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by ssivark 6y ago
This has less to do with India, and more about what happens when there’s no prior culture of open source , to balance against the willingness to “hustle” . The fact that a lot of these PRs might originate in India is only relevant insofar
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by ssivark 6y ago
> (at least in my own evaluation) am an intellectually curious person. My wife is comparatively uneducated, not a good thinker and not very curious at all. I get what you mean, but I’ll add the following: I’m sure she loves the child as
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by ssivark 6y ago
For those interested, the book probably expands on the following paper from a few months ago: https://numenta.com/blog/2019/01/16/the-thousand-brains-theo... (paper linked to from blog post) There's
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by ssivark 6y ago
I felt/feel the same, but I am greatly comforted by the add-on making an attempt to clearly communicate what it uses/needs each of those permissions for: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon&#x2
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by ssivark 6y ago
Depends on what kind of document we’re talking about I.e. how the grammar captures the domain model. Eg: A shared ledger in the case of digital currencies, or the linux source code being worked on remotely by many people are exactly exampl
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by ssivark 6y ago
> a lot of people use Emacs for all kinds of things unrelated to programming: TODO management, document authoring, writing emails, etc. Those still need addons/plugins like org, mu4e or some other mail client, etc. This my point — n
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by ssivark 6y ago
I don’t wish to do a point-by-point rebuttal as you’re entitled to your view — just that it misses the perspective of a large fraction users. As for me, I’m fairly happy using Emacs Doom. > While I agree that a convenient way to download
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by ssivark 6y ago
> If someone is not willing to learn how to enable CUA mode in the config file, then it is highly unlikely they will ever learn to use the features that make Emacs salient. I think that’s uncharitable. For a newbie low on confidence it’s
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by ssivark 6y ago
There’s a healthy Emacs community on Reddit (r/emacs) where you can find answers to these questions and more, if you prefer that to the Emacs mailing list (which is the definitive place for such questions). From what I’ve seen, folks o
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by ssivark 6y ago
Have you tried the “straight” package manager? Quite nifty.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Next round of innovation in the industry: There are too many newsletters cluttering up inboxes, and too many subscriptions to manage! We’ll offer a wrapper service which collates all your subscriptions and gives you a packaged bundle dail
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by ssivark 6y ago
It’s the converse that is not possible. A non-profit could reasonably have an investment arm that tries to maximize return on endowment (or likewise a for-profit subsidiary, by analogy) and various projects which are funded from the generat
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by ssivark 6y ago
I would interpret the situation differently. Instead of reading it as most people bring a bunch of rubes who will click anything on a dialog box to make it go away, I see people who feel their agency has been robbed by technology attempting
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by ssivark 6y ago
Yes, I did, which is why I’m specifically mentioning it.
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by ssivark 6y ago
You probably mean something in the ballpark of 3x or 300%, rather than 300x?
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by ssivark 6y ago
> It has disrupted the interactions I used to have with people outside my direct projects where we shared ideas and kept abreast of what’s cool and going on inside the company The kind of conversations that Apple presumably forbids anywa
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by ssivark 6y ago
Maybe it was just a 737 Max... X-D Jokes aside, I wonder how much one of those decommissioned planes costs. Maybe disposing off a decommissioned plane is the hardest job and nobody cares about stripping out parts — in either case I’m very c
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by ssivark 6y ago
In response to some of the suggestions: 1. Tab groups: I have been an extensive user of tab groups in the past (when it was native in Firefox); it’s very helpful if your tabs cleave nicely into less than a dozen or so projects/themes,
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by ssivark 6y ago
I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REP
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by ssivark 6y ago
That particular statement is something I made up once I finally understood what was going on; I’ve not seen any references which explain it quite that way. If there are any specific leading questions, I might try to unwrap that intuition he
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by ssivark 6y ago
Hey, I think we’ve had a good understanding of renormalization group for at least a couple of decades! It might have been considered a hack before that, but I think by now we appreciate exactly what role it plays, and how to exploit it to t
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by ssivark 6y ago
The concept underlying renormalization/invariance as we now understand it, is a fundamental and profoundly beautiful idea about the very nature of what it means to make a model for a phenomenon. Essentially: A theory is nothing but a
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by ssivark 6y ago
There are no standardized “exit exams” for Indian universities, unless one is talking about those colleges affiliated to a specific university system (but those are not referred to as “elite” institutions in common parlance; just terminolog
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by ssivark 6y ago
So... much... churn...
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by ssivark 6y ago
Unfortunately, no specific resource that I’m aware of, but you can search for the term “natural gradients”.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Is there a clear explanation of how Pony's concurrency (actor) model is different from Erlang/Elixir, and what implications that has in practice?
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by ssivark 6y ago
While not necessarily in a first course, it is an important difference to appreciate which saves a lot of headache later. Eg: Vanilla gradient descent involves naively adding a covariant and a contravariant quantity, which is generically a
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by ssivark 6y ago
Water generated from obsolescence & irreparability is an “externality” for market mechanisms, and therefore needs an alternative approach to fix (Eg: government regulation, recycling taxes, etc) since prices will not reflect that natura
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by ssivark 6y ago
On the subject of modularity, one aspect of OOP that bothers me is the conflation of namespacing (for organizing code that operates primarily on one object) with encapsulating the method as a class/object member. One could do the forme
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by ssivark 6y ago
This perspective is interesting and potentially valuable, but it must be emphasized that quantum mechanics has linear evolution and hence “no cloning”. That means, when the registers are quantum objects, there is no such thing as copying a

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