cactusfrog

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by cactusfrog 1mo ago
Here is a whole seminar series on SQL alternatives https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbpOIrZheFWxk... It’s pretty interesting!
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by cactusfrog 2mo ago
Zeolites are better
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by cactusfrog 4mo ago
I went to a small liberal arts school where the IT department recruited CS students under work study to build the systems. It’s a good learning experience for students to be involved in constructing and maintaining the infrastructure that k
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by cactusfrog 6mo ago
Eastern Washington has a lot of hot desert
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by cactusfrog 6mo ago
I think UV and Ruff showed us how much better Python tooling could be. Just setting a higher bar has move. OS forward
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by cactusfrog 7mo ago
Sometimes I want coffee before I make my coffee
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by cactusfrog 8mo ago
I would be surprised if the code was hidden from other people engineers.
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by cactusfrog 10mo ago
We have tons of space on earth. Cooling in space would be so expensive.
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by cactusfrog 10mo ago
Thank you for the explanation
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by cactusfrog 10mo ago
Could the rust code be transpired to readable C?
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by cactusfrog 10mo ago
There’s this Gitlab incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc
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by cactusfrog 10mo ago
This author assumes that open sourcing a package only delivers value if is added as a dependency. Publicly sharing code with a permissive license is still useful and a radical idea.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
A lot of times those 5% people go blind :/
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
I hope humans are like Cyanobacteria in that in destroying the environment we create the substrate for something grander.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
What language do you think they should have based Mojo off of? I think Python syntax is great for tensor manipulation.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
The issue with R is that there is too much dsl. This is great for one-off analysis but makes building a cohesive large code base really difficult.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
I know about ghostship, but I don’t immediately associate the word ghost ship with that disaster. I’ve always thought of them as the spooky abandoned ships that float around and I think it’s a good name.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
One of the best books I’ve ever read is The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book by Richard Rhodes. If you want an extremely in-depth history of the science and people behind Manhattan project, I would highly recommend reading it.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
I wonder how many nuclear power plants run on windows xp.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
This is really interesting. I think force fields in molecular dynamics have underwent a similar NN revolution. You train your NN on the output of expensive calculations to replace the expensive function with a cheap one. Could you train a s
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
I think the biggest problem with fintech is that the financial system is already decentralized, and full of tech. It really just seems like it involves using unregulated technology, which allows the skipping of restrictive regulations. Thi
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
I worked an MIT programmer who bragged about the Scheme curriculum. He was also the worst programmer that I’ve worked with. He really liked clojure and would constantly complain about Python syntax, and ended up quitting abruptly when his h
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
My process control theory textbook has a chapter on neural networks and a lot of the language in control theory has an AI like tinge to it. I think this AI language is native to control theory so it might not be as overblown as it first sou
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
OSS, even MIT licensed, embodies an radical idea that is counter to how most other engineering fields operate. The software required to design a chemical plant can cost 60K+ per year, per license, which locks in engineers and drives down th
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
I don’t think there is a contradiction here. Cheap, un-unionized labor has put many unionized firms out of business. It is extremely rare for a firm to be “de-unionized”.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
The amount of unioned workers keep decreasing because the firms with unioned workers fail or the work is outsourced. I think open source software is the best protection against abuses because workers can take the means of production elsewhe
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
A nice UI for a data lake house is underrated. I use AWS Athena at my work and it is just so bad for no good reason. For example, big columns of text are expanded outwards making reading the subsequent columns impossible.
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
This would be a good start of a plot line for some alien life form
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
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by cactusfrog 1y ago
We have robust cloning protocols for dogs. For some reason dogs are really amenable to cloning.

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