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yza

79 karma · joined May 5, 2017

Postdoc at DTU Compute.

https://github.com/eugene

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yza··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
The right side is Nix
yza··on Zed DeltaDB
lucky you, but here's the issue (note: there have been at least 3 issues before this one) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/58651 crossing fingers it's solved for real now. i only use wayland on my laptop where it seems to be fixed, my go-to machine is with Xorg where there's no copy-paste problems
yza··on Zed DeltaDB
I guess we have slightly different standards and/or use cases
yza··on Zed DeltaDB
Yep. Many issues are Linux only. And even with the issues it’s still more pleasant to use than vscode/ium.
yza··on Zed DeltaDB
The copy-paste bug manifests itself after some time and the bug is silent.
yza··on Zed DeltaDB
Im on nixos and tried all immediate flavours of zed: stable, unstable and nightly. Nightly seems to be most stable and every time i pull the flake, i prey for more bugs to be fixed. Sometimes it works
yza··on Zed DeltaDB
Why develop this when the core editor is almost unusable? On Linux wayland, copypaste is broken, the file manager is laggy and snippets do not trigger before the heavy hint logic is done. This is just on top of my head, the list is long
yza··on EurIPS: Present NeurIPS Papers in Europe
EurIPS is an endorsed presentation venue for NeurIPS papers
yza··on Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds
Title is slightly misleading. Turns out, sex-disaggregated analysis showed that the supplement group, only in females, gained 0.59 ± 1.61 kg more lean body mass than the controls (p = 0.04)

Direct link to this study: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/6/1081

yza··on Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
As a Ukrainian growing up and still living in Denmark and who has spoken to other Ukrainians working at those farms, I have never heard of “slave like conditions”. I’ve heard of hard manual labour and occasional disagreements with the owners of the farms though
yza··on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Bayesian KANs, KAN Transformers and KAN VAE's in 3.2...
yza··on [dead]
The fact that AlphaFold is not able to predict effects of single mutations is well known in protein research community. For SOTA in this space, see Deepsequence (https://doi.org/10.1101/235655) and ESM (https://doi.org/10.1101/622803)
yza··on Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support
also it is well-known that scripts you downloaded can be run locally
yza··on Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL
Next step would be to implement autodiff. If only PostgreSQL had CUDA support.
yza··on Apple M1 support for TensorFlow 2.5 pluggable device API
I tried it on a Radeon VII. It is little hard to get running as it does not work with latest kernel, but otherwise it kind of works with some quirks. One of the quirks is the first epoch of your training is very slow to start compared to Nvidia cards. Also, the speed of training is slow.
yza··on Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning?
Slightly off-topic, but I found M1 to be extremely fast at Gaussian Processes (using GPytorch/Botorch). I'm doing a PhD in Machine Learning for protein research, and for the heavy Bayesian Optimisation loop, the MBP M1 is almost twice as fast as my 16 core Ryzen 3950X "deep learning" machine (both use the CPU).
yza··on AirPods Max
Am I the only one who is not a fan of their design? I get that there might be a slight reference to the legendary Koss SP-3 from 1958, but come on - they don't have to look THAT antique.

https://coolmaterial.com/roundup/history-of-headphones/

yza··on Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust
Would you care to elaborate on the point of your suggested integration? Are you (seriously) proposing the inclusion of a javascript backend into *TeX distribution?
yza··on New Sauerbraten 2020 Edition Released
Turns out Sauerbraten is a free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of a game called Cube. Here is a youtube video of the gameplay https://youtu.be/fX7o-1OH-WM
yza··on SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
Sage is not something that you would want to use for ML per say. It can, however, help you with understanding of the underlaying math and algorithms. It has excellent support for symbolic math, statistics (distributions etc.) and just about everything else you are going to need to study ML. I recently switched from Mathematica and could not be happier.
yza··on Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App of the Future
> At this point, the Telegram and Signal desktop clients are fairly basic

This is not true.

While I would never trust Telegram with sensitive data, their desktop client is by far the best IM desktop client I have ever tried. It's feature rich, native and beats Slack, Teams and any of the web/electron based clients.

yza··on Ask HN: 2018 resolutions?
No alcohol for a year.

While getting ready for exams this november-december, I had to quit all social activities and as a side effect, I haven't had any drinks for a month or so. While it did not improve my studying or sleep significantly, it helped me realize the effect alcohol has on my body. Couple of drinks after the last exam gave me quite a hangover, something i did not experience much before. Now the interesting observation is that my hangovers got much easier to a point of almost disappearing as I got into drinking again. The realization of this semi-permanent effect combined with studies showing connection to cognitive impairment (memory, concentration etc.) got me into trying a year without alcohol.

Edit: formatting

yza··on Mice fed a time-restricted, high-fat diet show reduced metabolic disease (2012)
From personal experience (IANAD), cutting carbs to below 50g/day has greatly improved my life. This "diet" naturally leads to increased fat and protein intake, and for me resulted in weight loss, better concentration and reduction of inflammation (mild psoriasis improvement).

Also, I recently got a pack of (urine) testing sticks which confirm a high level of ketones, and plan to experiment with increasing the daily carb limit.

yza··on Leaving Apple Inc
As for Scandinavia and Denmark in particular, I can highly recommend looking in to people coming out of DTU Compute. There is also a yearly fair (DSE) where companies can meet with students looking for work/internship. I went as a student this year and had great time talking about practical ML with SKAT, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration.