csimon80's comments

On: I still like Sublime Text

[csimon80]

My preference is that it could use .ssh/config to explore the remote machine and then open/edit the file/dir.

On: Array Languages: R vs. APL (2023)

[csimon80]

A lot of the time you're not actually using what is passed to the function, but instead the name of the argument passed to the function (f(x), instead of f('x')). Which, helps the user with their query (dplyr) or configuration (ggplot2).

On: Airspace over Lake Michigan restricted due to nati...

[csimon80]

I'm curious, does anyone here have an understanding the kind of information gathering you can do from a balloon that you can't with a satellite? Is it a cost issue? A don't know how do it in a satellite issue? or maybe a tech/physics issue?

On: Goodbye, data science

[csimon80]

It's so buzz word heavy. I had a manager that wanted me to solve a problem using the monte-carlo method when it fact the problem had a closed form solution...

[r-zip → csimon80]

Why do math on paper when you can write code and look cool (and not like a useless academic)?

[FridgeSeal → r-zip]

I’ll take this one step further:

Why bother to understand how either software development has solved a problem, or how maths+stats has solved a problem when you could just ignore operational practices and “train a neural network to do it”?

[CarbonCycles → csimon80]

Now that's both funny and sad. Mostly sad....

On: Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations

[csimon80]

that was fun!

On: Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?

[csimon80]

I'm curious, was any of the shortage due to Chinese companies preparing for sanctions?

On: Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pione...

[csimon80]

A little late for that now...