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by ssivark 4y ago
Check out BrainTool: https://braintool.org/
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Do you think that affordability is the biggest hurdle holding back POCUS from being used ubiquitously for diagnostic imaging, or is it something else?
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> especially with radiation, will cause harm statistically. Ultrasound is not radiation (as in photons). To the best of our understanding (from a physics/engg perspective) ultrasound imaging capped by appropriate energy/etc lim
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On a tangent -- You might want to look into Guix (at least just the package manager, if not the whole system/distribution); it seems quite popular for similar use cases. See, eg: https://hpc.guix.info/about/ Also,
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Seems like a perfectly good idea to me! Basically how proposing that we decide caching by some score, and the details of the score function be tweaked to handle the different aspects we care for. I wonder whether this idea is already used f
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Files are a very bad unit to elevate in importance, and number of files or file size are really bad proxy metrics, especially without considering the statistical distribution of downloads (leave alone the question of what is more "impo
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If I were to venture a guess, that’s likely what the article is about ;-)
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Yes, I’m really excited about Nyxt for exactly for this reason :-) While I’m still a Common Lisp novice, I’ve been using Nyxt more these days, and it’s already helping me improve my workflows in several little ways!
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I think what’s needed is a robust bunch of primitives that users can easily combine to do many things. As with any organic system, I would expect the availability of capabilities to spur creativity, the Emacs ecosystem being a great case in
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It bugs me that browsers don’t support a good interface for actively “operating” on web data i.e. a “meta” layer on top of the data. By and large, they restrict users into (only) consuming information, in an extremely passive mode. What wou
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> Even though hindsight is 20/20, I'm still surprised that the power of network effects didn't occur to him (or whoever the "we" refers to). To unwrap that, the “power” of great efficiencies of scale, but also “w
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> One thing that supports this view is that there are several Julia packages that are wrappers around existing C/Fortran/C++ libraries, and basically no examples (that I know) of people porting existing libraries to Julia. This
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I’m guessing the problem there is that mobile is far more unforgiving on horizontal space than laptops are on vertical space, so anybody building a webpage to target both ends up in the regime you’re talking about.
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Fair point. I wonder whether this is a good reason to rethink the UI of autocomplete. 1. Instead of operating sequentially as you type, maybe one could type out the variable(s) one wants to use, select them and then have the ask the languag
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I agree, but I can also understand that the familiarity of OOP patterns really helps “grease the wheels” for a lot of people. With something new (even if strictly superior in capability) they now need to re-think questions of architecture a
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IMHO multiple dispatch feels more awkward compared to OOP only because we’re far more used to the latter. And if that’s what you want to stick to, I guess you could program in that style by making the “object” the first method argument, and
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+1 for these packages; I’ve used both at different points. Addendum for those who are new to this, the idea is to use these macros during development, and then get rid of them once the types stabilize (since they tend to have a performance
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I don’t think the essential nature has changed. All the emphasis on “systems engineering” in AI/ML these days (while data heavy) is also innovating on the programming systems — from the interfaces in Julia/PyTorch/Jax (incl.
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> For example, I once wrote a library for a computing in particular area of mathematics, but I also wanted to see some symbolic equations. I just changed the basic evaluation semantics of my numeric operators to operate on symbols as wel
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> constant infantilization of people So the solution to avoid infantilizing them is to organize through scrum, standups and sprints? :P (which is where the discussion started) That said, it's fair to say that a lot of young people a
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> dark matter allows you to add various magical elements to explain up whatever is missing in other models. It’s not like physicists are looking for every little possibility to be fanciful. Here’s the irony — The “DAMA” experiment has be
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> Until we actually find it, I think it is premature to dismiss out of hand other theories that explain the same phenomena. I'm not sure MOND is any better than DM, but I think it is worth at least pursuing the idea “Dark matter” is
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Part of the problem IMHO is that we make out wisdom to be this grand thing, rather than simple and effective thinking (that cannot be put into a short list of rules). “How do you host a good party” might be ill-defined to OP, but I’m sure t
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> It’d be interest to compare the knowledge level the person holding the consensus view has about the non-consensus view to vice versa. That's a great question -- harking back to the idea that for the best incarnation of debate one
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While the distinction might be really important from the perspective of long-term policy making (or research, investment, etc), it is also practically unimportant from the perspective of people using heuristics to make decisions in the here
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Isn’t this tautologically true when consensus views are assumed correct? (then the consensus view will be judged as appropriately confident while the non-consensus views will be judged as inappropriately confident) It’s also interesting to
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My use case is research-oriented and it’s impossible to impose that much structure on tasks — for me it’s mainly about keeping track of tabs/links while I go through them and organize my mental models (they’re not even really tasks). I
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I quite enjoyed using Logseq (esp programmability with queries, etc), but I can’t use it at work so I’m sticking to the Emacs/org-roam ecosystem for now.
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I haven’t managed to find a healthy density of such folks after college & grad school. Something about the nature of employment and the responsibilities of “life in the real world” seems to interfere. Curious to see what this thread sur
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For lack of time to elaborate in detail, here’s a rapid fire (in no particular order): Guix, Julia language, Framework laptops, PKM movement & tools (especially open and highly malleable substrates eg. the Emacs ecosystem), Glamorous To

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