cproctor

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by cproctor 4mo ago
It's intended for another item currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321631
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by cproctor 10mo ago
I'm new to Pebble and have been excited about joining the community; I have a Pebble Time 2 on preorder. I will certainly cancel the pre-order unless Rebble affirmatively says they are satisfied with the arrangement.
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by cproctor 1y ago
I thought this [1] New Yorker profile of the chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court was a fascinating and thoughtful analysis of how tech giants interact with less-powerful countries. Surely we all agree that free speech is not absolu
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by cproctor 2y ago
A fantastic show is up now at Buffalo's AKG ( https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/electric-op ), including work by Bridget Riley. She had a solo exhibition at AKG in 1990.
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by cproctor 2y ago
Thanks; I agree--both that you could train an agent in these situations, and that "You'll just get two views on the same reality, suitable for different uses and different understandings." I think the latter seriously undercu
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by cproctor 2y ago
I agree that it can be helpful to think of identity as a trajectory shaped by interactions along the way. However, we also continually shape our environments in large and small ways. TFA ignores this completely. Can this be effectively mode
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by cproctor 2y ago
One thing I've wondered for a while: Is there a principled reason (e.g. explainable in terms of embedding training) why a vector's magnitude can be ignored within a pretrained embedding, such that cosine similarity is a good measu
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by cproctor 2y ago
I paddled through the Erie Canal's locks in Lockport (where I live) last weekend! A lot of history passed through here.
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by cproctor 2y ago
A great talk, but that cameraperson got a workout!
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by cproctor 3y ago
Would it be fair to think about this as a shim whose scope of responsibility will (hopefully) shrink over time, as command line utilities increasingly support JSON output? Once a utility commits to handling JSON export on its own, this tool
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by cproctor 3y ago
Would you recommend any of Child's books to a vegetarian home cook today? (If not, would you happen to have other recommendations for French vegetarian cooking, leaning toward seasonal produce, for the soft of home cook/baker who
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by cproctor 3y ago
This is an insightful comment. I have been thinking about why I prefer CLI-based tools over GUI tools; one important difference is that with CLI the affordances are more in my head than in the tool (though the distinction is fuzzy). I just
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by cproctor 3y ago
Who would have thought that "apocalyptic science fiction author" would be included in the professions made obsolete by tech?
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by cproctor 3y ago
This project [1] is about replicating various mineral waters at home. They have a spreadsheet with chemical analysis of many different bottled waters, and a calculator where you can get your own tap water analyzed and calculate what to add
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by cproctor 4y ago
I've found it helpful in several projects to implement the "services layer" described here as a state machine, modeling state transitions for a central object (e.g. an article can be drafted, submitted, reviewed, published).
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by cproctor 4y ago
Here's [1] a playable transcription of the original Oregon Trail (1971) source code (BASIC) into Ink. The project really gave me an appreciation for structured programming (e.g. loops, conditionals) which was once controversial [2]. [1
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by cproctor 4y ago
Can anyone who has read Alexander's work recommend one of his books to start with, which focuses on the core moral and ethical views, while being most relevant to CS? For context, I work in k12 computing education, designing new kinds
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by cproctor 4y ago
I don't see how $1-3M per year, for five years, is going to lead to "a world-class educational institution."
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by cproctor 4y ago
This document's typography and layout are all over the place. Normally I wouldn't particularly care, but the goal here is to give advice on the resume/CV.
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by cproctor 4y ago
This paper [1] aims for a related goal: automatically parsing the argumentative function of citations ("citation frames"). [1] Jurgens, D., Kumar, S., Hoover, R., McFarland, D., & Jurafsky, D. (2018). Measuring the evolution o
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by cproctor 4y ago
This offers a poetic reflection on scale. Some essential aspect of the city, shrunk down to a memory stick and lost on the street in a night of drinking.
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by cproctor 4y ago
This is when you email the company's head of marketing and/or security expressing naive concern about hacking/phishing. "I received an email that looked like it's from your company, but I know it's not real bec
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by cproctor 4y ago
Sourcing: Sweet Maria's. Roasting: Follow their suggestions and buy an air popper at Goodwill. If you get a flimsy one, don't roast more than one batch in a row or the machine's innards will melt. The one caveat is you need s
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by cproctor 4y ago
If you're up for some light soldering, I'd recommend picking up a few Sonoff Basics and/or wall plugs and then flashing them with ESPHome ( https://esphome.io/ ). These devices are simple and cheap ($5-6 each
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by cproctor 4y ago
In my personal metaverse, I'm really into falconry (I've ordered several leather falcon hoods), I have a commercial truckers license, I'm part of a pushy childrens' soccer league, and am eagerly planning a trip to the ho
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by cproctor 4y ago
I often find brutalist buildings to be comfortable and inspiring.
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by cproctor 4y ago
OK, slightly off-topic but maybe the right minds are here. We have been developing an introductory CS curriculum committed to thinking-with-powerful-tools, including the command line, real programming languages, and git. It's great unt
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by cproctor 4y ago
Also, "when a person isn’t on board, the company is on the hook for everything that goes on in that truck." Having a driver is a way of offloading risk.
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by cproctor 5y ago
In architecture school, my partner had to map a landscape using old-fashioned triangulation: using measurements between fixed points to build a map of triangles. The problem is, your measurements are usually a bit off (e.g. you measure from
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by cproctor 5y ago
Wow! That's inspiring, though (perhaps inevitably) some of those arrays hanging off of buildings look a little clunky. Thanks for sharing :)

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