jdeaton

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by jdeaton 3y ago
That would be less fun though
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by jdeaton 3y ago
The haskell learning-curve graph seems quite accurate. I'm over in the "happy pythonistas" camp.
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by jdeaton 3y ago
Can someone please explain how this is spyware. Thanks
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by jdeaton 3y ago
This is interestingly divergent from the advice given in “Philosophy of Software Design” by John O. which is “exceptions are most useful when they're thrown the furthest”
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by jdeaton 3y ago
Makes sense, and I think many people fall into that category. Saying "there's something intoxicating in math" and that you enjoyed the roller coaster of a logic class already excludes one from the situation I am describing. M
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by jdeaton 3y ago
You know what, I think you're right. I should be less judgemental. I'm not sure why I thought that was okay. I think some of it comes from the disappointment when someone describes themselves as loving math being part of their per
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by jdeaton 3y ago
Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh. On the other hand, I feel its more similar to asking someone who says "I love reading fiction" what is a book they liked and them not having an answer.
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by jdeaton 3y ago
There's a small number of people I know who say in social contexts "I love math" but they come up blank when asked what fields they find beautiful. I find this correlated with narcissism and it makes me believe these people d
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by jdeaton 3y ago
In the video he says "I do not consider proprietary software to be software at all" which I find very interesting
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Partitioning in JAX(irhum.github.io)
2 points by jdeaton 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdeaton 4y ago
Give her TempleOS instead
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by jdeaton 4y ago
No shit. Its like people would actually prefer to be better at their jobs if given the choice.
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by jdeaton 4y ago
Incorrect.
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by jdeaton 4y ago
The abstractions provided by JAX for parallelism are beautiful. JAX is an absolute master-class in programming-interface design and a lesson in the power of providing composable primitive operations and FP inspired design. An astounding am
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Leaving X(nozdrenkov.com)
2 points by jdeaton 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdeaton 4y ago
Jokes on you my volume is off.
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by jdeaton 4y ago
I used to compulsively meditate when I experienced anxiety, so much so that my mind began associating meditation with anxiety. The ironic effect was that meditation itself started to become slightly anxiety inducing.
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by jdeaton 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, how does someone with in-demand, highly-transferable skills like software development find themselves working in a place they generally dislike for 15 years without leaving sooner?
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by jdeaton 4y ago
How could removing the social media apps have been the first thing you did? Would you not have had to install them first before you could have removed them?
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by jdeaton 4y ago
> It is rather simple: The tools don't matter. Its hard to read past nonsense like this.
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by jdeaton 4y ago
I posted in another comment on this thread a list of papers which met these criteria for me at the time and which I learned a lot by implementing. > it's really hard for me, as a non-expert, to assess which papers are true advanceme
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by jdeaton 4y ago
> how or why is this sensible? The whole objective here is personal learning and this advice would be wildly different for how to practice ML professionally. The approach is directly analogous to advising a beginner programmer to get b
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by jdeaton 4y ago
Because of criteria 0, 1, 2 these entirely depend on the individual. However, some papers which fit the criteria for me at the time were the following: - Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equations https:&#x2F
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by jdeaton 4y ago
I am an ML researcher working in the industry: by far the most effective way to maintain/advance my understanding of ML methods is implement the core of an interesting paper and reproduce (some) of their results. Completing a workin
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by jdeaton 4y ago
Invent a new file format (or a few) for storing genomics data. They're all the rage in the bioinformatics field. Make sure not to document its semantics so that its implementation is the only spec.
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by jdeaton 4y ago
Tastefully postmodern
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by jdeaton 4y ago
As someone who puts tremendous value in technical mentorship when considering a role this is about the worst possible advertisement for being a swe in genomics as it amounts to "all our code is awful- come fix it!"
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by jdeaton 4y ago
The problem is sometimes your organization does not reward these efforts at all.
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by jdeaton 4y ago
I've been in ruts before. Something helpful which has gotten me to the other side of the most recent one is telling myself repeatedly "I'm just in a bad time". The last word (i.e. "time") is really key here. It
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by jdeaton 4y ago
Reason about my program's behavior.

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