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ljvmiranda commented on Matplotlib   matplotlib.org/... · Posted by u/tosh
dr_kiszonka · 2 years ago
Have you tried Altair? I am considering switching away from Plotly and have been eyeing Altair. (I have no idea how good it is.)
ljvmiranda · 2 years ago
I'm moving the opposite direction: Altair -> Plotly. I find altair to be too "grammar of graphics" for its own good. And the vega backend makes it hard to hack around. Saving to pdf or high-quality also takes extra steps with additional dependencies.
ljvmiranda commented on From Art Nouveau to Bauhaus: How Home Interiors Looked in Popular Art Movements   archdaily.com/1005570/fro... · Posted by u/prismatic
keiferski · 3 years ago
If you have a difficult time (as I did) differentiating between Art Deco and Art Nouveau, you might enjoy this article I wrote on it. There are at least four key ways to tell the difference: time of creation, curved lines vs. geometrical shapes, organic vs. machinic themes, and Japanonisme influence.

https://onthearts.com/p/art-nouveau-vs-art-deco

I actually prefer Art Nouveau personally and wish there were more buildings that adopted the style. It seems like a good pairing for solarpunk architecture.

Otherwise, it’s interesting to me how Bauhaus seems to have aged much worse, probably because it’s more similar to modernism, both of which are origins for the “minimal” aesthetic style that is still prevalent. Looking at an old Art Deco or Art Nouveau building feels like peering into a lost world, while Bauhaus isn’t dramatically different from most of what gets built today.

ljvmiranda · 3 years ago
They say "art deco is for dwarves while art nouveau is for elves." Forgot where it came from.
ljvmiranda commented on Publishing in a Medieval Monastery   cambridge.org/core/elemen... · Posted by u/Tomte
ljvmiranda · 3 years ago
Highly recommend playing Pentiment. Good mystery adventure set in the backdrop of medieval Bavaria. Large part of the story happens in a monastery (and the surrounding town).
ljvmiranda commented on Show HN: I turned my microeconomics textbook into a chatbot with GPT-3   konjer.xyz/microeconomics... · Posted by u/mnkm
ljvmiranda · 3 years ago
I also see a use-case for reading long fiction books. Recently, I've been reading Stormlight Archives (Book 3) on and off and there are times when I want to remember why character X did Y or what that epigraph means, etc.
ljvmiranda commented on Show HN: Python library for embedding large graphs (Written in Rust)   github.com/H4kor/graph-fo... · Posted by u/h4kor
h4kor · 3 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. The library only calculates the positions and has no graphical output.

As an example: I created this to build this embedding of Mastodon instances. https://h4kor.github.io/fediverse-explorer/

ljvmiranda · 3 years ago
I'm looking at the Fediverse explorer and I'm curious how to interpret the embeddings (or the distances between points). What does it mean when two instances are near each other (e.g., sigmoid.social and mastodon-belgium.be)? Is it related to the number of follows?
ljvmiranda commented on A Short Chronology of Deep Learning for Tabular Data   sebastianraschka.com/blog... · Posted by u/tosh
ljvmiranda · 4 years ago
> The gap between tree-based models and deep learning becomes narrower as the dataset size increases (here: 10k -> 50k).

I am curious if there is a sample threshold where it's worth exploring deep learning approaches to tabular data. I wonder if there are other considerations (e.g., inference speed, explainability, etc.).

ljvmiranda commented on Using Mypy in Production   notes.crmarsh.com/using-m... · Posted by u/charliermarsh
CiTyBear · 4 years ago
Really like Mypy. I have coded many python micro service with different framework but my minimum core set is:

  - Black (formatting)
  - Isort (import order)
  - MyPy (typing)
  - Pylint (linting)
Edit: s/unit test/linting

ljvmiranda · 4 years ago
Same. How do you use pylint for unit testing? I only use it in my IDE.
ljvmiranda commented on Thinking with pen and paper   ljvmiranda921.github.io/l... · Posted by u/ljvmiranda
bch · 4 years ago
> has a piston converter

The 2000 is natively a piston filler as far as I know. When you say “converter”, are you saying you’ve modified your 2000?

ljvmiranda · 4 years ago
Yes :) The Lamy 2000's been with me after grad. Even had a pen craftsman resharpen my nib!
ljvmiranda commented on Thinking with pen and paper   ljvmiranda921.github.io/l... · Posted by u/ljvmiranda
runjake · 4 years ago
A few gripes about the post:

1. It appears the author hasn’t been doing this long, judging by their Twitter feed. I’m more interested when somebody’s been at something for a year or two. The whole “I’ve switched to $thing and it’s changed everything!” is always fun when it was written soon after the switch. Even funnier when you visit it a few months after and they’re back on the old thing. See also operating system switch posts.

2. “Most” notes systems aren’t using Zettelkasten. Most note takers don’t even know what it is.

3. I take handwritten notes and drawings all the time. Then I scan and OCR them into a PDF with my iPhone that goes into Obsidian via Shortcuts automations. This way it’s searchable and I always have them. I don’t have to remember to carry a handcrafted Midori/Moleskine around everywhere.

ljvmiranda · 4 years ago
Hi runjake, author here!

Not sure what you meant by the Twitter feed? Doing this since 2017 and it's still fun so far! Hope that helps :)

ljvmiranda commented on Thinking with pen and paper   ljvmiranda921.github.io/l... · Posted by u/ljvmiranda
bbonamici · 4 years ago
idk op's specifics, but some pens use ink cartridges; by sealing the body of the pen, you can fill it with ink, have way more capacity and you can refill it.
ljvmiranda · 4 years ago
My daily driver (Lamy 2000) has a piston converter and I find its capacity quite large, i.e., I need to refill it every week or so.

Cartridges are great too, but I seem stuck with a few options. Lany cartridges are great but it's the only decent one I can find here.

u/ljvmiranda

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