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by whacked_new 3y ago
Seems like I went down a similar path. Emacs user, brltty, digital display, the shebang, but not necessarily together :-) Maybe my experience will be useful to you. Do it for the plasticity. a high level writeup is here: https://
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by whacked_new 3y ago
Most of the discussions about approaches are about shifting the locus of "common language" at a particular point between the producer and the consumer. The common language is basically a codified description of the data that is hi
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I don't have a good answer, but suspect it will involve a metacognition that can delineate internal and external knowledge. To further handwave this thought bubble, you can attend to certain thought processes, and intuit the bounds to
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I have a feeling that based on these emergent abilities, at some point, a sufficiently large multi-modal model will demonstrate a semblance of self consciousness (by way of answering all the designed queries correctly), and the world at lar
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Having used reagent, watching the React space evolve is like a bricklayer watching a constant stream of innovations around mud. Sure, you could build foundations with bricks, but why do that when you can use a fancy mold and pour mud into i
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I have a question to the experienced PMs out there. If Lenny now time slipped back to the early discussions when they were rolling out the counter and the referral program, would he then vehemently oppose the ideas, citing all that he'
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I used to buy and eat organic brussel sprouts from Trader Joe's. Then one day, for some reason, I decided to take a closer look, and found a little green worm crawling about. After removing it, I found another, and another, until I los
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Yea, for the most part. The problems you describe with external data are supposed to be clojure's forte, but clojure also makes cheap footguns because maps fill most of the use cases for alists / hash tables, and implicit nil punn
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Thanks for answering my earlier question. Here's hoping you catch another one! In a lot of my clojure scripts, I forget the shape of the data, and so to help future me, I've use tricks like pre/post constraints, defstructs, s
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by whacked_new 4y ago
When reading your section on Python and ending statements with "pass", and after not finding other references to it in your blog, I have to ask about Ruby. It seems like it would check many boxes (highly extensible, no significant
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I think that's a generic response it gives when it's overloaded. I usually just use you.com's search. But every once in a while I'll ask it to make summary tables of stuff. Oftentimes you'd need to fact check the re
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I've been using you.com's chat feature a lot recently, which is a ChatGPT-like conversational AI. It's so good that I have now switched over my default search engine to you.com, as of last week. First change to my default in
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by whacked_new 4y ago
thanks for running through the thought experiment, this is pretty clever!
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by whacked_new 4y ago
a side note to my sibling post about the bayesian truth serum, which can be used to surface "experts", is that BTS discovers experts by rarity of knowledge in the crowd and correctness of metaknowledge of the crowd. The existence
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by whacked_new 4y ago
this is indeed a costly problem, but I suspect there are economical solutions using technology. Expert identification can, to a degree, be bootstrapped out of a crowd using something like Prelec's Bayesian Truth Serum ( https:/&#x
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by whacked_new 4y ago
The quiz is simple and to the point, with no cruft, so the overall experience is pretty good. But I have a (slightly tangential) UX/design question: if now you are compelled to remove the Next button from the question pages, how would
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by whacked_new 4y ago
on the surface this looks like a peer of https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/ many years ago I would have eagerly given this a whirl, but either I'm too old to try new things, or the broader user ecosystem has con
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. > As to your question, I interpret it as: why are lambdas coming inside spreadsheets instead of spreadsheets becoming incorporated into programming languages, right? Let me extend this. The power of the spreadsheet
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by whacked_new 4y ago
True. And they are used by orders of magnitude more people because they have proven their usefulness with the masses Stating the obvious, but it's a good reminder, because I asked the question anyway. For the mass market, it's a U
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by whacked_new 4y ago
intriguing presentation! So I have 1 prediction and 1 question. prediction: even though lambdas bring "code programming" into spreadsheets, and it's a huge leap in functionality for the spreadsheet, the dominant programming m
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I love this as a research topic. Here are a few examples close to me. 1. The nature of variance in regression methods. The first time I heard about "soaking up the variance" in modifying stat models in brain imaging I had no idea
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by whacked_new 4y ago
one combination I came to really love this year is babashka ( https://github.com/babashka/babashka ) + websocat ( https://github.com/vi/websocat ). I wrote about a method of live web programming with
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by whacked_new 4y ago
wow, thanks for sharing that post. how many revisions was that? you're a hell of a writer.
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Recently I encountered a tourist who didn't understand anything I said, but said he's from Korea. Recalling that I have been studying Korean on Duolingo for over a year, I excitedly probed my memory for a few seconds, then finally
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I spent a good part of last year picking up the abacus and meticulously tracking my progress. I can attest to "continue to visualize the abacus in their mind, improving their skills even when the physical tool is unavailable", but
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by whacked_new 4y ago
babashka is so good it's mind-boggling. super-easy shell interop + instant nREPL = replaces any complex bash script, driven from emacs! what's more, you can namespace your scripts and import them. functionalizing code makes sc
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Many years ago I worked for a professor who allowed me into weekly meetings which were mostly of touring faculty, presenters, or academics on the job market. The audience was always a pretty stable group of multidisciplinary, world-class fa
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by whacked_new 4y ago
completely fair, although the BV has a layer of anti-slip rubber on the back panel (which I also came to appreciate), so replacing the battery will probably require ripping that layer off (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I've been using a BlackView 9900 Pro for over a year, and attest to the surprising usefulness of the built-in thermal camera, such as checking how well food is heated after microwaving, or even watching the heat distribution of rolling
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by whacked_new 4y ago
twitterjust... might mean the part where you need to split your thoughts into spoon sized tweets... "how's the article coming along?" "hold on, I'm twitterjusting it"

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