samcodes

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by samcodes 7y ago
Whoa, great description of this dynamic. Is the desire to drink consistent, or does it vary? Does it vary with the cycles of healthy / unhealthy consumption, or with a different period?
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by samcodes 7y ago
The tooling in JavaScript is fantastic. I don’t love much about JS, but I do Python now and boy are dependencies and packaging worse.
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by samcodes 7y ago
I wish it worked more consistently. Maybe I’m just not smart enough, but sometimes triple clicking the side button works, other times it doesn’t.
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by samcodes 7y ago
I don’t think everyone agrees that this is a stick. There is space between the observation (my life is finite) and the emotional response (I have anxiety about my life being finite). I think the idea of these tools is to help people identif
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by samcodes 7y ago
> I guess one solution would be to use a pretrained ALBERT and finetune to get the initial model and then use model distillation to get a smaller, faster model. IME this is the way to go; take an ensemble of big, accurate models, then di
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by samcodes 7y ago
I wouldn’t call myself an “experienced MC tinkerer” but I liked this series on MC using Python https://towardsdatascience.com/monte-carlo-simulations-with-...
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by samcodes 7y ago
MXNet existed before AWS picked it, and it has a lot of strengths. I’d use it (especially with Gluon) over TF any day. But that said, PyTorch is usually easy to use on AWS... the preference for MXNet seems weak
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by samcodes 7y ago
Yeah IME expectations with ML are just the worst. Somehow, non-ML-educated stakeholders expect it to be predictable, like they pretend traditional software engineering is... but also to be magical in scope.
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by samcodes 7y ago
Calling to criminalize anything you even mildly oppose is reckless at best. You think if you noticed that two pizza places shared a kitchen, you’d feel the correct response was calling the cops?
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by samcodes 7y ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a lot about (many things, including) refining the scientific method in Rationality [0]. IIRC, his point is that the scientific method puts no constraints on what hypotheses you test. He thinks a more orderly search o
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by samcodes 7y ago
Get into ML, it's just linear algebra, taking gradients, and arithmetic!
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by samcodes 7y ago
You either hand some of this over to a ML model to handle, and lose some control / deterministic-ness, or you write a ton of code to handle the combinatorial explosion of potential parses of the sentence.
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by samcodes 7y ago
This is impressive only because they are in automotive. I worked in that industry for years, they are generally at least a decade behind the rest of the software world
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by samcodes 7y ago
Not sure on rust compatibility, but have you considered Cap’n Proto? https://capnproto.org/
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by samcodes 7y ago
I have a 4 year old and a two month old. We’re in a major metropolis, and most couples seem to choose between 0 and 1 kid, but my wife and I have both always said we wanted 3 or more. This was a nice perspective to hear. For the first 2 yea
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by samcodes 7y ago
“using JIRA and tracking sprint efficiency wrong” is the working definition of agile at most companies AFAICT. This makes me sad. I had a great experience with what I now think of as “authentic agile” at my second job, now I doubt I’ll ever
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by samcodes 7y ago
There is a stage during the analysis where you interact with the container. So you can do something to trigger the resource usage that you want it to pick up on.
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by samcodes 7y ago
Since this produces a notebook with python code, you might be able to tweak it so the final model works in tensor flow.js. But depending on model size / hardware requirements, it might be better to just make a network call.
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by samcodes 7y ago
https://www.givewell.org/ In case utilitarianism is the correct moral framework. https://www.splcenter.org/ An attempt to slow the US' descent into fascism. https://www.actionagainsthunger.o
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by samcodes 7y ago
Yeah, for me and anyone I know who tracks it, out conversion rate (without referrals, which convert much better) is 100 applications to 1 offer.
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by samcodes 7y ago
Hard disagree. Open source contributions are definitely something EM look at. And a good EM knows to look at blog posts. “Can this person explain technical topics to a technical audience” is a hugely important factor.
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by samcodes 7y ago
Yeah, another comment said this is “unreadable” if you don’t do FP... I have done a little lisp + Elixir, but 99% of my coding has been in C-descendant languages and this was definitely readable.
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by samcodes 7y ago
Hard disagree. There’s a button, I pushed it, I read the code... and said “ohhhh that’s clever”
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by samcodes 7y ago
I took this as a completely serious and reasonable proposal. For context, I have taught (middle school through University), am on the board of an education non-profit, have an advanced degree and plan on accumulating more of them. What is u
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by samcodes 7y ago
Reading about how Julia does automatic differentiation helped me to understand this a lot: http://www.juliadiff.org/
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by samcodes 7y ago
I love when people publish companion blog posts with their academic papers.
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by samcodes 7y ago
I do this a lot. It recently began to bother me. I started a list of things I have to do before I dick around on my phone: practice Japanese and meditate. I don't always remember, but when I do, I'm happier.
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by samcodes 7y ago
None of the jobs are explicitly remote - any heuristics for identifying which roles are remote friendly?
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by samcodes 7y ago
Regulatory capture is a common feature of policies promoted by the deregulate crowd
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by samcodes 7y ago
Julia is a fantastic language. If I did original research I would use it, but I'm in industry and focus on productionalizing things.

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