@enjalot I have heard “codification” used in this context.
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James Scott-Brown
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James Scott-Brown
@jamesscottbrown
Data Visualization Developer at the Greater London Authority. Previously visualization and synthetic biology researcher.
England, United Kingdom Katılım Nisan 2009
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is there a term for going from prompt -> skill -> deterministic script?
like paving the cowpath in design, but for computational processes
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@alexdolbun @jaredlander GeoParquet lets you store geospatial data in parquet files: geoparquet.org
Eg see this tutorial github.com/cholmes/duckdb…
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@jaredlander Do there some sort of same energy DuckDB for geoJSON files? They weigh is killing me after some time…
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Was helping a client today with a 500 million row dataset. It took about 42 GB as a CSV & 7 GB as a parquet file. We needed a count of rows per ID. We tried Arrow but gave up after staring at the console for a few minutes. Switched to DuckDB & got an answer in less than a second.
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@AlexKale17 I think @LexAlexander and @ngehlenborg have both hired software developers within vis research groups (also @benjbach, but in the UK so with different funders)
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How would a prof go about paying for an in-house software engineer? I’d love to do something like this if I could figure out how to fund a long-term position with competitive compensation. This would really expand capacity for student mentoring and building/maintaining software.
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@thomasforth Did I read an @FT piece recently about how the UK doesn't like high rise for residential purposes?
I think they made some comparisons with European cities and their prevalent 5/6-story buildings.
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@whoaboard @keenanisalive Suppose one triangle is entirely inside the other: none of the edges will intersect, so the proposed algorithm will conclude that the area of intersection is 0 (rather than the area of the smaller triangle).
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@keenanisalive It’s not the n log n algorithm but it’s not obvious to me that the suggested implementation will be incorrect? Am I missing something? cp-algorithms.com/geometry/halfp…
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@geoffreylitt Also it isn’t necessarily true that other competing producers can just grow a new variety - “breeders rights” are a category of intellectual property: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_bre…
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@geoffreylitt The premise of this seems to be refuted by the existence and commercial success of “Tenderstem® broccoli”. tenderstem.co.uk/about-tenderst….
It turns out you *can* market brocolli, and get your trademarked brand name for it on restaurant menus.
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1/ I used to think specialized software to replace messy spreadsheets was unequivocal progress. Now I'm more conflicted.
Feels a bit like saying "Find the people who are still cooking at home, and sell them more restaurant food"
twitter.com/jasoncrawford/…
Jason Crawford@jasoncrawford
Good startup pattern today: Find an industry that is still run manually by people emailing PDFs and spreadsheets around; build a real data model & workflow. Doing this in… Freight: @flexport Insurance: @NewfrontHQ Lending: @blendlabsinc
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@drpaulwinston @mikemorrison Arguably the real solution to the problem of resubmission to a different journal requiring reformatting is for journals to not impose formatting requirements for submissions. A list of some journals that have seen the light: asntech.github.io/format-free-jo…
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This group deserves the Nobel prize if it works. Reviewer number 2, will be down regulated to a nuisance rather than a month long destroyer.
Mike Morrison@mikemorrison
In the near future, you’ll be able to format an article for a different journal with the click of a button. 😎
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The US government should seriously consider setting aside a few billion to build a large language model that would be open and accessible to the whole scientific community.
For the good of humanity, they need to create the thing that OpenAI was supposed to be but isn't.
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@lemonodor Some people automate this with Lenny: lennytroll.com
There are recordings of such calls on YouTube: m.youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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My hobby is trying to replicate the persona that I think phone spammers desire so I can waste their time: older person, not with it and maybe even slight dementia. My son calls it trolling.
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I find it amazing that 3/4 of the spam phone calls I get error out: The bot gets stuck, or transfers me to a "number [that's] not in service." It's not the low quality that surprises me, it's that even with that level of failure the economics still apparently favors the spammers.
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i enjoy deleting extra linebreaks from my code and compressing things onto single lines (while preserving just enough breaks and whitespace to convey the meaning i want)
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@michael_nielsen And here's a CLI app that operationalizes this idea into a usable tool: github.com/sturdy-dev/sus…
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@michael_nielsen An example of a bug identified with this approach: joel.tools/codegen/
(by SalesForce CodeGen, rather than ChatGPT)
discussion on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336326…
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Something I would enjoy based on ChatGPT: a tool to easily identify the most surprising bits from a text.
I suspect those places are often either (a) the main content; or (b) the places where there's an error (esp. in code!)
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@JotaSolano "He who pays the piper calls the tune" is an English idiom that might be similar in meaning?
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@kanarinka @mitpress @pubpub The link to the Code of Conduct from the Appendices section of the TOC works, but the link from the end of the text introducing the review site (just above "Thank you, Catherine") is broken.
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