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by iwd 6mo ago
I just got to see a different species of kleptoplastic sea slugs in the wild last month, on a kayak tour of the mangroves around Key West. Our guide scooped some lettuce sea slugs up in a plastic container (and then returned them safely).
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by iwd 2y ago
Meh. My 16 year old writes shaders for her own games, writes for her VR headset, programs her graphing calculator, etc etc. The next generation will have plenty of self-taught SWEs, just like ours. Most kids couldn’t use computers in the 80
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by iwd 2y ago
I’ve been trialing a bunch of these models at work. They basically learn where the DNA has important functions, and what those functions are. Its very approximate, but up to now that’s been very hard to do from just the sequence and no othe
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The nitroplast: A nitrogen-fixing organelle(science.org)
2 points by iwd 2y ago|1 comments
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by iwd 3y ago
Do you have compression enabled? At least from Pandas, Parquet defaults to compressed and Arrow/Feather default to uncompressed. When I enable zstd compression, I get similar file sizes, and sometimes Arrow is smaller.
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Why Not Scrum?(ianwdavis.com)
1 points by iwd 3y ago|0 comments
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by iwd 5y ago
Not an expert, but I believe many papers on other video games make a single decision for the next X frames at once, possibly including a delay factor that governs exactly when to act. I think OpenAI’s Dota2 agent does this.
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by iwd 5y ago
If you’re doing it for fun, one option is to start with a simplified version of the game. It’s faster to implement and faster to run. And you’ll get insights you can apply to the full game. That’s what I did when I applied RL to Dominion, b
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Optimizing Dungeons and Dragons battle strategies with AI(ianwdavis.com)
1 points by iwd 5y ago|0 comments
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by iwd 5y ago
If the hours you spend implementing and maintaining your DevOps exceed the hours of downtime you prevent, you're probably not making good use of your time. The less you build, the less you have to maintain. I've been running a Py
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by iwd 6y ago
This seems like a “problem” that shouldn’t be solved. If the thing keeping you from algorithmic trading is difficulty in deploying, you probably have no business doing it. Cynically, this seems like a way to draw more naive novices into the
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by iwd 6y ago
Agriculture PhD plus even modest data science skills is hugely in demand at the giant ag-biotech company where I work. Many of the data engineers I lead are former science PhDs. Literally all of our people strategy discussions in R&D ar
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Learning reinforcement learning with the card game Dominion(ianwdavis.com)
1 points by iwd 6y ago|0 comments
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Training an AI for the card game Dominion(ianwdavis.com)
1 points by iwd 6y ago|0 comments
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by iwd 6y ago
I've written a lot about this as a resource for my colleagues at work, perhaps you would find it useful as well. There's a list of recommended books embedded in there, but a lot of other info as well: https://ianwdavi
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by iwd 6y ago
There's no perfect answer here, because different people will have different reactions to whatever approach you take. So what follows is just an opinion. I work at a large biotech company, and sometimes hire engineers. Personally,
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by iwd 6y ago
BTW, I just stumbled across the AWS Chime SDK: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/customers... Sounds similar to what Twilio offers, but at about 1/6th the price -- might be worth a look if c
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by iwd 6y ago
Hadn't planned on the random feature, but totally open to pull requests!
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by iwd 6y ago
My Python code is up on Github under a BSD license, if you want to play with it. https://github.com/iwd32900/happyhour
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by iwd 6y ago
I didn't realize Twilio did video -- I'll have to take a look!
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by iwd 6y ago
Thanks for building this! Curious to know why you went with random mixing, rather than self-sorting. I expect the timed random mixing would feel sort of heavy-handed, though I haven't tried it so maybe I'm wrong. Also -- what di
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by iwd 6y ago
Interesting! I built something really similar last month, though less polished: https://happyhour.ianwdavis.com/ In my case, I let people create groups ("tables") on the fly and hop between them at will, rather
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Advice to a New People Lead(ianwdavis.com)
1 points by iwd 6y ago|0 comments