xelxebar

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by xelxebar 7y ago
Hiring me will inject clarity and organization into your team's project. I am someone who can rapidly ramp up on new ideas, communicate clearly across various levels of technicality, and be that "someone" for "problems s
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Calling out non-professionalism and bashing a stranger's communication style are, perhaps ironically, nice examples of non-professional behavior. I would answer your rhetorical questions with an emphatic "no." People's e
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by xelxebar 7y ago
It seems like you might be deep in the ML rabbit hole. Zoom out a bit. A hash function is "just a function." Every image labeling black box can be though of as a hash from images to label vectors. OP's comment effective asks
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by xelxebar 7y ago
My experience is only with J, but I imagine it carries over to APL and K as well. The code ends up reading a lot like an algebraic sentence after a while: x (1/u + 1/v) = x/(uv) (u - v). Spot the error? Once you are
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by xelxebar 7y ago
FWIW, I've had a lot of luck by first analytically learning about J語 pronunciation. It's a lot subtler than just "2 tones" and it's even reasonable to develope the ability to predict the tonal contour of an unfami
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by xelxebar 7y ago
I picked up a copy of Chandrasekar's "Hydrodynamic and Magnetodynamic Stability" a while back and started working through it. The basics are relatively approachable, but dang the differential equations can get gnarly. It feel
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by xelxebar 7y ago
That paper is from 1993. Hard to believe that it took such a long time to find a concrete pathology in a Newtonian system. Now the question is whether these blowups only occur on initial condition sets of zero measure. John Baez also has a
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Oh cool. I stumbled across this a while back and got inspired wrote some ELFs in gas (GNU assembler). It's surprisingly straightforward and there's even a manpage elf(5), which is pretty much exactly the 32- and 64-bit specificati
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by xelxebar 7y ago
A formalist might say that mathematics has no infinities. Even infinite sets are just definitions of finite length, even if expanded all the way to ZFC axioms. The problem is your intuitive understanding. A realist might say that mathematic
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by xelxebar 7y ago
For what it's worth, your standard Xorg installation includs an APL layout (with several variants, actually). Something like this is pretty workable: $ setxkbmap -layout us,apl -variant ,dyalog -option grp:lswitch You just nee
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by xelxebar 7y ago
For whatever it's worth, there's also the older Voc[0] documentation which NuVoc is a rewrite and expansion on. The former is a heck of a lot terser and dryer, but I prefer it as a compact reference. The Voc reads more like a grad
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by xelxebar 7y ago
> I'm pretty skeptical of the premise that "All therapy books start with a claim that their form of therapy will change everything." Nicely spotted. This is certainly a good point to question. The article reads to me as (i
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Always excited to see APL/J content on the top page. Happily, this coincides with a brand new release of the J interpreter, namely J901. It's so new that the homepage[0] still claims 901 is in beta. The install page[1], however, d
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Beatuiful, high-value reply. Thank you for making the connection to upstream and unpacking things with good, concise exposition.
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by xelxebar 7y ago
I sort of mentioned this in a parent comment, but think you might get a kick out of this question: Why modus ponens? [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achi...
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by xelxebar 7y ago
I agree that the article plays a little loose with terminology; however, I wouldn't go as far to say that it's a circular argument. To snitch an example from mathematics, consider formal logic and set theory. These are oft conside
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Horrible article. It had me glued to the screen in rapt interest and I ended up losing track of time, causing me to be late for a meeting. Actually, I have been biting at the bit to get into reverse engineering after discovering some of Chr
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by xelxebar 7y ago
I am the opposite of a grunt worker. If you want someone who will pursue a multifaceted understanding of your problem, hire me. If you need someone tenacious enough to face an intractible problem, hire me. If you would like someone meticulo
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Essentially, yes. > (^~^:_1) 5 First, let me break this down, in the interest of sharing the joys of J. The thing in parenthesis is our inverse operation of x^x; we then evaluate that at 5. The first ^ is exponentiation and the following
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Be sure to have a PTR record in the DNS zone of whomever owns your IP address. I have DKIM, SPF and DMARC setup, but my mails were getting sent to spam before rDNS was configured correctly. More to the point, I discovered this by reading Go
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by xelxebar 7y ago
> No one really knows why it's true. This is what is so bizzare. We do know why it's true; the mystery is just pumped up in the press. I have only skimmed the paper, but apparently Belevitch [0] showed (in 1959!) that Zipf&#x
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Have you tried applying the logic of that idea to the idea itself? Seems to suggest that the rise of lies might not be so tidily explainable. In general, I'm wary of ideas that are self-referentially unstable in the above way. /2c
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Incidentally, I was surprised to find an apl keyboard layout installed on my machine by default: $ find /usr/share/X11/xkb/ -name '*apl*' /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Would absolutely love to work with Haskell, J/APL, prolog, or lisp. I am passionate about formal systems, machine verification, and minimalism: Location: Obihiro, Japan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Linux,
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Would be curious to see what happpens if we let an optimizer go wild with tye keyboard structure as well. For a while, I've been wanting to try a Dactyl: https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard But I wonder if
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Also have been running my own postfix mail server for several years now. It does take a bit of work to grok all the moving parts, but once you do it's actually quite straightforward. As long as you have the following configured, then y
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by xelxebar 7y ago
And here's my version of Gauss-Legendre: [[lmp lnp lap lbp ltp lqp lOxp]sD]sT # enable debug tracing [0sn [ln 1+ sn]sN 1sa [la dsc lb + 2/ sa]sA 1 2v/sb [lc lb *v sb]sB 1 4/st [lt lc la- 2^ lq*
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by xelxebar 7y ago
Hey, I just coded this up and think you might get a kick out of it: [[lipljplkpllplxplmplsp]sD]sT # enable debug tracing [426880 10005v*sc]sC 0si [li1+si]sI 6sk [lk12+sk]sK 13591409sl [ll545140134+sl]sL 1sx [lx_26
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by xelxebar 7y ago
While on the subject, I'd like to share a solution I came up with for nested sessions: https://github.com/xelxebar/tmux-addons/tree/master/nesting Essentially, it defines some keys that let you &quo
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by xelxebar 7y ago
To expand on @contravariant's answer a bit, let me take a more hand-wavy intuitive approach. The surface of a ball, i.e. a sphere, doesn't have boundary for the same reason that the surface of the Earth doesn't. You can'

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