Staross

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by Staross 10d ago
I think something that could help is moving together rather than one-by-one. We could have a website where you can register as "ready to move from X to Y when N other people are", when the goal is reached everybody gets a notice i
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by Staross 13d ago
And if you don't want to code your own HMM it also has the best (AFAIK) HMM library out there (HiddenMarkovModels.jl).
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by Staross 23d ago
Implement a linear regression or Bayes' theorem.
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by Staross 1mo ago
I wonder if there's correlations between tasks and languages, e.g. maybe R is better for bioinformatics tasks, python for webdev, C for CLIs, etc. I'd expect to see it because some languages are used more often in some tasks than
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by Staross 3mo ago
I thought it was very interesting, but maybe also incredibly naive politically ? it's like he's re-discovering alienation under capitalism. A wood-worker could do the same argument, there's the "official" wood-worki
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by Staross 4mo ago
It's already on my bank app since a couple of week, but I haven't tried it yet.
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by Staross 4mo ago
You should really do a Bayesian fit for such predictions and give confidence intervals, it would probably show that the uncertainty is very high in these cases.
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by Staross 6mo ago
That works well to get around patents btw :)
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by Staross 7mo ago
If it taste as good and is cheaper, sure.
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by Staross 7mo ago
I think there's quite a bit of "quiet work" going on that isn't very visible. Personally I've been happily using Julia for work everyday for years. When the language was younger there was "big" updates tha
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by Staross 8mo ago
I gave it a try, I asked to do a reddit like forum and it did pretty good but damn I quickly hit the daily limit of the $20 pro account, and it took 10% of the monthly just to do the setup and some basics. I knew LLM were expensive to run b
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by Staross 9mo ago
Also tried it on a small project, it did ok finding issues but completely failed doing rather basic edits, like it lost closing brackets or used wrong syntax and couldn't recover. The CLI was easy to setup and use though.
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by Staross 1y ago
Yeah that was a missed opportunity fore sure, joining forces 8 years ago would probably had yield better results that the current situation.
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by Staross 1y ago
Funny how the already weak case for not working on Julia instead of creating a new language is becoming even more flimsy : FAQ: > Why not make Julia better? > We think Julia is a great language and it has a wonderful community, but Mo
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by Staross 2y ago
>And it's basically not possible to escape that environment until the plane lands Ever heard of closing your eyes ?
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by Staross 7y ago
I would add: - Good integrated test system (and test culture in the community) - Super good package/environment manager - Great integrated documentation system - Good version control practices in the community - Awesome community