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by amirkdv 5y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. If serious ... This seems like a reckless way of regulating your motivation at work IMO. I don't mean to be snarky. But it really does put a lot of risk and cost on your colleagues, doubly s
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by amirkdv 5y ago
The proof is in the pudding. Where is Assange right now?
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> you can show [...] every linear differential operator [that commutes with translations and rotations] is a polynomial in the Laplacian. I may be tripping over something here but this doesn't sound right. If you mean polynomial i
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by amirkdv 5y ago
This is a really good description of a natural tension any engineering team has to deal with. I specially liked the framing of pair programming as a powerful hybrid. A challenge the OP doesn't touch on is the need for individual focus
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by amirkdv 5y ago
We've been looking at making CloudWatch (CW) alarms an automated part of our infra. Here are some findings that may help: - The semantics of CW seem convoluted. But once you stare at API docs for long enough, the core concepts are easy
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by amirkdv 5y ago
I suppose link compilations like this have some value some times. But if you clicked on it because you're new to EM and keen, here are a few books that are much more helpful IMO: - The Manager's Path, by Camille Fournier - An Eleg
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by amirkdv 5y ago
I get that this is probably mostly sarcastic humour, and I'm not trying to dispute the kernel of truth. No serious person loses sleep over our mass murder of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. But there is a line _somewhere_ on the natural s
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> They're "meant" to make food, either via eggs or meat, not to have a specific lifespan. By this standard, there is no such thing as abusing a domesticated species. They're "meant to" satisfy human need X,
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Because all other scenarios are uninteresting to the deceased?
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by amirkdv 5y ago
I'm adamantly pro dry-run and like OP I've found that you really need to design for it. From my experience, OP's two main ideas are spot on: librarification and pushing dry-run logic deeper into library code. Here are two oth
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by amirkdv 5y ago
The dual origin story of the English language is quite fascinating! There's a Wikipedia page dedicated to a list of just what you described, synonymous words with Romance vs Germanic origins. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by amirkdv 5y ago
The power of breathing over mind/body regulation seems highly underrated, in the West at least. I certainly knew nothing about it until I read this feature article [0][1] and the resources it pointed to. [0] https://www.theg
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Curious: what kind of load are you throwing at RabbitMQ?
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> if you're trying to argue that the testing problem in Python is the same as that of Go or Rust Wasn't trying to make that case, but I can see how my comment could be read that way. I was genuinely trying to understand what th
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> these dynamic languages doing contortions to deal with basic things like concurrency I get the concurrency gains, esp with older versions of dynamic languages without native support for coroutines. But the test coverage argument seems
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> The problem there is that subject well-being is time-variant. > If I ask you 3 seconds apart, though [...] would you not expect consistent results? I completely agree with your original comments about lazy writing by the OP. But the
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by amirkdv 5y ago
You may be assigning more intent than is necessary to explain the (very real) reproducibility problem in psych. Not to belabor this but to note the irony here: there is probably a similar psychological (ehem) phenomenon that happens to a ps
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Sure! Our domain is precision oncology. In brief, this is about matching cancer patients with available targeted therapies by examining the genome of their cancer. This is different from how the majority of cancer patients are treated today
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by amirkdv 5y ago
The grievances shared in this thread re biotech salaries are certainly valid, no doubt. But the field is slowly going through a generational change. There are more and more companies that organize themselves around engineering (software or
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Taking the countries of origin of the mathematicians chosen here as a proxy for the amount of "mathematics done" in each region shows a few patterns. Notably the explosion of math in Europe from the 1500s. I wonder if the printing
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Nitpick worth exploring on your valid point about our times: while stress can definitely be disruptive to deep cognitive work, it's a very different neuro/physiological processes than attention/focus (as you say: "attent
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by amirkdv 6y ago
This is reminiscent of the novel Manna [0] [0]: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 FWIW I think this is probably many, many decades away from being even possible.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
It feels like this particular essay has much shorter sentences and much shorter paragraphs. And it does stick out uncomfortably to me a bit to me as well. On the general point of shorter sentences, I've found it to be an excellent firs
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Streamline Genomics | Multiple positions | Remote | https://streamlinegenomics.com Do you want to build modern software systems at the cutting edge of cancer medicine? We're creating the precision oncologist's computat
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> Why do we need laws around this? We need to hold the people accountable [...] [T]he people that okay'd its use need to take responsibility. Genuinely asking: what do you think profitable companies would do to their ML engineers ov
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> Mistake 1: Thinking people give feedback the way they want to receive it Yes, deciding how to deliver feedback could be a nuanced, delicate challenge. But a non-obvious related problem I've found is whether to deliver it at
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by amirkdv 6y ago
You're describing the deep dissonance I was feeling a decade ago when I first stepped into AI research. I just kind of always assumed that studying AI would necessarily have a strong focus on how biological intelligence works. And boy
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> It feels to me like "science" has become something of a religion unto itself I think this is true but I doubt it's anything new. I think the fundamental similarity between religious belief and "trusting the science&
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Terrence Tao's measure theory text is one of the best undergraduate math textbooks I've ever read. It teaches you not just about the subject, but about how to approach it the way a mathematician does.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
This part is truly strange. This example from the tutorial drove it home for me: match event.get(): case Click(position=(x, y)): handle_click_at(x, y) case KeyPress(key_name="Q") | Quit():

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