thanatropism

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by thanatropism 1y ago
I grew up fascinated by these essays from maybe age 8 onward. Now I realize the pervasive bad faith in them, e.g. dismissing Murray (The Bell Curve) and enthronizing the in-retrospect-irrelevant Jay Gould. I knew his novels were kind of sil
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by thanatropism 1y ago
Is it supposed to be flattering?
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by thanatropism 1y ago
> new pandemic is killing millions > yes, but viruses existed long before it
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by thanatropism 1y ago
Maybe I wasn't receiving the full Fitness Message as someone proudly sedentary, but the way I experienced the world (seen through what I think I know now), it always seemed like people overemphasize weight loss and being thin as a mark
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by thanatropism 1y ago
Ctrl-F doesn't seem to show anyone remembering the Ballad of Scott Alexander. There's no reasonable narrative in which OpenAI are not villains, but NYT is notoriously one to shoot a man in Reno just to see him die.
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by thanatropism 1y ago
AlphaGo passes Hubert Dreyfus's test -- it has a world -- in a way that LLMs don't.
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by thanatropism 1y ago
"Trash Truck" and Pocoyo.
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by thanatropism 1y ago
"1;
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by thanatropism 1y ago
Ehh. Sometimes you don't want to have to have string builders to assemble REST calls.
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Homologia Fantastica(asemic-horizon.com)
1 points by thanatropism 2y ago|0 comments
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by thanatropism 2y ago
You can always restrict the meaning of "causality". E.g. Granger casusality means that A is typically detected before B and not the other way around (so not mere correlation). It's a moby useful concept.
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by thanatropism 2y ago
This ain't it, chief. > Jazz is music performed by an ensemble of players, each (very) specialized and proficient in their respective instrument. So wait, a duet with Cecil Taylor and Eric Dolphy, the latter of which also plays the
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The case for proportional fonts in coding(storck.io)
2 points by thanatropism 2y ago|2 comments
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by thanatropism 2y ago
NestedText + Pydantic.
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by thanatropism 2y ago
Tihs probably refers to comon mispelllings an typo's.
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by thanatropism 2y ago
Is any of those easily modifiable to return the arg-median (the index which has the median).
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by thanatropism 3y ago
YouTube may have peaked as the outstanding source of impressively high quality content on a very wide range of topics about 3-5 weeks ago; possibly with Horses' guide on surviving in a desert island. It's still so, so good. ---
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by thanatropism 3y ago
What are the advantage of Cython over something like C++ with pybind11 or whatever the equivalent in Rustland?
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I've been using ChatGPT to develop the concept of a novel or TV show in which Al-Andalus never fell to the Reconquista, but rather conquered chunks of Central Europe... and fast forward we're traveling the stars. It's pretty
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by thanatropism 3y ago
This is unintuitive, but modern fortran is a shorter jump from Matlab than Python. The greatness and wretchedness of Python is "pythonicity". It's very hard to miss the mark with Python (all things considered: life is finite,
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I wish the Python<->Rust interop story was a little better. I learned to write some C++ for an embedded thing (smart flashlight, story for another time) and immediately started writing the Python extensions I struggled to write with R
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I wish there were more serious studies on "Matlab risk". There's a lot on $old_lang risk already, and Excel risk is now a serious thread of research, but many in academia (and very possibly greybeards in industrial R&D) j
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by thanatropism 3y ago
A better idea yet is to spend the time with Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
My biggest issue with i18n is not the grammar. It's the sheer uncanny valley of it. There are translations to "Hello" in Portuguese but I'd cringe at being greeted with them by a webmail client instead of the more formal
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I used to be all in on the Blub Paradox discourse -- but I've been learning some C++ for the Arduino and the differences in power with, say, Python, are mainly related to how easy it is to think-as-you-code in a dynamic language. Of co
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by thanatropism 3y ago
My manager called me for short chats on world events (semi-relevant to our larger work, not for current-assignment). Now I realize that was 20% to get my take on whatever (say, 2008 auto companies bailout) and 80% just to look me in the eye
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by thanatropism 3y ago
What. There are no proofs of convergence for many of the most popular NN optimization algos. IIRC Adam is known not to converge in some cases. The bitter lesson is that Messy AI is better able to cope with Messy World Problems than Neat AI
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I remember the hype around XGBoost and Kaggle contests asking to solve problems in prime number theory.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
It's a very short article. It's not like it's full of substance and that one sentence is a faux-pas or overenthusiastic. The content is basically that one idea plus some padding.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I lived with my parents like three years into working a full time, decently paid job. We'd always lived in rentals and I wanted to help with the bills . After moving out I realized that, man, I was saving so much money! This anecdote

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