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by fritzo 3y ago
A healthy diet of steady underfunding leads to humble, stable systems. We should start worrying when a team is temporarily overfunded, building out complexity in excess of their long term maintenance capability.
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by fritzo 3y ago
I think the idea is that, rather than storing two versions of the code in your version control system, you store both versions in trunk and gate with a feature flag.
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by fritzo 3y ago
I've heard the specific old format pronounced 'GIF', whereas the newer general use case for any image format is pronounced 'GIF'
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by fritzo 3y ago
I've started mentally dividing people into (i) app addicts who share their gps location with strava/trailforks and (ii) luddites whom I can invite to hike/bike on www invisible trails. EDIT 'addicts' is indeed a str
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by fritzo 3y ago
They should offer a small Bloom filter for download.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Honest question: why not? Would that set a precedent and invite a deluge of lawsuits from every direction?
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by fritzo 3y ago
Mostly I use pytorch for statistical modeling https://pyro.ai . Under the hood that package uses a lot of Monte Carlo integration and variational methods (i.e. integration by optimization). It does support neural nets, but proba
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by fritzo 3y ago
Nice visualizations! Brings back fond memories of playing with Maplesoft in the 1990s to build up intuition about physical systems. In a nonlinear optimization class I was taking, I wanted to find the optimal truss configuration of a stack
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by fritzo 3y ago
> You can use Pytorch for more than just Neural Networks Facts. Pytorch is such a fun too for applied calculus. Just write down a program, compute its derivative, and do any of the fun things you can do with derivatives, like optimizatio
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by fritzo 3y ago
IIUC, whereas previously companies could deduct salaries in year Y from revenue in that same year Y, now section 174 allows deduction of only 1/5 of those salaries in each of the 5 years [Y,Y+1,Y+2,Y+3,Y+4].
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by fritzo 3y ago
More charitably: Many people who 10-15 years ago would have excelled in a non-tech field have since then been drawn into tech due to shrinkage in those other fields and to the attractively high compensation in tech.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Seems similar to Feynman's classic problem solving technique: 1. Write down the problem 2. Think very hard 3. Write down the solution https://wiki.c2.com/?FeynmanAlgorithm
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by fritzo 3y ago
Sure a segment of the population aims for department head, but another segment is happy just being left alone to do their thing and pay via teaching. It was this less ambitious more self-motivated group who attracted me.
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by fritzo 3y ago
While Pachter enumerates differences in culture and breakdowns in collaboration, I feel the root cause is individual social attitude. The two cultures differ because their self-selected members differ in personality. What drew me to study m
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by fritzo 3y ago
they were kind of sponge-like with internal cavities, so it was clear they were not cocoons
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by fritzo 3y ago
Wow, thanks!
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by fritzo 3y ago
When my partner and I returned home after a 1 month trip, we discovered caches of 1cm food pellets (dog food?) in various places in our house: in one boot, in the pocket of one backpack, under our bedroom pillow, nestled between two couch c
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by fritzo 3y ago
In which one can additionally fit: a coffee shop, restaurants, light repair shops, tool libraries, and a bathroom for every person
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by fritzo 3y ago
Page annoyingly has no scrollbar.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Thanks, I was wondering the same. For those downvoting this question, I think askers are trying to weigh the benefits of better data-based decision making versus privacy. Amidst an opioid crisis we're wondering if more patient-level da
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by fritzo 3y ago
Good guess, but sorry :) You can pay at https://github.com/sponsors/fritzo?frequency=one-time
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by fritzo 3y ago
These packages are performance art, and shall not be judged by efficiency metrics.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Confirmatory data point here.
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by fritzo 3y ago
If this isn't passing the Turing test, I don't know what is.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Author neglects selection bias: antiques that stopped working after 1 or 5 or 10 years have been in landfills for a long time. My grandfather (1922-2006) opined: "Some folks say things aren't made like they used to be. But I remem
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by fritzo 3y ago
Those are my favorite functions! Two lines of code with a page of text explaining why it works.
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by fritzo 3y ago
True in theory, but is the chemical composition of a building really more complex than the software installed in a building? I feel like theres some 2nd law of supply chains that guarantees that every supply chain --physical or sofware-- wi
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by fritzo 3y ago
In the past I've participated in weekly pair coding sessions or group coding sessions, say 2-4 hours on a Friday afternoon. That was with an open source project. The meetings included both maintainers and newer contributors. Maybe look
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by fritzo 3y ago
Sounds similar to ATLAS, an automatically tuned BLAS library from the 1990s https://softlib.rice.edu/pub/CRPC-TRs/reports/CRPC-TR98751.p...
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by fritzo 3y ago
> A close friend told Hay she’d never make it in the Army or become a sniper. > “Needless to say, that person is no longer part of my life. But now that I look back at it, I really do appreciate the motivation,” Great example of the p

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