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The one where we stop wishing AI or whatever other toy du jour will solve all our problems. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don't buy your utopia, no matter the label. I guess my utopia is where people stop making uto
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Apache Calcite(calcite.apache.org)
2 points by qsort 4y ago|0 comments
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by qsort 4y ago
> I suppose there's a spectrum between those two ends as well and most people find comfort somewhere in between. Yes, I'm going to pull a Homer Simpson right there: it sure is nice we have digital magic beans we can give to oth
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by qsort 4y ago
The usual definition of an empire is a state where a dominant group uses an imperial elite to extract resources from peripheral groups. If you accept this definition, the USSR was an empire in the exact same sense the Romans or the British
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by qsort 4y ago
I think there's a further split between "academic experience" and "real world experience". I'm mostly a developer to be honest, but my job title is technically "data scientist". From my experience mos
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by qsort 4y ago
Went on a tangent on Wikipedia and found this: > assume that the pair of reduced fractions a/c < b/d has the property that the reduced fraction with smallest denominator lying in the interval (a/c, b/d) is equal to
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by qsort 4y ago
Are you seriously trying to imply that Bitcoin has a greater chance of survival than the concept of a nation state? Is this a real opinion you're holding in your head?
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by qsort 4y ago
Machine learning is way too generic of a term. Everything from linear regressions to neural models is technically "machine learning". Language models are right now at the very top of the peak of inflated expectations. It's st
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by qsort 4y ago
Until Mojave it came with PHP. It's probably a relic of a time when installing runtimes/system software wasn't as easy.
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Beyond a relatively small set of standard symbols and functions, notation is dependent on the field or subfield you're studying, so a "guide to mathematical notation" is not really possible. However: > it takes me multiple
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> There is no reason why the above cannot work both as math notation and as code. \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2}
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by qsort 4y ago
Yes, of course there are. Now, imagine you're a language model, and given the prompt "I'm going to write code to explain what a finite summation is", try to predict the probability that what follows is "and I'm
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by qsort 4y ago
Article is mostly fine, but there's a point I vehemently disagree with: you should not , absolutely not translate math notation to code. Math is equational and declarative. When you write: S = \sum_{i=1}^{100} (2i + 1) you ar
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by qsort 4y ago
A specific instance of a salary negotiation can be reasonably modeled as a zero-sum game. My broader point is that zero-sum sub-games don't make the entire game zero-sum.
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Some aspects are adversarial, some aspects aren't. How much compensation I get is adversarial. How much documentation I write or how many internal tools I develop isn't adversarial, not even if you put la liberté guidant le peupl
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by qsort 4y ago
The fact that crypto people will tell you with a straight face that the irreversibility of transfers is a feature and not a bug should be enough of a tell...
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by qsort 4y ago
> Java hate I don't hate Java, I work with it every day and as you say it's a practical language that gets stuff done with minimal hassle. The reason why it's hard to stomach is that it's the infrastructure of the fut
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Yes, I can't wrap my head around the fact that VS Code and Teams came out of the same company. That the same people who thought "it's a good idea to use CS theory to add a type system to Javascript" are the same people w
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by qsort 4y ago
I quickly skimmed it. It seems like a very decent introduction to the topic for a non-technical audience (it even points out the relation between TMs and Godel's first), but I can't for the life of me figure out why every pop-cult
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I have nothing to reply except that as far as I'm concerned this is fanfiction.
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This is a good primer: https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower... The parallel with AI GP is making is very interesting. People at the time thought air power would be transformative in wa
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by qsort 4y ago
I'm pretty much in the same boat and I don't even like Python the language. The ecosystem and extensibility is just so insanely productive it even rivals Excel... In re Rust: I feel one of the mistakes most people make is taking R
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by qsort 4y ago
I know it's not the same, but the implication is that an influx of effectively unlimited content will change the equation for consumers. I don't think it will: even in the world of human-written books, human-made TV, human-streame
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I see this take a lot and I don't get why this is different from what we have right now. > Unlimited 24/7 AI streamers on Twitch. So basically Twitch as it is? > Unlimited 24/7 AI TV shows and movies (RIP Netflix, Holly
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> That's exactly what they do though. > and internalizing this is extremely important for beginning math students. I'm not saying that you're wrong, because, well, you aren't. But does the choice of notation help h
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Yeah, but what's the difference then?
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There are two types of data scientists(medium.com)
1 points by qsort 4y ago|0 comments
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Who exactly claims Erlang is dead? The referenced article is SEO-infected garbage that also claims Haskell and Perl are dead.
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The point is why people have more trouble parsing (+ 2 3) than they have parsing (2 + 3). I agree with you (contra GP) that path dependency is a fine reason to prefer infix. Continuing with what we're used to is very often the prefer
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Hy: https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/ I tend to stick to vanilla python though, mainly because Hy is too much of an hassle for my use cases.

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