kmaitreys

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by kmaitreys 5mo ago
I think LSPs like rust-analyzer are very good tools to learn the language itself. I think I learnt Rust solely through LSP and clippy.
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by kmaitreys 5mo ago
I really like Julia as a language but I have struggled to adopt it and be productive in it. Part of it is because of the JIT runtime and a sub-par LSP (at least when I last tried). To those who regularly write Julia code, what is your workf
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
I used healpy[1] once during my undergraduate years. It was a summer project to develop an algorithm to find void galaxies. [1]: https://healpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
Thank you for such a great reply! There's a lot of useful advice here that'll surely come in handy to me later. For now, yeah I'm just going to try to make things work. So far I have mostly written intra-node code for which r
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
Please do not get swayed by nor defend the words vomited by a snake oil salesman. Also what benchmark? How will you you design it?
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
Right. I have seen Zig where one needs to specify allocators as well. I'm sorry I'm not well versed enough to know how it makes things better for HPC though? For now my plan is to write fairly similar style code as one may write i
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
I see. Fortunately, I'm aware of that and I don't use clone (unless I intend to) as much. Borrow checker is usually not a problem when writing scientific/HPC code. Because passing pointers isn't as ergonomic in Rust, I d
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
Can you elaborate on this? Slightly concerned because I have written (and planning to write more) Rust HPC code
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
I think there's a lot of difference between sounding like someone and being someone. The models are excellent at pretending indeed.
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
>If we are worried we will be less good at doing job X once we don't do job X anymore, why are we not worried about people who never did job X in the first place? If we are worried about people not doing jobs anymore, why are not wo
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
Why and how do you think it applies to broader domains? Children learning in schools should not become product managers. If they are, what exactly is the "product" that they are "managing"? Reducing everything to and lo
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
Padé approximations are not discussed as much, but they are much more stable than Taylor series approximations.
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
High level languages that replaced assembly are not black boxes.
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
> You never (or rarely) write the wiki yourself — the LLM writes and maintains all of it. Then what is the point? Why be averse so to use your own brain so much? Why are tech bros like this?
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by kmaitreys 6mo ago
Reminded me of the anecdote mentioned in the classic "Real Programmer Don't Use Pascal" > Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Great take. I have seen the discussion on this often gets turned into a hard vs soft science debate where in actuality it's just simply about money.
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Fair. That number is for a rock of size 1 km. https://catalina.lpl.arizona.edu/faq/how-often-do-asteroids-...
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Multi-worlds is not really relevant here. You are just asking the question how the building blocks of life form in the Universe and how can they reach a planet like ours.
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
It had to start somewhere which is favourable to preserve the necessary molecules. Early Earth was not such place.
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Why are you assuming couple of asteroids? Life first appeared 3.5 billion years ago. The frequency of an asteroid impact on Earth is ~500,000 years.
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Those smaller rocks are in the outer solar system, where the solar irradiation is lower. But the way they are composed is lots of ices (volatile molecules in solid form) being built on the silicate/graphite refractory core. The ices re
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Informed trader needs to be properly defined. Suppose a person just does some research at individual level (read, OSINT, make their own computer models to do prediction etc), then that's permissible. But if you're defining an info
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
No. Please look at the name again. It's "prediction" market. So if you have credible information before resolution, it's no longer a prediction. Also your premise is incorrect. The goal of prediction market isn't th
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
This looks rather interesting. I implemented a quadtree as part of writing a radiative transfer code during my masters using numpy/numba. Wasn't fun at all, but learnt a lot. But seeing someone try quadtrees in Python refreshed th
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
What exactly is the point of making a unverifiable statement(s) like this?
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Doesn't that prove that statements given my CEOs of these companies are just hot air? What is enheartening about hearing a liar who makes provocative statements all the time, make another one?
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by kmaitreys 7mo ago
Can you clarify a bit more about the this two orders of magnitude? In what context? Sure, they have "agency" and can do more than outputting text, but I would like see a proper example of this claim.
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
I see the point. Regarding changing the perception, I think you did not understand the underlying distrust. I will try to use your examples. It's a moderate size project. There are two scenarios: author used git/some VCS or they d
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification. Personally, I think, everything before a versioned release (even something like 0.1) can be messy. But from your point I can see it that a cleaner history will have advantages. Further, I guess if

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