daniel-thompson

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by daniel-thompson 4mo ago
https://www.natesilver.net/ i was a casual reader of 538 back in the day. his substack feels pretty similar, if smaller in scope.
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by daniel-thompson 2y ago
> Completely bespoke models are typically trained in Python using tools like TensorFlow, JAX or PyTorch that don't have real non-Python alternatives The article outlines some interesting ways to evade this problem. What's the l
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by daniel-thompson 2y ago
The actual paper is hidden behind a Nature paywall. There is a preprint on arxiv here https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18510
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by daniel-thompson 2y ago
I mean, it _could_ be the job. But a lot of older doctors feel like the younger generation needs to go through the same struggles and hardships they did. This reminds me of something I occasionally see in my parenting of my kids - the desir
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by daniel-thompson 2y ago
yet
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by daniel-thompson 2y ago
I think it's a pretty simple, and timeless, aspect of human nature: "People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others." - Blaise
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by daniel-thompson 2y ago
carriers can be used to project power in scenarios short of all-out war, which is the common case, at the moment
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by daniel-thompson 2y ago
and cheating
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
one of my favorite pieces of financial journalism ever, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2019-10-23/mon... , explains how he got the bux during wework's collapse: > [softbank's offer
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
i've been reading this blog off and on for years, it's fantastic. a good introductory entry for those not familiar with the concept of a mcmansion: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/149284377161/mansionvsmcm
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)#Screensh...
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
like-new restoration of various old objects: - https://www.youtube.com/@mymechanics annotated reviews of high-level chess games: - https://www.youtube.com/@ChessNetwork blender tutorials: - https:/&#x
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
rules for thee, but not for me
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
"perfect synchrony" is kind of meaningless, might be better and more accurately titled as "first solar system with a six-planet orbital resonance has been found"
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
I didn't say it was a surprise; I said the marketing claim made me laugh.
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
I know Docker isn't something Apple makes, but still, this makes me laugh. I run a fair number of containers as part of my daily workflow and the memory overhead, compared to a generic linux amd64 box running the same thing, is on the
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm not too familiar with this scene but I'd like to get one, and not the crappy $14.99 version at the local big box retailer.
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
13K commits over the past year works out to almost 40 commits per day. Curious what the workflow is to accomplish that and the nature of the commits. Irrespective of that, that is super intense, sounds like she's getting a well-deserve
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
This is just terrifying. The only thing I can imagine worse than having it myself would be my child having it. Nightmare fuel.
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
From https://github.com/ammario/redjet#streaming To minimize allocations, call (*Result).WriteTo instead of (*Result).Bytes. WriteTo streams the response directly to an io.Writer such as a file or HTTP response.
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
Wrong title - this is James Cameron's speculation based on unnamed sources.
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
This is really cool! But unfortunately for me, it gives me vertigo after a minute or two. Anyone else have that sensation and/or any pointers to resolve? I'd like to keep playing with this if possible.
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
The author demonstrates attaching services to a context, which afaict goes against the Go authors' usage recommendations in https://pkg.go.dev/context : > Use context Values only for request-scoped data that transits
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
I'm no astrophysicist, but the paper and some web data show - Sag A* has a mass of ~4,000,000 times the sun, and an event horizon of approximately 12,000,000 km (0.08 AU). This is just the event horizon; Sag A*'s accretion disk
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
More likely != confirmed
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
[1] S62 comes within 16 AU at closest approach to Sag A* but its orbit is highly elliptical. The distance between objects in this system 1.4 AU, which is _incredibly_ close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S62_(star)
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
How does [person A choosing not to speak at a conference] connect to [person B leaving the Rust project]?
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
Dawson's law strikes again! > O(n^2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there. https://randomascii.wordpress.com&#x
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
When I was in high school I could ace most of it without studying at all. I thought it was great at the time, but the shitty part - only apparent later - was that I failed to develop good study habits. When I started at university in a tech
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by daniel-thompson 3y ago
> Local LLMs do best on big GPUs, which aren’t an option on Macs. For processing speed, Ms are fast but I agree not anywhere near a top Nvdia chip. For memory size, the memory on an M chip can be used as graphics memory, so a person coul

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