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by peatmoss 3y ago
I feel like Simon's been on a tear with these LLM postings. Simon, I really enjoying you swashbuckling through this, and then documenting your travels.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
It also feels like these codes are also closer to stated preference data than revealed preference data. “Given this permutation of factors, we’d choose to bill X, but insurance companies dictated we actually paid Y.” Would be neat to see bo
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by peatmoss 3y ago
For everyone who has only ever seen a Python, plus a language or two that Python has shared a common ancestor with, Python is self-evidently the platonic ideal of an easy language. Though I had exposure to Python before various lisps, I see
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Every Veritas tool I’ve purchased from Lee Valley has stung when I purchased it. But after I’ve been using the tool for a day or two, I don’t know how I lived without. The combination of design innovation with quality is really impressive.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
It does, however reimagine the Litany Against Fear rather well. Prompt: Please reimagine the litany against fear as the litany against beer, a humorous alteration of the original Response: Certainly! Here's a playful reimagination of t
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Also, I don’t have a link handy right now, but HN has had a number of people’s personal recipes from github make the front page.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Even better, this Serious Eats article explains fermented hot sauces in detail. Sriracha is just a subclass of fermented hot sauce that sticks mainly to sweet-hot chilies and garlic. Sriracha also tends to be sweet, so sugar is usually adde
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by peatmoss 3y ago
It’s ridiculously easy to make sriracha at home. Fermenting a mix of chilies and optionally other veggies and then blending them is a straight path to flavor country. HF’s sriracha is just one take—good, but you can do better at home.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
This is true, though in practice I so often find large, non-trivial examples of the former, but very seldom find examples of the latter. The barriers to entry are lower with python, and so I think there tends to be a lower standard for depl
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Especially if the bot could be prompted to drop testimonials about local businesses in a really self-aware way.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
From skimming, it looks like this approach requires CUDA and thus is Nvidia only. Anyone have a recommended guide for AMD / Intel GPUs? I gather the 4 bit quantization is the special sauce for CUDA, but I’d guess there’d be something c
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Per 100g was the amount, I think. Need to eat a decent quantity at that rate.
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Interesting to see mitigation of passing noise be casually mentioned as an obvious requirement. It feels significant that, as we've shifted more of the economy to knowledge work, we've placed less of an emphasis on the physical co
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I remember the bad old days of IE dominance. For this reason I’m on Firefox at work and home. I don’t want to go back.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
They were fantastic. There was some kind of marketing event at a shopping mall in upstate NY when I was young. Construx were brand new, and to my utter shock my parents bought some for me. It felt very out of character for my parents to buy
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Julia seems to be doing a better job catching up to R in this space than Python. I haven't used it personally, but the demos of Genie Framework are impressive: https://github.com/GenieFramework/Genie.jl / ht
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I'd agree with all of this. It's not so much the presence of ecosystem, it's the maturity of the ecosystem and knowing how to navigate it. Lots of competing approaches in a relatively small community makes me a little nervous
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I see it a little bit more like a meritocracy in that space that RStudio has largely won. Microsoft has certainly made an attempt to become the face of R. Remember when they purchased Revolution Analytics and started baking it into everythi
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by peatmoss 4y ago
This illustrates the point perfectly. Julia is attempting this and has a beachhead with Dataframes.jl. Confusingly though, Tidier.jl isn't really analogous to R's Tidyverse. It's more like one of a handful of meta-packages ar
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I agree 100% that this is a good thing. I had intended this as a compliment that Tidyverse had achieved this level of maturity, but failed in my under-caffeinated state. Had Tidyverse 2.0.0. been a revolution, I'd have been worried.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
The Tidyverse is a true gem in modern programming that deals with data. This release feels like a nice incremental improvement rather than a revolution. Adding lubridate as a core package will save me a few keystrokes. I also did not know a
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Ah, thank you for that context. Assuming this mechanism doesn’t have any major tradeoffs, I think it seems likely that popular packages will make use of it?
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Over the years I’ve kept coming back to Julia, like what I see, but ultimately end up with a deadline that has me reaching for R or Python. My latest foray has convinced me that the ecosystem is ready for me to double down and make it my la
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Ask HN: Is Patreon login broken for anyone else?
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This wouldn't be the first rewrite of Twitter. It feels like a Monty Python sketch: "So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp."
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by peatmoss 4y ago
This isn't really a new thing. Back when I was a planning masters student ~2009 I remember hearing about how we were part of the U.N.'s "Agenda 21" conspiracy to round up humanity into survivability zones or some such. M
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by peatmoss 4y ago
As I understand it (and this is before my time), garbage collection in lisp languages was really a downer on 70s and even 80s era hardware. I think a case could be made that C wasn't the only language at the time that could have birthe
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I think you do have to factor in ecosystem inertia, however I also feel that numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn are pretty new, all things considered. We could have (and indeed did) take different paths in the past, just none of the others (xli
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by peatmoss 4y ago
This is one of those things where I’ve lived the XKCD comic ( https://xkcd.com/793/ ). I once had a job where I was part of the supporting technical crew for some very smart people with some truly impressive accomplishme
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by peatmoss 4y ago
By weird coincidence, I was listening to the band Weather Report when I scrolled past this. Love the ASCII art here—does anyone know where this is pulling its forecast from?

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