William Benton

Always trying to simplify the complex unless there's an opportunity for an interdisciplinary analogy.

(I'm on hiatus from most social media as of early 2023.)

[William Benton @willb]

Every computing infrastructure project that initially meets one need well will eventually expand in scope to only meet several needs poorly.

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@Ji_Ha_Kim That’s a shame — hope it’s possible to try a different approach!

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@statusfailed always has been!

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@ChiefScientist @rit I’m so sorry to hear this news, Alexy.

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I may be missing something obvious, but could you run a base image with the system libraries and Python that you need and volume mount your project source?

Also, I think you can use uv to make virtual environments that are not scoped to a project directory (see https://t.co/ndyjqNLIfT for more).

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@krismicinski It brings me delight every time I remember it!

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@krismicinski tbf, even the most careful authors can’t guarantee that everything they write will be as perspicuous as “Mustard Watches: An Integrated Approach to Time and Food”

https://t.co/qaYHHODuHk

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@krismicinski @StarGazerMiao Fantastic — congratulations! Looking forward to seeing the preprint.

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@aronchick See Massimo Vignelli on this matter (source: https://t.co/xCcpaNnxkN):

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@bishopb0b Thanks for the recommendation!

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Every computing infrastructure project that initially meets one need well will eventually expand in scope to only meet several needs poorly.

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@exjon The persistence of this sort of dispute is remarkable:

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Trader Joe and I are just going to have to agree to disagree about what constitutes "seven servings" of french fries.

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@tonofcrates Magic Move is so great for this (and many other) use cases. I wrote up some tips for animating code (specifically) here: https://t.co/okNPfZ4gIJ

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@chriscleeland Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping, amirite

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@PaulWatsonNcl I promote very few secondary sources to a primary-source shelf but _The Duty Of Genius_ made the cut:

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@chriscleeland I have heart rate (but not power or cadence) in Apple Health from Zwift via Garmin Connect and HealthFit. You may need to enable Connect as a Health data source for HR in Settings.

I know HealthFit will also import FIT files but that’s a lot of steps to get data from Zwift.

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@chriscleeland hmm, interesting — when did this change happen? I was using it via Strava earlier this year but have gotten away from Zwift recently.

(In any case, I was curious if something else would work and was able to sync a Zwift ride to HealthFit via Garmin Connect today.)

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@stuartbuck1 I’m reading that the other way around — that you don’t believe the nonsmoking section will be sufficiently free of smoke. It still seems unlikely to be a broadly applicable reason in 2024.

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Partial evaluation and related topics have broad and deep applicability to things ML practitioners care about — cf. JAX, DSPy, and trace-based serialized model conversion for three more-or-less obvious examples!

[Erik Meijer @headinthebox]

Always cheer for people that can make money using math.

https://t.co/QOAmRzssOw

In my pitch I tried to appeal to the second Futamura projection (https://t.co/2KhFuD6Scb) as a way to fine-tune a model to fine-tune models, but I was laughed out of the room.

I guess there are even fewer people that understand partial evaluaton than there are that understand category theory ;-)

While Khosla admits he does not understand the math-filled paper—pointing out there are very few people in the world who fully understand category theory—“when these really smart people gravitate to an idea, it’s an important idea,”

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@tunguz Tangentially related? https://t.co/Yvfj1H7oCL