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I'm a grad student and I help grade exam papers of mostly entry level ML related subjects. And boy, the aerospace and physics department folks are ahead of the curve by a significant amount. I gu…

Distill.pub has such high quality content consistently. It's a shame they don't seem to be active anymore.

Aha, knew you wouldn't give up. Not what our kind do

Need to get you to click on it :-)

Yes, a gang member's life matters 10^large times less than that of a regular guy walking down the street. Then, guns aren't the cause of suicides and it's disingenous to count those as …

For iPad and Mac only, to save others a click.

> individualism Yes. One good counter-force against this wave is dependence. If you depend on someone for something, or you owe them a lot(I don't mean monetarily), you will not cut ties with …

Fzf installs hooks automatically for ctrl+r and a bunch of other stuff Search for `fzf --bash`. Note that the version in the ubuntu repos is too old to have this feature (I think)

This is just so good. I wish redash had this...

I believe mypy infers i as an integer in i = 0. I remember I had to do i = 0.0 to make it accept i += someFloat later on. Or of course i:float = 0 but I preferred the former.

if x > worst then worst = x

There's no rise. But journalists need to eat too.

The economic priorities of the US will have significant effects worldwide even if you put a watermelon in the president's office. It has been having significant effects worldwide for the last 100…

Ah sorry I didn't explain properly, I meant a |> await f() and a |> (await f()) Might be expected to do the same thing. But the latter is syntactically undistinguishable from …

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you use the below syntax "bar" |> await getFuture() How would you disambiguate it from your intended meaning and the below: "bar&q…

> because of the ways it X Because of the ways the benefactors want us to think it X It really doesn't matter as much as the hysteria around it. Maybe the hysteria is 0.0001% accurate and th…

That's rate limiting locally i.e single instance. It is a fairly trivial thing and isn't the topic here.

> C compiler Nice. So were the HWs split along the usual lines of lexer, parser, codegen, etc? You said it was a surprise, so I wonder how else it was split to actually make it surprising. Or was i…

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Again, if you let the unethical ones exist, they will win. > Popular among users Google is popular due to their superior search capability/really good workspace product and of course youtube i…

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> Maybe there is a good reason for this? Yes, the unethical path is easier and more importantly, faster to take. If it is not explicitly disallowed in the system, it will be taken.

This has given me decent success: "Write simple, rigorous statements, starting from first principles, and making sure to take things to their logical conclusion. Write in straightforward prose, n…

"publishing" They are an ad company. "Ad company does survey confirming that people like their ads and definitely don't want an alternative" is not the win you think it is. Ar…

If you can recall, what were the individual assignments? Would love to understand how the modules added up

Well, I don't think most people really understand the way ad-tech supports these services. I wager if you asked a few lay men they wouldn't even know google is an ad company(apart from YouTu…

> Are users prepared to pay for the difference? If a service cannot be offered at a certain scale without such practices, it should not be offered at that scale. Before you start talking about how …

??? im not talking about piracy here - I pay for multiple streaming services and yt music provided the resulting experience is ad free. But ads on your news/shopping website? Regardless of if I p…

Nope, if they are so unscrupulously willing to employ dark patterns, I can get pretty competitive :-)