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mmplxx
·2 ay önce·discuss
Substitute technology for religion and he's probably one of the least authorized persons to question this.
mmplxx
·2 ay önce·discuss
Then it takes 100 billion people and their knowledge and experience plus 20 years to generate an intelligent person.
mmplxx
·3 ay önce·discuss
The $10/month plan offers a quite limited number of tokens for advanced models. And if you are not careful and set the model to Auto it will quickly deplete them.
mmplxx
·10 ay önce·discuss
> Ahhh you stole my idea lol

There are some time traveling products that might help you fix that.
mmplxx
·geçen yıl·discuss
Also the music, it has an impressive original soundtrack, I love how they play with opening variations.
mmplxx
·geçen yıl·discuss
Plus ad hoc markdown extensions, Lua plugins, ... For me it's Typst.
mmplxx
·2 yıl önce·discuss
> but C++ hasn’t replaced C, Rust hasn’t replaced C++, Typst is unlikely to replace LaTeX.

Weird conclusion, because LaTeX has mostly replaced TeX.

There is a nice symmetry here:

C -> C++ -> Rust ~ Typst <- LaTeX <- TeX
mmplxx
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I would say that the TeX language was designed for the final user to add the "last mile", not for piling layers of macrosubstitution on top of something akin to lambda calculus. As amazing a feat of engineering LaTeX is, it has abused the TeX language beyond its natural limits. The price paid in complexity for abstraction was high. But the TeX language itself is a tiny elegant language.
mmplxx
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I would say that the TeX language was designed for the final user to add the "last mile", not for piling layers of macrosubstitution on top of something akin to lambda calculus. As amazing a feat of engineering LaTeX is, it has abused the TeX language beyond its natural limits. The price paid in complexity for abstraction was high.
mmplxx
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Nice in theory, in practice you have LaTeX tools with synctex, command, environment and references autocompletion, live math preview, proper syntax highlighting, jump to error line, etc. Nothing like that is available for pandoc markdown AFAIK, except perhaps for Quarto, which may have its uses but is too slow for small/medium sized documents and its tooling is not that capable anyway. Besides, it adds yet another complex layer on top of an already way too layered stack.
mmplxx
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Probably not as developed as microtype, but they have overhang, kerning and ligatures: https://typst.app/docs/reference/text/text
mmplxx
·2 yıl önce·discuss
A legitimate concern given that Typst is still maturing. But I have at least one thing to say in its favour: you can lock the version of packages that you import. The only reason LaTeX documents full of \usepackages are reproducible ten years later is because packages are in maintenance mode, not because of well-thought-out future-proof design.
mmplxx
·3 yıl önce·discuss
The will to assign real numbers to degrees of belief is the controversial assumption. Converted bayesians tend to gloss over this fact. Many, as in a sibling comment, state that MLE is bayesian statistics with a uniform prior, but this isn't true of most if not all frequentist inference, based on frequentist NHT and CI, not MAP. Modeling uncertainty with uniform priors (or even more sophisticated non-informative priors a la Jaynes) is a recipe for paradoxes and there is no alternative practical proposal that I know of. I have no issue with bayesian modeling in a ML context of model selection and validation based on resampling methods, but IMO it's not up to the foundational claims its proponents often do.
mmplxx
·3 yıl önce·discuss
I apologize for having been using this word as a label to group my bookmarks of books, articles, music, videos and movies for years.
mmplxx
·4 yıl önce·discuss
I would say that Messi is gloriously messy.
mmplxx
·4 yıl önce·discuss
It indeed tastes horribly to me too, but I just can't help drinking it around five times a day.
mmplxx
·4 yıl önce·discuss
I have been drinking too much mate for such a long time that I can only relate it to withdrawal symptoms at this point :)
mmplxx
·4 yıl önce·discuss
Creative how? Can you expand on that?
mmplxx
·4 yıl önce·discuss
> just give the thing decades of emails and giant PDF folders and make sense of it.

just?
mmplxx
·4 yıl önce·discuss
I do the same, but also manually export takeouts every month or so with the most important stuff. And every once in a while I create a named revision for my most important docs (which gets exported as part of the takeout).