a_136_chiffa

5 ms·

1.
by a_136_chiffa 3mo ago
LLMs were invented by AI2, before Transformers were a thing - with RNN-based ELMO.
2.
by a_136_chiffa 6y ago
Alan Kay on Dijkstra, (1997 OOPSLA keynote): 'I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.' Was this article written by Dijkstra
3.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
I am a computational biologist with a heavy emphasis on the data analysis. I did try Jupyter a couple of years ago and here are my concerns with it, compared to my usual flow (Pycharm + pure python + pickle to store results of heavy process
4.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
> But history has judged him as one of the worst presidents. Nah, not if you talk to any craft brewers or beer enthusiasts. They are basically inches short of having his portrait hung in every craft brewery and pub due to his H.R. 1337 b
5.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
> The baseline percentage of the population which experience depression (and other mental illness) each year is known to be pretty high -- and highest in for people in their 20's. One third sounds fairly normal; at any rate, there i
6.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
One where you don't get sustained funding to maintain it. In compbio even major resources, known to everyone in the domain only have funding from one two-year grant to another.
7.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
Absolutely not. In case it's someone you don't know a colleague, you open a communication channel allowing them to switch to a different topic and indicating you are not currently busy or annoyed (in which case you would have adde
8.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
You can change your credit score, social circles or what you search. Your genome is frozen in time and is passed down to your children.
9.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
Whether you like it or not, US tends to lead the world. Tools developed here tend to implanted elsewhere, even if they get regulated after about a decade.
10.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
> I really doubt this. I've been genotyped by 23andMe and the most interesting information I've seen from their health reports are a handful of disease probabilities and some fairly useless-to-me traits (like, for instance, a p
11.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
If they don't find your data, they will likely use your relative's data to infer the risk. I doubt your cousins, uncles and aunts would think twice before signing up with their real names to one of the "find where your ancest
12.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
For now.
13.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
The issue with such software is that it's mission-critical. In other terms, it needs to be zero-downtime, bullet-proof, audited and certified by external actors and to be supported for the next 30-50 years. Historically, all those limi
14.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
The issue is not to repeat the experiments, but rather to avoid putting the logs in the wheels of people who want to re-analyze your existing data (including yourself a couple of years later) and avoid losing thousands of working hours doin
15.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
That's why free/leisure time to figure WTF is going on politically/economically socially and an education not to get lost on the way of getting there have been considered as pre-requisites for a functioning democracy.
16.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
They are military personnel, writing code for military applications. They are under the obligation to refuse to execute orders that go against international conventions and have an obligation to respond to Congress/Senate inquiries. Th
17.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
Not really - the inflation is currently reported on a "reference consumer basket", which doesn't really represent different segments of society. In other terms, if you are spending on health care of education you are in a rea
18.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
Hope not. In the US, at least, the craft beer came to be dominated just by a couple of types that are easy to make - notably the IPAs. Some other types are present as well, but the selection and the quality are nowhere near. While it is a w
19.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
As a French - you can actually taste the difference between a 5$ and a 50$ wine, even despite the difference itaste. In France. Not in the US. For some weird reason, the US wine is 100% posing, and statement about your social position. Almo
20.
by a_136_chiffa 8y ago
Wound you mind elaborating?