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by mjhay 3y ago
It's been around in R-land for a while with dplyr and its variety of backends (including Arrow, the same as Polars). Pandas is just an incredibly mediocre library in nearly all respects.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Laziness in this context has huge advantages in reducing memory allocation. Many operations can be fused together, so there's less of a need to allocate huge intermediate data structures at every step.
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by mjhay 3y ago
R is heavily influenced by Scheme. Not only is it heavily functional, but it has metaprogramming capabilities allowing a high level of flexibility and expressiveness. The tidyverse libraries use this heavily to produce very nice composable
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by mjhay 3y ago
> In its petition to the FAA, Boeing argues the breakup of the engine nacelle is “extremely improbable” and that an exemption will not reduce safety. Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust Boeing's judgement on the probability of ca
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by mjhay 3y ago
What are you gonna do, not use LinkedIn?
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by mjhay 3y ago
They would (reportedly) burn a bunch of cannabis in tents to get high. The pipe was a surprisingly late invention.
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by mjhay 3y ago
So in other words, the US military stand-in failed the first iteration of a war game. In real life, there's really going to be only one iteration, and you don't get do-overs because the the enemy does something "unexpected.&q
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by mjhay 3y ago
The sunlight incident on a vertical farm is the same as would be incident on a regular farm. Having windows or fiber optics doesn't make up for that, especially because anywhere it would be worth it to have a vertical farm, it would be
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by mjhay 3y ago
There's nothing about vertical farming that wouldn't be better done by a greenhouse outside of a city. Or, in many circumstances, just a regular farm.
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by mjhay 3y ago
This is pretty cool given the potential backward compatibility - which makes widespread adoption much more realistic. There is some prior art of queries as morphisms between DBs (or schemas) in the category theory community. e.g., https:&#
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by mjhay 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
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by mjhay 3y ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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Ars Technica
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by mjhay 3y ago
It wasn't terrible, but the satire should have been much subtler. The cast of all A-listers came across as self-indulgent and annoying to me as well.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Yeah, pretty much. I was well acclimatized, but there's no making up for that lack of oxygen.
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by mjhay 3y ago
But further work from the same leadership has been discontinued...
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by mjhay 3y ago
Yeah, I have no idea how really high-altitude climbers do it. I've climbed pitches of otherwise fairly easy alpine ice at about 6000m in Peru, and that was the hardest climbing I've ever done. I've never had my calves burn li
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by mjhay 3y ago
Most people hate losing their livelihood.
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by mjhay 3y ago
I'm always amazed by how little attention tabular/relational data gets in DL research, despite being far more common in applications than images or unstructured text.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Why not make body panels out of bare aluminum instead of PITA stainless? The look would be similar, it would be lighter, and cheaper/easier to repair.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Those are called "cryoconites." If the debris over a glacier exceeds a millimeter or two, it will actually reduce melt instead.
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by mjhay 3y ago
West Antarctica has some big higher-precip areas, but East Antarctica is extremely dry for the most part.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Belief propagagation (i.e. message passing) has a long history and has been pretty successful. It's not always applicable, but it can have a lot of advantages when it is.
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by mjhay 3y ago
It's run by human hallucinating stochastic parrots now. Replacing them with LLMs would lead to significant cost savings without worsening our current strategic performance.
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by mjhay 3y ago
I can't get past the captcha. Is there a non user-hostile link?
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by mjhay 3y ago
Reading that article unlocked some traumatic memories of Bazaar/"bzr".
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by mjhay 3y ago
whatever -driven development is always just about vibes anyway. It shouldn't be taken too literally. The example in this article may have been a good use-case for Clojure's multimethod facilities. https://clojure.org&#
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by mjhay 3y ago
Looking forward to seeing how much more bizarre and stupid this will get.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Yeah, people like you are the real victims, huh?
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by mjhay 3y ago
Probably the second one. HN can be astonishingly bigoted.

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