ebolyen

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by ebolyen 22d ago
For my own edification, what is the goal of SPARQL compared to normal SQL or if you live in predicate-land, Prolog or Datalog? The semantic web tools never seemed to have their breakout moment and seem to run in parallel to "mainstream
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by ebolyen 1mo ago
I recall SimTower had bomb threats for the security team to deal with.
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by ebolyen 2mo ago
QIIME 2 creates scientific visualizations as single-file web apps, we've been using this pattern since late 2016 with a great deal of success. Example gallery: https://view.qiime2.org/
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by ebolyen 3mo ago
Was it this exp-minus-log arxiv paper?: https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21852v2
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by ebolyen 3mo ago
I think people are reacting to the press-release more than the work. I don't see why this is definitely doomed just because they discuss beta-amyloid plaques. Those exist and are real. They probably don't cause it any more than
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by ebolyen 4mo ago
Very relevant comic: https://thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/2024/12/01/brady-bunch...
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by ebolyen 4mo ago
I'm not aware of any, but it wouldn't be insane to build a seekable deflate implementation by defining offsets in a zip comment. This would leave the zip file backwards compatible to usual decompression while allowing internal see
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by ebolyen 4mo ago
Seems we need a .zipkeep file then. Just kidding, I don't see how the overhead of the directory entry is even remotely enough to warrant removal. Most of the magic can be left to efficient DEFLATE compatible blocks and removing entries
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by ebolyen 4mo ago
There's really a lot more you can look at here. Lot's a prior art on super-cookies and fingerprinting: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://amiunique.org/
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by ebolyen 7mo ago
The moxy of this is inspiring. I'm curious to know what you would rate as the most important features to make this work? It seems like calc+if do a lot of the heavy lifting, but the new function syntax is what makes instruction lookup
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by ebolyen 1y ago
It does seem like the state of the art differs from popular understanding. Not only is mitochondrial DNA straight forward (although not especially useful for forensics as it is maternal), but with specialized extraction it is still possible
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by ebolyen 1y ago
It is the initial purpose of a microbiome to be at least commensal, in that it is usually prohibitively expensive to maintain a sterile environment so the odds of a true pathogen colonizing a system is greatly reduced if you simply have a c
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by ebolyen 1y ago
No, because alignment, in the general case, is O(n^2). It is ironically one of the more tractable and well solved problems in bioinformatics.
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by ebolyen 1y ago
If anyone is interested in a more formal descriptions of these control-loops, with more testable mechanisms, check out the concept of reward-taxis. Here are two neat papers that I think are more closely related than might initially appear:
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by ebolyen 1y ago
Not an expert, but I have a bit of formal training on Bayesian stuff which handles similar problems. Usually Gibbs is used when there's no directly straight-forward gradient (or when you are interested in reproducing the distribution i
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by ebolyen 1y ago
It's been a long time since I took a class like this, but I definitely had a similar experience to the author. Ideas like fold and map where _never_ mentioned in lisp (to exaggerate, every function had to have the recursive implementat
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by ebolyen 2y ago
> I wish you luck with tracking down versions of software used when you're writing papers... especially if you're using multiple conda environments. How would you do this otherwise? I find `conda list` to be terribly helpful. A
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by ebolyen 2y ago
This is true of corals, and they are often considered "colonial" organisms instead of an individual. That said, I don't think anyone who studies biology is particularly concerned with hard-line definitions, as nature tends to
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by ebolyen 2y ago
I see, so it's a procedural language that is well understood by those who fly (not just some semi-structured data or ontology). This is a great example of the advantage of domain experience. Thanks for sharing!
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by ebolyen 2y ago
I like that approach.
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by ebolyen 2y ago
I don't know, that sounds like a complex kind of ingest which could be arbitrarily subtle and diverge over time for legal and bureaucratic reasons. I would kind of appreciate having two formats, since what are the odds they would chang
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by ebolyen 2y ago
Branding works on primitive types as well, which is I think the most interesting use case. I would also agree that it's harder to confuse complex types as any single instance of a type is unlikely to overlap once you have a few fields.
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by ebolyen 2y ago
Slightly tangential, but is there any hope of seeing Polar return as a (maintained) open source system? I absolutely love the concept of using a logic language for authorization, and I think Polar's aesthetic qualities make it signific
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by ebolyen 2y ago
> You don't want negative numbers because that would require the description of a category to change based on whether it is positive or negative That's actually already how it works, the kind of inverse you use depends on if th
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by ebolyen 2y ago
I see a lot of consternation about credits and debits and the nomenclature. Something that makes this simpler to think about from a modern perspective is that accounting is older than the popular use of negative numbers. By a lot. If we wer
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by ebolyen 2y ago
Relatedly, what about integers like 9007199254740995. Is that a legal integer since it rounds to 9007199254740996? It does seem unclear what it means to exceed precision (given rounding is such an expected part of the way we use these numbe
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by ebolyen 3y ago
The interpolation of animations at the bottom is really neat, but I can't help but wish the models were a little less _active_ on the rest of the page. Math is plenty hard without a small elephant cheerleader.
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by ebolyen 3y ago
Background: The tax cuts and jobs act of 2017 in its plain language forces all costs and expenses related to software development to be amortized over 5 years (starting mid-year so 6 in practice)[0]. This act would revert that requirement t
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H.R.2673 – American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2023(congress.gov)
4 points by ebolyen 3y ago|2 comments
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by ebolyen 3y ago
Instead of imagining that it works like a number line and then observing that you can use induction, you could measure outcomes: suicide, suicidal ideation, quality of life, etc. That puts a pretty reasonable lower bound on what is or isn&#

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