vincent-toups

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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Cool, can't wait for anti-bot protection to start rejecting me because I use firefox.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
What I mean about macros is that there just aren't a lot of problems that are really well suited to solution via meta-programming. People should be free to program however they want, but if we're evaluating the power of a language
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I'm programming in Lisp (Chez Scheme) now. I've been a serious Lisp programmer (recreationally and sometimes professionally) for around 10 years and I have programmed in Common Lisp, Scheme, my own weird dialects, Emacs Lisp, etc.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
God please anything to liberate me from pandas, which has one of the wildest API's I've ever had to routinely work with.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Crazy, I just recommended this exact approach to a student in my data science class.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Whenever I see this stuff I wonder how much fraud is being perpetrated by people with enough statistical know how to make it hard to detect.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
The epistemological relevance of statistics at the level of daily news is almost non-existent. Heck, professional scientists routinely fail (for various reasons) to apply statistics correctly to very controlled circumstances. News reporting
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Seems interesting. I used to live with an abysmally slow rural broadband connection and so this kind of thing was impossible to imagine. What is my escape hatch for my workflows and data if your startup dies, though?
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I'd be shocked if this weren't the case.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
As an old Lisp/Scheme guy all I can think whenever I try to figure out what is going on with Rebol/Red is "What a mess."
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Gotta ask: is this gravity example real? You really have friends who have some sort of mystical commitment to the idea that gravity is somehow entirely epistemologically self-grounded? Almost literally every physicist since Newton has belie
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
The usual story is that neuron were initially characterized experimentally using current injections to which their firing times are (in a certain sense) maximally disordered and thus the response is characterized only by firing rate. This i
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
This is what (mediocre) my PhD thesis was about.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I'm not sure that I buy you're assertion that kindness is either necessarily or sufficiently described by a lack of aggression per se. Kindness is maybe better described by keeping the the inner life of your fellow beings in the f
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Are you using Hackernews' built in anti-procrastination features?
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I really liked the initial version of Duo Lingo but I've found it increasingly less fun to use as all the engagement hacking has crept into the site. I expect that will accelerate and things will start falling behind a pay wall soon. I
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
This really strikes me as a "not even wrong" post. I'm not sure there is anything wrong with programming and if there is something wrong with it, the problem sure isn't "there are not enough operators." My favo
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Honestly, I'd be fine with 99% of the internet going away.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I'm really looking forward to not engaging with any of this stuff at all!
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Not really the point I am trying to make: if you love History, getting the PhD might be worth it. Money isn't everything.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Counterpoint: I've got a Phd (Physics). I did not pursue physics as a career but I think about and read physics research papers and textbooks _almost every day_ and derive enormous pleasure from the pursuit. Sure, I could teach myself
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
The most literal possible interpretation of "move fast and break stuff."
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
"Everything looks like a graph" is more damning of the idea of a graph as storage than it is praise. The whole point of a database is to impose _additional_ constraints on the data to ease subsequent application development or dat
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I'd rather experience more stress than believe dumb shit. Editing lest I seem glib: I have tried spirituality. The amount of work I feel I must do to maintain anything but a relaxed materialist worldview is not worth the promise that b
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
The Economist certainly doesn't break down easily on the American political spectrum, but in the more coherent language of higher level policy, the Economist is almost 100% liberal. I agree its a well put together publication, but a so
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I'm all for people getting out of their bubbles, but the idea that the truth is "somewhere in the middle" or is even discernible by a process of digestion applied to the two "sides" of the American political spectru
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
"I’m arguing that secularism when taken on face value lacks the tools to recognize it’s own belief system." Truly a bonkers assertion when secularism includes enormous institutions to fund and perform tasks as various as the hard
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I'm not a non-drinker but I would say I have less than one drink in a typical 4 month period.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
I'd rather go without internet than have one of these damned smart devices in my house. I can't believe how popular they are.
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by vincent-toups 5y ago
Imagine getting bent out of shape about someone else getting bent out of shape over the color of shutters? Its pure spite.

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