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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Just saying that if I were working with this person it wouldn't make me think highly of him, and in my fairly extensive experience I can report that there's a strong correlation between silly commit messages and not great code. I
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Being honest though, the guy's commit messages influence my prior on how reliable and well-designed his code will be.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> consistently working in an occupation with intermediate or high occupational PA was linked to an increased risk of cognitive impairment." I think this conclusion might be totally unwarranted: I suspect they did not control for how
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
That's precisely how Bayesian inference works! But rather than having to repeat all analysis of prior data sets, we summarize that analysis in the form of a posterior, which becomes the prior for the next analysis.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
You said that the prior dominating is a bad thing. The prior is your beliefs about a parameter prior to observing data (as I suspect you know!). Maybe I'm not getting what you're saying.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Why do you think it's a bad thing for your beliefs to remain the same in the absence of new data?
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I'm not sure why you think that. The input data is clearly quite high-dimensional. Unless you work there, it seems rather arrogant to suppose that you could replace someone's hard work with "a few if statements". Unless
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
s/AI/logistic regression/
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
The fact is that there are different sorts of people. Some people know what it's like to do deep, sometimes difficult, independent work on their own. These people have all been ICs in some field. There are also people who have been ICs
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
The reason I've submitted this to HN is that it is an example of credible suspicions that journalists attempting to provide information to the outside world from within Gaza are being targeted by the military. The targeting of the sour
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Al Jazeera to refer killing of cameraman in Gaza to war crimes court(theguardian.com)
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
And what we're looking at now is the non-acid version? You seem to have completely missed that the person was implementing something interesting. Here's something for you to do: think about whether, at work, you're good at gi
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Thanks! How would you do that for a #[cfg(test)] attribute in Rust? (I believe that the true identifier of test code; `mod test {}` is just a convention). I assume Rust attributes "wrap" the AST node rooted at the node that follow
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
This looks exciting. One thing I've always wanted to do is search Rust code but excluding code in tests (marked by a #[cfg(test)] annotation). Can it do that? I certainly hope some excellent AST-based CLI code search tools come to exis
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Awesome, does it work for man pages? They're a huge elephant in the room -- people get really upset if you point out that man pages are an unsearchable abomination, locking away vast amounts of important information about unix systems
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Have you heard of Wikipedia? It’s actually rather good.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
It doesn't require that. But the bird sound does need to be fairly prominent, so yep, somewhere not too noisy would be good.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
It’s essential to use names in programming to modularize code and introduce different levels of abstraction. Smart people can drift towards a point-free style because they enjoy the feeling that they are capable of comprehending their code.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
No, I don't think that is so. For one, you still have to decide what is worthwhile to prove. The subject matter of mathematics is very different from that of programming.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I did this. I just went to the managers' meeting and said "I'm not being a manager any more, I'm going back to IC". I guess I talked to the manager-of-managers first. Is there really a blocker to you just doing that
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Have a look at the examples in the PDF. It's not typos/spelling errors/OCR errors, it's anagrams.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Why not choose an unambiguously parseable output format such as JSON, and then convert JSON to markdown/ html / etc when needed?
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Why are people converting PDF to Markdown? I get the impression that it is a thing currently in the LLM / ML world. But shouldn't we be converting to an unambiguously machine readable format like JSON, and then separately writing
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I read the README but I'm not understanding yet why the return path might be what you want. The stack trace at error creation sounds more useful.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
The code search section misses the two most obvious tools IMO: ripgrep / git grep and GitHub. (They were the obvious tools in 2020 also).
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I use Chrome profiles to separate my work and personal (and other) identities. This is helpful per se, but of course especially helpful because my different identities have different Google accounts. Last time I looked, Firefox lacked this
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Not used GPT much?
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I'm not sure the book is actually about bash specifically, but let's talk about shells anyway. The existence of zsh makes it all a pretty unsatisfactory situation currently. (Btw re. my own level I know the answer to most of the
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Ah right, thanks. I've only used Scala 2. To what extent do Scala 3 enums give you what you want in the way of sum types? E.g. compared to Rust enums?
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Nice that the person from GCHQ is called Crispin.

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