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26 Jul 2024
I have for new job been using DataDeps.jl
it is nice to just pick up a package I wrote during grad school and have barely touched since,
and it still
1) works
2) is completely fit for purpose.
It's like I want someone else's data on my computer and I don't want to think about it
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26 Jul 2024
we did use it when I was at Invenia for test data.
And I did (mostly very shortly after starting) make some minor changes to it for Invenia, mostly just to make it support auth'd AWS3 via S3Paths.jl
(or anything else that overloads `download`)
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24 Jul 2024
Fundamentals of Systems Biology (2015) by Markus Covert
Equation 6.16 is an implementation of sampling from a categorical variable.
Its a medium smart one.
But its not the smartest (alias tables are the smartest).
I feel like the implementation should have been a sidebar
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24 Jul 2024
So Runge-Kutta methods are just midpoint methods with more sampling points? and slopes caculated from other samples to workout where next samples go?
And usually, adaptive time stepping?
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24 Jul 2024
I am finally learning how ODE solvers work.
Turns out it is not gradient descent, nor is it interior point methods.
There goes my two working models.
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23 Jul 2024
After many years I am back in classical ML land.
I return to a question i had back then.
Is it a standard technique to orthogonalize features before applying Decision Tree type methods?
(e.g. run PCA first)
It makes excellent sense to me and seems to work.
Does it have a name?
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23 Jul 2024
It does lose interpretability,
but it means your features (once othogonalized) run along the lines that decision trees (etc) can split on
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19 Jul 2024
me trying to do things in python is very funny.
Its like "How do i install mamba? why are all the instructions deprecated? Did i install mamba wrong? oh no i did"
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17 Jul 2024
urggg breaking changes in python 3.12, distutils standard library was removed.
This language is so unstable, people shouldn't use it.
It has broken one of the tools i install through apt on ubuntu's package manager.
Why ubuntu not bundle compatible versions?
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17 Jul 2024
wow, imp was removed too.
and can't be installed via any package?
So tools are just broken?
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17 Jul 2024
I was a good girl and generated new SSH key pairs for new laptop rather than copying from old.
And I will starting next week void my old key pairs wherever i find them.
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14 Jul 2024
Here's my @JuliaConOrg 2024 retrospective. The peeps are good
cameron.pfiffer.org/blog/jul…
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16 Jul 2024
I am so far testing negative for covid post juliacon.
I know at least 4 people have tested positive since.
I was N95 masked during flights/airport, and spent most of my time in the outside main track, plus in peak vaccine efficacy period.
But still can get unlucky.
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16 Jul 2024
I was actually much less masked than I am at home which I shouldn't have been.
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12 Jul 2024
I think that repeatedly emphasizing that "developers don't like to document" is making it worse.
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12 Jul 2024
I love getting shoutouts in talks. It's great to see my open source work has an impact. I often wonder if I am actually helping anyone.
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11 Jul 2024
Right now I have a loop earplug in my left ear and my hearing aid in my right turned down to 30% and noise cancellation turned on.
This is so useful. Everything is now an ok volume.
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11 Jul 2024
idk, I mean I have absolutely hacked incredibly deep compiler internals this way.
Which I think counts as "real coding"
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11 Jul 2024
I would strongly encourage male speakers at tech conferences not to make jokes or give funny examples about women.
(Even ones that are not obviously sexual)
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11 Jul 2024
Today's example was writing an assert
`if gender==female; assert age<19`
With the off hand comment "girls are never over 19"
It seems harmless, but like its a whole thing that some men consider women only valuable at 18-19 because creepy reasons.
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11 Jul 2024
I don't expect men to think of this.
But if they avoid making "funny" comments about women then they can stay out of this risk area.
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