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by eigenspace 5d ago
Here's how I like to think about it: Forwards mode AD (and finite differences) tell you how much wibble of the inputs corresponds to a given wobble in the outputs. Reverse mode AD tells you how much wobble of the outputs corresponds to
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by eigenspace 6d ago
What you said about spam is exactly what I'm trying to point out. There are forms of moderation that we often dont even think of as moderation or 'censorship' because its removing content that "nobody" wants to see.
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by eigenspace 7d ago
Deciding what is spam and blocking it is moderation or "censorship". If 4chan didnt have spam filters, the users would be begging for it almost immediately because the website would become unusable.
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by eigenspace 7d ago
If you count platform moderation as 'censorship' then there's practically no uncensored public spaces on the internet. Literally even 4chan has moderation. Nobody, not even 4chan users, want an actually unmoderated space.
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by eigenspace 12d ago
It's not a live service: https://wccftech.com/blizzard-starcraft-shooter-rejects-live...
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by eigenspace 12d ago
What is your point?
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Mostly due to the poor design of the city, yes. Do we really need to turn this into a discussion of lost causes? Yes, you monumentally fucked up urban design in many parts of your country. Yes, fixing it is theoretically possible. No, it ca
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Yeah I can't speak much to circuit racing (nor drag racing for that matter). I just know that the EV's I've driven have been fun to drive. I don't believe that most people talking about "fun to drive" are takin
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by eigenspace 12d ago
What does that have to do with being soaked in sweat? I could understand if they suggested everyone get around by bike, but this is just silly. Electric busses and trains can have quite powerful and good air conditioning systems. The proble
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Is this implication here that you think this car is an electrified golf cart? What makes you think that it wouldn't be fast or fun to drive? Most electric cars are extremely fun to drive due to their extremely high acceleration. The de
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by eigenspace 12d ago
> From memory, the language server appeared to be a second-class citizen, debugging was kind of idiosyncratic, static analysis was poor. I see. Well, for what it's worth, I think the language server and static analysis have made tre
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by eigenspace 12d ago
What makes you say that ergonomics have taken a lower priority? A lot of the things mentioned in this blogpost are ergonomic things that don't matter for agentic workflows. Maybe it'd help me understand if you said what sort of er
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by eigenspace 12d ago
The only thing that really favours github is the package registrator bot, but that's pretty easy to port to another platform if desired (one can also just make manual registration PRs)
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by eigenspace 12d ago
That's way too broad of a statement. Static typing makes it easier to do RL targeting the sorts of things that static types encode, but it doesn't help at all with things that aren't really type constrained, like for instance
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by eigenspace 16d ago
Due to how the release cycle turned out, most new major features got pushed to v1.14, and this one is a rather iterative release focused on making various things faster, quashing bugs, and general polish. Still though, faster GC, lower star
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Julia 1.13 highlights(julialang.org)
270 points by eigenspace 16d ago|47 comments
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by eigenspace 22d ago
Julia does have an interpreter, but due to the multiple disptach semantics and the type system, it's a rather slow interpreter. There's some exciting work that was presented in Juliacon 2026 though on an upcoming tiered JIT and th
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by eigenspace 22d ago
Here's a somewhat recent discussion sparked by someone who was concerned having read the blogpost: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-stability-vs-rust-fo... It got a little long and meandered a bit, but I th
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by eigenspace 22d ago
It's a really nice feature. That said, I do think in the earlier days, the community did get a bit too enthusiastic about it, and used it in a lot of places in the ecosystem that didn't make so much sense. I think things have come
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by eigenspace 22d ago
I did not say "How do I get *to* ..". > Of course you do - you very likely didn't start programming in assembler. I did not, and I do not think that conventions from assembler should influence basic ergnonomic design dec
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by eigenspace 22d ago
Not trying to gaslight you. Especially if you were hitting that issue with the stdlibs, as I said, I don't think we should have allowed a release to go out with that problem. It was treated as bug though and fixed (though it also took
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by eigenspace 22d ago
> More like breaking changes That certainly has not been my experience with the language since 1.0 > weird issues with basic transitive dependencies breaking after a minor version bump to the language. Not sure what exactly this is re
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by eigenspace 22d ago
> You asked for a good argument - I provided one. I don't see a good argument though, I just see adaption to a quirky convention. > Either way of thinking works - I spent decades going back and forth from Fortran to C, and people
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by eigenspace 22d ago
Okay, but why are you trying to think about *elements* of a list in terms of offsets from the origin? I mean, that's an important low-level detail to know when you're working with assembly or doing pointer math, but it is not so
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by eigenspace 22d ago
This depends a lot on what you're trying to do with it. There have been companies which did what you described, but there's also companies happily using it. If you reach into unstable language internals, yes there is a lot of chur
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by eigenspace 22d ago
This argument over indexing conventions is so tired. I have yet to hear a good argument for why the answer to "How do I get the third element of this array?" should be `arr[2]` > Both R and Julia have their core functions wr
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by eigenspace 22d ago
Programming languages have bugs. These things happen, and this tired article blows them totally out of proportion. Some languages are less permissive, and have a culture of searching harder for corner cases and dealing with them than others
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by eigenspace 22d ago
Julia is such a great language, it's what really made me care about end enjoy programming. I think it's the modern language which has taken the most lessons from lisps, and has come up with some great ideas of its own too. There&#
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by eigenspace 27d ago
So far :')
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by eigenspace 29d ago
The process you're describing is underway. Schleswig-Holstein, Munich, Leon, and the Austrian military all come to mind as recent examples of that sort of migration, and then pivoting savings into support contracts for open source. T

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