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by amirkdv 6y ago
Worth noting that this was _fixed_ in Python 3. In Python 2.7 you get this: >>> my_list = [x for x in 'hello'] >>> x 'o'
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by amirkdv 6y ago
The most mind-boggling thing about development IMO is the fact that it works at all, let alone so reliably. It's a really complex system navigating all these different regimes of stability and instability, with variations caused by int
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by amirkdv 6y ago
I can't help but but think a universal basic income, at least in societies that can afford it, would dramatically change the entrenched misalignment that causes this. The signal/noise issue is real but as others have noted not the
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by amirkdv 6y ago
I can't recommend this paper enough to anyone interested in neuroscience. It's a thoughtfully executed set of experiments that IMHO should be part of every computational neuroscientist's training.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
You're misunderstanding the term "bullshit job" (originally from the late David Graeber [0]) which has a specific meaning and has nothing to do with > boring, dirty and doesn't earn money. Or even > If you wake up
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by amirkdv 6y ago
I think what you describe is captured fairly well by the third "tribe": > The way people in this camp describe themselves is fundamentally pragmatic. They write software because software is useful to other people [...] I think
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Great post! A non-technical detail that the post misses is the human story here. Katalin Kariko, the biochemist that pioneered the idea of delivering vaccines in mRNA form, got nothing but rejections for her grant applications for this very
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by amirkdv 6y ago
There are two separate issues here, and the distinction is often missed. It is one thing when commodification brings to the masses what was once accessible only to the rich. It is an entirely separate and independent thing to make the econo
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Genuinely curious: what are some historically significant examples of "false positives"? By which I assume you mean a time when people rose to resist something they didn't really have to.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
The sentiment underlying your comment is an important one. While it's essential to see the goodness in people, it's also essential that we are honest about bad behavior. Regardless of their goodness, or them being misled or misinf
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> The problem is that the individual is not being greedy enough for their own control This might be stretching the definition of greed as it's commonly understood.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Pandoc is a true work of art. Everything about it embodies the Unix philosophy of "Do One Thing and Do It Well". I've been using Pandoc (and make) daily for over 6 years for all sorts of document writing (letter, report, thes
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by amirkdv 6y ago
I could not believe my eyes when I first saw > the late David Graeber He died on Sept 2 2020, aged 59, unexpectedly while vacationing. RIP
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by amirkdv 6y ago
That's indeed mathematically very exciting and reason enough to study IG. But does IG allow us to reason about Neural Nets in new ways that could move the needle on open questions about information representation in ANNs or, even bette
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> we either fail to deliver the work we commit to Given how hard it is to estimate software dev (for oneself let alone for a team), I think the speed with which your team produces quality code is more an emperical observation reflecting
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Thanks for this! Ceating multiple slightly different diagrams manually is indeed a painpoint.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Fair! Do you build workflows around the diffs themselves (collaborate, review, update)? I can already put my svgs in version control and have history/versions. But I've never felt compelled to look at a textual diff of viz code.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
I have gotten really used to drawing all my technical diagrams with Inkscape (system arch, sequence diagrams, product roadmaps, etc). Granted, it's labor intensive and hard to justify the learning curve just for technical diagrams but
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by amirkdv 6y ago
I think you're mixing up the motivations and sentiments of those in power and the general public. US foreign policy is not motivated by an empathetic response to address "bombings, massacres, civil wars". That's only rel
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> There is an apathy around bombing civilians in Islamic countries I suppose you mean the bombed civilians are in Islamic countries rather than the apathy. FWIW, I first thought you meant the latter.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> I almost never use the left hand side bar (and I have a feel almost no one does) The left sidebar has two killer features for me: 1. Finding canonical translations for technical terms. You need to know what the standard way to transl
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by amirkdv 6y ago
From OP: > We need Howard Zinn now more than ever. Not for the sake of romance or to construct another hero in history. We need his insights, his politics, and his commitment to the struggle for a better world. Unless your position is th
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. [...] If we remember those times and places–a
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by amirkdv 6y ago
As others have noted this is a thinly veiled PR piece (nothing wrong with it, but the angle is not immediately apparent). From the post: > With Jenkins, you can try and build a CD platform yourself, but be aware you’ll need a whole team
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Worth noting that you don't have to self-host your GitLab instance to self-host your CI/CD runners. You can configure gitlab.com and use your own tightly controlled infrastructure for running CI/CD.
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by amirkdv 6y ago
I agree and both these two projects are remarkable contributions. My point was admittedly an aspirational one that requires major changes to the current IP ownership model of (often publicly funded) scholarly work. For example: see how publ
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Yes! Pubmed is great and the backbone of a lot of downstream work (e.g. literature mining), but only has the abstracts and is limited to bio/med (the NIH mandate). AFAIK the problem that the OP points out would not have been fixed by P
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by amirkdv 6y ago
I think there is a case to be made for a kind of "public utility" infrastructure for the distribution and storage of scholarly work given how 1. cheap it is, considering the size of the institutions that produce and benefit from t
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by amirkdv 6y ago
Yes, disagree. 1. The importance of a piece of scholarly work need not be immediately apparent to its contemporaries. 2. Being cited is a poor proxy for importance. 3. Work that is cited is rarely paraphrased or duplicated in a meaningful w
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by amirkdv 6y ago
> A neural net can approximate any continuous function. Can't a RF or boosted regression tree theoretically do the same and then some (approximate discontinuous functions)?

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