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by siddboots 1y ago
I think both approaches are useful. AI2027 presents a specific timeline in which a) the trajectory of tech is at least somewhat empirically grounded, and b) each step of the plot arc is plausible. There's a chance of it being convincin
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by siddboots 2y ago
Maybe lack of empathy, although I don't think it's because managers are especially unempathetic people. We have a deeply encultured expectation that deference, gratitude, and loyalty are owed much more in the upward direction, tha
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by siddboots 2y ago
I like to tell my colleagues that the Heaviside function is so named because it is heavier on one side than the other.
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by siddboots 2y ago
A Gaussian process fits a single high dimensional Gaussian, for example, by treating n observations along a single dimension as a n dimensional space. Gaussian mixture models fit a large number of low dimensional Gaussians for example you m
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by siddboots 2y ago
It's just a contract - if both parties are happy to deal with the energy in bulk, then there's no problem. However, if either the buyer or seller thinks there is a risk some of the generation won't be produced, there's s
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by siddboots 3y ago
It resembles a pie chart, but if you think of it instead as like a stop watch, then it makes perfect sense.
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by siddboots 3y ago
Just a data point: I've got access to plugins as of the last hour, but no access to web browsing yet.
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by siddboots 4y ago
I love that reddit now wants you to log in to view 18+ subreddits, and that the work-around is to replace "www" with "old" in the URL, asserting that you are indeed old enough.
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by siddboots 4y ago
It’s honestly something of a marvel to see a big ol’ framework like SQLAlchemy successfully manage these big structural api changes. The changes that have lead up to v1.4 and v2.0 have been very significant improvements to the user interfac
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by siddboots 4y ago
When I was quite a bit younger I went through a Wendy Carlos obsession, and spent a lot of time with Switched On Bach, Clockwork Orange, and some of Wendy’s other synth works. Much later on, after my interests had wandered a long way from a
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by siddboots 4y ago
That's where my mind went as well - in fact, it reminded me of Guy Debord: > In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was direc
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by siddboots 4y ago
I agree. The explosion of hype, the layers of scams, the idiocy of NFTs - all of it has put a bad taste in a lot of mouths, which is understandable, but unfortunate. It's unfortunate because distributed ledgers are so much fun to play
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by siddboots 4y ago
We've all made that mistake before.
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by siddboots 4y ago
I enjoy to agree with this article but in my belly I know it is just a story we incurable collectors tell to comfort ourselves.
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by siddboots 4y ago
Simply put, there are many people who are neither "beginners" nor "advanced". There is a section of the book titled Audience which reads > Bayes Rules! brings the power of Bayes to advanced undergraduate students an
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by siddboots 4y ago
Some more vocabulary for thinking about this is “analysis” and “synthesis”. Analysis is about breaking up a problem into isolated parts. Synthesis is reassembling the solved parts.
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by siddboots 4y ago
One fun thing to do is to take these death probabilities and throw them into a Leslie matrix [1], along with assumptions for the age-specific birth rates. From there you can simulate the projected population growth (ignoring migration) with
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by siddboots 5y ago
I largely agree with this. Occasionally it suggests a few lines that are more or less what I want, but rarely more than that. One use case that I reach for relatively often is writing a comment to describe the one line of code I want when I
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by siddboots 5y ago
They're called "Lambda Diagrams". See the inventor's homepage [1], and some animations [2]. There's actually a long and obscure history of visualizations for lambda calculus. One of the originals is "To Dissect
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by siddboots 5y ago
I love remote work, but the timing of this particular pandemic has just sucked. Two small kids at home, with my wife and I trying to share parenting and part time work - throw WFH into the mix and everything kind of falls apart.
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by siddboots 5y ago
All of Statistics by Larry Wasserman is a great introductory book from the frequentist tradition that includes some sections on Bayesian methods. It's definitely not frequentist propaganda - more like a sober look at the pros and cons
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by siddboots 5y ago
While we are airing our pet dumb theories, is there any way that a universe with a cyclic geometry, like the geometry of a sphere, could explain the accelerating universe with just gravitation? Could the attraction of the matter in our univ
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by siddboots 5y ago
I have big love for PE. I've learnt so much in the process of trying to solve some of these problems. In particular, number theory and data structures are two fields that I have come to love almost entirely because of this website. I d
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by siddboots 5y ago
This is broadly how I was thinking about it, but I don't have an intuition for why there would be a recurrence relation involving the factors of Q(m, n). What made you think of attacking it that way?
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by siddboots 5y ago
You’re implying that the only possible goal is to “get ahead”, which is not true. There are clearly other goals one can have in writing and in life.
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by siddboots 5y ago
A more “back of the envelope“ approach to handling uncertainty for this sort of thing is the “three point estimate” approach, where you give a best, worst, and most likely estimate for each sub task. These points are implicitly used to para
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by siddboots 5y ago
Maybe where you’re from that’s the accepted convention, but in some domains (e.g., scientific computing, statistical programming) it is common to mix in Greek letters . If the symbol is widely understood, it absolutely makes sense to use it
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by siddboots 5y ago
Life-cycle emissions accounting is useful if we're considering technology options or feasibility assessment for a specific project. But the linked article isn't talking about any specific project. It's talking about whether g
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by siddboots 5y ago
Yet another example of temporal ambiguity is the notion of “bringing forward” or “pushing back” a deadline. The sense employed is the opposite of the ordinary use i.e., moving “back” into the past or “forward” into the future.
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by siddboots 5y ago
Hi Will! Your talks really left a mark on me and I’ve been playing around with relational programming stuffs ever since. Thank you! While you’re here... Has there been any progress on support for rational numbers (or other number systems) i

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