garyrob

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   by garyrob 5y ago

   26% is closer to 3-to-1 odds. :)
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   by garyrob 5y ago

   "I think one of the unsolved problems of client-side interactivity on websites is how difficult it is to add it just a little bit of extra client-side functionality to a traditional server rendered website. " I've started us
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   by garyrob 5y ago

   I will let other readers of this thread judge for themselves.
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   by garyrob 5y ago

   I don't disagree at all with what you say above, and I do not think it's inevitable that fusion reactors will be useful in the foreseeable future. You are right that "You can't use simple-minded heuristics either way&quo
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   by garyrob 5y ago

   Maybe only somewhat relevant, but the title phrase resonated with me. Given my ADHD, desperation-induced focus was the only thing that got me through college with good grades. I wouldn't study until the night before the big exam becaus
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   by garyrob 5y ago

   "They are forever smashing this or that record, on the verge of break-even, on track to producing free energy without nasty radionuclides." Hacker News comment in late 19th century: "They are forever making flying machines ha
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   by garyrob 5y ago

   Not true at all for me, because in my situation there are some functions which have tight loops that take 99% or more of the execution time. Put the numba decorator in front of them and the code is 100+X faster. Clearly it's not that s
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   by garyrob 5y ago

   It just happened wasn't using Numpy except in the most basic possible ways. I had hand-written algorithms in python. That's where it shines. So, yes YMMV! It worked really well for me.
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   by garyrob 5y ago

   " I mean, faster than r or Python (for which I could write fast code but that'd mean I'd have to change the way it is written)" You might benefit from numba. I've used it to speed my Python up enormously and complet
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    Thanks. I really may set up a web site to do it. The encouragment here helps.
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    I didn't know about snooze as an email feature, but a quick google shows it as something for gmail? Is that what you use? I see that there are 3rd-party solutions for MacOS. MacOS' Mail doesn't have that feature that I'm
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I may make this available publicly, but maybe after adding a web interface to it!
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    You are correct. I'm leveraging the fact that I do check SMS messages religiously, but that is not true for everyone.
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    It just runs all the time on my laptop. Every day at 9 it checks a sqlite3 database to see if there are tasks for the day. That's running in a thread. The main process has a little interface with a menu that lets you input a task, view
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    No I haven't but I've thought of doing so and/or making a freemium product out of it. Thanks for the encouragement, that inspires me to think about it more. I'm 65, and this current system is the result of about 4.5 deca
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    I'm using this in combination with a Python script I wrote that sends me SMS messages for tasks as hard deadlines approach. So, if I get too distracted for some days, because of a technical issue or whatever, to pay much attention to t
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    Something like 15 years ago I was at a conference and happened to sit at lunch table with a top editor of Scientific American. (Maybe the top one at the time, I don't remember.) I had been an enthusiastic subscriber for many years and
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    For years and years, I used to be very excited every time SA arrived in my mailbox. But over time, it dumbed itself down, with great consistency, to the point that it's unbearable. I stopped subscribing long ago.
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    You're taking a lot of flak here, but I think you're basically correct. (Even if cross-game NFTs never become a thing.) The debate reminds me of when Napster looked, to many, like it would end the sales of pre-recorded music, sinc
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    ...and the experience you describe is very, very resonant with Zen Buddhism.
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    Great! I think you may get a lot out of it, and I wish you well on your journey. It's without question the most-loved Zen-related book in the English language, and there are many them. It has greatly enriched many people's Buddhis
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    I recommend that you pick up a copy of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. It may really resonate with you as well as deepen your insight. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0834800527/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_MK.
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    I had some absolutely miserable times, which your comment reminds me of, when I was in my 20's. I'm 65 now, and my two grown kids have come to stay with my wife and my for Christmas. We played a board game for hours last night, li
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    "lifetime" meaning "10 years" makes no sense at all. It makes your company seem incompetent or badly intentioned. Just say "10 years" if that's the time period.
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    JS's closest equivalent to comprehensions. Not as nice in my book, but really not bad either. https://sebhastian.com/list-comprehension-javascript/
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    Try REALLY listening to Flow, My Tears by John Dowland[1], who died in the early 1600's, well before Bach was even born. It sounds almost like a particularly beautiful McCartney song. There has been a true popular songwriting tradition
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    I don't think that's right. JS Bach was pretty much forgotten until he was rediscovered by Mendelssohn. The key event was in 1823 or 1824. "Felix's maternal grandmother, Bella Salomon, presented him with a gift that was
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    I'd say that if you're an "admirer of Kind of Blue" who "generally likes bebop", you probably don't understand Miles' importance. It is certainly true that he had less influence on popular music tha
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    I don't know JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I think it's a bizarre coincidence!
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    by garyrob 5y ago

    I feel the same way, I use JOE's jstar mode because I fondly recall using Wordstar under CP/M, and it has enough features for basic editing.