heisenzombie

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by heisenzombie 1mo ago
The first map on that page is a classic #mapswithoutnz. New Zealand (Aotearoa) IS in the full pdf version, though what did we do to get put in the naughty corner?
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by heisenzombie 1mo ago
Yes, I actually think this sort of self-aware silliness (also hot dog sandwich, etc) could be looked at as kind of “koans” of rationality. Ultimately the goal might be to recognise that pure rationality is incompatible with the inherent neb
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by heisenzombie 1mo ago
There are MANY packages in this space: Labs love to invent their own versions powered by the hubris of grad students. Anyway a random sampling of some I’ve come across is: - EPICS - TANGO - Bluesky (not that one) - QCodes - Sard
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by heisenzombie 1mo ago
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by heisenzombie 5mo ago
First up, I agree that mathematical pedagogy is usually pretty rough, more or less from Kindergarten to Postdoc. But, this article implicitly assumes that a mathematical proof has to be utterly rigorous in order to be useful. I would assume
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by heisenzombie 6mo ago
I suspect the diaresis was intentional, in “New Yorker” style. https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-...
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by heisenzombie 6mo ago
It bears really thinking through the alternative: So we're going to have some engineers specify suitable digital replacements given the process/environment/safety requirements. We'll procure those (noting that an industr
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by heisenzombie 6mo ago
I did (using Claude Code) something that sounds very similar to this. It’s a bunch of bootstrapped Unix tools, systemd units, and some markdown files. Two comments: - I suspect that in this moment, cobbling together your own simple version
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by heisenzombie 6mo ago
Jax is super fun to use outside of ml! Recently I had fun reimplementing an old (but still usable!) code for accelerator optics. It involved transfer matrices for a 6D phase space to second order. Most of the FORTRAN77 source code was just
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by heisenzombie 7mo ago
Well nothing, I think what is being proposed is to trigger existing capital gains taxes when an asset is borrowed against, the same as if it were sold. Most places exempt personal homes from capital gains taxes already, so it wouldn’t affec
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by heisenzombie 7mo ago
I was under the impression that everyone (ie US, UN, EU) basically agreed they complied with the JCPOA right up until the US pulled out of it? Is that not accurate?
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by heisenzombie 7mo ago
In Australia it's the board of directors who are liable. They can be liable if they personally direct the company to do something illegal (obviously?) but there is also a positive obligation to exercise due diligence. This covers (but
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by heisenzombie 8mo ago
Another irony is that I clicked on one of their suggested questions ("My aging parent lives alone...") and the first part of the answer was: """ 1. Explore Government and Community Meal Programs (Often Low-Cost or F
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by heisenzombie 8mo ago
I have Copilot buttons sprinkled everywhere on my work computer, and every time I have tried to use them I get something saying "Oh, I can't do that". It's truly baffling. Copilot button on my email inbox? I try "Fi
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
The idea is good, but juv is a one-jupyter-per-notebook model which isn't very practical for how my team uses jupyter. My attempt at "juv, but systemwide-jupyter-plus-one-kernel-per-notebook model" is this: https:/&#x2F
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
“PrettyFlyForAWiFi”
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
Climate scientists have been correctly predicting the future for 50 years: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL08... "Retrospectively comparing future model projections to observations p
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
I also was impressed at Chris Borge's lathe build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Js8erWbsDQ It's small and kind of underpowered, but not useless! The central idea is to 3D print shells that hold metal parts and
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
I'll second the plug for structured concurrency (and specifically the Trio [1] library that the author wrote. [1] https://github.com/python-trio/trio
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
Yes. Others have pointed out the shortcuts in iOS and macOS. For Windows—I have Alt-0151 in muscle memory.
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
Quick plug here for a simple Jupyter kernel I created: https://github.com/tobinjones/uvkernel It’s a pretty minimal wrapper around “uv” and “iPython” to provide the functionality from the article, but for Jupyter noteb
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
This seems right to me. I often ask questions in two phases to take advantage of this (1) How would a professional in the field ask this question? Then (2) paste that question into a new chat.
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
No I had the same reaction. This kind of rigid "semantic network" kind of approach just can't work in the absolute case. And the author seems quite "absolute" about it. It comes down to - what's the point of th
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
<man walks into sauna room> Ooh, it's a bit hot in here! I better throw some water on these rocks to cool them down. Joking aside, I actually don't know how dry it is in the underground, and therefore whether adding water fo
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
Hm, I haven't had any luck making this work. Have opened an issue.
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
I have been thinking about this for months now! Very excited to see you've implemented it, and I'm excited to try this out. Could be fantastic for my use-case. We have a large repo of notebooks that are generally write-once, somet
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
I understand the audiobook server, but what’s the use case for the podcast part? You replicate a podcast on your own server, in case the original goes away?
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
My experience is that SOTA LLMs still struggle to read even the metadata from a mechanical drawing. They're getting better -- they now are mostly ok at reading things like a BOM or revision table -- but moderately complicated title blo
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by heisenzombie 1y ago
He seems reasonably explicit about this: "" This means that when using polynomial features, the data must be normalized to lie in an interval. It can be done using min-max scaling, computing empirical quantiles, or passing the fea
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by heisenzombie 2y ago
Yes, perhaps I wasn’t clear — I’m advocating for just the inlined version, not the nested function in the general case. The nested function is, I think, fine when it’s so tiny it’s not worth unit testing (like, it-could-have-been-a-lambda s

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