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You have to enable explicit opt-in to use models hosted in China now. This changed in July +/- 2w. I already used DeepSeek, but it was nice to make that explicit for people that we…

I physically cringed at both the quote and the surrounding section. The idea of this project is cool, but the amount of LLM glazing is bizarre.

> capable of breaking SBCL's jaw What exactly do you mean by this? Speed? Portability? Ease of use?

Even better!

Totally get that. I was mostly just long-windedly complaining that the one problem I have with it seems to be exacerbated by, not fixed, by this. I was also hoping someone would sa…

I applaud the project, and I completely agree that the concepts maps nicely to SQL. The R equivalent of a WITH data prep block followed by the VISUALIZE is pretty much how all my p…

Most of the memories I have of my grandmother are post-serious Parkinson's progression. She was able to live a very long life, but it seriously affected her. Good luck, hoping for …

I’m not sure what your professional experience is in, but as a counterpoint, I’ve never been in a situation where I hadn’t wished for a system I’m working with to already be in a B…

I shorted it and it crashed the page. I feel like that was appropriate. :D

My go to for teaching statistics is Statistical Rethinking. It’s basically a course in how to actually thing about modeling: what you’re really looking for is analyzing a hypothesi…

Any time you start conditioning on something, i.e. selecting subsets of data to analyze. You can fool yourself quite often if you do something seemingly innocuous like select "ever…

This is beautiful whether you interpret it genuinely or as satire.

Agreed wholeheartedly. I have argued with the VP of our department about this paper quite a few times. I feel like Breiman sets up a strawman that I've never encountered when I wor…

> I'm so slow it takes too much time for me to not think that it's a waste of time because I could have done something more meaningful instead. That's the funny thing about the ide…

Sometimes even eye to brain to hand latency is too long...

Very neat, but audio doesn't work on desktop either. (Linux, Firefox) I had an old-school generated voice say "Chinese letter Chinese letter Chinese letter." It was definitely amus…

Wow. I thought you were being glib, but the average comment length is noticeably higher in the linked discussion. While length isn’t necessarily a valid proxy for meaningful conver…

Yes but your library still legally obtained those copies in the first place.

Ah, I did not realize that the `realNVP` was a link! Thanks.

Thanks! I've read the first one before. I'll take a look at the other two!

I'm very excited by the work being put in to make Bayesian inference more manageable. It's in a spot that feels very similar to deep learning circa mid-2010s when Caffe, Torch, and…

There's no reason you still can't!

I've been looking for such a walkthrough for months. I can't find anyone actually showing them working and building something. There are plenty of, "look at this code this thing sp…

I am not the author of the book! As far as the wiki: It's not hosted. It's just on my local machine. You basically just drop the minified JS library in a tiddler and then create a …

I love TiddlyWiki. I've been developing a highly non-linear document for some conceptual documentation with it at work. If you want to see what you can really do with TW, or want t…