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   by ssivark 6y ago

   So, does this mean that a library/module written in Racket can be called from an iOS application written in Swift? Out of curiosity, what other (popular) languages have similar support? Can someone coding an iOS app call snazzy ML&#x2F
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   by ssivark 6y ago

   Not an expert, but imho this is because the money they are creating is not trickling down to the hands of consumers (hence low consumer inflation). OTOH we are seeing significant asset price inflation (stocks, housing, startup valuations, e
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   by ssivark 6y ago

   I think the difference between craft and engineering is whether the knowledge is systematized (not binary, but on a continuum). Can decisions be motivated by clear objectives and rigorous deductive reasoning, which are useful to validate th
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   by ssivark 6y ago

   Without assuming too much about the veracity of this story, it still addresses a fundamental human need. Humans, more than any other animals live in an imagined reality. Once food & shelter are taken care of, one’s dependence on nature
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   by ssivark 6y ago

   Thanks for hitting the nail on the head. The problems we have are manufactured by the structure of the medium (BigCorp social media optimizing engagement at scale) that we cling to. For those looking for a relatively accessible introduction
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   by ssivark 6y ago

   The propagator is a two photon vertex... interpreted as one in, one out, moving through time :-) Maybe you meant there’s no 2–>1 vertex.
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   by ssivark 6y ago

   I presume it will be a piece of their larger strategy of moving development activity to the cloud by integrating the VSCode/Codespaces+Github+Azure and providing all kinds of conveniences such as language support, git support, easy CI&
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   by ssivark 6y ago

   They plan to deprecate the open source server, and move everyone over to the Pylance server under discussion. See their own announcement https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/announcing-pylance-fas...
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   by ssivark 6y ago

   As has been pointed out, Microsoft has been very heavily pushing for the language server approach with the argument that it simplifies the integration between {languages, editors} from M*N to M+N. That they would forbid their holy language
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Classic bait-and-switch with their M*N to M+N argument; totally looks like Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Here’s the relevant snippet from the Pylance language server’s T&Cs > INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. a) General. You may install
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    It’s not just about the mass, but how strongly it couples to the things we can directly manipulate (typically, protons, electrons, muons and occasionally their anti-particles, and photons). The top quark, being a third generation quark turn
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    It’s interesting to speculate whether Boston Dynamics might be in play :-)
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the WhatsApp founders, between the two of them, can easily sponsor Signal’s lean team for decades. (Since they’ve shown the inclination with substantive initial investments already, I’d imagine that they’ll happi
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    +1, it’s crazy to imagine letting someone control the platform and influence the nature of conversations one can have. Likewise, never used WhatsApp, and communicate with close friends and family via Signal. Once Matrix matures and robustly
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    I’m curious in what way you find Matrix/Element not user friendly. (Since I know people who would claim the opposite)
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Emacs is best understood not just as an editor, but as an integrated computing environment promoting user freedoms to the fullest extent possible in a manner naturally integrated with its user interface and extensibility. In that sense, it
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Somewhat off-topic, but this reminds me of the impressionist/pointillist styles of painting. There the motivation is not to use a smaller palette, but to typically use a richer palette (including colors on the opposite side of the wh
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    I’ve found niche subreddits to be quite useful. Focal enough to attract a substantial interest group, and small enough that it’s not an attractive target for poisoning reviews. Eg: r/thinkpad, r/BudgetAudiophile, r/wicked_edg
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    I’m (only) half joking as I say this... if you’re particularly interested in robotics (be it the mechanical side, or the algorithmic side), try not to get too caught up with “deep RL”. It’s a minefield that generates a LOT of buzz for as ye
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Thanks for the nice explanation, and the Witten ref. So it seems that in QFT we must have at least one negative energy state (should we consider such a state “below” the vacuum? Maybe the message is that we should give up on a strict orderi
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Could you elaborate why Reeh-Schlieder implies negative energy states? Typically in QM we only care about the spectrum being lower bounded (existence of vacua), and ignoring additive energy constants.
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Haven’t looked into it well-enough to understand the details of how it works, but at first glance — would you say that this model for a distributed network might be a good/natural way to connect nodes/content on the p2p internet?
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Try querying/checking on the relevant subreddits, especially /r/thinkpad.
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Random search is a technical term in optimization with a very specific meaning (which unfortunately does not mean searching random locations in parameter space a la brute force). It’s more in the spirit of randomly deciding the direction in
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    If you ask people if they would pay $40/mo for the assortment of social media etc web services they use to completely avoid usage tracking, they’d probably typically refuse.
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Most people who claim that they don’t care about protecting their data or how it’s used don’t realize that a 0.1% increase in their interest rate on a big expense (say a home loan) probably works out far more expensive than all the nickels
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    I highly recommend both books by Sanjoy Mahajan (who has a background in theoretical physics), especially “Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving” . http://www.sanjoymahajan.c
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Interesting idea. Every time a vote goes your way, you accumulate more holding time on your stock. Those who lose votes will have negatives added against any compulsory holding time they’ve accumulated (since they are misaligned with the di
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    I hope they can be pushed to publish the algorithms so we can understand exactly how this happened.
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    by ssivark 6y ago

    Nicely put. The title might be intentionally clickbaity, but it’s should strongly remind us of Chesterton’s fence. I can imagine many alternatives that might appear better than universities in today’s world with contemporary assumptions, bu