zfnmxt

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by zfnmxt 2mo ago
I've never had any trouble publishing in a more conversational style and have read plenty of papers that do the same. Of course, this varies by field and venue and format (journal vs. conference) and even reviewer and it's difficu
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by zfnmxt 2mo ago
> If you write each paragraph and have an LLM make that paragraph more scientific, it is entirely your paper "More scientific" is not some merely stylistic thing that faithfully preserves the original meaning of what you wrote.
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by zfnmxt 2mo ago
> A Pixel 8 Pro (running GrapheneOS) > Tracker What if someone steals my bag? Hopefully the PebbleBee "Find My" device will help me recover it. In your review (from last year) of the tracker, you wrote it doesn't work w
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by zfnmxt 4mo ago
Internet vibes---basically making conclusions based on feelings you get from participating in online communities. (E.g., Europeans concluding that America is a medical wasteland where most people do not have reasonable access to care becaus
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by zfnmxt 4mo ago
From my experience in both systems, I think some of the students of course would (the best students in Scandinavia are just as good as the best students anywhere else), but certainly not all of them. And the degree of grade inflation as wel
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by zfnmxt 4mo ago
This is not a good comparison. All the students at Harvard are all selected from the tail end of the distribution and are very capable. The students at Scandinavian universities are selected to a degree, but represent a far broader range
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by zfnmxt 4mo ago
I have like 20 brands of foam earplugs in my drawer, 5 different pairs of custom silicone airplugs, unusual earplugs from Kickstarter like [1], and so on. What I'm saying is I know my way around the earplug block. Here's what I&#x
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by zfnmxt 10mo ago
They aren't that rare. And AI is expanding the niche because making parallel linear algebra go zoom zoom is compiler work. There's also a lot of quantum compiler work.
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
I also did exactly this and do not receive any spam calls anymore.
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
Professionalism is not a virtue; measured irreverence is---an uncensored "Fuck" in this scenario falls into that category. Silliness has an important and necessary place in research.
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
Good; censoring profanity (especially self-censoring) is for cowards. Be brave and dish out your fucks liberally in your papers!
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
Location: US & Europe Remote: No preference Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Functional programming, type systems, language design, compilers, parallel programming languages, verification, Haskell. Résumé/CV: https:/&#x
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
> But most everything he writes will be right. I think the the essay is largely about exploring ideas deeply. And in much the same way a chef might stress that you must add the eggs one-by-one or whatever other culinary unfounded superst
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
> I took a course on massively parallel programming taught by one of the authors of this paper that extensively used Futhark and CUDA. PMPH? :)
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
> Notice that all the all the languages mentioned depends on the external BLAS library for example OpenBLAS for performance. That's incorrect. Futhark doesn't even have linear algebra primitives---everything has to be done in t
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
Futhark, SaC, and Accelerate have purely functional semantics. Futhark has something called "in-place updates" that operationally mutate the given array, but semantically they work as if a new array is created (and are statically
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by zfnmxt 1y ago
> if the baseline chance of delay is 10%, engineering works add 25%, strikes add 35%, and bad weather adds 20%, then when all these problems happen, there's a 90% chance your train will be delayed. What if signal failures "add&
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
> PhD is at least a yellow flag. Why?
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
Aren't all the SIGPLAN conferences recorded now? At any rate, her talks were recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrUh5AgIYKE https://youtu.be/-Br66SUjsdQ?t=12103 (I was also at SPLASH24 and thoug
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
I don't know about that, 30 seconds is for the whole set and was just a rough estimate. Time-holding-the-bar isn't particularly relevant here (other than to emphasize the point it doesn't take much).
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
It's not a wild exaggeration and it's possible for most (healthy) middle-aged men within a year (usually a lot less), except for the truly unendowed. (We don't control our genetics and/or other ailments, but I think it&#
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
Modern life enables the most effective exercise (really "training" is the correct word) in the history of humanity. There is no more potent stressor (in regards to the degree of adaptations that result---I guess getting shot in th
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
> Hard-Boiled Wonderland The English translation of a second book in the same universe (well, one of the two universes) was just released---The City and Its Uncertain Walls. I've only just started reading it, though, so I can't
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
It's not, but it's a straight-forward use of Constant mode, documented here: https://docs.qmk.fm/features/mouse_keys . You change speeds by pressing MS_ACL0, MS_ACL1, and MS_ACL2 (or none, i.e., the default sp
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
It's also unclear to me how you handle movements at a scale smaller than an individual cell, or if it's possible at all.
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
The characterization of mouse keys as taking "five...more like ten seconds to get to where you want to go" is incorrect with a decent implementation/practice. I exclusively use mouse keys with my QMK keyboard [1] and I'm
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
I understand your position (and it's one I'm absolutely swayed by to a degree and sympathize with), but I can't help but think that you are assigning unreasonable weights to privacy vs. safety/convenience. (Or, perhaps m
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
In many ways I agree with your opening sentence---maybe I shouldn't have written "fun". I think I was trying to get at something more like that the experience of learning itself is itself a good thing (even if it's not f
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
Posts like this that talk about learning "efficiency" always come off as soulless and dystopian to me. I think learning should be fun and that fun learning is the most effective---that's the only thing I optimize for and I ce
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by zfnmxt 2y ago
Location: US & Europe Remote: No preference Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Functional programming, type systems, language design, compilers, parallel programming languages, GPU programming, Haskell. Résumé/CV: See https:&#

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