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by perrygeo 3y ago
Writers get a bit dualistic on this topic. It's not "sitting in a hammock and dreaming up the the entire project" vs. "hacking it out in a few sprints with no plan". You can hack on code in the morning, sit in a ham
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I hadn't seen the Fourier paper before, nice. He doesn't really go into CO2 but focuses more on general atmosphere heating. I really appreciate the translator's notes. Eunice Foot (1856) and John Tyndall (1859) independently
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by perrygeo 3y ago
My take (not OP) is that it's not so much the technical features of Lisp itself, but the fact that other languages evolved competing features. Over the years, they have slowly chipped away at Lisp's advantages. 50 years ago, Lisp
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Hypertable insert rates are faster and more predictable over time . Each individual insert might incur a small bit of extra overhead, but they scale forever since each temporal chunk is indexed separately vs a regular table where the entir
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Exactly this. In my experience, the desperate people with money problems tend to be gamblers. There's a distinctly unhealthy relationship with money that is directly caused by gambling. It distorts their world view to the point where
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by perrygeo 3y ago
It was trained on content from the internet. I'd be massively surprised if it somehow wasn't toxic. Humanity (or a small portion of it) is full of assholes. As much as that sucks, shouldn't the embeddings reflect the reality
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Thank you for the balanced take. Stopping oil cold turkey would be a disaster for our civilization. Some think of oil merely as fuel for our cars and trucks, maybe for heating homes and businesses. Stopping all that would be relatively easy
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Have you ever seen anyone build a software project end-to-end using only "AI" to write code? It can be done and the process is illuminating, specifically when you look at what the AI actually contributes. At the very minimum, you
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by perrygeo 3y ago
In an over-medicated society, this is a disaster. The same people telling you "you need to take X to deal with disease Y. Without X you'll cease to function!" are the same people saying "Gee, don't know why X isn&#x
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I've seen this too many times: Developer gets obsessed with unit testing everything in the codebase. Tons of work, months later we have 100% coverage. Great. Then the rate of defects in production increases or stays steady. Why? Confid
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I switched to an e-ink monitor earlier this year, never turning back. I still have to use my laptop screen for video calls and anything involving color graphics/animation. But the vast majority of my work is text (chat/browser&#x2
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by perrygeo 3y ago
For me, having history in a structured sqlite database is the killer feature. You can build useful reports ("histogram of run times for all pytest calls from the current directory that exited zero") in a single sql query. Sync is
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> While these mathematical ideas are grounded in data analysis, they metaphorically align with spiritual teachings that advocate for a middle path in life. You can stop reading right here. The central limit theorem and gaussian distribu
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Excellent point. I'm not sure which came first, intensive animal husbandry or grain-based agriculture. Maybe livestock was the basis for the state.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
There's a fantastic paper on this topic, "The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?" [1] Grain has a predictable harvest time, long storage time, easy to transport dry, etc. This makes it an ideal target
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Some of the recent research in the psychology of zoom fatigue supports the superiority of voice calls. The upshot: "limited access to video may promote better communication and social interaction during collaborative problem solving&qu
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by perrygeo 3y ago
In the decades before 1177 BC, there were eight empires on the Mediterranean. After, there were three barely-surviving city-states. That the "sea people" came into the picture just as things collapsed is not a coincidence. They w
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Relearning statistics with a Bayesian approach. My undergrad education was in social science research methods and I spent 4 years learning the strict frequentist approach of orthodox statistics. It made sense for highly-controlled experimen
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Exactly. Different tech and different buzzwords over the decades but the idea of building a global GIS or a spatial model of the world is not at all revolutionary. Not by half a century. "Digital Twin" is just the latest buzzword,
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Our populace isn't homogeneous though. The areas that police target far more frequently (urban, non-white, lesser educated) are the areas that are least armed. Rural, white men with college degrees are significantly more likely to have
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Yes. You've hit the essence of the problem - the choice of a prior. The scientific method gives us a way to choose a prior that fits reality. You are claiming something different, that our prior is based on subjective choices. Yep, tho
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I hoped we were past the point where people describe priors as "subjective". Sigh. Bayes formula can be applied with complete objectivity. Inference given the same starting knowledge plus the same evidence will always yield the sa
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I've seen these before. Someone is under a lot of pressure to hire/build a team. Hence the job posts. But they're not given any hiring power or budget. Hence ghosting. Most companies would rather leave the job open unfilled t
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by perrygeo 3y ago
There were three sentences. Which one exactly was hyperbolic? - "We are leaving the conditions that work for humans and other animals". We're outside the envelope (the historical range) of biotic and abiotic conditions that d
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by perrygeo 3y ago
More philosophically, the query planner is a finely-tuned piece of engineering. If your mental model disagrees with it ("Why isn't it using the index I want?") then it's highly likely your mental model is wrong. Your dat
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by perrygeo 3y ago
For anyone curious about the difference, tldr > Levers let you move things, but if you are holding something up with a lever, you have to keep holding it — forever. A ratchet lets you drive forward motion without slipping back as soon as
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by perrygeo 3y ago
> satellites are just fantasically expensive Are they? A CubeSat can be launched for less than $100k, and their payload can contain off-the-shelf consumer hardware. That's what some upper-middle class families pay for an extra car.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Writing a prompt with sufficient detail to generate the "correct" code is not a priori easier than just writing the code! There's no logical reason to think it should. Most genAI users intuitively known this and attempt to st
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by perrygeo 3y ago
In 2022, the world bought 99.8 million barrels per day. In 2023, we bought 102.4. The IEA data says explicitly that demand is growing. There is no debate about that. But I get your point re: the word "curbed". The word is mathemat
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I've worked on several k8s clusters professionally but only a few that used a service mesh, Istio mainly. I'll give you the promise first, then the reality. The promise is that all of the inter-app communication channels are fully

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