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‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos(theguardian.com)
1 points by Fishysoup 6y ago|0 comments
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Relevant: some interesting insight into the inhumanity of it all https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/03/jeff-bezo...
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
There's no such thing as an "immune booster". The immune system is incredibly complex and nuanced, and there isn't a knob (or 10) that you can tweak to turn it up or down. It exists in a continuum of largely understood c
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Try therapy and, if necessary, medication. Both of those have completely turned my life around. Things are still shitty sometimes (esp. during Covid), but way better than a few years ago.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
The classification is done because rogue planets etc. tell us things about the process of solar system and planetary formation. Yeah nature tends to have a continuum of things, but the classifications are primarily used as place holders so
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
I think emergence and complexity are important topics here. It's important that we actually understand how the pieces come together though. Maybe that's a place for functional programming/logic and frameworks that make compos
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Wonderful!!! Can you point me to any textbooks/resources that go into more depth on this (or if that's too specific, dynamical systems in general at the early graduate level)?
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Something I've had trouble finding resources for is how to apply probabilistic/Bayesian techniques and thinking to chaotic dynamical systems. People keep telling me "Look up MCMC" but I don't see the relevance to dy
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Anyone care to compare this to Clojurescript?
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Hy got my attention a while ago but I haven't played with it yet. Would you find yourself turning back to Python due to missing/annoying features? And is there an easy way to turn your code into a Python script so your co-workers
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Leisure time etc. is very important to creativity and productivity as well. There's a lot of studies that I'm too lazy to link to, but you can find them pretty easily.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Julia seems to get around this by making macro syntax explicit [1]: e.g. the macro "code_native" is used as @code_native (expr) This makes macro wizardry easier to spot, but restricts how "plastic" the language is somewh
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
From what I understand, this relates closely to the "Lisp Curse"
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
People have been floating the idea of doing this for the life sciences too, where the cost of performing an experiment can be very high (animals, enzymes, local permitting and legal considerations etc. on top of the man hours). It would be
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Under any other administration I'd support this (i still do, provided the motivation is legitimate anti-trust concerns). But it's pretty obvious that the cheeto prince just doesn't want his hate speech banned or his dissident
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Nilang.jl – A Reversible Julia DSL(github.com)
64 points by Fishysoup 6y ago|29 comments
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Is the map accurate a few stars out of the sun? Star concentration seems to be higher near the sun. Or is that just something done for visualization purposes?
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Maybe you meant something slightly different, but I will agree with other comments that this wouldn't hamper progress. Most people don't enjoy doing nothing for protracted periods of time. We like to create things and make stuff h
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
My experience has been the opposite: things have been much easier and faster to set up in Julia. Yes, "time to first plot" is annoying after you update the plot package, but that's the only annoying thing for me. Julia is a t
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
I would like it to be multithreaded and for Org mode to have some more UI features (and I think a lot of people would - at least the former). From what I understand it's really hard to do that by building on the existing C base ELisp b
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Who wants to write the next generation of the Emacs concept in Julia (and maybe Rust)? (mostly kidding but I would like to see it and work on it if there's people who wanna do it)
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
I think Numpy made it easier for people to integrate with a ton of open source libraries. Since everything is proprietary and the users are in a few specific niches, Matlab can't be as versatile. Also, each of the Matlab add-ons are an
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Theoretically Julia is better for scientific computing, the only issue is its package ecosystem isn't as mature as Python's. But it's growing incredibly fast and there have already been libraries available for a few years tha
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Maybe they're trying to promote a move from Matlab (which is close to exclusively used in a lot of academic fields) to Python, and not to Julia. Or maybe that's too far? Either way yeah I also find it slightly weird that this was
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
I just discovered I've always wanted this.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
That's a ridiculous system. "Everybody knows when it's ok to have more baby diapers in the trash" as a temporary hallway pass is a symptom of a failed mindset.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Right. If your job as a Phillip Morris or Nestle exec (both headquartered in Switzerland) makes people's lives a lot worse in some other part of the world but you don't leave your garbage bin out before 8pm the day before it'
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
This has been my experience with Germany / Switzerland as well. Very punishment-based
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Yeah I'm also pessimistic about misleading thinking + demagoguery. I do think that there's a good contingent of society that has a decent bullshit detector though. I guess we'll find out.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Maybe we ought to "summon" people semi-randomly to work in politics for a few years, the way you get summoned to a jury or get drafted in a war. It's gonna suck for many of these people, but at least it's gonna make it h

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