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by daturkel 7mo ago
Surely this logic doesn't apply if we're to believe that "code is cheap" now :p
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by daturkel 7mo ago
Skills in CC have been a bit frustrating for me. They don't trigger reliably and the emphasis on "it's just markdown" makes it harder to have them reliably call certain tools with the correct arguments. The idea that age
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by daturkel 7mo ago
Notion AI is pretty great for both search and writing.
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Who's the Agent Now?(danturkel.com)
1 points by daturkel 7mo ago|0 comments
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by daturkel 9mo ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/55/
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by daturkel 9mo ago
Giving them more credit than they probably deserve but: when you're solving "by hand" like they are in the show, keeping a known non-match couple together may actually be helpful for interpreting the results of a matchup cere
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by daturkel 9mo ago
Thanks! Optimization was something I'd played with in previous rounds of coding up AYTO simulations, but not in the most recent version. (See the bottom section of this notebook [0]). There's also a very thorough treatment of the
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by daturkel 9mo ago
As a math guy who loves reality tv, I was also drawn to the show and wrote a blog post [0] about how to programmatically calculate the probabilities as the show progresses. It was a lot of fun optimizing it to be performant. You can `pip in
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by daturkel 10mo ago
I've been building a little toy computer and assembly language that's interpreted in python. Pretty close to the first release (and introductory blog post) and a lot of fun to build (and learn a bit more about real assembly as I g
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by daturkel 1y ago
That insane behavior around acting on the highlighted image instead of the selected image has finally been fixed: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/16850#issu...
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by daturkel 1y ago
I gave a very short talk (now a blog post) about embeddings and we use them to bridge the gap between human notions of understanding and digital representations. It might be of interest to people who enjoyed this post: https://da
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by daturkel 2y ago
> I doubt that any recommendation system is capable of providing meaningful results in absence of the "awareness" about the actual content (be it music, books, movies or anything else) of what it's meant to recommend. Year
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Ethical AI in the New Yorker (and Elsewhere)(danturkel.com)
3 points by daturkel 2y ago|1 comments
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by daturkel 2y ago
I recently had a letter published in The New Yorker in response to Andrew Marantz's (excellent) story "Among the A.I. Doomsayers." In particular, I wanted to highlight that extremist doomers and accelerationists are not the o
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by daturkel 3y ago
Hey Francois, congrats to you and the team on the launch! I've generally chosen Pytorch over Tensorflow for my day to day, but now that Keras is framework agnostic I'm excited to revisit it. One thing I'm wondering about is i
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by daturkel 3y ago
Annoy came out of Spotify, and they just announced their successor library Voyager [1] last week [2]. [1]: https://github.com/spotify/voyager [2]: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/10/int
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by daturkel 3y ago
Any particular reason to highlight this release? 1.4 introduced Properties, which is cool, but this is just a minor release.
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by daturkel 3y ago
This looks really cool. One thing I've wondered about with, e.g., the OpenAI API is if json is really a good format for passing embeddings back and forth. I'd think that passing floats as text over the wire wastes a ton of space t
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by daturkel 3y ago
It was a bummer when the O'Reilly benefit last year [0], but I'm glad they're bringing it back at a steep discount from the street price. Access to thousands of O'Reilly books, Manning books, MIT Press books, and more fo
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by daturkel 4y ago
Funny enough, I did this same project (minus the fancy web interface) for a numerical linear algebra course in college—except I had to do it in Matlab. It's worse than just about any "real" image compression algorithm, but it
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by daturkel 4y ago
I maintain a list of well-known or foundational papers in ML in a github repo that may be of interest to readers of this thread https://github.com/daturkel/learning-papers
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by daturkel 4y ago
I appreciate the post. The linked version is to the draft I shared while still writing. Here's the permalink to the final version: https://danturkel.com/2022/12/27/advent-of-code-2022.html (Maybe @dang c
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by daturkel 4y ago
I created a Github repo that tracks "classic papers" of machine learning that folks on HN have enjoyed in the past. Feel free to make a PR if you think I'm missing something good. https://github.com/daturkel&#
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by daturkel 5y ago
I've made a few measurable goals for 2022 that I wrote up on my personal site [0]: - read 25 books (3 of which are "technical") - write 12 blog posts - take one online course - get conversational in French - shoot 2 new batch
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by daturkel 5y ago
Python is not fully a functional programming language but it supports some functional patterns. There's a nice mini-ebook by David Mertz on functional programming in Python, and it used to be freely available but I can't find it a
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by daturkel 6y ago
Overleaf is very unlikely to be a good drop-in replacement for MS Office for your company because Word and LaTeX are very different tools (with different goals and different audiences in mind). The former is a user-friendly word processor a
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by daturkel 6y ago
This is interesting. I don't know much about html canvas, but it looks like this is handled in the author's custom js [0] in the line that starts with: "} else if (mode === "blades") {" [0] https://c
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by daturkel 6y ago
I came to the comments to shill for Numi, which is my favorite app for quick calculations. (I don't personally understand why tiled number buttons would ever be desirable for a non-touchscreen GUI app—I much prefer typing equations in.
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by daturkel 6y ago
I'm going to chime in to disagree strongly with this. I've seen and worked with lots of non-CS PhDs in data science who have been terrific. It's pretty common too—there's even the Insight program that trains PhDs to go i
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by daturkel 6y ago
For a column supposedly about a greater theory of how we (should) use the Internet, it sure devotes a lot of space to attempting to vindicate the Hunter Biden laptop story... I would argue that originalism doesn't really exist in pract

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