mbauman

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by mbauman 12d ago
Yes! This is a beautiful use-case, thanks to JuMP. https://jump.dev
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by mbauman 27d ago
> what's the deal with calling depth thickness It's almost as though the author thought about and cared about the content and exact words he chose. "Thick or Treat" and "Thickening agents" and "Slim pi
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by mbauman 1mo ago
The main point is NIST is _downstream_ of CVE issuance. Yes, they can — and still do — add disputed/rejected tags to CVEs, but in many cases by then it's already "too late." The CVE has an ID and a lifespan of its own.
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GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?(juliahub.com)
101 points by mbauman 2mo ago|21 comments
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by mbauman 2mo ago
The problem I have is that there's no way to embed an "uncertainty" into EXIF metadata in a standard way. I just want some photos to be "Summer 1987" or "February 1976" or even "1981-1983"... bu
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by mbauman 2mo ago
I mean, humans can't draw bikes! https://themagnet.substack.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-draw-a...
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by mbauman 3mo ago
And then they submit them to a CNA and get a CVE assigned, and then _everyone_ needs to deal with the not-actually-a-vulnerability report, especially when the not-actually-triggerable-DOS gets assigned a "Critical" CVSS score from
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by mbauman 3mo ago
That's very different; hair doesn't perform membrane transport along its length. The surface of an axon is critical to the cell's functioning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolemma
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by mbauman 4mo ago
I loved synergy back in 2005 when it was _actually_ open source! It was probably my first open source contribution! But then it was enshittified and made impossible to build from source in order to support the commercial dreams.
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by mbauman 4mo ago
> stochastic parrots thesis (if it has any empirically-predictive content at all Did you read TFA? This is precisely one of the non-questions that she answers.
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by mbauman 4mo ago
Well the comments tend to be superfluous "whats" (describing the code itself) instead of the more helpful "whys." And they're almost never the most useful "why nots".
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by mbauman 5mo ago
I think you misunderstand me. I'm saying that your "ton of random stories constantly being published about Native Americans apparently being secret geniuses with magical powers" are _themselves_ evidence of exactly the sort o
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by mbauman 5mo ago
That's quite amusing; you don't see the connection between "magical powers" and sidelining real intellectual achievements? Also, Madden is not a master's student anymore. He's a 62 year old doctoral candidate a
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by mbauman 6mo ago
Sure enough, thanks for the correction!
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by mbauman 6mo ago
That version is ~~brightened significantly~~ (edit) a longer exposure; I like the darker one better. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e000193/
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by mbauman 6mo ago
Even worse, those features show "100% uptime" pre-existence on the breakdowns page too.
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by mbauman 7mo ago
I'm still floored that Andres both found this and didn't ignore it. It's such a testament to an incredible engineer. (But also, my conspiratorially-inclined mind is quite entertained by the thought of some sort of parallel
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by mbauman 7mo ago
Thanks for proving my point perfectly.
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by mbauman 7mo ago
This is such a classic example of online discourse in general. There are two options, and folks tribally cling to one or the other without realizing that both are legitimate and well-suited for different situations. Yes, of course distance
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by mbauman 7mo ago
@dang I think the link should go directly to this topic: https://www.rubyforum.org/t/ruby-newbie-is-joining-the-ruby-...
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by mbauman 8mo ago
Right, the correct way here is to simply grant _everyone_ a license to _everything_ under the terms of the AGPL (or whatever). You can then separately license portions under other terms. You don't need to note the commercial licensing
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by mbauman 9mo ago
> "by choice because of" Goodness, that doesn't look like a choice to me.
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by mbauman 11mo ago
Forget compilers, SSA is an immensely valuable readability improvement for humans, too.
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by mbauman 11mo ago
That's quite the interesting perspective, but I'd say it gives "them" more organization and unified focus than is real. It's an open source language and ecosystem. Folks use it — and gripe about it and contribute t
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by mbauman 1y ago
Willison's razor: Never dismiss behaviors as either malice or stupidity when there's a much more interesting option that can be explored.
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by mbauman 1y ago
OP (and I) can definitely distinguish the two. The trouble is that I can no longer find the humans who are actually posting valuable information.
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by mbauman 1y ago
A highly relevant must-watch here is Bret Victor's Computational Public Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixPSNRDNMU
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by mbauman 1y ago
Yes, this really seems like an argument between two contrived straw people at the absolute extremes.
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by mbauman 2y ago
The even bigger challenge is determining _what_ you need to observe in the first place. As a simplistic analogy, evolutionary designs of FPGA boards can end up relying upon idiosyncratic properties of the board(s) and create circuits that &
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by mbauman 2y ago
The key for me — as someone who has been around for a long time and is at JuliaHub — is that Julia excels most at problems that don't already have an efficient library implementation. If your work is well-served by existing libraries

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