JHonaker

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by JHonaker 2y ago
The fact that I can go months without updating a rolling distro and things very rarely break is incredible. Tumbleweed is rock solid. (Personally, I've never experienced a break, but I know one just happened for a lot of people. Grante
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by JHonaker 2y ago
Yea, the more I learn about things, the more I realize that everything is defined relative to something else. Even measurements are defined relative to some standard (that beautifully manicured kilogram ball, the speed of light in a vacuum,
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by JHonaker 2y ago
That was a great article. If I'd read this when I was first learning measure theory, I would have had a much easier time. In fact, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that sigma algebras were just the "nice sets and
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by JHonaker 2y ago
Markov Chain Monte Carlo for program synthesis isn't exactly novel. The most immediate reference I thought of is Josh Tenenbaum's [1]. There's also a lot of demos in WebPPL (web probabilistic programming language)[2] like [3]
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Can LLMs Reason and Plan? (Talk Google_DeepMind LLM Reasoning Seminar)(youtube.com)
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by JHonaker 2y ago
> Currently criticising LLMs on hallucinations by asking factual questions is akin to saying I tried to divide by zero on my calculator and it doesn't work. LLMs were not designed for providing factual information without context, t
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by JHonaker 3y ago
The Turing test has been a poor goalpost almost since its inception. It turns out, it doesn't require much to fool people. People thought ELIZA was going to eliminate the need for therapists and psychiatrists. Hell, ELIZA still beat Ch
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Unless you live in California, it's not likely even an option to opt out.
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I know. I was being a bit mean, but they seem to be implying that more parameters even with worse performance is preferable. That seems backward to me. There is no reason for parameter size to be intrinsically valuable, and I think people
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by JHonaker 3y ago
> That extra model size will vastly overshadow any worse performance of the models. ...What?
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Yes, but a "range of prior distributions" doesn't mean every possible prior distribution. Sometimes, the information in the prior distribution is required to get you to a place where your computational system can efficiently
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by JHonaker 3y ago
From the description of the link in the post: > The historical claim is that in the last decades, we have seen an overreach of the logic of markets, with markets being defended precisely for their capacity to deal with decentralized know
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by JHonaker 3y ago
> In this respect I think philosophy of mind, epistemology, language, semiotics, and to a lesser extent ethics have crucial bearing on the things we see happening nowadays Whenever I hit that brushes up against these, I always find mysel
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Yea, throw the link to it out here. I was about to write something similar, so you’d save me the trouble! ;)
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Squeak is certainly slow, but Cuis is moving at a good clip.
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by JHonaker 3y ago
J is really great. I spent some time last year playing around with it, Dyalog APL, and some other new array languages like BQN. I was extremely impressed by the breadth of integrations into different ecosystems that the J community had crea
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by JHonaker 3y ago
That's what I was trying to say. Anecdotes are the seeds of hypotheses, and enough anecdotes with well-understood conditions make a study population. > Science is expensive and moves slow. I don't know if I agree that science i
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by JHonaker 3y ago
It’s getting better though. The addition of shortdoc, the `marginalia` package (which makes some already present doc text available during minibuffer usage), and the `helpful` package (which again just places already available information i
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by JHonaker 3y ago
> Anecdotes are not science. But if enough people share an experience, sometimes there is more to the story. Solely relying on anecdotes as evidence is not science, but they’re absolutely a critical part of it!
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I'm just getting into woodworking. This has been a consistent source of confusion. It's no simpler with rough lumber. The usable yield of 4/4 (i.e. four quarter, or a one inch thick rough piece) is at least 13/16 of an i
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by JHonaker 3y ago
We actually have an internship program with English graduate students to be tech writers for our data science groups. They're wonderful, and I will sing their praises anywhere I can. Having people whose primary skill is knowing how to
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I knew there'd be at least one pedant! And I almost altered what I wrote to pre-satisfy you! Begone pedant, and feast thine eyes on the surreal numbers [0]! > In mathematics, the surreal number system is a totally ordered proper cla
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Based on the number of posts I’ve seen about arena allocators on here the last month or so, I’d say the audience is much higher than nonzero.
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by JHonaker 3y ago
There's nothing wrong with concurrently developing something similar. I can almost guarantee there will be something different enough about what you've developed to be considered novel (if you care about publication). If you don&#
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by JHonaker 3y ago
> Say I have a simple table of outdoor temperatures and ice cream sales. You have more than that! You have knowledge about the world! > What can the machinery of causal inference do for me in this situation? Well, (I’m being purposefu
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by JHonaker 3y ago
It's only appears tenuous because the subjective choices you have to make when using frequentist methods are made for you by the developer of the method. It's less comfortable to use Bayesian methods because you have to be explici
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I never really realized how much syntax matters until I spent a lot time writing Racket. I’ve learned Haskell, JavaScript (actually learned rather than the passing familiarity I had before), Smalltalk, and APL since then. The hardest part o
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by JHonaker 3y ago
It really depends on what your idea of applied is, but Conal Elliot's work is really interesting. His paper on Compiling to Categories [1] pitches programming language semantics as a cartesian closed category [2] allows for really cool
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I believe you, and I'm coming to this conclusion myself, after being a keyboard warrior for years. Do you have any sources I can read though? I always find it fascinating when our perceptions are so off like this.
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I would hate that. An interface is useful when you can anticipate and remember what things are available and where they are. It doesn't matter if it's a visual UI or keyboard shortcuts. If you start moving stuff around on us, we r

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