oddthink

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by oddthink 3y ago
On Mac at least, you just have to download the zipped disk image and copy over the contents. I just put it in ~/Applications, and it worked.
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by oddthink 3y ago
Naive question, but how do they distinguish themselves from Julia, which is also in that space?
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by oddthink 3y ago
I've found LLMs to be very useful for, well, text-based things. I've not found the "bot" implementations useful, but they're better tech for summarization, highlighting important sections (i.e. what sentence of this
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by oddthink 3y ago
Clustering. I used the correlation clusterer from here for a problem that I could represent as a graph of nodes with similarity measures (this data looks like this other data) and strong repelling features (this data is known to be differen
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by oddthink 3y ago
It was fine, back in the early days (I started with 1.4-ish). I just downloaded the tarball, unpacked, configured, make, installed into /usr/local on my workstation, then downloaded and stuck any packages into site-packages. Numer
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by oddthink 3y ago
It's worth it whenever you have a reasonable amount of training data. You can get substantial quality improvements automatically. Unless you're doing some kind of prompt-optimization, prompt-tuning is a lot of random guessing and
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by oddthink 3y ago
Wouldn't a vector database just get you nearest-neighbors on the embeddings? How would that answer a generative or extractive question? I can see it might get you sentiment, but would it help with "tell me all the places that are
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by oddthink 4y ago
I do prefer tcl quoting to bash quoting, but you do have some mental overhead when writing procedures, since unpaired braces inside quotes may do surprising things, if you're thinking "writing a command" rather than "raw
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by oddthink 4y ago
Oh yes. This is definitely a pet peeve of mine. CGS is so much nicer. I did E&M from Jackson before he converted it to MKS, and I still can't keep all those epsilon_0 and mu_0's straight. (Not that it comes up all that much.)
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by oddthink 5y ago
More on topic, I've experimented some with Glamorous Toolkit, and I really liked what I saw of it, but (somewhat ironically), I need to dive more into its own model and understand it before I can use it for anything real. For example,
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by oddthink 5y ago
I still don't really get pair programming. Maybe it's my inner introvert, but it sounds really draining. And what about all of the non-programming time during the day? I mean, today I spent time: - Digging into the analysts dashbo
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by oddthink 5y ago
I'd definitely choose #3. I don't mind switching, but it's what I'm used to. I'd be OK with dropping it, but if we did, I'd want standard time. Permanent DST makes no sense to me. Maybe it's my astronomy b
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by oddthink 5y ago
Wow. These books were, well, foundational to me. I had a blast typing those into my C64. Then at a summer camp (CTY at F&M) I thought I was so very clever for writing a version of Nim where the computer would silently pick to go first o
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by oddthink 5y ago
I agree. Enough already. Isn't this covered in something like week 2 of CS 101? If you've missed that, maybe the literally decades of "ermagerd, floats!" articles would give you a hint. As someone who's worked in sc
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by oddthink 5y ago
It's definitely true. My kids go to school very close to Broadway, and it seems like something like half the parents are in some Broadway-related jobs, from performing to backstage to office, a lot of them living in Manhattan Plaza. It
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by oddthink 5y ago
I guess I'm not the target audience, but I don't see the appeal of skeuomorphism here over something like on-the-fly zone creation tools. Can someone help me understand the market here? I've know that the first thing dice rol
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by oddthink 5y ago
I can see this as being a problem, like you said, if there isn't communication, but I don't think that demanding a "PBFD" expert is realistic or scalable. But in my experience the PM is technical enough to understand wha
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by oddthink 5y ago
Why do agile-folks seem to hate product managers so much? This comes out in #13, #19, and #20 (well depending on exactly what they mean by "managing".) I find it really helps to have someone dedicated to the product side, so they
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by oddthink 5y ago
I've been using this fairly heavily recently (internal to Google), to the point where I'm thinking of investing in writing an org-babel mode for it. It's a really nice way to structure queries!
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by oddthink 5y ago
+1, I've been very impressed by FreshDirect. I have a Morton Williams across the street (crowded, bad produce, iffy selection) and a Whole Foods around the block (pretty nice, but long lines and I didn't really want to go in befor
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by oddthink 5y ago
As a Googler, this sounds a little over-sensationalized to me (mostly because of the choice of quotes), but I bet there was some unpleasant sausage-making going on as well. First of all, the quote from Jack Menzel about figuring out home an
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by oddthink 5y ago
What do you find lacking in the iPad Pro? I'm curious, because I have a 12.3" pixel slate that I'm not a fan of, because it's too big to work well as a tablet (cumbersome to hold, etc.), and inconvenient to attach the so
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by oddthink 6y ago
+1 for this. I was just bitten by this last week, when I switched from using a custom container where size() was an int to a std::vector where size() is size_t. The code was check-all-pairs, e.g. for (int i = 0; i < container.size()
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by oddthink 6y ago
This gets directly to my main question each time I see geometric algebra show up: how does it fit in with the "normal" notation of differential geometry? What assumptions does it make for a metric, what is the equivalent of parall
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by oddthink 6y ago
Wow, a little hostile here? My assertion, that R's NaN is not "non-standard", seems upheld by the article. It's a quiet NaN with a payload, which is well-defined by the IEEE 754 standard. As other posters pointed out, it
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by oddthink 6y ago
It's not a "non-standard NaN". It's just a particular one, out of many possible quiet NaN values. If the Apple silicon isn't propagating the payload of the input NaN value to output, that's a violation of IEEE
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by oddthink 6y ago
Was R7RS-large ever ratified? It doesn't look so to me, but it's been so long that I'm not sure I'm looking in the right places.
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by oddthink 6y ago
Interesting! We're working on OCR on menu photos, which has some parallels in structure, but has a much smaller common vocabulary than a dictionary, almost by necessity. :-) Many menus are also available in PDF form, so we're tryi
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by oddthink 6y ago
It seems like it should be doable to train a two-tower model, or something similar, that simultaneously runs OCR on the image and tries to read through the raw PDF, that should be able to use the PDF to improve the results of the OCR. Does
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by oddthink 6y ago
No, it's used for control. But you should be thinking more like "process control" than "intelligent" control. Or to be more specific, deriving an optimal process control model via pretty hard-core plasma density rec

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