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by epgui 2y ago
> the category theory view of a monoid as a one-object category is too abstract to be helpful That’s not true at all! It goes to the essence of what it means for a thing to be foldable unto itself, ie.: the things that you can reduce() o
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by epgui 2y ago
I was going to say “not at all”… But not really, no.
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by epgui 2y ago
Category theory is not “purely functional”, it is about morphisms, and morphisms are more abstract than functions. Category theory envelopes relations as well, as well as arguably anything else that can be formalized.
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by epgui 2y ago
Yes?
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by epgui 2y ago
The answer is obviously no, but I’m not the right person to explain (biochemist). For some reason you were downvoted down to oblivion, and I think that was unfair.
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by epgui 2y ago
This is the only right attitude. Thank you for saying it.
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by epgui 2y ago
In theory yes, but good luck with that.
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by epgui 2y ago
> The government has investigated itself, and found itself innocent, and following a divine path. You do know that "the government" is 1) actually made up of independent branches, and; 2) its various organizations largely opera
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by epgui 2y ago
I don't understand what you think the word "generalization" means.
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by epgui 2y ago
Humans are accountable. You can sue a human.
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by epgui 2y ago
That’s a funny quote, but I’m not sure what the relevance is. Did I make a generalization, or did the author of the article make one? There’s probably on the order of 10 million scientists, a sizeable chunk of whom could be said to work in
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by epgui 2y ago
Strongly disagree. Easily 99% of people in biology are doing very tedious boring things. Maybe you just don’t hear about it because it’s “boring”.
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by epgui 2y ago
> he's using China to distract from his own policy failings at home. It’s not at all clear that that is even plausible. Also, the CSIS appears to be making very unequivocal statements in support of the policy approach.
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by epgui 2y ago
Your cancer comment is generally wrong for the same reason your autoimmunity comment was generally wrong.
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by epgui 2y ago
The devil is in the details, but you ask the right questions.
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by epgui 2y ago
I give laypeople a bit of leeway on language precision.
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by epgui 2y ago
I'm not sure that this really answers their question.
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by epgui 2y ago
It’s not completely wrong, it’s just way too specific. Autoimmunity usually has an important (known) genetic basis. I just wouldn’t word it as something so simple as “a genetic alteration”. It’s usually more like “a combination of hundreds
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by epgui 2y ago
This is a very valid comment, for once— especially as we’re talking about a disease model rather than the disease itself. Nonetheless, we gain very important and interesting mechanistic insights from this, which truly helps us better unders
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by epgui 2y ago
Your general skepticism of the impact of diet on autoimmune disease modification is warranted, but only in a very hand-wavy sense. Also… 1. The article does not claim that diet modification cures autoimmunity 2. Autoimmunity is partly but n
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by epgui 2y ago
This is not a data curation issue though, it’s a basic o11y issue.
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by epgui 2y ago
I’m just a biochemist/engineer who is passionate about other sciences, but IMHO his understanding of mathematics is what is counter-productive. It’s a bizarrely anti-intellectual take from someone who is clearly an intellectual.
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by epgui 2y ago
Science (as in the “natural sciences”, ie.: everything that is not philosophy or mathematics) is not about “proving” anything at all. Science is about measuring, quantifying and qualifying uncertainty.
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by epgui 2y ago
It doesn’t conflate anything though. It points to exactly that as a main difference (along with comparative functional neuroanatomy). It’s helpful to realize the ways in which we do work the same way as AI, because it gives us perspective u
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by epgui 2y ago
In a very real sense, that’s also how human brains work.
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by epgui 2y ago
> Disk is cheap, memory is plentiful, your time is expensive etc. Index size is not solely a storage concern. I also don't really care about how much disk space I pay for, but sometimes I care a lot about how long it takes to vacuum
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by epgui 2y ago
I don't know what they're doing, but highly-denormalized tables are very common, and sometimes even the norm, depending on how things are set up, especially in OLAP contexts.
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by epgui 2y ago
It’s not clear to me why having two different sets of tooling for solving two different kinds of problems, is an issue. In most well-resourced companies, you’re probably not going to have to ask your Go engineers to fix data pipelines in Sc
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by epgui 2y ago
FWIW, I do believe there is a serious case to be made for Haskell… But it’s probably beyond the scope of this context / would require changing many other decisions. If integrating with java tools was important then personally I’d ask “
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by epgui 2y ago
I would much rather inherit an FP data pipeline than anything else. You do realize data pipelines (and distributed computing) are an ideal use case for FP?

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