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by prionassembly 5y ago
> of all time This is a little extreme. "Teen spirit", "Come as you are", "Lithium" are great, but "On a plain" and other heavier numbers are jarringly plasticky.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
It says something about the power of branding that my first eye scan parsed this as "Authorization in Microsoft Word".
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Self Reliance(archive.vcu.edu)
1 points by prionassembly 5y ago|0 comments
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by prionassembly 5y ago
I have Discord and Telegram groups for my blogs. I think most people that reach it bounce after seeing how loooong and hard to parse (at first glance) my posts are, but there's three or five people who AFAIK are reading me. Ima just go
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Yea, but this complexity is not inherent to code.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Expressivity and automatic enforcement are completely orthogonal. Some pseudocode in academic papers is sublimely expressive, but can't be typed directly on a computer.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Haskell is very powerful, but I don't think this article presents anything that's widely available in popular languages right now. I'd be very skeptical that TypeScript isn't expressive enough to do Maybe and Either; I w
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Tuples (or namedtuples/dataclasses if you must have named fields, which in Haskell too is additional syntax) are product types, enums are sum types. You should look into functools.singledispatch if you're doing business logic with
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by prionassembly 5y ago
I used to go to Brasilia 3-4 times a month for work. If you got on a Tuesday morning flight you could rub shoulders with congressmen, top-level cabinet ministers, supreme court justices and so on. Many would easily engage you in conversatio
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Yeah. I was kind of infatuated with the UMAP paper when it first came up (and working through it to build intuition led me to persistent homology and other fun stuff), but it's far too complex to work as a "plug-in tool" that
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by prionassembly 5y ago
You keep using that word.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
UMAP.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
PCA is pretty close to optimal in situations where you want to preserve global structure and variance-covariance matrices are highly informative. This comes down to the min-max theorem for Rayleigh quotients; I won't grandstand going
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Doesn't seem to be a Metafilter.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Qapla'! (Are you somewhy trying to emulate rms's looks?)
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by prionassembly 5y ago
I only briefly knew R in grad school (circa 2007) but I lived inside Stata for about 7 years, and yeah, while specific frustrations vary, the general tenor... Then -- I once made a meme to that Oliver Stone Vietnam movie that said "Thi
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by prionassembly 5y ago
This kind of discourse sort of exculpates the outraged. People have agency, however imperfect. We've gotten in a rut of blaming platforms for people's behavior -- both assholes that post in social media and brittle-porcelaine peop
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by prionassembly 5y ago
These things shouldn't make you this angry. - BLM is unusually opaque about how it uses donations, particularly for something that's promoted by XKCD (usually a seal of quality). - The current understanding of gender is very ver
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The 50-loc Python unit test framework(github.com)
2 points by prionassembly 5y ago|0 comments
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by prionassembly 5y ago
What aggravates me the most is seeing people argue that "first amendment applies only to government, corporations are free to do as they wish". Yes, but didn't we used to be in favor of free speech as an abstract dignity of h
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by prionassembly 5y ago
I made my own graph-based note-taking tool where you don't write notes, just titles. It's built on Streamlit and really rickety, but (when I have time to tend to it, which I haven't for months with the baby) it's been a
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Gate gate paragate parsamgate bodhi svaha!
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Respectfully, can I ask a couple questions? - Do you see yourself as a "new" or "recent" woman who's learning about female things now? (E.g. did you know what a pessary was? Did you read women's magazines in th
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by prionassembly 5y ago
"Unusually strong neodymium magnets" were a popular young-adult toy in the late 2000s to early 2010s. I had them both in flat discs and little balls. Now that I have a baby crawling around I pray that I haven't misplaced any
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Table presents p = Prob(knows word | male). The unconditional probability P(male) is around 1/2 or a little less. Then Prob(male | knows word) = Prob(knows word | male) P(male) / P(knows word). --- Now, we're not given P(know
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by prionassembly 5y ago
I mean, "not safe for work" doesn't mean "immoral". Beach volleyball isn't something you should be watching at work, at least not in the kind of open office plan where everybody sees your screen. There's a
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by prionassembly 5y ago
It's possible to hold the opinion that it'd be better if we had waited 10 or 20 years more. Large-scale societal changes -- even ones you think are well past due -- are filled with Chesterton fences.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
Now, be nice.
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by prionassembly 5y ago
What he seems to be saying is that it was bad for democracy back then . Maybe it would be terrible if Napoleon had access to nuclear weapons in the early 1800s. Am I saying we should have let the Rape of Nanking go on indefinitely?
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by prionassembly 5y ago
This is a common malicious misrepresentation of conservative commentary in general: even a slightly counter-progressive reading of history (maybe things haven't just gotten better and better in every possible way) is often painted as w

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