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by zevets 3mo ago
https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cance... Page 2 has the figure. Getting people to not smoke has been the most effective treatment in our lifetime. Public health is a really big dea
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by zevets 10mo ago
I think this is a major mistake for Zig's target adoption market - low level programmers trying to use a better C. Julia is phenomenally great for solo/small projects, but as soon as you have complex dependencies that _you_ can&#x
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by zevets 1y ago
For better or worse, Fortran is still a popular language to write clever PDE schemes in, as it maximizes "time to first, fast-enough-running code". But for anything with a userbase of more than ~15 people, C/C++ are widely pr
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by zevets 1y ago
Julia's choice to encourage people naming their variables greek letters is bad though. There's a whole group of students who struggle with the symbols, but understand the concepts (a residual). Julia, when used to its full capabil
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by zevets 1y ago
Alternatively, any implementation of operator+ should have a notional identity element, an inverse element and be commutative.
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by zevets 1y ago
I can do it, and I do similar such things in C++ - but the biggest benefit of "safe defaults" is the standardization of such behaviors, and the resultant expectations/ecosystem.
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by zevets 1y ago
Please do this. But first: we need to take step-zero and introduce a type "r64": a "f64" that is not nan/inf. Rust has its uint-thats-not-zero - why not the same for floating point numbers??
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by zevets 1y ago
It's slightly less cynical than that - it takes about eight years to design a space mission and rocket, but doing the detailed design is expensive as hell, so in order to meet a budget, they then change the mission, so they can go back
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by zevets 1y ago
its metabolic rate. im always cold.
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by zevets 1y ago
My actual co-pay is $10/mo for the good stuff, plus warfarin (eliquiis/xeralto were too weak for me :/) which is ~$12 for a 90 day supply from the mail order PBM pharmacy. I average about $1500/yr in out-of-pocket medica
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by zevets 1y ago
I take four pills a day and the primary side effect is weight gain. The earlier 1950s era treatment made me exhausted 24/7. There's a new trial that has a new target, and looks to solve the remaining symptoms of the disease, with
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by zevets 1y ago
This is bad science. Patients schedule when they go to immunotherapy appointments. People who go in the morning are still working/doing things, where once you get _really_ sick, you end up scheduling mid-day, because its such a hassle
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by zevets 2y ago
It's honestly surprising so many programming languages ignore the needs of "floating point" users. Rust has ints that aren't 0, but no std type for floats that aren't NaN? In some sense, ieee754 floats are better th
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by zevets 2y ago
Jonathan McDowell, the astronomer and debris tracker: https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post... They may be _meant_ to last a lot longer, but as you launch a larger constellation, you end up
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by zevets 2y ago
I think it's also important to justify why VCs use EBITDA. Excluding depreciation makes sense when you are dealing with assets with an unknown highly variable lifespan - e.g. software - some of which lasts decades without being touched
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by zevets 2y ago
I think it's operating on the assumption that the VC donor money, and the valley's pivot to defense spending is the VCs getting "ahead" of the problem that "AI" isn't going to produce trillions in _profits
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by zevets 2y ago
The grift began a while ago - when "startups" like SpaceX started using EBITBDA to claim profitability on starlink. But the depreciation costs of LEO are substantial, and starlink satellites have an empirical MTBF of ~5.5 years. A
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by zevets 2y ago
The problem with this administration is that you can't tell if they are 1) fools (resources != profitable resource extraction) 2) on drugs (elon's pupils during his oval office press conf) 3) hilariously corrupt ( zeroing out IRS
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by zevets 2y ago
Old World, made by some ex-civ people, is really quite excellent
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by zevets 2y ago
Babbage is wrong! He is answering what a computation engine will do, but not what a "wise" person would do, which is the _the_ test of AI. The goal of wisdom (and good teaching) is to first correct the faulty assumptions of the qu
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by zevets 2y ago
I want to use std::expected because I want clear, explicit error handling, not performance. There is a time and place for performance optimized code - but usually where the hot loop is well known, and its a tiny minority of the program.
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by zevets 4y ago
I use IPOPT, and I like it quite a bit.
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by zevets 6y ago
This is incredible. The death of Moore's law is going to yield wild stuff in ASIC land. Why did they choose not to support double precision floats? They are pretty needed for fluids/hpc work.
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by zevets 7y ago
I think this argument fails to understand that purpose of black-box models is to be impossible to understand, as it shields the operator from pre-emptive accountability. Then, since they are supposedly the 'only way' to provide wh
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by zevets 9y ago
This is a great piece of polemic.
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by zevets 9y ago
I think this is actually the automation hardware being expensive. If you smack into a car with a normal bumper, everything might be fine, but if its full of radars and lidars, fender benders will be pricey.
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by zevets 10y ago
Academia brings out the worst in people. It is a culture where the primary reward is ego, and this article is a testament to its noxious power. Amos not crediting his student is unforgivable.
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by zevets 10y ago
I would prefer software infrastructure be developed rigorously as well, as I think would most people. But that will lead to regulations or at best, expensive insurance company mandated standards. But before we celebrate its demise: the side
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by zevets 10y ago
Abandoning general purpose computing is too crazy, as it amounts to throwing away software. The anonymous internet is a dead-man walking, but silicon valley is as complicit in this as the government will be. However, software engineering wi
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by zevets 10y ago
It also means any political figure who "dies in a self driving car accident" will instantly become part of a conspiracy theory.

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