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by wch 1y ago
When I run `npm audit`, it points me to a security advisory at GitHub. For example, for debug, it is https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8mgj-vmr8-frr6 . That page says that the affected versions are ">=0".
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by wch 1y ago
I agree 100% with you. The author starts the essay with the very technique that he uses later on the essay: frame the conversation in his terms (that LLMs are _not_ inevitable), and then once that's done, anyone who disagrees can be di
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by wch 2y ago
You should check out Positron, which is currently beta. It's created by Posit (the company formerly known as RStudio). https://github.com/posit-dev/positron
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by wch 2y ago
A little context: this dive into Fortran is part of the excellent work George has been doing on WebR, to get R running in the browser. The R sources contain a fair bit of Fortran code, and I believe WebR originally used f2c to compile the F
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by wch 2y ago
This reads like it was written by AI.
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Building AI chat apps with Shiny for Python(shiny.posit.co)
13 points by wch 3y ago|0 comments
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by wch 4y ago
Now that the poll is leaning toward "yes", Elon is adding conditions, namely, you have to invest your life savings. Lex Fridman volunteered to do it for free, and Elon replied: > One catch: you have to invest your life savings
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by wch 4y ago
That looks fantastic. It also looks like you also have Pyright running in the browser. Is that right? I thought Pyright only supported running on NodeJS.
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by wch 5y ago
Did the original Wordle have a free license? I don't recall seeing license information anywhere.
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by wch 5y ago
I just want to say that I really enjoyed reading this article. It's among the clearest, most accessible writing about a technical subject that I've encountered in a while.
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by wch 6y ago
On human scales, the time dimension is much "bigger" than the space dimensions... This is really interesting, and it made me wonder how to convert between space and time. I mean, one meter up is equivalent in magnitude to one me
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by wch 10y ago
Another serious question: if a stock has no voting rights and no dividends, why would it be worth anything at all? That is, what makes it different from a piece of paper with the company's name on it? If there are voting rights, then t
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by wch 10y ago
From my quick skim of the article, I think this is the key part: > These results imply that, after correcting for confounding variables (see notes under Table 3), those who were deficient at time of birth had on average 0.06 point higher
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Interactive Visualizations for Profiling R Code(rstudio.github.io)
45 points by wch 10y ago|4 comments
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by wch 11y ago
There are people who waste money on toys, eating out, clothes and all that -- but those expenses pale in comparison to the really big costs: - Child care (necessary if both parents work or there's just one parent) - Larger apartment&#x
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by wch 12y ago
That's actually not true. He/she quoted the original two sentences. The parent post was later edited to add a third (middle) sentence.
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by wch 12y ago
It's a common misconception that for loops in R are slow. They're actually fast (around 20 million iterations per second on my computer). What can be slow is modifying data structures in particular ways using a loop. See http:&#x
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by wch 12y ago
I found ages ago that setting up a mail server isn't super hard. What was difficult keeping it running reliably. Every time I would go on a trip, I'd worry that it would break down and I wouldn't be able to fix it. And I alwa
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by wch 12y ago
I agree that focusing after the fact has limited appeal, but there are some interesting long-term ramifications of this technology. Today, much of lens correction are done in hardware, by adding more lens elements, which makes the hardware
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by wch 13y ago
This post gives off a really bad brogrammer vibe. And I hope these aren't developers they were hiring and firing. The average salary of these bad hires was about $57,000 per year. (The total was $70,000, divided by 6 people who stayed
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by wch 13y ago
Farecast got bought by Microsoft and was used in Bing Travel, but it seems to be gone now. According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Travel ), "As of January 2014, the fare prediction feature has be
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by wch 13y ago
You're getting "false positive" with the method you've chosen, but it's not a method that would be accepted in a scientific paper as evidence for an experimental effect. Maybe your method is more appropriate for, sa
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by wch 13y ago
I agree that there is a general problem that researchers go on fishing expeditions with their data. But having a small sample size doesn't make it any more likely to find a false positive. We've already agreed that a small sample
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by wch 13y ago
Those samples might be on the smaller side, but they're not "really small". And no, a small sample size doesn't mean that there's a high chance that there's a false positive. What it does mean is that there&#x2
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by wch 13y ago
In addition to the _total_ debt vs. _median_ income issue that others have mentioned, this is a classic case of how 2 y-axes on a graph can mislead. Or it can be used to tell any story you want. Thiel's graph "shows" that de
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by wch 13y ago
Is it possible to use more than one device to control an outlet? As far as I know, Bluetooth devices can only be paired to one other device at a time. If that's the case here, then the outlet is tied to (for example) one phone -- but I
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by wch 13y ago
> A good reminder to not get stuck in local fad maximums. That's a good goal - but how do you know in advance whether it's a fad (like Zynga) or the real deal (like Facebook)?
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by wch 13y ago
Experimenting on yourself with replacing food with shakes is one thing. I find that an interesting project, and I'm sure many others did as well. On the other hand, selling this stuff with claims like, "Soylent is perfectly balanced and opt
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by wch 14y ago
Nice! I've adapted your code and made a version that uses ggplot2. It also uses memoise() so that each data set only needs to be downloaded once per R session. # Memoize read.csv so each data set only needs to be downloaded once r
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by wch 14y ago
It sounds cool, but I wonder how reliable this method is. What's the false positive and false negative rate? Errors here would have real consequences -- for example, according to the article, it was used as a crucial piece of evidence in pu

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