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clircle

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Professional statistician, amateur computer person.
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clircle··on Passit: Open-Source Password Manager
StrongBox.
clircle··on A Core Calculus for Documents [pdf]
There will be a smidgen of irony if the authors have to convert this to Word to submit to their journal.
clircle··on Logistic Regression for Image Classification Using OpenCV
This blog-post might actually do more harm than good, by giving readers the misconception that logistic regression can generally be used to classify images. In general, it's terrible at this task!
clircle··on Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game
Damn, I think I played this game like 20 years ago on my friends computer? (taking breaks from playing Aliens vs Predator 2)
clircle··on Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)
I can't use this because it would feel like I'm cheating on Emacs. But it looks cool!
clircle··on Bayesians moving from defense to offense
> Interestingly, when I see Bayesians simulate random data (to introduce the concepts on this data) they usually assume a true parameter value. E.g. when sampling from Y = a + b * X + e, they'll assume fixed, true values of a and b and not random variables - which is a frequentist assumption! So far I've never seen e.g. b being sampled from Normal(mu=2, sigma=1) instead of just setting b=2.

The Bayesian philosophy of "random parameters" does not mean that Bayesian methods cannot be assessed for frequentist properties or compared against frequentist procedures.

clircle··on Bayesians moving from defense to offense
I think most Bayesians would claim that point null hypothesis tests are immoral or something like that, rather than propose to do them with a Bayesian model (thus avoiding measure zero problems)
clircle··on Bayesians moving from defense to offense
I don't really see Frequentism and Bayes to be in conflict. You use them to answer different questions. I wouldn't test a point null hypothesis with a Bayesian model.
clircle··on QOwnNotes
I think it's because it's relatively simple to make an note taking app or system, and everyone has an opinion on how to take notes, so you end up with a proliferation of note apps, and a bunch of fake innovation.

Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason.

clircle··on ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
I agree with your colleague.

At my institution, all of the lowest quality drafts I read are made with latex. I think it's because the programs people use to write latex do not have spelling and grammar checking. Also, the people that prefer latex, are the same types of people that are more interested in technical things, than spelling and grammar.

clircle··on The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer
I think vim users highly overestimate their productivity and just like the way using hotkeys feels.
clircle··on Spotify's push into audiobooks sparks concern among authors
Spotify's push to include more shit that will further crowd the UI and require spamming us outside the OS's native notification protocol sparks annoyance among users.
clircle··on Forecasts need to have error bars
Every estimate/prediction/forecast/interpolation/extrapolation should have a confidence/prediction/ or tolerance interval (application dependent) that incorporates the assumptions that the team is putting into the problem.
clircle··on Ripgrep 14 Released
Yep, the consult suite and rg are two of my favorite things. And I'm not even a SWE.
clircle··on Ubuntu runs 20% faster than Windows 11 on AMD's new 96-core Ryzen
Is this the kind performance gap that a windows patch is going to narrow ?
clircle··on Adobe Creative Suite 2 ESR (2005)
I'm looking to learn a bit about Adobe Illustrator. Would this be a good starting point?
clircle··on More people should write (2012)
Are you trying to convince people to spend less time writing? Ive never disagreed with a comment more than this one
clircle··on You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
Hmm, not sure if the data in the article is correct. I replaced the battery in my SE 2020, there is no persistent warning, but i can no longer check battery health
clircle··on uBlock-Origin 1.53.4 – 1.53.0 plus fix for Microsoft Edge
I love the teams and share point integration in edge.
clircle··on Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x
I thought the title was mathematically uncouth as well
clircle··on A Deep Dive into Machine Learning Algorithms
In 2044 a bulleted list will be considered a deep dive
clircle··on Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper
Never heard of a mathematical error called a bug before
clircle··on My pain points with Emacs code search and how I fixed them
I might try rg, but I have been using either consult-ripgrep or ivy-ripgrep for many years
clircle··on AMD Introduces New AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000/Pro 7000 WX
That’s only 6x more than my 5600x
clircle··on Fractional Factorial Experiment Design: There Are Too Many Experiments to Do
This is a great tutorial.
clircle··on Ask HN: When LLMs make stuff up, call it 'confabulating', not 'hallucinating'
The first time I heard somebody say an LLM hallucinated, I knew exactly what they meant, so I think hallucination is a good term.
clircle··on The Game Industry Sucks [video]
Yes, companies fire workers sometimes.
clircle··on Prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure
I think a common “solution” is to use a Gaussian process model.
clircle··on Why scalpers can get tickets
Why are tickets priced too low?
clircle··on Chez Scheme: Lisp with native code speed
Pretty sure emacs lisp compiles to native code now
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