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Comment · 7 days ago
Saying I don't understand Quantum Mechanics is like saying, "I don't understand how attention/transformers explain the human brain."

It doesn't. It's model. All models are wrong (including quantum mechanics and attention) but some are useful. You understand the domain of the model, the problems it can solve, the math behind the models and use the model to make predictions. If you are competent at linear algebra and functional analysis, you can do quantum mechanics.

If you make the error of believing that quantum mechanics is ontological god's honest truth of nature, you will end up with blunders like using it to explain consciousness like Prof Penrose. His math was impeccable, but he was making a category error.

Comment · 10 days ago
Try tabularray.
Comment · 14 days ago
so you fell for jxl propaganda. everybody who work with images for a living, knows that jxl has always been shit compared to avif.
Comment · 16 days ago
Comment · 17 days ago
I used to hate font ligatures until I discovered Commit Mono (my all time favorite monospace font). They use the ligatures only to adjust spacing and make it look better on a monospace grid. No stupid <=, -> ligatures or anything else.
Comment · 21 days ago
Can you please tell me what settings get auto re-enabled? I use Telegram as my primary messenger app. I just want to make a more informed decision if I should switch to Signal or something.
Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 25 days ago
Learn SQL and interface with Duck. You will be 100x faster than Pandas/Polaris duo at fraction of memory. Also SQL is supported literally everywhere with a much more capable than Pandas API. Duck outputs to a Pandas Dataframe, but just treat that like a dictionary. Do all your processing, filtering and aggregation in Duck.

Also, try fx.wtf as a replacement for jq. it comes with a in-built tui viewer that supports vi-keybindings. Ecmascript is built into fx.wtf so you can query the JSON with JS notation (where JSON was born). You can use any JS functions including map/reduce/filter or perform any kind of transformation instead of learning jq dsl that you will forget tomorrow.

Comment · 1 month ago
i remember some linux kernel dev got ousted by the community because he/she wanted to not implement a backdoor that would compromise the results of /dev/urandom.
Comment · 3 months ago
this is is not new. we have had factory model (forking the initial window) in terminal emulator since 1990s.
Comment · 4 months ago
or just rotate it by 45 degrees and pretend it's a pascal's triangle.
Comment · 4 months ago
then, why does 222 look blue/green and not dark gray?

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