The_Amp_Walrus

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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
Monash School of Public Health | Python Developer for Infectious Disease Modelling | Melbourne, Australia | ONSITE (WFH flexibility) You would work with a small team of epidemiologists on modelling COVID-19 and tuberculosis in Australia and
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
Beeper people: I filled out your Airtable form... how do I give you money?
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
What are the object-level facts here? This article is very abstract and is mostly concerned with what various parties are saying. "They are rushing!" "No we are not rushing, we are going a good job" "No! Too fast! W
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
This is an API for a Python module which will provides a framework for building disease models. So, more like requests or flask than a HTTP endpoint. Eg. https://gist.github.com/MattSegal/36bd43959beaec5cc649f96b75...
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Ask HN: How do you go about designing / redesigning a framework API?
1 points by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago|2 comments
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
This is a really cool service for content creators who want to easily switch channels. Descript offers the ability to go the other way with their transcription service https://www.descript.com/ For readers who want to liste
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
As a long-time reader of blogs (eg. slatestarcodex.com, kalzumeus.com, etc) I've sometimes struggled to keep up with all the posts that I'd like to read. I often don't make the time to sit down and plough through some of the
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Show HN: Blog Reader – Listen to blogs that you don't have time to read(blogreader.com.au)
2 points by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago|1 comments
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
I'm working with some researches on about ~40k lines of Python disease modelling code and these are the things that helped us becomes more productive: - tests (unit, smoke, acceptance) (eg. https://mattsegal.dev/alterna
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
It's a misspelling of "hypothetical"
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
The hacker known as "Alex" also gave a really fun talk at PyCon AU in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlNkIFipKZ4
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
No. I think the hands-on approach of fastai would probably help you contextualize the theory you learn in CS231N and elsewhere.
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
It's not clear how this API works from scanning the docs, but nested in there is a key point: > A matplotlib figure object is returned [from each plot function]
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
Anyone know what kind of system they're using to do this? Any papers? I messed around for a few months with speech enhancement last year and didn't really get anywhere beyond sort-of-reproducing a few existing models: https:&#x2F
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
Anyone know what kind of system they're using to do this? Any papers? I messed around a little with speech enhancement last year and didn't really get anywhere: https://github.com/MattSegal/speech-enhancement
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
In terms of reasoning about your code, I expect.
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
This is interesting. I'm working in epidemiological modelling atm and something this would be pretty useful to run in a github action CI-style to find performance regressions over time. I did a quick Google and found this: https:&#x2F
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
Anika Legal (Volunteer) | Melbourne, Australia | Part time (10h/wk) | Mostly remote, some onsite required | https://anikalegal.com Anika Legal is a free online legal service for Victorian renters. We currently specialise in
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by The_Amp_Walrus 6y ago
This is why you need something like a price on carbon emissions to actually fix global warming. Who can keep track of all these factors creating emissions? Price signals propagating through the economy could fix this, whereas a programmers
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
> lots of UI state isn't handsome, core data Very true. My interpretation of the article was that it refers to "core data only". If you re-read the article as "How storing core data in a structure that is coupled to t
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
I think that's a reasonable thing to do under normal circumstances. There are currently 27k confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the USA, and I expect that to double or more in the next 5 days (increase in infected, wider testing), so I don&
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
Interesting! How are you doing this? I'm guessing you're generating an embedding vector from the search query and then doing some sort of similarity comparison with pre-generated embeddings from the codebase.
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
Works nicely, thanks.
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
I think it'd be a hard sell to smaller teams, but _maybe_ to organisations that are a bit older or larger and have accumulated a lot of internal cruft. I definitely think it would have been valuable at some of my previous workplaces: a
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
Nice one, that's pretty clever.
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> those measures must be scientifically rigorous, and based on the expertise of public health professionals. This claim ("must be scientifically rigorous") isn't backed up by any further argument in the article, and I thin
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
Context free means that the language/program can be described using a "context free grammar": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar . Context free grammars are more expressive than regular ex
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
Is this a bad thing? Can someone expand on the implications of this? I would think that it doesn't matter who owns an ISA.
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
Whatever you do, don't go onto those horrible, horrible websites unless you want to be banging out WordPress templates at $50 a pop. There's freelancing and consulting. Freelancing is just you, by yourself, finding gigs, selling y
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by The_Amp_Walrus 7y ago
Interesting, thanks!

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