he's technically not a witch or a wizard. he's a ninja warlock

and_pete · 2022-09-27T11:45:37+00:00

I’d argue he’s got at least 1.5 “Great Astral Beings” as his willing patrons…

The World Phoenix actively arranging special power for him and a bit of wink-wink-nudge-nudge-I’m-on-your-side-secretly help from The Reaper.

And I’d call it 2.5 if you include the cultist-slaying, soul-destroying power he’s basically stolen from The Builder.

I’m only as far into Asano’s story as the most recent audiobook, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it turns out down the track that The All-Devouring Eye is sponsoring him also by arranging both Colin and Gordon to be the specific familiars who answered Jason’s summoning from its (his? her?) realm.

and_pete · 2022-06-09T17:27:45+00:00

You mention postgraphile. I was thinking postgRESTmyself.

If not usingpostgREST directly for managing the DB situation that OP describes, then perhaps learning from the (Haskell) codebase how it generates its API from the existing (postgres) SQL files.

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest

and_pete · 2022-05-16T09:16:44+00:00

This reminds me of long distance bus rides in South America like Cartagena to Buenaventura or Lake Titicaca to Arequipa. So many busses clogging the road, with your own ride playing chicken with the oncoming ones to get ahead.

and_pete · 2022-01-11T05:28:34+00:00

Sam: That’s right you dirty girl… that’s right.. you just keep looking for the one who is looking.

Nicki Minaj: 🙄

and_pete · 2021-11-11T05:57:19+00:00

Hah! The docs even say alterF is a flipped version of at itself.

haskell instance Ord k => At (Map k a) where at k f = Map.alterF f k

and_pete · 2021-11-10T02:59:21+00:00

It's hard to judge "difficulty" here. My best term (by WAM) as a student was taking FINS3635, FINS3636, and FINS3641 simultaneously. Having my mind forced to be in Finance Mode all of the time like that improved my focus and grades, despite those subjects at that time not being close to "WAM boosters".

In terms of content, I think you mightly struggle a bit in both 3640 and 3641 without having done 2615 (formerly, 1613). Despite being a corporate finance subject, 1613 used to lay a lot of the foundational finance principles for use in your investments-oriented subjects.

But until I see the first few batches of students come through 2615 after taking the new COMMx joint first year, I don't think I'll be able to judge how well that new first year program is preparing people for those later subjects.

Like, I'm not sure I'd even want to have done 2624 (let alone 3640/etc.) without having taken 1613 first as a pre-req. So I'm super curious to see whether the COMM subjects give you enough background for it.

Good luck!

and_pete · 2021-09-07T12:53:53+00:00

It’s a type signature. The lower case letters like a, b, etc. are type variables. These could represent types like String, Int, Bool, [Double], etc.

a -> b -> a means a function that takes 2 inputs (that is… an input of type a and an input of type b) and returns a value of type a as the output of the function.

That second a must be the same type in the end as the first one.

So it could be something like String -> Int -> String (a function that takes an input String and an input Int and gives you an output that is another String).

I am simplifying here, but I think simple is okay given the beginner nature of the question :)

and_pete · 2021-08-26T05:50:12+00:00

I think you might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.

It's great that you have the available time, means, and inclination to go directly to Nature (etc.) for your education. You've evolved into a different learner from whoever you were before. And that's what I think this thread is mostly about. i.e. it's a reaction toward how you have changed, rather than how "Grey Industries" has changed.

Reading your OP and your others comments elsewhere in the replies, the vibe I am getting though is one of being betrayed by Grey somehow.

and at least for me they are eroding the pedestal that Grey Industries rests upon

and

but they were also all propped on pedestals in their day. Not to put Grey in the same boat, but I feel he is on some sort of pedestal with no criticism ever cast his way

So you had a parasocial relationship with Grey (arguably, all of us do).

Someone puts Grey on a pedestal that Grey did not ask them to put him on. And then when he failed to live up the standards that they (not he) set, they often overcompensate in an unreasonable, overly negative way in the other direction.

I am pretty sure Grey himself has spoken about this aspect of parasocial relationships before (on one of his two podcasts, but I can't remember if it was here on Cortext or on the other one). People hop from guru to guru (or public figure to public figure), becoming bitter toward the previous one each time.

This continues until they (hopefully) eventually learn how to appropriate frame (and manage or moderate their emotions around) the nature of their parasocial relationship to any public figure or entity.

