dtjohnnyb

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by dtjohnnyb 9mo ago
David Epstein calls this "desirable difficulty" in the book Range. Interestingly he recently discussed how using LLMs tends to remove this desirable difficulty: https://davidepstein.substack.com/p/a-risk-of-co
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by dtjohnnyb 9mo ago
Exactly what I thought of reading this, that chapter is genuinely one of the most affecting things I've ever read. The horror of it keeps growing as he continues to describe awful manual task after the other.
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by dtjohnnyb 2y ago
I've found good results from summarizing my documents using a large context model then embedding those summaries using a standard embedding model (e.g. e5) This way I can tune what aspects of the doc I want to focus retrieval on, it&#x
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by dtjohnnyb 2y ago
I was trying to do this recently for Web page summarization. As said below the token sizes would end up over the context length, so I trimmed the html to fit just to see what would happen. I found that the LLM was able to extract informati
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by dtjohnnyb 3y ago
A couple of more introductory books that come at it from the point of view of "someone who can code" are: - https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-stats-2e/ (and the similar Think Bayes if you enjoy this one
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by dtjohnnyb 3y ago
The book Lynchpin talks about this and calls it "the resistance", the feeling of avoidance you get when nearing shipping something or even to sitting down and starting an ambitious project. I've found it useful to have a na
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by dtjohnnyb 4y ago
Right I was confused when the article mentions the other parameters other than the moon and sun ones track other astronomical variables, surely they are modeling geological and hydrological variables also (or potentially primarily)
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by dtjohnnyb 4y ago
"The Captain Class" is a great book that glorifies the "water carriers" of a bunch of successful sporting dynasties. It certainly gave me a lot of encouragement to try to develop more of the traits shown by those great c
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Engine Simulator: produce realistic sounds from various engine parameters(github.com)
90 points by dtjohnnyb 4y ago|27 comments
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What are some good unit, integration, performance tests for human beings?
1 points by dtjohnnyb 4y ago|1 comments
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by dtjohnnyb 4y ago
Slack groups have filled in the meetup space in my life, mlops.community and locally optimistic are two of the best for what it sounds like you're looking for
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by dtjohnnyb 5y ago
One downside for milvus is that version 1 doesn't do filtering (necessary for most search applications) and version 2 is significantly slower. Google's vector nearest neighbors offering, weaviate, and Vespa are much better optio
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by dtjohnnyb 5y ago
From an accessibility perspective it's a disaster too. My granny is visually impaired, but loves watching tv. She's been able to get by for decades by memorizing the commands needed to get where she wants to go (she had a list of
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by dtjohnnyb 5y ago
Interestingly Leitrim and other counties in the north west he mentions have been high on the list of places people have escaped to from Dublin during the pandemic. Many people are now living there and working remotely for Dublin companies,
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by dtjohnnyb 5y ago
Sorry to hear that. This was a real jolt to read though. I've been really bullish about WFH or hybrid work for the future, since as an IC I've seen nothing but the benefits as you mention. I never thought of the stress of remote w
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by dtjohnnyb 5y ago
Could you elaborate on why you think low energy deep learning was a misguided promise for SNNs? Just came across them for the first time last week and the low energy promise seemed like their most interesting aspect!
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by dtjohnnyb 5y ago
I was in the same boat until I had a baby who was a _terrible_ sleeper during the night. Once I was down to 4-5 hours sleep a night, napping during the day was heaven! Sometimes I'd have had too much coffee or been overstimulated throu
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by dtjohnnyb 5y ago
They're on a roll for April fool's, this other one is the geekiest one I've seen in a while! https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/04/01/fault-in...
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Recursion Pharma S1(sec.report)
1 points by dtjohnnyb 5y ago|0 comments
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
Have we any idea when that video will be released (roughly).
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
I had done that, but my ssh completions weren't working great at all. I've installed ohmyzsh as recommended below and it's great, definitely a step up from bash.
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
Awesome, that's pretty amazing, thanks a mill!
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
What was the reason for them doing this do you know? From my experience with it over the last year, zsh is slightly worse at autocomplete than bash, with no advantages. Is there something I'm missing, like a good default .zshrc?
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
I think of this book as the type of book to give a beginner enough info to know what you don't know, or for a professional to read before a job interview to refresh your memory on some topics you may be using less often.
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
Any good tutorials or toy projects to help in learning plantUML. I'm in software engineering from a science background and I really feel the lack of being able to think about my code and systems in something as structured as the OP ban
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
This nature paper was the best evidence I seen for this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2923-3 ?
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
Here's a course from another author behind Stan on YouTube, working through it myself so can't say how good it bad it is, I think it uses the book too. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBqnAso5Dy7O0IVoVn2b-..
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
They're the number of people in the trial who contracted covid. The numbers in the trial are north of 40k if I remember right
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A few “superspreader” locations account for a majority of Covid-19 infections(nature.com)
3 points by dtjohnnyb 6y ago|0 comments
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_molecular_modeli... has a long history and technologies around it, might hold some inspiration at least. Chandler&#x27

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