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by bsmith89 2mo ago
There's a great Signals and Threads (Jane Street's Podcast) episode about this work: https://signalsandthreads.com/building-a-ui-framework/
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by bsmith89 2y ago
Related: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli
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by bsmith89 2y ago
Most interesting sentence: > 304 stainless steel isn’t normally magnetic, but it becomes partially ferromagnetic if it’s bent at room temperature. Anyone have a lay-person explanation for this?
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by bsmith89 3y ago
I've been looking for something like this! I'm wondering how it compares to https://github.com/CriticMarkup/CriticMarkup-toolkit I haven't tried using either yet; does anyone here have any opinions about
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by bsmith89 3y ago
While I strongly empathize with the author's feelings on this (I've had similar feelings in my own field), I also want to voice an opposing viewpoint: > Good/useful/valuable/important/positive-ROI science do
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by bsmith89 3y ago
I don't know this particular story, but — FWIW — it's common for different teams working in the same field to be aware of each other's manuscripts and impending submissions. When two teams are about to submit papers with the
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by bsmith89 3y ago
I too owe a lot of my PhD and postdoc productivity to Snakemake. It's my bioinformatics super-power, allowing me to run a complex analysis, including downloading containers (Singularity/Apptainer) and other dependencies (conda), w
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Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (2006)(github.com)
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by bsmith89 4y ago
I think my gripe with the argument in this video (which is, nonetheless, interesting from an offensive marketing perspective) is that equating making clothes out of petroleum products with "being a friend of the oil and gas industry&qu
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by bsmith89 5y ago
I just tested the PDF reader out for about 5 minutes and I can already say it's substantially better for me on MacOS than any other PDF reader besides Preview. No glitching like Acrobat and the annotations features are more inline with
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by bsmith89 5y ago
(Responding more to the title than the well written article itself:) The question is never what would be good to add to a curriculum; the question is what we should remove. Students _could_ have classes on statistics, critical thinking, phy
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by bsmith89 5y ago
> > > Drew Weissman working at the _privately_ funded University of Pennsylvania picked her up. You wouldn't have even needed to look up if the University of Pennsylvania was privately funded, because just about every importan
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by bsmith89 5y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction. I was mistaken. Don't believe that it affects my argument, but sub in ...(quick search)... University of Oxford.
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by bsmith89 5y ago
The outright falsehood of this statement: > just about every important breakthrough in science in the last 30 years occurred at a privately funded American university. Really makes it difficult to take the rest of this comment seriously.
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by bsmith89 5y ago
Oh, and I enjoyed reading this primer on the Double Descent Phenomenon for anybody, like me, who hadn't heard of it before: https://openai.com/blog/deep-double-descent/
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by bsmith89 5y ago
I'm not sure if it's related, but I've seen discussions of modern ML methods (in particular those trained using stochastic algorithms...maybe also models with low float precision...?) approximating Bayesian methods. The way I
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by bsmith89 5y ago
This is a really phenomenal explanation; took me from a vague sense of Bézier curves beings some sort of interpolation between points to actual intuition about what's going on. I'm not interested in game dev at all, but now I&#x2
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by bsmith89 6y ago
I could be misunderstanding, but I think the problem with this approach is the lack of permanent identity. What's a "supermajority"? Could I get it by making a bunch of fake identities and having them all "trust" me
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by bsmith89 6y ago
Lots of cool questions! I'm very excited for code and training data to be made available (and in a perfect world the pre-trained model and hosted prediction as-a-service). Then folks can answer all of these questions themselves, withou
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by bsmith89 6y ago
1) Yeah, besides picking the step of manufacturing virus parts, I agree, this is going a step back in the virus's life cycle. 2) It's hard to produce proteins in the lab. Our own cells are pro at it, though, including all of the p
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by bsmith89 6y ago
Is the more accurate statement "The Poisson distribution is the limit of the Binomial as n goes to infinity" not a better summary?
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by bsmith89 6y ago
Reminds me of "Squigglish!" https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/16/14945760/squigglish-photo...
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by bsmith89 6y ago
I think what you're seeing is the higher yield (+risk) of the small-cap fund. See this comparison to VISGX only: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...
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by bsmith89 6y ago
I think the premise is that the culture/behaviors/tactics that allowed Google to capture new territory early on are hanging on past their usefulness, not the actual capturing of territory itself. Growing existing products wasn&#x
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by bsmith89 6y ago
Under the exponential growth model, the increased incubation time (before you hit the same total population size) is inversely proportional to the log of the initial dose, so (e.g.) 1/100th of the initial dose gives you only ~7 (lo
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by bsmith89 6y ago
I'm using todo.txt via the CLI [1] with my TODO files in a Dropbox folder syncing it with Simpletask [2] for Android. [1]: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli [2]: https://github.com/mpcjanssen
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by bsmith89 7y ago
I have been very satisfied with CreditKarma's free tax filing. It has _actually_ been free for me, while TT has felt like a bait-and-switch ("felt like" because it is). Yes, I realize that even though I am not paying for the
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by bsmith89 7y ago
No; not without heating up (since the inside of the sphere can't radiate it back to the star at the center). As the sphere heats up it radiates outwards in increasingly energetic spectra. Since entropy (in this case in the form of un
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by bsmith89 7y ago
No. "Ionizing radiation" is not a reference to breaking hydrogen bonds. It _can_ affect covalent bonds (introducing them or breaking them), but hydrogen bonds are not the same thing. This research likely has no direct impact on
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by bsmith89 9y ago
The Mac install guide [1] references needing the following in order to use "PressAndHold". > To enable key repeat when pressing & holding a key in Oni, write the following in your terminal: defaults write com.extropy.

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