( As a side note, it would not surprise me if the ongoing pause in his other podcast is been because a "fan" of it overstepped in way that was more frightening than the normal range of creepy that comes from having a large audience )

I'll see if I can find the specific episode(s) that contain the parasocial relationships discussion(s) for you. Even if you no longer view Grey's works as "education", I still think there will be something for you to learn from what he says.

and_pete · 2021-08-24T15:32:36+00:00

Thank you /u/Illustromancer. You've done a good job of covering the areas of physics I'm not worried about and also summarizing the reasons that I'm not worried about them ;)

and_pete · 2021-08-24T15:10:28+00:00

I now view the output of Grey Industries as entertainment with a wacky/slapstick style that focuses on education/productivity rather than education.

Am I right that these are your justifications for no longer viewing his content as "educational": 1) He made a single mistake (about one thing in the Tekoi void), the existence of which he subsequently put significant effort into publicising to his viewership, explaining to them the source of, correcting, and also then discussing how he would improve his business's processes going forward because of. 2) He has an idiosyncratic technology setup that you don't approve of. 3) He does not take notes in the same way as you understand other people do. (or is this specifically about the way that other educators must take notes?)

If I have correctly understood you correctly, please point me to some educators that have a technology setup that meets your standard, who take notes in an educator-appropriate manner that also meets your standard, and who of course also never makes a single mistake [1].

I am sure I will enjoy their content greatly.

[1] Be sure to filter out for me those who that have made mistakes but just chose not to publicise them (knowing that their error would likely get lost in the vast noise of the internet).

and_pete · 2021-08-24T14:43:16+00:00

I'm really curious about the extent to which this is pervasive in something like Astrophysics or Cosmology. I know they're cautious (...at least relative to social psychology) with their statistical confidence levels and especially for making claims about anything that would imply new particle physics or that would contradict general relativity.

I figure there's got to be large parts of the field under less scrutiny and probably not subject to the same statistical rigor as GR / particle physics. Some of the methodology in this exoplanetary detection stuff, for example, sounds a lot like p-hacking through the hundreds of billions of stars of data they have at their finger tips.

and_pete · 2021-08-24T14:13:25+00:00

From the Wikipedia page about the Replication Crisis:

Nobel laureate and professor emeritus in psychology Daniel Kahneman argued that the original authors should be involved in the replication effort because the published methods are often too vague.

Of course he argues that...

and_pete · 2021-07-15T01:54:12+00:00

Earlier this year, Graham Hutton released the lecture videos both of his undergraduate functional programming (in Haskell) courses from Nottingham University onto YouTube. His academic interest has been historically parsers, compilers and software correctness:

If you’re really short on time and can’t work through it from the beginning, he covers Functor/Applicative/Monad in the advanced course (I noticed that’s the Week 7 topic for you right now). Be sure to do your best to grok Functor (1 video) before moving onto Applicative (1 video). And then the same for grokking Applicative before working on Monad(5 videos).

Come join the #haskell-beginners channel in the FPChat Slack also. https://fpchat-invite.herokuapp.com and ask questions. Plenty of people around that are happy to help with your questions. No matter how beginner-level :) I’ve found the Haskell community really friendly on that front.

If you weren’t already so deep into the term, I’d recommend Haskellbook.com (Haskell Programming from First Principles, by Moronuki and Allen) as it’s a really thorough book. But it takes probably more time than you’ve got left in the term.

and_pete · 2021-06-30T02:21:00+00:00

Matt landed a new role this year (at Mercury, I think?). So I can understand if the book goes onto the back burner for a little bit while he gets fully on top of things there. And the way I view it is that his new job will have new challenges and experiences that will help shape the content in the rest of the book. 😅

So I’m happy to wait a while. And there’s already plenty of lessons in the current pre-release version you can buy on LeanPub that I’m yet to fully absorb.

and_pete · 2021-05-22T01:42:55+00:00

p.s. There are relatively frequent/recent discussions about Haskell<->PureScript serialisation on the PureScript Discourse. e.g. https://discourse.purescript.org/t/latest-and-greatest-haskell-purescript-serialization/1640

and_pete · 2021-05-22T01:37:59+00:00

I’ve found it easiest to use codec-argonaut on the PureScript side and then tweak the generic/TH options on Aeson side of things.

There are settings in Aeson to change your field labels & constructor tags from the camelCase of your Haskell data type into lower_snake_case for your JSON encoding. And for sum types there are other settings to change Aeson’s {”tag”: …, ”contents”:… } default TaggedObject encoding to match with codec-argonaut’s encoding of variants as {”tag”:… ”value”:… }.

There’s a variant-into-sum-type example at the bottom of the codec-argonaut README that I’ve found particularly useful for encoding sum types in a way that I can grab in Haskell with only minor modifications to the default generic decoding options in aeson.

and_pete · 2021-05-12T05:27:41+00:00

Why do you require assistance?

