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BasDirks

1,639 karma · joined January 11, 2011

Haskell, Racket, JS, audio
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BasDirks··on Visualizing Music with GANs
Insanely cool. Also see this work by the same author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6du033n-J3s
BasDirks··on We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes
It's a powerful image, but the angle and zoom of the first picture differs a lot from the other two.
BasDirks··on Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)
> They might even completely circumvent the negative outcome, because they thought about every possibility beforehand.

This can get out of hand when circumvention becomes a lifestyle.

BasDirks··on Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)
Real_ism_ can mean passivity, and a lack of creation. If seeing things as they are means paralysis, how does it help us? Not being realistic can help make things happen.

I think it can be valuable to see things realistically, and then rejecting what you see.

BasDirks··on Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
I have my doubts about the honesty of these interpretations:

> I feel angry because you forgot about our coffee date -> I want people to value the feelings of their friends

Are you not angry because you want the person to value YOU and your time? What are these generic "people" and "the feeling of their friends" to you?

> You make me feel guilty when you text me all the time -> I want there to be less pressure on my to respond to your texts

What's the point of this pressure? If you feel guilty for not texting back, isn't there a chance that the other person wants to receive more than they are giving?

> You make me upset when you call other children names -> I want my child to be kind to others

Might the desire sometimes be: As a parent, I don't want to get embarrassed for (as I perceive it) not raising a kind child?

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Being a bit cynical, because the underlying motives might be more useful to solve than the more generic desires.

BasDirks··on Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914
Hoe come HN so often spends the top comment correcting Some popular outlet? Why dont we get it straight from the source?
BasDirks··on The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell
Isn't appreciation of structure _precisely_ human?
BasDirks··on The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell
> The type checking doesn’t actually help you to create functionally correct systems at all (let alone the false claims that it makes this process faster).

This is a red flag to me. Of course the tool doesn't guarantee the result, but your story smells of incompetence. I've introduced FP and a focus on types-as-a-tool at the places I've worked and hired accordingly. Quality and speed of development have gone up after minimal time investment. A battle of n=1 I guess?

BasDirks··on Monadic parsing in Haskell (1998) [pdf]
Be sure to check out Megaparsec[1].

[1]: https://github.com/mrkkrp/megaparsec

BasDirks··on How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
But the user does. Lesson: have other people try it out.
BasDirks··on Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds
Can these species be said to be extinct when their DNA is very much alive?
BasDirks··on I’ve Picked My Job over My Kids
What signs of a slow decline do you identify?
BasDirks··on Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users
I have, but thanks for the link :)
BasDirks··on Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean
Are these in any way endangered?
BasDirks··on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex Atlanticus” Now Online
That's true. I too would prefer a leaner page that would just let us navigate the full size images.
BasDirks··on Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users
I recently wrote a parser in Elixir for a templating language. Binary pattern matching is pretty neat for this purpose, but performance is nevertheless sub-optimal. Elixir was chosen over more suitable languages because our team is Elixir-only. OP shows that delegating performance critical computations in Rust is viable and fairly cleanly. That's good to know.
BasDirks··on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex Atlanticus” Now Online
The images you linked seem easily accessible through the website.
BasDirks··on Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean
What kind of species are affected?
BasDirks··on How I Run a Company with ADHD
Can confirm the above. I'm greatful for my diagnosis and the medicines that exist. Also, there is close to zero stigma surrounding AD(H)D and related medication in my personal and professional circles. I was diagnosed at age 21, and I would have benefited immensely from a more timely diagnosis. Medication (Concerta) allowed me to take charge of my life. Instead of being swamped by endless impulses and their echoes, I had a say in the matter of what I wanted to do. Imagine continuously sinking into yourself with no predictable way to resurface. Buoyancy is a nice thing to have, and taken for granted by those who don't know better.
BasDirks··on The Museum of Soviet Space Travel
Briljant angles, compositions, and colors in these photographs.
BasDirks··on How random can you be?
By hand, 37% correct after 55 inputs.
BasDirks··on The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
And as we all know, after 25 minutes of exposure to HN, one loses any and all sense of humor.
BasDirks··on Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)
What is this "force" you call nature that you are plotting against intellect?
BasDirks··on Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs
I find the colors in the results images consistently worse than in the original images.
BasDirks··on NSTFM Lab: Interactive Gravity Simulator
Buggy and unconvincing.
BasDirks··on There is little research into the long-term effects of using antidepressants
Take care.
BasDirks··on George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
Kind of a blanket statement. The anti-Trump crowd is rather large.
BasDirks··on The advantages of static typing, simply stated
The way you talk about static vs dynamic suggests that you only have a very vague idea of what these mean.
BasDirks··on Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
Are you sure the net happiness from football was really raised by Messi or did he simply shift it to his county and teams he plays for?

Yes

If you take away his great play doesn't it just make other players stick out more, and fans would derive happiness from other players?

No

Greatness isn't ONLY about being greater than others.

BasDirks··on Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
HTML, CSS and JavaScript are improving. Your experience as a web programmer depends on the browsers you are working with. If your clients include IE6 users, your life is going to be worse.
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