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by saeranv 3y ago
Funny, I was thinking that the only disadvantage of the previous example is that you don't get any feedback from comments. The ability to label your "posts" seems pretty powerful too. Then your blog can be navigated by your t
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by saeranv 3y ago
Off topic, but just wanted to say I love the way this guy has repurposed a github repo to be a blog. One of the most effective integration of aesthetics and functionality of minimalism I've seen.
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by saeranv 3y ago
I think this is the first time I've heard of a successful long-term career, and general life-fufillment from one of these outlier prodigies that are doing difficult university degrees in their early teens or younger. Terence Tao's
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by saeranv 3y ago
This is such an interesting experiment, and extremely well written. But it feels half-finished. I agree with his friend's thoughts, rerunning the experiment again, with his newfound knowledge seems like the logical next step. The resul
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by saeranv 3y ago
I have a couple of naive questions about this, that hopefully someone with more knowledge can answer: 1. If the central problem is the price of imports (i.e. natural gas) outpacing exports (service sector), is this problem a downstream effe
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by saeranv 3y ago
A country's "number of people" isn't an independant parameter that you can just slide down so that your GDP/person increases. If you reduce the "number of people" (i.e. by reducing immigration) you are typ
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by saeranv 3y ago
In architecture school, we were taught that drawing is a powerful tool for thinking and analysis, and were drilled with different techiniques to articulate our ideas quickly and concisely in an image. Our professors were heavily influenced
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by saeranv 3y ago
The animated illustrations of the "arthropod" biomechanics is fascinating. It sheds some light on why arthropods would be interesting enough to draw in their own community of enthusiasts. Spearing: https://en.wikipedia.
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by saeranv 3y ago
Slightly off topic, but am I the only one that dislikes the GUI-based method for adding and reviewing anki cards? Anyone find a decent terminal-based plugin for anki? I've actively looked in the past, and surprisingly there are some pa
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by saeranv 4y ago
I wonder if being able to quickly retrieve a numpy array of the polygon centers would make an equivalent difference. Since then you could at least retrieve the centers from the polygon as an array you could just use numpy operations for the
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by saeranv 4y ago
Cool! Is this the same aperiodic tiling problem Fraa Jad solved in (Neal Stephenson's) Anathem?
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by saeranv 4y ago
Which is good! They're backing that claim by submitting it for peer review. It may seem like they're leapfrogging the process by getting published in the Guardian before getting validation but: a. The Guardian is promoting them,
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by saeranv 4y ago
I guess I need to experiment with this. I'm fairly conservative when it comes to experimenting with files since I find it always ends up triggering .swp file recoveries, which is not just annoying[1], but has also resulted in me accide
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by saeranv 4y ago
> - Emacs/vim's fantastic buffer/window concept, where open files are not owned by their windows. I miss this whenever I use anything else. Why is this useful? I basically treat my nvim buffers like windows. What am I miss
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by saeranv 4y ago
Did you try using leader keys? The issue with key binding in vim is that because it's a modal editor, custom shortcuts with the usual modifier keys (ctrl/shift) may conflict with existing shortcuts. But that's what the leader
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by saeranv 4y ago
What do you mean when you say "interactivity"? I'm a vim user, so I feel like I'm missing some context about how emacs is used or understood here...
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by saeranv 4y ago
Of course. Anyone who agrees that the AGI is conscious, and answers no is advocating for slavery. To answer the question of whether it's conscious or not, I would think of it in terms of John Rawl's veil of ignorance[1]: you can s
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by saeranv 4y ago
But what about the person who argues that you should want to win every debate!?!?
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by saeranv 4y ago
Yeah, the post-modernists had some good ideas about offsetting the monolitic, scaleness nature of modernist design, like for example, bringing back ornamentation. Personally, I'm more partial to the dutch structuralists reactions to mo
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by saeranv 4y ago
There is real opposition to Modi's authoritarianism in India, since as a democracy, states have some relative autonomy. Tamil Nadu's DMK party is really interesting in this regard, and have a history pushing back against Modi&#x27
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by saeranv 4y ago
I'm really intrigued by this, because I like postfix notation and would love to be able to work more with in. Unfortunately, I only somewhat understand the examples! Question: Does the postfix notation allow you to chain commands toget
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by saeranv 4y ago
Does anyone else find the Polars syntax kind of clunky and ambiguous? For example, from the link, here's how Polars and Pandas handles manipulating data in a subset of a dataframe: f = pl.DataFrame({'a': [1,2,3,4,5], &#x2
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How to model a non-monotonic relation?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
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by saeranv 4y ago
This is what made me interested in using Linux for the first time!
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by saeranv 4y ago
- WSLtty ( https://github.com/mintty/wsltty ) Better than the Windows Terminal for WSL. You can work in tmux without getting strange visual artifacts, and allows you to view sixel graphics in console! Fair warning though
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by saeranv 4y ago
The main argument I see for short variable names is that it's easier to read, and interpret (yes, ironically the exact same case the other side makes). In certain contexts (for small functions, math) code is a lot easier to read when u
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by saeranv 4y ago
Yeap, me too. Especially when dealing with math/physics. Full named variables for math and physics is incredibly difficult to grok, once you're used to reading it in traditional math form.
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by saeranv 4y ago
> I'm looking for something that has a 1 degree (F not C) hysteresis... Maybe not what you're looking for, but if you're just looking for a 1F degree lag in temperature change, you can also try just increasing the heat sto
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by saeranv 4y ago
Just to give another perspective: Bullying was very, very common in my school. I bullied in Grade 2*, and over the years got bullied back. Personally, I don't think your possible causes could have applied to everyone. I just think most
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by saeranv 4y ago
If I recall correctly, the best strategy for repetitive prisoners dilemma *with communication*, is cooperation though.

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