fantod

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by fantod 3mo ago
It's not just the papers. It's also the students and their students, many of whom ended up working in the top labs today.
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by fantod 8mo ago
Oh, well that's reassuring
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by fantod 10mo ago
Isn't 1-2 year wait time standard for spousal immigration?
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by fantod 10mo ago
I'm surprised someone with his reputation would need to do this.
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by fantod 2y ago
I don't know what his reasons are but it makes sense to me. Yes, there are incredible results coming out of the AI world but the methods aren't necessarily that interesting (i.e. intellectually stimulating) and it can be frustrati
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by fantod 2y ago
This is... incredible if true. How can this be? I looked up the old walk-in I used to go to (haven't needed it in a while) and it still shows up on maps but the most recent reviews says they "don't do walk-ins anymore".
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by fantod 2y ago
Do you really need a family doctor? I've never had one. Whenever I've had a non-emergency issue (in BC), I've just gone to a walk-in clinic where they've either helped me on the spot or referred me to a specialist. I can
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by fantod 2y ago
This is supported by vimium with `gi`
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by fantod 3y ago
Agreed. Or have a function to report unacceptable behavior, but besides that no feedback is needed. I pretend this is the case. Never leave ratings anymore.
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by fantod 4y ago
> ChatGPT is creating a huge market for creating fake companies to match the fake information it's generating. Does ChatGPT consistently generate the same fake data though?
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by fantod 4y ago
Why has competition fallen? Is it simply due to an increase in supply?
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by fantod 4y ago
Re-quoting the GP's quote, > They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes. So it hardl
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by fantod 4y ago
My approach was to port everything to a different language I was learning.
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by fantod 4y ago
Not to mention visa and health insurance issues.
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by fantod 4y ago
He does discuss VSCode towards the end of that clip.
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by fantod 4y ago
Good for St. Louis, bad for NYC.
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by fantod 4y ago
> if everyone forgot all they knew about math today we would be easily able to get back to where we are in a just by reading If your definition of "easily" is the amount of work required to become a mathematician, then sure.
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by fantod 4y ago
You don't really need to know calculus (derivatives and such) but it's true that big O notation requires some sort of "asymptotic thinking" which is probably only explicitly taught in a calculus course.
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by fantod 4y ago
I agree and I think a good thing about the type hints is they help uncover these kinds of code smells. But there are definitely cases where it's definitely not worth the effort to fight mypy. One example is that variable re-assignment
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by fantod 5y ago
Exactly. When I initially started using typed Python, I would write code as though I were using a statically-typed language. In order to appease mypy, I found myself increasingly needing to either rewrite my code in awkward ways or add expl
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by fantod 5y ago
Personally, I always read it as "advice" rather than as an insult. Unfortunately, can't seem to find much context for that quote so it's hard to determine what was intended.
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by fantod 5y ago
You can get the best of both worlds. Stop worrying too much about what you think and say, like you mentioned; and also stop engaging on Twitter.
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by fantod 5y ago
I think it was a joke about the author's writing style.
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by fantod 5y ago
You can think of each vector space as being embedded in the direct sum of the two.
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by fantod 5y ago
I think SQLModel actually exists precisely so that you don't have to do that. According to [1]: > That class Hero is a SQLModel model... But at the same time, it is a SQLAlchemy model... And at the same time, it is also a Pydantic m
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by fantod 5y ago
Not to mention the implicit string concatenation that you get instead.
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by fantod 5y ago
Yup, a friend of mine learning French a few years ago asked me how I, as a native French speaker, deal with this problem. I didn't understand what he was talking about because I had never in my life even noticed it. Learned how to coun
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by fantod 5y ago
Also no (official) REPL.
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by fantod 5y ago
If you're referring to the underlying rigorous analysis / set theory / foundations of math, it's arguably still easier to understand now that those things have been developed. Before these theories existed, your only way
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by fantod 5y ago
> My understanding is the Tractatus was meant to "end philosophy" by implying that most of philosophy arises from the confusion between these grammatical artifacts and reality. Apologies in advance as I haven't read any Wi

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