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by shoo 5y ago
not clear if it is the easiest target to short, given that many people who use tether are fairly skeptical about how/if the tokens are backed by assets but use it anyway (if the recent Bloomberg story is accurate).
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by shoo 5y ago
Compact is a fine description. If you can pin down exactly what benefit you expect a more compact representation to offer, that might suggest a word that better communicates the intent of the encoding. One potential benefit is that the numb
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i wonder how this compares with einsum https://ajcr.net/Basic-guide-to-einsum/ > The einsum function is one of NumPy’s jewels. It can often outperform familiar array functions in terms of speed and memory efficiency
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> All the imaging datasets have been segmented manually, by one to four raters, following the same annotation protocol, and their annotations were approved by experienced board-certified neuro-radiologists. Annotations comprise the GD-en
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different angle (maybe unhelpful): which kinds of customers do you aim to market the API service to? e.g. if you're trying to sell to small businesses, the overwhelming majority of them may not be sophisticated enough to consume an A
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Smaldino & McElreath (2016) -- The natural selection of bad science https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.1603... > Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive fin
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also, demand for developers from businesses that provide a business context where a developer can generate a relatively large amount of value for the business.
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aha, there's some interesting stuff in "productization of Stan" talks from stancon 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vfilYZ-F3A
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There's also a path-dependent local optimisation aspect to HN comment threads. All things equal, threads that are higher up the page during the right time window get more eyeballs and more engagement, which might encourage people to ha
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tangent: i would dearly love to read a similar article focusing on practical advice on industrial application of statistical modelling, probabilistic programming & Bayesian inference
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contrast: here's a fun interview with Matt Godbolt (of Compiler Explorer https://godbolt.org/ ) where he explains how he first learned to program -- first by typing Basic source code listings for games out of magazines
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wild tangent, focusing on the stated example, not the filter implementation: > Suppose that you are given a database of users where only a small percentage are ‘paying customers’ (say 5% or less). You can write an SQL query to check whe
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> Can you explain a bit more? Not the parent commenter, but i'll attempt to chime in: in addition to the default "dopey" practice of measuring coverage in terms of statements of code, in addition to data coverage as mentio
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I investigated the option of using a custom git merge driver for a project where we were planning to version control a bunch of data files using git. Here's a proof of concept python merge driver I bashed together at the time to auto-m
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There's a good blog post about auto-merging JSON/XML structured data files (for game content) on the bitsquid blog from 2010: > having content conflicts is no fun either. A level designer wants to work in the level editor, not
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> (2) super easy to make and deploy a change. This one consists of a README that word-for-word works so you don't have to think. Minimizing steps with push-to-github auto-deploy is great Great advice. Minimise the energy barrier to
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that can be a good approach where the computation maps cleanly onto some C or fortran code prepared earlier and wrapped as a numpy or scipy primitive. but sometimes expressing what you want to do as a bunch of numpy operations becomes a lot
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i don't think it is necessary or sufficient for all individuals to have a deep understanding of the runtime environment. i agree that if the team needs to ship production code, it would be a good idea if at least one person in the tea
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Shown on the map as "basslink". you can find it on the southern side of australia, it's the easternmost tiny little line crossing INDIGO central. 500 MW electricity interconnector + bonus 12 core fire cable https:/&#x2F
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consider paying a visit to Will's homepage: http://bitfission.com/ Even though the site is under construction, it is still very nice, with some enjoyable tunes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction#Cri...
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adding to mdp2021's interpretation: > Boring here seems to mean "reliable and easily understandable" Another way to think about this is to consider the context that the software is used in, from the perspectives of users,
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total annihilation aircraft were pretty fun things to blob, although they were fragile and vulnerable to splash damage, particularly to the flak weapons that were added in the expansion. a glorious thing about total annihilation was the bal
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the most recent publication with "hexagon" in the title from the quoted scientist, Leigh Fletcher, is: R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega, J.F. Rojas, A.A. Simon, T. Barry, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia, A. Antuñano, K.M. Sayanagi, M. Delcroi
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> I really wonder why would anyone self-host GitHub. Gitlab has a much more feature rich, mature and cheap offering. before i understood your comment i was going to reply "security, data security & control" -- as a reason o
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thank you for sharing -- as i was reading through i tried to understand what about the workflow was specific to github actions vs other CI automation. > GitHub Actions make our pipelines accessible to any developer on the team Do you rec
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> even markov chains can lead to behavior that looks this way. What a fun project, thank you for sharing it! re: > Once we created the creatures, we set up their odors, which enable our creatures to smell them. When we have odors and
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re: uber cadence (see also the commercialised open source fork https://temporal.io/ by some of the engineers who designed cadence) -- it isn't a rules engine, the problem it is trying to solve is highly reliable fault-
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if you're in the mood for learning stuff, or can cultivate an interest in a subject with some academic coverage: journal articles, preprints, textbooks.
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Recently I've been lucky enough to work on a software project that requires a bunch of probabilistic calculations -- so I've been needing to learn about and apply one-dimensional numerical root finding methods that were state of t

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