JHonaker

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by JHonaker 3y ago
You have to make almost the exact same choices when you rely on fequentist tools. The main difference is they’re pre-made during the development of the tool, so you don’t get insight into what they are without studying the theory behind the
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Yea, these are 100% exactly how you should approach a research problem, in mathematics or otherwise. Literally the first part of almost every research paper is outlining how this thing you're about to talk about is similar and dissimil
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I meant more “what are you actually completing?” And “how much?” I haven’t found the completions to be particularly helpful. For instance, I’m often fighting incorrect array indices and slices, pulling out magic numbers into variables, deco
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Do you mind reflecting a bit on your use of Copilot? I've been trying it out, but I haven't found it to be particularly helpful. I really find it to be more annoying than helpful. The mental burden of figuring out what the code is
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Get ready for the next generation of Muzak
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by JHonaker 3y ago
> Do I understand it correctly that Kalman filters are supposed to give a better estimate of a value from noisy observations than just averaging the observations? Yes, but with a big caveat. Your observations are related by something lik
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Or just “random sample conditioned on the prompt.” How did we get to the point where we started calling random samples hallucinations.
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by JHonaker 3y ago
This is nand2tetris.
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Hear! Hear! It’s really frustrating to see so many people act as if there is nothing but neural network based approaches that work for anything moderately complex. It’s not a good sign that there is little to no understanding of even recent
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by JHonaker 3y ago
The main problem is the extrapolation of the “small world” we construct with mathematics to the “large world” of an application. Your model can be completely internally consistent and allow you to study things in the context of your assumpt
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I’ve had the opposite trajectory, and I think there’s a lot of danger in a wider adoption of your stance. The deeper I go on STEM things, the more I realize everything is, in your words, “bullshit.” I want to be clear that I would phrase th
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by JHonaker 3y ago
The fact that you acknowledge that it wasn't really a vacation that would help you in that situation, and you don't know how long it was says everything you need to know. I'm not going to tell you how to live your life, but
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by JHonaker 3y ago
It sounds like you’re on the edge of burnout. When’s the last time you took a day off?
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by JHonaker 3y ago
It’s called IceCat, and it already exists.
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by JHonaker 3y ago
The problem I see with this is that it’s not very useful for people to know if something is a +3 or +4.1 position. The qualitative descriptions that underlie that rating is what’s important. How does my pawn structure compare to my opponent
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by JHonaker 3y ago
It really isn't talked about enough. I am contemplating leaving my PhD despite being ABD with the majority of the interesting work done simply because the neglect it inflicts on my family is the cause of the overwhelming majority of co
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I have heard of it. I wasn’t really trying to draw specific parallels between Acme and Smalltalk as similar editing environments. I was just lamenting that two of the most interesting pieces of software I’ve used recently are both older tha
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Your problem with Acme is you don’t grok Plan 9. [1] In Plan 9, everything’s a file. Acme in particular represents open buffers and windows as files on disk too. I don’t mean as copies of the text necessarily, but as sockets basically where
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I know. There's a big difference between peeking into something you're not supposed to, and interacting with a system designed to used interactively like that though.
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by JHonaker 3y ago
Yea, I was really just trying to say, Acme is part of the Plan 9 ecosystem for people that have never heard of either. For me at least, Acme is the quintessential P9 application, but I concede that it's Sam for most P9ers in history. I
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by JHonaker 3y ago
I have been using Emacs as my daily driver for about a decade. It's the closest thing we have to a "popular" Smalltalk environment. The desire to bring everything into Emacs is the same desire I felt after experiencing what c
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by JHonaker 3y ago
After a brief diversion with the Acme editor (a big part of Plan 9) and some modern Smalltalk environments (Squeak, Cuis, and Pharo), I can't help but feel like we are stuck in a very local optimum as far as UI/UX go. The insane a
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by JHonaker 4y ago
What do you want to know?
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by JHonaker 4y ago
I was going to mention the (at least) three different kinds of OO-y systems in R, but you already did. I think the reason that it's so hard for people to grok is that it's so old that a lot of code already exists, and a lot of t
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by JHonaker 4y ago
> God Emperor of Dune I feel this way about Dune Messiah, except I didn't appreciate it until after Children of Dune. Dune is one of my favorite books, if not my favorite. Dune Messiah is a * frustrating* read right after Dune. It&
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by JHonaker 4y ago
I used to think like this until I actually spent some time with the modern things after learning a lot of the historical development paths. A lot of research is stitching together disparate ideas that have developed in their own little comm
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by JHonaker 4y ago
It's definitely why TeX macros are not "\long" (i.e. they cannot span more than one paragraph) by default.
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by JHonaker 4y ago
Yea, I have been learning C recently too. I have found the experience quite a lot more enjoyable than I thought I would. I was originally motivated so that I wouldn't be "scared" to involve myself in working with C FFI calls
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by JHonaker 4y ago
OpenSUSE MicroOS is basically built around the idea of an "immutable" (read disincentivized to change) core while the majority of user space runs in a Podman container. It was originally developed as an absolute minimal distro for
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by JHonaker 4y ago
> Disclaimer: This post was written by A.I. using the prompt: "Write an essay in a sarcastic tone that argues why personal knowledge management is a fad." I thought for sure that this was just a hot take punctuated by another h

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