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by mhh__ 2y ago
The one thing I really want is for someone to make it so I can use it in F#. Presumably it's possible given how the python bit is implemented under the hood?
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by mhh__ 2y ago
OK but where is the speaking clock but for msft teams.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
As with every other Microsoft business product it's a name with no ideology. No sense of what and what not to do.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I still don't like dataframes but oh my God Polars is so much better than pandas. I was doing some time series calculations, simple equity price adjustments basically, in Polars and my two thoughts were: - WTF, I can actually read the
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by mhh__ 2y ago
It depends. In a linear rates shop (i.e. not trading options), almost all of the effort goes to tuning the deterministic bit of this equation. Thousands upon thousands of lines of code to do a problem that most books don't even mention
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by mhh__ 2y ago
iBeer seems so quaint now
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Most of these types of articles I'd imagine will be right but there is some truth in the argument that "Ah, you see, the system is merely so complicated and murky that you can't understand it!" is damning too
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by mhh__ 2y ago
There's a difference between urban jungle and (say) nice 5 story European city buildings. Londons problem for example is that they tried to be clever and cheap at the same time in the 60s and now we're stuck with it.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
It's a tool for fetching things and making sure what you fetch is what it's supposed to be. For facebook in particular I'd guess it's basically just a bootstrapping step for buck2 and other basic tools like that. Contain
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Because AI programmers only know python (is the path dependency / real reason)
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by mhh__ 2y ago
This is more reproducible than most things people come up with ad-hoc, it insists upon the hash of the thing it downloads.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
You can actually just bootstrap with a shebang script
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Absolutely love this style of tool management. Why do we ever install anything? Edit: consider also git bisect!
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by mhh__ 2y ago
"You never see an old man eating a twix"
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by mhh__ 2y ago
This is actually also the main thing I have ChatGPT write for me e.g. I can have it dial the level of mathematics to exactly where I can be bothered to tolerate (sometimes life is too short for symbols)
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Stackexchanges are some of favourite things to idly read. Short, snappy, nice LaTeX and so on. And then you sometimes you have just sublimely creative people answering e.g. Ron Maimon's answers on physics SE are a goldmine
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I'm being quite serious. I suppose the closest thing to an analytical description of what I have in my head is that the way I've seen women prompt chatgpt is probably much closer to how its trained as part of RLHF, but more deeply
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by mhh__ 2y ago
A pet theory of mine is that women will be better at using AI for all but the most analytical/symbolic work (even this may not hold but I'd imagine the crossover is around there) I have no mechanism but it feels true.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Is it dearer than storage though? my understanding was always that carbon capture if worth doing at all is for situations where the wind isn't blowing and the sun is dim (this nearly led to blackouts in uk recently)
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I guess this is a tangent, but Nix to me feels like the right idea with the wrong abstraction. I can't explain / it would take a serious bit of genius to come up with an alternative worth switching to. Has anyone done any better?
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by mhh__ 2y ago
So long and thanks for all the disks!
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by mhh__ 2y ago
There aren't.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
The top hedge funds that can realistically promise [0] excellent returns are basically all capacity constrained AFAICT Either that or they've switched business model to mostly making money on the management fee. It's easier to gro
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Put your career into the right hands.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
The computer museum is much much better than the bletchley bit, although I suppose if you bothered to go to one you'd always go to the other anyway.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I highly doubt I'll ever use Carbon but I'm really enjoying their statements of their ideology and choices on various matters in the github repo.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
An interesting question: Who is the Linus Torvalds for Rust in the kernel? Who says no to slop?
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by mhh__ 2y ago
> Marcan certainly can be abrasive (I mean lol, so can Linus) My impression of a few glancing online interactions is that they're both abrasive but marcan is quite unwise in a way that Linus has had beaten out of him
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by mhh__ 2y ago
The comment has a point. You should expect it when playing this game, but it's very clear what said game is.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Better that than doing the right thing at the wrong time IMO

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