jcytong

  Specifically Clerk wants to address the following problems:

  - Less helpful than my editor

  - Notebook code being hard to reuse

  - Reproduction problems coming from out-of-order execution

  - Problems with archival and putting notebooks in source control

I encounter these problems every time I interact with a Juypter notebook and think about a Clojure style notebook environment :)

Great job!!!

Comment · 5 years ago

I have heard this many times from many different people that I respect. However, I'm just not experiencing "the joy" after several attempts. Maybe it's just not how my brain is wired.

It's probably not helping that I'm not starting from a greenfield project. Needing to go through and understand other people's code with an out of date Rails and its dependencies have made me spent most of the time on infrastructure. The entire test suite takes 50-60 minutes to complete with a lot of integration tests hitting the database.

Do people allocate a certain amount of time just to upgrade Rails? It seems like there's an expectation that Rails is 1) used to start quickly with scaffolding (great for hackathons) 2) constantly running app and cared for to not diverge from the latest version

At this point, it's one of those love-hate dysfunctional relationship with Rails for me

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Comment · 5 years ago

I think you are one hundred percent correct :)

But I can see it being useful if the idea is translated to NLP -> regex

a GPT3 to regex would be awesome

Comment · 5 years ago

> "Phonebooks were like DNS for telephone numbers."

A floppy was like the save icon on old software. :)

Comment · 5 years ago

Serious question: How does one get educated about modern China? (I'm Chinese but mostly Western educated)

Having seen my grandparents/parents/relatives escaping communist China and now my generation escaping HK, it has heavily influenced me on how even people who identified as Chinese and hoping for democracy and freedom for their own cousins in China are being played and lied to for multiple decades.

My people in HK are screaming that the West previous engagement policies have proven again and again to be ineffective. It's believed that the only way is to "distrust and verify" and not kowtow to their ways like what the West had been doing for the previous decades.

I do not claim to know everything about how the Chinese system functions and can only observe how my immediate network is being oppressed but still hope that there's a way to engage the CCP if at all possible.

Comment · 5 years ago

It's mostly CCP propaganda though if you actually talk to HK people and see how the majority of them tried to work within the system to "make the change" since the early 90s and fight for what was promised in the Basic Law[1] which was drafted by a committee with 36 representatives from China and 23 from HK. It promised that the Chief Executive of HK and its legislative council to be formed by an election.[2]

The Chief Executive election has been delayed for 2 decades requiring the CCP to "pre-filter" candidates which the public rejected.

The legislative council election has been controlled by disqualifying candidates as well as the mass arrest of 53 pro-democracy candidates for simply organizing the primaries and engaging in debates. [3]

TLDR; China wasn't as strong in 90s so took a softer stance. Later decided to go back on its words so had to find ways to control the elections or the results.

> No real death in over an year of violent protests by police firing in Hong Kong vs 5 deaths in capitol building siege speaks volumes about the professionalism with which Hong Kong police handled the protests.

This is not true. After witnessing the 2019 movement and the real police behavior captured on live tv/news[4], I have a much better understanding of the Stanford prisoner experiment.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Basic_Law [2]https://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/basiclawtext/chapter_4.html [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hong_Kong_Legislative_Cou... [4]https://tl.hkrev.info/en/police-timeline/

Comment · 5 years ago

This seems to be the pattern. Obviously, when managing a country of 1.4 billion people, it is a major challenge to get every single directive in a precise and timely manner. Many of these directives need to be carried out by regular citizens and professionals so a lot of interpretation is left to the lower level leaders.

By only giving a high level ideology/direction, the top leaders give themselves room to manuver when things go sideways and can shift blame onto the lower level leaders' execution.

The system also seem to over penalize under-execution rather than over-execution.

Many examples can be found clearly demonstrated in Hong Kong as the integration with mainland China get sped up by the National Security Law. The recent freezing of exiled HK lawmaker Ted Hui's bank accounts along with his parents and family members accounts which was making global headlines and causing attention.[1]

It seems like the move was part of the high level "exterminate HK pro-democracy figures" but after the headlines, Ted Hui's bank accounts were unfrozen for a while which subsequently allowed him to move some of his funds. Shortly afterwards they were re-frozen [2]. Some believed that the execution went too far as to undermine the global trust in HK which would cost more to the regime so it had to retract to mitigate the damage.

This type of farce seems to happen more often as HK transition into a police state masquerading as a rule of law society.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-security/former-hon...

[2]https://hongkongfp.com/2020/12/07/hsbc-re-freezes-accounts-b...

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