chobytes

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by chobytes 2y ago
Seems kind of pointless. The tech for tracking is widely available and straightforward to use. Has been for decades.
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by chobytes 3y ago
3blue1brown has a great geometric LA series on youtube.
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by chobytes 3y ago
While I appreciate the effort the author has clearly put in here, Im not sure the visualization provides much in the way of practical intuition. These seem to essentially be mechanistic explanations of the rote bits of matrix math. There ar
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by chobytes 3y ago
Used it for like a year before switching to opensuse tumbleweed. For rolling release Ive found it to be a lot more stable, though some of more obscure packages I use are harder to obtain.
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by chobytes 3y ago
What country are you in out of curiosity?
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by chobytes 3y ago
+1 I find it hard not to read that sort of writing style as condescending.
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by chobytes 4y ago
Classic problem of trying to draw definitive lines between these things. I would guess this is more motivated by the social aspects of academics today than any real issue. In any event reading the work of philosophers has certainly made me
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by chobytes 4y ago
Maybe Schroder-Bernstein could simplify. Easier to write 2 injections.
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by chobytes 4y ago
There is a general notion of derivations I believe theyre using. Ie anything that obeys the Leibniz rule (fg)' = f'g+fh'. Its an informative exercise to see how many of the standard rules of calculus can be derived using just
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by chobytes 4y ago
Ah, I think I see. Open sets are just how we encode information topologically. Theyre sort of the "atoms" of topology; the types of opens sets you have say how the topology behaves. In particular open sets are neighborhoods of all
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by chobytes 4y ago
Can you give an example of what you mean?
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by chobytes 4y ago
The concept of a derivation on types could be interesting... but the notation is a bit much for me. Differential fields are (as I understand it) a hot topic at the moment. Maybe there is some interesting crossovers.
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by chobytes 4y ago
Congratulations! Ive been following development with your blog/yt for a bit, so Im excited to finally check it out.
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by chobytes 4y ago
Ime its like solving puzzles. Maybe like getting really into Go or some similar game.
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by chobytes 4y ago
Fuji XEs are nice, small, relatively cheap bodies with interchangeable lenses. If youre looking for something small and know how to (or are willing to learn to) use a camera, thats what I recommend. If portability is not a concern, you can
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by chobytes 4y ago
I got a tiny Fuji mirrorless for my "best camera is the one with you" checkbox too. Next time I catch gear acquisition fever though, I might have to get one of those little Ricohs.
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by chobytes 4y ago
The optics depend so much on physical size that phones have to fake this stuff. Idk why apple doesnt just cut the crap and just release like a m43 with swappable glass rather than all this silly multiple sensor stuff.
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by chobytes 4y ago
Im surprised by all the folks who always pop into these threads saying theyve replaced their XXXX-expensive-dedicated-camera with their phone. Outside of wide DoF, wide FoV, well lit shots I find my camera and iphone to be pretty incomparab
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by chobytes 4y ago
Yeah Im unsure what the point is. The motivation for CT in programming seems weak. Eg Stuff about types and endofunctors feels like trivial examples using the jargon just to use it. OTOH discovering the Top->Grp functor in algebraic topo
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by chobytes 4y ago
Eating super spicy food definitely leaves me feeling kind of drunk. Have met others who have this and others who doesnt believe me/think Im exaggerating.
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by chobytes 4y ago
Its a nicely written post, but I think its a bit misleading. This type of exposition preys on peoples feeling that there must be something deeper going on, but ultimately just kicks a real grasp of math down the road. On the bright side may
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by chobytes 4y ago
A bit of knowledge of optics and photography is enough to know that little sensor with miniature glass cant compete with a dedicated camera. (Eg regardless of 'equivalent' field of view via crop factor, a 50mm and 10mm are going t
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by chobytes 4y ago
At this point I feel like using a stripped down fork of firefox is basically a requirement. There's nothing left of the Mozilla that cared it seems.
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by chobytes 4y ago
I always chuckle when I see some like basic logical steps slapped with "citation needed".
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by chobytes 4y ago
Unfortunately I think 10 page expositions/derivations are the highest quality math and physics pages. I think the wikipedia style is fundamentally incompatible with communicating this kind of information unfortunately.
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by chobytes 4y ago
Agreed. My background is in math... and I find math wikipedia to be appealingly low quality. Both for reference and for a general audience.
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by chobytes 4y ago
Oof. This is one of those not-even-wrong cases in which the misunderstanding is revealing. Math education is so lacking among people who could really benefit from understanding it. Sad state of affairs.
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by chobytes 4y ago
The wolfram language is kind of irrelevant. I dont think anyone outside of HN and programming language people care about it or how its done. Mathematica is the star of the show. Its a large collection of specialty libraries and tools, with
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by chobytes 4y ago
I can assure you its widely used by certain fields in academia. Im currently a research assistant in physics at a large lab, and mathematica is ubiquitous.
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by chobytes 4y ago
I think its the addictive nature of cardio. Like I definitely feel like I need to get out there and get my heart going. Takes restraint to rest when I know I need it. I wonder if we could just induce a little healthy endorphin addiction i

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