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by akprasad 3y ago
For a similar idea from another culture, see the ancient definitions of karma : Now as a man is like this or like that, according as he acts and according as he behaves, so will he be; a man of good acts will become good, a man of
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by akprasad 3y ago
I believe you and the author are describing two different types of students. The author describes students who want to work and succeed but are unable to cope with "real-world problems rather than contrived academic examples," w
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by akprasad 3y ago
> It was how they felt safe — it was how they could maintain the fragile illusion of never-ending perfection and success. Indeed. Learning to take action in the face of uncertainty and failure is a major challenge for this personality ty
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by akprasad 3y ago
It's an excellent book that I love dearly, and I think the HN crowd in particular would take to it like catnip. That said, it's not right for everyone [1]. In particular, the high vocabulary load means that most readers can't
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by akprasad 3y ago
The best example I'm aware of is Nicaraguan Sign Language [1]. > Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, claims that "The Nicaraguan case is absolutely unique in history ... We've been able to see how it is that ch
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by akprasad 3y ago
The Onion clearly takes the former reading in their piece. I mean, it's barely subtext: - "I wanted to live all my internalized misogyny" - "Replenishing the white race is a full time job in itself" - "A femi
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by akprasad 3y ago
I don't follow what relationship these two stories have with each other -- the first is on living in community and putting down roots, and the latter is on far-right cultural atavism.
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by akprasad 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis > Despite various publications of results where hand-washing reduced mortality to below 2%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific an
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by akprasad 3y ago
As an aside, ancient cultural knowledge for finding and preparing food is surprisingly sophisticated and non-obvious [1], even if it does not lend itself to an explicit rational model: > A reasonable person would have asked why everyone
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by akprasad 3y ago
I love Ruff and I'm glad that Charlie and the rest of the team are able to work on such tools full-time. I'm also happy to see that the author of Maturin (Rust+Python interop) is involved, as Maturin is a fantastic project with gr
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by akprasad 4y ago
> here is an article with examples It's not surprising that a spiritual community highly invested in a fixed text can find new interpretations for it, see all of Christiany for illustration or [1] for a specific Christian example. T
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by akprasad 4y ago
> Even if you try to describe precise and scientific facts in Sanskrit, the nature of the language would enable multiple interpretations of it. Sanskrit's high polysemy is restricted to a rather bounded set of words (see the नानार्थ
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by akprasad 4y ago
> Its clear from ancient texts and stories like the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Bhagavata Purana that the Aryans were a nomadic, tribal cow-herding people who didn't tend to live in fixed structures. Do you have examples of s
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by akprasad 4y ago
> Sanskrit semantics is intentionally loosely defined I have studied Sanskrit literature extensively and do not know what this means. > people have interpreted these mnemonics in different ways Your implication is that people interpre
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by akprasad 4y ago
A Markov chain satisfies the Markov property [1] in which the probability of an event is conditioned only on the previous event. Regardless of whether an LLM event is a character or a word, an LLM certainly does not follow a Markov proces
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by akprasad 4y ago
Right -- a job can be both (1) exploitative and (2) better than nothing.
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by akprasad 4y ago
^yes, that's indeed what I had in mind, and you've articulated the position very clearly.
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by akprasad 4y ago
I don't know of any ORM that handles schema changes automatically (edit: for the most strict definition of "automatically" -- I've used ORMs that generate migration files and am generally happy with them). My experience
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by akprasad 4y ago
What are specific problems you have with pip + requirements.txt, and why do you believe storing links to wheels is more reliable? Your comment makes your conclusion clear, but I don't follow your argument.
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by akprasad 4y ago
If writing SQL directly, what process do you use to update your queries during schema changes? Do you rely on a test suite to catch errors then update queries by hand? Are you using compile-time checks through libraries like sqlx [1]? [1]:
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by akprasad 4y ago
For those who don't know the reference: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by akprasad 4y ago
Is that not the case for all essays?
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by akprasad 4y ago
Indeed: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paint - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
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by akprasad 4y ago
I was at Google from late 2013 to early 2016, and even then, I would hear 20% time referred to as 120% time [1]. So 20% time hasn't been a de facto practice for about a decade. [1]: https://qz.com/116196/google-e
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by akprasad 4y ago
Under the Current Releases section, click the docs link then ORM Quick Start . But it's tough to find at a glance.
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by akprasad 4y ago
Congratulations on the release. I've been a happy user of SQLAlchemy for over a decade, and I'm looking forward to giving this version a spin.
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by akprasad 4y ago
I first learned about Henry Marsh through "Aneurysm," a chapter from his memoir that describes a particularly tense aneurysm surgery he performed: https://lithub.com/aneurysm/ . His writing is taut and lyrical
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by akprasad 4y ago
From earlier: "Google to reduce workforce by 12k" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451051 )
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by akprasad 4y ago
For those who wouldn't click otherwise, a quick description: This is a video about `law.resource.org` and why they do the work they do. The most salient part of the video, for me, is the opening, where we hear from various citizens --
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by akprasad 4y ago
The closest I can think of is GiveWell [1], but it is part of the broader effective altruism movement, so perhaps it won't meet your bar. [1]: https://www.givewell.org

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