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by porcoda 2y ago
This problem spans the sciences, not just ML. In the ML space I can see the IP issue people might claim given the commercial potential these days, but given that the same reproducibility issue arises in domains with no obvious IP protection
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by porcoda 2y ago
A surprisingly large number of people here are sensitive when articles or opinions don’t agree with them. The flag and downvote are their usual weapons of choice. It’s odd to blow off “politics” that impact trade and business on a site cr
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by porcoda 2y ago
Get into a different part of the industry: I’ve never touched any of that stuff and have gotten on quite fine for 30 years so far. From the outside, the software engineering world of the web-centric tech industry is one that sounds absolut
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by porcoda 2y ago
This guy keeps spamming this package here. Polynomial time approximation algorithms for NP complete problems are not a big deal and are pretty well known for different problems. Yes, they’re useful, but I don’t think anyone in theoretical
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by porcoda 2y ago
Yup! I recently took a pretty substantial project I wrote in 2006 in Java that was sitting in a tar file, unpacked it, and it ran just fine with a current JVM. Even better, I was able to compile it again with no problems: again, with a mo
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by porcoda 2y ago
Tutorial link too hard to click? Seriously: these comments inevitably come up for most language related pages, and I don’t see how they don’t fall under the site guidelines of “Please don't post shallow dismissals”.
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by porcoda 2y ago
It’s happening in other parts of the research world too: a couple colleagues of mine were talking recently about a paper we found at a conference last year that had a web page to go along with it with a domain and fancy graphics and such.
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by porcoda 2y ago
Publication metrics. This has been a problem for at least the last few decades, especially when it comes to papers from some parts of the world. Before the current breed of low quality journals, we saw this happening with conferences that
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by porcoda 2y ago
If you read the original post carefully, side loading wouldn’t solve the issue. The issue is app developers on iOS either focus on streaming or fill their apps with ad garbage. There is nothing stopping developers from building an app tha
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by porcoda 2y ago
Nothing is shocking about the insurance industry anymore since they’ve been pulling this kind of thing for years. To me the most shocking thing is the people who defend them. I understand the drive to make money and build huge businesses:
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by porcoda 2y ago
The rise? Those kinds of languages have always been here and widespread. If anything you’re seeing the tapering off of the rise in other languages (JS predominantly) that took place over the last 15 years or so.
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by porcoda 2y ago
I’m not seeing what the issue is with ollama. Can you elaborate? There are tons of open source projects that other stuff gets built upon: that’s part of the point of open source.
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Shoddy commentaries–a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers–on the rise(science.org)
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by porcoda 2y ago
I’ve never understood the attitude of “dreamed for years to get into FAANG”. I’d guess you’ll regret it if you have an attachment to being able to tell other people you work for one of those companies, or are attached to the compensation p
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by porcoda 2y ago
This is basically a problem of automatic vectorization and parallelization. This is not a new area: if you’re curious about it there is literature about this in the compilers and high performance computing world going back to the 70s. Sho
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by porcoda 2y ago
About 4 years ago I was at a VC pitch day and one of the teams rehearsing their pitch before hand was basically proposing this for augmented reality. I was mildly horrified that people saw that sort of thing as something people would want,
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by porcoda 2y ago
Faith is for church, not engineering.
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by porcoda 2y ago
Accessible to whom? I work in a field that uses things like Modelica and it reads just fine to me.
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by porcoda 2y ago
The “trends in software” is the problem here: we’ve gotten greedy as developers and basically build assuming resources don’t matter. I am quite willing to bet that if we considered resources, we’d still be able to build all the stuff we wa
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by porcoda 2y ago
Read up on smt-lib: learning how to encode problems in that is a good way to start. The Python z3 bindings are a good starting point to play with it too.
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by porcoda 2y ago
Interesting post, but I’m not sure this really speaks to what goes into actually writing what would be considered a “fast” SAT solver. It seems more like a post about how SAT pops up in a lot of places if you look at them right. For the s
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by porcoda 2y ago
One thing I miss from that era of machines was just the way they looked: at the time, most machines were grey or black boxes, but the SGIs had some degree of personality to them. The O2's were fun little curvy boxes. One of my favori
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by porcoda 2y ago
Given how often people seriously say things like the top level comment being responded to around here, an explicit /s is almost necessary since it can be hard to distinguish from the usual cynical dismissive comments.
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by porcoda 2y ago
Don't confuse "giving software away for free because people have been conditioned to expect software that costs nothing" with "open source". And I have no idea why ARM is on that list: sure, they broke the Intel mo
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by porcoda 2y ago
I bought one of those for this reason. I really like starlabs and want to support them, but the keyboard cover for that device is .. not great. If it had a keyboard similar to the apple ipad keyboard (the expensive one with backlighting -
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by porcoda 2y ago
I use it regularly. Mostly for visualization and prototyping ideas. I’ve tried over the years to replace it with Python/Sage, but the giant library of builtin functions always pulls me back. Plus, the lisp-ish language I prefer over
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by porcoda 2y ago
Sometimes it seems that people who write these kinds of pieces forget that not everyone in the world does web or even web-adjacent work, and node.js is something we don’t even consider to be part of our ecosystem. Rewriting useful things i
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by porcoda 2y ago
Distributed memory parallel computing library. Most common in supercomputers with a high performance interconnect where you want to run one program that coordinates separate instances of itself via message passing (“SPMD” - single program
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by porcoda 2y ago
I picked up a Hidizs player on Amazon as my modern iPod equivalent. Biggest use case for me: I don’t want a phone or device that does stuff other than music. Some moments I want something that doesn’t tempt me with distractions, apps, or
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by porcoda 2y ago
I’ve migrated to swift for some nontrivial projects that were formerly C++. Quite happy so far, and didn’t find rust nearly as pleasant when I tried the same thing there. I don’t want explicit memory management very often, so ARC works gr

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