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by nextos 2y ago
> AFAIK if you install a bad kernel driver into any major OS the result would be the same Updates should not be destructive. Linux doesn't typically overwrite previous kernels, and bootloaders let users choose a kernel during startu
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by nextos 2y ago
The store is immutable in the functional programming sense, as the package manager creates a new directory entry for each hash value. Backups could be an option, but it is much better to have a system where two computers are guaranteed to b
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by nextos 2y ago
I'd say something implementing the ideas of NixOS, i.e. immutable versioned systems and declarative system definitions, is poised to replace the current deployment mess, which is extremely fragile. With NixOS, you can upgrade without f
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by nextos 2y ago
Bayesian inference is costly and adds a significant amount of complexity to your workflow. But yes, I agree, the way uncertainty is handled is often sloppy. Maximum likelihood estimates are very frequently atypical points in the posterior d
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by nextos 2y ago
On the topic of multi-paradigm programming, including logic programming, Oz/Mozart is an obligatory mention. See CTM and http://mozart2.org/mozart-v1/doc-1.4.0/tutorial/index.html . The authors were fairl
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by nextos 2y ago
True. 9/10 of the interviewers I have met only focus on exact experience by matching keywords, and they won't be able to identify superior candidates with slightly different experience. The reason is simply time and effort. The up
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by nextos 2y ago
You can start simple. Read Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang and do all exercises. Solutions are included. That book basically covers all mathematics up to junior high in a rigorous but approachable fashion. Serge Lang was a great mathemati
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by nextos 2y ago
Some funds that tried to recruit me were really interested in classical generative models (ARMA, GARCH, HMMs with heavy-tailed emissions, etc.) extended with deep components to make them more flexible. Pyro and Kevin Murphy's ProbML vo
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by nextos 2y ago
I agree with this, I love SerenityOS and LadyBird looks very interesting. But scaling that to a serious and safe browser with C++ is going to be hard . Plus, I don't see how Firefox is really broken. Right now, forking and shipping wi
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by nextos 2y ago
Me too and/or a fanless x86_64 offering, which should be easy to accomplish with Intel N. It'd also be cheaper. The RISC-V offering might fill in part of this niche: https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/int
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by nextos 2y ago
It seems like the floodgates are open in the Western world and very few countries have had wise politicians who care about keeping the market affordable for locals. Unaffordable housing is one of the major causes of low fertility rates, tou
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by nextos 2y ago
ARM is a bit messy on Linux, even on Snapdragon X, due to the lack of standardized boot among other things. Given that new Intel and AMD options are much less power hungry, is going the ARM route worth the trouble? With that said, on M2 Mac
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by nextos 2y ago
What is your setup?
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by nextos 2y ago
This was obvious to any statistician working in the area, as the same thing happens with gene expression in virtually any tissue. There are also seasonality effects in gene expression, and even in microbiomes: https://doi.org&#x2
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by nextos 2y ago
I don't like apps either, that's why I'd like standardized 2FA.
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by nextos 2y ago
As per my parent post, here = EU.
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by nextos 2y ago
I disagree. A bank reported ~1,000 SIM swap attacks happened to their clients during 2021 alone in a single EU country. That's a lot. Furthermore, these attacks target high value individuals which I imagine is a particular cause of con
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by nextos 2y ago
At least here, SIM cloning is a very popular attack.
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by nextos 2y ago
Regulators should mandate 2FA with an OTP standard, such as OATH TOTP. Here in EU, lots of banks use their own proprietary OTP-like standard or SMS. I never understood why SMS are preferred to OTPs generated offline using credit cards and a
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by nextos 2y ago
IMHO, Ruby is a much better Perl replacement than Python. Ruby is heavily inspired by Perl and lets you do a lot of work with simple one liners embedded in Bash scripts. It's also great for longer standalone programs and there is a lar
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by nextos 2y ago
I am of course referring to Maemo, as per my previous post.
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by nextos 2y ago
Nokias were very open. You had a terminal with apt-get. The entire device was a regular Linux machine.
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by nextos 2y ago
There were Nokias running Maemo ahead of the iPhone. Note these were not Symbian. The 770 was released in Q4 '05. They definitely fell within the smartphone category, but oddly the first few iterations lacked GSM radio.
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by nextos 2y ago
It's legit but it takes a bigger cut than other places like YC. Obviously, YC tends to accept more mature applicants, so that might be fair?
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by nextos 2y ago
eLife publishes reviews very prominently within articles, and they ask all reviewers to discuss their assessment after they have evaluated the article. I think this favors deep reviews. In Nature or Cell, I have sometimes seen 2-liners sent
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by nextos 2y ago
eLife is very rigorous, but also very selective. Most submissions don't pass editorial consideration. I've found their reviews much more detailed and technical than Nature Medicine or Cell.
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It's a shame it's not as decent as Google Docs in terms of collaboration. Google Docs lacks some bibliographic management to be a complete solution, an area where Word 365 is also a mess. It's surprisingly hard to find a comp
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They at least cite it as an inspiration: https://www.janelia.org/models-of-inspiration
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by nextos 2y ago
During its golden era (1950-80), LMB was set apart by emphasizing small groups, internal funding, and staff scientist tracks. Right now, LMB is not very different from the classical principal investigators and postdoc pyramid model that is
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LMB is quite different now compared to its golden era. I am not sure they are following the same strategy anymore. The same can be said about Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in NY, which was also incredibly successful.

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