throrthaway

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by throrthaway 6y ago
Ah, just the right time to publish about numpy - right when everyone is moving over to Julia because of numpy's warts.
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by throrthaway 6y ago
>A what point? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrinsic >Do you have a reason to think that means PCA is bad at representing similarity and kinship because of this? I suggest you read up on the defini
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by throrthaway 6y ago
Now my opinion may seem controversial but I personally believe having feature requests that are old enough to legally drink is not a sign of healthy project management
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by throrthaway 6y ago
Are they still paid by Mozilla, though?
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by throrthaway 6y ago
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233 16 years and still pending! All bets are off for this dark horse
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by throrthaway 6y ago
Pretty moribund. They got dropped by Mozilla so it's entirely community-driven, and there's only so many things you need to add to an email client, unless you want it to turn into emacs or something. That said it's a damn goo
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by throrthaway 6y ago
Just in case people don't know, although the name sounds French I've literally never seen one in France. I guess it's like Mexico's Taco Bell or something
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by throrthaway 6y ago
Using a PCA to prove an intrinsic point about ethnicity is as laughable as it gets. You're aware the vectors in a PCA are just linear combinations of the observed features, right? You're just staring at the same data a different w
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by throrthaway 6y ago
Who knows, we might even see GNOME getting thumbnail previews in its file picker!
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by throrthaway 6y ago
If you've just now taken the venv plunge wait until you learn about conda. Python is more or less a shitshow when it comes for packaging and it's the reason I'm drifting away from it little by little
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by throrthaway 6y ago
If people freak out that the Vikings weren't pure-bred Scandinavians, wait until they learn about the identical ancestor point [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ancestors_point
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by throrthaway 6y ago
The actual solution to gerrymandering is to discard the whole silly idea of 'district' and vote proportionally, just many countries do and are not the worse off for it. What about the rural states, you say? Well they still get to
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by throrthaway 6y ago
The reason France's math output is so stellar is because of the controversial grand école system - pretty much every great French mathematician you can name came out of one of the top 2 schools. It's very elitist (and the elitism