michaelhoffman

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by michaelhoffman 9mo ago
I understand why this is bad, but I personally would sign up for a Microsoft account anyway. Mainly, I don't want all my stuff in "C:\Users\micha". Is there a way to set your username?
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by michaelhoffman 1y ago
When FASTA was invented in 1985, generally sequencing reads would be about half that. The simplicity of FASTA seems like a dream compared to the GenBank flat file format used before then. And around the year 2000, less computationally-incli
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by michaelhoffman 1y ago
Using machine learning, he counted all of the yurts. Counting all of the yurts that happen to be using machine learning is a way more difficult problem.
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by michaelhoffman 2y ago
> I assume the author means "out of all the ISAs I know"? Out of all the ISAs where they know whether it provides integer division or not.
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Anthropic is scraping websites so fast it's causing problems(pivot-to-ai.com)
50 points by michaelhoffman 2y ago|24 comments
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by michaelhoffman 2y ago
This is not "hard-coded" as I would describe it. It is defined in `gv.el`: (gv-define-setter buffer-string (store) `(insert (prog1 ,store (erase-buffer)))) Unfortunately, it is marked obsolete since 29.1. The NEWS says:
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by michaelhoffman 2y ago
This used to be the case until Emacs 24.1, in 2012. Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g. (add-hook 'text-mode-hook #
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by michaelhoffman 2y ago
Wherever possible, I use sina plots, which provide many of the advantages of violin plots while actually showing the individual data points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_plot https://cran.r-project.org
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Okta Mobile Apps Will No Longer Be Available on the China-Based Apple App Store(support.okta.com)
2 points by michaelhoffman 2y ago|0 comments
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by michaelhoffman 2y ago
When would you need to use rdmsr and wrmsr in a crisis?
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
I wonder if they swapped the benchmark results somehow. Because on my computer, I get roughly the same times but with {} twice as fast as dict().
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
I don't think so, but in 2023 "PC" can refer to a whole bunch of different things, and "5150" is precisely clear about what it refers to.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
I hope it keeps its blazing-fast startup. I regularly used Paint instead of Photoshop on a system where I had both because Paint starts instantly but Photoshop took a bit.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
The Bay Area has inadequate public transport for a metro of its size, but its utility is kind of another universe from the Austin's CapMetro.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
This is super cool. I use Emacs `abbrev-mode` for taking contemporaneous notes but autosuggesting words would be great.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
It seems like you may be reading some things into my comment that I didn't write? I made no claims about the procedure being fair or unfair—I'm just describing what it is.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
I am faculty at University of Toronto. As part of the process of considering someone for tenure here, the university solicits six appraisals from relevant experts at other institutions. The candidate will not know who the referees are. Gene
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
Of course, we don't NEED a new Twitter, but many folks WANT a new Twitter.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
They're in good company—the C standard also has something called an "expression statement" which is similar.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
> A Python program may contain statements or expressions. Here's a Python program that contains no statements: 42. According to the Python Language Reference, that is a Python program made of one expression statement: https:/&
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
I like the four-document model. While it isn't a perfect fit for all cases, for many it is a good start. We wrote a review of bioinformatics software documentation, which includes a taxonomy of research software documentation (Table 1)
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
How else are they supposed to cross from one corner to the other?
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
Here, "GB" stands for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", not "Great Britain". > The codes are chosen, according to the ISO 3166/MA, "to reflect the significant, unique componen
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Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation(arxiv.org)
1 points by michaelhoffman 3y ago|0 comments
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
It's based on the errors the proposers actually found in the wild, which seem to mostly be people attempting to use constant powers of 2 or 10.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
My understanding is it only triggers when the left side is 2 or 10.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
I doubt they will have much problem finding people who are qualified to teach. But it's going to make it more difficult to continue hiring people who are seen as some of the best in the world in in-demand areas.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
The old-school way to document savings accounts is with a passbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passbook If this bank offers that, then you have the redundant documentation yourself.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
I wish that were true, but unfortunately some apps do not seem to be designed well in the case of data being turned off.
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by michaelhoffman 3y ago
I don't use non-smartphone PDAs anymore, but I really miss: 1. Their ability to do absolutely everything offline. No need to worry that I won't be able to access something because somewhere without data service 2. The ability to h

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