csimon80 (u/csimon80)

csimon80 commented on Deep Learning Is Applied Topology theahura.substack.com/p/d... · Posted by u/theahura

umutisik · 4 months ago

Data doesn't actually live on a manifold. It's an approximation used for thinking about data. Near total majority, if not 100%, of the useful things done in deep learning have come from not thinking about topology in any way. Deep learning is not applied anything, it's an empirical field advanced mostly by trial and error and, sure, a few intuitions coming from theory (that was not topology).

csimon80 · 4 months ago

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" -George Box

csimon80 commented on I still like Sublime Text ohdoylerules.com/workflow... · Posted by u/james2doyle

catwell · 7 months ago

Hey! I'm a Sublime Text user since ST2 in 2011.

I love ST (my last blog post is https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-01-04-teal-lsp-sublim...) and I think the main thing lacking compared to the competition is the remote development experience.

I work in AI so we typically work over SSH on machines with big GPUs. Most of my colleagues use VSCode because it has a very good Remote Development extension.

csimon80 · 7 months ago

My preference is that it could use .ssh/config to explore the remote machine and then open/edit the file/dir.

csimon80 commented on Array Languages: R vs. APL (2023) jcarroll.com.au/2023/07/0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bnprks · a year ago

One of the wildest R features I know of comes as a result of lazy argument evaluation combined with the ability to programmatically modify the set of variable bindings. This means that functions can define local variables that are usable by their arguments (i.e. `f(x+1)` can use a value of `x` that is provided from within `f` when evaluating `x+1`). This is used extensively in practice in the dplyr, ggplot, and other tidyverse libraries.

I think software engineers often get turned off by the weird idiosyncrasies of R, but there are surprisingly unique (arguably helpful) language features most people don't notice. Possibly because most of the learning material is data-science focused and so it doesn't emphasize the bonkers language features that R has.

csimon80 · a year ago

A lot of the time you're not actually using what is passed to the function, but instead the name of the argument passed to the function (f(x), instead of f('x')). Which, helps the user with their query (dplyr) or configuration (ggplot2).

csimon80 commented on Airspace over Lake Michigan restricted due to national defense finance.yahoo.com/news/3-... · Posted by u/cebert

csimon80 · 3 years ago

I'm curious, does anyone here have an understanding the kind of information gathering you can do from a balloon that you can't with a satellite? Is it a cost issue? A don't know how do it in a satellite issue? or maybe a tech/physics issue?

csimon80 commented on Goodbye, data science ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/... · Posted by u/sonabinu

csimon80 · 3 years ago

It's so buzz word heavy. I had a manager that wanted me to solve a problem using the monte-carlo method when it fact the problem had a closed form solution...

csimon80 commented on Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations nerdlegame.com/?a=0... · Posted by u/dzink

csimon80 · 4 years ago

that was fun!

csimon80 commented on Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage? · Posted by u/mohanmcgeek

csimon80 · 4 years ago

I'm curious, was any of the shortage due to Chinese companies preparing for sanctions?

csimon80 commented on Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says spectrum.ieee.org/the-ins... · Posted by u/tmfi

csimon80 · 4 years ago

A little late for that now...