Pravin Shankar

Data Scientist @ Facebook. Interests: machine learning, carnatic music, fantasy football, long distance running.

[Pravin Shankar @spravin]

. @Sling @slinganswers I have been trying to change my base package for months, to a lower priced one, but your website is so slow and buggy, and app doesn’t allow me to do it. I’m stuck paying 60$/m for months for a service I am not using!

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@psankar Similar to Carnatic, jazz isn’t really about “sheet music” or notations, it’s all about improvisation around an underlying motif. The motif can be and is notated, but it is a very small % of the overall music.

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@psankar IMO Carnatic is closer to jazz than western classical (which is beautiful in its own way but has no concept of manodharma or improvisation).

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@colin_fraser I just gave it a follow-up prompt “ Hint: this is a trick question” and it figured the answer. Impressive for an LLM IMO. I think this is a case of glass is half full/empty.

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#2,4,10,14 map closely to the 4 decades of my life so far.
1. Logo
2. Basic
3. Pascal
4. C
5. C++
6. VB
7. Java
8. Assembly (X86)
9. Perl
10. Python
11. Javascript
12. DotNet
13. Powershell
14. SQL

[naomi (forgetful functor) @fixedpointfae]

in what order did you learn your languages?

1. python
2. R
3. haskell
4. C
5. rust
6. scheme
7. {java,type}script
8. clojure
9. scala
10. java
11. idris
12. go

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fin

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testing twitter views...

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tweet 2

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@arunthurdent Turns out you need to have Twitter blue (paid) to edit

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Testing Twitter edit

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@SpiritAirlines DMed you the details, will appreciate your help. It really should not be so hard to cancel a subscription!

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@SpiritAirlines I have tried unsuccessfully multiple times via chat/email/phone/web to cancel an annual subscription I never signed up for, but am unable to cancel it. Customer service reps say they will cancel but it hasn't happened yet. Please help.

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@raaamu Of course u would think of that word before more common ones 😛

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@antrix @adityachalla Agree! And limiting to 1 a day hopefully keeps the novelty factor on for longer.

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@adityachalla @antrix will remember this hint when I try out #204 tomorrow :)

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@antrix nice! I still have to wait 10 more hrs for #202

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Abc 123 <draft>

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@nikhilbd @voxdotcom very cool viz. and here's the original blog post: https://t.co/KLyoCwJE20 @flowingdata