eskaytwo's comments

On: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

[eskaytwo]

Thanks! Was hoping someone would do something more sane like this.

Openclaw is very useful, but like you I share the sentiment of it being terrifying, even before you introduce the social network aspect.

My Mac mini is currently literally switched off for this very reason.

On: Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

[eskaytwo]

Meditation has many techniques. Similar to how people have many different motivations and programs when they have a regular gym practice. Strength is different to agility is different to flexibility.

On: Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

[eskaytwo]

MCTB or Dhamma overground might have been a less confronting link to share :)

On: Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

[eskaytwo]

In more formal traditions the focus on breath (or similar) is to develop concentration/samatha/samadhi. The focus on sensations is the insight/vipassana component, and often this is where the tension bubbles up to the surface. Keeping calm (equanimous) during this process can indeed be non-trivial!

It sounds like you have come to a practice very similar to a lot of the Burmese traditions of insight meditation, which is quite fascinating.

On: Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

[eskaytwo]

I think they’re just focussing on the Samatha concentration aspect?

On: The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars

[eskaytwo]

There’s some nice plugins too, some are finance related: https://github.com/ddotta/awesome-polars

[mhh__ → eskaytwo]

The one thing I really want is for someone to make it so I can use it in F#. Presumably it's possible given how the python bit is implemented under the hood?

[whyever → mhh__]

It uses pyo3 to generate the bindings, so you would have to find a similar crate for F#/.NET and port the polars Python FFI to it. If such a crate does not exist, it will be even more work.

On: Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website

[eskaytwo]

It’s also important to consider the upcoming tax cuts. Don’t assume the efficiency savings are to return $50.50 to your back pocket.

On: Ingrid Daubechies awarded National Medal of Science

[eskaytwo]

Not every problem needs a CNN thrown at it.

On: Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review

[eskaytwo]

Thanks for the pointer. Augurs looks really promising. If the matrix profile method was included it would be a nice alternative to the numba jit methods that are commonplace.

On: Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review

[eskaytwo]

It does convolution of each sub sequence across the series length, and then shows the distance of the closest match. This can detect both outliers (long distance from closest match) as well as repeated patterns (short distance).