Tarrosion

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by Tarrosion 5y ago
OP, thank you for this post. I use Julia daily, and it's likewise my favorite language. So I went into this post prepared to be...defensive. But several times in the post I found myself thinking "no! Wait, well, maybe, hmm, urgh,
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by Tarrosion 5y ago
> Reactors themselves are the most expensive single part in the nuclear powerplant Do you have a recommended source for this? My impression was the vast majority of cost was outside the "nuclear island" of the plant.
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
UBI seems very different? You lose unemployment benefits if you start working; you wouldn't lose UBI benefits.
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
FWIW I've found learning Julia (and using it daily) mostly overwhelmingly pleasant, and I perceive MLJ as an unfortunate outlier. Sounds like you had a different experience.
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
I want to love MLJ and I _do_ love Julia, but holy wow is it hard to learn. I think three times now I've had a small dataset I wanted to do something simple like linear regression on, thought it'd be a good opportunity to learn ML
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
What's the difference between StaticCompiler.jl and PackageCompiler.jl? Doesn't the latter also let you build "apps"?
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
Ah I've often wondered about this when riding! I wear grippy shoes on spiky pedals, but not clipped in (or using a poorly-named clipless system). Alternating left-right pushes feels very different than trying to maintain a continuous c
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The perfect global grid system is impossible; HexGeoGrids.jl(evanfields.github.io)
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
In the category of dev fonts, I'll throw out JuliaMono: https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-07-26-JuliaMono/ (I am not the author) Besides various stylistic choices (most-but-not-all positive, in my opini
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
I found that tool from Ben Kuhn's blog, and at first it seemed great. But I've seen some weird behavior from it. Examples include drastically different behavior on a refresh (and not just for the 'blue' website, also for
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
It's rather unclear how to respond to this. Suppose I find (which I do) that: * Julia is a joy to use and fits my use case and/or personal development style really well; * Other tools have not been such a natural match to my needs
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
For a DataFrame with 1 column containing integers 0 to 99,999, in Python I'm seeing ~16ms to add up the column by iterating with itertuples (index false, name none - which I didn't know helped performance, so thanks!). Julia it&#x
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
I quite liked this article, but both the article and the comments here mostly skip over my absolute favorite Julia feature: because Julia is fast end-to-end, you can code in the style that naturally matches your use case and mental models w
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
This looks really cool. One question I have is about how much the synthetic data can protect privacy. For example, my company has geospatial event data from our customers. We're very protective of customer identities, and wouldn't
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
> What about the plant agriculture industry? Animals eat plants. So in much the same way that a subsidy on meat is a subsidy on hamburgers - which require meat to produce - a subsidy on plants is also a subsidy on meat. We should also ke
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
I wish this website spent its banner space on "what it is" rather than "star us on GitHub!". I doubly wish this because it's pretty confusing what JuliaDB is! From the name, I expect it to be a database, but the web
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
Zoba | full stack engineer and more | Boston / Cambridge / Somerville, MA, USA | ONSITE | FULLTIME | competitive salary + benefits + equity Zoba provides demand estimation and optimization APIs for mobility. Right now, our custome
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
I just spent an hour or so playing around with the paid version of AI Dungeon, and was super unimpressed. It's pretty fun for a moment, sure, and I assume some really heroic work went into building it. I'm not saying the creators
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
The back-and-forth in that thread is a great discussion. One thing I hadn't realized is that many other popular languages are already doing something similar. See this post for a bit more detail: https://discourse.julialang.
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
A small point only tangential to the main point of this post, but something I've noticed about Sam's writing before: Is anyone else offput by the phrase "best people"? I get (or at least hope) it's a shorthand for &
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
I haven't seen much news about PPE shortages in the last few weeks. Is that because the situation has improved or just because it's unchanged and thus no longer exciting news?
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by Tarrosion 6y ago
I'm a big Slay the Spire fan, super cool to see it inspiring other games.
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
Microscopically, I'm very sympathetic to restaurant owners - especially now that they have few other options; their businesses and livelihoods are roughly speaking held hostage. It's not hard to imagine delivery apps choosing big
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
Any thought of writing a WaPo, NYT, etc. editorial? With an idea this potentially impactful and your credentials, seems like you'd have a good shot of being accepted.
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
I like this idea! Any plans to expand to types of art which are not paintings? e.g. I love colorful geometric glass art, and to the extent I collect art [I have definitely noticed the "I should buy some art" urge growing as my age
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
I think the point of "additional water" is key! Modernist Bread claims that tangzhong doesn't increase softness/volume. But, as I read their experiment, it sounds like they made breads with/without tangzhong but kee
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
I know it's the nature of startups that most of these efforts will fail for technical reasons, fail for financial reasons, arrive to late, get preempted, etc. Maybe this is doubly true for hard problems in biology like drug discovery.
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
That's the sense I meant it, but I think it's an abuse of terminology. i.e. confound is not obviously a noun :)
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
All very fair points. Thanks.
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by Tarrosion 7y ago
I would consider it a strong negative signal if a company used this kind of question for anything more than a very quick initial screen - a sort of "data science FizzBuzz." Firstly, most of these questions are things that a reason

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