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Sharing some experience on developing games with the help of Claude from the perspective of a hobbyist game dev.

I'm moving the opposite direction: Altair -> Plotly. I find altair to be too "grammar of graphics" for its own good. And the vega backend makes it hard to hack around. Saving to pd…

They say "art deco is for dwarves while art nouveau is for elves." Forgot where it came from.

Highly recommend playing Pentiment. Good mystery adventure set in the backdrop of medieval Bavaria. Large part of the story happens in a monastery (and the surrounding town).

I also see a use-case for reading long fiction books. Recently, I've been reading Stormlight Archives (Book 3) on and off and there are times when I want to remember why character …

I'm looking at the Fediverse explorer and I'm curious how to interpret the embeddings (or the distances between points). What does it mean when two instances are near each other (e…

> The gap between tree-based models and deep learning becomes narrower as the dataset size increases (here: 10k -> 50k). I am curious if there is a sample threshold where it's wort…

Same. How do you use pylint for unit testing? I only use it in my IDE.

Yes :) The Lamy 2000's been with me after grad. Even had a pen craftsman resharpen my nib!

Hi runjake, author here! Not sure what you meant by the Twitter feed? Doing this since 2017 and it's still fun so far! Hope that helps :)

My daily driver (Lamy 2000) has a piston converter and I find its capacity quite large, i.e., I need to refill it every week or so. Cartridges are great too, but I seem stuck with …

Hi there, author here! Been using pen and paper (for knowledge work) since 2017. Hope that helps

I do something similar, but I use the Jesuit's Daily Examen as a guide/prompt [1]. You can strip it with only the secular stuff and the pattern becomes the same: what you're gratef…

Good for you, but I don't think it's fair to pass judgment on someone's situation without knowing the whole picture.

I also wrote an explainer for VQGAN here: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqg... to coincide with the growing interest in these models

Yeah I can imagine this a bit useful when writing literature reviews. I type a sentence then a sidebar on the right suggests papers from your Zotero pile, Google Scholar, etc. Of c…

At first I thought Artificial Life (ALife) here is about cellular automata, soft robotics, etc. Turns out it's not...or is it? I am curious to know if ALife is actually heading int…

Hi, author here. Glad to see my post at HN, thanks feross for sharing! If you have any questions, just let me know :)

How will this affect the MLOps Community Webinars? Afaik dotscience plays a big role supporting it. It’s a good and vibrant community, and I’m learning a lot from the webinars as a…

Where are you basing these claims? I do pixel art, and dithering + anti-aliasing are one of the fundamental techniques in this medium. It’s widely-employed that there are so many b…