alxmrs's comments

alxmrs | 2 years ago | on: Pandoc

Shameless plug: I built a static site generator with Pandoc and shell (with RSS support!).

https://github.com/alxmrs/pandoc-website-template

alxmrs | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Manhattan Project for Climate?

Brett Victor’s perspective is as relevant as ever: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

alxmrs | 2 years ago | on: GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting

I’m so happy you asked about this! Check out https://sites.research.google/weatherbench/

alxmrs | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How would you tackle a text classification problem in 2023?

gzip & knn

https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/decoding-the-acl-pape...

alxmrs | 3 years ago | on: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

In cases like these, I use multiple personas in Chrome (I think Firefox has user profiles) so I can log into my personal accounts on my work computer while still keeping everything compartmentalized.

alxmrs | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favorite personal websites?

The artist behind the band Toro y Moi has a great site: https://chazwick.com/

alxmrs | 3 years ago | on: Blackrock isn't just all about buyin' everyone's houses, don't you know?

https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1518312809230368768

alxmrs | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: AI-Generated Music?

I would love to see a LM generate sonic-pi scripts which generates music.

alxmrs | 3 years ago | on: Religious Discrimination at Google

It sounds like Blake is experiencing micro aggressions for his beliefs, based on the evidence in the article. However, that is not the same as discrimination. It seems like he is suffering from not experiencing a privilege that he is used to having.

While in tech, I do believe religious people are in the minority, they still make up the hegemonic norm in the US. An article like this can appeal to a much larger majority outside of the intended technology audience.

alxmrs | 3 years ago | on: Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax

Similarly, I would love it if Pandoc’s AST were supported. Or, if this could be extended to compare any documents taking formatting into account, or document-to-document conversions.

alxmrs | 4 years ago | on: Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes

My favorite infrastructure abstraction tool in this category is Apache Beam. I like that it lets you think in Python and an explicit Map Reduce DAG. Serialization errors are a bear to deal with. But, the power and composability of the framework make it nearly addictive.

alxmrs | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight against climate change?

http://opensustain.tech/

alxmrs | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: ML PhD at top-10 ranked school vs. RE at FAANG (Applied teams)

once you’re in research in a faang, it seems much easier to stay within research. teams have an easier time filling head count from within the company than externally, so transfers are common, and encouraged. getting your foot in the door there could mean you’re in a much better position to join a team on another applied project that you care about. one caveat might be: if you’re heart is set on inventing something totally novel, or without any potential product basis, then grad school is your best bet.

alxmrs | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: I am a coder and I am thinking of buying Dell XPS 13. What do you think?

i recently traded in my dell xps with ubuntu for a macbook air, because:

- the arrow key / page up and down placement on the keyboard led me to jump all over the page when typing

- the camera was placed at the bottom of the screen, which looks super unflattering (an issue of importance in an all video conferencing world)

- unexpected ubuntu on the hardware quirks that i had to deal with before getting to the coding that i wanted to do

- M1 is _fast_. it makes everything feel like lightning.

alxmrs | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is stock market booming when the economy is struggling?

the nyts offered a good explanation for this in january [1]. the general idea is that white collar workers’ usual discretionary spending was diverted into the stock market.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/upshot/why-markets-boomed...