chewxy

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by chewxy 4y ago
Sooner or later we'd have to be more and more precise with prompts. We'd be going from "I want a function that takes anything and returns itself" to "I : a -> a" ... and hey that looks like a programming la
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by chewxy 4y ago
Well the nature of byte pair encoding has a side effect of encoding sounds as well. I briefly explored it here: https://youtu.be/fTDQUxha9qU?t=480
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by chewxy 4y ago
TLDR: ran out of runway, stakeholders from clients moving on all at the same time. Longer story: I ran a startup that did natural language data analysis (kinda like what people are trying to do now with ChatGPT). You could ask it a question
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by chewxy 4y ago
I recently gave a talk[0] to data engineers that is an extension of this idea. The conclusion I came to after years of considering this, the Blub paradox and various other sources, is that we should use more languages. In the talk I mention
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by chewxy 4y ago
It's a joke, saying humans are wet cellular approximators. Cellular approximators are a algebraic topological concept
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by chewxy 4y ago
APL uses ¯ for negative numbers. - is a ambivalent function (it can work as a monadic or dyadic function)
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by chewxy 4y ago
Surprisingly I did get pulled into a meeting with the CEO and a sales/custcare guy because of a similar issue. I wrote functions that are available for the users to use (they can customize their own dashboard). Our function convention
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by chewxy 4y ago
Perhaps it's a product of French culture, but because Gorgonia[0] has a number of French contributors, this was actually the way we structured our documentation. But this is the first time I've heard of the name of the framework.
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by chewxy 4y ago
SydneyTransitGraph.com - there are multiple bus routes for 412, 423, 433
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by chewxy 4y ago
So I just discovered that there are multiple bus routes with the same number as the one that I usually would use. That's crazy. (also the marey chart doesn't load for 425 or 412 or 433)
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by chewxy 4y ago
I did a smaller subset of what you mentioned as part in my first attempt at a PhD (since abandoned) around 15 years. What I did was to model relationships between banks with edges denoting interbank loans. Then I computed the eigenvector ce
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by chewxy 4y ago
I don't think it's so much "little" languages (commonly DSL) that matter. It's more the jumps in expressivity. You don't use a full on Turing-complete language when you need to match strings written in a regula
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by chewxy 4y ago
It wasn't immediately obvious that you're selling stickers to stick on keycaps. My brain just read "keylabels" as "keycaps". And you have a picture of a nice set of APL keycaps. I immediately thought I should g
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by chewxy 4y ago
You could do it. Excel worked well with querying SharePoint. To most users it would be no different from just editing a file. You could also do it via samba. (Source: I built one of those during my school holidays but I didn't get paid
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by chewxy 4y ago
Look up the b/s format for specifying rules. It is a lot more flexible. Here's my version : https://github.com/chewxy/ll/blob/main/main.go#L176 I also live coded this in a series of 3 videos: 1
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by chewxy 4y ago
Yes. I built several of these before. The trick is to have a lattice of types at the ready.
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by chewxy 4y ago
Backus' paper had a specification. TIL. Must be a weird award speech to give. Thanks for the explanation. It's now very clear
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by chewxy 4y ago
Nice. I can roughly understand it though I don't quite understand why inner product has a transpose in it (assuming you use are using the symbols per APL). Check my understanding: IP = distribute `+` across an application of `*` across
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by chewxy 4y ago
"biosphere" is one heck of a bias. We only started sending out low entropy information out into outer space in the past 120 years or so
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by chewxy 4y ago
It's a bit more involved than that. There are factors like nonURL posts etc. It's been some time since ycombinator.com/arc held the source code of HN (it no longer holds the source code) so I can not verify the actual formula
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by chewxy 4y ago
Because time is involved. The scoring formula is something like `(votes/age)^g` where `g` is a "gravitational constant". So if there is a post with 200 votes overall but is 20 hours old will be ranked lower than a post with 3
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by chewxy 4y ago
HN is largely a collaborative filtering platform with moderators. In collaborative filtering, the users ARE the algorithm. So, what's going on with you?
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by chewxy 4y ago
isn't Steel Bank a play on Carnegie-Mellon (a steel magnate and a banker respectively)?
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by chewxy 4y ago
Haha, I thought I was the only one guilt tripped at the end questions about financially supporting emacs,
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by chewxy 4y ago
Not only iOS. MacOS too
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by chewxy 4y ago
H and L languages. The divergence between H and L languages (often called disglossia) is a continual process ever since the invention of writing.
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by chewxy 4y ago
Have you considered that you may be a bot who is not yet self conscious
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by chewxy 4y ago
Pixelqi went out of business :(
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by chewxy 4y ago
Multithreading and coroutines are different concepts though in practice they may end up being the same thing. Coroutines were invented surprisingly enough, for lexing and parsing[0]. [0] http://melconway.com/Home/pdf&#x
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by chewxy 5y ago
Oh wow this brings back memories. More than a decade ago I lived in shared housing where each room has its own telephone port. The idea was every person was supposed to get their own internet. But after a few months of troubleshooting my ho

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