daniel-thompson

2 maanden geledendiscuss

https://www.natesilver.net/

i was a casual reader of 538 back in the day. his substack feels pretty similar, if smaller in scope.

daniel-thompson

2 jaar geledendiscuss

> Completely bespoke models are typically trained in Python using tools like TensorFlow, JAX or PyTorch that don't have real non-Python alternatives

The article outlines some interesting ways to evade this problem. What's the latest thinking on robustly addressing it, e.g. are there any approaches for executing inference on a tf or pytorch model from within a golang process, no sidecar required?

daniel-thompson

2 jaar geledendiscuss

The actual paper is hidden behind a Nature paywall. There is a preprint on arxiv here https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18510

daniel-thompson

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I mean, it _could_ be the job. But a lot of older doctors feel like the younger generation needs to go through the same struggles and hardships they did. This reminds me of something I occasionally see in my parenting of my kids - the desire I have for my kids to do things that validate _my own_ childhood experience.

daniel-thompson

2 jaar geledendiscuss

yet

daniel-thompson

2 jaar geledendiscuss

I think it's a pretty simple, and timeless, aspect of human nature:

"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."

- Blaise Pascal, 1670

daniel-thompson

2 jaar geledendiscuss

and cheating

daniel-thompson

2 jaar geledendiscuss

one of my favorite pieces of financial journalism ever, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2019-10-23/mon..., explains how he got the bux during wework's collapse:

> [softbank's offer to rescue wework] is the result of Neumann’s holdup power: Prior to the deal, Neumann is still the company’s controlling shareholder, and he could just say no to a deal that he didn’t like. That might completely evaporate his own wealth, but it would evaporate a whole lot more of SoftBank’s, and it kind of looks like SoftBank blinked first: In effect, the price of Neumann allowing SoftBank to rescue WeWork was that SoftBank had to hand Neumann a billion dollars for himself

daniel-thompson

2 jaar geledendiscuss

i've been reading this blog off and on for years, it's fantastic. a good introductory entry for those not familiar with the concept of a mcmansion: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/149284377161/mansionvsmcmansi...

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)#Screensh...

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

like-new restoration of various old objects: - https://www.youtube.com/@mymechanics

annotated reviews of high-level chess games: - https://www.youtube.com/@ChessNetwork

blender tutorials: - https://www.youtube.com/@blenderguru

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

rules for thee, but not for me

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

"perfect synchrony" is kind of meaningless, might be better and more accurately titled as "first solar system with a six-planet orbital resonance has been found"

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I didn't say it was a surprise; I said the marketing claim made me laugh.

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I know Docker isn't something Apple makes, but still, this makes me laugh. I run a fair number of containers as part of my daily workflow and the memory overhead, compared to a generic linux amd64 box running the same thing, is on the order of 10x. So for me it's actually more like, 8GB on an M machine == 1GB "regular" RAM.

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm not too familiar with this scene but I'd like to get one, and not the crappy $14.99 version at the local big box retailer.

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

13K commits over the past year works out to almost 40 commits per day. Curious what the workflow is to accomplish that and the nature of the commits. Irrespective of that, that is super intense, sounds like she's getting a well-deserved rest.

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

This is just terrifying. The only thing I can imagine worse than having it myself would be my child having it. Nightmare fuel.

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

From https://github.com/ammario/redjet#streaming

  To minimize allocations, call (*Result).WriteTo instead of (*Result).Bytes. WriteTo streams the response directly to an io.Writer such as a file or HTTP response.

daniel-thompson

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Wrong title - this is James Cameron's speculation based on unnamed sources.

daniel-thompson

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Teachers nationwide are flummoxed by students’ newfound chess obsession

English and Irish peerages created by mistake

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