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by reedf1 1y ago
This is sad to hear, <= 4 hours before bed is the only window of my day for exercise. I can make an effort for the morning but I would need to radically rearrange my life.
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by reedf1 1y ago
If there is not a human-explainable reason a model has made a prediction - and it's just a statistical blob in multi-dimensional feature space (which we cannot introspect) perceived improvement over humans is simply overfitting. It wil
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by reedf1 1y ago
Yes exactly - and more broadly pretty much all food consumed globally is automatically selected by tolerance of storage + packaging + shipping. Many varietals and whole specimens have been lost to the annals of history because they cannot m
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by reedf1 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
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by reedf1 2y ago
I do not understand why you feel entitled to the domain. If I was entitled to the domain of every side project I had, I would be a multimillionaire in domain assets.
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by reedf1 2y ago
Middle class does not translate across the atlantic. Middle in the UK might be what an American calls upper. Upper class in the UK is reserved for royalty.
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by reedf1 2y ago
Participants were instructed to maintain their current dietary habits and physical activity levels for the duration of the study. My understanding is that creatine increases the amount of available energy for muscles to
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by reedf1 2y ago
Even writing articles on this stuff feels like insecurity. Just let the AI fad come and go; the real engineers will take what works and everyone else will fail. The tide goes in - the tide goes out.
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by reedf1 2y ago
I think the problem is largely the enormous wealth extraction from the working class (this includes any working person, including high-tech and finance workers) to the old asset-owning class. Property prices (and rents) and income taxes a
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by reedf1 2y ago
We are comparing guns and bullets. The fact that you can genetically engineer a pathogen vector to deliver a gene drive is not well known to the public.
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by reedf1 2y ago
Which replication? Of the virus or of gen 0?
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by reedf1 2y ago
I apologies for my other reply - which was flagged - perhaps I was rude. You are wrong because there are ways to introduce a gene drive through pathogens - e.g. you introduce a self-generating CRISPR payload through a pathogen vector for wh
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by reedf1 2y ago
I encourage all to look up what a gene drive is - find replace all mentions of 'mosquito' with 'human'. This makes a nuclear bomb look positively provincial - all it would take is one disgruntled post-doc. Only by the
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by reedf1 2y ago
How does this differ from Chalice? Or is it a replacement now that it is being deprecated?
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by reedf1 2y ago
Did you know that most people outside the US do not intuitively understand the arbitrary US delineations for North, South, West, Midwest? And yet, "they expect everyone to know they are talking specifically about..."
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by reedf1 2y ago
As a data engineering dabbler; parquet in S3 is beautiful. So is DuckDB. What an incredible match.
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by reedf1 2y ago
If you can detect EBS failure better than Amazon - I'd be selling this to them tomorrow.
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by reedf1 2y ago
I read 10-20 books a year - but I think this obsession with book reading is excessively chauvinistic. If the benefit of reading is consuming complex long form stories, don't we get that from long-running TV series, audiobooks, visual n
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by reedf1 2y ago
I actually agree - it's part incentives. And it is important for hard sciences to learn these lessons as well.
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by reedf1 2y ago
Statistics are not values you collect - but the analysis you perform. In data with many confounding variables or many degrees of freedom, the only way to be honest about what the data shows is through statistics. Statistics is what allows
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by reedf1 2y ago
Many scientists in non-mathematical fields are wrote taught "how to write a paper" in undergrad. P-values and statistical significance are taught completely devoid of context, essentially just a step in your final analysis. Many s
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by reedf1 2y ago
No no no. You couldn't have gotten this more wrong. The replication crisis comes from soft sciences under-powered statistical training.
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by reedf1 2y ago
The article makes a strong case that it is not due to women working; as Japan has some of the lowest female labour market participation in the developed world.
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by reedf1 2y ago
All hail the gods of OCaml. As far as I can tell Jane Street's use of OCaml serves a dual function in talent acquisition and retention. 1. You attract the kind of Haskell adjacent academic talent who proves their natural curiosity by t
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by reedf1 2y ago
Yes, not something I would write in production code. But very easy for me to think about in a stream of consciousness. Usually I complete the above challenges in about 5-10mins.
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by reedf1 2y ago
Hi - for https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/5 (Part 2): instructions = [] updates = [] with open("input.txt") as file: for line in file: line = line.rstrip()
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by reedf1 2y ago
Sure I have a "live" example in my 2024 AoC code. I'll add it here when I get home.
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by reedf1 2y ago
This is a sort I use all the time. Especially in coding challenges (AoC) because I'm usually lazy. It's nice to see it formally evaluated, it feels very intuitive to me.
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by reedf1 2y ago
You can also have fast equity and slow cash. This is kind of oversimplifying business accounting. Learning some basic accounting may quite literally pay dividends for any project.
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by reedf1 2y ago
And as we know, success in one area is never a source of overconfidence in another.

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