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by szvsw 2y ago
Yeah, the high frequency input capabilities of hands/fingers on keyboard are pretty remarkable and hard to beat, especially in conjunction with navigation tools like vim and especially when you start considering things like stenography
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by szvsw 2y ago
I can’t help but feel that every different flavor of formalization of the process of collaborative [software] development feels… nearly the same? At the end of the day. Whether there is a self-conscious attempt to avoid being accused of dog
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by szvsw 2y ago
There are many many many dedicated grasshopper modeling channels, both in the “watch and chill” style and the explanatory style. Once you’ve done lots of grasshopper programming and can recognize component icons from both the base library
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by szvsw 2y ago
While I agree with 99% of what you said… > I’d say it’s a mouse-driven IDE with a YAML-like code. But in its current guise, I can see people itching to use the keyboard for speed once they know what text pieces they want. It’s useful to
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by szvsw 2y ago
Just going to highlight some of my favorite graph/flow based programming environments: - Max/MSP - originally for audio/visual synthesis, but widely used for generative art (in the meaning of generative that existed before th
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by szvsw 2y ago
Percussion synthesis is a deep and wonderful practice within electronic music, especially techno and especially in its more experimental manifestations. I’ve never encountered anything specifically claiming to emulate specific cymbals but I
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by szvsw 2y ago
Don’t forget the Russian and Turkish Baths in the east village (NYC) - my favorite instance of a familial dispute resulting in a business splitting. Now it is two businesses occupying the same physical location, but different temporal locat
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by szvsw 2y ago
I actually think the problem you are describing is actually sometimes helpful from a design perspective, if you can be conscientious enough to periodically review your notebooks and figure out what is the actual useful code which should b
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by szvsw 2y ago
I’m not adding a lot to the conversation, but it’s not often you run into someone who contributes to creating a tool so fundamental to your daily life, career, growth as a researcher etc, so let me just take the opportunity to say: thank yo
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by szvsw 2y ago
Absolutely! I’ve gotten to work on some projects with folks from the labs - pretty much meaningless projects in the grand scheme of research going on there, but still feel proud to have done it and lucky to have worked with them.
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by szvsw 2y ago
> However, that doesn't solve the problem of what to do with the heat once you have it. Unfortunately they are not usually in great locations for this since you need other buildings, but if you have an ambient temperature district h
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by szvsw 2y ago
I always completely forget that the metropolis-hastings algorithm is named after someone whose last name is actually Metropolis. It never ceases to amaze me what an environment Los Alamos was for producing so much foundational research.
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by szvsw 2y ago
I think we are on the cusp of another renaissance in Bayesian / MC methods - specifically, I think in some relatively short timespan (5 yrs? 10 yrs?), it’s reasonable to think that some new algorithms that are massively parallel at the
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by szvsw 2y ago
Citing a specific (tragic) incident isn’t really great evidence in re: safety. You have to normalize by something like accidents/mile driven and compare to comparable services (taxi/uber etc) - having said that I couldn’t quickly
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by szvsw 2y ago
Very cool! Glad to hear my intuition is on the right track… I’m very much on the applied ML for engineering design side as opposed to the bleeding edge research side, so in terms of multi-node training I haven’t done much more than spin up
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by szvsw 2y ago
Just skimmed the abstract and it immediately has me wondering if there are ways that this research intersects with explainability research - specifically, the notion that certain inputs only activate certain portions of a network. I wonder
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by szvsw 2y ago
It seems like LLMs would be a fun way to study/manufacture syncretism, notions of the oracular, etc; turn up the temperature, and let godhead appear! If there’s some platonic notion of divinity or immanence that all faith is just a dow
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by szvsw 2y ago
Thank you for the detailed feedback! Great insight and makes a lot of sense. > Particularly in open source, you see remarkably little investment in performance engineering or scalability, so it is always straightforward to write your ow
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by szvsw 2y ago
Oh I have 100% run into dependency hell many times in the Python ecosystem! I am well aware. But the overall force multiplication of that ecosystem has far outweighed the cumulative day or two per year spent in dependency hell. As someone
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by szvsw 2y ago
> I also find it difficult to rationalize third-party dependencies these days, they almost all become disappointments over the long-term. The benefits rarely justify the risks. What kind of software development do you do? As someone who
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by szvsw 2y ago
I think you’ve articulated it pretty clearly here, but I still have minor quibbles. Back to the original point… I might be misconstruing it, but reads a bit like this to me: something should be free of consumer protections if consumers hav
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by szvsw 2y ago
I guess I disagree that price alone makes something a luxury good. Is a 10 year old Honda civic a luxury good (typically around $10-13k) even though there are probably cheaper and comparable alternatives? I would say no? Not a perfect analo
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by szvsw 2y ago
> It's a luxury product. 25-30% of smartphone owners have an iPhone. Something like 1.3b active iPhone users. That seems decidedly non-luxury. Neither here nor there but that’s part of your argument that seems pretty flawed (ie: it’
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by szvsw 2y ago
Overhangs are considered exterior shading in the industry/practice/academia. Any obstruction that prevents solar gains by blocking radiation from entering the window falls within the general category of external shading, whether t
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by szvsw 2y ago
Oh I’m totally with you! There is a long and storied history of passive design strategies, and exterior shading is one of the oldest ones out there! But what I stated is plainly true, and many people simply don’t want exterior shades (or ju
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by szvsw 2y ago
Yeah we refer to this as the heat loss form factor of the building, which is determined largely by the surface area to volume ratio (so you have a square-cube relationship at work) as well as the the number of floors in conjunction with the
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by szvsw 2y ago
Yeah, don’t over look the fact that the thermal demand from space conditioning homes is way higher on a per capita basis in a suburban context compared to an urban context with multi-family housing/apartments etc. There’s just way more
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by szvsw 2y ago
There’s not always a lot of freedom to control roof angles like that - it might eg be directly determined by the orientation of the street - and even if there is, it might come into conflict with other thermal considerations. For instance,
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One advantage of distributed solar is that it can at least come online right away and when installed with a battery, can get a home pretty close to being fully self-sufficient (depending on the climate/heating system), whereas the gene
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Part of being on autopilot and in flow for many people might be thinking about/solving/planning what you will do next while you are writing code for the last item… I find this especially true while working on data science tasks -

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