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scheidegger

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Recovering academic, building http://quarto.org at Posit (fka RStudio)

I'm on Signal, too. Same name.

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mattblaze, to random
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Cue “rigged juror ballots” in 3… 2… 1…

scheidegger,
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@mattblaze he almost literally started his statement with "rigged jury", so you were pretty close

dpiponi, to random
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Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, near Lisbon. But which work of science fiction (or is it weird fiction?) am I thinking of? The author mentions that this was a significant source of inspiration.

scheidegger,
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@dpiponi Quinta da regaleira is maybe the coolest place I visited in Europe ever. Myst vibes is exactly right! This was my favorite capture:

mdekstrand, to random
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you know how it's never the compiler? or BLAS or whatever?

welp. it's either pytorch or the sparse matrix library, nondeterministically shitting itself on Apple Silicon. (currently working on running a Linux ARM test, but Intel macOS works.)

scheidegger,
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@mdekstrand good test suites are written in blood, sweat and tears

arnicas, to random
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I very occasionally check my spam DMs on twitter and it’s always stuff like “hey i saw you liked a post about AI too. I’m launching a” and then I close the app.

scheidegger,
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@arnicas Lynn I agree! And that’s why I’m launching

(Sorry)

interfluidity, to random
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one requires a universe of infinite dimension so there is always an orthogonal direction to retreat to.

scheidegger,
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@interfluidity I’ve always thought it was a Deep Thing about linear algebra that infinite dimensional linear operators don’t always admit eigenvectors. The typical example is the shift operator, and it does precisely this: it “creates a new dimension” a la Hilbert Hotel that is in the orthogonal complement of its range, so you can’t find a “fixed point”

scheidegger,
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@interfluidity it often feels like language is infinite dimensional and this “retreat path to infinite orthogonality” makes arguments not terminate. It’s existentially frustrating

j2kun, to random
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I've been trying to wrap my head around a C++ bug I've been dealing with for the last three days. Any C++ experts available? It has to do with the LLVM data structure ArrayRef, which seems to be mis-viewing the first entry in the data its iterating over.

scheidegger,
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@j2kun knowing nothing else, smells like UB that the optimizer is taking advantage of

regehr, to random
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was a little nervous about how the chili crisp halibut topping would be received, but there were zero complaints

scheidegger,
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@regehr chili crisp remains undefeated

scheidegger, to random
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Reading:

pure and spurious crtitical points […] of linear networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.01671

The geometry of the set of equivalent linear networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14855

This is really good stuff. It puts good foundations on some of the observations my students Zhenge Zhao and Mingwei Li made in our distill paper.

Feels like we’re finally making foundational progress in understanding how neural networks and their training work

leahawasser, (edited ) to python
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Tips to prevent maintainer burnout from the beautiful soup maintainer. A single maintainer managing a package will millions of users

*ask users to contribute issues before a pr

  • practice defensive programming. Use warnings to point to common user mistakes

#pyconus #python #opensource

scheidegger,
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@leahawasser These are remarkably good, thanks for sharing!

scheidegger, to random
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https://www.instagram.com/prefpoa/p/C6mrxHRu3_N/?img_index=1 just completely absurd https://mastodon.social/@scheidegger/112396022889859058

scheidegger,
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More here https://g1.globo.com/rs/rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2024/05/06/temporal-no-rs-aeroporto-de-porto-alegre-suspende-voos-pelo-menos-ate-30-de-maio-veja-fotos.ghtml

scheidegger, to random
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This is the main airport of my home town right now :( 100k displaced, water levels expected to take weeks to recede

scheidegger,
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@regehr my folks are fine, but boiling water advisory for weeks, power expected to fail. Biggest flood in history - flood crested at 100-120ft above normal. Yea you read that right

scheidegger, to random
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The power move here is “Sorry, I’m swamped and it’ll be a while until I can get to you!”
https://botsin.space/@hannorein/112385705034792234

scheidegger, to random
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There are days that I truly enjoy hcr's newsletter. And then there are days where it's 2024 and it waxes poetical about confederate horses ahead of the kentucky derby and.. really?

scheidegger, to random
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So we have a yelling channel in the work Slack to blow out steam.

Friends, please lolsob with me today. I need to lie down a little as I realize I have been writing PR reviews into the void for the last couple of years.

regehr, to random
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I read the Foundation trilogy over the last month or two, turns out I really didn’t remember it well, has to have been well over 30 years since I first read these.

overall I felt kinda meh about it, like maybe the time period when people should read this has ended

scheidegger,
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@regehr the suck fairy is relentless with Asimov and Clarke

scheidegger,
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@regehr huh. Rama is my favorite novel of his and I reread it fairly regularly. Woo boy did we not go long before making completely pointless references to bouncing boobs. I liked 2010 too, so maybe not as bad as Asimov

scheidegger,
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@synlogic @regehr their writing styles are empty. Its a writing prompt turned into a novel, I don’t know how else to put it (and to be clear, I grew up on that stuff. It’s just pretty bad in perspective) And it’s not like people didn’t know how to write back then. Wolfe is right there, you know?

Even if old Gibson is mostly style (Peripheral is excellent through and through), at least he knows how to put a sentence together

scheidegger,
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@regehr @synlogic Stranger is absurdly horrible. It’s one I never read back then, but these days it’s 👀👀👀

regehr, to random
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did y'all know that "fdupes" is like really slow when you point it at an 85 GB directory tree? all I'm asking for here is good algorithmics

scheidegger,
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@regehr TIL! I have been fdupes’ing a 200GB folder and yeah annoying

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Yesterday I had one person say I'm too so pro-tech pro-capitalist and one person say I was trying to force a leftist ideology, and both were responding to A City on Mars. All I can say is I wish people would stop trying to find the hidden motive and just read the words as plainly written!

scheidegger,
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@ZachWeinersmith I once heard of a heuristic judges use to award damage amounts in lawsuits: if both sides are unhappy, then they might have arrived at a fair assessment

Cmastication, to random
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Always carry a Sharpie and be the change you want in the world.

scheidegger,
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@Cmastication we got augmented reality at home

18+ raganwald, to random
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I don’t know what triggered this, but for the last few days I’ve been inundated with recruiter cold calls and cold texts. Every single one has been generic, no sign they know my name, or experience, or are calling about a specific job.

I’m perversely tempted to answer just to discover if it’s a garden-variety recruiter, or a scam like pretending they’re a temp agency and asking me to sign up with my banking details so they can “expedite my pay.”

scheidegger,
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@raganwald update. It’s not going to solve anything but certainly made my lunch a tiny bit better

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