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not adhering to the prompt guide is def a valid strong criticism. resampling i think less so for the demo just because fewer people look at k samples per model, so just taking lite…

hrm. yea you're right. the page on fal used to produce it was linked with the image, but maybe i made a mistake and sloppily saved wrong one. ill have to reroll to check

Shameless plug: This (very) thin wrapper lets you write your PlantUML code in Jupyter cells. https://github.com/jbn/IPlantUML

To play with some ideas, nothing is more accessible than NetLogo: https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

I'll be posting some things to HN soon. My writing style is very accessible, to anyone. I always shoot for an "explain it to your grandmother"-level of writing. Also, my entire dis…

This is my field, too. I am a Ph.D. candidate in computational social science, working on a computational model of social belief systems. I'm quite happy to see this on HN. Like ma…

This is a great point that I wish I wrote about. I think this is actually the source of the "steep learning curve" problem. Once you've used it enough, it is an almost orthogonal p…

Buried in my footnote is the real gist is: learn your editor, deeply. IntelliJ is a great tool, too.

Full quote, for context: Being conservative, let’s say it makes you 5% more productive. It's subjective. I'd like to see a before and after study, but empirically measuring code pr…

I admit, 5% is a subjective prior / fudge-factor. But, statistical white-lies communicate a promise which extends the invitation: try it, see if you're more productive. I'd love to…

Yes. The had-I-learned-it-first concept is something I didn't mention, but do think is important. And, often it works in an inhibiting way. With an IDEA-like rich IDEs -- which I t…

Thanks! I put VIM in the title because 1) it's got a recognizable identity to pull in readers and, 2) I use VIM. But, in a weird and almost recursive way, editor wars are kinda lik…