mabcat

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by mabcat 3y ago
It's often said that to be outstanding, you should master two different fields then work at the intersection of those fields. For a lot of people the model of "real greatness" is Leonardo, who mastered about 7 fields. To even
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by mabcat 3y ago
Closest name I can think of is "commitment and consistency". People tend to behave as they have behaved in the past, doing so is both a cognitive shortcut and a source of positive emotion. We go to great lengths to maintain consis
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by mabcat 3y ago
VB was probably the charmingest language I’ve ever used, especially for GUI. It takes the cake for “rather complex runtime” though. As I recall, they bundled the entire VB interpreter into every executable. This seemed scandalous to me at t
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by mabcat 3y ago
Agree. Shimmer is currently in the "assume good faith" category and it would help everyone if commenters gave feedback and asked questions from this perspective. From what I've seen of Shimmer, the rapid-fire negativity in th
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by mabcat 3y ago
I know a nuclear physicist who got paid to go through the scripts and turn "CHARACTER: [insert science thing here]" into dialogue
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by mabcat 3y ago
This looks excellent! It's a great interface for two things I'm struggling to make LlamaIndex do: explain and debug multi-step responses for agent flows, and cache queries aggressively. If I can work out how to hook it into my Lla
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by mabcat 3y ago
I think that's the wrong end of the stick. When you publish research, the software you used/built on is part of the methods and needs to be cited. The authors are doing you a courtesy by providing a pasteable citation. Similar &qu
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by mabcat 3y ago
It's an alternative, does a similar job, depends on/abstracts over langchain for some things. It's easier to use than langchain and you'll probably get moving much faster. They've aimed to make a framework that star
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by mabcat 3y ago
My situation somewhat overlaps with yours. I ordered a "water flosser" from everyone's favourite ecommerce site, and use it daily in the shower. It seems to be doing something, and can't possibly be worse than my previou
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by mabcat 3y ago
You do need to separate medium of exchange from store of value. Real estate is useless as a currency while being the primary store of value for most people. Most of your objections also apply to real estate: can't know how much wheat
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by mabcat 4y ago
From the study, in-person schooling increases teen suicides by 12-18%. Is this fatality rate acceptable on the basis that it's "very necessary" to socialize the remaining children in this way? Is there evidence that kids in o
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by mabcat 4y ago
For sure it's too much to ask. Get started on Twitter: 1. go to twitter.com 2. enter your name and phone number Get started on Pleroma: https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/installation/debian_base... Get star
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by mabcat 4y ago
masto.host was an option yesterday, now it looks like it won't be an option for the next few days. I was about to install self-hosted Mastodon but the machine load and amount of admin chores seemed too high. I've installed self-ho
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by mabcat 4y ago
That's such a strange piece of UX. As a typical user, who on average consumes content rather than produces it, what I care about is that my list of followed accounts migrates with me so that my feed stays relatively consistent. As a co
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by mabcat 4y ago
Thank you, against my better judgement I've set up a self-hosted Pleroma
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by mabcat 4y ago
It looks like the Mastodon instance host Simon is using, masto.host, closed for new sign-ups 8 hours ago. Is there another recommended alternative? I don't think I have the energy to maintain a self-hosted Mastodon instance. I sure hav
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by mabcat 4y ago
Stability is how the aircraft reacts to disturbances (control inputs, turbulence, ...). Stable aircraft resist disturbances and settle into going where they're pointed at a predictable speed, so you can let go of the controls and atten
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by mabcat 5y ago
I'm familiar with the industry. Everyone involved knows that you don't move so much as a mobile phone's worth of lithium without following a procedure. In my experience small violations are wilful laziness, large violations a
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by mabcat 5y ago
I spent a bit of time trying to do it with flex sensors. Strap one to your hand, make a fist, take your nap, detect when muscle tone is lost and it unbends. I ran out of interest before I got it to work but I still think it's viable. P
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by mabcat 5y ago
I tried one of those, it didn't make a shred of difference. MBP 16" still throttled so hard it was frequently unusable.
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by mabcat 6y ago
If you're in Australia, find a therapist using the thing I built: https://www.oktotalk.com.au . If you fill out the questions, the site might be able to recommend you someone good straight off. Otherwise one of our staff wi
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by mabcat 6y ago
I do the separate-email thing too and my spambox is chock full of emails to leaked addresses. The leaks seem mostly from large, upstanding companies that have had data breaches (Adobe, Myspace, ...), rather than from deliberate email addres
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by mabcat 6y ago
I find that Airpods Non-Pro will stay in when I'm on my side and when I roll over. I'm a terrible sleeper and change position a fair bit, but there's no problem falling asleep with them in. I often wake up with them both stil
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by mabcat 6y ago
> any resource recommendations or tips for writing a translation engine All the successful translation websites/apps you're familiar with use machine learning. ML stomped all over NLP approaches because it gives a rough transla
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by mabcat 6y ago
In our case we've already got all the stuff for serving web pages out of Django... the data model, DRF, auto scaling, access control, CI/CD. If I can use the same infrastructure to serve predictions, without having to duplicate an
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by mabcat 6y ago
Results of our User Acceptance Testing: https://imgur.com/Iwjwik2 Some errors in the testing framework were identified and will be rectified in subsequent test suite runs
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by mabcat 6y ago
https://zoom.us/healthcare "Achieve HIPAA (signed BAA) and PIPEDA/PHIPA compliance with complete end-to-end 256-bit AES encryption."
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by mabcat 6y ago
End-to-end encryption has been named as a required feature for telehealth in Australia. Interest in telehealth has gone from zero to infinity over the past two weeks for obvious reasons. So I've been trying really hard to work out if Z
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by mabcat 7y ago
We ran a clinical trial of a very common antidepressant. Blinding was difficult because on the active arm damn near everyone had observable side-effects within 40 minutes of administration. Clearly not related to the placebo effect in this
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by mabcat 7y ago
The charge controller doesn't allow simultaneous charge and discharge. It might allow simultaneous charge and power. The concern is, if your power pack does let you power devices while charging the battery, it's passing the power

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