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I have settled on Zettlr too and the tipping point was Zotero support. Since I'm still settling into it, I'm curious about Obsidian too. Ultimately, it's not the tool itself, but the consistency with which I use it that had i
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Sounds similar to Fastly's "Lucet" - https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-w...
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> "By transferring expert techniques to machines, we're able to analyze what was once implicit knowledge," said Akira Naito, head of Obayashi's dam technology unit. That's intriguing and reminded me of the follow
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> Reductions in office spending could likely be followed by layoffs and investments in technology that should help improve productivity with a reduced workforce, said Bill McMahon, chief investment officer of active equity strategies at
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The Busy Beaver Function
(en.wikipedia.org)
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I wish these comparisons would occur to the documenters without the need for a prompt. Also Apache Avro .. which is common with Kafka?
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Not data generation. Label generation. .. but the charitable interpretation of your question is valid - we've been doing such ensembling to make higher quality models for some time now. It's getting some good structure, practice a
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Julia also has 1-based indexing .. You get used to it pretty quickly.
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Labels are knowledge about data. If you already know some rules that work reasonably well based on your domain experience, then Snorkel lets you capture those as "labeling functions" that may not cover the whole ground or can be &
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Valid. The "fashion" point was more about P(adoption worthy tech | successful originator) != P(successful originator | adoption worthy tech)
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> direct his anger to "make good art" Here is one from me with the solo-dev/small-team in mind - https://github.com/imaginea/inai . Good or not I don't know. It came out of some reading I was doi
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> " that somehow found their ways in software engineering, out of possibly good intentions" It seems that systems and principles invented for some specific situations get rapidly entrenched as "best practice" due to t
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Google+ is now Currents?
(currents.google.com)
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Some fun folklore involving Bill Atkinson at Apple - logging "-2000" lines of code written. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
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One solution to the OP's problem is to continuously document the activity leading up to those two lines of code. That way you can point to the notes and say "here's why" .. and I've found that quite often justifiabl
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TABERT no longer on the Spider leaderboard? - https://yale-lily.github.io/spider . The top is "RATSQL v2 + BERT" testing at 65.6 for exact matches.
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On mobile devices. My recent two (relatively) cheap ($200 range) phones have both been retina .. but yeah apple drove the retina evolution and typography benefited from that greatly I think .. on mobile devices.
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I think John Ousterhout's recommendation of 'thin' interfaces and 'thick' implementations is a good heuristic that's worked well in my experience. This acts as a force that resists service proliferation that hi
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I admit to the same feeling. I like akeuomorphism .. but as with most, we probably got carried away a bit. What I liked about the flat design era (not flat design itself) was the typography - you could suddenly use any typeface you wanted b
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> The excess profits of the health-care firms are equivalent to $200 per American per year, compared with $69 for the telecoms and cable TV industry and $25 captured by the airline oligopoly. Only the five big tech “platform” firms, with
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Our local organic store (ecoindian) has returned to the older model where we take boxes/bottles to the store, fill them up and bring them back home. Thy have an easy way to weigh what we buy by taring our containers first. So I guess t
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The piece states - > “state transfer” in “Representational State Transfer” refers to navigating a state machine using hyperlinks between resources (and not, as many people seem to believe, to transferring resource state over the wire). b
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Been reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus the past few days and your comment reminded me of the beginning (quoting from memory, not exact words) - "this book will perhaps be understand only by those who've already had the thought
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Nope. When you're at the bottom of the page, you should first have to call the elevator. Then it should stop at all those levels at which other people have also called it before coming to your position. Then you get a chance to be kick
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Somehow this question of cheating and should we tell feels like the wrong question to ask but I unable to precisely state why I feel so. I believe the answer to this question would also vary among cultures ... Like what would students in Ch
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To top it, some states announced a lockdown a couple days before the country wide annoucnement. TN went into lockdown on 23rd Mar for ex. Overall, I think the local govt of some states (esply Kerala) did well by their people. However, we ar
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if you want nice DP, try Julia with Flux and Zygote. Zygote perhaps has a bit of a distance to go for performance, but it just feels totally natural to code with these libraries .. if you assume performance gaps will be closed (its good eno
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If you only have a couple of domains but you have a trademark on the name, does that help claim other domains when needed?
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Loved the language - "Each timeless data structure is a brick in the foundation of digital civilization."
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The "write the thing" attitude perhaps comes to some extent from (human) languages that have that as a natural word invention mechanism - such as German, Finnish, Sanskrit. In Sanskrit, etymologies seem to often go down to single
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