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by bjourne 2y ago
> [We clashed a lot]. Dave thought my approaches were unnecessarily complex, and I thought his ideas were outdated and inflexible. Most of our arguments happened during code reviews, and [while things got heated at times, I assumed it wa
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by bjourne 2y ago
A raytracer and an emacs mode.
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Einops Rocks(einops.rocks)
1 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 2y ago
One reason is scapegoating. If a politician fucks up they can shift the blame to civil servants. Another reason is conflicts. Politician proposes a law and the head of the affected department says that the law will lead to major loss of tax
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by bjourne 2y ago
> I guess the elected representatives have indirect power over everything in the end, if France is still a democracy. May be lots of layers of indirection, like the need to pass or change a law, but still. Yes, in the end of course. But
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by bjourne 2y ago
Chinese mass production is my uneducated guess. I can get a drone with a 4K camera and 10 minutes flight time for 60 € which is absolutely ridiculous. 15 years ago the price would have been 100 times higher or so.
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by bjourne 2y ago
Zero free time but I do at work what I would have done on my free time.
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by bjourne 2y ago
Why not use gnu cmp instead of sha256sum?
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Deep Learning Systems: Algorithms and Implementation(dlsyscourse.org)
1 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 2y ago
You can accomplish the same thing in C with some macros: https://stackoverflow.com/a/376478/189247 But honestly, it is not worth the bother. You just end up with lots of (my_index_type_is_different_from_yours_t) c
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by bjourne 2y ago
TL;DR Focus on what's important. What's in it for you? How does this project help you, your resume, future salary, or general well-being?
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Elon Musk appears to have tweaked X's algorithm to promote Trump, study claims(independent.co.uk)
20 points by bjourne 2y ago|9 comments
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by bjourne 2y ago
I use IMAP folders: personal/work, personal/invoices, software/python, software/emacs, etc.
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by bjourne 2y ago
I'm equally honestly curious: what objective and rational evaluation criteria, unaffected by gender and race, would one use to conclude that Trump is a better candidate than Harris?
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by bjourne 2y ago
It's depressing that you discard research in favor of "observing reality". Like, what do you think researchers do?
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by bjourne 2y ago
How you figure immigration is the cause of all that? You might as well add hemorrhoids and back pains to your list.
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by bjourne 2y ago
You did: "The latter is probably true, but why would they say that" The implication of your comment is that politicians shouldn't tell the truth because that offends voters.
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by bjourne 2y ago
You are asking why they would say true things.
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by bjourne 2y ago
People aren't spherical objects. People may rightfully fear being mistreated by horrible bosses and hence stay in jobs that doesn't maximize salary.
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Comparing Python Command-Line Parsing Libraries – Argparse, Docopt, and Click(realpython.com)
2 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 2y ago
Sorry, but your flame bait is written from a point of ignorance. You don't know how deep the rabbit hole goes. Your Bible courses mean that you have perhaps brushed the surface, but not more. The standard track for priests is 5.5 years
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Four Posts on Instagram Destroyed Her Life(nytimes.com)
3 points by bjourne 2y ago|1 comments
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by bjourne 2y ago
I ate cheese yesterday and a celebrity died today: P >> 0.05. There is no result and you can't say anything about whether my cheese eating causes or prevents celebrity deaths. You confuse hypothesis testing with P-values.
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by bjourne 2y ago
P-value doesn't measure interestingness. If p>0.05 there was no result at all.
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by bjourne 2y ago
Great list, props for putting it together. I'm missing an Open Source replacement to Google Colab. Free access to powerful gpus is very useful.
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by bjourne 2y ago
You're in academia. The goal isn't to write fast code it is to create (and publish!) knowledge. If it is easier for you to create knowledge in Python than in C you should use that. In HPC exact performance on a specific device wit
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by bjourne 2y ago
> Newspapers publish opinions for the same reason that they publish comic strips: people want to read them. Readers seek them out. Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want. The customer is predominantly t
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by bjourne 2y ago
There are billions of sampling strategies for language models. The problem is that it is very difficult to empirically show that one sampling strategy is better than standard top-k or top-p sampling. Minimizing perplexity is not enough to d
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by bjourne 2y ago
Shouldn't XDG_CACHE_DIR handle most use cases for /tmp? I can't see any reasons why we need to keep /tmp around since we have so many better options for ipc and for storing ephemeral data.
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Environment variables considered evil (2017)(kirshatrov.com)
2 points by bjourne 2y ago|0 comments

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