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Re:Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @05:39PM (#47431760)
A little rule I live by is that if Moritz Hardt writes it, I will read it
Re:D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:23AM (#37762787)
Argentina has effectively a cash-only economy. Queues in excess of an hour at the supermarket are fairly common partly because of the overheads in having everyone pay with cash (needing to empty the tills, validate large notes, taking time to get correct change out and/or giving change).

Let's not be so quick to say that card payments are all bad.

Re:How to create a Python package in 2022 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @09:47AM (#32264230)
cool - there's a lot of overlap with the "Hypermodern Python"[1] so if anyone enjoyed this and wants to read more, they might also enjoy that.

[1]: https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-01-setu...

Re:Delightful React file/directory structure on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @12:31PM (#30687359)
Unrelated to the post, but the site has the creepiest pop-up I've ever seen. It scared me a bit.
I don't suppose anyone knows of something like this, but for a thesis? I have trouble keeping clarity and pulling disparate sections together. Though there is a chance that this is procrastination talking....
don't suppose you can make this, but aimed at thesis writing?