mjdowney

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by mjdowney 3y ago
Concise better, silly
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Notes on neural networks from scratch in Clojure(matthewdowney.github.io)
41 points by mjdowney 3y ago|8 comments
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by mjdowney 3y ago
Out of curiosity, any plans on adding push notification primitives?
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by mjdowney 3y ago
For context it's sinking at 0.1 cm / year, versus 50 cm / year in Mexico City and 20 cm / year in Jakarta.
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by mjdowney 3y ago
nods approvingly while reading hn instead of just sitting on a bench
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by mjdowney 3y ago
Related: https://twitter.com/zetalyrae/status/1639474931086901248 My OCaml: let foo (x: bar): baz = (\* Is this quuxable? *) match is_quuxable x with | Yes -> (* Then, we have t
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by mjdowney 3y ago
You can go 100x faster using SIMD on the CPU, instead of doing the linear algebra by hand, then another order of magnitude or two on the GPU.
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Three-outcome Kelly criterion for p(win, loss, ruin)(matthewdowney.github.io)
2 points by mjdowney 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Chrome extension to execute ChatGPT output inline (HTML/JS –> iframe)(github.com)
1 points by mjdowney 3y ago|0 comments
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by mjdowney 4y ago
There is nothing more frustrating than a status page that lies about the state of an API. Feels like insult + injury. I'd rather they not even have a status page!
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by mjdowney 4y ago
That's super cool!
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by mjdowney 4y ago
Since there is so much criticism here of NordVPN (in general, not for open-sourcing), what are the VPNs that people like?
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Help me find: interactive tutorial for a JavaScript scheme interpreter
2 points by mjdowney 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjdowney 4y ago
There is a mindset where each bookmark is an implicit obligation, and they of course pile up faster than you can go back and peruse them to your satisfaction, so this understandably leads to an unpleasant feeling of unfulfillable obligatio
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by mjdowney 4y ago
I think if we divorce the idea of direct data manipulation from exclusively non-textual representation, we are slowly making progress in this direction through traditional notebooks (e.g. Jupyter) and notebook successors like Clerk (see Mol
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Sizing bets on FTX claims and a Monte Carlo simulation(matthewdowney.github.io)
1 points by mjdowney 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjdowney 4y ago
I tend to agree in spirit, but I worry there's a real risk of a lemon market[1] situation. If, for whatever reason, consumers of content are not immediately attuned to the difference between vacuous GPT-nonsense and something that woul
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by mjdowney 4y ago
I've really enjoyed Babashka lately. Most recently, I ported a script from Bash which gets around WiFi captive portals and was able to add some features and even unit tests. Super fun and would have been hard for me to do in Bash! htt
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by mjdowney 4y ago
Hear, hear! Tired of seeing these tirelessly dumb takes about expected value theory's supposed flaws or its psychological dimension. Poker players make bets based on bank roll size and very good understanding of expected value. They ei