brunokim

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by brunokim 1y ago
I'm unconvinced by the article criticism's, given they also employ their feels and few citations. > I appreciate that research has to be done on small models, but we know that reasoning is an emergent capability! (...) Even if
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by brunokim 1y ago
If you do that, you lose those stable pointers.
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by brunokim 1y ago
Autotools looks like a great idea: try to compile some programs and see if it works to learn the specifics of your environment. Yet I share the feeling from Julia that I hope to never have to learn how it works.
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by brunokim 2y ago
Here is an expert saying there is a problem and how it killed its research effort, and yet you say that things are the same as ever and nothing was killed.
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by brunokim 2y ago
This is probably the more liberating and insightful paper I've ever read on programming (close 2nd: "Teach Yourself Programming in 10 years"). So many things I already knew from experience, but had never seen been addressed s
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by brunokim 2y ago
LOL nested CSVs are a new one to me. What was it used for?
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by brunokim 2y ago
"Broken" is a sliding scale, and it's unfeasible to refuse engaging at all times. If you are a multi-billion dollar company creating a new integration, you can demand that your small supplier provide an RFC-4180 compliant fil
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by brunokim 2y ago
18k lines is very small, CSVs are fine as storage option. My rule of thumb is that anything that fits into Excel (approx 1M lines) is "small data" and can be analysed with Pandas in memory.
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by brunokim 2y ago
I've read a comment here some years ago of someone discovering ASCII field delimiters and excited to use them. They then discovered that those characters are only used in three places: the ASCII spec, their own code, and the data from
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by brunokim 2y ago
God created electromagnetism as a way to transmit power between the fusion plant and its simulated planet, and is now delighted that we also use it to trade Pokemons back and forth.