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by ssivark 5y ago
I second this. mbsync+notmuch (JGI; hundreds of blog posts) is a great simple solution for storing and querying emails. Only caveat is that notmuch will basically duplicate the email contents in its database, so you’ll end up taking twice t
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by ssivark 5y ago
Any thoughts on perkeep? https://perkeep.org/ I see substantial overlap in the vision.
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by ssivark 5y ago
I’ll share what to me was one of the most impressive aspects of Weinberg’s work. I’ve seen him described as a battle tank — not the fastest to get moving, but basically unstoppable once he does. As I was digging into the literature during m
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by ssivark 5y ago
For more on metaphors, check out Douglas Hofstadter’s fascinating talk on “Analogy as the core of cognition”: https://youtu.be/n8m7lFQ3njk Ended up inspiring Melanie Mitchell, and became a driving theme of her research :-)
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by ssivark 5y ago
Easiest way to lose touch with the general populace! :-) In an ideal world, we should be learning from more authoritative sources, so we can keep a finger on the pulse and filter out BS when needed. Participating with fellow people to drive
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by ssivark 5y ago
That this is a post on LinkedIn shouldn’t take away from the important points it is making :-) As a physicist who knows a little bit about quantum computing, my understanding is that we’re far far away from building usable quantum computers
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by ssivark 5y ago
There are many interesting threads in this post, one of which is using “non standard interpretations” of programs, and enabling the compiler to augment the human-written code with the extra pieces necessary to get gradients, propagate uncer
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by ssivark 5y ago
> do not need innovative code I think this is a good deciding factor. Not just for “big data”. In my experience, with its combination of flexibility and raw speed, Julia makes implementing new algorithms (from scratch) a breezy experien
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by ssivark 5y ago
More fundamentally, I would imagine that “intelligence” is an ill-defined concept unless one is willing to define it through the propensity for good performance in a certain kind of activity. At that point, the relation is tautologically tr
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by ssivark 5y ago
Let me venture a possible application, since there are already many responses celebrating pure mathematics. As far as we understand, the natural numbers are not sufficient for modeling physical phenomena. The reals/complex while immens
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by ssivark 5y ago
To add, I think that rather than a person -vs- company dichotomy, it’s better to frame the discussion in terms of the total resources that can be brought to bear, and whether that can have an “undue” influence (relative to the power of all
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by ssivark 5y ago
They are now redefining the meaning of the word “comprehensive”…
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by ssivark 5y ago
FWIW, I find the Apple Maps interface & directions to be far more user friendly than Google Maps (at least when using an iPhone).
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by ssivark 5y ago
The Julia authors have been open about how heavily they were inspired by Dylan. A little googling will throw up statements for anyone interested.
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”The study particularly wants to find examples of where a patent has been denied in the US but accepted in other jurisdictions, which will be a key area for European electronics companies. […] The study is looking at patent prosecution str
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by ssivark 5y ago
I think result-filtering (based on license of search results) is gnarly enough, and likely computationally intensive, so as to break the whole feature. But it would be interesting to see if that can be crafted to fix the shortcomings of the
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by ssivark 5y ago
Torrents seem like the ideal solution for something like this? The infrastructure cost of hosting is shared by all those who find the content valuable. It also has a natural cache-like behavior where popular content will be highly seeded, w
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by ssivark 5y ago
Calling it “public” code feels like doublespeak. It’s most definitely NOT public domain code — it only happens to be hosted on GitHub and browsable ( but not copyable ) by people. “Source available for viewing” is very different from “publi
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On mobile. (Firefox on iOS, in case it matters)
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That actually seems confusing. I would normally expect such code to perform a Cartesian product i.e. all pairs of (x,y).
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by ssivark 5y ago
And it broke the back button! There seems to be no way to go back a slide if you forwarded by tapping accidentally!!!
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by ssivark 5y ago
Uhhh… I wonder what that number is, normalized by number of BTC transactions that take place today, and scaled by the total number of financial payment transactions.
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by ssivark 5y ago
Nice! In the same spirit, here’s an interesting talk on using Gen.jl (a probabilistic programming library/framework) for cleaning messy data in tables: https://youtu.be/vUxrtqY84AM
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by ssivark 5y ago
“Risk de-aggregation” sounds like it edifies an implicit perspective that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Is there a specific reference you might recommend looking at, for Roger Scruton’s take?
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by ssivark 5y ago
Thanks; great to hear about the 17k packages and the "nonguix" channel!
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by ssivark 5y ago
Thanks; this sounds interesting. Could you please link to any documentation or HOWTO? Considering I have all my daily use software already installed in Arch, if I attempted to re-install them with Guix in parallel, would that lead to namesp
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by ssivark 5y ago
The problem with regular programming is that you can see the code but not the data, and the problem with spreadsheets is that you can see the data but not the code. You might be on to something with the “apply” idea. What if there was a spl
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by ssivark 5y ago
Practical questions: I’d love to try this out for my personal desktop/laptop, but I’ve been really pampered by the Arch repositories. What is the extent of completeness in supporting practically important daily use software? Are ther
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by ssivark 5y ago
There’s the fascinating example of “Nooshare”, which is an interesting proposal for embedding arbitrary Monte-Carlo simulations as the proof challenge! http://web.mit.edu/alex_c/www/nooshare.pdf It’s an elegant e
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To balance that, do you have any comments on the arrogance and incentive problems in deep learning? :-P

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