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Is this some flavour of groupoids symmetry?

I was in a PLT group in grad school going into robotics. I could spend all day ranting about how Python is just completely unsuitable for professional software development. Even so…

As a police officer you also typically have a high school education, and your idea of whether or not something is constitutional carries little to no weight.

I used to be very optimistic about Julia, but my enthusiasm has really cooled off the last year. I find JAX+jax_dataclasses gives me 90% of what I wanted from Julia (a nice monad l…

These are all, of course, things one should learn in an algorithms class.

Yeah I’ve always been a bit leery of code competitions. I saw a lot of undergrads spend a lot of effort on these contests, and I was never convinced it was the best use of their ti…

> Our method discovers a simple and effective optimization algorithm, Lion (EvoLved Sign Momentum). Come on now

I didn’t make it past that point, I got confused about how such meaningless dreck was at number 2(!) on my feed. Mods may want to take a peek if the author used a few sock puppets …

Yeah, it’s spending a lot of money to start a lab that: - will probably be stonewalled out of any collaboration with reputable universities (because his reputation is so toxic), - …

The paper is absolutely a construction on categories.

“I’ve discovered a new thing about Y in X’s! Oh, no I haven't actually looked at the X literature about Y.” This is hardly specific to category theory.

My issue is that I can’t see a cursory literature review into the established category literature on these methods - how do they even know they have something new/novel if they hav…

Oh, I’m talking about the paper they’re hyping up. I’m just not terribly impressed, and I think if was written by people at UCSD instead of Harvard nobody would have even noticed i…

Coming from category theory, and having followed the work studying probability theory categorically (e.g. Fritz, Perrone, Lucyshyn-Wright’s stuff, Leinster’s notion of the magnitud…

It reminded me of the sort of lazy Wikipedia regurgitation that a lot of undergrads used to give when I was teaching. So it is a bit jarring to see a response like that in a non-co…

I feel like the NYTimes could take more papers under its subscription - e.g. give subscribers the option to bundle in a state and municipal paper, that the NYTimes essentially vets…

Just because someone doesn’t go to college at 18 doesn’t mean they’re “skipping” higher education. Spending a few years making 30k a year to play basketball would be awesome - my f…

> Should she have been fired on the spot without even having any form of communication with her employer? Too be honest, that depends entirely on the joke and her role, doesn’t it?…

Banking seems like the best way to phrase this to prevent people from screaming about socialism.

Ugh.

I mean, sure, it’s easy to say interesting things if you’re not being held to any standard of rigour.

Yeah, see you're part of the problem.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

You realize that hate crimes have gone up the past few years? The far right are committing crimes, and Ben Shapiro's rhetoric (along with other far right commentators) is not helpi…