lukego

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by lukego 4mo ago
IANAeconomist but may I ask, tongue firmly in cheek, if they also only pour water into the shallow end of swimming pools to avoid contributing drownings?
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by lukego 10mo ago
Sun JavaStation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaStation
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by lukego 10mo ago
Joe used to have all that code in his world-readable NFS-mounted home directory. He would just create a new directory for every idea or project. Take it with him from one computer to the next. I hope that's preserved and one day publis
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by lukego 2y ago
_The Ode Less Travelled_ by Stephen Fry could make a great Christmas present.
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by lukego 2y ago
I pretty much always use ECDF in preference to histogram these days.
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by lukego 2y ago
Is the question fundamentally: what's the relative likelihood of each number or clusters? If so then estimating the marginal likelihood of each one and comparing them seems pretty reasonable? (I mean in the sense of Jaynes chapter 20.)
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by lukego 2y ago
Yeah, cffi.
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by lukego 2y ago
I think the median user starts with quicklisp and then clones random stuff into the ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ dir where they are automatically visible.
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by lukego 2y ago
Oxidation is a big problem with the harsh no-clean fluxes in many cheap lead-free solder wires. Switching to a rosin flux (RMA or RA) name brand solder should fix that (did for me.) Metcal have a great big doc on tip care that covers this.
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by lukego 2y ago
The failure mode that I worry about and would need X-ray to detect is that temporary misalignment will merge/bridge some of the solder balls. I like to "wiggle" the chip with tweezers (under hot air) to see surface tension in
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by lukego 2y ago
The nixpkgs upstream CL infrastructure is also recently updated and IMHO excellent: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#lisp
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by lukego 2y ago
Olin Shivers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382531
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by lukego 2y ago
SBCL 25th anniversary workshop is in Vienna thu-fri next week. See you there!
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by lukego 3y ago
I'm a parent of young kids in Scandinavia. The way I see it is that I mostly work and earn money for my own personal satisfaction. It's a selfish and egotistical activity but important for my own mental health. I need to be carefu
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by lukego 3y ago
Likelihoods aren’t fundamentally small. The center of a normal distribution has high likelihood (e.g. 1000000) if the standard deviation is small or low likelihood if the standard deviation is large (e.g. 1/1000000.) This effect is amp
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by lukego 3y ago
Maybe of interest: https://github.com/probsys/AutoGP.jl
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by lukego 3y ago
He said that in his youth his colleagues were in awe of him because he was brave enough to give presentations in English . (They were shy and stuck to the local Swiss German dialect.)
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by lukego 3y ago
Besides all his innumerable accomplishments he was also a hero to Joe Armstrong and a big influence on his brand of simplicity. Joe would often quote Wirth as saying that yes, overlapping windows might be better than tiled ones, but not be
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by lukego 3y ago
It's really comical not being able to fit into a devroom for a talk and noticing that people inside weren't actually paying attention but rather just holding a chair for another talk coming later... Thankfully the hallway is then
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by lukego 3y ago
It's an acquired taste.
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by lukego 3y ago
Have a relaxing quality morning with the family from 6am-8am. Go to bed on time to make it work.
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MIT Dynamic Languages Wizards Series (2001)(news.ycombinator.com)
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by lukego 3y ago
My impression is that this comes down to expectations. You might have a function: foo(x,y) = x + y and multiple dispatch means you can call that with integers, or floats, or arrays, or GPU-resident arrays, or automatically-differentiating n
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by lukego 3y ago
The half-life of major Julia problems is impressively short. Compiler latency ("time to first plot") used to be miserable but after a few releases with incremental improvements it feels mostly solved to me. Just now on Friday at J
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by lukego 3y ago
I made a Wiki for the Erlang community in 1999. I wrote that from scratch in Erlang. (That was the conventional way to deploy a new wiki in those days!) That landed me a job at the first Erlang startup, Bluetail. I'm ashamed to admit t
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by lukego 3y ago
The Architecture of Concurrent Programs (his book) is a real treasure. I read that on a tip from Ralph Johnson way back when on the C2 wiki. Special purpose operating systems e.g. with disk driver (for input) and a compiler (the application
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by lukego 3y ago
> 1) they are terrible at arithmetic, 2) they are terrible at algebra The interaction can be amusing. Proving algebra non-theorems by cranking through examples until an arithmetic mistake finally leads to a "counter-example." I
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by lukego 3y ago
Glad to see Julia on HN. It's a great language. That little kernel in Listing 2 sure packs a punch.
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by lukego 3y ago
What works with my kids (6+) is to allocate some "creative" time when they can use the computer but not play video games and then put on Imphenzia "ten minute modelling challenge" videos on the TV. The rest takes care of
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by lukego 3y ago
I've been following their work for the past five years or so. They have covered a lot of ground!

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