ca_parody

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by ca_parody 6y ago
Is there a cicada in the logo?
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by ca_parody 6y ago
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by ca_parody 6y ago
I would also add, for data-science esc tasks (or bulk queries in general) - COPY {} TO is unreasonably fast - often much faster than executing the standard select (especially if that select is being executed by a driver in a slower language
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by ca_parody 6y ago
I am sympathetic to the practical issues & biases at play when discussing the systems we often call meritocracies; especially when those systems result in anti-meritocratic behavior. However, what is the reader supposed to come away wit
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by ca_parody 6y ago
Sadly one doesn't - unless one happens to have ~300GB of RAM to fit the model into memory and a close personal friend at openai who will share the learned weights with you. Training your an even more expensive endeavor. Presumably this
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by ca_parody 6y ago
Has the 747 transported to most human-distance (people * (km|miles)) of any other make&model transportation machine? I would imagine so...
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by ca_parody 6y ago
Honestly, for however much this project either (a) is a genuine archeological move for the preservation of information or (b) to get good press, all I genuinely thought when this happened is "aw shucks - wish i fixed those bugs before
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by ca_parody 6y ago
Forgive me - but how does this avoid the chicken&egg problem here. Without digging through the promo copy, why would one programmatically label training data to do ML on if they have such a program to label data...
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by ca_parody 6y ago
To me, Go feels condescending to write without generics. I may just not groke the idioms - but putting users in a walled garden that the standard library has the privileged to escape from (i.e. (Map<k, v>)) just seems to go too far in
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by ca_parody 6y ago
https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer probably has a lot of examples in it's implementation
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by ca_parody 6y ago
its been a couple years - but mratsim (the same person who authored this ray tracing post) wrote this (which is at least tangential to your question) https://medium.com/@MARatsimbazafy/why-rust-fails-hard-at-sc... . Som
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by ca_parody 6y ago
The main reasons I see for nim in scientific computing over python are: (a) you need performance for applications outside of numpy / pandas & you want to avoid writing a C extension to do so (nim is also actually a good choice for
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by ca_parody 6y ago
They provide NAM, GFS, HERR, etc... they also have proprietary models (CBAM1 & CBMA2 that are higher resolution)
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by ca_parody 6y ago
I think if that some of these concepts should just be included with the 3.9 Annotated Type Annotated[IO[str], unpure] in 3.9 and above if the authors want to commit to type hints being core to this. I agree that the decorators feel
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by ca_parody 6y ago
Why the lambdas at all in these examples... (lambda real_user: real_user.get_balance()) and not User.get_balance (besides subclasses not getting their balance called...)
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by ca_parody 6y ago
Nim feels more like hyper modern python to me. Haskell is an entirely different paradigm.