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Posted by
john-titor on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Anyone on HN that publishes and attends the big ML venues: There has been a lot of discussions about them being flooded. Our recent experience with NeurIPS confirms this. Tickets sold out within hours; many more submissions than reviewers can handle; organizers that are overwhelmed.Have you considered or attended any alternative venues that still felt similar in spirit to how the big ML...
Honest question: I recently bought a mac for the first time. A long-time Firefox user I quickly realized it is draining my battery like crazy. What do people do? My whole browsing ecosystem is on Firefox Sync and I would like to keep supporting it, but I am not willing to sacrifice battery life for that
about time people started replacing Deck with something similar-but-not-quite-the-same for their project names
The recent price increase on the MacBooks tipped me towards pre-ordering a ~700 USD more expensive Framework because I believed in the product. Now, to keep my same configuration Framework is effectively asking me to dish out another 300 USD on top of that. Its very unfortunate but consumers really got the short end of the stick here.
Unfortunately for Framework I am not willing to pay this delta and will go with Apple for now - bitter to not have pulled the trigger a few weeks earlier.
Posted by
john-titor on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:54PM
from the old.reddit.com dept.
> Knowledge should be free. It was never created in a vacuum. It belongs to us all
Imagine you're a professional writer and it's your main source of income. How would you feel if someone said this to you? Would you still want to write books?
I was eyeing a 24GB macbook air configuration that used to go for ~1250 USD in my region, which was a fairly good deal. This went up by 500. I guess I'll be going with a frame.work instead. Was willing to pay the premium for repairability anyways and now this has made the price difference a no-brainer.
Care to explain what Omarchy has to do with Valve?
Posted by
john-titor on Monday June 08, 2026 @11:59AM
from the foodwatch.org dept.
I wonder what makes you feel that. I've been publishing preprints close to a decade on arxiv now and never had any particular feelings about it.
To me it's just a way to get out your work fast, so that there is already a trace of it on the Internets - nothing more and nothing less.
> That is, it's not readily parseable, it really gives an insider term vibe...
Isn't that normal with highly specialized research fields? I agree many papers could benefit from clearer wording, but working in a niche means you sometimes don't reach a broader audience
great write up. it's been a while since I had the pleasure to read a straightforward blog post about ML tricks that feel genuinely applicable to many use cases.
Does something like this exist for Europe?
Posted by
john-titor on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:44AM
from the bbc.com dept.
Nice web page but after reading through the landing page I could not say for certain what the actual product is.
There is no text that describes it, it just reads
>GTD for professionals
What does this mean?
Tried to sign up with my corporate email (life sciences, 100k+ employees worldwide with a big research arm). Says the institution is not known to the service. What's the process to get it known?
Posted by
john-titor on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @09:24AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hi HN,I am a complete LLM beginner but would like to get into the practical application of the technology by interfacing a GPT instance with an internal database at work.I understand creating LLM agents that handle unstructured data is a quite common use-case. Ironically, more experienced peers also told me that going through the same exercise to make agents work with structured data can be...
A lot of exciting development happening in the package one has to appreciate. Also graphs as a modality in general :)
Posted by
john-titor on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:31AM
from the github.com dept.
Posted by
john-titor on Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Any data scientists here that communicate their results or data sets through interactive plots? I was wondering what your favorite tool or package would be for this task.
Working mainly in python, I often find myself using plotly or bokeh but find both packages' syntax clunky and unintuitive. Moreover, none of these scale well to large data sets - most of these solutions can not handle a simple...
Posted by
john-titor on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:19PM
from the arxiv.org dept.
Posted by
john-titor on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:58AM
from the cen.acs.org dept.
this is well-known to people working in cheminfornatics as the tanimoto similarity, used to calculate the similarity of two chemical structures based on their (folded) fingerprint
Atom + Hydrogen allowed for line by line execution and immediate output in regular .py files, no cell definitions needed. Haven't seen this functionality anywhere else yet and miss it a lot. If anyone knows an alternative, please let me know.
Posted by
john-titor on Friday December 23, 2022 @07:13PM
from the github.com dept.
Posted by
john-titor on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:10PM
from the github.com dept.
Can someone explain the hype around VSCode to me? I looked into it about a year ago and was immediately turned-off by the overwhelming amount of features that they throw at you right in the 'beginner's tour'.
What I appreciate about Atom is that it is very simple right out of the box and does not get in your way. You cold always beef it up with packages later, but that progression is much more pleasant to me than the VSCode approach.
The biggest selling point of Atom to me as a Python dev was the Hydrogen package. That tight integration of notebook features within the editor is something I have never seen before and a total game changer. Especially if you are working with data that you might need to visualize a lot.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand there is no Hydrogen equivalent in VSCode? Sure, there are plug-ins that let you run your code through a jupyter kernel and display the output in a second terminal pane, but that is not the same as the ability to simply highlight a bit of code, run that and have the results displayed immediately on the next line below.
Having pyplot figures displayed in such a way is also not possible from what I saw, or did I miss something?
Posted by
john-titor on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:40AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I love my job as a data scientist, it's incredibly creative and a lot of fun. But at the end of the day I'm pretty much done with staring at code snippets and reading documentations. The same is true for the weekends - ever since I started to code for work, my motivation to code outside of it rapidly fell towards absolute zero.The problem is that I have a few private projects that I would love...