slowking2

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by slowking2 2mo ago
IIRC, if you put a trailing comma on the last entry, the formatter will keep multiline dicts multiline.
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by slowking2 3mo ago
It’s not the same thing. He is allowed to give them away and is doing so. If Mora is in breach of contract, maybe a better remedy for the distributor would be monetary damages but that is not obvious. There’s an interesting question of if t
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by slowking2 4mo ago
Why would you use a PPO? The average SWE can be on an HMO. HMO's are fine. I have never once regretted choosing an HMO. Additionally, you're using the average software engineer salary in the US but then picking California for rent
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by slowking2 4mo ago
This doesn't have that much to do with the genetic heritability of intelligence, which is a measurement in proportion to environmental variability. Civilizations with farming, metallurgy, etc. showed up independently in many places alt
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by slowking2 4mo ago
Where are you getting 20% from? That's not what Plomin is saying in what you are replying to. Are you confusing the fraction of GWAS estimate heritability out of total heritability (10/50 = 20%) with a top or bottom bound?
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by slowking2 9mo ago
Although it's possible for someone with type 1 to have an A1C below 6%, it's very difficult. I've known a few people like that, and they are all super users. It's also going to depend somewhat on the lab running the A1C
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by slowking2 9mo ago
You can die on the order of hours to days not of high blood sugar per se, but of the low insulin causing diabetic ketoacidosis parent comment mentions. It would be odd for a faulty sensor to cause an otherwise bad day into dka and death tho
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by slowking2 1y ago
My experience has been there is no correlation between skill at teaching and skill at research; maybe the two are even anti-correlated. To some extent, this is an artifact of the selection process for professors, but I think it's partl
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by slowking2 1y ago
Making invalid states unrepresentable may be a great idea or terrible idea depending on what you are doing. My experience is all in scientific simulation, data analysis, and embedded software in medical devices. For scientific simulations,
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by slowking2 1y ago
I knew some who were bad at math. Asian immigrant test scores on math are ~1/2-1 standard deviation higher than white Americans. That’s noticeable comparing groups of people but still leaves a lot of Asian immigrants who are not good a
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by slowking2 1y ago
Fair point! That's a great technical success; I didn't realize Arm was British. If the main failure of British companies is that they don't have U.S. company market caps, it seems more off base to blame this on government sci
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by slowking2 1y ago
Also, being far enough from Europe that a huge amount of talent decided the U.S. was a better bet for getting away from the Nazis. And then taking a large number of former Nazi scientist's post-war as well. The article mentions but und
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by slowking2 2y ago
That's a hard one because it depends on what sort of details you let into types and maybe even on the specific type T. Not saying what I'm asking for is easy! Units and shape would be preserved in all cases I can think of. But wit
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by slowking2 2y ago
I'd be happy for just ranges on floats being quick and easy to specify even if the checking is at runtime (which it seems like it almost will have to be). I can imagine how to attach precision error/metadata when I need it with cu
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by slowking2 2y ago
At work, I find type hints useful as basically enforced documentation and as a weak sort of test, but few type systems offer decent basic support for the sort of things you would need to do type driven programming in scientific/numeric
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by slowking2 2y ago
I use both DuckDB and SQLite at work. SQLite is better when the database gets lots of little writes, when the database is going to be stored long term as the primary source of truth, when you don't need to do lots of complicated analyt
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by slowking2 2y ago
Agreed. I work in medical device engineering, and >50% of our time relates to simulation in some way. A big part of our responsibilities is designing, implementing, or reimplementing models of various subsystems relevant to our devices s
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by slowking2 2y ago
Jupyter notebooks can be executed roughly like scripts by papermill. You can also save a .py version of the notebook without outputs using jupytext. We use these packages together where I work to basically auto-generate the start of noteboo
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by slowking2 2y ago
Barring it being a joke, the first question is unhelpful and likely a jerk move. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. The second question seems like the type of feedback that would usually be fine. People's skills and knowledge don'
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by slowking2 3y ago
Same here, interacting with people makes my performance on all sorts of mental tasks drop much faster. 5-6 hours of meetings, and worst case I don't want to do anything else, best case I still need to go for a walk and another 30 minut
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by slowking2 3y ago
Had the same thought. The naming synergy is perfect.
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by slowking2 4y ago
The link you posted says that the original rat park researcher's own graduate student was unable to replicate the original experiment when he tried reducing the confounds. That seems like the most favorable possible situation for a rep
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by slowking2 4y ago
Dose dependence is still a thing for long term exposure. There’s a lot of crap in urine. Knowing someone is pissing something doesn’t mean it’s toxic. We already know they’re exposed because they eat it. There is very little new information
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by slowking2 4y ago
No. I did watch the video before I posted. Thus the last sentence of my first post about drinking it (or not) being bullshitting in both directions. You are the one not reading or understanding.
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by slowking2 4y ago
Alcohol has cumulative effects too. The long term effects are still dose dependent. My point is you can’t just eyeball it by being like “well that guy bullshitted then refused to drink it”. You need to do a bunch of hard work taking measure
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by slowking2 4y ago
Different chemicals have different dangerous doses. What’s your point? I specifically said that I don’t know what the toxic dose of glyphosate is. My point is whether or not you can literally drink a highly concentrated version of it doesn’
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by slowking2 4y ago
Did you read the last sentence of my post? I literally said the executive was bullshitting when he said he could drink it…
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by slowking2 4y ago
Safer depends how much cow manure is eaten vs how much glyphosate. Although cow manure also has various microorganisms in it so if you got really unlucky with the wrong type of even one of those in the manure a little bit of shit could make
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by slowking2 4y ago
The dose makes the poison. It’s possible for a chemical to be perfectly safe if ingested in low quantities but dangerous in extremely high quantities. The duration of exposure for the same dose matters a lot too. Drinking glyphosate could b
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by slowking2 4y ago
There are parts of Chicago that are really nice, but also parts that are notably worse than the “bad” part of most cities. A lot of the area around UChicago itself was very sketchy compared to any other university area I’ve been to. This wa

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