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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I bought the Loom yearly subscription because it was inexpensive and features unlimited videos (so I can just record myself working for hours and trim). But I’d much prefer something that cleanly works in Linux.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Connections matter…
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
You can make any page say anything by messing in the Developer pane.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Empowering for some, maybe. The anecdote reinforces the now dominant view that networking is everything and people deserve benefits and opportunities that at a different time might be labeled nepotism or favoritism. Honestly the best opport
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
It’s a crutch. I was first burned by Python back when 2/7 == 0 and avoided numpy etc for years.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
A parallel reply is that the field of “omics” (genomics, proteomics, interactomics…) has long embraced graphs as their primary mathematical tool.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
What, whatever is demoed by Neo4J in their playground is awesome, I used it for just a couple of days but could pull up convoluted queries off DBPedia (producers who worked with artists who were born in countries who have orange in their fl
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
A conservative history would emphasize more the contingency of the scientific process and the fact that it wasn’t inevitable that we’d get where we got. Extending this: the Whig story on contemporary science (sp. as it affects policy) is th
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
You know what would be virtually unassailable? Send the original through img2img in stable diffusion
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
It’s a drop in alternative to SQLite that’s column-oriented/OLAP. I’ve been profiling entire projects in production switching between SQLite and duckdb (no clear conclusions yet)
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
SAT solvers <3 there’s something about SATPLAN that feels like it has metaphysical significance.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
My answer to all these LLM threads is — play a little with the Python package “sentence-transformers”.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Just in case: “The kids are alright” is a The Who song from way before when.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Deleuze is the philosopher of creativity over recognition par excellence; I doubt he’d see much value in all of this. Then: if he had lived through the 90s to 10s (and seen how much the early internet makes him a prophet and what came of it
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Beautiful typography!
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
So people (MIT students, the elite) shouldn’t learn Real Analysis because Wolfram Alpha?
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
David Foster Wallace had a couple of essays published online that went viral if anything can be considered viral.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I wrote for essentially no-one for many years. I just discovered ideas while trying to complete ideas I previously wrote about. It was a long long digression. I’m hoping to start anew, in the same spirit, once I have free time again. Please
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
This is a little unfair to _Listening to Prozac_, which was raising speculation about SSRIs effect on trophic and atrophic factors back in the 90s. In fact it’s unclear whether anyone ever believed in the catecholamine hypothesis (excepting
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
That’s a particular social phenomenon, as linked to atheism as gospel music is Baptist churches.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I’m not fond of people who take ratheism as a major inteeest or even component of their identity, but pocm.info is just lovely.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
So this is one of probably tens of thousands of websites (and I mean just with this overpriced provider-tool, many more people roll with more customized stuff) that are librarian-like but generated with an user-friendly tool: https:/&
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I wish there was some lightweight (optional) web-ring like structure for Publish so we could learn from each other. Find me at https://publish.obsidian.md/zero-chroma-infinity/Signpost
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Creatives: look at this beautiful chalice made of Roman dichroic glass. Security people: %drops it on the ground and it shatters% yes but glass is terribly insecure, why not redo it with PVC and LEF strip Christmas lights.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
GDP is a flow per year. Like the flow of water through a pipe. Wealth is a stock. Like the quantity of water in a barrel. Please pass this on when you see this cheap talking point, thanks.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
We want psychology/iatry to sort out the normal from the abnormal, but that doesn’t work: normal and abnormal are fundamentally social. This is a version of the is-ought problem. In my experience (both as a walk-in consumer-patient and
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
With YouTube premium you can listen to videos on the iPhone with the app in second plane or even with the phone locked. Yeah, I should use a hacked rooted Android yadda yadda. But I just spent a week hacking and hawking for my life in an IC
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Now, to build a better IMAP on top of UMAP.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
This article is way too padded with neural neural neural neural gobbledygook. This comment is brought by the sharp feedback loop between my brain, my fingers and the neural neural neural of the article writer yadda yadda
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Loudon Wainwright put it best: “life was a quiz — now it’s a test”.

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