xitrium

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by xitrium 6mo ago
Can you move to a city? This is what most people I know in this situation do. Though I had a great time getting a car and taking myself out for hikes, sauna / spa days, activities and parties in the east bay near SF. Great place for pr
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by xitrium 7mo ago
Came here to say this. Pure slop, wtf is everyone going on about? Are they all LLMs too?
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A Word on Statistics(poetryfoundation.org)
2 points by xitrium 3y ago|0 comments
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by xitrium 3y ago
Very true, but it seems like you may not have seen the expose on this field in Science https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...
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by xitrium 3y ago
I appreciate your commitment to modernist capital-S Science here :) I'm familiar with how the field ought to work but after working in Andrew Gelman's lab for some years, also with how it can fail us. Here I think the researcher i
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by xitrium 3y ago
The last thing I read about the link between amyloid-β accumulation and Alzheimer's was that the entire field was full of fake data ( https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-beta-amyloid... ). In part
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FPGA-based polyphonic subtractive synthesizer(thetinysynth.wordpress.com)
3 points by xitrium 3y ago|0 comments
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by xitrium 3y ago
The current law is more general; it’s the current policy’s consumer price heuristic that has become a bad approximation to the law. I like “The Economists’ Hour” on the topic.
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Neat compiler optimization – checks for one of 4 chars with a bitmask(seantalts.github.io)
2 points by xitrium 3y ago|0 comments
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by xitrium 4y ago
Statistical Rethinking is the first book that helped me make sense of statistical modeling (and probability as applied to modeling): https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/ Huge fan, can't recommend eno
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by xitrium 4y ago
I will say up front that I don't think the social good is worth what we are collectively paying for it, but I do think the market hours are a reasonable device. This is basically because there are humans involved and they need to sleep
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by xitrium 4y ago
I like "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -Keynes
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by xitrium 6y ago
> Unfortunately, the rethinking package which is a major component of the book itself depends on the V8 engine for some reason. This is my fault, in a sense. In order to get the new Stan compiler (written in OCaml) distributed via CRAN (
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by xitrium 6y ago
This is weirdly deliberately misquoted, maybe as a joke? full: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/07/21/bayes-rela...
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by xitrium 7y ago
I'm surprised to see this argument. Tooling and infrastructure are only as clean as the services they support. I don't think you get to wash your hands because all you did was build e.g. Palantir a giant database that's great
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by xitrium 7y ago
This did not hold up well, imo. Not sure how to count it but by some lists this is stuff like: Tencent, Alibaba, Amazon, Netflix, Priceline, Baidu, Salesforce.com, JD.com. Others would include Uber/Lyft, Airbnb, GitHub, ... There are o
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by xitrium 7y ago
How do you feel about Alberto Balsam? :)
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by xitrium 8y ago
Thanks! The new .messages error message mechanism is great, though we'll see if it supports the full brunt of user needs soon enough.
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by xitrium 8y ago
Curious if the author could comment on what Menhir is lacking, my estimation is possibly just the concrete syntax trees, though you could definitely emit an AST that has as much of that as you need to do the tasks the author mentions.
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by xitrium 8y ago
Be cautious using this article to try to learn anything. Differentiable programming is not actually related to deep learning; it's another word for automatic differentiation, a technique that is very important in deep learning implemen
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by xitrium 8y ago
Gentle plug for my literate Haskell implementation that aims to teach the concepts as they are defined: https://github.com/seantalts/hasktrip/blob/master/doc/MicroK...
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by xitrium 8y ago
GPU and MPI support in Stan coming hopefully this summer!
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by xitrium 9y ago
Bob Carpenter did a great case study on the this topic, for anyone new to it: http://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/case-studies/curse-di... Check out the graphs, especially of the euclidean distance from th
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by xitrium 9y ago
If you care about quantifying uncertainty, knowing about Bayesian methods is a good idea I don't see represented here yet. I care so much about uncertainty quantification and propagation that I work on the Stan project[0] which has an
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by xitrium 9y ago
Stan (mc-stan.org, Columbia University) | New York City | Full-time, ONSITE | $80-$100k Stan ( http://mc-stan.org ) is an open source probabilistic programming language and Bayesian inference toolkit that data scientists and appli
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by xitrium 9y ago
What idiot called this "Feasibility of cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point" instead of "Solar Eclipses As A Service?"
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by xitrium 10y ago
Going along with this sort of fundamentally changed worldview theme - I loved Debt: The First 5,000 Years but for me it was equally important to read a book called The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic T
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by xitrium 10y ago
You probably weren't a culture fit :P I actually prefer getting feedback about why someone chooses not to go forward with me as it helps me improve. For that reason I think interviewing at Bridgewater can be valuable as you can explici
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by xitrium 11y ago|0 comments
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by xitrium 13y ago
In actual compiled code, conditional branches (without branch prediction) are translated to jumps to different targets, which are specified inline with the instructions. Specifying a modifiable target would mean fetching it from a register

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