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I'm not an expert, but apparently transport accounts for only 11% of carbon emissions for food [1], and I suppose it's likely similar for beer. To me this suggests factors affectin…

I believe GP is talking about part 2 of the fast.ai course: https://course19.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=8

Currying support is orthogonal to how function arguments work. Some languages (e.g. OCaml according to this question[1]) combine named parameters with currying, allowing partial ap…

I think this is the mistake a lot of people make: they form an intuition of monads after seeing lots of examples of them, and then they try to communicate that intuition without ju…

Worth mentioning: there were three research groups trying to emulate C. elegans, and they all seem to have stalled [1]. [1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole…

I think this snippet would raise a KeyError whenever the index you're searching for is greater than 0.

Just to clarify: there are lots of numbers that aren't real numbers (for example, imaginary numbers). Intuitively the real numbers are all the points along the number line, includi…

In the real world you usually can't pass a material through itself.

Could someone help me understand the all ages excess mortality graph? Naively it looks like a) there were way more deaths in 2018 and 2019 than were expected, and b) despite Covid-…

This isn't a reply to your substantive point (of course I agree that fortran/numpy programmers do science), but certainly when I'm coding with numpy I have a mental model of the sh…

This is a draft. I expect that, when the first finished version is ready, the authors will promote it effectively (IMO they are very good at promoting their courses at fast.ai).

Location: Berlin Remote: ok Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python (web development + NLP), server-side Swift, Scala, AWS, Gitlab/Jenkins CI CV: alexmck.com/files/cv.pdf Emai…

I'd have thought it's because the French keyboard layout is arranged with the "Z" in place of the "W" on a qwerty layout