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by ssivark 5y ago
The article on BW substack seems to have too many things thrown in with insufficient nuance -- muddying the water and putting the main idea out of focus. I found the original article by KB more nuanced, and a good place to start thinking ab
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by ssivark 5y ago
To add, one could think of schemes like "momentum" and cousins as attempts to estimate something in the spirit of the inverse Hessian using various hacks/heuristics.
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> looking back of course I see what would have been a more successful (but smaller) path. Thanks for the valuable retrospective! Could you expand a bit on the pros and cons of going smaller -vs- going bigger in that situation, and what m
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by ssivark 5y ago
In the context where your measurements allow you to measure discrepancies a seventh of that error, that’s a huge error (for the purpose of THIS experiment). There might be some experiments where the difference doesn’t matter at all, or othe
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by ssivark 5y ago
Multiple dispatch (it can be thought of as OOP on steroids) is particularly helpful for generic programming. It helps write really elegant Code with maximum reuse. I think Julia is the only contemporary language built around this. Some Lisp
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by ssivark 5y ago
Given the rapid depletion of ground water levels, and uncertainty about potential changes in precipitation patterns due to climate change, do we actually have “plenty of water” in the ground, compared to a reasonable desire (well thought ou
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It’s fairly well separated from the perspective of being able to write content fairly agnostic of a presentation template, and then swap in the required publication template in the end (with a few cosmetic tweaks very occasionally). But LaT
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by ssivark 5y ago
Battery change is great, but wow the ride sounds noisy! I was under the impression that we could expect electric vehicles to be fairly quiet.
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If you could write out the process, that would make for a great post! I’m really hoping you do :-)
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And is cell division any less magical for that comparison? We still don’t understand it well enough to build with anything close to the robustness & scalability of biological systems.
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That might be the case today, but will that be the case two decades from now? I.E. if you had to optimize for friendliness for the next several million programmers around the world, is there potential to simplify the tooling and improve the
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by ssivark 5y ago
DLT = Distributed Ledger Technology? If so, I’m curious — how does the amount of compute on these distributed networks compare to the cloud platforms, and what is the overhead resulting from the infrastructure protocol? I’ve heard numbers t
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WTH — the cable is stateful? :O
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I don’t see why Feedly has append-only semantics instead of simply mirroring the feed on the website. In general, as both a publisher and a reader, I would want Feedly’s behavior to be simply pass-through to the extent possible. What comm
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by ssivark 5y ago
Seems to me like this is squarely Feedly’s responsibility, and everybody should be impressing upon then the need for the RSS Reader to behave sensibly. Btw, I wonder if there are any protocol level suggestions/guarantees about this kin
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by ssivark 5y ago
As cool as it might look, does Prezi actually solve any real problem/need in information presentation? The spatial & hierarchical organization of the presentation feels very gimmicky for 99% of the presentations where it is absolut
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by ssivark 5y ago
1. Could the read & write permissions be set independently? Eg: Write by some and read by any would model a blog, and write by any and read by some would model an inbox, symmetric read&write by some would model a chatroom, etc. 2. D
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by ssivark 5y ago
Eh, that's a highly uncharitable statement. Frameworks like "differential equations" or "group theory" or "quantum mechanics" also don't make falsifiable predictions (till you build a system-specific
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by ssivark 5y ago
Per current understanding, “M-theory” is one of five consistent descriptions of string theory , all of which are supposed to be related by dualities i.e. each description makes certain aspects easily manifest, but they’re all equally “corre
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by ssivark 5y ago
Is this bug another manifestation of the ubiquitous “confused deputy” problem that results from conflating authorization and authentication? (Trying to relate to some recent stuff I’ve read about the importance of “object capabilities”)
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by ssivark 5y ago
I understand this was an exploratory project, but from a practical perspective, how does this compare with one of the standard terminal-based editors, running in a GPU accelerated terminal emulator like alacritty/etc?
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OTOH -- Twitter (on the blockchain) supporting only ~10 tweets per second is a blessing in disguise that would drastically help improve the user experience by imposing a high cost on junk :P
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(In addition to what the other comments point out…) It’s also an extremely lispy language (fundamentally based on term rewriting as a computational model) where it’s very intuitive to do higher order functions and structural manipulations i
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by ssivark 5y ago
> Yes we still have paper and lots of it, but now it's significantly reduced. But a la Jevons Paradox [1] I'm sure the total amount of information being shuttled around now is far more than what was being sent around on paper -
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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
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Think of the following: there are many many paths to get from one location to another on a plane. If you imagine a function on the plane, it’s behavior as you walk along each part would have a sanity constraint. That (along with the constra
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Data fiduciaries (if it’s anything like how it’s being done in India) seem like a very good idea, actually — so long as the entity holding the data has fiduciary responsibility to the users, and cannot merge/collude with the entity usi
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Did they just re-invent Zulip? :P
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Seems like it would be a fantastic feature for payment processors to provide scheduling! (and negotiating with subscription providers to operationalize that) I dunno how many Bay Area SWEs/PMs can even grok such a lived experience, for
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Related to the author's second example: [1]: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call... [2]: Seeing like a state, by James Scott

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