn more.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
Sure, but you may want to use different databases as your application may be expected to be deployed in different environments. I like to keep some of my apps db-agnostic, so I test with postgres in a testcontainer and sqlite outside of one
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by JBorrow 2y ago
Yes, I use this kind of setup in a number of places. I am also a fan of running the full test suite using SQLite (if you are using a compatible ORM) to make sure where you are (or not) running into DB-specific behavior.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
What are 'people like me'? It's not like I know nothing about large language models, I just think using them for civil engineering is a bad idea...
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by JBorrow 2y ago
Boy, I can’t wait for the foundation of my house to disappear because the LLM mis-classified a drilling report as non-hazardous. What’s the deal here with liability and accountability? That’s a serious problem when considering using these f
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by JBorrow 2y ago
Well, that is only true (and helpful) if it is a dataset that benefits from being in a tabular format. Consider, for instance, particle-based simulation data (loading that into any database is a waste of time...), or a set of images that yo
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by JBorrow 2y ago
There would potentially be some flexibility, also in start date. We are generally used to the academic hiring cycle where acceptance of candidates happens 6 months before start dates.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
University of Pennsylvania | Full-time | (Senior) Software Developer, Front-end | In-Person | $55-$95k (3 year term) We are an academic department hiring a primarily front-end developer to work on data visualization, analysis, and sharing t
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by JBorrow 2y ago
This is a correctness nightmare.
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by JBorrow 3y ago
Whether you like it or not the government does tell you how much your house is worth through monetary policy.
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by JBorrow 3y ago
This isn't a benefit of go, but rather a drawback of the counter-example of typescript... All tools generally designed to work for creating small utilities ({ba,z,...}sh, python, perl, go, swift, ...) have this feature.
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by JBorrow 3y ago
An ORM is not too much pre optimisation…
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by JBorrow 3y ago
I really loved my scanwatch but there was two major problems: The hardware (at least gen 1) has around a 1 year lifespan due to the quality of the seals. You can only get a warranty replacement once. Mine literally fell apart once when I pu
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by JBorrow 3y ago
Well the 235 is nearly a decade old now, there has been much improvement in heart rate tracking since then. The 235 is as old as the original Apple Watch.
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by JBorrow 3y ago
On a Mac you can do this rebinding entirely natively within the system keyboard settings.
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by JBorrow 3y ago
It seems to be a competitor to Amazon FBA
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by JBorrow 3y ago
Did you read TFA? That is a core part of it.
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by JBorrow 3y ago
All the 10x engineers don't exist for the next couple of hours.

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