vcdimension

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by vcdimension 3y ago
If you already know a lisp such as scheme, much of it should already be familiar to you. You can program in a lisp-1/scheme like way using square brackets, and a lisp-2/common lisp way using round brackets. The thing that really
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by vcdimension 3y ago
It should be easy to implement miniKanren in txr lisp.
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by vcdimension 3y ago
I got stuck into txr lisp a few years ago, and wrote some code for parsing bank statements. It has a builtin DSL (the @ syntax) which is great for text processing (better than perl IMO). It's also a fun language to learn, with lots of
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by vcdimension 3y ago
Sorry, I should have said quality-adjusted life years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
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by vcdimension 3y ago
Most people don't even know how to mentally frame the problem. It's the number of life years lost that matters, not the number of lives, e.g. the death of a child with their whole life before them is worse than the death of an eld
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by vcdimension 3y ago
There's also this one: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature... which is summarised here: https://www.facebook.com/econometricsguru/posts/pfbid0wtvV
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by vcdimension 3y ago
There are several games and other online resources for learning lambda calculus and combinators: For kids: http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/ and: https://metatoys.org/alligator/ A lambda calcul
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by vcdimension 4y ago
I wrote a couple of shell tools based on fzf: https://github.com/vapniks/fzfrepl : Edit commands/pipelines with fzf, and view live output while editing. There's a cool example using ffmpeg, graph2dot & gra
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by vcdimension 4y ago
These techniques are similar to those that I use for teaching maths & statistics to humans.
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by vcdimension 4y ago
Would also be good to have a dedicated emacs mode for faster editing; you could use it with polymode and latex/python/cc/matlab-mode with some function for converting regions of iheartla to the appropriate language inline.
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by vcdimension 4y ago
This is begging for an emacs org-babel library: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
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by vcdimension 4y ago
Does anyone know how it compares to ulisp? http://www.ulisp.com/
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by vcdimension 4y ago
This proposed improvement in the way RCT's are conducted could have a big impact on the speed of drug discovery: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.02876.pdf
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by vcdimension 4y ago
This video is amazing. Its one of my favourites. "Inside the burning ship": https://youtu.be/yaPTk-DqT1g You can see some thought has gone into not just the mathematics and rendering process, but also the artistic
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by vcdimension 4y ago
@Gatsky: ah I see, yes that sounds highly plausible, but can you supply any evidence of this, or is it just hearsay?
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by vcdimension 4y ago
@gojomo: Isn't it normally the case that an RCT follows an observational study? There's not much point in doing an observational study if someone's already done an RCT, but there is the other way round, since RCT's are m
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by vcdimension 4y ago
Actually, you're wrong about that. According to this Cochrane systematic review, RCT's and observational studies are usually in close agreement: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651
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by vcdimension 4y ago
You could make some of the money back from those tools, and help others in a similar situation, by renting them out on https://fatllama.com (or some other sharing website/app such as https://olioex.com/ ). S
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by vcdimension 4y ago
It's kept upto date by employees of the bike shop he worked for (Harris Cyclery), his widow, and his friend John Harris (a nationally recognized bicycle expert). The most recent post was about 3 weeks ago: https://sheldonbro
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by vcdimension 4y ago
Interestingly the bike repair bible that most of the experts defer to, i.e. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ is written by a man who claims he was strongly influenced by the writings of Bertrand Russell, and he is married to a
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by vcdimension 5y ago
Here's a tutorial on creating zsh completion scripts: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions/blob/master/zsh... The zsh completion system is better than the bash one; it has a builtin menu sys
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by vcdimension 5y ago
OK, there are many places where extra clothing isn't enough, but I think most people are accustomed to an indoor temperature far higher than is necessary or healthy. It feels comfortable, but then so does morphine. Whether it's -
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by vcdimension 5y ago
OK, thanks. I see it says 6,465 advisories, so I guess you are only storing CVE records that haven't been fixed since the main CVE list currently contains 170804 records. Is this correct?
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by vcdimension 5y ago
How big is the entire dataset? How many files? I'd like to know that (approximately) before I click download and try to rustle up some command line tooling scripts to query it. Perhaps you can publish that info in the README?
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by vcdimension 5y ago
I'm in the south east of the UK, but the point I'm making applies almost anywhere in the Western world; it's perfectly possible, and even healthier, to get by at a much lower indoor temperature than most people are accustomed
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by vcdimension 5y ago
I hardly used any extra heating at all this winter, neither central heating nor spot heating. I've been having cold showers every morning, and allowing myself to shiver, and I feel great. If it gets uncomfortably cold I just put on mor
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by vcdimension 5y ago
Apart from the reductions in energy bills & carbon emissions, there would also be a general improvement in health. Central heating has been implicated in the diabetes epidemic that plagues Western socieities: https://www.diab
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by vcdimension 5y ago
The Chinese & Japanese governments are investing in space based solar which solves the nighttime problem: https://wonderfulengineering.com/china-is-aiming-to-build-a-... https://nextrendsasia.org/japan-p
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by vcdimension 5y ago
They're still a very long way from getting a net gain in energy: https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY
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by vcdimension 5y ago
My first thought when I saw this item in the HN list was TXR :)

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