timroy

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by timroy 10y ago
I use Emacs' org-mode for data science and for math courses. With Babel you can evaluate code and see the results in-line, with syntax highlighting. I don't use code completion myself but I'm confident it's available. Wi
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by timroy 10y ago
Another post by the same author on spec: https://juxt.pro/blog/posts/parsing-routes-clojure-spec.html Another brief intro to spec: https://coyotespike.github.io/blog/2016/08/18/
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Explore UI States with DevCards and Clojure.Spec(juxt.pro)
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by timroy 10y ago
Laphman has reminisced in a few of his essays about growing up in his august family in San Francisco - wonderful memories, windows into bygone eras. The pleasure of reading his essays, as for the magazine itself, lies in the prose itself ev
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by timroy 10y ago
No, an elephant needs a larger brain to run its larger body. Humans have enough brains to run our bodies, plus "extra" with which to think, in a manner of speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalizatio
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by timroy 10y ago
Fantastic, happy to see this development. I keep a list of people/Patreons to support, and Kalid has been on it for a long time
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by timroy 10y ago
Thanks for the reviews, that's quite helpful. I'm taking Andrew Ng's course again, and really enjoying it. I understood most of it the first time, but having linear algebra and calculus is a huge help this time around.
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by timroy 10y ago
Thanks for this article - very clear, well-motivated, and concise. I'm saving this for myself and others.
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by timroy 10y ago
Here's a good (and fun) column on how Ms. Kondo helps many people overcome cognitive biases. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/an-econo...
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by timroy 10y ago
No, I (and presumably the other posters) can tell the difference - I just disagree on the morality, partly because I think the legal aspects are related to the moral aspects. The guy purchased the right to the house once the current owner d
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by timroy 10y ago
"Biohack" is pretty common - although that term also means, e.g, implanting magnets in your fingers.
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by timroy 10y ago
I have heard only good things about Schema, and I probably should have invested the time to understand and use it more intensively.
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by timroy 10y ago
So, the one big atom solved two problems for me. First, in Reagent/FRP, I was updating a view based on the value of an atom. This meant I had different default values in different atoms. The big atom let me unify where I stored values,
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by timroy 10y ago
Thanks, good to know.
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by timroy 10y ago
"if it compiles, then it just seems to work" Man, now that is tempting. Also, how easy are the ports? In ClojureScript you can use JavaScript pretty directly, but I often got a bit hung up translating the syntax (it's not tha
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by timroy 10y ago
Yeah, after the app grew a bit, I had state scattered here and there. re-frame solves this with a big atom, and avoids expensive rendering every time the big atom updates with subscriptions. Subscriptions hold reactions, which only update i
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by timroy 10y ago
This looks very cool. In ClojureScript, we have the re-frame pattern/framework, which is built on Reagent, which is a ClojureScript wrapper of React. re-frame is all about subscriptions, using a "big atom" to hold application
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by timroy 10y ago
Thanks for the advice! That's very helpful to fold into my research/analysis of next steps. :-)
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by timroy 10y ago
I think that's true. Most biotech companies are filled with PhDs. The cloud lab Transcriptic is an exception, started by a biomedical engineer in undergrad, but generally speaking it seems you need a PhD for credibility (not to discoun
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by timroy 10y ago
FourSigma and IndianAstronaut, what do you think about doing bioinformatics as research, formulating and testing hypotheses, and then either using a cloud lab or a garage lab for at least some wetlab testing? I've been researching inte
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by timroy 10y ago
I posted above why I like Org-Mode. Here are a few things it doesn't do well. 1. Because it is text-based, its visual summaries are limited. Like, there's a calendar, and for org-habits a simple color-coded chart to show consisten
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by timroy 10y ago
Because a couple people here have expressed curiosity, here's what I like about org-mode. 1. The workflow is key. From any document, if I want to note down a task, I use org-capture. This creates a to-do item in To-Do.org. Alternativel
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by timroy 10y ago
Hmmm. Where do you get that from this article, or his blog post? Sure, he did get the 23andMe interview from a friend. But Google? and AirBnB? and Yelp? and Uber? and Twitch? Man, that would be a lot of connections. Ben Horowitz carefully o
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by timroy 10y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "it simply gives the author's a narrative to fake"? At the very least, pre-registration helps guard against the "file-drawer" effect, where a negative result simply goes in the trash
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by timroy 10y ago
Thanks for the advice, that all sounds right to me. I particularly like the point about the $TOPIC of the moment. The roll-your-own-company lab approach sounds a little better, overall. One tricky thing is that I'd have a lot more cred
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by timroy 10y ago
I've spent the last couple of weeks intensively researching paths into the life sciences without a PhD (I'm deciding whether to go get one). I haven't found a way in either. If you start your own company somewhere in the fiel
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by timroy 10y ago
Just saw your reply below, so I'll just pretend you've posted the same reply here. ;-)
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by timroy 10y ago
Contract enforcement is a government activity, though. To enforce a contract, you ask the government (via the courts) to force the other party to give you assets, or not to work somewhere, etc. By the same reasoning, if I sue you for defa
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by timroy 10y ago
This demonstration goes really well with Michael Nielsen's http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ . At the bottom of the page the author gives a shout out to Nielsen, Bengio, and others. For someone (like me) who&#x2
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by timroy 11y ago
Sci-Hub's sort of "civil disobedience" avoids the need to change the system at all, and so it doesn't matter if Sci-Hub changes the system. Hoping that over the next decade we can implement legal changes to lower the cos

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