geekraver

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by geekraver 5y ago
AI is a bogus term. It was well-discredited in the 1980s and has gone through an ill-deserved rehabilitation. Deep neural nets are a step forward for some tasks like vision, but are still just scratching the surface of what really goes on i
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by geekraver 5y ago
Seems like they’re just trying to confuse things by claiming confusion where there was none.
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by geekraver 5y ago
It’s written by Bob and the others aren’t. That’s a good enough reason for me.
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by geekraver 5y ago
I wonder how many of these verbatim examples are because the training data code itself occurs multiple times in GitHub because it in turn was copied from an upvoted answer in StackOverflow, LOL.
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by geekraver 5y ago
Makes absolutely no sense. The main point of a PIP is to give people time to make a graceful exit; sure, in some cases performance can be turned around but that’s not really what it is about. So you should want the employee to know. Suppose
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by geekraver 5y ago
And you would have a whole lot of blue marbles.
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by geekraver 5y ago
Good luck using type-based autocomplete to write entire functions for you.
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by geekraver 5y ago
I have reprocessed and regenerated the PDFs. They are mostly more legible now (although a couple went the other way), have color, and are smaller in size. I did need to recreate the repo, which meant a couple of people who starred it would
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by geekraver 5y ago
May be of historical interest to someone.
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Notes from a 1980s era CS degree course(github.com)
5 points by geekraver 5y ago|4 comments
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by geekraver 6y ago
While there may be plenty of people of all races who were not offended by the name, when you operate at the scale of a GitHub there is going to be some percentage who are. Some of them will complain. A company like GitHub then has two main
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by geekraver 6y ago
Doesn’t the cumulative error from all of these adjustments just mean garbage comes out the other end? This whole thing seems more like clickbait to give the company publicity.
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by geekraver 6y ago
This is why I require any app to be able to use a hierarchical folder of markdown documents as its store, even if the app is single platform. Currently using Obsidian on the desktop and MWeb on my iPhone, but the docs are just such a collec
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by geekraver 6y ago
I have pointed out both paid and bait and switch reviews (where the seller uses a cheap product to be able to use a farm for fake “verified purchase” reviews then changes the product). Never been rejected, but maybe that’s because I review
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by geekraver 6y ago
Leave it to munificent to explain things clearly. Every time :-)
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by geekraver 6y ago
You could replace a whole bunch of these with a Synology NAS if you really want to own your own data. DSM has an extensive suite of good apps. https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm
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by geekraver 6y ago
A magazine called “Reason” publishes a piece which in the second paragraph has a line about some things being “90% bullshit” 🧐
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by geekraver 6y ago
Pylance supports .pyi files.
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by geekraver 6y ago
256MB RAM? How extravagant! My first computer had 3kB. This is just the nature of “induced demand”. We might expand the power of our computers by several orders of magnitude, but our imaginations don’t keep up, so we find other ways of usin
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by geekraver 6y ago
I am old enough to have been writing software since 1976, and still do, although I am mostly a manager of managers now. My view is that dates are unfortunate (but sometimes unavoidable in the real world). But estimates are useful. They help
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by geekraver 6y ago
“ Note: This book does seem to overgeneralize and oversimplify complex situations, but there are still good points.” describes everything by Malcolm Gladwell.
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by geekraver 7y ago
Lots of good recommendations here; two I would add are "Debugging Teams" and "The Geek Leader's Handbook"
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by geekraver 7y ago
The way this is implemented in VS Code on the desktop may change your mind. See for example https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/remote-python-developm...
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by geekraver 7y ago
You don't need to import an .ipynb. Just start creating code blocks with #%% and you will get a Run Cell code lens appear.
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by geekraver 8y ago
Whenever you see a bill called “X First” for some X, you know who it’s going to shaft - X.
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by geekraver 8y ago
This is a huge improvement. Supports unittest, pytest and nose.
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Python in Visual Studio Code adds a new test explorer with auto-discovery(devblogs.microsoft.com)
11 points by geekraver 8y ago|2 comments
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by geekraver 8y ago
The irony is he is one of the most closed-minded people around, if you see him on Twitter etc.
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by geekraver 8y ago
You're confusing the Jupyter backend (which manages the Python kernels) with the front-end (which maintains the JSON document that reflects the notebook). You can have different front ends that use different formats than .ipynb.