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by steve_gh 2y ago
There was a piece here on HN about a week ago on Kolmagorov Arnold network (KANs) as an alternative to NNs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40219205 If I understood it correctly, a KAN would be a suitable network to wo
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by steve_gh 2y ago
Definitely! For me. Mountain sports
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by steve_gh 3y ago
The clue is in the name. Unit Tests test units of code (how ever you want to define it. Integration Tests test how units of code work together. Perspective is also useful. What looks like an integration test to a low level developer, could
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by steve_gh 3y ago
And this is an organizational failure, because the organisation has just promoted, without training someone to be a leader. You wouldn't expect a manager (from a non-technical background) to just start coding, so why would you expect a
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Brexit. The gift that keeps on taking
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Really clear. Recommended.
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Is the UK preparing for war amid threats of conflict?(news.sky.com)
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Fossil? (/www.fossil-scm.org)
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by steve_gh 3y ago
The Unix philosophy seems like a good example of this
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by steve_gh 3y ago
What I find most interesting in the origin of the name is the theological context, "Daniel" => Judged by God, indiicating a theological conception that people are accountable to God for their behaviour. Compare this to Greek na
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Depends on the language. I am competent in half a dozen languages, and write a lot of functional code. I have written a few projects in Haskell, but I freely admit theat when I read any of Simon Peyton-Jones papers (eg the one on build syst
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by steve_gh 3y ago
There is a subtler issue. Even if your average input and output rates are OK, the lumpiness (stochastic variations) in input and processing rates can cause queues to build up. In the simplest example, with "well behaved" arrival a
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by steve_gh 3y ago
"It has always seemed to me that efficiency and skill are the driving forces behind many traditional Japanese woodworking practices. They tend to be very efficient in using metal and wood, paying for this efficiency with greater skill
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by steve_gh 3y ago
I don't think what uou are describing is socialism. You are talking about a market economy where organisations take risks in giving people loans for education. Your alternative (restricting the supply of higher education) based on cent
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Overall, as the OP says, the key issue is demographic. That doesn't mean that the issues you note don't exist. The pressure on housing is very real, but much of it is due to an ageing population. Certainly in many places there is
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by steve_gh 3y ago
By reading the comments on this post I have learned about non-central hypergeometric distributions - which I didn't know about (and turn out to be relevant to a bunch of problems I am thinking about for my job). HN readers and contribu
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Yeah. Late 1980s I had a girlfriend from California who used "ick" all the time. So I think the TV show referenced as an origin was just picking up a word that was already out there.
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by steve_gh 3y ago
In the heart of the Georgian city of Bath we have 3 streets designed by the architect John Wood. The streets are named Quiet St, John St and Wood St. It is claimed that the naming of these streets is based on the 3 words most regularly used
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by steve_gh 3y ago
You go for LoRa or NBIoT when you need the low power consumption, and especially for deep penetration. Generally, if you have a better option, you use it. LoRa and similar high latency networks can't easily run TCP due to the standard
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by steve_gh 3y ago
This is interesting, because it seem to be a start at solving the Fulmar Problem. A fulmar is a cliff nesting sea bird (with a defensive habit of noxious projectile vomiting). They spend their early life on a ledge, but one day they have to
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by steve_gh 3y ago
My experience in across a range of technical and consulting roles has been that junior folk understand the need gor their work to be reviewed and checked, because they know that they are inexperienced. Good senior folk want their work to be
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by steve_gh 3y ago
I'll see your baseball and raise you test cricket. It is international level cricket; the visiting side coming to the host country for several months and playing a series of matches at different locations. There are normally up to 5 ma
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Completely aeree. I keen computation steps (which create csv files) separate from charting steps. I use make to orchestrate pipelines. I also keep everything under source control, and insert git commit ids into every chart. This ensures tha
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by steve_gh 3y ago
In the UK we call these "Chelsea tractors". 9lIe a large vehicle more suited to offload conditions being driven short distances round highly affluent areas by people who wouldn't know the countryside if it bit them on the ars
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by steve_gh 3y ago
So in my professional life I work optimising operations for large fleets of maintenance workers. The UK Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEVM) is setting annual targets for the sale of new EVs in the UK, including vans. The govt stick is larg
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by steve_gh 3y ago
I recall a bug I was involved with at a telecoms equipment market in the early 2000s. The bug only showed up in our biggest base stations in high load situations. We diagnosed the bug, and there were a couple of parts to it. Sloppy software
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by steve_gh 3y ago
Postel's law ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle ) would seem relevant here: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"
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by steve_gh 3y ago
And you think GPT-5 will be trustworthy on any contentious issue?
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by steve_gh 3y ago
A level maths is not a necessity for all STEM courses. My daughter is doing AS maths (half way between GCSE and A level, heavily weighted to stats), alongside A levels in Biology and Chemistry (and one non science A level)
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by steve_gh 3y ago
>> An expense is always someone else’s profit. All inflation, all prices, everywhere, is the result of someone putting up their prices, trying to make as much money as they can. Not true. For example, the current restrictions on the P

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