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by ngriffiths 8mo ago
A lot of comments about how this is another case of useless bloat. I don't know, markdown is just incredibly useful and widespread and yet it is pretty annoying to find a good editor: - There wasn't anything that comes with Window
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by ngriffiths 8mo ago
> Additionally, not all writing serves the same purpose. I think this is a really important point and to add on, there is a lot of writing that is really good, but only in a way that a niche audience can appreciate. Today's AI can
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by ngriffiths 9mo ago
I don't think the biology is there, let alone consensus on the major ethical questions involved
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by ngriffiths 9mo ago
Because research on real humans and real diseases is exceptionally difficult. Clinical research is notoriously expensive, results are likely to differ from non-human (preclinical) models, and trials take forever to get started, gather enoug
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by ngriffiths 9mo ago
IN MICE. (To be fair, also IN SOME OTHER BETTER MICE). https://jamesheathers.medium.com/in-mice-explained-77b61b598... (mostly a joke, but I'd be in favor of adding context to the HN headline if possible)
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Classical Chinese poetry: a guide for the curious (2023)(deadlanguagesociety.com)
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
One of the costs of saying no to meetings is that going to other people's (useless) meetings is a super low effort way to say "I value our working relationship." Not going often explicitly sends the opposite message. Sometime
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
Well said, my reaction was basically, what he is saying is not really for a listener like me. > AND also was not interested in the smooth polish of PR-style transitions that would give an appearance of basic cooperation.. I agree this is
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
Am I the only one who was really underwhelmed? I saw that it was supposedly a very tense trainwreck situation and sure, it gets sarcastic and stuff, but most of it was Interviewer: "so I heard you were/are doing a bad job with mod
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
Fair enough. It was something that impressed me when I first read about it. You hear about disputes between Apple and the FBI over unlocking phones and meanwhile banks are like "and over here are whole floors of analysts tracking suspi
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
> a private company shouldn’t have to decide what counts as “illegal” content under threat of legal action. Immediately reminded me of patio11's amazing write up[1] of debanking, featuring banks being deputized as law enforcement fo
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
I think it makes more sense in languages where you use the "let" keyword. Then it sounds like assignment, though you still have to get comfortable with the X being on the right side too.
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
Not all engineers are in the target audience, and not all details of research findings need to be conveyed to the target audience to make a real impact. The point is if no findings ever make it to engineers (in the broadest sense), there
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
> active science communication has been sparse in the area of software research, and those who have tried often find their efforts unrewarded or unsuccessful. The authors suggest: > Identify your target audience to tailor your message
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by ngriffiths 11mo ago
There's a certain kind of work that's productive and doesn't take much "effort," at least not in the sense of that super annoying voice in your head that says "I really should focus... I didn't get much
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
I feel like it's obligatory to also drop a link to the 3blue1brown series on linear algebra, for anyone interested in learning - it is a step up from what's in this post, but these videos are brilliant and still super accessible:
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
It's funny how people's mindset shifts when they work for a company versus independent contracting, but this is another case (like salary negotiation) where it should be the same. If your client asked you to do something illegal y
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a much more clear and concise way to introduce it, but on the other hand, the topic doesn't seem all that useful to someone without exposure to some fundamentals, so it seems fine to me if it
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
Fair, but it's still interesting that people underestimate how much they will enjoy the conversation, even if it's with a random person on a bus who did not volunteer for an experiment.
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
> Therefore, despite the insanely large number of adjustable parameters, general solutions, that are meaningful and predictive, can be found by adding random walks around the objective landscape as a partial strategy in combination with
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
Honestly, it might partly be that I've used R somewhat irregularly and I put a lot of value in design choices that "make sense" and are easier to remember. I'm sure once you are intimately familiar with the whole base la
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
For me the appeal is less that tidyverse is great and more that the R standard library is horrible . It's full of esoteric names, inconsistent use and order of parameters, unreasonable default behavior, behavior that surprises you com
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
I was definitely expecting you'd need a higher sample size for the Q-Q plots to start looking good. All the points in other comments about drawbacks or poorly behaved distributions are well taken, and this is nothing new, but wow it re
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
Reminds me of a conversation I had recently about the alcohol industry. It's not so bad if your local crappy bar markets to local underage college kids. But when sketchy tactics exist and are allowed at the scale of the biggest compan
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
Love this. Sometimes being able to work on a phone is perfect for things that need to percolate a little while you walk around or do something mindless at the same time. I put some effort into finding a good writing and markdown rendering a
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
Personally, my feeling is that the median job application process was always this absurd , and the difference is only that the AI interviewer 1) is more obviously absurd, and 2) helps subject only the candidate to this huge waste of time
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
> But what we can do is be the change we want. Just make my own little oasis. Find other oases and hook ‘em all up. Perfectly said and I think this is applicable far beyond websites.
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
Cool! Seems to be citing this nice post here: http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html I didn't realize the biggest reason against it is that the majority of headline questions aren&#x
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
These cheating methods always seem far-fetched until I remember that getting that good at cycling is pretty far-fetched, and it's all relative to that
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by ngriffiths 1y ago
Betteridge's Law strikes again

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