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by usgroup 4y ago
The trouble is going from a mechanism to consciousness. Really not clear why consciousness is required for anything at all or how possibly in could emerge. Yet — ala Descartes — surely the awareness of our own thought is the thing we can be
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by usgroup 4y ago
This is a naive question, but how does one even begin to conceive of a device like this? What does a "mechanical computer" development life cycle look like?
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think that Peter identifies interesting possible chains of events and they are worth knowing about. I think Peter projects unwarranted — prophet level — certainty on both his predictions and his rationalisations about why things in the pa
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think things like developing Salesforce extensions, SharePoint features, etc has this sort of "parachute in" property too, where the requirement is specific. It is also well paid. I think things like building marketing websites,
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by usgroup 4y ago
I could imagine myself thinking through what a continuous version of chess might look like, but actually having enough give—a-f__ck to implement it is other worldly to me. What drives you internet stranger?
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by usgroup 4y ago
given that you're asking how to break down a complex task into pieces, it sounds like planning rather than execution is the problem. to wit, it doesnt sound like its mental capacity -- if you knew how to do it before, you'd still
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think the term just applies the usual formula "<x> coach" (e.g. "football coach", "tennis coach") to a broad topic: x=life. Personally, I don't think there is a problem with that etymology. Some pe
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by usgroup 4y ago
i really dont think it could .. if you pick a few random users and check their rating curves on lichess it doesnt take long to see that for many, their best rating was at some point in the past. i think this is because their interest in che
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by usgroup 4y ago
yeah exactly, or play puzzle rush or something. on the more sharp side, my advise to people who play chess because it makes them feel more/less intelligent is dont play chess.
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by usgroup 4y ago
i think anything which affects your concentration may affect your chess rating. id say that playing lots of competitive chess has a negative effect on mental health for many people. treating chess as an easily accessible proxy for your int
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Ask HN: Are Data Science jobs waning?
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think software like alpha zero are an example of that —- tree search with policy learning which governs what gets searched.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Well usually it’s the datalog subset people wish was just there —- and it typically is :-)
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by usgroup 4y ago
I don’t think prolog does itself any favours by advertising as a general purpose programming language. I tried to learn it and it really screams “I’m not a general purpose programming language”. If you take away the use cases more suitable
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by usgroup 4y ago
Could you provide some examples of non trivial SQL queries expressed as PRQL and then what PRQL actually produces as a result? As others have suggested, I do wonder how optimal the translation is for non trivial cases because that often mat
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by usgroup 4y ago
That PRQL is not composable makes it —- so far as I can see —- mostly an alternative syntax. What I’d personally really appreciate is the ability to split queries up into individuality testable and reusable parts. I think that’d be game cha
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by usgroup 4y ago
I’d suggest perhaps finding a more senior colleague that can work through a few questions with you just to try and identify where your problem seems to be. However I’d suggest that being able to write and analyse algorithms is more than min
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by usgroup 4y ago
Thinking about why the PRQL syntax is as it is, does it have something to do with chaining CTEs together? I roughly see how given a pipeline with discrete components you could translate it into a collection of CTEs which lead into each othe
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by usgroup 4y ago
Has anyone attempted to do anything like this in Racket?
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by usgroup 4y ago
Could you say a bit about how you'd manage a SQL repo using XSLT? It isn't obvious to me how that works.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Other than availability on POSIX systems, also that the macros are just text without fanfare. I.e. no double curlys etc, so its easy to accept as just an extension to SQL as you might do with a C pre-processor.
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think a composable SQL alternative would be great but if doesn't compose I personally don't see too much value in just an alternative syntax.
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by usgroup 4y ago
The article also abstracts the joins, a field list and an aggregate function too. It also notes the potentially to do so with where clauses, window function and so on.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Does PRQL allow for a shared library? Ie can fragments be saved and reused?
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by usgroup 4y ago
Do you have a link to an example of DBT doing something similar?
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think that M4 can be fine in production. Many years ago, I had used it to re-write a massive Squid Proxy configuration file which was mostly a collection of repeating blocks. The file was so big that no-one really understood how it worked
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SQL + M4 = Composable SQL(emiruz.com)
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by usgroup 4y ago
I think numba still makes sense for loopy algorithms but not so much if youre more vector oriented given that Jax is more or less a drop in replacement for numpy and is shockingly fast.
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by usgroup 4y ago
Anyone else bail as soon as they saw “inspired by React” on the splash page?
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by usgroup 4y ago
"Every single week we receive requests to create a 'one-stop shop', a 'hub', a 'single front door' or a 'portal'. We often wonder whether we're expecting colleagues to open the single front

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