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skadamat

5,837karma·1,157submissions·August 2, 2011
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Cal or Calvin, not Carl :)
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I've read all his books and many of his articles. I would say they are science-informed. He works with expert scientists in the relevant fields and weaves in his own experiences. But honestly, mo…
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Down for me
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Yeah I like Pharo
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With a live programming model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding
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I wish we had a popular operating system for end users like ourselves that was “live” all the way down. It’s unfortunate we’ve been stuck with Windows, Mac, and Linux only
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New M3 (base chip) Macbook Air supports 2 displays, so
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When working with tabular data, there are very few situations where absolute model performance is the only criteria that's important. In practice, the following are equally as important: - Explai…
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Agreed that even Apple products have gotten confusing. But still 1-2 orders of magnitude less I feel than other laptops?
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Definitely agree with the simplicity of purchasing an Apple computer compared to other laptop manufacturers. Headphone brands and monitor makers also suffer from this same fate :/
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Right but in this case the AIR is the consumer model and it supports 2 displays while the base PRO supports 1. So it seems counter!
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Simon -- have you played with Evidence.dev much?
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In principle I agree. But the M3 chips are similar for the M3 Macbook Pro and M3 Macbook Air. The PRO laptop is the one that only supports 1 display while the AIR supports 2 with the lid closed. The M…
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The WORST part is the 8GB Macbook Pro (base M3) doesn't support 2 external displays but this new Macbook Air (base M3) DOES. This is so confusing
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I'm still very bummed with Apple's strategy in using # of supported external displays as a feature to gate laptops. I had to return a decently spec-ced M3 Macbook PRO 14" because it onl…
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This is an excellent deep dive! Love the depth here Vicki
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Excel online still struggles to work with databases well . In classic disruption theory (the real theory by Clayton, not the TechCrunch 'disruption'), these products have less features but …
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Honestly, I'm really excited about this next generation of spreadsheet software. - Causal.app - Rows.com - Equals.com - and at least 50 others I've found I'm waiting for someone to crea…
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Hey there, we wrote an in-depth post on the BSL license and why we switched to it: https://datacebo.com/blog/sdv-bsl-license/ BSL is an _eventual_ open source license. 4 yea…
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If people are looking for a quickstart: Colab notebook for generating single-table data: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1F3WWduNjcX4oKck6Xkj... Colab notebook for genera…
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