dylukes

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by dylukes 1y ago
I've done research involving sampling from all extant notebooks on GitHub and manually analyzing them, and have been a heavy user of them in non-CS research contexts for a long time (and Mathematica notebooks for years before iPython N
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by dylukes 2y ago
San Diego is near the Palomar Observatory and Mount Laguna observatory (see map [1]). The observatory as well as environmental concerns of bright lighting at night messing with wildlife is why San Diego in most zones at night uses what appe
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by dylukes 3y ago
Small quibble: converting a measure to a z-score requires an assumption of normality and that you're considering a population. For a sample the equivalent is the t-statistic, which indeed IS very often used for p-values (with the ever
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by dylukes 3y ago
If I'm in the mood for being a little glib... where do you think that Linux distribution that SteamOS is based on got its user-space (or more seriously, its drivers?) Also: the SteamDeck is by any reasonable standard a console. It just
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by dylukes 3y ago
What do you think is running on your favorite game consoles (that aren't Xbox)? I'll give you a hint, it isn't Linux. Nintendo is using a custom OS but with a huge chunk of user space borrowed from FreeBSD. Sony on the other
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by dylukes 3y ago
Happy new year to all! Cheers!
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by dylukes 3y ago
I am reminded of Magnetix, though they were ball and stick based, and I don't believe included "solid" polygons. Maybe some kits beyond the ones I saw did.
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by dylukes 3y ago
Addendum: the positions of the atoms shown in that video and other figures are NOT smoothed or snapped to a grid in any way. They are directly drawn from the experimental results! They really are just that clean. This also extends to the go
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by dylukes 3y ago
There are applications of the Johnson solids to characterizing patterns that occur in nature at the nanoscale. You wouldn't be able to see them with the naked eye, but they are very clearly there! For example, we observed nested J27 &q
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by dylukes 3y ago
Two dozen programming languages shipped in or not, almost no languages support this. It is something that you start appreciating a lot more once you have used it significantly. It helps a lot with writing more self-documenting interfaces th
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by dylukes 3y ago
It separates "names as public-facing API design decisions" from "names as developer conveniences for expressing intent and clarifying their code". These are often very at odds. And if you don't want to repeat yourse
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by dylukes 3y ago
American coffee shops have never been cafes. They're glorified caffeine dispensaries. Buy your drink, get out, drink it somewhere else. In Europe no one bats an eye at you spending your entire day in cafe seating using the WiFi.
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by dylukes 3y ago
Good news: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/5e8c928f1a37349a...
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by dylukes 3y ago
Sheer random chance. I had this same question while working on structural resolution of a certain RNA polymerase. I asked "okay so if this ratcheting mechanism allows the protein to zipper along the nucleotide strand... what's pus
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by dylukes 3y ago
I don't find the first point surprising. (Our) pi is the one tied to the only metric where the unit circle is perfectly continuous, differentiable, etc. The 2-norm is very special for many reasons I won't enumerate... and it see
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by dylukes 3y ago
> In my book a general code review is simple sanity check by a second pair of eyes, which can result in suggestions to use different API or use an API slightly differently. This is an impoverished view of code review. Code review is a pr
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by dylukes 3y ago
If you start enums at 1, then the first item in the enum isn't coercible to false, all items coerce to true.
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by dylukes 3y ago
The fundamental idea of testing units and then integrations between units is unassailable and unkillable (today). We should have serious discussions about HOW we test units, and whether example based tests are sufficient when we can do prop
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by dylukes 3y ago
> this isn’t actually correct terminology This entire post could have been reduced to this (reasonably correct I think) claim. > if we recognize that what LLMs are really doing is confabulating, we can try to compare and contrast thei
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by dylukes 3y ago
I mean taking the title at face value and factoring in the odds... Practically speaking _you_ can do absolutely nothing with them. If you can then you work in a far more interesting field or place than most.
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by dylukes 3y ago
People who are actually correct on the basis of significant experience don't tend to feel it necessary to remind others at every possible occasion (unless not doing so would lead to significant harm to others). They're usually bus
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by dylukes 3y ago
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
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by dylukes 3y ago
AoVA lacking its own total ordering on indices might be a problem for some use cases, but not for the one that is suggested here: AST nodes. In these cases, the arrays can be just one component (could think of it as an arena) of a heap-ish
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by dylukes 3y ago
Also to give a brief overview: Dynapad was/is a scheme based wrapper/GUI layer/scripting interface for building applications on top of the Pad++ primitives. Sadly the version of scheme used is very long defunct. But the goal
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by dylukes 3y ago
For sure. The repo was actually just private until a moment before I commented above. The long term goal is to refactor to a point where installation can proceed with a minimal/straightforward CMake/Racket build, without any archa
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by dylukes 3y ago
Some good news for you... Pad++ and Dynapad are in a decently runnable state again! Myself, Jim Hollan, and Tom Gillespie have been on and off working on refurbishing it. Currently, there's still a good amount of rough edging from the
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by dylukes 8y ago
Consider vagrant.
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by dylukes 10y ago
In log scale yes.
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by dylukes 10y ago
Not to mention all the "Don't Bring Me Down" jokes we'll get to make.
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by dylukes 10y ago
I disagree. We associate schooling with authority. Learning may or may not co-occur with schooling depending on circumstances. There is only a focus on "learning" until maybe 5th grade. What you do in school after that isn't

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