hexane360

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by hexane360 2mo ago
https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/36237 >introduce an actually memory safe (unlike borrow checking) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C
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by hexane360 2y ago
Well, except in the case of variable shadowing.
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by hexane360 2y ago
Signs we may be reaching the Plateau of Productivity
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by hexane360 2y ago
Fig. 8, where the model becomes poorly calibrated in terms of text prediction (Answers are "flattened" so that many answers appear equally probable, but below the best answer)
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by hexane360 2y ago
In many subfields, the submitter isn't even attempted to be hidden from the reviewers. Usually, even the reviewers can be guessed with high accuracy by the submitters
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by hexane360 2y ago
It's MathJax, do you have javascript enabled?
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by hexane360 2y ago
Note that Mathematica units impose a very large runtime penalty, making them unsuitable for a lot of applications
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by hexane360 2y ago
It's also quite similar to Thread and MapThread in Mathematica
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by hexane360 2y ago
As an alternative to Pydantic, check out the wonderful mashumaro: https://github.com/Fatal1ty/mashumaro I've also played around with writing my own dataclass/data conversion library: https://github
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by hexane360 2y ago
Also worth noting that test pilots of experimental aircraft generally wear parachutes, at least for higher risk tests. This includes tests of commercial aircraft.
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by hexane360 2y ago
This plus make a lot of sketches describing what each variable is physically, and use geometry to derive dependent dimensions. Libraries like BOSL2 help with placement/attachment of features: https://github.com/BelfrySC
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by hexane360 2y ago
H.W. Bush brought Israel in line: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-hw-bush-israel-palesti... Reagan did it with a single phone call: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/13/world/rea
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by hexane360 2y ago
... no? Unless you're referring to null as a bottom type, then that doesn't hold. Are you describing some property of a specific language?
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by hexane360 2y ago
Only if you're designing both functions ahead of time. In other words, it's not composable.
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by hexane360 2y ago
This often comes up when writing a function which returns a wrapper over a generic type (like Option<T>). If your Option type is T | null, then there's no way to distinguish between a null returned by the function or a null that
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by hexane360 2y ago
There's a quote from Michelson that "the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals". Many misinterpret this to be a statement that 'there's nothing new to be discovered&#x
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by hexane360 2y ago
On the other hand, I saw this just this morning: https://x.com/RealDanODowd/status/1778224756220940585
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by hexane360 2y ago
No, because the engine is also insignificant compared to the brakes. A SUV might have brakes (briefly) capable of 900 HP of power absorption
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by hexane360 3y ago
Meanwhile, there's still no support for dependency specifiers/environment markers (PEP 508/PEP 345) in environment.yml files, and the documentation is VERY sparse about what is supported: https://conda.io/pr
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by hexane360 3y ago
Does that rule-of-thumb assume specific units/value ranges for the input and output signals?
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by hexane360 3y ago
See also Windows setting menus. People see this as a flaw, but I much prefer that to breaking existing functionality for the sake of a redesign. Make a new interface for simple usecases, but keep the old one around just in case.
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by hexane360 3y ago
First of all, the posters were not obviously satirical (as evidenced by the letter I linked). The intent of the posters only matters if you think MIT left the posters up because they had a leftward intent but a rightward message. But MIT ma
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by hexane360 3y ago
For instance, MIT recently had a bunch of hate speech (against LGBTQ people) posted around campus. In response, MIT... defended the actions and encouraged students to post their own countermessages rather than take down the hateful posters:
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by hexane360 3y ago
Except that's transparently not true outside of the imagination of culture warriors.
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by hexane360 3y ago
Some of my favorites: https://youtu.be/JhmdEq3JhoY > "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking 'bout new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.&qu
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by hexane360 3y ago
Here's a great video about these Excel competitions: https://youtu.be/N2QC6VQXo8U
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by hexane360 3y ago
Any plans to support Denver's commuter trains (RTD)?
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by hexane360 3y ago
It's worth noting that numpy and scipy have a consistent policy now, although it's not semver. Deprecations will always happen at least 2 minor versions before removal: https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0023-backward
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by hexane360 3y ago
I'm sure you know this, but this is actually a special case of a much more general rule; in Julia, prefixed string literals are implemented are passed on to macros: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual&#x2F
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by hexane360 3y ago
"Dynamic typing" refers to types which can be determined only at runtime, not at compile time. "Type inference" is what you're referring to, and is an optional feature of static type checkers. For instance, C has st

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