dalke

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by dalke 11d ago
Yes, the Python documentation at https://docs.python.org/3/library/time-complexity.html#dict describes it: "The times listed for dict objects are average-case times, as they assume the hash function for the o
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by dalke 4mo ago
I function by being stubborn, and having a wife who can help with a few things. If BankID worked on a free OS then that would be nice for a few things (like paying taxes, which I still do on paper), but other things are both BankID and Ap
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by dalke 4mo ago
I'm in Sweden. I want to go back to the old ways. I hate how much the US controls our daily life. I hate loss of privacy and the presumption that everyone has a Google or Apple account, and are subject to their whims with little real a
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by dalke 4mo ago
You should take a look at the Bourne book, if you can get hold of a copy. It's an amazing book which draws on the generation or more experience in working with mechanical systems, and the first generation experience in using digital me
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by dalke 4mo ago
There are two books you should take a look at. "Methods of Information Handling", Charles Bourne - https://archive.org/details/methodsofinforma0000unse/page/n5... (not available to read) "Punc
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by dalke 5mo ago
Being a father and raising good kids is an invaluable role in society. As an immigrant in Sweden, I love that I had so much paid parental leave to be with my babies. In the US, where I used to live, parental leave is a joke. There are gener
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by dalke 6mo ago
You might consider prefixing with 'ChatGPT claims…' as a clearer expression of uncertainty.
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by dalke 6mo ago
The comment about using Google was more a curiosity. I hadn't seen the Variety link until yesterday, when I went to Google to reproduce the answer to verify it was from a text query, not an image query. Both Google AI and one of the to
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by dalke 6mo ago
Your first link was cited in the 2nd half of Google AI's answer, and one of the top Google answers, so I think you are using Google as your information source. The large majority of the images you link to show kids with 5 fingers, as w
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by dalke 6mo ago
Well, in my case going to a Peanuts comic and looking at hands was pretty easy, and didn't involve any questions about negative environment or labor consequences, the massive hammering of web sites to gather data, centralization of pow
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by dalke 6mo ago
The effort to fact check with LLMs is also high. Here's one from a few days ago. Someone used AI to generate an image in the style of a Charles Schulz Peanuts cartoon. Someone else observed that there were 5 fingers on the characters,
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by dalke 7mo ago
Over the last few days I have learned that using code generation tools are increasingly used to create a "clean room" version of a product, using a definition which is far from its standard use. See https://tuananh.net&
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by dalke 7mo ago
The README says "PyMOL-RS is a clean-room rewrite" but when I look at ./pymol-mol/src/dss.rs I see things like: //! - PyMOL's layer3/Selector.cpp - SelectorAssignSS function //! -
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by dalke 7mo ago
I looked at the PDB parser. Will you be adding support for using duplicate CONECT records to store bond type information? That's a RasMol extension that PyMol supports. You'll also need to support the pdb_conect_nodup option in th
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by dalke 7mo ago
You might mention in other forums, like the RDKit mailing list (though that's almost moribund). I looked at the SDF reader, since that's what I know best. I see a few things which look like they need revisiting. Line 75 has '
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by dalke 11mo ago
Oh, I should have pointed out my Python lexer-driven parser at https://hg.sr.ht/~dalke/smiview/browse/smiview.py The lexer: https://hg.sr.ht/~dalke/smiview/browse/smiview.py?rev
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by dalke 11mo ago
I see you include the dot disconnect "." as part of the Bond definition. You also define Chain as: Chain <<= pp.Group(pp.Optional(Bond) + pp.Or([Atom, RingClosure])) I believe this means your grammar allows the invali
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by dalke 11mo ago
That's "SMILES". Yes. Here is the yacc grammar for the SMILES parser in the RDKit. https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/blob/master/Code/GraphMol/Smi... There's also one from Open
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by dalke 11mo ago
Link to the actual "etude" https://archive.org/details/wetherell-etudes-for-programmers... (Wetherell has a number of small, interesting programming "etudes", one of is to write a TRAC interpreter.)
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by dalke 11mo ago
Could someone explain what "democratising" means here? Is it any different than "user-friendly", "enabling" or "simplifying"?
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by dalke 11mo ago
I ... probably did? I didn't. Things were a lot looser then. I brought a 6-pack of Negra Modelo as carry-on for a trip to Europe. The airport x-ray staff in Albuquerque recognized it on the screen, which impressed me. They had no probl
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by dalke 1y ago
On the return from my first trip to South Africa I carried 12 bottles of wine in my luggage. That was back when flights included two free checked items. On my second trip to Europe one of my suitcases was full of T-shirt swag to give out at
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by dalke 1y ago
I was a nomad for about a year. Towards the end I was tired of the constant leaving. I asked for advice from an NGO who moves countries often. She said what happens is the NGO members become part of the extended connection, which helps with
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by dalke 1y ago
I work in a chemistry research field. Most people I know run Python programs for their research. No one I know uses Go. I only know a handful who use Java. Rust and Julia are oddities that appear occasionally. Sure, we have very different e
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by dalke 1y ago
You mean Bank-id på kort? https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank-id#Bank-id_på_kort says it only supports MS Windows and MacOS, not Linux. Fundamentally though, that doesn't change the fact that the US can order a Swe
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by dalke 1y ago
The Swedish non-government system (BankID) doesn't work well for me. My Swedish identity must not be dependent on the permission of a US company nor the US government, while BankID requires both. So far my BankID boycott is over a year
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by dalke 1y ago
I can confirm. I started grad school in physics there in 1992. The weekly department colloquium was on Thursday afternoon, just after the latest Onion came out. It was not uncommon to see a few people reading it during the talk.
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by dalke 1y ago
I personally prefer snap over jounce, as that gives the progression snap, crackle, and pop. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...
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by dalke 1y ago
Imagine how I feel every time I see "Dalek" instead of my surname.
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by dalke 1y ago
That name threw me for a loop. In the 1990s I worked at a company named Bioreason. https://web.archive.org/web/20010401171900/http://www.biorea... It was an AI company during the AI winter, so we couldn&

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