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by ssivark 4y ago
As someone who regularly runs up thousands of tabs, BrainTool has been an absolute blessing for organizing tabs into contexts! Since the tabs list/tree is available in an easily parseable plain text format, it becomes trivially easy to
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by ssivark 4y ago
For someone who knows very little about this field, could you elaborate on what specific aspect of “homology modeling” AF violates/circumvents which makes you call it “homology search” instead?
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by ssivark 4y ago
But OTOH, what even is the scientific value of the original paper if they cannot provide a clear protocol with a substantial chance of replication? “Here, I did this magic trick, but I’m unable to tell you sufficient detail for how it works
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by ssivark 4y ago
Further, if someone thinks it’s already a pain to adapt systems for leap seconds, imagine the pain of ignoring this for decades/centuries and then having to deal with a massive headache on the scale of the feared Y2K problem. In the sp
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by ssivark 4y ago
Eh, that only makes sense if you believe LaTeX (markup) to have accidental complexity that typst somehow abstracts away. Having used LaTeX, I appreciate that there is a learning curve, but I think all the complexity is essential domain c
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by ssivark 4y ago
IMHO, it’s very important for papers to lay out the idea lineage and contextualize their incremental progress (analogous to a codebase commit history). For whatever reason, ML seems to prefer the practice of framing each paper as a shiny nu
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by ssivark 4y ago
> I would be stunned if the median laptop purchased from Dell cost more than $750 before tax or was used less than three years. Fair… I was just trying to be generous in the cost estimate, but this just makes my point stronger. > Comp
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by ssivark 4y ago
Assuming the median person is willing to spend ~$1440 on a laptop every 3 years which amortizes to $40/mo, to justify another $120/mo would require those services to 4x their productivity/satisfaction compared to getting a co
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by ssivark 4y ago
This is extremely heartening. I can’t wait for the day we get popular Smalltalk apps that users can easily inspect and modify! Seems like it’s actually a great platform on which to bootstrap a free software ecosystem more effective (for rem
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by ssivark 4y ago
I wonder how much of that comes from careless programming (accidental complexity), and how much is essential complexity in keeping with user expectations for polish & responsiveness (driven by Apple, etc). Another possible source of th
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by ssivark 4y ago
The code is still there (FOSS), so you can continue using it as long as you want — and even maintain/sponsor if you like. None of us is entitled to developer time (from others), so if the ecosystem moves and they wish to invest their e
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by ssivark 4y ago
Related post by Karl Voit, explaining part of the problem: https://karl-voit.at/2020/01/13/thunderbird-notmuch/
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by ssivark 4y ago
You should post it anyway! I’m sure many silent readers are curious :-)
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by ssivark 4y ago
To phrase succinctly the (direct) counter to the previous blog post: Julia makes possible the kind of combinatorial composition (and therefore, radical modularity & reuse) that is simply not possible in most languages. This will lead to
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YouTube deleted channel and erased whole lecture series(twitter.com)
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by ssivark 4y ago
Here’s another extremely simple/lazy org based blogging solution: https://emacs.love/weblorg/
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by ssivark 4y ago
I would imagine that Debian (with the benefit of community+repository size and inertia) or Fedora (with the benefit of community+repository size, and something adjacent to commercial support) might be the best bet for such a distribution. R
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by ssivark 4y ago
Only because the garbage truck driver responded promptly. Otherwise the situation would likely have continued arbitrarily long.
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by ssivark 4y ago
What even is the point of "decentralization" when the intent is to have a central fiat authority (the airline in question), and typically forbid transactions (using only one's own points, etc)?
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by ssivark 4y ago
For a related fascinating conundrum in sampling lines inside a circle, see Bertrand's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)
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by ssivark 4y ago
I think Julia (built around multiple-dispatch) also ought to be mentioned in any discussion of generic programming in contemporary languages.
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by ssivark 4y ago
To paraphrase the author's point -- the doctor could have a policy to intervene only if the screening produces _flagrantly_ worrying results, and continue to not intervene in cases where the results are merely mildly worrying. Technica
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by ssivark 4y ago
But max likelihood of what physical property?
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by ssivark 4y ago
Any pointers to what MLE means on this context? Or better, any references? Thanks.
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by ssivark 4y ago
From a quick glance, the blog post seems to be based on the following paper involving the same author: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10934 The point of the post is how graph NNs are limited in capability, so I’m not sure
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by ssivark 4y ago
Forget the "tech industry". Even if they're just "browsing the web" and using "apps", they are constantly being shunted & nudged around by code that someone else wrote. A little proficiency in being ab
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by ssivark 5y ago
I would imagine the problem to be very similar in spirit to developing a Huffman code given symbol probabilities. Given the distribution of file access probabilities, the number of scans+clicks in the folder hierarchy is captured by the enc
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We also don't usually need to raise the question of whether humans are "just statistical models spitting out sequences of words" or whether they "understand the meaning of what they're saying", because we hold
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(Assuming the parent comment is normative/prescriptive rather than just descriptive) This is a dangerously wrong perspective. There are many beliefs that we consider laughably crazy today that were “settled” per the experts of the day.
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I've mostly worked on continuous high-dimensional problems (and not as high-dimensional as large neural networks), often times grounded in physical situations, where one can anticipate reasonably convex behavior close to the optima --

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