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by slewis 5y ago
This comment is a roller-coaster and I love it.
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by slewis 5y ago
The parent comment does address the points, by saying that while they are downsides, the new properties of crypto _might_ outweigh them. It is nuanced, unlike the comment I am replying to.
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by slewis 5y ago
Refactoring is much easier in a well typed codebase. When refactoring is easier, it happens more often, which means code quality and readability are higher, which reduces the likelihood of every other kind of error.
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by slewis 5y ago
I stumbled on this excellent article from 2015 that describes a really cool mechanism for tracing function execution in Python. This technique is used in the [autograd library]( https://github.com/HIPS/autograd ), which
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Tracing Functions in Python(theorangeduck.com)
11 points by slewis 5y ago|1 comments
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by slewis 5y ago
They’re arguing: better for developers is better for users. Developers get to spend more time on building features and less on the accidental complexity that comes with supporting all of the competing platforms and frameworks.
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by slewis 5y ago
For most purposes you don’t need to train from scratch. Instead you fine-tune an existing model, on smaller amounts of data and for a fraction of the time. This is akin to teaching an adult human about a specific domain. Better to just do t
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by slewis 5y ago
You’re expressing your opinion as if it’s a cold hard truth.
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AlphaFold-ed Proteins in W&B Tables(wandb.ai)
1 points by slewis 5y ago|0 comments
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by slewis 5y ago
Love this quote from Roger Ebert. Thanks for posting it. He was a great reviewer because he loved what he did. His passion came through in everything he wrote.
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by slewis 5y ago
It’s Saturday now in many places in the world. Can you move a few thousand USD between your two primary accounts at different traditional banks before Monday?
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by slewis 6y ago
The article is paywalled. So people upvoting this, are you just upvoting for the abstract and headline alone?
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by slewis 6y ago
What did you ask?
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by slewis 6y ago
I recommend just treating undefined and null as equivalent (since you can't control which one or ones third-party libraries will use). Everywhere you need to check for them do `!= null` or `== null` which is an idiomatic way to check f
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by slewis 6y ago
"you can already have fast and scalable transactions through normal banking." I see this repeated a lot. I think you're saying bitcoin is no better than normal banking for moving value. Do you really believe this? Yes, in the
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Attacking the Defi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit(hackingdistributed.com)
2 points by slewis 6y ago|0 comments
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by slewis 6y ago
As others have mentioned, you can’t get rid of null, because of third-party libraries for one. Instead your code should treat them the same at comparison time: ‘== null’ is the canonical way to check for either.
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Our New Machine Learning Visualization IDE(wandb.ai)
7 points by slewis 6y ago|0 comments
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by slewis 6y ago
FWIW, our Artifacts tool can track references to data that exists in other systems, or store the data directly which allows us to ensure there are no "dark matter" users like you mentioned. It's a flexible system.
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by slewis 6y ago
Shameless plug: my company Weights & Biases ( https://wandb.com ) has tackled this in a different way. We make tools to keep track of results across your pipelines regardless of how you choose to orchestrate execution. This is
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by slewis 6y ago
I think novelty of a moment relative to your recorded memories affects how you perceive the duration of that moment. More novel moments are perceived as lasting longer. As life goes on novelty of new moments goes down. You could say this ex
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by slewis 6y ago
It’s interesting that folks are generally giving Trump the benefit of the doubt. There are many comments to the effect of “while there is no public evidence, maybe the US government has secret evidence that TikTok has broken the law.” Trump
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by slewis 6y ago
Sounds like you’re not convinced.
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by slewis 6y ago
It's fair to call out Atlassian & Jira here. But I want to give them some credit. They recently rolled out a Jira change that was a huge step in the right direction (navbar at the top that can take you directly to projects and comm
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by slewis 6y ago
In reinforcement learning, you typically need to run many copies of an environment (an Atari emulator for example) to collect experience for your agents. Environment code usually makes more sense on a CPU, because it’s a lot more branchy an
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Using GitHub Actions for for MLOps and Data Science(github.blog)
3 points by slewis 6y ago|0 comments
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by slewis 6y ago
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#64-544-264-16-1152-4-64-528-66-...
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by slewis 6y ago
grep
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by slewis 6y ago
Did your business get off the ground?
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by slewis 6y ago
Yes. It’s built by Microsoft and has huge adoption. Typescript is here to stay.

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