cshimmin

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by cshimmin 3y ago
Am I wrong to think about eating food today when I will eventually be dead, at which point I won't require food ever again?
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Yes, of course, and it makes clear to the user that that's what it's doing. Compare w/ what is posted above from Claude, which gets confused about whether November 2023 is in the year 2023 or not...
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by cshimmin 3y ago
blender has tightly integrated support for python scripting.
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Somewhat related, excellent youtube video: Hexagon is the Bestagon [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Google can't make money serving ads if you go to the ad-free python.org. Obviously I'm not saying they're singling out python or documentation in general as some kind of cash cow. More realistically the story is that, sites t
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by cshimmin 3y ago
What's the title of the book?
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Cmd+shift+g brings up a dialog where you can type arbitrary paths to jump to. Cmd+(up arrow) goes up a directory. Took me way to long to figure these out, seems small but they definitely are productivity boosters :)
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by cshimmin 3y ago
* academic/scientific research
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by cshimmin 3y ago
They are literally worth a thousand times more than that... Cue Dr. Evil demanding "one MILLION dollars!!!"
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by cshimmin 3y ago
I thought this was going to be a silly sorting algorithm, like bogosort. So, here's my version of chronosort: Given a set of natural numbers, place them all on a timer, with a timeout equal to the number, and callback argument also equ
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by cshimmin 3y ago
"information" is not a good term for the opposite. Entropy is a well defined concept in information theory (and can be connected to the physical concept). More entropy means more information, not less.
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Holy smokes... "on 22-Nov-2022, when he came to know that the Investigators are on the walkthrough inspection ofBlock~t> QC laborat01y and are coming in the direction ofbalance room, he immediately rushed and tore apart balancepri
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by cshimmin 3y ago
The problem with this is that pressure is a scalar quantity. "Pressure along the z axis" does not make sense.
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by cshimmin 3y ago
(2020)
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Hah, TIL! So much for semver... Calendarver?
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Honest question, as I don't follow rust, does the cargo package manager handle non-rust dependencies? I've played around with it enough that I can say it's for sure a joy to use, but what if your rust program has to link aga
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by cshimmin 3y ago
As sibling elaborated, mamba just accelerates the NP-hard step of resolving conflicts using mathy SAT-solver methods. Also it has a much prettier cli/tui. I would be surprised if conda doesn't eventually merge the project, but you
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by cshimmin 3y ago
So, the solution is that everyone should write code as self-contained C++ code and not use any software libraries ever. Dependency hell has been solved for all time!
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by cshimmin 3y ago
For most modern ML projects in python you can just do something like `conda env create -f environment.yaml` then straight to `./main.py`. This handles very complex dependencies in a single command. The example you gave works because ll
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by cshimmin 3y ago
I think your Note at the end betrays your misunderstanding of the situation. There are people who make it essentially their full time job to fill out junk patents and see what they can get approved. They are paying USPTO fees to make this h
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by cshimmin 3y ago
I agree with much of what you wrote, except that if you don't think business have ALWAYS been running on the principle of "make money and disregard external costs to society/environment/human well-being", that'
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by cshimmin 3y ago
And it's harder to block ads/sponsored content. And they can send annoying push notifications that lots of people don't know how to disable. Dark patterns all the way down.
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Wow haven't seen a "peak hn" comment like this in the wild for quite a while :) Make a sure you write everything in brainfuck too! As for myself, I'll just stop using Reddit (largely have over the last year), and do some
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Tragedy of the socials
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Amazing, thank you for taking the time to share this! Big fan of notebooks in general and of Mathematica in particular.
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Yes, he is a narcissist. Smart guy, cool products, but it's just like how Trump cannot talk about anything without shoehorning in a statement like "I got more votes than any sitting president ever" when being asked about some
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Yes! In the US particle physics community, they came up with a solution to this. Every ten years, the field as a whole gets together and sets an agenda for the field that self-prioritizes funding, before making a case to the national fundin
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Except that puffery specifically covers claims that are not objectively verifiable. For example "the world's best computer ever!". The claims in the apple presser are clearly verifiable. The language is just... Embellished.
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Yikes, that guy just sitting underneath the moving gantry loaded with tons of sleepers... And then the other fellow crawling in between the wheels of the whole machine _while it is moving_... Do they not have something like OSHA wherever th
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by cshimmin 3y ago
This is essentially how the very first neural network, the Perceptron, was implemented in the late 50's. It even has potentiometer dials to set the weights, and they were driven by motors during training! As for feasibility of doing an

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