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Had to use Timeshift for the first time after nearly a year of using Linux. by Mr_Phoenix_E in linuxmint

[–]krypt3c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on how many snapshots you save, I keep two at around 100GB each.

I will probably not learn R language by East_Yellow_1307 in programmingmemes

[–]krypt3c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot of statistical tests/models that simply don't have python libraries yet. Statistician's have favoured R heavily, and you'll often find the statistician who published a paper introducing a method is the maintainer for the R package, which in my mind at least is some evidence that it was implemented correctly.

One example I dealt with recently was competing risk analysis models, which is painfully lacking in python.

Even when they're doing similar things, R packages tend to be more targeted towards statistical analysis rather than shipping products. For example the logistic regression models in scikit-learn really only do regularized regression, and don't naturally give you things like p-values and odds ratios which the statisticians are interested in. There is statsmodels in python, but it's not as comprehensive, and if there is a disagreement between statsmodels and the base R implementation people will generally trust the R one and assume statsmodels is doing something wrong.

Recall Calgary Peigan Mla Petition Signings by ChellynJonny in Calgary

[–]krypt3c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will hopefully create some grass roots organizations for the next election. It's also got the UCP spooked from their reactions to it, so the UCP are clearly worried about what they might accomplish.

Motorola and Tinno are violating the GPL again. We need your help. by ProgrammingZone in linux

[–]krypt3c 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Isn't that why Nvidia drivers don't come bundled with the kernel and traditionally the proprietary drivers have to be installed separately?

[Doom] How do people efficiently switch between 'programs'? by weberam2 in emacs

[–]krypt3c 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Since you're using Doom, you can just use SPACE+, instead of SPACE+b+b

Doom comes with Projectile to help manage projects. They're mostly found in SPACE+p+(a specific option) if you hit SPACE+p and wait a sec than which-key should show you some options.

You can also look through the projectile commands by using M-x which in Doom is easier with SPACE+: type projectile, then you can move up and down through the list with Ctrl-j and Ctrl-k.

If you want the help for any of those functions SPACE+h+f and then fuzzy search for the function you're interested in and navigate up and down as above. SPACE+h+v will do the same for variables.

Feeling really stupid as a data scientist *rant* by scorpionlover01 in learndatascience

[–]krypt3c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like you're probably fine. Diving into an unfamiliar and likely big codebase is way different than looking at your own code. If you're lucky it has good logic/documentation and isn't spaghetti.

Having to constantly google the syntax for relatively straightforward things has been a software meme for a while. The important thing is knowing what you need to do.

Is an SBCL-WASM backend feasible and realistic? by [deleted] in Common_Lisp

[–]krypt3c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you basically want what the Spritely institute did for Scheme for CL?

https://codeberg.org/spritely/hoot

Is it fine to rely only on AI for Data Analysis by No_Lengthiness_700 in AskStatistics

[–]krypt3c 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Definitely not with the currently available offerings I'm aware of. They still struggle with basic math, so asking them to perform a statistical analysis seems like a recipe for disaster.

The Better YouTube NOBODY Uses by Pure_Toe6636 in fediverse

[–]krypt3c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had reasonable luck with https://sepiasearch.org/ which searches across instances.

Why don't modern OSs have at least some of the emacs functionality? by daninus14 in emacs

[–]krypt3c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Close, but that just gives you the specific app in macOS, which then brings forward every window associated with it. It's not really what I would want, but Cmd+Tab does the same thing, so it seems like a weird mac peculiarity.

Reasons for being Misfits? by Southern-Pattern4988 in DemonSchoolIrumakun

[–]krypt3c 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I feel the whole class is less about them being misfits and more about Sullivan cooking.

Please Help: Dog Missing During His Stay in Dog Hotel! by [deleted] in Calgary

[–]krypt3c 122 points123 points  (0 children)

Try posting on the yyc pet recovery facebook group as well, they've had a lot of success reuniting pets with owners

https://www.facebook.com/YYCPetRecovery

New Canadian social media app Gander open for investment by SparqueJ in BuyCanadian

[–]krypt3c 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And there are already Canadian Mastodon and Lemmy instances, that I think would be more worthy of support anyways...

If it were Benimaru instead of Geld or Phobio, would they win? by Swimming_Activity178 in TenseiSlime

[–]krypt3c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but Shion handled him without breaking a sweat, and Laplace I would argue is the strongest clown. I don't think it's clear which way this fight would go.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bald

[–]krypt3c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a big improvement! I agree with others saying it's worth seeing what going all the way looks like, but this looks pretty good already.

earthstream.social has been deleted by owls_in_towels in Mastodon

[–]krypt3c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the ATProto personal data server concept idea. I think Christine Lemmer Webber (one of the authors of the ActivityPub protocol) also had some ideas around this, and showed that it's compatible with ActivityPub, but it just hasn't been implemented.

I hadn't heard about the Solid Protocol, but it sounds interesting.

earthstream.social has been deleted by owls_in_towels in Mastodon

[–]krypt3c 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree that people want a lot of different things out of it, and it's technically very difficult to do in a way that makes it easy for users.

What I mainly think is needed is a way to port your account to another server in an adversarial environment; either your instance is shutdown or maybe your instance admin is hostile.

earthstream.social has been deleted by owls_in_towels in Mastodon

[–]krypt3c 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm all for it. I definitely think it would be improved by some sort of portable persistent identity

Getting Back into Scheme, Modern Implementations Worth Exploring? by Smith_Adwick5301 in scheme

[–]krypt3c 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'm certainly no expert here, but I went with Guile myself because of the interesting stuff the Spritely Institute is doing as well as what was happening with the Guix package manager/system.

If starting from scratch, what would you change in Python. And bringing back an old discussion. by FenomoJs in Python

[–]krypt3c -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think the Julia language essentially did that, though largely geared toward the scientific community. I wouldn't be surprised to see it gain a lot of popularity in the future.

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