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I'm moving the opposite direction: Altair -> Plotly. I find altair to be too "grammar of graphics" for its own good. And the vega backend makes it hard to hack around. Saving to pdf or high-quality also takes extra steps with additional dependencies.

They say "art deco is for dwarves while art nouveau is for elves." Forgot where it came from.

Highly recommend playing Pentiment. Good mystery adventure set in the backdrop of medieval Bavaria. Large part of the story happens in a monastery (and the surrounding town).

I also see a use-case for reading long fiction books. Recently, I've been reading Stormlight Archives (Book 3) on and off and there are times when I want to remember why character X did Y or what that epigraph means, etc.

I'm looking at the Fediverse explorer and I'm curious how to interpret the embeddings (or the distances between points). What does it mean when two instances are near each other (e.g., sigmoid.social and mastodon-belgium.be)? Is it related to the number of follows?

The gap between tree-based models and deep learning becomes narrower as the dataset size increases (here: 10k -> 50k).

I am curious if there is a sample threshold where it's worth exploring deep learning approaches to tabular data. I wonder if there are other considerations (e.g., inference speed, explainability, etc.).

Same. How do you use pylint for unit testing? I only use it in my IDE.

Yes :) The Lamy 2000's been with me after grad. Even had a pen craftsman resharpen my nib!

Hi runjake, author here!

Not sure what you meant by the Twitter feed? Doing this since 2017 and it's still fun so far! Hope that helps :)

My daily driver (Lamy 2000) has a piston converter and I find its capacity quite large, i.e., I need to refill it every week or so.

Cartridges are great too, but I seem stuck with a few options. Lany cartridges are great but it's the only decent one I can find here.

Hi there, author here! Been using pen and paper (for knowledge work) since 2017. Hope that helps

I do something similar, but I use the Jesuit's Daily Examen as a guide/prompt [1]. You can strip it with only the secular stuff and the pattern becomes the same: what you're grateful for, what worries you, what you want to improve upon.

[1] https://www.jesuits.org/spirituality/the-ignatian-examen/

Good for you, but I don't think it's fair to pass judgment on someone's situation without knowing the whole picture.

I also wrote an explainer for VQGAN here: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqg... to coincide with the growing interest in these models

Yeah I can imagine this a bit useful when writing literature reviews. I type a sentence then a sidebar on the right suggests papers from your Zotero pile, Google Scholar, etc.

Of course writing literature reviews is often a long process: collect-scan-read-synthesize-write. But sadly a copilot run system may override steps 2,3,4.

At first I thought Artificial Life (ALife) here is about cellular automata, soft robotics, etc. Turns out it's not...or is it?

I am curious to know if ALife is actually heading into the territory mentioned by this article.

Hi, author here. Glad to see my post at HN, thanks feross for sharing!

If you have any questions, just let me know :)

How will this affect the MLOps Community Webinars? Afaik dotscience plays a big role supporting it.

It’s a good and vibrant community, and I’m learning a lot from the webinars as a practitioner. It’d be sad to see if it goes as well

Where are you basing these claims? I do pixel art, and dithering + anti-aliasing are one of the fundamental techniques in this medium. It’s widely-employed that there are so many beginner tutorials that teach these methods (I highly recommend MortMort’s channel, for example).

Also, I invite you to look at the Pixel Dailies twitter handle (and the #PixelDailies hashtag), you’ll see the works of several pixel artists and you’ll notice that dithering and anti-aliasing are common patterns.

yeah! The idea is the same! Hope you liked it!

Create personalized and unique 8-bit sprites from your name using Cellular Automata!

https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/sprites-as-a-service

Github: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/sprites-as-a-service

Perfect substitute for Github avatars or random profile pics!

I learned Vue and frontend just for this hehe. Good experience so far! Lmk your thoughts!

Hi author here, definitely didn't intend and expected that! I'm mostly drawing from my own experience and that insight while ordering food inside Mcdo.

Hi, author here! Pleasantly surprised I saw this on HN, thanks for posting feross! Sorry for the Mcdonalds analogy, it's just that it's really near our office and I got that insight while ordering McNuggets! Didn't expect it will cause some divide

Agree, Mcdonalds has definitely upped their ordering game recently. Thank you and I appreciate all the helpful comments!

I once wrote a framework for simulating GoL in Python: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/seagull

I names it Seagull because “Conway’s Game of Life” => CGoL, lol so playful.

The day before Conway passed, I was playing with some procedural art from cellular automata: https://cellular-sprites.herokuapp.com

Everything felt surreal the morning I read the news

Author here! I had fun writing this blog post and describing this architecture in the context of Mcdonalds!

Hope everyone enjoys reading through it too!

I once wrote a survey of tools within the Jupyter Notebook ecosystem: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2020/03/16/jupyter-... (it’s a three part series and that link is Part 2).

The topic of production notebooks often shows up. I’ve seen tools like papermill and dagster being used for notebook prod, just like in Netflix.

I concluded that using notebooks for prod is always a tech decision, often influence by a tradeoff: risk for premature optimization (writing scripts early on in the project that may only be used once) and underengineering (using non-maintainable and clunky code to support mission-critical workloads): https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2020/03/16/jupyter-...

Hi everyone! Here's a fun web-app that I made to generate random sprites using Cellular Automata. For this, I used Seagull (https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/seagull), a Python library for Conway's game of life, and streamlit!

Cellular automatons are interesting creatures, using a discrete mathematical model, you can approximately simulate artificial life. Use this web-app to control reproduction and stasis rates, then observe how your sprites will transform!

Hi everyone,

I just want to share burnout-barometer, a simple open-source tool that I use to track my mood throughout the day. You can find the link here: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/burnout-barometer

It also fetches the latest tweets from tinycarebot, and gives some random encouragement through the week!

To be honest, it's still a work-in-progress, but I've been dogfooding it for the past few weeks and it has helped me be mindful a lot. Hope you find some interest in this work!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Hi mamon, good for you for getting it in just one night! Given that everyone has different backgrounds and experiences in tech, we may end up on different parts of the learning curve!

Hello, thank you so much ablekh, I'm glad you enjoyed reading my other posts as well!