williamcotton

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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   Sure, but the scatter plot and histogram in TFA suggest that there’s not a lot of languages written by young adults. The average can of course be misleading but it really isn’t in this case.
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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   Tooling is the biggest issue with a new language, and language servers are great, but I see a space for some kind of meta language server, some sort of generic pre-parser that handles C-style, or tab delimited, etc. A common feature of lang
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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   Yup, I know that, but I encourage people to not be afraid of republishing little bits of code for educational or archival purposes. They should know they do have fair use to lean on if they do end up in the incredibly unlikely situation of
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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   The entire world benefits from sites like the Internet Archive and the commons-friendly approach of fair use. I recommend changing the laws in your country! EDIT: I did a little bit of investigation and there are similar limits on copyright
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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   Have fun rewriting bits of your code, because the old version of a framework/library is no longer supported and there are breaking changes, which mean needing a partial rewrite. You don't get to choose if a third-party decides t
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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   The unacknowledged costs of using free third-party software eventually proves the law of there being no free lunches!
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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   In the context of the article, I assume because they want to archive the work for a future audience.
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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   It doesn’t, actually: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/ more likely to find that nonprofit educational and noncommercial uses are fair. less likely to support a claim of a fair use than using a factual work (such
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   by williamcotton 2y ago

   The white lie is that in functional programming a function only takes a single argument and uses currying to mimic multiple arguments. Like this in JS: let f = (x) => (y) => x * y; let p = f(2)(3); Is this in F#: let f x
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    A monad is just a fancy name for a design pattern in functional programing that manages side effects so you can write what looks like imperative code but that does some other stuff behind the scenes, eg, logging, async, exception handling.
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Here's something I whipped up to show an example of a ResultWriter monad using computation expressions in F#. I'm sure there are some slightly better interfaces than this, and I wouldn't mind a code review if anyone is feelin
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Yes, in their houses, and never out in public. The tension here is the expectation of privacy for signals broadcast outside of one’s property and into the commons. We don’t yet have a firm grasp on how to handle the issue of extending priva
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    The sheer scale of data on the long tail. Sure, the head is already a trash pile and has been for decades now, but there is plenty of non-monetized information all over the internet that is barely linked to or otherwise discoverable.
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    D3 is inspired by the Grammar of Graphics by Wilkinson. Another tool also inspired by GG is aptly named ggplot2 and for the R language. It offers a much more terse and functional inspired interface that also works well with an uncommon tool
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Country and folk inspired music and fans of these genres tend to enjoy both. The Grateful Dead were influenced by all American roots music and had phenomenal lyrics by the poets Robert Hunter and JP Barlow.
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Ionide, The F# language server, is excellent. I use F# in .NET Interactive Jupyter notebooks daily at work and it works quite well. The community around the language is very helpful and the Discord is great for all sorts of issues ranging f
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    I’m curious and new to R. What are those R libraries you’re referring to?
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    There are these things called extradition treaties.
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Oh, I have found it very helpful. FWIW, it takes practice to get good at using ChatGPT. You have to direct it in certain ways and break up problems into bite sized chunks to do complex things like, eg, assist in writing a language server fo
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Here are the tools I will be using today: F#, Jupyter, Python, R, MySQL, PostgresQL, ZSH (awk, sed, fill in the rest), VS Code, Excel, Word, git, and probably more. This weekend I continued to work my way through Learn You a Haskell For Gre
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Can you critique my usage of ChatGPT? How exactly is this rigging my "own foundations with explosives"? https://chat.openai.com/share/927ac3b7-2b3c-46ea-a74b-d0dec5...
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    I started using F# late last year in a *nix environment and it is really well done. There's .NET Interactive which allows for F# in a Jupyter Notebook. You can create .fsx scripts that are interpreted at runtime and handle inline depen
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    CC-BY-SA is a copyright license. If LLMs are found to be fair use then there is no copyright infringement regardless of license.
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    I’m an artist and I feel great. As a singer-songwriter I’ve already come to terms with Swedish mega-producers, drum machines, Live Nation, and whatever drives people to consume corporate music. What exactly makes things any harder for artis
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Yup, I pasted in the wrong link! https://chatgpt.com/share/e92bf633-4815-45bc-8ae9-9068fe257d...
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Does this interaction seem like low complexity? https://chatgpt.com/share/e92bf633-4815-45bc-8ae9-9068fe257d... [EDIT: pasted in wrong link] There is basically no information out there on how to write error tolerant pa
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    What is the complaint in this suit you're hypothesizing? How would damages be computed?
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Especially if enough people maliciously pollute the commons in support of their political ideology.
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    Do you realize that your stance is merely your opinion? Does everyone agree that training ANNs is stealing?
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    by williamcotton 2y ago

    So you want to pollute the commons just as the people filling the web with SEO-focused AI-generated schlock? Do you feel justified in polluting the commons to serve the ends you desire?