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shpongled
·há 2 meses·discuss
There is a relatively widely adopted tool (100+ citations, >500k invocations collected via telemetry) for mass spectrometry-based proteomics written in Rust, and quite a few others in the works.

[1] https://github.com/lazear/sage
shpongled
·há 4 meses·discuss
The title is >Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns.

Isn't being an anti-masker the opposite of this viewpoint? Literally saying, I only care about the returns for myself, even if creates negative value for others.
shpongled
·há 5 meses·discuss
As someone who is "into" programming languages (and making toy implementations of them), I think some of the most important macros are along the lines of Rust/Haskells `derive/deriving` for quickly enabling serialization, printing etc. Using a language without such capability quickly becomes frustrating once you move to any kind of "real" task.
shpongled
·há 5 meses·discuss
As someone who has been primarily writing Rust for the past 8+ years, I am actually unaware of any political drama surrounding Rust. It's just a programming language.
shpongled
·há 6 meses·discuss
Looking at their profile I'm inclined to agree. But I think in isolation, this one post isn't setting off enough red flags for me. At the very least, they aren't just using default prompts.
shpongled
·há 6 meses·discuss
No, it doesn't. The "I'm an expert at AI detection" crowd likes to cite things like "It's not X, it's Y" and other expression patterns without stopping to think that perhaps LLMs regurgitate those patterns because they are frequently used in written speech.

I assign a <5% probability that GP comment was AI written. It's easy to tell, because AI writing has no soul.
shpongled
·há 6 meses·discuss
Unclear why you think this is ChatGPT, doesn't read like it at all to me. Many people - myself included - use punctuation to emphasize and clarify.
shpongled
·há 9 meses·discuss
If you consider correctly citing a source that is explicitly provided in the context via tool use, then sure.

They absolutely cannot correctly cite sources otherwise.
shpongled
·há 9 meses·discuss
The value proposition is multi-cursor editing, which is very nice
shpongled
·há 10 meses·discuss
It's not totally novel, but it's very cool to see the continued simplification of protein folding models - AF2 -> AF3 was a reduction in model architecture complexity, and this is a another step in the direction of the bitter lesson.
shpongled
·há 10 meses·discuss
Probably because ByteDance and Facebook (spun out into EvolutionaryScale) are doing it
shpongled
·há 10 meses·discuss
Protein folding is in no way "solved". AlphaFold dramatically improved the state-of-the-art, and works very well for monomeric protein chains with structurally resolved nearest neighbors. It abjectly fails on the most interesting proteins - just go check out any of the industry's hottest undrugged targets (e.g. transcription factors)
shpongled
·há 10 meses·discuss
There's no problem with randomness in FP?

You could use a monad/external state for an OS-level RNG, or define a purely functional PRNG
shpongled
·há 10 meses·discuss
2016 remains one the greatest single player FPS games I've played (Titan Fall 2 is the other)
shpongled
·há 11 meses·discuss
When I mean "use" them, I mean make heavy use of them, e.g. structs or functions annotated with multiple lifetimes, data flows designed to borrow data, e.g. You can often get by just with `clone` and lifetime elision, and if you don't need to eke out that last bit of performance, it's fine.
shpongled
·há 11 meses·discuss
As someone who loves SML/OCaml and has written primarily Rust over the past ~10 years, I totally agree - I use it as a modern and ergonomic ML with best-in-class tooling, libraries, and performance. Lifetimes are cool, and I use them when needed, but they aren't the reason I use Rust at all. I would use Rust with a GC instead of lifetimes too.