dj-wonk

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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I've also been thinking about types, validation, and structure. I see room for various approaches, including static typing, validation, and more. For example, here's an in-progress library that I plan to build out soon: https:&#x
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
> Every conversation in Zulip has a topic, so it’s easy to keep conversations straight. Threads! Hooray.
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Good catch.
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Thanks for correcting me.
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> A WARN notification is required if more than 500 people (or 33% of the "active workforce") are being laid off. Check your state's Department of Labor (or whatever it is called in your state) to see the notices that have
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I'm guessing the fact that this email shows up on the SEC web site may have to do with this: > Per Chapter 4, Part 4, Sections 1400-1408 of the Labor Code, WARN protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring that e
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
How do you know that if you pay $5 your service will actually be cancelled?
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Stability and controllability in terms of the full stack, from hardware to software, is key for these kinds of systems.
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It is stylistic and idiomatic preference. I'd probably group those kinds of functions into a namespace. Then again, I didn't write the library. :)
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
Lenses (as a construct) can encompass traversal, getting, setting, and transformation. With this in mind, I'd suggest that lenses are closer to a combination of XPath and XSLT. A key difference is that no schema is imposed. That said,
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I think https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic... does a nice job of explaining a lens: > At its simplest, a lens is a value representing maps between a complex type and one of its constit
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I find the use of all-caps to be non-idiomatic. Take `LAST`, for example.
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A comment on the math: the article portrays it as quite verbose to say the least, which I think might indicate to some that it is "scary" or really complicated. I get the hunch that it need not be that way, if approached different
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
On one hand, I see what you are saying. Other systems make it harder to make changes -- I get it. But is "harder" and "slower" better? Or it just gives humans more time to correct errors? Many things can be misconfigured
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> you can bypass the Stan language and write (or generate) the C++ directly with a lot of effort Did you mean "without" a lot of effort? :)
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One of my first questions was "What are the motivations for a language over a library?" After reading more, I see that Stan has both. There are integrations with R, Python, Julia, C++, Stata, the command line, and more. To ask an
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
After I first read your last paragraph, I wondered "how might you want to see semantic versioning get enforced?" ... but I think you are instead referring to the lack of version number ranges in Maven?
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
It would seem that one of the JSR 376's key goals is to provide a saner way to manage dependencies than the Java classpath. See also: http://wiki.osgi.org/w/images/thumb/e/e2/Classpath.jpg/
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See also: JEP 261: Module System http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/261 Java Platform Module System (JSR 376) http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/
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According to the article: "A module’s declaration does not include a version string, nor constraints upon the version strings of the modules upon which it depends. This is intentional: It is not a goal of the module system to solve the
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
Excellent point. Yes, the sum total of human experience filters into model-making. People often construct theories that correspond with their preconceived biases. I would like to think that (a) "opening the lid" on how these model
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
> Meta-analysis is interesting, but it's ultimately a shoddy attempt to patch over the much larger problem of widespread methodological failure. I think I know what you are getting at. Let me try to unpack what I mean, and I would l
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by dj-wonk 11y ago
I don't see this as a problem. Perhaps I define some concepts differently. As I see it, the scientific method is a good way to test a model against reality. It is less suited to be a "generative" process for making models. (T
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Right. How often do you hear people say "_ studies support my claim, _ studies controvert my claim, and _ studies are agnostic on my claim?" That would be more intellectually honest.
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I wish more scientists studied meta-analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis; an area of study specifically tasked with the challenge of synthesizing various study results. Roughly speaking, each study is
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Which kind(s) of decaf do you like? They are made by different processes, and I wonder which ones are 'more natural' or healthier.
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Re: "And the requirement to maintain multiple versions of the same signal over time is a contributor to technical debt in its own right." The authors don't elaborate on their reasoning here. Would someone care to comment on w
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Ok, I see that doing so is a standard usage: > (pronounced stressing “the”) used to indicate that someone or something is the best known or most important of that name or type. "he was the hot young piano prospect in jazz" I wo
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I'm interested in the historical and current use of FORTRAN. However, the article wanders off topic and (in my opinion) loses credibility when it dives into opinion. For example, "Fortran is the language of high-performance techni
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I prefer to call it the "Car With Distracted Driver Factor".

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