michaericalribo

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by michaericalribo 5y ago
Sure, an introductory notation could be created to bridge the gap, and that could be more human friendly. That said, as someone who uses notation for math regularly, I want to keep using notation. It’s a helpful tool, and it is an efficient
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
Well, to put on my pedantic hat and indulge my inner math major, what you describe is algebra on top of objects—you’re talking about the math that applies to numbers, not the numbers themselves. Specifically you described groups and fields
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> Beware - Emacs is highly addictive and it might easily consume years of your life! I agree with that wholeheartedly. Don’t get me wrong—I love emacs and I’ll be the first to talk your ear off about it. But it’s a hobby, and not necessa
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I dig the way this explicitly defines the null content of `nil`. It makes intuitive sense, but it also makes me more conscious of the general principle of NULLity.
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
This is a fun little piece, but worth noting: It is absolutely a work of fiction (“hoax”, as Wikipedia puts it [1]). I was fooled the first time I read it…but the date at the bottom gives it away. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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This is true, however, the sample size is quite large, they controlled for confounders, and they address the possibility that this is all a coincidence: > Whilst we controlled analyses for all known confounders and were more thorough in
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
Yeah! Org babel makes integrating analysis in a transparent way that follows existing org mode workflows / patterns. There is an important feature Jupyter has that org doesn’t share: collaboration. If everyone I need to collaborate w
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
I just finished the book Dungeon Hacks by David Craddock, which is a fun history of the early days of roguelikes—encompassing Rogue itself, Nethack, Angband, Moria, and the like…roguelikes had never “clicked” for me, though I wanted keenly
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
I had to buy a TI-83 as a high schooler and still have it sitting around…wish there were neat homebrew purposes to put it towards, or really any use for it so it doesn’t continue wasting shelf space or end up in my garbage. Any ideas?
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
This is a cruelly ironic development against the backdrop of the major DNA news in another capital case today—a potentially innocent man put to death. There is no do-over or undo, no fixing mistakes, when the death penalty is in play. The d
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
Sickening. As the saying goes, better 100 guilty persons should go free than 1 innocent should suffer. I am fiercely opposed to the death penalty, and this example goes a long way towards conveying why.
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
> shock-and-awe guerrilla tactic…that alienates rather than invite collaboration That’s a good point, and I’m not sure I have a good answer to it! I believe rhetorical guerrilla warfare is an intentional and important tactic. My gut tell
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
I hear you. It can be counterproductive to use a totally unfamiliar jargon, especially if it trips the audience up and limits mutual engagement in favor of linguistic squabbling. That said, I respectfully disagree that it’s “just as unhelpf
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. There's no onus here at all, on either side—this isn't some intellectual debate with formal rules, this is a struggle to make marginalized voices heard. Effective communication is nowhere near the same as
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
You are right! It can mean these things! But it can also mean other things, and (in my opinion) carefully parsing definitions distracts from the challenging and impactful work of understanding what others mean , not just the official
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
Your comment strikes me as disingenuous and willfully obstinate. disingenuous (adj) giving a false appearance of simple frankness obstinate (adj) pertinaciously adhering to an opinion pertinacious (adj) marked by an unyieldingly persistent
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
So much of this seems to stem from poor practices handling such sensitive data, especially plaintext records that aren’t anonymized. It’s astonishing! I think it underscores the value of stringent security requirements like HIPAA. I wouldn’
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
Looks like you can open this lock any time you want, too.
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
I mean, you’re right—there does seem to be a close similarity. That makes a strong argument for development needing more regulation / certification from an ethical standpoint. There may be some questionable behavior by doctors, but m
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
That is a neat idea! It illustrates the need for applied critical thinking, especially at the seams between concept / theory, and implementation / practice. There is another aspect, though, which is the well-established and more
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by michaericalribo 5y ago
:) and my apologies, too—I didn't mean to be too snarky and irascible. maybe we can agree that both Celsius and Fahrenheit are subjectively easier to relate to everyday life than Kelvin...
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by michaericalribo 6y ago
When I started using tmux, screen development was stagnant, and basic features (vertical splits, for me) weren’t available natively—a patch was required to enable it. On the other hand, tmux provided it out of the box, and had a vibrant dev
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by michaericalribo 6y ago
Ha! 59F is a good one :D Yeah, I should have clarified—this works for those specific combinations...it’s mostly a back of the envelope way to orient yourself in the other system.
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Yes, it’s not hard...I use the reversed digits method: 82F ≈ 28C 61F ≈ 16C 40F ≈ 04C 11F ≈ -11C
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by michaericalribo 6y ago
I think you’ve missed the point of the post you’re responding to, and even remade it... the imperial system is exactly legacy, and its idiosyncrasies aren’t warts per se—for someone who’s able to use it (ie not an outsider looking in withou
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by michaericalribo 6y ago
I'm curious how others test code that operates on large datasets—eg, transformations of a dataframe, parsing complicated responses, important implementations of analytics functions. I've previously used serialized data—JSON, or jo
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by michaericalribo 6y ago
Agreed: for most of my day to day tasks, emacs is performance enough, subject to the constraints of my CPU vis a vis interpreting the underlying lisp...but I do find myself actively avoiding a long line of JSON blob, because of the reliable
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by michaericalribo 6y ago
This is a good point! I like your way of approaching this space :) Though, what you are describing is very different from what GP was claiming, which is using Julia for production.
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by michaericalribo 6y ago
Ah, I understand what you mean now. And you may be right that there’s a Better Way to do it natively in Julia. But, there’s lots of friction to adopting entirely new dev practices, and I’m inclined to just stick w what tried and true method

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