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by hoosieree 2y ago
Notebooks aren't very git-friendly, so in practice you rarely know which version produced the paper. The fact you can run notebook cells out-of-order exacerbates this problem. Not only do you not know what version the entire file was,
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by hoosieree 2y ago
If you're lucky, someone releases code+data associated with their published paper. If you're really lucky, that code and data is in the same state as it was in the published paper. If you're really really lucky, someone besid
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by hoosieree 2y ago
dang it!
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Not working yet, but I'm trying to make a K-like language targeting CPU+GPU (mostly for machine learning): https://github.com/hoosierEE/element At this point it's just a parser and a dream, so don't expe
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by hoosieree 2y ago
REPL-driven development keeps me in the flow. I can write (and test) multiple different approaches to a problem in J or K before I can finish typing the first approach in C++. And that's not even counting time and context switching cos
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Disclaimer: I'm no expert, just an enthusiast. For me, the feeling of being well-designed or expertly crafted is what sets the array languages apart. Learning one concept often (intuitively, for me at least) extends to many other parts
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by hoosieree 2y ago
1. buy real estate in a billboard-infested city 2. ban billboards 3. sell
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by hoosieree 2y ago
You kids with your newfangled "@" and "." emails. Looks like line noise. What is this, APL?
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by hoosieree 2y ago
The xenophobic origins of zoning law is a cautionary tale for today. "I got mine, screw the rest of you"... but sooner or later "your" tribe becomes one of the "other" tribes. Lots of this attitude in society s
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Starting your own business has always been and will always be risky, but W2 jobs aren't as safe as they once were. How about starting a "lifestyle" business that doesn't need to grow but is sustainable, and that lets you
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by hoosieree 2y ago
I feel like this is a pretty common opinion among HN comments, and yet the vast majority of interviews follow the known-bad pattern instead. Are HN commenters simply too rare to make a dent in the larger hiring landscape, or are they not wa
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by hoosieree 2y ago
As an amateur woodworker, this is not changing my belief that a $50 USB microscope is one of the most expensive things a hobbyist can buy.
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by hoosieree 2y ago
mascot: a python, with braces
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by hoosieree 2y ago
The slow food movement is really getting out of hand.
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by hoosieree 2y ago
All I word is Which keyboard did you use to type this message? :)
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Murphy's law for data viz: If a plot can mislead, it will .
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by hoosieree 2y ago
I agree diffusion makes more sense for optimizing code-like things. The tricky part is coming up with a reasonable set of "add noise" transformations.
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by hoosieree 2y ago
"Explain" is a variation of "what do you think about", so you get similar results. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723601
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by hoosieree 2y ago
No. Remove the "explain" or "what do you think" or "think critically about" types of phrases from the prompt and you get this kind of thing: My prompt: Joe drove Sue to the university. Afterwards, he drov
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by hoosieree 2y ago
> Surely nothing in the prompt directly triggered the word "inconsistency". The prompt is (implicitly) asking to find inconsistencies ("what do you think about") within some statements of fact. Many variatio
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by hoosieree 2y ago
The more Python I write, the more I feel that "from foo import name1,name2,nameN" is The Way. Yes it's more verbose. Yes it loses any benefits of namespaces. However it encourages you to focus on your actual problem rather th
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Do you have any more specifics about these limitations? I'm considering trying Taichi for a project because it seems to be GPU vendor agnostic (unlike CuPy).
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by hoosieree 2y ago
My dissertation worked on a similar problem. I used obfuscation to build a large dataset from a small set of ground-truth functions. Then built a model to classify unseen obfuscated binary code to the nearest of the known functions. The app
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by hoosieree 2y ago
I started with J but now prefer K and I'm writing an interpreter for a K-like language in my spare time for fun. I'd say the minimal syntax isn't just a gimmick, because it really does help with mentally chunking phrases&#x2F
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Come check out some of the array languages[1,2,3], or perhaps the retro-computing comfy vibes of a system like Decker[4]. Some of us still appreciate code as poetry. [1]: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ [2]: https:&#
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Whenever HIBP sends me a notice I just think "oh well, add it to the pile". By this point I just assume any info I share with any company WILL be leaked eventually. Which is why I'd like to see an equivalent of the GDPR in th
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Same here. But knowing my ISP, it'll change throughout the day, sometimes by quite a lot.
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Headline says 1/3 of those 700k are on food stamps. Would an extra $900/year be enough?
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by hoosieree 2y ago
It looks like the xkcd theme for matplotlib[1]. But I agree the waves are too extreme. [1]: https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/showcase/xkcd.html#sph...
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by hoosieree 2y ago
I assume it gets easy to read once you practiced it a bunch Yup, but for me at least, the learning curve is far gentler than a supposedly simple language like C or Go. After using C professionally for 12 years I still have to lo

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