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Hi, I work on the instruct models. Are you able to share details about the particular task you're doing and the prompts you've tried? (email: <my HN username>@openai.com )

In general, the code philosophy behind ggplot2 and related tools (the so-called "tidyverse" in R) embraces functional programming, in particular doing computation by pure composition of smaller computations.

Using the "+" operator to denote composing parts of visualizations is not the greatest syntax but I think we're basically stuck with it for a bit due to historical baggage. See this note from the creator of ggplot, Hadley Wickham: https://community.rstudio.com/t/why-cant-ggplot2-use/4372/7

I think the abstract does effectively say that: "these patterns are most consistent with the supply‐based hypothesis of unbacked digital money inflating cryptocurrency prices." And this point is made more forcefully in the paper.

FWIW, I don't have a strong opinion on the evidence presented in the paper -- the analyses seem sensible, but this isn't my field of expertise, so I'd be hard pressed to point out, for example, what alternative analyses they could / should have done.

Also, it's not even obvious to me that unbacked Tether causing the BTC price rallies is necessarily a reason to pull out; markets are weird.

Here's an econ paper that studies that question: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342185292_Is_Bitcoi...

Interesting.

GP seems to say that it worked wonders for them, so I'm still interested in trying it.

I've got some nerve issues and would be interested in trying this -- how did you get a hold of the cream?

I think you will like this paper then: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09576

Are they tasty?

Thanks -- this series is excellent!

So I do AI research on something pretty related to the guessing game -- I'll shoot you an email.

There's a conference on grammar induction called ICGI; might wanna browse through the proceedings to see if there's anything closer.

In computer science academia, this kind of game is called grammar induction (of which inferring regular expressions is a special case).

A classic algorithm for inferring regular expressions was given by Angluin: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/teaching/s10/pape...

(This isn't quite the same setup as you're thinking of but there are a ton of variations on the basic idea)

I tried getting into Treme but couldn't hack it. Maybe I'll give it another try, though -- what was the appeal of it for you?

It's not an entirely fair comparison -- the Locol burgers are a bit bigger than McDonalds (maybe something like 3 McDonalds = 2 Locol)

I've eaten at the Oakland location. It's actually pretty tasty.

Have you spoken to your neighbor about this?

A non-exhaustive list:

1. Pedagogically, the lispy syntax was a big stumbling block for beginners. Probabilistic programming is hard enough as it is; prefix notation and parens only added difficulties (and these difficulties were unrelated to the conceptual material).

2. webchurch compiled to Javascript anyway, so it was nice to be closer to the target language.

3. Lisp can be a bit awkward for certain contemporary programming idioms (e.g., accessing object properties).

Both. (source: I've worked on both languages and versions of the book).

But give webppl a shot -- it's a good language!

Indeed. And there is now a webppl version of the probmods textbook: http://probmods.org/v2

I did an internship at Microsoft Research and my desk was down the hall from his office.

He would walk down the hall to his office, saying his hellos to everyone with a deep, sincere enthusiasm for life. It brightened the entire floor.

If you're already using a version of Node that supports debugging, is this any different or better?

Which is understandable. Certain image categories aren't rotation invariant. Turn the letter M upside down and you get W.

That the entire organized affair -- the chaos of Waluigi notwithstanding -- takes a back seat to the foundation of rooted plants in the foreground suggests that the apparent social structure on offer, a hierarchical and linear assemblage, is finally an illusion; we cannot overcome the complex and rhizomatic nature of reality.

Stunning pictures!

What's your opinion of the superforecasters work?

"Maritime breakfast" -- incredible!

What's an example ridiculously low rent?

The FAQ doesn't mention anything about this -- can you explain how Seaside uses continuations?

There's a good one on internet (and non-internet) culture at http://tedium.co/