jonex

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by jonex 4y ago
Such an important subject and they touch on important topics within that subject, but ultimately end up confusing things more and ultimately probably making things even harder for those who would be in service of advice on how to manage the
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by jonex 5y ago
"Beyond the stuff like style, conventions, and obvious bugs/problems ..." Catching the obvious issues is IMO one of the main benefits of never skipping code reviews. Even trivial changes often have those (at least when I writ
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by jonex 5y ago
Based on the abstract, they did not show anything useful, they produce a null result, this just means that there weren't any effects large enough to be statistically significant for their sample. Weirdly, the still seem to draw a concl
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by jonex 5y ago
Not claiming that the study itself is useless, it's important to understand how interventions affect completely healthy people, but my worry would be that it triggers eating disorders in high-risk group, that would affect wether we wan
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by jonex 5y ago
The candidate probably does not know that though, so they might be writing an exhaustive list in the belief that you want to see everything, or a very short list in the belief that you only want to get a quick overview and will ask detailed
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by jonex 5y ago
In particular, the viewpoints that are downvoted differs from those that aren't. There's probably a lot of engineers that, like me, have learnt that HN isn't very fond of posts arguing for other perspectives in relation to bi
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by jonex 5y ago
I started wall climbing and bouldering with my GF. The time investment is that we go there two mornings a week for ca 2 hours, and some weekends for longer sessions. Living reasonably close to the gym makes it rather low effort. I like it a
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by jonex 5y ago
That seems like a reasonable approach if you have the right skills for it. My problem with such an approach would be that I'd not feel comfortable to make an overall evaluation of a person based on a short interaction. Having a clear c
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by jonex 6y ago
In Sweden a significant portion of tech workers are unionized. It doesn't work well for creating leverage in term of wages though. If anything, the impression I got at my last job where I was in the union was that the union negotiation
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by jonex 6y ago
I think the objection is about the phrasing that can be interpreted as "I will only be wrong in at most 5% of significant results", while what we mean is "if there is no effect, we will only get so large differences in at mos
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by jonex 6y ago
Could you explain the calculations that lead to the claim that the result is not significant? From what I can tell, if we assume that clicking the ad is a weighted binary variable, eg. what is modelled as a "proportional distribution&q
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by jonex 6y ago
I wouldn't hold anything against a person wanting to end their own life as I haven't been in their shoes. Barring that caveat, coupling your life to a dream does seem pathological - I would worry that someone ending their life for
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by jonex 6y ago
I think sometimes "need more data" has a similar connotation as "citation needed". It's a way to dismiss an idea you don't believe in without being fully dismissive. In other words, it can be a way of saying &q
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by jonex 6y ago
Very negative view in the article, but as long as they are open about it to the listener it doesn't seem like it has to be a bad thing. It will provide some incentive for artists to pick tracks that will be popular enough to compensate
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by jonex 6y ago
The "Rendering Effects" section describes it in some detail: "Once segmentation is complete, we use OpenGL shaders for video processing and effect rendering" and some info on what that covers. (OpenGL parts runs on GPU)
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by jonex 6y ago
It is done on the CPU instead of the GPU. GPU would seem like the natural choice for a convolution heavy model but was not used here for the mentioned reasons.
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by jonex 6y ago
It would probably be easier to read, but as a one-man project, my guess is that readability is less of a concern than for the average code base. Splitting code up in files requires some extra work and makes refactoring harder as you have to
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by jonex 6y ago
A very small fraction of experimental science is about just doing something and seeing what happens without a strong prior. You are expected to do your homework first. As a scientist, your role is typically to read and understand all the re
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by jonex 6y ago
I was inclined to write something similar myself as I agree in general. Mathematics is much more about the thinking than the doing, programming is more about the doing. However, I do think that programming can be an excellent complement and
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by jonex 6y ago
I've used ZeroMQ lightly as a socket-replacement and for simple IPC and I'd say the key thing it solved was connection establishment. It turns out that opening a two way connection between two apps on the same network without a cl
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by jonex 6y ago
This happened to me on my last hire, I asked what I should work on and didn't get much direction at all. I think I wasted like a year doing the wrong things and strongly considered quitting during that period. Then I figured that just
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by jonex 6y ago
For people with vitamin D deficiency I would not be surprised if there's a connection to depression and I guess standard advice applies: If you think you might be at risk, get yourself tested. If nothing else, you can avoid experiencin
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by jonex 6y ago
Great that you feel better! There are several potential explanations for this, for example: * It could be pure chance and selection bias, for you it seems unlikely, but consider how many took the same advice and saw not effect, they wouldn&
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by jonex 6y ago
[Assuming good faith despite some inflammatory language.] In smaller teams everyone talking to each other and building a shared vision can be quite sufficient. It's indeed common to have startups that have very flat organisation, they
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by jonex 6y ago
Well, we don't know that we couldn't if we were able to easily take a blood test of the brain. I think there's two parts to the theory, the stricter interpretation that goes something like "depression is just the symptom
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by jonex 6y ago
> Certainly "releasing emotions" without a therapist could be somewhat dangerous for some people. I think this in itself can be a dangerous thought. Agree that some people have dire need for help, an in particular some people m
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by jonex 6y ago
They seem to believe in some magical distinction between disorders and non-disorders that I doubt can be established consistently in a meaningful manner and is pretty far from relevant. I think the meaningful way to think about mental disor
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by jonex 6y ago
Could you elaborate? What is the problem with the linked project? Training a slightly faster, smaller and less accurate version of an existing model?
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by jonex 6y ago
If you vote for politicians that invest in missiles, it's rather hypocritical to criticize people who develop the same missiles. If you happen to be a pacifist it's reasonable to be against all such technology, but the fact that c
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by jonex 6y ago
Video codecs doesn't work like that, most frames only encode the difference from the previous frame, meaning that if you drop one frame, all frames after that will be impossible to decode correctly. A technique that's used to get

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