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by rxm 4mo ago
Nice project. I’m curious to see how it writes after instruct.
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by rxm 2y ago
What used to be feature engineering a decade or more ago now seems to have shifted to developing distributed representations. LLMs use word tokens (for words or the entities in images). But there are many more. The 3D Fields (or whatever th
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by rxm 5y ago
I also prefer to number just the important equations. One of the advantages of numbering all equations is that the reader can binary search an equation by number. I try to mitigate that loss by providing page numbers or section numbers. Pr
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by rxm 5y ago
One of my pet theories is that flimsy homes reflect an economics signaling problem: it is hard to prove to a buyer the value of quality. Whereas size is easier. As a suburban home owner, I would have preferred the quality-square footage poi
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by rxm 5y ago
I also like Contact, which I think of as Sagan’s struggle with reconciling religion and science for himself. Also, I nlike what the article mentions, I recall the book being based on the script.
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by rxm 6y ago
I got through graduate school and over a decade of research with my inexpensive but very smooth Uni-ball cylinders (or classic roller) micro, 0.5mm pens. They were light, with a minimal and elegant design, inexpensive, and wrote great. The
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by rxm 6y ago
I would have included symbolic algebra systems to the list. Many famous calculations in physics and mathematics may not have been attempted without them. Macsyma and Reduce paved the way for Mathematica and Maple. There are still many sy
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by rxm 6y ago
Amazing things can happen when cellular automata have symmetries. Conserve number and momentum and you're a few steps from the HPP gas [0]. Make the momentum flow a bit more isotropic, and you are on your way to the FHP gas [1]. The h
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by rxm 6y ago
Some URL shorteners provide a copy of their mappings to the Internet Archive as a promise that if they stop functioning for any reason the archive will continue to provide the mapping (and make the mapping file available). [0]: https:&#x2F
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by rxm 7y ago
Until the early 2010s we ran our own tiny data center (six to eight racks in two separate locations). When we re-evaluated whether to have the racks hosted somewhere else, it worked out way cheaper to run the machines ourselves. But when
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by rxm 7y ago
> any Internet user who uploads a copyrighted work could find themselves subject to a largely unappealable $5,000 penalty Shared a viral amateur video? I understood that this law would allow a troll firm to contact the video creator an
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by rxm 7y ago
In most organizations I have interacted with getting data with known sampling is always a problem. “The temperature sensor sends a measurement every 5 minutes.” Except, I learned after a lot of debugging, when the air-conditioner gets main
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by rxm 7y ago
There are many aspects of a library of technical books that I miss online: the curation process, the higher bit rate once you are holding the book, and the lack of distractions in the library. What I fear may go away is the long form books
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by rxm 8y ago
What awk and send are to files of lines, jq is to json. I find it indispensable on the command line. Jq is a functional language. It took me a bit to get used to it, but now it is one of the first tools I install in a new machine. The l
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by rxm 8y ago
One of the conversations was about reading. Let the kids read anything: comic books, fun novels, fantasy picture books. He re-assured me that they would eventually expand into other things. Martin was right.
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by rxm 8y ago
When I was a graduate student, in the late 80s, I was waiting for a flight to Los Alamos in Albuquerque. There was only one other person in the lounge, obviously also going to Los Alamos. I started chatting and he introduced himself as Ma
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by rxm 10y ago
Thanks for the example. What you just did is one of the hardest things to communicate about data. A casual user would never notice this. I find "data curation" doesn't always get the importance it deserves.
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by rxm 10y ago
I still use textmate. I started with vi, which I still use for small edits, switched to sam, back to vi when I stopped having X on my Mac, and then to textmate. I have tried sublime and atom. I am sure they can be configured to work as I
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The math of coffee brewing(phys.org)
2 points by rxm 10y ago|0 comments
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by rxm 10y ago
Does anyone know when this post was written?
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by rxm 10y ago
You are so right. Good design doesn't just pop out of nowhere. It does emerge early on, but requires work and time while the complexities of the problem are groked.
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by rxm 10y ago
Hardy's rule can be adapted to programming: to code it better, think it gooder. One big difference in productivity comes from making good design decisions early on and not taking shortcuts that weeks later turn into spaghetti hacks.
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by rxm 10y ago
Nice read on how to check your rsyncs.
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by rxm 10y ago
The mechanics of creating a manuscript are not the big problem. Meaningful and honest peer review, assignment of credit among authors and from future developments, better matching between manuscripts and readers are some of the things that
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by rxm 10y ago
It seems to me that art and science need to go together. Places rich in technological development are also great art, culinary, literary, ... hubs. To feed the cutting edge you need crazy analogies that only diverse fields provide.
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by rxm 10y ago
Thank you. These, and the other answers, are great links. The Pearls book seems the right thing to get you thinking functionally.
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by rxm 10y ago
Functional data structures are another beast altogether. Okasaki's book is the only one I have on the topic. Any other suggestions?
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by rxm 10y ago
And many of these kind-of-free tools are built on top of open source code. I also feel that Open Source movement is changing.
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by rxm 10y ago
I wonder if security patches will be free.
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by rxm 10y ago
I was on a slow connection, so it took some time to download. This appears to be a draft of a Mathematical Methods for Engineers textbook. Its 502 pages start out with multivariable calculus, then go through lots of linear algebra, and end

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