fathead_glacier

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by fathead_glacier 9mo ago
Bruno ticks the boxes for this https://www.usebruno.com/ No affiliation, just a long term fan after years of frustration with Postman and Insomnia.
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by fathead_glacier 4y ago
Managing state is hard and always has been regardless of the underlying technology. I have been using Kubernetes for a few years now and whenever I see people putting manual steps they should instead be using an operator. What the author
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by fathead_glacier 5y ago
Comparing different metrics is not valid across all use cases. Counting startup time but excluding development time is disingenuous. Having used both Fortan and Julia the difference between development time is staggering. Different tools fo
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by fathead_glacier 6y ago
The point is when you have a connection with limited bandwidth. In such cases you can host browsh in the cloud and connect to it with ssh/mosh. You get a much better experience than text based browsers at a limited bandwidth. It's
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by fathead_glacier 6y ago
The article misses an often overlook but important point: burning hydrogen in air produces NOX which can be a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. The solution to reduce the amount of generated NOX exists but the resultant engine is larger
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by fathead_glacier 6y ago
The subscription model gives you access to the drafts of the chapters and full book access at 8 months. For $9 at the lowest subscription grade this is $9x8 = $72 which seems like a fair deal to me when going through amazon for similar subj
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by fathead_glacier 6y ago
In general I find that working with mathematics as auxiliary to any field is hard when you do not get to practice it every day. In these cases I have found the matrix cookbook [1] to be very helpful as it serves as a quick reference. [1] h
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by fathead_glacier 6y ago
You can refer to a talk about Differentiable Programming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3d0k7wWHk the talk is for Julia, albeit the principles are general. If you skip to https://youtu.be/Sv3d0k7wWH
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by fathead_glacier 7y ago
One of my lecturers once gave an anecdotal reductio ad absurdum argument of why it is difficult to reduce our carbon footprint: people are not willing to walk from the UK to France for a piece of cheese when they can just drive a few minut
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by fathead_glacier 7y ago
The example is fundamentally different as physics simulations have closed form solutions or can be numerically approximated for various initial and boundary conditions. Therefore, by definition the generation is not synthetic. Other example
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by fathead_glacier 7y ago
The Gini coefficient will give you a measure for the statistical spread of GDP per capita and is used to measure inequality. [1] Taking the time series of the Gini coefficient and the GDP will show the growth for a percentile of interest. [
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by fathead_glacier 7y ago
Org-mode. Once you get hooked and comfortable there is hardly going back. Org-mode support todo lists, agendas, scheduling, recording time per task, latex export, references (with org-tef) and executing code in the document (with babel) and
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by fathead_glacier 7y ago
Experience can differ between companies and languages. I have been involved over the past year with Julia which is mainly ran and developed by the company Julia Computing. One might say that it is the equivalent operating scheme as the comp
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by fathead_glacier 7y ago
I think it will also involve selecting seeds only from "better" performing trees from the city tree gene pool. This will then ensure that beneficial mutations / changes survive. An unfortunate requirement of evolution to forc
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by fathead_glacier 7y ago
This sounds so good! I just read that Latex support is also included. If there is also an extension to handle references I can move out of emacs / org-mode / orgref because the maintenance cost is too high. Cannot wait to give it
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by fathead_glacier 8y ago
Unfortunately no. According to the BBC [0] the Civil Aviation Authority considers a drone interference accident as an extraordinary circumstance. Therefore, the EU rules for compensation do not apply. However, it makes me wonder if and when
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by fathead_glacier 8y ago
The post provides useful set of rules to follow when writing text. I want to add another one which I have found to be beneficial to my work: the write-good linter for English prose ( https://github.com/btford/write-good
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by fathead_glacier 8y ago
This is really interesting I will definitely give it a try. I think it will be extremely useful in Jupyter/orgmode where currently I have to rely on PGF/tikz which itself is amazing especially in Latex, however, less than convenie
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by fathead_glacier 8y ago
Collating a private database of health history is an extremely dangerous practice and I will just drop this article from rms which has further links to other systems [0]. The article in this post, however, is lacking an explanation of how M
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by fathead_glacier 8y ago
Great explanation of how fractals work and the chaotic behaviour you can get. If you are interested in generating your own fractal Jean Francois Puget [0] has a great article on how to do it using Python and matplotlib. It is very easy to e
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by fathead_glacier 8y ago
I find this article moot. They are basically saying that applying a blank ML stamp can yield unsatisfying results on your data. That ought to be obvious and seems unnecessarily repetitive.
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by fathead_glacier 8y ago
Google will also show you results targeted only for you. In comparison different IP address/accounts using the same search string in DDG will always get the same result. This can lead to a bias which might not be optimal. Also they hav