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by ssivark 2y ago
This is the kind of thing that would be pretty straight-forward in Julia, I imagine. Independent libraries for uncertainties and units could easily be remixed together if the unitful quantity accepts any number type, and the uncertainties j
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Setting aside complaints about the Pandas API, it's frustrating that we might see the community of a popular "standard" tool fragment into two or even three ecosystems (for libraries with slightly incompatible APIs) -- seem
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I think they are referring to the annual salary differential to hire a similar skill-set for someone working remotely -vs- someone regularly coming in to the office in SF/NYC.
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How about along a randomized delay (0-T time) to each order? For T=30s it will largely nullify millisecond latency advantages.
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What I find striking is the emphasis on tracking and managing inputs (to develop a healthy causal model for management). This is in contrast with advice that's commonly passed around (ostensibly attributable to OKRs, High Output Mana
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by ssivark 2y ago
There's the Leo editor, if Python's what you want: https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/
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by ssivark 2y ago
The advertisement promises a combination of bash and lisp. So it makes me wonder -- why couldn't we just use lisp? What are the affordances needed for a "scripting" language (or for interactive use) vis-a-vis more "produ
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I think it would be more useful to list concrete bugs/complaints that the Julia devs could address. Blanket/vague claims like "Julia for deep learning [...] so buggy" is unfalsifiable and un-addressable. It promotes goss
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I don’t think it’s a case for switching from one to the other. It seems like an intro to rust from someone whose first language was Julia (which is used as the perspective to contrast with).
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> Apparently Southwest Airlines’ ingenious strategy of never upgrading from Windows 3.1 allowed it to remain unscathed. OMFG, does this mean we need to be prepared for a (juicy) “IT failure” that brings down Southwest at some point?
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Vulnerabilities in what though? If you make an application so simple that it can only fetch data through an API and display, there's simply not much more that it can do. And a simple application is easy to audit. So it would be ideal
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> how much does the "why" matter? [...] merely extremely accurate, in the same way that many computer vision models are? Because without a "why" (causal reasoning) they cannot generalize, and their accuracy is alway
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There seem to be a few obvious tweaks to try: 1. (Apart from the first few meetings, for bootstrapping) presenters must have attended a few meetings before they get a chance to present. 2. No mentions of one's employer / product b
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Most common coding patterns leave a lot of performance unclaimed, by not fully specializing to the hardware. This article is an interesting example. For another interesting demonstration, see this CS classic "There's plenty of roo
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Or maybe ,&
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> recycling it in the least hazardous way possible What even is the answer here, once an electronic device has reach end of life?
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> No country without a basic civic sense can (in the immediate few years) have the R&D capabilities you speak of in a meaningful fashion. LOL. Pray tell… Are you going to elaborate on your theory of technology development, or are you
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Hmm -- interesting/fantastic tool. Feels something like avy in Emacs, but for everything on screen. I think this should be possible in linux with a bit of work (erm, famous last words?) especially because the whole desktop environment
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What about this website indicates low quality engineering?
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Unfortunately, a sphere of characterized by exactly the opposite property. The article switches the intended meaning of surface and volume to get away with the metaphor, but I’m less than thrilled about the metaphor.
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> Unless you're working on undergraduate integrals then it's pretty useless for advanced stuff without writing your own library. By that point you may as well write it in a language that's more performant and cheaper. Hard
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> Poor support for OOP (no, pure FP is not the optimal programming approach). Julia is not really a pure functional programming language, though it does support that style if one desires. It's actually a "multiple dispatch&quo
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I imagine a language with decent support for macros would be much much more ergonomic for symbolic computation. Even ignoring all the other pros & cons, just this one reason would push one strongly towards Julia, Lisp(s), Mathematica, e
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+1, I guess. Computers are capable enough that the representation in which code is viewed/edited need not be the same as it is canonically stored in, so long as one can unambiguously transform back & forth. We could potentially get
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Predictions are always going to be limited by the world model they assume. Still useful in 99% of the cases.
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What do you mean by “upstream doesn’t accept”?
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Product management felt it was not worth the tech risk (seems too complicated & mathy), and they would get better user metrics by instead building a more sophisticated model for timing notifications by trawling user’s social media acti
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“… all human progress depends on the unreasonable man.” What’s old can easily become new again if a technology change in one corner of the system propagates outward, modifying the constraints & requirements on other components.
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The same is true in science too; which is why being an experimentalist requires lots of skill & judgement to tease apart the signal we want to understand. Scientific rigor is inseparable from good judgement.
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Off the top of my head: (less career and more personal development) 1. Finite & Infinite Games, by James Carse 2. Flow, by Czikszentmihalyi 3. The evolving self, by Robert Kegan 4. Man's search for meaning, by Victor Frankl 5. A f

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