honie

I was wondering if you would mind being a bit more specific about your criticism towards React and the JS community?

If you know React well, it seems like there are things that everyone can learn from or think about. Would you use vanilla JS or other frameworks and why?

I see where you are coming from, but I personally don't find the comment narcissistic: I read it the OP of the comment thinking out load, saying "ah! It's nice to know that I have thought about something similar, and someone made the effort to show that it works!".

Those were my reactions, too! The one thing that I want the most whenever I have to jump out of the CSS per-processor world and write regular CSS.

It is worth noting that in SASS you can already refer to parent elements as they have shown with the `@nest` rule (apologies if I misunderstood what you said and you already know this). I do prefer the more verbose `@nest` syntax though, as the intention is clearer.

I don't disagree with you on the potential financial burdens faced by PhD students but, in this case, and if I haven't missed anything, the infrastructural barrier is not high:

> All experi-ments use a single thread on a Macbook Pro with a 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-4960HQ processor. Unless stated otherwise, all timing results use five trials, with each trial reporting the fastest among 20 executions.

It may also be worth nothing that, even as a hobby, one can actually do a lot with modern hardware if you scope your project well. There is also a lot of free resources such as CoLab available to those who have very limited computing power at home/work.

Last but not least, there is also nothing stopping you from announcing your results on arXiv and, if you can be bothered (as a hobbyist), get it published in a peer-reviewed journal.

So if you still have ideas, I encourage you to go ahead and try them! :)

Maybe it was a different time and/or environment, but that couldn't be furthered from the truth according to my experience — even if I read that as a metaphorical door.

Many of the people I have worked for/with who are amazing in objectively measurable ways, including fame, appear to balance their open- and closed- door times well.

If you're just chasing after fame and want to work on what "everyone" thinks is important, then I don't disagree that keeping your door opened and getting "all kinds of interruptions" is likely the way to go.

Also anecdotally, the "forever-open-door" people I have worked with who are always talking about "important problems" to solve; have huge networks; and are hopping from collaboration to collaboration working on a completely different domain of expertise every other year: they seem important to the community but, often on closer inspection, they don't actually produce much that is of substance.

Edit: added "I don't disagree" for clarity.

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Other things of potential relevance:

  - I have basic knowledge of Python, some machine learning frameworks, and SQL. Currently learning Rust — just mentioning in case there is an off chance that I could learn on the job.
  - I have a background in chemistry and I recently did some applied machine learning work for about a year. For these reasons, I would happily work in data and/or research-related roles, too.
  - I am self-taught. I’m only noting this because some people prefer knowing that up-front. I don’t just “write code that works” and forget about it.
  - Honesty is important to me, and I expect that to be reciprocated.

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That's fair enough. We were lucky that hospital capacity wasn't much of a problem, but the lack of vaccination coverage together with a lot of... questionable strategies and mixed messages has done us in.

Given there are still a lot of unknowns with the virus, I still think we should all be more cautious. But it's just personal opinion at this point, so I don't want to dwell on that.

Maybe I'm missing your point: but wouldn't one be more concerned if there are more people vaccinated and the number of cases is higher?

Also, I was under the impression that the long-term effects of COVID isn't well understood yet, and that people who are vaccinated can still be carriers. If I'm not mistaken on both accounts, then everyone should be just as cautious until basically the majority of the population is vaccinated -- otherwise those who are vaccinated are basically just walking around infecting those who aren't since everyone has the guard down?

Edit: potentially abrasive choice of word.

I guess "big" and "tiny" are subjective.

My point still hasn't changed: that people who are saying that "we have X many cases in our city, your ~200 cases is nothing compared to ours" are perhaps over-trivialising the problems we are facing.

I'm not sure whether military intervention is right or not, but for everyone making comparisons based on absolute numbers, please note that the population in Sydney is tiny. If you take the lower population density into account, all of a sudden ~200 cases no longer appears to be a trivial number.

I see people constantly breaking lockdown restrictions outside of my window here. It's pretty damn frustrating for those who are obeying the restrictions.

I forgot to say that what you said is perfectly reasonable and not too different form my initial reaction. This is indeed very weird (but cool) science. :)