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by anoncept 4y ago
One potential solution direction, which you can try out via my own incomplete drawing toy [1] is to treat punctuation characters like SP (“ “), COMMA (“,”), and SEMICOLON (“;”) as markers for the product operations of a family of monoids th
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by anoncept 4y ago
IMO there are always going to be tensions (as well as differing personal preferences) for surface syntax and authoring environment. What I think may emerge though is a better shared understanding of “what’s needed” as well as a great (ideal
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by anoncept 4y ago
This looks like a really nice attempt to improve the comfort and capability of styling drawings of small graphs that I’m excited to explore; thanks for building and sharing it!
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by anoncept 4y ago
Total control is good for small charts and for especially important charts but for complex uses, the number of clicks and drags required to perfectly position connectors really rapidly degrades the editing experience, especially if you’re s
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by anoncept 4y ago
In my experience, typing dot requires a lot of quoting and brace-matching, often in editors without the best affordances for those operations, with so-so error reporting. The result is that it’s very challenging to type syntactically correc
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by anoncept 4y ago
You might find it helpful to distinguish between visualizing the design of the system being implemented by your software, visualizing protocols being implemented by your software, visualizing the design of your software implementation itse
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by anoncept 4y ago
How large are the diagrams you’re trying to create?
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by anoncept 4y ago
Doing all sorts of things will introduce you to all sorts of problems; from there, it’s just a matter of habitually looking around to try to see who/what has already worked on whatever problem is currently in front of you. For example,
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by anoncept 4y ago
After several years of exploring, my current gotos are: * Minion for IP for scheduling + edge crossing minimization. * cvxpy (wrapping ECOS, OSQP, and SCS by default) for convex optimization for making nice geometry. * Z3 and STP for SAT&#x
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by anoncept 5y ago
What a lovely treat — and how fascinating to learn about the hidden role that DO—178B has played in this most ubiquitous of programs!
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by anoncept 5y ago
If it helps, one connection I see is that recommender systems often involve causal questions like: “how will user behavior change if we change the order these results appear in, or if we change which results appear in the first page of resu
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by anoncept 6y ago
Anyone interested in these ideas may also want to take a look at https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world and http://mit.edu/psas — both are great resources for learning more.
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by anoncept 6y ago
Martin’s writing and thinking has been hugely inspirational for me too — thanks for highlighting the automerge work here! Next, regarding your other thoughts, two notes, one on performance and one on “common themes”. Re performance: while i
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by anoncept 6y ago
Lovely post, and an interesting problem area. Three additional perspectives that have been on my mind in this area: 1. Differential dataflow. Like Adapton and Incremental (which Raph cites), I have found DD to be hugely helpful for understa
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by anoncept 6y ago
As a starting point, maybe take a look at the 'tch' crate [1] and the 'rust-bert' crate [2] built on top of it? [1]: https://github.com/LaurentMazare/tch-rs -> https://crates.io/c
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by anoncept 7y ago
Zeynep Ton’s research: https://www.zeynepton.com/book finds that several supermarkets appear to have found ways to overcome low margins to provide good jobs by making several strategic choices differently, thereby suggestin
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by anoncept 8y ago
I am a happy user of differential dataflow (DD), which has been great for simplifying an app that I care about. The app in question already includes a form of the connected components computation Frank is describing improvements to in this
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by anoncept 8y ago
For a deeper look from the systems engineering side, check out http://mit.edu/psas , specifically the book-length treatment in “Engineering a Safer World”. For applications of similar ideas to cloud software and devops-style
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by anoncept 10y ago
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world is also an excellent resource that more people who care about post-mortems should read. (As background, the author, MIT Prof. Nancy Leveson, summarizes decades of