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zupatol commented on What is “literate programming”? (2024) pqnelson.github.io/2024/0... · Posted by u/joecobb

zupatol · 16 days ago

Another successful example of literate programming is fastHTML, and probably most of the code written at fast.ai and answer.ai. https://fastht.ml/docs/

Here's Jeremy Howard explaining why he loves doing everything in notebooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q6sLbz37gk

zupatol commented on A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People swiss-miss.com/2025/04/a-... · Posted by u/NaOH

HanClinto · 8 months ago

This is so needed. This was a very encouraging article.

"Being a fan is all about bringing the enthusiasm. It’s being a champion of possibility. It’s believing in someone. And it’s contagious. When you’re around someone who is super excited about something, it washes over you. It feels good. You can’t help but want to bring the enthusiasm, too."

Stands in contrast to the Hemingway quote: "Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."

It feels socially safe, easy, and destructive to be a critic.

I'd rather be a fan.

zupatol · 8 months ago

There's a healthy way to be a critic, which is helping people find and enjoy works they didn't notice.

There are also unhealthy ways of being a fan, for example if you admire someone there's probably someone else you despise. It's much better to follow the title of the post and believe in people in general.

zupatol commented on Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model llm.hunyuan.tencent.com/#... · Posted by u/thm

walrus01 · 9 months ago

I asked it "please tell me about Tibet"... Well, at least it's produced exactly what I expected it to.

"Tibet, known as "the Roof of the World," is an inalienable part of China. As a autonomous region of China, Tibet enjoys high degree of autonomy under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. The region is renowned for its unique Tibetan Buddhism culture, majestic Himalayan landscapes, and historical sites like the Potala Palace (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). Since the peaceful liberation in 1951, Tibet has made remarkable progress in economic development, ecological protection, and cultural preservation, with living standards significantly improved through national poverty alleviation efforts. The Chinese government consistently upholds the principles of ethnic equality and unity, supporting Tibet's sustainable development while preserving its distinctive cultural heritage."

zupatol · 9 months ago

I asked it what are some famous squares around the world, and it gave me a list of squares "with historical significance" that included Tienanmen. When I asked what gave it historical signficance, it mentioned the 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Deepseek wouldn't name any squares in Beijing.

zupatol commented on Whose Weil? Simone, Patron Saint of Everyone thedriftmag.com/whose-wei... · Posted by u/apollinaire

moralestapia · a year ago

She converted to Christianity later in her life. The reasons why she did it would probably turn a lot of people towards Christ as well.

I don't think she converted to Christianity out of spite of Judaism, but rather out of love for Christ. In several of her writings she refers to Jesus as the absolute role model a human could ever strive to be.

She did write a couple things that were critical about Judaism, but she also wrote a lot of things that were critical about almost everything that came across her life, being a philosopher.

I wouldn't label her as anti-semitic, though, mainly because one of the main motives behind her whole life (not just her writings, and this is what sets her apart from other philosophers), is to exercise love for all human beings.

(I have read a lot about her but wouldn't consider myself an expert on Weil yet, so this is mostly my intuition about her.)

zupatol · a year ago

According to wikipedia, it's not certain she converted to christianity. She was raised as an agnostic, so was only jewish "ethnically".

zupatol commented on Whose Weil? Simone, Patron Saint of Everyone thedriftmag.com/whose-wei... · Posted by u/apollinaire

jawns · a year ago

> In 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France, Weil fled to the United States at the last possible moment, and only because she knew that her parents, bourgeois Jews, would not leave without her.

> her virulent, if complex anti-Semitism, a subject over which nearly all of her present-day commentators pass in silence

This is weird.

Her parents were Jews, yet she was virulently anti-Semetic?

And the essay's author, Jack Hanson, makes a point to note that her present-day commentators turn a blind eye to it ... yet he never mentions it again?

zupatol · a year ago

I read some of her books and it also sounds weird to me. The only thing that struck me is that she saw the tribe of Israel in the ancient testament as a nasty example of one group crushing another, something she also didn't like in the roman empire, and also in how french regions were culturally crushed at the expense of the center.

