beckford

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jonah AT diskuv DOT com; its founder. Created the DkML Windows OCaml distribution. An eon ago, when AI was still called deep learning, I was the Principal Engineer for Research at Amazon Go. And many eons ago I did fraud analytics, big data and data security.
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Comment · 24 days ago
Docker Agent could be beneficial for research studies. For example, while writing a ML paper about agents I need to rerun experiments so that: - others can repeat my results - validate that variability from LLMs is not causing overconfidence in the results

But currently uv is good enough to create isolated, repeatable environments. And it isn't limited to Linux like standard Docker. So when I want to test small samples on my local PC's GPU (Windows or mac) before running on beefier hardware, I can do that easily.

Comment · 1 month ago
As mentioned in the sibling comments, Andrew Gelman has covered this elsewhere. In particular, Gelman et al have a "Model Checking" chapter in their Bayesian Data Analysis book https://sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/book/BDA3.pdf . A popular intro Bayesian book Statistical Rethinking has a similar "Sampling from the Imaginary" chapter (https://civil.colorado.edu/~balajir/CVEN6833/bayes-resources...). Both books introduce the topic early (the latter book deals with it in the third chapter) if you are willing to do a bit of reading.
Comment · 2 months ago
The part about being hardware-agnostic sounds something like ROS 2, but maybe at a higher level. I would love to see a post about that (with a bit of explainers for people like me who only lightly dabble with robotics).

But I'm also curious to know if the "Salem" name was searched first. When I first saw the title I thought it was talking about Agility Robotics, which is based in Salem, Oregon and is currently 3rd spot on Google search for "Salem Robotics" (and 4 of the top 5 results on YouTube).

Comment · 2 months ago
The most important lines to me are the CFTC Chairman's quote:

> These are financial exchanges that offer financial instruments and operate across state lines. They match the bid from a resident of one state with the offer of a resident from another state and submit the trade to a clearinghouse that backstops the transactions of customers throughout the country. New York has no business regulating these interstate financial markets.

If true, it seems quite irrelevant that NY is limiting its suit to NY customers. NY would be restricting trade to people in other states. (I am not a fan or user of Kalshi)

Comment · 2 months ago
They did the same for a Samsung Fold phone delivered to me last month (in the US).
Comment · 2 months ago
Awesome! How did you find that out?
Comment · 6 months ago
Using fragments for secure data has been discussed before on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23036515. Tldr: it may not go directly to the server (unless you are using a buggy browser or web client) but the fragment is captured in several places.
Comment · 6 months ago
That hasn't been true for a few years at least. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/cmake-debug.html is has had CMake debugging since cmake 3.27. Ditto for vscode and probably other C IDEs I am not familiar with. So does Gradle for Java. GNU make is hardly exclusive.
Comment · 9 months ago
> One reason is that far more of their students actually applied than would be expected.

This sentence is buried midway through the article. It would be good for a future post to expand on this ... how much is explained by students simply applying more frequently to their local schools. This explanation was the only plausible explanation in the article I saw answer "why".

Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Since the link is paywalled, the TLDR paragraph is:

> Boasberg said in the ruling that the FTC had incorrectly excluded YouTube and TikTok from the market where it challenged Meta's dominance. "Even if YouTube is out, including TikTok alone defeats the FTC’s case," the judge said.

I agree. Meta does not have a monopoly since they compete with TikTok.

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