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These are both great points. When I wrote the post, it didn't occur to me that I could inspect the emitted bytecode. In hindsight, including that would have made the explanation mu…

Aha, I think I better understand your point: since the generated bytecode includes a cast, my explanation about the optimization is too simplistic. I haven't actually inspected the…

Thank you for this! On the second point, you are absolutely correct; that was sloppy writing on my part. I will correct that in the post. I'm not certain I understand your first po…

Author of the blog post here. That explanation sounds very plausible to me! If the whole enclosing function became inlinable after the reflective call path disappeared, that could …

I appreciate the optimism! This specific example is just a pedagogical toy designed to be simple enough to analyze fully. That said, I do agree with the intuition that static netwo…

You are absolutely right about the code: I haven't worked with neural networks in a while and I guess my post outs me! That said, I do like Keras's functional API, and in this case…

Thank you for your comment, and I sincerely apologize for my slow response! "Rediscovering structure" is exactly the inefficiency I was trying to highlight. In the physics/science …

Thank you for reading my post, and for your thoughtful critique. And I sincerely apologize for my slow response! You are right that there are other ways to inject latent structure,…

Hello. I am the author of the post. The goal of this was to provide a pedagogical example of applying Bayesian hierarchical modeling principles to real world datasets. These datase…

Original author here -- thank you for your thoughtful comment. You're absolutely right that saying "SQL is useful" isn't exactly novel. My goal with the blog post was to describe t…

Just tried this out, and my mind is blown: https://platform.sturdystatistics.com/deepdive?fast=0&q=camp... I did a google search for "camping with dogs" and it organized the result…