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cashweaveron Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B

I recommend gptel.

cashweaveron Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time

I didn't know that! Thank you for elaborating.

cashweaveron Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time

I recall that the quoted time complexity is correct, assuming the queue is a Fibonacci heap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm#CITER...

cashweaveron Nasal spray could prevent Alzheimer’s disease, brain inflammation

Why is that?

cashweaveron Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e

You can indeed write an email in org-mode and convert it to html before sending it out: https://github.com/cashweaver/dotfiles/blob/main/config/doom....

I think this is the write-up I pulled these functions from: https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/10/29/Sending-h...

cashweaveron Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e

Great write up! I would suggest using OAuth2 rather than the Less Secure App settings (https://cashweaver.com/blog/read-email-in-emacs-with-mbsync-...).

I also wrote up a guide for using notmuch, which has quickly become my preferred emacs email solution: https://cashweaver.com/blog/read-email-from-gmail-with-notmu...

cashweaveron The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]

I found that even Introduction to Statistical Learning made a few too many assumptions when I tried to work through it. I recently finished Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra [1] and now I'm working through Introduction to Applications of Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares [2] (along with a python companion [3]). The two texts have overlaps but I've found them more helpful than redundant; it's nice to hear different angles on the same topic. I'm planning to focus on statistics next with Blitzstein and Hwang's Introduction to Probability [4] before returning to ISLR.

[1] http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/

[2] http://vmls-book.stanford.edu/

[3] https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/21370

[4] https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/home

cashweaveron Don’t Get Attached, It’s Just Luck. My Interviewing Advice and Tips

(Is it okay to post things like this?)

I've written a self-hosted search utility for HN threads posted by whoishiring which I'll be using in my upcoming job hunt in a month or so. It performs regex-based full-text searches of top-level comments in threads posted by whoishiring. I hope it can help someone in their hunt!

https://github.com/cashweaver/hn-who-is-hiring-search