JohnKemeny

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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Discussed 3 years ago: Crimes with Python's pattern matching 406 points on Aug 2, 2022. 120 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314368
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Emacs is an elisp interpreter.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Oh, you mean that a PDF cannot be resized? Because the LaTeX document itself is very simple to "resize", by changing paper type, font size, num columns, etc, and you don't have to compile to PDF, you can compile to EPUB or HT
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
LaTeX cannot be resized?
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Is this the organization on GitHub? https://github.com/voided-org Did they recently rename to Voided Org?
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Related, a blog article by the author of the patch: Run Whisper audio transcriptions with one FFmpeg command https://medium.com/@vpalmisano/run-whisper-audio-transcripti... Posted here, with 0 comments: https:/
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Whisper supports adding a context, and if you're transcribing a phone call, you should probably add "Transcribe this phone call with Gem" , in which case it would probably transcribe more correctly.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
From what I've read, AlphaFold2 is a minor improvement over other solvers, and only in some cases. It makes many more mistakes and misleading results than classic solvers. But don't take my word for it, it's way outside of my
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
I recommend this Better Offline episode: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Exactly. The tech itself isn't driving the mission --- the funding model is. "AI" right now feels less like the internet in ’95 and more like crypto in 2021: massive hype, vague promises, and any social benefit is incidental
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
The article keeps referring to "AI" as if it's a coherent, agreed-upon thing. It's not. "AI" is a marketing term that's been applied to whatever happens to look impressive at the moment---right now, that&
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
See also: Where should I host software for individual papers in 2025 now that GitHub is part of Microsoft AI? @ academia.sx https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/220795/where-sh...
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
You're fired!
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He didn't give him a statue, he gave him a gold bar. A literal gold bar. With a plaque.
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Why? Is it the androids raising children or something else?
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
This completely undermines the purpose of peer-reviewing, though. If it's necessary to do your own peer-reviewing for a publishing house, it could just as well be arxiv.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
What began as a complaint about HN’s interest in Scott Alexander devolved into a prolonged, hostile, and circular argument about whether certain reproductive choices are a form of eugenics, whether that’s compatible with utilitarianism, and
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Don't take my word for it. Do your own research into whose ideologies you'd like to adapt.(*)
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Hey, don't take my word for it. Do you own research into worse ideologies you'd like to adapt. I'm just planting a seed.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Why would you want your stuff in PLOS? That's a huge red flag on a CV. Why not put it on (bio)arxiv and be done with it? It's not peer reviewed in either case.
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Also PLOS ONE and a whole bunch of IEEE journals.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
gptel-mode (I have it at C-c L) is great!
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Technology is making humankind lazy. First physically, then mentally. Learning is hard, it's a struggle. Why learn when you can not learn ?
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
"Look what you made me do!" By the way: that same argument is used by Netanyahu and Putin today!
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Thank you for your insight.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
You sound very sad that your Corolla isn't good. I would get rid of it, if I were you. However, 6 issues with a 20 year old car doesn't sound that bad to me. Edit: By the way, you can easily get a 2023 Corolla for less than 23k
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Suppose you repeat this every day, and every day the bus arrives a random time between "now" and in (let's say) 30 minutes. There is a strategy that allows you to never be worse than 2x if you knew exactly when the bus arrive
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It's a computational problem, I thought (mistakenly) that the HN crowd would understand.
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It's a problem from computer science, not Dr Oz. You want to optimize for when you get home, not for your health or environment.
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by JohnKemeny 1y ago
Here's a different version of the problem. It takes 10 minutes to walk home from the bus central. The bus is late but should be here any minute now. The bus takes one minute. Do you wait or walk?

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