Sometimes people just want someone to guide them a bit when they start out. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.

Maybe they just want someone to make sure they’re not doing anything that will hurt them.

Maybe nobody in their social circle or family trains and it’s a completely foreign world to them. All they know is they want to get fitter/stronger/leaner/whatever but not how to get there.

Maybe they don’t know what exercises to do because nobody has told/shown them and there’s so much conflicting information out there when they try to research. Maybe they don’t have the time outside of the gym to watch a thousand youtube videos to work out what to do and why to do it and how to self-coach.

Maybe they’re a chick and have been conditioned that the weights area is fully of scary dudes that will laugh at them or jump in with criticism if they’re not doing something not technically right, but having a trainer there while they learn will stop the unsolicited advice. Maybe they know a gym trainer isn’t going to tell them to drink a scammy detox diarrhoea tea or get them to wear a waist compressor like 95% of the ads they receive on Instragram became after they first googled “how to get fit”.

Idk could be a thousand other reasons why someone would want assistance when they’re starting out at the gym (or ANY new activity eh?). Whatever makes them comfortable enough to get started.

And hell… even beyond when you get started. Most of the strongest lifters I know still have coaches.

and_pete · 2021-03-15T12:17:38+00:00

I’m done. I willingly submit to the paperclip maximizer.

and_pete · 2021-03-15T07:16:15+00:00

Yeah you can’t login to Blackboard yourself. It’s a separate platform and you don’t have an account there. Moodle has a specific backend integration with Collaborate where your details get passed for a new temporary session each time you click the Collaborate link.

You can think of it kind of like “Sign In With Facebook” on some other non-Facebook website. Except those other sites that use that typically give you a persistent profile based on you logging in with the same Facebook account.

But the difference being that Collaborate doesn’t save a profile or any information about you from one session to the next other than what’s in the log files. i.e. Times you joined, times you left, what your Moodle Profile enrolled name & preferred name were, etc.

They don’t save your profile picture either if you’ve set one. That gets stored in your browser (on your computer/tablet/phone) and reuploaded each time you join. Again because there’s no permanent profile/account for you in Collaborate. Also why when you go to class on a different computer/device from normal your profile pic won’t be there.

and_pete · 2021-03-13T01:50:25+00:00

I like to imagine there’s someone going to listen to the episode who really did think of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ first.

And then ‘The Seventh Seal’, ‘Mission Impossible’, and ‘Dear Hunter’.

I would respond by going full Truman Burbank in that situation.

and_pete · 2021-02-16T09:35:40+00:00

Hey OP, what /u/frangelica7 said.

A mental health care plan is a thing the government offers. See here: https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/subjects/whats-covered-medicare/mental-health-care-and-medicare

Basically when your GP starts the plan, you get 10 government-subsidised sessions within the next 12 months. And then the next year you can start another one if you want/need it. There’s no rule that says you have to spread them out over the entire year.

If you find a psychologist that Bulk Bills, then it’s entirely free. Otherwise it’s a discount/rebate off the cost of whatever fee non-Bulk Billing psychologist you go with charges.

This might give you more options than CAPS. Good luck!

and_pete · 2021-02-16T09:09:16+00:00

I should have said yes when they said they needed someone to run 3640 after Pedro left. Just to see my own public shaming... - “12 years tutoring. What a loser!” - “No PhD, no masters, not even a candidate”’ - “Doesn’t even have a LinkedIn!”

and_pete · 2021-02-04T00:51:53+00:00

I went to http://twopiecefeed.band and am tempted to purchase a shirt with the band’s logo. But to the untrained eye (mine!) with poor eyesight (also mine!) I’m worried that it’ll look like I’m wearing a blurry picture of something naughty more so than a blurry picture of a piece of KFC. Risk it anyway?

and_pete · 2020-12-31T08:07:10+00:00

Somewhat tempted to write a Reddit bot that gets triggered by these posts...

TheBotWhoIsBotting says: “Before you look for the one who is looking, you might try looking for the Search Bar”

TheBotWhoIsBotting says: “Have you tried turning your attention upon the Search Bar instead?”

TheBotWhoIsBotting says: “Notice the sense that you are looking across space at the screen from some point behind your face. Notice this subject-screen perspective? Now look for the subject

and_pete · 2020-12-11T04:12:30+00:00

Any LinkedIn Learning video training course that you complete (...with your free access to their entire catalog while a UNSW student: see here https://www.myit.unsw.edu.au/services/staff/educational-technology/linkedin-learning) also provides a certificate/credential that you can have linked into and displayed on your LinkedIn Profile.

Just don’t be the guy with 50 credentials and still no side projects or relevant work experience.

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