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by mbeavitt 1y ago
what evidence do you have to back up this baseless claim? They openly publish their financial reports: https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports $178 million might sound like an extremely large amoun
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Oh, I get it. Missed the joke.
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Is it though? The algorithm you reference is meant to be a joke: 1) Write down the problem. 2) Think real hard. 3) Write down the solution. This is not a useful algorithm in any sense, apart from that it might be thought provoking. What&#x2
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
You can't tease me with "Algorithm" in the title and then not actually define an algorithm... TL;DR: Read lots of widely acclaimed books that are close to the source of what you want to learn?
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
https://archive.is/20250801081751/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Russia's China Ties Spur Boom in Learning Mandarin(bloomberg.com)
3 points by mbeavitt 1y ago|1 comments
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Merge conflicts are a blessing - they tell us exactly what the problem is...
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
I can't imagine the horror of tracking down a regression and finally fixing it, only to find someone else edited another section of the codebase, ruining all my efforts. This is fine in text documents (to an extent, obviously reference
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Just curious - what do you see as being a viable alternative to the current git paradigm?
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Ok but the lab has access to the unencrypted data? You haven't removed the requirement that the user needs to trust the lab with their raw genome markers. This entire operation hinges on the lab's trustworthiness, does it not?
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Simulating the real world at increasingly accurate scales is not that useful, because in biology - more than any other field - our assumptions are incorrect/flawed most of the time. The most useful thing simulations allow us to do is
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Yes you're correct - I more meant that paths either side of the river and other infrastructure was originally put in place for this reason, not that the body of water itself was man-made.
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
The historical reason is that canals were originally built to facilitate horse-drawn boats, and as such there are no fences. The modern reason is that people use the canals all day, for hopping on/off houseboats and rowing training - p
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Perhaps they want to include online discussions/commentaries about their paper in the training data without including the paper itself
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
You mention you are looking for a good resource for training listening - have you tried https://tonedear.com/ ?
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Haha I was just thinking to myself "I wonder if anyone made any progress on that rav1d bounty yet?"
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Ah, thanks, that looks cool. It's missing the core functionality I want though, which is to follow links to code on github. Maybe if this doesn't exist, I'll see if I can make something!
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
No, the desired behaviour is to follow a link to a github code section, e.g. https://github.com/splicebox/PsiCLASS/blob/04e2a118c1820f802... and then copy that into the editor with syntax highlighting and lin
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
An example of the kind of behaviour I'm after is at the top of this issue: https://github.com/splicebox/PsiCLASS/issues/41
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Ask HN: A word processor that allows you to insert code from GitHub
1 points by mbeavitt 1y ago|5 comments
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Can this be used to effectively create R environments? I’m desperate for such a solution.
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
This is super cool. You provide examples of “searches that work” - can you give an idea of the limitations here? What kind of searches won’t work?
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
check out [cgdb]( https://github.com/cgdb/cgdb ) - ncurses based gdb tui, with vim bindings. It's no longer actively worked on, but is decently maintained with bugfixes etc AFAIK.
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by mbeavitt 1y ago
Did you use AI to write this blog post? Be honest.