gandalfgreybeer

Still used in as an undergraduate in 2013

I agree with using Jupyter to get a good grasp of everything that’s going on and experimenting. However, while doing so, I think it’s good to keep in mind building something that’s not in a notebook format as I think notebooks tend to foster bad coding practices.

This is from my experience as someone straddling both academia and a data science position in a startup where I have seen it rampant on both ends (slightly more understandable in academia but terrible for anything that actually goes into production).

For cases like that, copilot (with chat for context) might be more of what you’re looking for. Chatgpt specifically, I’ve been using for very light context / general tasks that I modify. I always consider the trade off between how much time I’m saving by having to write the prompt full of context.

They’re probably not hard and medium problems but if you can take care of these easy and medium problems with chatgpt, that saves so much bandwidth to have time to tackle the fun and “hard” problems.

Also, take a look at the problems and projects simonw actually tackles.

> At any rate, I continue to be unamused by how difficult it is for normal people to service their own Apple devices.

I am also a proponent of being able to self-repair (but can sort of see what risks Apple are minimizing by how they're doing it now). However, I would say most "normal" people are fine or would prefer to just go to Apple service centers. It is only with the more technologically-oriented communities where I see that preference. Of course this varies across communities across countries.

I’ve had colleagues who have published in high impact journals ask me to grab a copy of their own work from scihub since they couldn’t access it themselves. Of course, they have the manuscripts themselves but they just wanted the published format.

Isn’t it her own project? In that case, someone could easily just do their own version. What she built has lasted (so far) and has been helpful to countless academics and students.

My question though is how she’s being a selfish crackpot? Feels like the goal of Sci hub isn’t really selfish from my point of view.

Isn’t this something that can be disabled?

How is copilot handling stuff like this?

I’ve only taken introductory meteorology courses but I remember ENSO [1] (which uses the term oscillations). Maybe that’s what they’re referring to?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño–Southern_Oscillation

For most countries I read about, I think politics and addressing climate change is directly correlated

Isn’t effortful an actual word? Also let’s try not to pick on things that are beside the point. Especially if you look at the author’s site and he’s a non-native speaker. We’d probably make similar mistakes if we were to try Italian.

On a tangential note, what does it mean to be “effective” in a class?

What’s the new z-lib home?

I’m a moderator of a fairly good sized sub (3M) and bots help flag things early but sometimes it takes nuance to determine if it’s something that needs action, especially if it’s for a very specific community.

There are rules that have been set up through time by mods that facilitate discussion and avoid people karma farming.

Lastly, there are also communities (one of them ours) that host AMAs or other community events and it’s us who approach people to see if they want to interact with the community.

I’m not saying mods are perfect (I myself am annoyed at ones from other subreddits and sometimes disagree with fellow ones) but mods aren’t there just to ban people and remove posts.

What makes HN amazing for me is how people hear moderate discussions and that’s one thing I’m trying to emulate.

I think the main problem for most people is not having another ship to jump onto.

I knew I spent too much time on Reddit prior to this but the amount of times I find myself reaching for my phone and trying to open Apollo without thought (I uninstalled Apollo already) is a lot more than what I expected.

I've left other social media sites without much problem before.

My main problem is when I google stuff, I still try to add "reddit" but now I'm not sure what the alternative is to increasing the signal to noise ratio for results.

No shame at all should be expected from sharing something you worked for that can help people (including me)

I've found Apollo's integration for moderation tools to be very well implemented.

I usually upgrade every 2 years (due to mobile retention plan) and just get one from the latest line.

This year was the first year I got an older model since I really like the size of the mini. Will likely not get a bigger phone in the future unless it has a killer feature or phones the same size as the mini (hopefully it becomes the SE) is no longer supported

> Aside from that, very weird name. Kind of annoying actually and sort of ruins the whole thing anyway.

Can you elaborate on this? This seems like a very extreme reaction.

The website shows

> vore (noun combining form) > ˌvō(ə)r, ˌvȯ(ə)r, ˌvōə, ˌvȯ(ə) > : one that eats (something specified)

which seems like something appropriate for an RSS reader if I connect enough nodes of ideas.

Just from a design / information dissemination perspective, I honestly feel like this website falls flat. I scrolled through and still don’t know what’s really wrong about Oatly nor was my interest really piqued to find out more. The "next scandal coming soon" also feels off to me like it's more of a smear campaign.

Of course, ymmv and Oatly might definitely have big issues but I didn't get it from this site.

I think the new Bing AI chat works better (for the most part) for stuff that are more "fact-based" especially since it cites references better. Note that you have to check the references too since sometimes there are mistakes. I would avoid ChatGPT for stuff like "Can you recommend me papers on machine learning for specific problem/task" since the model sort of makes up stuff.

The main value of ChatGPT for me (so far) is not for tasks where I get information from it but where it gives me information to start something. "Write me an authorization letter", "create a 10-slide presentation on this topic", or "I have this function, can you write some unit tests" has been very useful for me. Not because the outputs are correct but they lower the inertia for me working on tasks.

I rarely get outputs that work 100% out of the box that I don't have to fix or reshape. One personal rule is that I never ask it stuff that I normally won't be able to do by myself.

I have played around with ChatGPT and noticed that it "invents" papers and references. But yeah, I feel like it is unlikely (not impossible) that a peer reviewer would actually not even check the outputs.

That’s honestly the best course of action imo. You can’t just block everything from the internet and some things are products of their times. However, seeing it and understanding why it’s bad seems best especially for kids. I don’t think it’s enough to know that something is bad, one should know why it is.

There’s this Community episode that has “black face” (a character paints himself black to be a dark elf) and was called out for doing a hate crime by everyone in the room; this episode was pulled off of Netflix and I don’t understand why. It’s not like it was portraying it as something okay to do. In fact, it was very clear that it’s something you shouldn’t.

My stand with most (not all) things like this is that intent matters; there are a lot of things (especially with jokes/comedy) where nuance and discernment are key.

I disagree with your draconian approach (but I understand where it’s coming from) because I do not think that issues like these should be just swept under the rug.

Wasn't Einstein a womanizer too? I know it's a bad thing but conversely, bad acts do not necessarily diminish a person completely.

I think there needs to be nuance in recognizing people who were great, not just boxing them as either good or bad since at the end of the day, they were still people with faults.

I have never followed football but I know Pelé.

First time I've heard of Yandex. The way you've described it, I might hopefully find it useful for the academic PDFs I've been seeing less and less in Google.

Been using it since the beta and would agree about the search quality.

$10 is also to steep for cost of living in my area. Hopefully something like region-dependent pricing comes in the future (although I feel like that's going to be tough with managing expenses so I understand if that's not going to happen). I do hope this succeeds though.

What book reader do you use for reading comics?