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There's a great Signals and Threads (Jane Street's Podcast) episode about this work: https://signalsandthreads.com/building-a-ui-framework/

Related: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli

Most interesting sentence: > 304 stainless steel isn’t normally magnetic, but it becomes partially ferromagnetic if it’s bent at room temperature. Anyone have a lay-person explanat…

I've been looking for something like this! I'm wondering how it compares to https://github.com/CriticMarkup/CriticMarkup-toolkit I haven't tried using either yet; does anyone here …

While I strongly empathize with the author's feelings on this (I've had similar feelings in my own field), I also want to voice an opposing viewpoint: > Good/useful/valuable/import…

I don't know this particular story, but — FWIW — it's common for different teams working in the same field to be aware of each other's manuscripts and impending submissions. When t…

I too owe a lot of my PhD and postdoc productivity to Snakemake. It's my bioinformatics super-power, allowing me to run a complex analysis, including downloading containers (Singul…

I think my gripe with the argument in this video (which is, nonetheless, interesting from an offensive marketing perspective) is that equating making clothes out of petroleum produ…

I just tested the PDF reader out for about 5 minutes and I can already say it's substantially better for me on MacOS than any other PDF reader besides Preview. No glitching like Ac…

(Responding more to the title than the well written article itself:) The question is never what would be good to add to a curriculum; the question is what we should remove. Student…

> > > Drew Weissman working at the _privately_ funded University of Pennsylvania picked her up. You wouldn't have even needed to look up if the University of Pennsylvania was priva…

Ah, thanks for the correction. I was mistaken. Don't believe that it affects my argument, but sub in ...(quick search)... University of Oxford.

The outright falsehood of this statement: > just about every important breakthrough in science in the last 30 years occurred at a privately funded American university. Really makes…

Oh, and I enjoyed reading this primer on the Double Descent Phenomenon for anybody, like me, who hadn't heard of it before: https://openai.com/blog/deep-double-descent/

I'm not sure if it's related, but I've seen discussions of modern ML methods (in particular those trained using stochastic algorithms...maybe also models with low float precision..…

This is a really phenomenal explanation; took me from a vague sense of Bézier curves beings some sort of interpolation between points to actual intuition about what's going on. I'm…

I could be misunderstanding, but I think the problem with this approach is the lack of permanent identity. What's a "supermajority"? Could I get it by making a bunch of fake identi…

Lots of cool questions! I'm very excited for code and training data to be made available (and in a perfect world the pre-trained model and hosted prediction as-a-service). Then fol…

1) Yeah, besides picking the step of manufacturing virus parts, I agree, this is going a step back in the virus's life cycle. 2) It's hard to produce proteins in the lab. Our own c…

Is the more accurate statement "The Poisson distribution is the limit of the Binomial as n goes to infinity" not a better summary?

Reminds me of "Squigglish!" https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/16/14945760/squigglish-photo...

I think what you're seeing is the higher yield (+risk) of the small-cap fund. See this comparison to VISGX only: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...

I think the premise is that the culture/behaviors/tactics that allowed Google to capture new territory early on are hanging on past their usefulness, not the actual capturing of te…