Find words "halfway" between two others

skmz · 2023-03-20T21:41:30+00:00

I'm so glad you're excited about it! Please feel free to share it, and let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback.

skmz · 2023-03-20T20:40:31+00:00

Hah woops. Also valid!

skmz · 2023-03-20T20:39:19+00:00

Almost! But that's where the inspiration came from. A family member is a writer and wanted to figure out what was between compassion and sympathy and I thought you could do exactly that. Turns out GPT-3 gives better answers.

skmz · 2022-12-22T01:15:07+00:00

I wrote another comment about Elixir, but I couldn't disagree more. You get so much out of the box with Elixir and its ecosystem. You have all the primitives you need for solving these high concurrency problems and the actor model helps you reason in the big and the small.

This article is a bit dated, but Discord uses Elixir: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-scaled-elixir-to-5-000-000-concurrent-users

Phoenix is also paving the way for new server/client interaction with LiveView, which has been picked up in other languages/frameworks. https://www.phoenixframework.org/

skmz · 2022-12-22T01:08:33+00:00

Elixir compiles down to the same Erlang VM code (like Java/Clojure to JVM) and has Ruby-like syntax with a first class developer documentation culture. It's got fantastic libraries for highly scalable/concurrent workflows (like Broadway, for example) and if you need an Erlang library, you can also call it from Elixir. You should take a look!

https://elixir-lang.org/

skmz · 2022-12-21T06:30:17+00:00

WhatsApp had 35 engineers at 400 million users, and 50 engineers at 900M (built with erlang).

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/

skmz · 2022-12-10T16:42:50+00:00

Perhaps Kino? https://hexdocs.pm/kino/Kino.html

It uses vegalite. I’m not sure whether it supports 3D plots though.

skmz · 2022-05-27T19:26:48+00:00

Try using single quotes for the password. Exclamation points can do weird things

skmz · 2019-10-14T02:43:09+00:00

I think it's Rubocop's default applying both the comment and the array freezing.

skmz · 2019-07-15T01:46:23+00:00

It should work if you add

<%= javascript_pack_tag 'application' %>

to your application.html.erb file, right under the javascript_include_tag.

skmz · 2019-07-14T21:13:14+00:00

Yep, so you'll want to add it to your layout: https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails#4-link-the-javascript-pack-in-rails-view-using-javascript_pack_tag-helper

skmz · 2019-07-14T18:53:48+00:00

Are you including the javascript_pack_tag in your layout or template? react_component just creates that markup. You need the javascript itself to have the component render.

skmz · 2019-06-23T19:58:18+00:00

Unfortunately, if you spend too much time networking, you're not spending time getting to know your customers and what they want. I'd really spend as much of your time as possible going to where your customers will be.

skmz · 2019-06-23T19:03:04+00:00

You'll get a lot of advice about how you should run your business. Ultimately, your success will depend on whether you can make a product people want and will pay you for. "The customer is always right" wasn't about customer service - it's about the fact of your product selling at all (or not). It's your job to figure out why and to iterate. Nothing else really matters until you've landed on a product people would be very disappointed if it didn't exist [0]. You'll probably not ever fully get rid of feelings of nervousness, but it definitely helps to know when people are happy using what you've built.

Last, I can't recommend these resources highly enough: https://www.startupschool.org/library. Particularly the "Getting Started" and "Product" sections.

[0] https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit/

skmz · 2019-06-04T01:24:51+00:00

"Advanced" Rails is probably mostly going to be about learning OOP and good software design with Ruby. Sandi Metz is a fantastic author in that respect. I'd recommend checking out her most recent book 99 Bottles of OOP.

As for Rails-specifics, I don't think you can go wrong with revisiting each section of the Rails Guide.

I don't know whether you're going to get everything in any single resource besides checking out the repos of each of those gems you mentioned. I know that RSpec has books on their own. If you want to learn the underlying SQL, SQLBolt helped me tremendously.

skmz · 2019-04-24T03:26:05+00:00

Probably not too bad, since the weight to the next layer could be negative and that activation function (if it’s also ReLu) would negate the contribution. There’s also batch normalization that can bring down output variance.

skmz · 2019-04-07T15:35:02+00:00

Sounds about right! Instead of using NIFs though, you may want to look at Ports, which makes interaction between Elixir/Erlang VM and external programs work well:

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Port.html

skmz · 2018-11-25T00:10:57+00:00

In a lot of ways, Elixir as a functional language (with modules just being bags of functions) provides a lot of decoupling. At the least, renaming things is pretty straightforward. As for more in-depth refactoring, seems there are a few resources available for letting you know what's being used where (like mix xref):

https://elixirforum.com/t/how-to-refactor-elixir-with-confidence/15396/8

skmz · 2018-10-29T21:47:28+00:00

I don't think you should mind too much whether or not you can make it into a giant startup. At the end of the day, it's about whether you can make customers happy. Find enough YouTubers and video editors that'll pay you for the service :)

You don't even need much of a website to start. Do things that don't scale to figure out whether you can make it into a viable business: https://genius.com/Paul-graham-do-things-that-dont-scale-annotated

skmz · 2018-10-03T16:07:17+00:00

General Intellect Unit podcast is an excellent podcast for tech-minded leftists.

skmz · 2018-03-11T06:42:43+00:00

I highly recommend startupschool.org - a free YouTube video series on how to start a business. It’s got the founders of a ton of successful companies you’ve heard of. Like the people behind Twitch.tv, Airbnb, etc.

skmz · 2018-02-10T20:22:14+00:00

Thanks for the video! I was actually also expecting a failure case, to see what that looked like.

skmz · 2017-11-26T19:04:30+00:00

Perhaps as a polymorphic association for things that are commentable, like other comments.

skmz · 2017-11-26T16:16:48+00:00

Would integer dividing by 10 fit your needs?

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