billyjmc

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by billyjmc 3y ago
Before I clicked through, I was thinking this was for building a Stewart platform. This is pretty cool, too.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
At minimum, children do come at an opportunity cost. Either you’re geographically constrained to be near family, one of the parents must not work, or you pay very real direct costs for child care.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
I just edited my comment above to add more info about common subexpression elimination. It’s magic that happens behind your back on lazy dataframes. Polars is great!
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Regarding your second point, you can use the walrus operator to retain the results of a computation within a single `.with_columns()` call. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/77609494 Edited to add: also, if you’re using
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Well, if you use structured arrays or record arrays, you can do this (more or less). https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/basics.rec.html
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Check your math – the King James Bible in uncompressed plain text UTF-8 is 4.4 MB. A floppy fits waaaay more than 20 printed pages of text. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
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by billyjmc 3y ago
I recently had a similar need for my “real-time” Python program to do some autograd operations – but not on big tensors – and also ended up leveraging Rust as part of my solution. But I didn’t know about rustimport (or cppimport). That’s re
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by billyjmc 3y ago
To be clear, you mean a freezer meant to contain food. Laboratory freezers can easily go lower without being remotely exotic (in design or construction).
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Not quite the same, but iOS gives me trouble with its word suggestions. Usually, it’s contractions that make me curse. ‘It’ suggests It, It’s, and Its. ‘Its’ suggests Its and Itself. Given that the apostrophe requires accessing a different
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by billyjmc 3y ago
If killing criminals is more expensive than caging them, that’s an implementation detail. It’s not something to make long term planning decisions based on. If improving the economics of executions were a significant concern, it’s really str
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by billyjmc 3y ago
You say that like there’s only one time Apple has flubbed hard with mice…
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Julia has made symbol input manageable and lets you define infix operators for many of the Unicode symbols that make sense for that. [1] And JuliaMono was designed to support the symbols that Julia does. [2] I generally do quite fine with m
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Chemically unreactive doesn’t mean biologically non-interacting.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
It’s not intended to be an exception disproving the rules. It’s a trigger to induce the rational reader to recognize the obviously fallacious hyperbole of accusing the US of having the worst consumer protection law.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Have you ever known anyone to say “I think I’m going to go buy (and eat) a delicious, cold stick of butter now.”? And even if you have, they’re clearly the outlier. The point everyone else is making that you are missing is that even if calo
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by billyjmc 3y ago
It’s going to have to be a non-industry move or a radically different model sustained by an interested minority. Federated systems are the other way this can work.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
It’s an LLM. Just check their website from before the re-branding (os2.ai). I linked the wayback machine version elsewhere in the comments.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Their prior branding was even worse – its used to be OS2 before they went with rabbit. OS/2 is a thing, but they went with OS2… really? My guess is it’s a relatively young technical team. https://web.archive.org/web&#x2
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by billyjmc 3y ago
You’re getting really close to the ideas embodied by Assembly Theory, mostly developed by the Leroy Cronin and Sara Walker research groups.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
From the main Wiki entry on IQ tests: “The raw score of the norming sample is usually (rank order) transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15.” So, you’re not too far off numerically. 80 IQ is only a -1.33
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Is that really python’s fault? It seems like it’s the distro making a design decision.
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by billyjmc 3y ago
I’m not sure what they mean by list comprehensions, either, but for completeness’s sake, I must point out that this is solvable by adding `n` as a keyword argument defaulting to `n`: add_n = [lambda x, n=n: x + n for n in range(10)]
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by billyjmc 3y ago
I’ve absolutely seen it abbreviated. The wikipedia page even shows a photo of a “1000 kc” crystal resonator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_per_second
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by billyjmc 3y ago
You didn’t ask something novel enough and/or the LLM got “lucky”. There’s plenty of occasions where they just get it flat wrong. It’s a very bimodal distribution of competence – sometimes almost scarily superhumanly capable, and someti
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by billyjmc 3y ago
Absolutely do not put SLAP through the Barrett. The sabots give the muzzle brake bad indigestion.