mitchellpkt

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by mitchellpkt 2mo ago
In my own experience with data science work: On multiple occasions I’ve seen noticeable accumulated rounding error crop up by the end of a cumprod over very long timeseries of floats. But in my cases it has just been a minor nuisance that
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by mitchellpkt 1y ago
Graphics drivers roulette Will this update get me over 30 fps, or break my ability to boot into a GUI? There's only one way to find out ;)
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by mitchellpkt 1y ago
Excellent catch! I had to go back and take a second look, because I completely missed that the first time.
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by mitchellpkt 1y ago
This is a really neat idea! I never thought about taking emissions into account when provisioning infrastructure. Only a small subset of my cloud workload is performance sensitive. For the majority of tasks (tests, background ETL processing
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by mitchellpkt 1y ago
Oh yeah totally agree, I was thinking of the king as separate from the pieces. If a lone king cannot move, that changes the dynamics considerably.
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by mitchellpkt 1y ago
Interesting. Hmmm, I have to think this through. I believe that if the game followed normal chess rules, except for replacing the pieces with queens, then games where the captures are all even trades would result in draws, but if one side c
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by mitchellpkt 1y ago
I tried to find some way for white to force a win, but no obvious forcing sequences jumped out at me. Like you said, "I don’t see one, but do not rule out one, either."
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by mitchellpkt 1y ago
Python package management infrastructure and tooling works fine for me, and I use python frequently. There is a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1987/
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by mitchellpkt 1y ago
I use a few different distros on a routine basis. Out of those, Ubuntu would probably be the best fit - it generally works right out of the box, the UI is intuitive for day-to-day use, there's plenty of information online about how to
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
edit: nevermind, it's sage code not python code
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
> I suspect what's happening is they've got some rule against the word "spectrum" or something I've avoided this by using only the first few and/or last few letters of the service in the email tag (e.g. &quo
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
This is awesome, I had no idea about my total move count and puzzle stats. If you're already logged into Lichess, you can go straight to your own recap here: https://lichess.org/recap
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
Nice find! I was able to reproduce this. https://chatgpt.com/share/675518bd-7044-800e-992a-c0b3c49b9b... The response is extremely similar, though not quite verbatim.
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
Yep I found this approach works great. I have a personally-owned domain name connected to my [paid] account with a smaller email provider. The domain is managed at a large well-known registrar, I keep it paid up 3+ years in advance, and mak
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
You might enjoy learning Lean, which is a functional programming language specifically for theorem proving. You can tackle interesting types of questions, and it is actively used in mathematics research. Here's a neat walkthrough from
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
Back in 2018 I spent a week or two messing around with this idea, and produced a hacky proof-of-concept.[1] It's not intended for real-time or production use, I just made a prototype to see if it could be done. The README explains the
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
For personal correspondence, I've exclusively used Proton Mail for the last 7 years or so. I have been happy with it, no plans to change. I migrated from Gmail, and initially set up message forwarding so that I would still receive emai
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by mitchellpkt 2y ago
In addition to what others have mentioned, I find it really helpful to temporarily switch my IDE to high-contrast light mode, when working outside in bright conditions. Otherwise I prefer dark mode. A larger and/or high-contrast mouse
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
Politely mentioning that you don't want to work on holidays could be a great answer if they ask why you're looking to change companies. You could just say something like: "I'm looking for a job that allows me to spend ho
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
If you want an answer from the model itself instead of search results, you can frame it like: "Without looking anything up, <original request>" For example: (today, GPT-4) > "Who won the physics Nobel prize in 2023?&
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
Note that at time of writing the “ask the code” plug-in does well with describing repo structure, but hallucinates file contents (I tested it on one of my own repos)
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
Just find one or two temp agencies in your area - they’ll probably get you placed into the type of gig you want quickly, and there will be no expectation for long term commitment. Can’t hurt to try. At one point I had a 3 month break betwee
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
Is the effect of measurement units eliminated by applying something like zero mean unit variance normalization prior to dimensionality reduction?
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
None. I’ve dealt with python2 in some personal projects, but professionally I write everything for in 3.8 style syntax and then run in 3.8 or 3.11 environment depending on the context.
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
I don’t agree with their decision but I can hazard a guess at their reasoning. While your business hasn’t changed, the regulatory and compliance landscape has become increasingly difficult, and at times hostile towards the cryptocurrencies
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
For me, the biggest productivity boost is from work that is (1) boring or time consuming to do, but (2) easy to verify / QC. (3) Extra useful if it is something that can the code interpreter can unit test in place, and iterate the code
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
They’re fundamentally different since the standard definition of a VDF is strictly non-parallelizable and P/o/W is generally designed to be “embarrassingly parallel.” It may seem like a minor subtlety but the resulting dynamics ar
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
Could use a class, but access the value without ever instantiating it? Not sure if this fits the bill for what you want, or if the fact that it could theoretically be instantiated renders the approach non-suitable. class Config: r
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
When I was learning dvorak (more than a decade ago) I bought a cheap keyboard at a garage sale and rearranged the keys. An easier approach is just to get stickers. I used that trainer keyboard for a summer, until my typing muscle memory wa
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by mitchellpkt 3y ago
I don’t work with JavaScript but here is my personal python preamble. Always a work in progress. ``` For this chat session, please select a title that accurately reflects the content of the specific request below. You do not need to explici

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