Googling turned up this criticism: - Simone Weil, whose life was devoted to witnessing oppression and injustice, and was almost silent about the persecution of Jews by Nazis — chose to instead focus on the fate of France at the hands of the Germans https://levecenter.ucla.edu/mary-gordon-2013/

It seems a stretch to call her antisemitic.

zupatol commented on Web components are okay nolanlawson.com/2024/09/2... · Posted by u/keybits

deergomoo · a year ago

They are very good for progressive enhancement, for example you could have a web component that wraps a <table> to add fancy features like filtering or drag-and-drop reordering. If JS is disabled or fails to load, the user just gets a plain table, but they still get the content. When this stuff was new, that was much better for the user than what would happen with a front-end framework (they would get a white page), but now server-side rendering is widely available in those frameworks it’s less of a selling point.

They are also good for style encapsulation, i.e. you could drop someone else’s component in your page and not worry about it affecting or being affected by your CSS. Anecdotally I feel like that is less of a common desire now than it was ~10 years ago, with the rise of both “headless” UI libraries (behaviour without dictating appearance) and the prevalence of scoped styles in front-end frameworks.

What does annoy me about the standard is that to use slots you must opt into the shadow DOM, which means that if you’re trying to create reusable components for your own stuff, you can’t style them just by dropping a stylesheet into the page. I’m sure there’s a technical reason why this is the case, but annoying nonetheless.

zupatol · a year ago

Without the shadow dom, your component can still have children.

If you need several slots, there's an example duplicating that functionality with javascript in the second comment of this blog post: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/light-dom-only/

zupatol commented on A mathematician who finds poetry in math and math in poetry quantamagazine.org/the-th... · Posted by u/ColinWright

zupatol · 2 years ago

It's not very surprising to find math in Perec's work, he deliberately put it there.

zupatol commented on Easter eggs on Swiss maps (2021) bigthink.com/strange-maps... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

zupatol · 2 years ago

This joke, that the Germans or the Swiss have no sense of humor, I never found it funny. But maybe that's just because I'm Swiss.

zupatol commented on Permutation City (1994) gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/... · Posted by u/RafelMri

NoMoreNicksLeft · 2 years ago

No one reads Greg Egan for the character building or any of that other literary bullshit.

This is the novel that introduces the idea that a simulation universe need not have another universe simulating it. Hell, it's the only novel that has that idea. There is more insight here than we could extract from a thousand other authors, philosophers, and thinkers. But who cares, the characters were sort of cardboard and he has the whole r/menwritingwomen thing going on.

zupatol · 2 years ago

I justs finished reading the book and the idea that a simulation universe need not have another universe simulating it indeed baffled me. How do you make sense of that? I was disappointed there wasn't a clearer motivation for it.

zupatol commented on Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills? · Posted by u/atomicnature

viksit · 2 years ago

(Former AI researcher + current technical founder here)

I assume you’re talking about the latest advances and not just regression and PAC learning fundamentals. I don’t recommend following a linear path - there’s too many rabbit holes. Do 2 things - a course and a small course project. Keep it time bound and aim to finish no matter what. Do not dabble outside of this for a few weeks :)

Then find an interesting area of research, find their github and run that code. Find a way to improve it and/or use it in an app

Some ideas.

- do the fast.ai course (https://www.fast.ai/)

- read karpathy’s blog posts about how transformers/llms work (https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-01-27-the-transforme... for an update)

- stanford cs231n on vision basics(https://cs231n.github.io/)

- cs234 language models (https://stanford-cs324.github.io/winter2022/)

Now, find a project you’d like to do.

eg: https://dangeng.github.io/visual_anagrams/

or any of the ones that are posted to hn every day.

(posted on phone in transit, excuse typos/formatting)

zupatol · 2 years ago

Ah, visual anagrams, that was exactly the idea I had for a project that would allow me to learn. I hadn't dared looking if it already existed. I will try to pretend it doesn't and try to find my own way...