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anoncept

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Michael Stone, @anoncept, mstone.info

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    Comment #32639413

    One potential solution direction, which you can try out via my own incomplete drawing toy [1] is to treat punctuation characters like SP (“ “), COMMA (“,”), and SEMICOLON (“;”) as …

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    Comment #32639221

    IMO there are always going to be tensions (as well as differing personal preferences) for surface syntax and authoring environment. What I think may emerge though is a better share…

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    Comment #32638457

    This looks like a really nice attempt to improve the comfort and capability of styling drawings of small graphs that I’m excited to explore; thanks for building and sharing it!

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    Comment #32638423

    Total control is good for small charts and for especially important charts but for complex uses, the number of clicks and drags required to perfectly position connectors really rap…

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    Comment #32638283

    In my experience, typing dot requires a lot of quoting and brace-matching, often in editors without the best affordances for those operations, with so-so error reporting. The resul…

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    Comment #31572589

    You might find it helpful to distinguish between visualizing the design of the system being implemented by your software, visualizing protocols being implemented by your software, …

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    Comment #31274270

    How large are the diagrams you’re trying to create?

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    Comment #31116428

    Doing all sorts of things will introduce you to all sorts of problems; from there, it’s just a matter of habitually looking around to try to see who/what has already worked on what…

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    Comment #31103929

    After several years of exploring, my current gotos are: * Minion for IP for scheduling + edge crossing minimization. * cvxpy (wrapping ECOS, OSQP, and SCS by default) for convex op…

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    Comment #27719324

    What a lovely treat — and how fascinating to learn about the hidden role that DO—178B has played in this most ubiquitous of programs!

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    Comment #27600378

    If it helps, one connection I see is that recommender systems often involve causal questions like: “how will user behavior change if we change the order these results appear in, or…

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    Comment #25570751

    Anyone interested in these ideas may also want to take a look at https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world and http://mit.edu/psas — both are great resources for learn…

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    Comment #24600597

    Martin’s writing and thinking has been hugely inspirational for me too — thanks for highlighting the automerge work here! Next, regarding your other thoughts, two notes, one on per…

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    Comment #24599946

    Lovely post, and an interesting problem area. Three additional perspectives that have been on my mind in this area: 1. Differential dataflow. Like Adapton and Incremental (which Ra…

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    Comment #24534492

    As a starting point, maybe take a look at the 'tch' crate [1] and the 'rust-bert' crate [2] built on top of it? [1]: https://github.com/LaurentMazare/tch-rs -> https://crates.io/cr…

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    Comment #19665641

    Zeynep Ton’s research: https://www.zeynepton.com/book finds that several supermarkets appear to have found ways to overcome low margins to provide good jobs by making several strat…

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    Comment #19352510

    I am a happy user of differential dataflow (DD), which has been great for simplifying an app that I care about. The app in question already includes a form of the connected compone…

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    Comment #17109719

    For a deeper look from the systems engineering side, check out http://mit.edu/psas , specifically the book-length treatment in “Engineering a Safer World”. For applications of simi…

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    Comment #11493695

    https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world is also an excellent resource that more people who care about post-mortems should read. (As background, the author, MIT Prof.…